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The writer should have portrayed those sentiments in the script.

I dropped at episode 5, it was weird and disjointed. The show didn’t make any effort to at a minimum make ML passable as a former spy

To watch a daily drama you need to have totally different mindset and approach, which is to take the good & fast forward through the bad.

I think VIP or Happy Ending, maybe

I think most women would choose great beauty over competence if they had only one choice. I thought she was good in “Smile You” and “Kimcheed Radish Cubes” where she played essentially the same character i.e. Sassy, Spoilt and carefree.

The poster reminds of another shows poster, with Kang Na Ra, I think??

I guess Kdramas were great while they lasted, I hope new writers/directors find a way to refresh things. I can’t watch Hollywood, Cdramas are just eerie, Jdramas start well but inevitably has a crappy 3rd act.

They start the drama from the midpoint and then rewind back to several years before.

I started watching for SFL and because it was set in a bar I thought they would touch on the fact that in most kdramas the SML and SFLs frequently meet in deserted bar.

The show premise was promising, but the actors, writer, director and producer were unserious about execution. They didn’t make any effort to portray the characters with even a modicum of realism. I get they were going for comedy, but come on smh. A former spy?? give me a break already.

Well at the very least we could give them pointers. I know the technical part of sitting down and writing a script requires talent and or training.

exactly, and they still managed to fit in quite a few tropes to boot.

I’m at a loss as to how Lee Chae Young got cast as a main character??

Yep, writers must have a “3 Trope” and “5 Cringe” minimum in their contracts.
And I noticed some dramas intentionally making the FL look unattractive, I don’t get it.

I was slow at the beginning, theML’s Marlon Brando-like voice and the FL’s wardrobe and hairstyle where distracting, better in the middle and the inevitable 3rd act trope dragged it down again, to bad this could have been a gem.

I for just rewatch older content from 2013 to 2020 plus I sift through the newer content looking for gems. KDramas seem to be trending towards a more modern style, hopefully some creators will keep giving us gems like “Perfect Marriage Revenge”

I my layman’s opinion, it’s better to keep the leads likeable and separate but orbiting each other till the midpoint, and after bringing them together keep one lead steadfast after the inevitable breakup. Or just have them work together well on the revenge and bring them together with enough episodes to highlight the relationship before the drama ends. But what do I know, I’m not a writer, I just play one on MDL.

You are right, the modernization of KDrama is a loss, because a lot off us viewers came for the old fashioned conservative story telling abandoned by Hollywood.

I put it on hold because they used the “Several Years Before” story telling device.

You’re right, I’ve had to develop a system for using reviews.

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