This is a far more interesting show than I've been led to believe. It probably helps that I actually like legal dramas. It's obvious that Eun-beom didn't cheat on Ha-ra and his antics are really quite intriguing. Humorous and fascinating. Everything he does feels deliberately counterintuitive. There are resonances of Oh Ji-hyeok from The Good Detective here.
There have been some great K and C dramas airing during this Dec-January period but this one is unequivocally my favourite. What the heck... I think it's the best one.
This show is like an ad campaign for Yunnan. And it's working.
I love "seachange" dramas and this one is just absolutely wonderful. Lots of heart. It's got a lovely quirky small town everybody-knows-everybody vibe. I wish C dramas did more of this type of slice-of-life shows with this type of storytelling.
Wow. They've made the Three Body Problem into drama! Cool. Have to put this on my watch list. Read the book a few years ago and found it very stimulating. I don't usually read C novels but this one was a Hugo-award winning work.
Edit: The trailers look amazing. Seems like they've covered all the main elements.
I don't really like what the writer has done with Chief Jiang in Episodes 31-33. It's utter stupidity for a man with his experience and in his position to stoop so low. Surely there are better ways of "eliminating the competition"? It could have been a great learning experience for everyone about making decisions in the heat of the moment but no... they had to turn it into a crime arc. It's almost as ridiculous as the time when the team heads off to the mountains to do relief work and almost gets themselves killed so that the love triangle can get its start.
For better or for worse, it's the only way they can get to 16 episodes.
I agree. In reality rom coms shouldn't be any more than 10 episodes. I don't know why 16 is the magic number in the industry but I've been watching the quality of scripts go downhill in the last few years. I'm not even sure how some scripts get greenlit.
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https://40somethingahjumma.substack.com/p/meet-yourself-2023-when-adam-meets
https://40somethingahjumma.substack.com/p/crash-course-in-romance-2023-episodes
https://40somethingahjumma.substack.com/p/meet-yourself-2023-first-impressions
A'Yao is a chip off the o'l block.
I love "seachange" dramas and this one is just absolutely wonderful. Lots of heart. It's got a lovely quirky small town everybody-knows-everybody vibe.
I wish C dramas did more of this type of slice-of-life shows with this type of storytelling.
Edit: The trailers look amazing. Seems like they've covered all the main elements.
https://40somethingahjumma.substack.com/p/crash-course-in-romance-2023-first
It's almost as ridiculous as the time when the team heads off to the mountains to do relief work and almost gets themselves killed so that the love triangle can get its start.