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Can This Love Be Translated? korean drama review
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Can This Love Be Translated?
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by Yumi
3 days ago
12 of 12 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 5.5
Story 4.0
Acting/Cast 10.0
Music 5.0
Rewatch Value 3.0
This review may contain spoilers

Good first half, unnecessarily stretched in the second one


There is a reason i got really interested in this drama from the very beginning, which is the ML character.
I generally love SeonHo as an actor but his character here, Ju Hojin clicked with me like no other, literally everything he did and said made sense to me, there isn't one single word he said or action he did that i questioned and having the same job got me more attached to him, on the other hand, the FL got me scratching my head a few times with her emotional behaviour without thinking at all, and i was like how did you put those two together! How will they work, moreover I couldn't see much chemistry between the leads, she fitted better with other actors but i had nothing against the pair.

Also, half way through watching, i decided to check Hojin Mbti and guess what! We are one and the same ... That made sense to me tbh, and that made me more immersed deep in the show, i was literally him, trying to figure out how he will fall in love with amd stay with Muhui? It sounded impossible in my mind, there is no way these two will get together, i have to admit that the psychological issues with the FL made her character more appealing or acceptable to me, because if she didn't have that, I'd definitely just hooe for a tragic end or something, being with someone like her is literally a nightmare.
That being said, the way the continued the story really pissed me off, by the time Gurami appeared, everything went downhill! Nothing made sense, story got so random, conversations became shallow and characters didn't make any sense, why didn't Hojin tell Muhui everything? That didn't make sense, why didn't they go see a psychiatrist?? How bad is her childhood trauma that got her believing that she can't ever be loved and at the same time it can easily be cured without any medications or sessions with experts or any sort of help at all!!

The ML that i admire the most behaved in a very weird way, why couldn't he simply confess, and how come he easily believed Gurami yet he acted as if everything is fine and nothing wrong, how couldn't he tell her manager, didn't he think for a second about how dangerous that is!! And they wanted to swipe everything under the rug and make "happiness" be the cure... And let's say for the sake or argument that her being happy will solve everything, he loves her and she loves him, how come being together doesn't solve the problem, and him staying away will fix her! I mean the idea that "oh no one loves me so I'll just stay away from him till i forget everything then I'll be fine and happy again" is so stupid!! I know it's actually gurami's ideal solution but even so, if she wants her to be happy she should push them to be together that's the logical thing to do.

The mixture of F and T is so so confusing, and it annoys me very much, the idea of being driven by very strong emotions vs being a total thinker wasn't consistent throughout the show, specially when the show drags a lot for 12 episodes of basically nothing, it could be ended in like 6-8 episodes max and everyone would be more than satisfied tbh, also it's a Netflix show so i do not understand sticking to the official episodes number, and I'll not even talk about the poor SML who just got abused for 2 kisses, the guy didn't understand wth was going on and what happened yo him lol he was just there anf half of his scenes were unnecessary.
Will i recommend it? Probably, it's not all bad, but i wouldn't really rewatch it ever, so low expectations and less brain cells and you'll enjoy it ~~
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