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There are 2 Kdrama troupes that I wish the industry could bid goodbye

- Non sensical breakup, time skip and reunion because writers do not know how to end a story.
- Absolutely useless childhood connection between leads when the drama did not even have anything to do with their childhood.

Can't they put fat people into fat people role instead of doing goofy fat suit? I can't understand many aspects of Kdrama making even after watching them for decades.

The drama kind of ends as expected. It was fun to watch and I found only episode-11 kind of boring. My personal opinion is that I won't remember anything from this except the proposal scene.

Nevertheless, it was enjoyable and I rated this 9/10.

The question that I had was, how does the life work for the leads once they are back to present? They don't have memories of the new present and their new present has changed significantly.

It's been more than a month and I do not remember much of the plot. I can't recall even one scene of the FL.

I respect your opinion but I wrote the main comment few minutes after finishing the drama, on how I felt about it.

The drama was nothing like I could have predicted. At first, I was confused if it was parody. Then it seemed like a romcom but it tackled some pretty serious things about marriage. It was weird but a good kind of weird show.

I don't think I would have expected a drama to show excel sheet as the first scene but turned out to be something else entirely in the end.

Rating this 7/10

S1 is indeed 11 episodes, not including special episode. Special episode is listed as season2 on Netflix.

The drama definitely had its moments. First half of the drama was slow but also was good. The second half started dragging and is very noticeable when they introduced the MLs wife back that late in the drama to add filler episodes. The repeated nature of ML and 2ML having to save the FL became tiring after a point. Finale felt forced and I don't think anyone would have been interested in royal coup at that point. The drama also had one of the worst choices of background music that I have seen in Kdrama.

But all in all, this definitely is watchable and enjoyable for about 70% of the drama. I rated it 7/10

I am reverse case. I don't watch Saeguks but I ended up watching My Dearest. It landed me to this drama.

I wanted to write few lines as closing remarks but honestly, I can't remember even one scene even though I just finished watching it.

Rating this 5/10

Pleasantly surprised to see Bubblegum on the list as it is seldom talked, neither had good rating. Only place I see it recommended on /r/kdramarecommends sometimes. It is a fun watch even with some clique troupes and I like the title OST song too.

This is a one-of-a-kind drama. It does do justice to the found family troupe.

First 1-18 episodes of the drama was really top notch. It makes so much sense that the trio is awkward after being a decade away. This is a smart and realistic choice.

The problem part of this drama is the middle portion and how the romance angle between the trio was handled. The way both MLs conveyed romantic feelings is just sexual assault. 2ML romantic feelings was unnecessary. A better plotline would have been 2ML having issues with the romance of leads like contemplating breakup scenario and how it would affect them.

All 3 male and females are liking different people in their group. It was unnecessary complication of story in my opinion. They could have made the drama lighter and 2ML could have paired with the actress FL. It would have been a fun couple to watch and provided some chaotic fun moments in the drama. I feel it was a missed opportunity. This way 2ML friend character could have been eliminated and the screentime could have been used just with the main characters.

Drama has had some kind of competition among parents on how many years they can be away from their kids before trying to helicopter themselves in their lives. One was 10 years and the other one seems to be 18+ years. Clearly 1ML mother had mental health issues but it was dragged too long as some kind of climax. It became blood boiling portion of the drama after some time.

This is a good one-time-watch drama and I don't see much rewatch value in this. So, I don't think I will ever watch the Korean remake that we may get in future.

I rate this 8/10.

So Alchemy of Souls again :D

There are dramas which has fillers and there are fillers which has drama. The drama is a wasted opportunity of a good premise. I fast forwarded most of the last set of episodes just to complete it.

There were many interesting themes which they could have explored like a guy who has been single for a long time, gets into a relationship. Instead of making lead picture perfect in relationship, they could have shown growth of relationship. Like, making compromises, unlearning habits of being single, taking life decisions as a couple instead by himself, etc.

I am still not convinced at all even after the end of the drama that FL was a fan of ML for many years. There was not enough fan like behaviour to portray that. Even the side character of the super market girl portrayed the fan emotions better than the FL.

Choice of second lead couple was wasteful. First couple got boring very early in the drama and second couple was just a carbon copy of first, a famous guy and a college girl. Dou Bing should have been second lead and that couple would have been far more interesting character if they had enough screentime.

At the end of it, this was just a cooking and eating filler show with every thin layer of actual story. I would not have watched it had I knew before, the amount of time that is going to be spent eating.

Rating it 5.5/10

I wrote the review comment on what I felt after watching it, moved on with life and watched atleast 20 more dramas post that

It is a good one-time watch. Got little bored during the last few episodes due to the repeated nature of time loop.

Rated it 7/10.

Recently, I am trying to fast forward and skip portion of episodes to finish dramas that I don't like. Like 35th episode of this drama, I watched only 2 mins of it. But yes, I will try out your suggestion.

Unfortunately, I do not drop drama once started and have to finish them. There is no special reason other than my inability to abandon things.

Overall, this is a 7/10 drama which starts and ends as expected.

I did want to know if these fictional companies had HR at all. People are having affairs, fist fights, etc but none seem to have involved HR ever :)

I don't have much to say about the main couple but do have few things to say about 2ML. Dude character is not without fault and maybe annoying. But he deserved better than to end up back with that lady. Imagine someone saying 'do you think I only deserve a guy like him', infantilizing him, belittling his feelings as clingy and only to get back to her in the end. Talk about a shit ending to a decent character.

Is it really healthy relationship if they don't communicate at all and have to resort to dramatic kiss for solving every little problem?

This was not a good drama from start to finish and was boring. I fast forwarded most episodes as I wanted to just complete it and move on,

Rating it 5/10 only because some parts were watchable.