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Kathryn_51
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RomCom? I call it “Romantic Friendship” with heavy dose of comedy. I loved it.
As the MDL synopsis states: “The series follows the romantic journey of Yeon Bo Ra, a celebrated love coach and successful author of romance novels, and Lee Soo Hyuk, a charming man who grapples with matters of the heart.”
And it is quite the journey. Bo-ra is popular and a self-proclaimed attention seeker – she craves attention and that people admire/like her. Soo Hyuk is a very reserved man who expresses himself by actions, not words . Both are essentially dumped by their significant others at the same time. Although Soo-Hyuk is stunned (and he blames Bo-ra’s books/radio show for what happened to him), it is Bo-ra that publicly crashes and burns – and Soo Hyuk is there to witness it all and – since he has a caring heart – help her even though he still dislikes her.
It’s a bit of enemies to friendship to love – as Soo Hyuk eventually states “after a few serendipitous moments, we came to work together.” Destiny? I don’t know – I’m not the “destiny” type so choose to belief that it's the right person/right time story.
Over several episodes (beginning around Episode 6), their romantic friendship begins and grows. I call it “romantic friendship” because the viewer could see – in both small moments and Mega Big Moments – that they were falling in love with each other as they continued to grapple with the fall-out of their separate break-ups. In other words, they were good for each other. While learning about the other person, they also learned about themselves. Although they evolved, their basic personalities did not change and that’s probably the number one reason I loved this drama – the writers kept them consistent to the very end.
For those viewers whose definition of “romance” is lots of skinship, flowery words, The woman falling on top of the man, passionate declarations of love and marriage proposals, this may not be your cup of tea. Especially if you’re the type that screams at the TV – “just tell her you love her, you introverted jerk”
There are three other couples/quasi-couples in the drama and they provided back-ground support (i.e. “sounding board”) to the main couple and experienced their own little dramas [translation: filler]. Two were actually cringey – and I won’t spoil further because I never cared about any of them as “a couple”, but I almost removed a two⭐'s from my rating because of them. If the writer wanted us to understand their purpose (other than filler and sounding boards), I don’t know what it was.
Nevertheless, it’s getting a 10⭐ from me because eagerly looked forward to each episode (setting the alarm early morning PDT), I thoroughly enjoyed the Main Couple’s overall story, character “development” and journey, terrific acting by both Yoo In Na and Yoon Hyun Min, and a script that ran the gamut from cringe (did they just show that on tv?) to deep affection. I will probably binge watch again in a couple of weeks.
And it is quite the journey. Bo-ra is popular and a self-proclaimed attention seeker – she craves attention and that people admire/like her. Soo Hyuk is a very reserved man who expresses himself by actions, not words . Both are essentially dumped by their significant others at the same time. Although Soo-Hyuk is stunned (and he blames Bo-ra’s books/radio show for what happened to him), it is Bo-ra that publicly crashes and burns – and Soo Hyuk is there to witness it all and – since he has a caring heart – help her even though he still dislikes her.
It’s a bit of enemies to friendship to love – as Soo Hyuk eventually states “after a few serendipitous moments, we came to work together.” Destiny? I don’t know – I’m not the “destiny” type so choose to belief that it's the right person/right time story.
Over several episodes (beginning around Episode 6), their romantic friendship begins and grows. I call it “romantic friendship” because the viewer could see – in both small moments and Mega Big Moments – that they were falling in love with each other as they continued to grapple with the fall-out of their separate break-ups. In other words, they were good for each other. While learning about the other person, they also learned about themselves. Although they evolved, their basic personalities did not change and that’s probably the number one reason I loved this drama – the writers kept them consistent to the very end.
For those viewers whose definition of “romance” is lots of skinship, flowery words, The woman falling on top of the man, passionate declarations of love and marriage proposals, this may not be your cup of tea. Especially if you’re the type that screams at the TV – “just tell her you love her, you introverted jerk”
There are three other couples/quasi-couples in the drama and they provided back-ground support (i.e. “sounding board”) to the main couple and experienced their own little dramas [translation: filler]. Two were actually cringey – and I won’t spoil further because I never cared about any of them as “a couple”, but I almost removed a two⭐'s from my rating because of them. If the writer wanted us to understand their purpose (other than filler and sounding boards), I don’t know what it was.
Nevertheless, it’s getting a 10⭐ from me because eagerly looked forward to each episode (setting the alarm early morning PDT), I thoroughly enjoyed the Main Couple’s overall story, character “development” and journey, terrific acting by both Yoo In Na and Yoon Hyun Min, and a script that ran the gamut from cringe (did they just show that on tv?) to deep affection. I will probably binge watch again in a couple of weeks.
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