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Our Sticky Love, or how not too google your name when you have amnesia
Full disclosure. I skimmed the last three episodes, I guess one guy is another guy's dad?? Doesn't matter.I'm giving this a 6, since technically it is a drama, it has a story, it has acting in it, it has music. People had to do some work to get this out. So a 6 should be fair. The reason I finished the show is to see how Ha Young pulls off her first lead role. I think she can do a lot better and I can only hope she gets the chance to, but with more competent showrunners.
A prosecutor(Ha Young) who drives a fancy sports car and is in her own words "loaded", gets in trouble with a corrupt mayor and a chairman, who are untouchable and can do whatever they want. An ex-gangster(Jung Hae In) saves her and then we get 8 episodes of her not being a character and him being a loser. Oh and she has amnesia, so of course she falls in love with the guy and whatever happens happens. Nothing makes much sense and if you want your stories to be believable, skip this one. Why does she not google her real name when she finds out what it is? Because if she did, the show wouldn't have a story anymore. Why do they not tell her about her past? Because if they did, the show wouldn't have a romance anymore.
The lead pair do not convince me that their romance is in anyway real. Neither character has a recognizable identity that the other could fall for. Or I guess one is very hot and the other is a care bear? Point is, the romance doesn't work, I'm not sold on it and it fails to elicit any emotional reaction from me as a viewer. In other words the romance does nothing to increase the enjoyment I get as a viewer. The second couple? There was a second couple? Nothing there, just a ticked checkbox.
What's left when the romance falls flat in a rom-com(made me laugh once I think, can't remember which part though), is a Swiss cheese plot. And since the story also falls flat, the entire show is a pancake. There is also a lot of meaningless violence with the sole purpose of showing how bad the bad guy is. News alert, he's a real nasty guy! But I care so little about the fate of the characters that he is supposed to antagonize, that his virulently evil personality falls into the same category as most aspects of this show, it's meaningless. I hindsight, Heo Sung Tae's character got the most development of all the characters, which could have been a positive thing if it was balanced with meaningful arcs for the leads. Alas.
There's no reason to care for the story, it is nonsensical. There's no reason to care for the romance, it's told, not shown. So where does that leave the show? Smack in the middle of mediocrity.
To finish on a more positive note. There's another Ha Young joint on the horizon, let's hope she can live up to the potential she showed in Doona! and Trauma Code, cause this wasn't it.
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