This review may contain spoilers
Male lead's innate likeability + that of his character carries this limp drama
what I loved:
male lead-Jung Hae In's song in the OST : "Begin Again"
I wanted to like this, but struggled to finish it . It will take spoilers to explain why but let me start with some non spoilers first.
The male lead character 's nice , sincere but inscrutable , tsundere , Mr. Darcy vibe carries the drama & compels you to think that the drama is worth watching . Sadly, though the rest of the cast do thier jobs well, the writers & director have made it so that the male lead & his character is the singular appealing thing about it.
Regardless of the female lead's real life "scandal" ,she's a fine actress & works hard in this drama.
BUT
I didn't like how her character is written as a trope -one that I find completely unlikeable. She's rude, mean, uncooperative & egotistical AND then she becomes a perky cutesy cartoon of a character. The blame rests wholly on the writers & director .
I wanted to give this drama a chance to change my mind about it so I took a month long break before coming back to it & yet I still I found myself constantly being dissatisfied with the female lead's character and the story.
A big negative for me was that I did not find the village life/villagers. amusing.( It's a Cultural difference I think). Since it is a big part of the drama there was a lot I disliked.
What made me wish I had skipped this drama all together
**************Spoilers::
1) The male lead has ruthlessly beaten up and Killed people.
To have him then be a sweet shy, gentle reformed guy Does Not work-especially at the end where everyone seems to have forgotten that he committed crimes but is not held accountable
< I personally would have written the story so that he had not actually killed people>
2)His reason for starting up with the gang was not extreme enough, so not really compelling.
male lead-Jung Hae In's song in the OST : "Begin Again"
I wanted to like this, but struggled to finish it . It will take spoilers to explain why but let me start with some non spoilers first.
The male lead character 's nice , sincere but inscrutable , tsundere , Mr. Darcy vibe carries the drama & compels you to think that the drama is worth watching . Sadly, though the rest of the cast do thier jobs well, the writers & director have made it so that the male lead & his character is the singular appealing thing about it.
Regardless of the female lead's real life "scandal" ,she's a fine actress & works hard in this drama.
BUT
I didn't like how her character is written as a trope -one that I find completely unlikeable. She's rude, mean, uncooperative & egotistical AND then she becomes a perky cutesy cartoon of a character. The blame rests wholly on the writers & director .
I wanted to give this drama a chance to change my mind about it so I took a month long break before coming back to it & yet I still I found myself constantly being dissatisfied with the female lead's character and the story.
A big negative for me was that I did not find the village life/villagers. amusing.( It's a Cultural difference I think). Since it is a big part of the drama there was a lot I disliked.
What made me wish I had skipped this drama all together
**************Spoilers::
1) The male lead has ruthlessly beaten up and Killed people.
To have him then be a sweet shy, gentle reformed guy Does Not work-especially at the end where everyone seems to have forgotten that he committed crimes but is not held accountable
< I personally would have written the story so that he had not actually killed people>
2)His reason for starting up with the gang was not extreme enough, so not really compelling.
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