Beautiful! Would be more beautiful with well written women.
This was a beautiful story. I've come to realize that my love for the enemies-to-lovers trope extends to enemies-to-friends and enemies-to-family. I really enjoyed the arc for the nephew/uncle and I like the premise for a "trauma scene cleanup" company.
As someone who really cares about how women are portrayed in media, I usually tend to avoid watching male-centered stories, not because they're inherently bad, but because I can't help but notice certain patterns. For example, on this drama, there were only two regular female characters, one (Na Mu) was portrayed as not a very clever person (refer to how she catastrophically misunderstood the uncle), the other one was blatantly evil and basically a villain. And we could also add Na Mu's mother, who was the archetype of a "nagging wife" while her husband was level-headed and sweet. Now I'm not saying these are necessarily bad things, female characters are allowed to have negative traits ofc, but once you start noticing this kind of pattern in media, you can't help but be perturbed by it.
Another thing that I thought was unfortunate, is the way the story got wrapped, I felt like we didn't get a proper ending, and not every loose end got tied, mainly because they were trying to keep it a little open for a possibility of a season 2, which never happened.
I made it sound as if I didn't like this drama, but don't get it twisted, this was a whole 9/10 watch for me lol. I loved the show, I loved the two main characters, and I loved the little stories we got each episode. The easiest way to my k-drama heart is through making me cry, and this made sure to do that :')
Also! unc is fine as hell, just saying :p
As someone who really cares about how women are portrayed in media, I usually tend to avoid watching male-centered stories, not because they're inherently bad, but because I can't help but notice certain patterns. For example, on this drama, there were only two regular female characters, one (Na Mu) was portrayed as not a very clever person (refer to how she catastrophically misunderstood the uncle), the other one was blatantly evil and basically a villain. And we could also add Na Mu's mother, who was the archetype of a "nagging wife" while her husband was level-headed and sweet. Now I'm not saying these are necessarily bad things, female characters are allowed to have negative traits ofc, but once you start noticing this kind of pattern in media, you can't help but be perturbed by it.
Another thing that I thought was unfortunate, is the way the story got wrapped, I felt like we didn't get a proper ending, and not every loose end got tied, mainly because they were trying to keep it a little open for a possibility of a season 2, which never happened.
I made it sound as if I didn't like this drama, but don't get it twisted, this was a whole 9/10 watch for me lol. I loved the show, I loved the two main characters, and I loved the little stories we got each episode. The easiest way to my k-drama heart is through making me cry, and this made sure to do that :')
Also! unc is fine as hell, just saying :p
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