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A waste of a good cast
I'll start with the positives because to be honest, I don't have a lot for this show. So first off, I love In Youp and Hye Ri so much!! I love him and was so happy to see him finally be the main lead and not the second choice! I love her as well and was happy to see her in something again since it's been a while. I think their chemistry is fantastic and the acting was great. I loved Baek Sung Chul and Lee Yul Eum as well as their characters. I think all the actors did a great job in this show.
I liked the concept of the show as well. I thought it was very cute to see them make their movie together after all those years. I loved that, it was so sweet. The music was pretty decent in the series as well. I absolutely adored the set and the costumes for the movie!! Stunning!
I loved Soobin. He was such a green flag, good guy, and cared so much for Yi Jae and his mom. I loved that he helped his mom get away from his dad too. I really liked how he handled most situations in the show.
I love Ha Na and Yu Geon so much! I thought both of their characters were really interesting and LOVED them together a lot. They were so cute together. They were my favorite couple in the show. I loved seeing Ha Na's growth throughout the show and see her stand up to her mom and get to live how she wants to. See Yu Geon work so hard to achieve his dream was so nice to see. The part with his dad getting to watch his movie before passing was the best part of the whole show. It made me so emotional and was so beautiful to see.
Onto the things I didn't like about this show.
I wish we got to see a bit more of the movie since that's what the show was leading up to. We just kept seeing the same few scenes from it over and over again. I think it would've been cool to see more of it so we as the audience could see more of what they accomplished. I think it would've been more satisfying that way.
This could just be me being picky, but for a show about two directors, I thought the directing was pretty mid. There was nothing special about the directing at all. I know it's a romcom, so it doesn't necessarily need it, but it was very basic and with a show about directors I think it could've used a bit of flare.
The third couple...if we can even call them that. I don't know their names and forgot about them entirely until they showed up again for their two minutes of screentime. I know he has a role outside of his storyline with her, but honestly, I think they both could've been written out of the show and it would've been the exact same, especially her. Their storyline has got to be the most useless thing I've ever seen in a show.
Onto Yi Jae...I liked her a lot in the beginning and then that changed. I loved her in the high school flashbacks and in the first couple episodes as an adult. She was funny, determined, and I really liked how she talked about wanting to make movies and what that meant to her. Then she just started to annoy me more and more. I felt like she was always upset or angry with Soobin for one reason or another, and I didn't ever think they were for very valid reasons either. He was just a way better communicator than she was. Her decision to breakup with him and go abroad felt so random and stupid to me. It very much felt like they just needed to have some kind of conflict for episode 11 and that's the best they could come up with. Making this movie was her dream and she left before the final edit was even done and wasn't there for any of the promotion. So much of the conflict between her and Soobin throughout was she felt like it was his movie more than hers and yet she leaves so he does all the promotion by himself so then it really does look like it was his movie more than hers. That was just such bad writing.
I liked how early in the show they got together and didn't wait until one of the final episodes, except we never saw them really be a couple. We saw them either onset of the movie, working on something related to the movie, or talking about the movie. We didn't really get to see very much of them just being themselves as a couple, so their relationship didn't progress or feel satisfying at all. And again, she left for two years and then walked right back into his life like nothing happened...and then he proposed. This really pissed me off. She didn't feel bad for leaving him and left at an awful time, but then they just get engaged after that like he wasn't doing horribly the time she was gone. I could talk about it all day, it made me so mad. We also just always saw him doing way more for her and putting in more effort for their relationship than she ever did.
Overall, as you can tell, I didn't like this show. The writing wasn't very good and was very repetitive. Every episode was just her feeling like the movie wasn't hers, she'd get mad at Soobin, he'd do something to make her see the movie is both of theirs, and then it would repeat. Even Soobin's trauma with his dad just felt like such an afterthought. It was barely important to the show at all. This had such an incredible cast, and I was really excited for it, but it was just a major let down.
I liked the concept of the show as well. I thought it was very cute to see them make their movie together after all those years. I loved that, it was so sweet. The music was pretty decent in the series as well. I absolutely adored the set and the costumes for the movie!! Stunning!
I loved Soobin. He was such a green flag, good guy, and cared so much for Yi Jae and his mom. I loved that he helped his mom get away from his dad too. I really liked how he handled most situations in the show.
I love Ha Na and Yu Geon so much! I thought both of their characters were really interesting and LOVED them together a lot. They were so cute together. They were my favorite couple in the show. I loved seeing Ha Na's growth throughout the show and see her stand up to her mom and get to live how she wants to. See Yu Geon work so hard to achieve his dream was so nice to see. The part with his dad getting to watch his movie before passing was the best part of the whole show. It made me so emotional and was so beautiful to see.
Onto the things I didn't like about this show.
I wish we got to see a bit more of the movie since that's what the show was leading up to. We just kept seeing the same few scenes from it over and over again. I think it would've been cool to see more of it so we as the audience could see more of what they accomplished. I think it would've been more satisfying that way.
This could just be me being picky, but for a show about two directors, I thought the directing was pretty mid. There was nothing special about the directing at all. I know it's a romcom, so it doesn't necessarily need it, but it was very basic and with a show about directors I think it could've used a bit of flare.
The third couple...if we can even call them that. I don't know their names and forgot about them entirely until they showed up again for their two minutes of screentime. I know he has a role outside of his storyline with her, but honestly, I think they both could've been written out of the show and it would've been the exact same, especially her. Their storyline has got to be the most useless thing I've ever seen in a show.
Onto Yi Jae...I liked her a lot in the beginning and then that changed. I loved her in the high school flashbacks and in the first couple episodes as an adult. She was funny, determined, and I really liked how she talked about wanting to make movies and what that meant to her. Then she just started to annoy me more and more. I felt like she was always upset or angry with Soobin for one reason or another, and I didn't ever think they were for very valid reasons either. He was just a way better communicator than she was. Her decision to breakup with him and go abroad felt so random and stupid to me. It very much felt like they just needed to have some kind of conflict for episode 11 and that's the best they could come up with. Making this movie was her dream and she left before the final edit was even done and wasn't there for any of the promotion. So much of the conflict between her and Soobin throughout was she felt like it was his movie more than hers and yet she leaves so he does all the promotion by himself so then it really does look like it was his movie more than hers. That was just such bad writing.
I liked how early in the show they got together and didn't wait until one of the final episodes, except we never saw them really be a couple. We saw them either onset of the movie, working on something related to the movie, or talking about the movie. We didn't really get to see very much of them just being themselves as a couple, so their relationship didn't progress or feel satisfying at all. And again, she left for two years and then walked right back into his life like nothing happened...and then he proposed. This really pissed me off. She didn't feel bad for leaving him and left at an awful time, but then they just get engaged after that like he wasn't doing horribly the time she was gone. I could talk about it all day, it made me so mad. We also just always saw him doing way more for her and putting in more effort for their relationship than she ever did.
Overall, as you can tell, I didn't like this show. The writing wasn't very good and was very repetitive. Every episode was just her feeling like the movie wasn't hers, she'd get mad at Soobin, he'd do something to make her see the movie is both of theirs, and then it would repeat. Even Soobin's trauma with his dad just felt like such an afterthought. It was barely important to the show at all. This had such an incredible cast, and I was really excited for it, but it was just a major let down.
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