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In the guise of flawed characters we get an abuser
Firstly was the drama enjoyable? Yes but it was so insanely exhausting. The actors acted well so i'll give them their flowers. To attractive people dealing with a forbidden work place romance that’s such a good premise and the actors were so good and convincing. Their chemistry ate but that was it the only part of their relationship that felt healthy was their sexual relationship credit to the intimacy coordinator. Other times the relationship felt icky.
How could you expect flora to ever open up to someone who calls her cheap, obedient, accuses her of cheating on him and accuse her of sleeping with him for 6 years for benefits. And then after the 3 year skip he tells her that she’s worse than a dog like are we being for real. How could she forgive him for being so shitty is beyond me. Its not like she isn't flawed but her flaws insecurity, lack of communication and not trusting him are a consequence of his mean behaviour.
Luke asks her if he has ever hit her but his words are sharp enough. Abuse can be verbal aswell he constantly breaks her confidence and his words feed her insecurity. Her issues stem from his behaviour, his position and the idea that he's someone so much better than her.
Luke was not flawed he was genuinely an abusive person all of his vitriol was directed towards flora he was never like this with his friends. Having a horrible childhood is not excuse to be a bad person. The times he was soft with her were some of the best parts of the drama.
Had there been more grovelling i think and actual character development for both of them the drama would have been much better and my rating much higher. I know the drama was shortened from 32 episodes to 24 but they could have managed the pacing better because 3 episodes was not enough to resolve their story.
I loved flora's roommates and lumi. I also liked luke's friend. The osts were amazing and the acting was really good too. But the story, pacing and characterization or character development fell short for both characters.
How could you expect flora to ever open up to someone who calls her cheap, obedient, accuses her of cheating on him and accuse her of sleeping with him for 6 years for benefits. And then after the 3 year skip he tells her that she’s worse than a dog like are we being for real. How could she forgive him for being so shitty is beyond me. Its not like she isn't flawed but her flaws insecurity, lack of communication and not trusting him are a consequence of his mean behaviour.
Luke asks her if he has ever hit her but his words are sharp enough. Abuse can be verbal aswell he constantly breaks her confidence and his words feed her insecurity. Her issues stem from his behaviour, his position and the idea that he's someone so much better than her.
Luke was not flawed he was genuinely an abusive person all of his vitriol was directed towards flora he was never like this with his friends. Having a horrible childhood is not excuse to be a bad person. The times he was soft with her were some of the best parts of the drama.
Had there been more grovelling i think and actual character development for both of them the drama would have been much better and my rating much higher. I know the drama was shortened from 32 episodes to 24 but they could have managed the pacing better because 3 episodes was not enough to resolve their story.
I loved flora's roommates and lumi. I also liked luke's friend. The osts were amazing and the acting was really good too. But the story, pacing and characterization or character development fell short for both characters.
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