Michelle Topham

Wow, this is fabulous. Love the two main leads, and it even has three of the best grandmas in it, including my absolute fave Kim Young Ok. Unusual plot too. Loving this so far. 😄

Exactly. IMO, anyone who threatens violence, death or even continually harrasses someone on social media -- whether it's a famous person getting the abuse or otherwise -- they should immediately be banned. Lost count of the Arabs on Instagram last week that, days later, still had accounts there even though they had obviously been reported numerous times for violence or death threats.

It's one of the reasons why, other than MDL, I don't use my social media accounts more than a couple of times a year.

First they're a huge time suck and they only make money for the Mark Zuckerbergs of the world, while I could be using that time to make money for myself 😁, and second the abuse and 'mob mentality' is now so bad I just think they're toxic places to be.

Reviews still mean nothing for most people, IMO. If they like the sound of the plot, read the comments (which once MDL deleted the Arab trolls' comments are almost overwhelmingly positive), and like one or both of the actors they watch the drama.

Forbes had an interesting article about it recently and came to the conclusion -- at best "unpredictable" as to whether review bombing damages a TV show, as some of the most review bombed have been the most successful.

Where review bombing can damage a show is if it might get a sequel, and Netflix sometimes cancels a second series if a show has been review bombed.

In the case of TDL, though, that isn't ever going to get a second season as it's a stand-alone rom com.

It also doesn't matter, as the powers that be at Netflix know full well it was an Arab temper tantrum, so they're not likely to pay any attention to it.
Especially as it's doing brilliantly on their Most Watched lists.

Sure, it's a shame a brilliant rom com got slammed by a bunch of ignorant morons, but far more serious were the death threats the actors, the studio, and the writer were getting from Arab trolls who should have been banned from every platform they piled onto. Savages.

Doesn't matter. Reviews mean nothing. Today, it's currently the #1 most watched TV show on Netflix in Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, El Salvador, and Venezuela.

And it's in the Top 5 in 19 other countries, including United Arab Emirates, Qatar. Don't think their review bombing had any effect, except caused even more people to watch it. 😂

It's also performing very well both nationwide in S. Korea and Seoul, so... 😂

I think 12 episodes is perfect. The screenwriters have written an incredibly tight script that is better than the webtoon in some respects as it explains things better, and still moves at the perfect speed.

They have also added some things that, in another drama I might have been annoyed about, but in this one have been done so well they don't annoy me at all.

If it was 16 episodes, or God forbid, 20, I would be watching it on double speed as the story would be too stretched out.

As it is, it's one of the best K-drama scripts I've seen in a while. Even more impressive considering it seems to be the first screenplay for one writer and only the second screenplay for the second that have been made into a drama.

Both equal as far as I'm concerned. For different reasons. But both have phenomenally good casts, main leads are brilliant, the dramas are well-written and, the most important thing for me, each episode flies by so fast I never have chance to get bored. Recommend both. Been lucky this season to get two such stand-out dramas airing at the same time.

Changes are pretty minor overall. The screenwriter has kept all the important parts and to some extent made them more understandable.

I started doing that when I saw the Arab trolls had downgraded every episode to a 3 or below.

I mean these morons have even downrated episodes that haven't aired yet. Can't fix stupid, eh?

And I don't mind giving KTL a 10 -- I've enjoyed every second of it, especially from Episode 6 onwards, so think the five main actors (4 women and Junho), the writer and the director deserve a 10 purely for my enjoyment level.

Oh come on, you can't lower your score or you're playing into the hands of the Arabs 😂.

Ooh and I also stumbled across a Korean house show on YouTube last week where she was the voice over presenter. Recognized her voice as soon as she spoke. Immediately subscribed to the channel even though I don't speak Korean and YouTube's automatic translation is dreadful 😂.

I KNOW!!! Broke my heart when she died in Hometown Cha Cha Cha! So far though KTL doesn't look like it's heading in that direction -- fingers crossed!

Love her personality, how she's always giving Gu Won a hard time even though she doesn't really mean it. 😂 Such a phenomenal actress. One of my favorites for the last 20 years. And, thank God, at 85, still hasn't slowed down and still in as many dramas as she always was.

The screenwriter did an awesome job with Episode 9. Really showed the euphoria people feel when they first fall in love, and how they will do anything just to spend a few more minutes with their new love interest -- Gu Won drinking 97 cups of coffee just so he can stare at Sa Rang a bit longer. Gu Won wanting to do a 10th walk around the block. Gu Won... Yeah, pretty much all Gu Won 😂

Plus, he's only seen a couple of times a day for a few minutes, so we have no idea if he is working his ass off for the other 7-plus hours. He does have an MBA from London School of Economics or Oxford (?) (not sure it was ever stressed which school but one of the top UK schools) so he obviously knows what he's doing when it comes to business.

Kim Young Ok has been my favorite 'veteran' actress since the first K-drama I ever watched -- Yellow Handkerchief back in 2003. She played the gradmother then.

Since then, I must have seen at least 20 dramas she's been in and she has been superb in all of them. No wonder she's known as Korea's national grandmother!

Thanks for the recommendation. Added it to my To Watch list :)

No it won't. Not if they stick to the webtoon ending :) And the screenwriter has stuck to the webtoon so far (with a couple of minor additions/changes).

The webtoon is one of my favorites and I am very picky about who is cast in the parts of characters from my fave webtoons/manga.

Honestly, they could not have chosen a better actress. She is phenomenal in the role. I'll be watching everything else she has been in once I have some free time, as I'm blown away by how good she is. And how absolutely gorgeous!

I would probably normally have given it an 8.5 or 9 by the end, but because of the disgusting behavior of the Arab trolls, it will be a 10 for me. Gotta support the actors/director/production staff/JTBC any way I can, and do my part to counteract the vile Arab vitriol.

Even tho JTBC apologized (dumb move, as the trolls will never be happy), I think they are probably pleased to some extent with the attention the show got from the Arabs. It has skyrocketed viewership, and in the long run will make them even more money than it would have done if the Arabs hadn't acted like vile 2 year olds.