It was NOT the cast that made this bad

I have to say up front that it was NOT the cast that made this whole drama tank - the cast was amazing and they are the only reason I stayed until the last episode. It was the WORST storyline I have ever seen and I have made note of these writers and will not watch anything by them again.

Where do I even start? The storyline started out good but what you read in the synopsis is nothing like the drama ended up being. The ML loses his male lead status for at least 70+ episodes as the drama focuses on the supporting character of Ju Hyuk - and at some point his status as supporting character changes to Main Character. Why? I have no idea who allowed that change to be made. but the story dragged on and on and on, ad nauseum, about the FL, Mi Rae, being in love with the cheating, gaslighting, abusive Ju Hyuk, who happened to be her first love. We rarely had any interactions between the two leads that were suppose to end up falling in love and having to fight for their love. The two "leads" - Kang San and Mi Rae - do not even get together as a couple until episode 91 - and the drama is only 121 episodes. The two actors did not have much chemistry - maybe due to the fact that the writers and director didn't have them interact much with each other for over half the drama. The characters that needed background stories for us to understand them more, never had them. The writers clearly hated Kang-San - the character they CREATED. They made him passive, meek, a doormat, and a pushover from ep 1 all the way through ep 121. The synopsis states he would have to fight for his love but we never truly saw that. The only time he came close is when Ju Hyuk was revealed to be the cheater that he was. That lasted about 2-3 episodes., then it was back to being the same Kang-San that had no self esteem and really came across as a loser.

Seo Joon Young tried his best with the terrible script he was given. He did pull out some really great emotional moments that you felt his pain so much as his character struggled day in and day out. SJY really is a great actor and I hope to see him get a ML role that he can sink his teeth into and show us more of his acting ability and ML status. I think he definitely could pull off a better romance drama. Give this guy a passionate, romantic role, please!

Kim Si Eun - I cant say enough good things about this young woman. She honestly stole the show and this girl has an awesome career ahead of her is she chooses to stick to acting. You loved her character Jan-Di and you hated her. From episode 1 - 121 this girl showed a wide range of talent and emotions. I cried, I yelled, and laughed with her. I look forward to seeing her in many more dramas.

I have made note of the Director as well - there were many scenes where I was left scratching my head as to what the director was trying to say in his scenes. So many scenes looked as if it was missing parts - it was jumping from one scene to the next with no continuity at all. There were some scenes that is obvious parts were cut and melded together - again, making no sense. At one point the ML saves Mi Rae from a motorcyclist and ends up unconscious in the hospital and it is said he would be in there for a while and have to wear the neck brace for a while then the next scene appears to be the next morning where he is sitting at the breakfast table with no neck brace and no cast on his arm. There was no indication there was a bit of a time skip or that it could have been a week or two later - it seemed like it was the next morning. Lots of us were like "what happened here?" This happened on several occasions. a lot of the time the video previews at the end of the episodes - scenes from those were never aired.

So I gave the cast and actors a 9.0, but I didn't want to even rate the story because I felt even any rating was too much, but it wouldn't let me leave it blank so I gave the story a 1.0 - If I could give it a negative number I would - that is just how bad the story was. Save yourself the trouble of watching.

**edited to add that Seo Joon Young won an Excellence Award -Actor in a Daily Drama for his role as Kang San, and Kim Si Eun won Best Young Actress Award for her role as Jan Di, at the 2023 KBS Drama Awards. ????????

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There is nothing hilarious here - Move Along

Here is what the drama promised: "The story of how people who hate each other the most become the wildest, weirdest, yet hilarious family begins now!"

What you get is
-serial killer(I know, right? in a supposed COMEDY)
- a FL who starts out great but deteriorates in to a pile of stammering, non-sentences, when confronted by her ML's mom
-2 cheaters (call it what you want but those two had a thing going on, I don't care what the story says because a married man doesn't go to another woman's house and stay all night to give her medicine cause because he is worried as a friend)
- a delusional-whining-crazy ex (see below) who thinks everyone should do as she says because it is all about her,
-another delusional stalker colleague that won't take no for an answer,
-a POLICEMAN who thinks the stalker can do no wrong even when she tells him she is going to break up her victim's relationship (it's his sister's relationship),
- a 37 year old hot tempered woman who acts like she is 14,
- her half-sister who is super flaky (but kind of likeable),
-a cafe owner who is raising a child (supposedly dumped on him by his ex??? ) but acts like he has never dated before
- a sister/sister-in-law who sold her own niece and nephew out over alimony money to give to a lover who dumped her and kept the truth from her sister for 30 years (how do you sit across from your own sister everyday for 30 years knowing you kept the truth from her - sick),
-a delusional-whining-crazy ex - yeah that one (see above) - woman who can't shut up about what happened 30 years previously (you feel for her at first but please know she is a snake in the grass) - she is remarried, supposedly loves her husband, has 2 great kids with him, yet can't stop droning on and on about how her first husband cheated on her and took her kids. Okay, I get the kids part - I'd go crazy too if my ex had taken my kids and left the country and I didn't see them for 30 years but this is 2023 - how can she not find these kids in the 30 years she has been looking??? Their names didn't change. When they entered the Philippines to live for 17 years they had to registered in that country somehow. It's not like she didn't have the money to find them - but I digress because no matter how long i think about this the writers are JUST not going to make this make sense - she moans and moans and moans till you get sick of it.

The only person I ended up liking in this whole drama was Kang Seon Woo. He is the only one who has any common sense and wanted to keep his relationship with Eun Sung going (she flaked on him too - loser FL character).

There isn't anything funny about this drama past eps 20 something. It's contentious, dark at times, nasty, hateful, spiteful, delusional, and whacked.

Save yourself the trouble and skip this one.

**edited - I came back after pausing for 3 weeks at ep 78 and caught up to current episode. My thoughts on this drama mentioned above in my review, sadly, have not changed one iota so far. The fact that they added 10 more episodes to this train wreck makes you want to scream to the heavens "whyyyy???"

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