Had high hopes early on. There was intrigue, and tension. Obvious chemistry between leads. Fun unique elements to the story. But then the pointless side plots arrived. Writing that seemed like it came from clueless teenagers. 2024 6 leads behaved so immaturely. Major disappointment, this could have been better with stronger writing for the TV show elements. It seemed childish, and theres no way that show was trending. All the best parts were filmed off camera or purposefully cut. Like what content was getting anyone excited. Glad villians got their comeuppance. Thats rare in a cdrama. HEA appreciated.
Ahhh this story! A 10/10. I have lived this. Came to a foreign land, married. The first year was so very hard. Loneliness is real. Its excruciating and painful. You lean so heavily on your partner and they truly don’t understand.Through circumstances our situations switched places and we were now in my homeland. Through life, you learn to understand each other, but it takes work and an extreme amount of dedication to put each other first when the environment is strange. People don’t get you, cultures differ. Family is so far away. I understood every nuance about this story. The writers did an incredible job. I wish we hadn’t had to deal with a 2ML. That was hard. He wasn’t needed. She could quite easily have had reason to reject in the beginning and 2ML was never really a part of the reason. Beautifully written, executed and the music… stunning. I hope we see a physical OST because after Lovely Runner there has been no other drama in 2024 I have had the desire to purchase. This my friends is it.
What on earth was that. Disappointed after the 1st season. It was so whack and funny and so typically Japanese!! I thought we would get a little further on in the relationship. No idea how this got rated R, its not even PG lol. This was just a weirder than weird oddball complete waste of money 6 episodes that just stop with no real ending. No happy ending ir sad ending, just ends.
Not sure what everyone else who is raving about this reason was watching. It didn’t even compare to the first.
Jdramas are hella weird. We know this. Honestly its why I watch. They provide a nice break from too serious full of drama Korean shows and the trope heavy same old from China. Japan knows how to put out the odd quirky weirdness.
This one was surprisingly hilarious. Normally folks are complaining about teacher student relationship shows that Japan seems to love to make… but this one was not even remotely in the same realm as those. Its so funny. So weird. But cute, and for goodness sakes these leads are 2 yrs apart in age in reality- they look the same age and nothing seems off about them being together at all. Theres a season 2 hoping its now beyond Graduation so we can have a bit more relationship now.
I wanted to love this. I feel like I’m saying that about most dramas lately. Feels like dejavu. Its not awful. Its very slow paced, with a broad cast and less focus on the leads. If anything it reminds me of cdrama “Slice of Life” dramas without so much of the lengthy timeline. The editing is rather choppy. A gazillion flash backs to explain current thoughts. I don’t mind it, they seem to benefit rather than annoy.
The disappointment stems from clueless as heck and rather selfish FL (but this is quite a typical trope for Asian dramas), sappy ML who has loved FL forever, and never had courage to say and FL has had either head in the clouds or had eyesight on other guys to notice the super hot and sweet bestie..
I was more invested in seconds relationship but even then opportunity was lost to stir up some chemistry. Its always so flat with all of them. ML is the only one who seems to express his emotions well, but there is just zero chemistry running thru this show.
MLs parents story held good tension, but even though I know they needed to resolve her medical condition without it being serious as to not distract from leads story, it didn’t resolve satisfactory and having a mom who had alzheimers that was my expected outcime there. Overall they packed this show with well known names, and eye candy (ML, Reporter, ex bf and brother) it just lacked something. The episodes were too long as well. I probably skipped most of the final 2 episodes- it was tedious and boring. I needed this to be a Viki show so I could console myself while watching with other commentors, who were also resisting poking their own eyes out lol. I gave it an 8, which feels generous because there was moments when I liked the story. It just didn’t feel fresh. I feel like I’ve seen this before.
This show does need a trigger warning: early attempted rape scene (adults) and then several child sex abuse moments. And someone jacking off outside a kindergarten. This is not a comedy (unless you count the handful of short scenes with the friends). By all means watch Woobin does a stellar job, but they needed to warn viewers because the synopsis isn’t going to go there.
Why oh why didn’t they throw the budget they set aside for this spin off into 2 additional episodes of No Gain No Love and fix that terrible rushed ending? I was a big fan of our seconds in the original drama. There was real angst for her and a redemption arc for him, their chemistry was sweet and romantic.
NGL this was weird.
The best part of the entire two episodes was Lee Sangyi’s beautiful singing at the very end.
I’m all over the place with this one. On one hand it delivered an enjoyable, funny at times, dead serious in others drama. I was gunning to give this one a solid 10, but 7 episodes in the skips were needed. The FL becomes really unlikeable, and most of the reasons for that never clear up or become a part of a growth arc. She has zero epiphanies- and is still bossing around and forcing her opinions on her “sisters” at the end. No thanks. Why do the writers do this? We don’t need pointless breakups, or cold FL nonsense, throwing away sweet love because they are selfish, or stupid timeslips for no other reason that Kdrama tradition dictates it. I love it when a writer is new and fresh and the last 1/3 of this drama was one typical trope after another. Ending was rushed too. I did not enjoy that final episode at all. It skyrocketed through too many plot points all at once. There were things to love but I’m so disappointed that this show dropped off as it progressed. Like seriously sad. Shin Mina and Kim Youngdae are incredible actors in their own right, and I was so annoyed at the writing. Do we care Jayeon bought an apartment- needed to move in immediately but it was never heard, seen or spoken of again? 🤣🤣🤣This should have been 16 episodes to do this story justice. 11 was an entire waste, and 12 was a rushed patch up job.
They took a handful of serious themes. Dementia, Abuse, Murder, Fear, Family reconciliation and discovery, Loss and Grief. But most of the time they didn’t make the effort to pad them out. Most of the time stomped all over them. sad.
Extremely draggy and terribly edited show. Much to like. Much to despise. I was a fan of several of the main characters but all of them, and I mean every single one of them will annoy the heck out of you at some point, except maybe Ai Li who is just the sweetest soul who doesn’t deserve what happens to him in a certain scene. As you ponder whether or not to poke your eyeballs out through all the pointless script and annoying episodes halfway in and onwards, I stayed with the hope for the relationship I was most interested in, the one that got the shortest screen time but redeemed this show (slightly) for me near the end. They were the cutest and deserved their happy ending. No not the leads. But our cute Song Zihao 🥰Best I could give this was 6.5 folks. Shame, editing on that script, less of the gaslighting nonsense - and cutting the relationship whiplash of the leads would have made a fun shorter and happier watch.
Firstly, this show did what Heirarchy did not. I fully expected Heirarchy to be more like this. Second, I’m…
The male teacher seemed to get off scot free even after its made public to everyone but why on EARTH didn’t the counselor pursue advocacy there? Because she had slept with him herself? Because she was clearly in love with a student herself? Not quite sure about that. I mean we are used to Jdramas with student teacher relationships- even though generally they seemed to be frowned upon in Asia too.
Firstly, this show did what Heirarchy did not. I fully expected Heirarchy to be more like this.
Second, I’m a little unsure about the accusations in some reviews that this show glorifies child exploitation. OK yes, there’s sex scenes involving “high school age kids” however all actors are over 22 years old AND lets face it this is what many teens are doing whether you or I like it or not. Clearly the end of the show - points out this isn’t the experience of all teens, just a select few. The teacher x student relationships were my biggest gripe.
Started out so so good! But sadly it lost a lot of sight and that ending/last episode was full of far too much again and was too rushed. It was a diservice to leads and everything they went thru.
Acting of ML was incredible. That was an emotional role to play and he hit it out the park.
Not sure what everyone else who is raving about this reason was watching. It didn’t even compare to the first.
This one was surprisingly hilarious. Normally folks are complaining about teacher student relationship shows that Japan seems to love to make… but this one was not even remotely in the same realm as those. Its so funny. So weird. But cute, and for goodness sakes these leads are 2 yrs apart in age in reality- they look the same age and nothing seems off about them being together at all.
Theres a season 2 hoping its now beyond Graduation so we can have a bit more relationship now.
The disappointment stems from clueless as heck and rather selfish FL (but this is quite a typical trope for Asian dramas), sappy ML who has loved FL forever, and never had courage to say and FL has had either head in the clouds or had eyesight on other guys to notice the super hot and sweet bestie..
I was more invested in seconds relationship but even then opportunity was lost to stir up some chemistry. Its always so flat with all of them. ML is the only one who seems to express his emotions well, but there is just zero chemistry running thru this show.
MLs parents story held good tension, but even though I know they needed to resolve her medical condition without it being serious as to not distract from leads story, it didn’t resolve satisfactory and having a mom who had alzheimers that was my expected outcime there. Overall they packed this show with well known names, and eye candy (ML, Reporter, ex bf and brother) it just lacked something. The episodes were too long as well. I probably skipped most of the final 2 episodes- it was tedious and boring. I needed this to be a Viki show so I could console myself while watching with other commentors, who were also resisting poking their own eyes out lol. I gave it an 8, which feels generous because there was moments when I liked the story. It just didn’t feel fresh. I feel like I’ve seen this before.
NGL this was weird.
The best part of the entire two episodes was Lee Sangyi’s beautiful singing at the very end.
They took a handful of serious themes. Dementia, Abuse, Murder, Fear, Family reconciliation and discovery, Loss and Grief. But most of the time they didn’t make the effort to pad them out. Most of the time stomped all over them. sad.
Second, I’m a little unsure about the accusations in some reviews that this show glorifies child exploitation. OK yes, there’s sex scenes involving “high school age kids” however all actors are over 22 years old AND lets face it this is what many teens are doing whether you or I like it or not. Clearly the end of the show - points out this isn’t the experience of all teens, just a select few. The teacher x student relationships were my biggest gripe.
Acting of ML was incredible. That was an emotional role to play and he hit it out the park.