The Hong sisters spew garbage and that’s a fact. I don’t know where this obsession with them came from but I’ve never full enjoyed anything they’ve written - I’ve binged Master’s Sun and Greatest Love but they were just okay for me. Master’s sun was a procedural show in every sense of the word and Greatest love was like playing a game of one step forward a billion steps back. Both had characters that got dragged down by the plot and senseless convoluted metaphors. Big was not like that… at first. Dare I say, I actually enjoyed most of it, more than I have any other Hong sister drama. I heard a lot of bad things about this show but I was so hooked by the first episode I was like maybe it's love at first sight maybe I should just follow my heart... I know I suck.
At first it was funny and engaging and I loved all the characters - even crazy Mari. But if I’m being real maybe I just had my Gong Yoo goggles on. Okay I admit maybe I watched this for him - I have the infinte amount of screechshots on my computer to prove it - but he honestly did such a good job with this character, it was impossible not to love this show at it’s onset. The premise and the way he interacted with every other character and made them better for it, was gold. The non-sensical plot building in the background was easily ignored, until it wasn’t. Until it ate and swallowed everything like a juggernaut with teeth and a hunger for chocolate abs and heartfelt connections. And then shit started to hit the fan with characters being ridiculous just for the sake of it. Suddenly out of the blue ultimatums sprung up - which I honestly should have expected from the Hong sisters but again I was blinded by Gong Yoo. Seriously if a store clerk is like you can only have pretzels or cheetos but you can’t have both, I’m gonna be like why the eff not, this is a free goddamn country I will eat both these salty snacks thank you very much. But in this show (or just the Hong sister universe) characters go “nooooo, I can’t have both. I’m going to be unsatisfied for the rest of my life.” And its like no, you can have both, open your eyes, the only person stopping you from having both is yourself ... and the store clerk I guess? Eff me this metaphor has gotten so convoluted - I watch too many hong sister dramas.
Anyway almost everything that happened as the conflict for this drama happened for no reason. I have never watched a drama with this many people who refused to be happy all for the sake of being unhappy. Literally nothing was stopping them from being together except for their bullshit. And the end? Idc that they didn’t show the real Kang Kyung Joon - cuz I watched this for Gong Yoo - but after all all that I couldn’t get one, fast forward where they were happy together? Whatever, fuck this.

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