I went in expecting it to be similar to Taxi driver. It was not. They tried to make it fun and light, but it did not work for me. There were some good moments but nothing that you will remember after few weeks. Most of the plot just happened and it ended in an expected way. 6.5/10 for me.
The rating in this web is a joke, I mean imdb give this show like 7.4
I stopped looking at rating sometime back. I look at description of drama and few comments on this site before deciding to watch or skip the drama. Most drama ratings have nothing to with the actual drama and just reflects the ratings based on star cast or fans of particular actors.
I rewatched this again to see if I feel differently about this drama as I had rated this 7.5/10 on the first watch.
Even after the rewatch, I still feel that this drama could have been a 9 but ended up being a 7.5, Breakup troupe is simply overused and senseless in Kdramas. While the breakup troupe makes sense in this drama (as the FL did give ML a chance to confess his feeling) but the way these breakups are done makes no sense.
Every drama wants us to assume that life has a pause button, where people can breakup without giving the other person no reason, life gets paused and the person can walk back into someones life with no repercussions. How these story lines keep repeating in almost all the drama with breakup troupe is just mind blowing.
Coming back to this drama, FL weaponized the worst fears of ML, knowing fully the past life experience of her partner. Somehow we are supposed to overlook the emotional manipulation, since they get back in the end.
Minus the execution of breakup troupe, I would say this is a top-tier slow burn drama.
I started watching this after reading the comments and assuming that I will feel bad about 2ML and hate ML. But in the end, I did not hate anyone.
This drama has a good premise and is character driven rather than star driven. All the leads are flawed including 2ML, Love is not rational and there are no reasons that anyone loves anyone. It happens. Also, I didn't feel this drama is romance heavy and so I was not invested in who gets up with whom at the end. I felt all the characters had their own story arc and redemption in the end, including the friends of the ML.
I felt the friendship between the ML and his two friends as the highlight of this drama. I liked how they stuck together through tough times and came up happy at the end. I also liked the fact that the 2ML and 2FL were not paired with each other or with anyone else.
I do not like the break-up without any reason and time jump troupe. But this drama used the break-up troupe to good effect, though I would have liked for this to be done differently.
I seldom over analyze the drama and the only gripe I had is the last episode's final scene in epilogue. They should have included the friends of the ML in the slomo walk, eventhough I get that the leads are walking towards some meeting. I felt this is indicative of the corporate world where the suits always gets the limelight and the grunt workers, who actually build the product gets no recognition. You need the suits to sell the product but you will not have a product to sell without the people actually building it.
This is neither a good or bad drama to watch. But the major issue with this drama was it did not pick a genre it wanted to be. It was funny at times but not funny enough to be a Romcom. It did not have enough fantasy element, thrillers/suspense element lasted for 2 episodes, became melo for 3 episodes, etc.
It had lot of interesting ideas, each of which the writer could have spent time in crafting the drama around. Some of the themes that could have been explored further where
- What does being human even mean? - What would a predator do when it can't control its hunger around it's prey? - FL Losing weight angle - What level of sacrifices can a loved one make, by compromising their health to save your loved one? - Race against time - What would it mean when the ML is nearing 1000 years? Does he wait and die? Does he give up the morality to live? As a viewer, I never felt that looming danger the ML felt that he could die. - Being a professor and student in a relationship provides an interesting premise if you want to make the drama as a comedy. The stage where FL hated ML, to both being in a relationship are 2 distinct scenarios, offering completely different setup to base your situational comedy around. - Second FL becoming a human is a interesting premise and never fully explored. What difficulties does one have to deal with when they no longer have their powers? How do they function in a ordinary mundane life after becoming human? Have conflicted does one become when faced with life's hardship?
I could go on but it is suffice to say that it had lot of good ideas but never fully explorer anything. Drama could have easily avoided the pointless drag of 'red thread' and been a good 12 episode drama instead. Overall, I would rate it 6/10.
I went into the drama apprehensive of the fact it being 4 episodes and whether it could convey the same emotions of a 16 episode drama. And yes, it was able to, which makes your wonder how much filler scenes a regular drama has. This drama has unrequited love, life long friends, a love triangle, side character couple, all of that and more that you find in a regular full length drama.
Drama started nice and I thought it tried to tackle some realistic issues of a divorced women, trying to find her life back. It's comforting to watch and the side characters are exactly portrayed. The flaw for this drama was the vanished child of the FL. It's really odd that you can remove something as significant as a child of the main character and make it have no impact at all on the story. This does not take away from enjoying the story overall but just seems a missed opportunity to add some depth to the story.
Fun fact was the side characters were in the last scene of the drama. Not sure when was the last time I saw that. Overall, I rated the show 7/10.
I would say ML's elder brother doesn't seem that well off either because we have no idea if he paid the debt or…
I don't think ML is divorced. ML had few photos of his family on his office desk in the last episode. That meant to me that they are still a family and not divorced.
I would say ML's elder brother doesn't seem that well off either because we have no idea if he paid the debt or…
I had not thought about the debt part but what you are saying also makes sense. I mean, the ending is just shit. I always consider open endings in most cases as a cop out when writers cant figure out how to end their story.
FL and 2ML are absolute trash human beings. She stays friends with 2ML even after he literally pushes a person suffering from self esteem issue to suicide. The suicide part is never talked about in the rest of the drama as if it is no biggie. Confession in the last episode made no sense as ML kept referring to his pride as the reason.
6/10 just because the drama took men's health issue for a change, talking about societal value of men having average background, etc. I felt this as a welcome change as all we get in a regular drama is plain old ML childhood trauma troupe.
When I started watching this, ML reminded me of Doctor Stranger's ML due to his torn jeans and hairstyle. As I watched it some more, this drama reminded me so much about I'm sorry, I love you. ML is kind of thug looking fellow with a tiny FL. Episode-8 even has one of the songs from I'm sorry, I love you playing in the background in one of the cafe scenes.
Overall the drama was good and I rated it 8/10. For some reason I did not feel the much sadness while watching it, even though theme of the drama was heavy.
This had a sad undertone throughout the drama but I am glad it did not end that way. ML was honestly the most depressed ML that I have seen in Kdrama. First 4 episodes really did a good job in making the viewers feel bad for the ML. It hits you completely differently when a tall gentle giant is depressed.
It's a fun and easy watch. No big evil or angst. All couples get their resolution. Instead of going for needless dramatic finish, the drama stayed true to its theme and gave a fan service finale episode. I rated 7.5/10 for this.
PS: FL takes shit 6 times in the first episode. I was worried that last 6 episodes would be shit. But as it turns out, all ends well.
This was a fun drama and easy to watch despite having many heavy themes. It has too many story plots, which is not developed enough and does appear at times that the series is rushed. But, if you can just treat it as a fun drama and not waste time analyzing the plot holes, you would have fun watching this.
That’s what makes my mister a realistic drama. The show doesn’t justify cheating though. On the contrary,…
It ultimately comes down to preference. I am in minority here clearly as the drama is still rated as 9/10 overall by everyone.
I do not like watching dramas with Child abuse, cheating, sad endings and open endings. And this drama ending up having all of them.
Open ending drama means it is upto interpretation of each individual on how they viewed the drama. After a day of watching this drama, I ending up feeling the ML was a good person but a doormat in the end since his decision to live with the wife undoes the episode where he seemed to indicate that he is going to live for himself rather than always doing what is best for everyone (atleast that's my take on when he asked for new slippers and the subsequent scenes).
In the end, it was a good drama but it did leave me bitter in the end. I haven't felt bitter by a drama ending in 2 decades atleast not for days. The last one which I felt bitter was "I'm sorry, I love you".
I had put off watching this show for many years even-though I felt that I will like this one. I did like this one and rated it 7.5/10 but my reason of not watching this for years also turned out to be right. The way the show deals with cheating is not something I can get past. There are no justification for cheating and the reason the show provides is weak. I started skipping almost all the scenes involving ML's wife. If the show makers intention was for the audience to hate the wife, they did succeed in that.
I rated this 7.5/10 as the everything was well done whether it was acting, music, those hazy shots of slow-mo type camera work but it did personally leave me bitter at the end. What's the point of watching 16 episodes of something if almost nobody got anything positive by the end? Do I watch drama just go through the misery of life with no rewards? Does 5 mins of positive ending for FL, a reward for waves of sadness and misery felt through out the show? Did I get enough hope for life or hope for the characters in the end by watching this slice of life drama?
All the characters except the FL (and maybe ML's elder brother) are worse than where they started. ML is living with a broken family. That family portrait will always remind him of what could have been. Youngest brother is broken and they reduced him to a pitiable character in the end. Restaurant owner character is more miserable than she was to begin with. Not saying the drama needed a dramatic reunion, but anything other than what happened to her in the end would have been better.
This is sure a well made drama but personally I don't think I will ever rewatch this.
Straight 3/10 drama. Had a interesting premise but was boring from first episode. All the characters were either dumb as a doorknob or trash. There was not one redeeming character in this drama. It was just ridiculous, senseless and giant waste of time watching this.
This is the type of drama where you should take out your brain, keep it in deep freezer and watch it without using even a brain cell. This is not to say that drama was not fun or emotional at times, it just did not had any good writing. There is a episode where the ML is in hospital but tries to run away, forcing the doctor to restrain him physically to keep him inside. One minute later, ML runs after SML outside the hospital and delivers a dialogue and runs back inside the hospital after saying his piece. This should make you wonder, why did he try to run outside the hospital a minute earlier and why is he running back? So you see, even the writer does not know what scene he wrote in the previous page and hence you should not use your brain cells while watching it.
I feel the drama would have better with 12 episodes as the last 4 episodes had no material to work with and was pure torture.
Overall 6/10, which includes 1 point each for FL and OST.
Just had first 2 good episodes and that's about it. It seemed interesting to start given the weird mannerisms of both the leads and I thought it would be fun to watch. Then it went on about next 8 episodes of literal nothingness where leads would be talking fine for 5 minutes and somehow dramatically get away from each other with no rhyme or reason. 14th,15th episodes they tried to create some dramatic scenarios, but none of them create any real impact on the drama. Last episode they give out some philosophical ramblings and close out the drama.
Drama was all over the place and I would not rate it more than 5/10.
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Even after the rewatch, I still feel that this drama could have been a 9 but ended up being a 7.5, Breakup troupe is simply overused and senseless in Kdramas. While the breakup troupe makes sense in this drama (as the FL did give ML a chance to confess his feeling) but the way these breakups are done makes no sense.
Every drama wants us to assume that life has a pause button, where people can breakup without giving the other person no reason, life gets paused and the person can walk back into someones life with no repercussions. How these story lines keep repeating in almost all the drama with breakup troupe is just mind blowing.
Coming back to this drama, FL weaponized the worst fears of ML, knowing fully the past life experience of her partner. Somehow we are supposed to overlook the emotional manipulation, since they get back in the end.
Minus the execution of breakup troupe, I would say this is a top-tier slow burn drama.
This drama has a good premise and is character driven rather than star driven. All the leads are flawed including 2ML, Love is not rational and there are no reasons that anyone loves anyone. It happens. Also, I didn't feel this drama is romance heavy and so I was not invested in who gets up with whom at the end. I felt all the characters had their own story arc and redemption in the end, including the friends of the ML.
I felt the friendship between the ML and his two friends as the highlight of this drama. I liked how they stuck together through tough times and came up happy at the end. I also liked the fact that the 2ML and 2FL were not paired with each other or with anyone else.
I do not like the break-up without any reason and time jump troupe. But this drama used the break-up troupe to good effect, though I would have liked for this to be done differently.
I seldom over analyze the drama and the only gripe I had is the last episode's final scene in epilogue. They should have included the friends of the ML in the slomo walk, eventhough I get that the leads are walking towards some meeting. I felt this is indicative of the corporate world where the suits always gets the limelight and the grunt workers, who actually build the product gets no recognition. You need the suits to sell the product but you will not have a product to sell without the people actually building it.
Overall, I rated 8.5/10.
This is neither a good or bad drama to watch. But the major issue with this drama was it did not pick a genre it wanted to be. It was funny at times but not funny enough to be a Romcom. It did not have enough fantasy element, thrillers/suspense element lasted for 2 episodes, became melo for 3 episodes, etc.
It had lot of interesting ideas, each of which the writer could have spent time in crafting the drama around. Some of the themes that could have been explored further where
- What does being human even mean?
- What would a predator do when it can't control its hunger around it's prey?
- FL Losing weight angle - What level of sacrifices can a loved one make, by compromising their health to save your loved one?
- Race against time - What would it mean when the ML is nearing 1000 years? Does he wait and die? Does he give up the morality to live? As a viewer, I never felt that looming danger the ML felt that he could die.
- Being a professor and student in a relationship provides an interesting premise if you want to make the drama as a comedy. The stage where FL hated ML, to both being in a relationship are 2 distinct scenarios, offering completely different setup to base your situational comedy around.
- Second FL becoming a human is a interesting premise and never fully explored. What difficulties does one have to deal with when they no longer have their powers? How do they function in a ordinary mundane life after becoming human? Have conflicted does one become when faced with life's hardship?
I could go on but it is suffice to say that it had lot of good ideas but never fully explorer anything. Drama could have easily avoided the pointless drag of 'red thread' and been a good 12 episode drama instead. Overall, I would rate it 6/10.
Overall, I rated this 7/10
Fun fact was the side characters were in the last scene of the drama. Not sure when was the last time I saw that. Overall, I rated the show 7/10.
6/10 just because the drama took men's health issue for a change, talking about societal value of men having average background, etc. I felt this as a welcome change as all we get in a regular drama is plain old ML childhood trauma troupe.
Overall the drama was good and I rated it 8/10. For some reason I did not feel the much sadness while watching it, even though theme of the drama was heavy.
I liked this one and rated it 8.5/10.
PS: FL takes shit 6 times in the first episode. I was worried that last 6 episodes would be shit. But as it turns out, all ends well.
I would rate this 8/10.
I do not like watching dramas with Child abuse, cheating, sad endings and open endings. And this drama ending up having all of them.
Open ending drama means it is upto interpretation of each individual on how they viewed the drama. After a day of watching this drama, I ending up feeling the ML was a good person but a doormat in the end since his decision to live with the wife undoes the episode where he seemed to indicate that he is going to live for himself rather than always doing what is best for everyone (atleast that's my take on when he asked for new slippers and the subsequent scenes).
In the end, it was a good drama but it did leave me bitter in the end. I haven't felt bitter by a drama ending in 2 decades atleast not for days. The last one which I felt bitter was "I'm sorry, I love you".
I rated this 7.5/10 as the everything was well done whether it was acting, music, those hazy shots of slow-mo type camera work but it did personally leave me bitter at the end. What's the point of watching 16 episodes of something if almost nobody got anything positive by the end? Do I watch drama just go through the misery of life with no rewards? Does 5 mins of positive ending for FL, a reward for waves of sadness and misery felt through out the show? Did I get enough hope for life or hope for the characters in the end by watching this slice of life drama?
All the characters except the FL (and maybe ML's elder brother) are worse than where they started. ML is living with a broken family. That family portrait will always remind him of what could have been. Youngest brother is broken and they reduced him to a pitiable character in the end. Restaurant owner character is more miserable than she was to begin with. Not saying the drama needed a dramatic reunion, but anything other than what happened to her in the end would have been better.
This is sure a well made drama but personally I don't think I will ever rewatch this.
I feel the drama would have better with 12 episodes as the last 4 episodes had no material to work with and was pure torture.
Overall 6/10, which includes 1 point each for FL and OST.
Drama was all over the place and I would not rate it more than 5/10.