To me this drama was mostly calm, on some aspects a little bit sad, but still interesting. Especially the hardships which come with famousness, may those be because of the ruthless comments or family. I also really liked the relationship of main leads because, besides the fact they did not have the usual temporary breakup with lots of misunderstandings and so, they started with perfect communication, which is rare in K-dramas. But as time passed and they had less and less time for each other, they seemed to lose the ability to communicate easily and started to hide their hardships, feelings and desires, which sometimes is so true in life. They were young, but had maturity, which was showed with small things, like how the ML reacted when he found out that FL had been in touch with his best friend and all the scenes where it was stated “he/she’ll tell me when he/she’s ready”.

This drama managed to picture perfectly that sometimes love is not enough. As the FL said "timing is not right” and to me their breakup showed this. How sometimes you have to let each other go to concentrate on your career or other aspects of your life, because otherwise you'd concentrate only on him/her. Yes, giving up the relationship despite of the love is (and was for them) the most painful thing to do, but eventually they accepted and understood. And the acting of Park Bo Gum and Park So Dam was just perfect and so expressive.

As for ML friends - I found their parts meaningful. Their parts showed — as at some point one character stated, in contrast to the main characters —, that with some backgrounds your life is never yours, your decisions are never made solely by you. SML’s struggles pictured this magnificently. And to me his suspicions about him not being in control of his life and his wishes to control something (and to some extent competition with ML) made him fall for FL. But this desire was answered through the relationship of his sister. At the end SML seemed to have made it to the acceptance that his life is not entirely his, so this storyline was kind of sad for me.

After the time skip the ending was maybe a little bit short and rushed, but it did give an answer to one aspect — at least the breakup choice wasn’t wrong: ML’s career seemed to have been continued even after being absent for months and FL has had the chance to boost her career. Concerning of their relationship, it probably was left to viewers to decide. Also the ending did lack a little bit for the other characters.

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