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Every masterpiece has a copy !! QOT feels likes a copy!
I was eagerly waiting for this drama and somehow managed to avoid every single spoiler. With Queen of Tears breaking records left and right, the hype only kept growing, and naturally, so did my expectations.
Overall, it's a decent one-time watch, but I definitely won't be sitting through all 16 episodes again. The first half was enjoyable enough, but the second half completely spiraled into chaos and not the entertaining kind. Calling it average would be generous;2nd half of it was genuinely frustrating to watch.
I didn't hate the drama, but some plot points seriously tested my patience. The FL getting amnesia and the ML ending up in jail exactly at the time she went into surgery felt absurd and painfully cliché. And then the male lead getting hit by car and then being shot at ! Like wtf is this an action thriller !!
The final episodes were where things really fell apart for me. They felt like a copy-paste version of Crash Landing on You. The only difference was that Hyun-woo took the bullet for Hae-in, whereas in CLOY, Se-ri took the bullet for Jeong-hyeok. Even the scene of Hyun-woo wandering through the snow in the middle of nowhere searching for Hae-in gave me major déjà vu. The similarities became so distracting that I couldn't stop noticing them. Also just bcz some things worked in one drama doesn’t mean they will work in all dramas. By the last episode, it was so obvious that I ended up skipping through most of it.
And the reason I keep calling it a copy isn't just because of some similarities to Crash Landing on You or legend of the blue sea .It felt like the writer took bits and pieces from several of their own previous dramas and stitched them together to create the last six episodes. If you've watched the writer's earlier works, you'll probably understand exactly what I'm talking about. Instead of feeling like a fresh story, it felt like a collection of familiar tropes and scenes recycled from past successes.
What disappointed me most was that such a talented cast couldn't compensate for the weak and often incomplete storyline. It felt as if the writer ran out of fresh ideas and relied heavily on familiar formulas rather than developing the story in a meaningful way. And finally, there was just way too much crying. At some point, every episode felt like an emotional marathon, and instead of making me emotional, it simply became annoying.
Overall, it's a decent one-time watch, but I definitely won't be sitting through all 16 episodes again. The first half was enjoyable enough, but the second half completely spiraled into chaos and not the entertaining kind. Calling it average would be generous;2nd half of it was genuinely frustrating to watch.
I didn't hate the drama, but some plot points seriously tested my patience. The FL getting amnesia and the ML ending up in jail exactly at the time she went into surgery felt absurd and painfully cliché. And then the male lead getting hit by car and then being shot at ! Like wtf is this an action thriller !!
The final episodes were where things really fell apart for me. They felt like a copy-paste version of Crash Landing on You. The only difference was that Hyun-woo took the bullet for Hae-in, whereas in CLOY, Se-ri took the bullet for Jeong-hyeok. Even the scene of Hyun-woo wandering through the snow in the middle of nowhere searching for Hae-in gave me major déjà vu. The similarities became so distracting that I couldn't stop noticing them. Also just bcz some things worked in one drama doesn’t mean they will work in all dramas. By the last episode, it was so obvious that I ended up skipping through most of it.
And the reason I keep calling it a copy isn't just because of some similarities to Crash Landing on You or legend of the blue sea .It felt like the writer took bits and pieces from several of their own previous dramas and stitched them together to create the last six episodes. If you've watched the writer's earlier works, you'll probably understand exactly what I'm talking about. Instead of feeling like a fresh story, it felt like a collection of familiar tropes and scenes recycled from past successes.
What disappointed me most was that such a talented cast couldn't compensate for the weak and often incomplete storyline. It felt as if the writer ran out of fresh ideas and relied heavily on familiar formulas rather than developing the story in a meaningful way. And finally, there was just way too much crying. At some point, every episode felt like an emotional marathon, and instead of making me emotional, it simply became annoying.
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