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I'm so proud of him for his performance in Love in the Big City. It's such an excellent portrayal of an authentic queer character. He did his research and went into it with heart and soul to do it justice.

Personally I thought it could have been handled better. It's generally not a good sign when like half your audience or more seem confused about what the miscommunication was even actually about. A trope like that works best when you can understand both sides as it's happening, but here much was unclear and confusing (and thus frustrating) for quite a while in the middle.

The messy (and often needlessly opaque) script kept this from being truly great, but definitely a very solid KBL with beautiful cinematography and good actors who gave it their all. I mostly enjoyed it.

Ok, but Woo Do-hwan is hot soooo

Hopefully after the success of LITBC some service will pick this up. The whole thing is odd.

Well they can’t if Dohoe keeps pushing Juyeong away which lo and behold he’s doing yet again in the promo for episode 7.

Great actresses should stop picking bad scripts just because they give them a "dual role" challenge.

It feels funny going into the finale week thinking it's probably best that they go their separate ways. There's too much baggage, they're diametrically opposite people. Dohoe's solution is always to run away, to break things off, never to try and talk things through or actually communicate. Juyeong can't work with that. It's a dead end, and it's hard to envision a future for them realistically as things stand.

At this point I may hope for a bittersweet ending and then a Season 2 with some actual growth.

I actually rolled my eyes when the snow fell and they kissed in episode five because it just didn't feel earned at all so soon after their tense reunion. The pacing is just really off for me.

Mmmmm Cha Eun Woo mmmm... 🤭

My point is that the time jump itself felt unbelievable. In part because they are exactly the same (so there's little sense of actual time having passed) and the fact that they don't pass for 30-year-olds at all. So it's hard to feel the weight of that time gone by, when it doesn't read as realistic.

Nobody's expecting them to be fully healed and in love, but why do an unrealistic time jump if everything was gonna be the same anyway? They probably should have done a smaller jump instead. There's also an issue with pacing, because now we have two quite static characters, but only two episodes are left to provide growth/development.

Complexity is good, but the writing has to be good as well. Complex alone means very little if it's not done well. The 12-year time jump just wasn't very believable. So much time has passed, but they are somehow the exact same characters with little growth or change. Dohoe supposedly went through his entire 20s without working through or addressing any of his trauma. They still act like teenagers, they still look as they did, just wearing more "adult" clothes.

Their estrangement was also basically founded on a misunderstanding, which to me suggests not so much complexity as a mere plot device to provide a forced separation and then a reunion.

I don't particularly care for the story, nor do I necessarily think they're right for one another. But it's well-directed and Lee Seon is very beautiful so I'll stick with it until the end. Could've been one of the great KBLs with a better script. The time jump especially just didn't work for me verisimilitude-wise.

Kisskh have the episodes uploaded with the iQIYI subtitles

Let's just say that JCW fans are very committed. He was originally meant to be a part of the cast. When it turned out he chose to exit (probably prioritizing his current projects and the upcoming high-profile Netflix project), some are understandably disappointed and some seem to think they just used him for promo.

He has been offered the new project from the Lovely Runner director:

"According to an exclusive report on the 31st, Ahn Hyo-seop has been confirmed to have been cast in the new drama 'Night of Heaven' by director Yoon Jong-ho, who directed tvN's 'Sunjae Up and Run'.

In the drama, Ahn Hyo-seop plays the role of Cheong Guk, a former taekwondo athlete and current ace of the secret club 'Cibelome' (French for 'handsome man'). Cheong Guk, who has a tall and muscular body as expected from an athlete, is a character who jumps into the entertainment industry after taking on loan sharking debts due to his stepmother who ran away with his father's death insurance money."

(Source: https://m.entertain.naver.com/article/108/0003278451)

The article says "confirmed" but a statement suggests that he's been offered the drama, will meet with the director, and is "reviewing the offer positively". Hopefully he'll accept it.

Seems he bowed out due to scheduling. Looks like he's joining a Netflix project too in addition to what he's already working on.

She's a great actress and should pick more interesting projects like Kim Tae-ri.

Very strange that his name got changed to L considering he's credited as Kim Myung-soo in his dramas and this is MyDramaList lol

They are clearly using AI/machine translated subs for this drama, which is offensive to subscribers. The iQIYI subtitles are much better and clearly done by an actual human.