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Right I was excited for it and it was really bad. Especially the cut where it looked like her arm was being bent out of place. After all that angst it should've been explosive but it was dry dry dy! I thought I escaped awkward love scenes with this show because the first two episodes were fire, it feels like false advertisement lmao

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The insta-love didn't land for me. The ML and FL's first few interactions didn't give what it needed to give to convince me that he fell in love with her so quickly, and definitely not strongly enough to justify searching for her obsessively for several years. So since this plot point didn't land for me, the rest of their story won't work either. I'll put this on hold for now to see if something else about this story ever makes me feel compelled to come back and complete it.

I have this one on my list! Can’t wait to watch it.

I don’t care if they were dead? That doesn’t change how the scene made me feel when I watched it.

Da Rim carrying Ji Hyeok out of the fire reminded me of a scene in the show Lost where Kate picks Jack's big ass up and carries him to safety on her shoulders. The actress was literally half his size, I have no idea how she lifted him, but I always thought it was one of the most romantic things I've ever seen. So we have a ML in distress this time and the FL saved the day, so some of yall can calm down. 😂

Ji Hyeok: It'll be uncomfortable, someone as sensitive as you will only get hurt. I'll book you a hotel.

Also Ji Hyeok: My mother isn't a sensitive person, she'll be much more comfortable staying with a friend.

Ji Hyeok please STAND UP. 🤣🤣🤣

I just finished it last week because I was enjoying this female lead so much in Dynamite Kiss and, wow, one of the most beautiful dramas I’ve ever seen! I’m now having a Namjoon Min marathon. 😂

The interview with the ML and SML had me dying. The way the SML didn't even pretend throwing that water in his lap was an accident, then standing 10 miles apart for the photo lmaooo. 🤣 This show is so funny.

I'm almost done with this and just have to say the SFL is a great actress. I rarely feel this much hatred towards a villain, she makes the character feel so real that it's almost hard for me to even finish this but I have to finish because I must see her pay. 😂 Hats off to the actress.

The writing is great too. The writer has a perfect instinct for knowing when the villain is about to make me tear my hair out and always gives the FL a small win right on time to keep me sane and hooked. If this was one of those shows where the FL never got a win I wouldn’t have even made it past episode 2, the villains are that terrible, and this writer definitely knows that! Great pacing. So good!

Edit: Just finished and unfortunately the second female villain is nowhere near as talented as the first and dragged the show way down. We really didn't need another villain (the first two were MORE than enough) and this show was easily a 10 all the way up until about episode 14 when she showed up and then it became exhausting to watch. Once I feel the need to start fast forwarding it knocks off a few stars for me. All in all, it's an 8/10 for me.

That's what made this show so interesting to me because it could really go either way. She could've loved him or despised him (or loved him AND despised him) and both would have made sense in the narrative. It really captures the complexity of the human heart and human emotions. We are not spoon fed the right answers because there are no right answers. I really love the route the writer took with this character.

I really wish I had watched this one before My Dearest because, while The Red Sleeve is fantastic, it is nowhere near as good as My Dearest. The cinematography, the chemistry between the leads, the fight scenes, none of it comes close to comparing. My Dearest was simply a masterpiece.

I actually loved this drama, it's very well-written and thought provoking. A lot of people seem to have an issue with the FL not kissing the ML's ass (apparently she should've been eternally grateful for the honor of being his mistress) but that's what made her character so captivating to me. All the way up until the end I understood her internal dilemma completely, her need for control, and I think it's realistic that the matter of her heart was never fully resolved. Life is very rarely wrapped up in a perfect bow that way. Beautiful characterization.

I swear they hate any story with a real plot or real conflict/tension. They literally want 16 episodes full of perfect one-dimensional people who do absolutely nothing but make out all day and never fight and live in a world full of rainbows and sunshine where absolutely nothing goes wrong, ever. That's not what good storytelling is.

Please stop spamming the page jesus.

They hate anything with a plot! I'm sick of them. 😅

Too many women on this site are raging misogynists so they'll always treat the ML like a helpless baby who's so wronged by the evil heartless FL. I love seeing a rich ML suffer so this show is right up my alley.

The villain was very one-dimensional and that's what killed this show. A villain 's characterization is just as important to the narrative as the main character and they failed miserably here. Too bad, it had potential.

One of my favorite slow burns of all time was Jim and Pam from The Office. Even though Jim was madly in love with Pam from the very beginning and she had no idea until the end it was still very much a slow burn all the way up until their first kiss and it was flawless! I agree @peaponi, it is the simmering tension that makes a slow burn great.

I love tropes. I don't know why everyone hates them so much, they're the most exciting part of a drama for me and never get old. Rich man/poor woman, FL in distress, sharing a bed, trapped on an island, unhealthily obsessed SML, it all does it for me. Give me all the tropes please.