Definitely worth the watch!!

After watching nearly every single Chinese and Korean dating show out there, I concluded that K-dating shows weren't as good as C-dating shows. The reason is that after watching both countries' dating shows, I found that C-dating shows had a higher chance of actually producing real-life couples. My guess is that most K-dating show participants are usually participating to gain influence or clout (Not all of them, so don't hate on me, haha). Another good factor about C-dating shows is that they also update us on the progress of the couples after the show has ended, with some pictures/videos of the couples kissing or something, which is something you'd not see in Korean dating shows. Won't every viewer be curious whether the couples that are formed at the end are still dating? Am I the only one?😂. Anyway, Serious About Marriage, however, is in fact one of the first... if not the first, Korean dating show where I've seen the participants being super affectionate and genuine to each other. It had everything that I loved, such as showing some pictures of some of the couples that were still dating after a few months towards the end of the final episode. This is the first Korean dating show where I genuinely felt that my thoughts about C-dating show being better than K-dating shows might slowly change as (hopefully!🙏) more K-dating shows like this are released.

Overall, I enjoyed this show; it was well worth watching. However, I do still, as of this moment, consider the C-dating show to take the glory if I were to actually compare. Considering the number of truly successful outcomes of Chinese dating shows, one of the many successful examples I can give would be 'Twinkle Love 2'. Just this dating show alone was able to produce three couples that are still dating to this day. I can confirm this, as I've checked all three couples' social media accounts. I don't know what it is about Chinese dating shows having so much success with forming couples, but I'm all for it. Sorry for the comparisons, but there are some things I'd hope and wish K-dating shows would integrate from C-dating shows, such as participants that truly want to find love and not just ones that prioritize gaining social media influence; I'd think that'd be cool. The only K-dating show I could think of that could be on par with this show would probably be 'I Am Solo', which was actually able to produce multiple married couples, even one of them having a child, I believe the reason why 'I Am Solo' was so successful in forming couples was because they had participants that were just regular Koreans that didn't seem to have any social media influence, which meant that they literally only had one goal of being there... to find their significant other.

I've been blabbering for too long😭, so anyway I highly recommend watching this show😂.

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Bittersweet...

This drama was excellent! I’m always up for a time travel story, and I hadn’t watched a time travel drama since Reset (2022), so I was really excited to dive into this one. Overall, I’d give it a solid 7.5/10.

I personally feel the ending was more bittersweet than happy, but that’s just my perspective. The future male lead (ML) died, and she ended up with the past version of him. While some might argue they’re essentially the same person, when you think about it more deeply, the future ML had shared memories with the female lead that the past ML didn’t. These moments were what brought the future ML and the female lead closer and made them fall in love.

In my view, she’s essentially starting a new relationship with someone different who just happens to look like the ML. While the past ML does have his own memories, he fell in love with her largely because of the future version of himself, who already had feelings for her. The past ML isn’t the same as the future ML because he didn’t experience the meaningful moments they shared—like the fireworks and piggyback scenes or the time they were roommates. These memories were unique to the future ML. That’s why, to me, the ending felt bittersweet; memory-wise, she was starting a new love story with someone different, even though he looked exactly like her previous lover.

To put it simply, the future ML remembered everything because he came from the future, so his knowledge was constantly updated based on the past ML’s actions. However, the past ML’s memory wouldn’t update when the future ML altered future events. This made it even harder for me because I saw the future version as the true main character who knew everything, while the past version felt more like a supporting character who only knew the bare minimum.

The ending I was hoping for/looking forward to would have been the female lead, now carrying all the time travel memories, reuniting with the future ML in 2022. Since he would also carry all the memories, including those of the past ML, they could live happily ever after. I didn’t expect the future ML to die, nor for a new love story to begin between her and the past version of him who had no knowledge of how she fell for the future him to begin with.

I don't know man😭, these types of time-travel love stories always confuse me emotionally. I know they're the same person, but I also know that they are not at the same time.

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