It was an okay series on an important topic but with lots of makjang elements like Jang Gang just being a doppelgänger of Jin Pyo without any apparent relation (this trope is applied so often in makjang daily dramas), the coincidences of people just running into each other at the right time (Jin young seeing Eun Soo and Jang Kang at the right time for one), the whole Jang Gang storyline and its weird nature, the fact that the girls were so sloppy in their revenge and couldn't show their smartness and they had to rely heavily on Jin So Baek to save them in the end.
I really enjoyed the fight scenes, sure they were not complicated as this is not an action series, but it was really well choreographed and looked realistic on screen. I think what really makes this for me is the acting. I enjoyed everyone’s acting in this. But the writing itself was nonsensical at the end, not what I was expecting after the first 4 episodes
🤦🏾♀️ the court scenes (ep 7) are so ridiculous cause why is Vincenzo addressing the Judge when he’s not there as an attorney and witnesses are being called upon at random without notifying the defense attorneys. Witnesses and lawyers being so disorderly in the courtroom. The whole thing was just laughable
I’m so glad this was a revenge story where she didn’t suddenly change her mind at the end after the villains get a change of heart and apologize for all their wrong doings. Everyone stayed true to who they are, like it should be in real life. And the revenge was actually satisfying 👏👏👏
The acting was crazy. I have a new found appreciation for Im Ji Yeon
My only major gripe with this is the romance 😑This might be the most “zero” chemistry I’ve ever seen. You just don’t understand why they’re attracted to each other or how even. It’s not negative chemistry but nothing positive about it either. You don’t know how he fell so much for her and her story to suddenly become an executioner for her. Both the writing and the acting doesn’t help it at all. When they’re with each other it’s just like they’re delivering their lines. And the lines are nothing to write home about. Their age difference didn’t help at all. I’m normally a fan of noona romance but the drama did not try to pass this off as a noona romance but instead tried to pass off a 14-year irl age difference as 2 year age difference in the series. Come on now!
One of the best romances I’ve watched this year in general. It did come with the angst prepared but the emotions and relationships both romantic and familial is top notch. I would have liked more moments with them after they got together tho.
The OSTs of this tho 😩 I’ve been listening to Crush’s Love you with all my heart since this drama ended. It’s making me picture all the scenes.
The show was really good at tugging the viewer’s emotions tho ngl. Despite its flaws this is one of those shows I’m gonna be thinking about over the years, and even watch again in a while
More like viewers in tears cause I laughed and cried a lot. Kim Soo hyun just keeps improving in his acting. Kim Ji was also so good in this, I’ve always liked her but now I have to go back and watch some of her past dramas. Park Sung hoon as Yoon Eun sung annoyed me till the end but you can’t say he wasn’t giving it his all in the acting. I even decided to start The Glory cause of him 😂. Everyone of the actors were great here
First of all I enjoyed it. But I enjoyed the second half more than the first half. It started out with the old and tiring stereotype of MISCOMMUNICATION 😑
The miscommunication was so bad that the male and female lead could be talking about something and get very completely different things at the same. And that annoyed me so bad. Another hated trope of mine was also the destiny trope. Not only had they met twice and liked each other as teens but even at childhood when he saved her. It’s so unnecessary, they could have told their story well regardless of all that.
Also how is the SML able to completely take over as Hae-in’s fiancé in Germany and he could just bribe the director of the hospital just like that for him and his full staff to not say anything. That had me rolling my eyes so bad. He was able to convince the FL of his role in her life with virtually no concrete evidence, she hated her family and husband instantly based on what he told her? Someone she also just ‘met’, where’s the common sense. The evilness of the female villain to sell out her own son all for the sake of greed is wild. All these things made the show have a bit of makjang element.
And this is this writer’s style. The high profile beautiful actors with some high profile cameos sprinkled in. The over-use of flashbacks, flash forwards and epilogues that actually tell more than the main episode had to say. The manipulative tug at one’s heartstrings. The neatly tied bow at the end of the series. And of course the “we’re so destined for one another that we’ve met multiple times in the past and had significant impact on each other’s lives”. These were so prevalent in My love from another star, crash landing on you and this.
I would have rated it higher cause I really enjoyed the show but these overuse of tropes annoyed me too much.
Before this ep 5 I was so sure her sickness was not real. Because she was only getting checkups in one particular hospital with the same doctor. I was so sure that doctor was paid off by someone (Yoon eun sung, Grace or step girlfriend as part of whatever it is they’re planning for the Hong family). But with her going to Germany where they also did tests and Yoon eun sung looking genuinely confused about her looking sick, I’m now confused about my initial theory 😩
The acting wasn’t all that great but it was just a feel good romance drama with lots of angst, surprisingly, but mostly because they just won’t finish their sentences or conversations 🤦🏾♀️ But the chemistry was definitely there and it was enjoyable.
A refreshing female lead that kept it up till the end. Rare. ML was actually such a nice guy, forget his dealings with his female co-stars they deserved it, he treated everyone fairly. And he was so cute and naive in a way. It felt like it was just the actor’s real character or maybe he was just good at selling it.
I could see how ML fell in love with female lead cause she was so different from the women he we used to. But I wish they spent more time on how female lead fell in love cause it just felt too sudden especially for someone that’s so skeptical of men and love in general.
Once they got together tho it was a very cute and realistic relationship. Loved it.
CEO and best friend’s relationship was just forgettable, nothing stands out there
I've had that happen many times. It happens and sometimes you don't even realize it. I once had a friend in 1st…
Since you were in the same class in 1st grade, you were probably seeing the person everyday, you saw how they walked, how they speak, there were things about that person you were noticing over time that got stuck in your brain even if you thought you didn’t remember him. But to meet someone for a minute 7 years ago is a different thing I think
You know how you watch some fantasy series and even if it’s so fantastical it feels so real and makes sense. Well this ain’t one of those ones. The logic of this world was not well explained in my opinion. Things were definitely tied up in the end but it still left you scratching your head on the things they’ve “explained”. Regardless I liked how it ended. When others were saying the ending was bittersweet I was expecting something more on the bitter side.
One thing I really appreciated was the acting of our main cast. It’s my first time watching Jeon Yeo been and Kang hoon and they were acting their asses off, Ahn Hyo seop has his moments but he comes across as unnatural sometimes. I’m still yet to determine if his actual smile always looks that forced or he’s trying his hardest to act.
My main issues is with the plot of the show. If the future people are what influenced the past people’s lives, then what caused the future people to influence it in the first place. It’s never explained the actual origin of the time travelling. For example, future chanyoung carried young chanyoung around to teach him how to take care of a specimen but who taught the future chanyoung himself. What first influenced what, it’s like the chicken and the egg situation. Kwon minju died in 1998 and we find out it all started with the interference of the future Jun hee. But even in the future before any interference Kwon min ju really did die in 1998. So how is it all because of the time travel when this was something that already happened originally. They did not explain everything well in my opinion. In trying to be brilliant, the story ended up being too complicated.
One more thing, the love story was not convincing enough for one that could transverse through time and space. It was not an epic romance. Ironically, they were not given enough time in any of the timelines to convince me of their love
I really enjoyed the fight scenes, sure they were not complicated as this is not an action series, but it was really well choreographed and looked realistic on screen. I think what really makes this for me is the acting. I enjoyed everyone’s acting in this. But the writing itself was nonsensical at the end, not what I was expecting after the first 4 episodes
I’m so glad this was a revenge story where she didn’t suddenly change her mind at the end after the villains get a change of heart and apologize for all their wrong doings. Everyone stayed true to who they are, like it should be in real life. And the revenge was actually satisfying 👏👏👏
The acting was crazy. I have a new found appreciation for Im Ji Yeon
My only major gripe with this is the romance 😑This might be the most “zero” chemistry I’ve ever seen. You just don’t understand why they’re attracted to each other or how even. It’s not negative chemistry but nothing positive about it either. You don’t know how he fell so much for her and her story to suddenly become an executioner for her. Both the writing and the acting doesn’t help it at all. When they’re with each other it’s just like they’re delivering their lines. And the lines are nothing to write home about.
Their age difference didn’t help at all. I’m normally a fan of noona romance but the drama did not try to pass this off as a noona romance but instead tried to pass off a 14-year irl age difference as 2 year age difference in the series. Come on now!
The show was really good at tugging the viewer’s emotions tho ngl. Despite its flaws this is one of those shows I’m gonna be thinking about over the years, and even watch again in a while
First of all I enjoyed it. But I enjoyed the second half more than the first half. It started out with the old and tiring stereotype of MISCOMMUNICATION 😑
The miscommunication was so bad that the male and female lead could be talking about something and get very completely different things at the same. And that annoyed me so bad. Another hated trope of mine was also the destiny trope. Not only had they met twice and liked each other as teens but even at childhood when he saved her. It’s so unnecessary, they could have told their story well regardless of all that.
Also how is the SML able to completely take over as Hae-in’s fiancé in Germany and he could just bribe the director of the hospital just like that for him and his full staff to not say anything. That had me rolling my eyes so bad. He was able to convince the FL of his role in her life with virtually no concrete evidence, she hated her family and husband instantly based on what he told her? Someone she also just ‘met’, where’s the common sense. The evilness of the female villain to sell out her own son all for the sake of greed is wild. All these things made the show have a bit of makjang element.
And this is this writer’s style. The high profile beautiful actors with some high profile cameos sprinkled in. The over-use of flashbacks, flash forwards and epilogues that actually tell more than the main episode had to say. The manipulative tug at one’s heartstrings. The neatly tied bow at the end of the series. And of course the “we’re so destined for one another that we’ve met multiple times in the past and had significant impact on each other’s lives”. These were so prevalent in My love from another star, crash landing on you and this.
I would have rated it higher cause I really enjoyed the show but these overuse of tropes annoyed me too much.
I could see how ML fell in love with female lead cause she was so different from the women he we used to. But I wish they spent more time on how female lead fell in love cause it just felt too sudden especially for someone that’s so skeptical of men and love in general.
Once they got together tho it was a very cute and realistic relationship. Loved it.
CEO and best friend’s relationship was just forgettable, nothing stands out there
Thanks for the link
One thing I really appreciated was the acting of our main cast. It’s my first time watching Jeon Yeo been and Kang hoon and they were acting their asses off, Ahn Hyo seop has his moments but he comes across as unnatural sometimes. I’m still yet to determine if his actual smile always looks that forced or he’s trying his hardest to act.
My main issues is with the plot of the show. If the future people are what influenced the past people’s lives, then what caused the future people to influence it in the first place. It’s never explained the actual origin of the time travelling. For example, future chanyoung carried young chanyoung around to teach him how to take care of a specimen but who taught the future chanyoung himself. What first influenced what, it’s like the chicken and the egg situation. Kwon minju died in 1998 and we find out it all started with the interference of the future Jun hee. But even in the future before any interference Kwon min ju really did die in 1998. So how is it all because of the time travel when this was something that already happened originally. They did not explain everything well in my opinion. In trying to be brilliant, the story ended up being too complicated.
One more thing, the love story was not convincing enough for one that could transverse through time and space. It was not an epic romance. Ironically, they were not given enough time in any of the timelines to convince me of their love