Dykumu Ugnis

Painfully slow and not very well written. Relies too much on cliches, so it’s difficult to feel the characters for real. I managed to get halfway before its removal from Netflix and now not sure if to continue on Viki.

The female lead written as a klutz and airhead doesn’t help, as does not help the clueless male lead, though supposedly he is a good analyst and has at least some power of foresight. Also there is something off about the way the scenes are set and the transition between them.

Oh, and too many things spelled out through inner monologue rather than shown for audience to catch from nuanced acting.

Nice cast, crappy writing.
The character of the female lead is annoying. The character of the male lead is annoying. The character of the mayor is double annoying. The character of the second female lead is so one-dimensional that it hardly can be more. All friends and people around are horrible doing anything they can to prolong the misunderstandings. There's no character development: one step forward, two steps back, on an on around the same issue until the end.

Children trying to play love games, it seems.

Kim Hae Sil and Song Jung Geun as a couple are the only saving grace.

I disagree that Rika is the perfect person you want as your girlfriend/wife. She has her own issues and many. One time she says that she did everything for the relationship. From what I saw, though, it seemed she though the relationship with Kanji was doomed from the beginning and was running away from any tough situation or outright pushing her love-interest to another woman. Not a single time did she get serious and was sending lots of mixed signals. You cannot build a relationship on that.

Also she looks like she has an OCD, the version where you try to "preempt" a bad situation by bringing it about yourself. A very destructive thing.

There was not a single drop of love in this show. And never have I hated a character, not even the most evil ones, as much as I hated the goody two shoes Sekiguchi Satomi. What a manipulative character as she is written. The horror!

A bunch of broken people doing weird relationships because of their inability to sit down and talk to each other normally. That Sekiguchi Satomi looks very much like Victoria Ruffo in Simplemente Maria does not help. :)

But it's interesting to go back to early 90s. And in Japan at that.

After my stint of chain-watching vertical dramas this looks like a masterpiece!

Already episode 1 doesn’t make any sense. Not for me. ”Too many shows, too little time”, to paraphrase the song.

Also checked it on mobile. Only visible in landscape view. But I usually don't write comments on mobile, because for me it's way faster to type anything on normal keyboard. :)

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I love the nostalgic feel they created in the drama. And you should never make a despicable evildoer so cute! Loved the leads and the main villain. Generic plot, yet still one of the better short dramas.

The drama is quite exciting and interesting but the scene with the train in Episode 1 was done the wrong way.

I mean four trained police officers and a level crossing attendant are standing around when the barriers are down. They surely know that the train is coming and are enough people to tackle the madman but they do nothing until the last second. Unrealistic, to say the least. Evokes the sense of disbelief rather than thrill.

Unnecessarily long.

I see Rapunzel has already answered with quite a few details.

To add, another example is the second male lead is one day still pining for the main female lead and the next day is suddenly in love with another. The way the relationship between the main leads progressed was also written in a wicky-wack way, very inconsistent, though by now I don't remember the details.

They tried to explain some behaviour by bad parents but, I feel, they failed spectacularly to do this in the right way.

Completing a show, a book, a project or something else because of the time/money already spent and the feeling that otherwise it will have been wasted is known as sunk cost fallacy. Many years ago I used to waste lots of my time because of this fallacy. But what really matters is the future and the future consequences. So not any longer!

Anyway, your review somehow makes me want to check this drama out. :)
I can drop it any time if it is unbearably bad even to have it on as a bacground for my crafts.

What a fine policeman that person, Ji Na’s dad. With such policemen, who needs criminals?

The female lead is written as a very unreasonable, even stupid and definitely spoiled woman. And instead of spicing things up, her character ends up making more than one scene unbearably annoying.

By the way, is it only for me or was this drama completely removed from multiple platforms? Weirdly, on Viki I still have it in my queue but only Episode 6, which is my last episode watched there. But when I try to search for the drama it does not show in the results, neither do I see the drama in the list of Caesar Wu’s dramas. Not even among those marked as not available in my region. So it seems the drama has been completely wiped. But what about the hanging Episode 6, which I can still watch with no issues?

On YT, too, no results with English subtitles for me. Only with Indonesian and Spanish. Luckily, I know Spanish, so I can continue watching, because my Chinese is very basic.

And the natural landscapes! The breathtaking landscapes! So much better than CGI.

Lee Su Ho. That's about right personalitywise. Though I'd rather take a role to play somebody with a character completely different from mine. I'm up for a challenge!

Something to look forward to!