Sometimes it's quite funny, the FL's dual role is sufficiently charming, and the frequent songs don't hurt either.
Acting, production and sound aren't great. There's more than enough plot holes and scenes that serve no purpose. Unfortunately the whole middle of the show is full of filler scenes, and towards the end the writing goes into some really absurd directions. While it's not that bad early on, one episode near the end is almost entirely made of adverts. As is common in CN dramas, the audio dubbing is very noticeable and sometimes quite bad.
P.S.: I've seen shows that have cliffhangers meant to make you tune in for some revelation every single episode. I've seen shows that just stop between scenes and don't try to fake excitement. But I've never seen a show where plenty of episodes just stop like it's in the middle of somebody's sentence.
Does anyone know why its leaving Netfix? :(( Does this mean it's not going to be watchable anywhere?
Netflix has to pay (and keep paying!) for all the content they offer, which is why as things are added, others are removed. They often come back too, for example Angel's Last Mission Love, Oh My Venus or Flower Of Evil all were previously removed and came back in the years after.
Outside of that there's always the less legal means, as in free streaming pages or classic downloads.
This was in the top 20% or even top 10% of funniest comedy I've seen from Korea. The ML is a sound director and fittingly 95% of the time the sounds are perfectly dandy – there are none of those annoying bird/dog/horse/sheep/cow noises that other K-dramas use to try to mask that their jokes aren't funny to begin with. Loved that there were some truly crazy-in-a-good-way characters in this. Crazy Love from 2022 is all false advertisement, but this show delivers.
Neutral: Compared to other shows I found it refreshing that pretty much none of the episodes end in a "tune in next time!" cliffhanger.
Cons would be the drawn out melodramatic parts that I mostly didn't buy, some characters that are hard to bear or pointless, and an above-average amount of in-your-face product placement. The OSTs got very repetitive for me. Instead of trying for tearjerky things, I'd have preferred the show to throw more funnies at me.
In some ways (breaking K-drama stereotypes, pretty honest relationship between leads, characters healing/growing/learning) it's like a lesser cousin of It's Okay, That's Love, and much like there, the first episode of Another Miss Oh is just bad. Persevere!
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I've never skipped or fast-forwarded a drama before, but for those that do, my candidates to avoid are: – ML's mother – SFL – SML (he's okay when angry though) – all high-school flashbacks – all crying scenes related to FL's cancelled wedding (FL's family is only okay in comedy scenes)
The SFL did nothing wrong, why should there be revenge/punishment?
The only villains are the ML's mother and her not-quite-husband, the wealthy chairman. ML more or less intentionally ruins their wedding, and the guy later on loses an insubstantial amount of money. The SFL is not a villain because she is just an actually-insecure girl who has her wedding ruined by ML's mother: as the show spells out explicitly, a smart wife would mean ML's mother might not be able to milk him for money until the end of time. SFL is semi-complicit in school bullying, and out of jealousy hides a love letter for FL from her for some 13 years, but there is really very little fault with her.
Another villain is the "rat" that takes over SML's company, but that one is not really related to the leads, besides being indirectly responsible for the fated(!) failure of FL's first marriage.
I've seen four so far and while I won't comment on one or the other in terms of quality, acting, directing or…
In Kairos it's more like there is a set amount of time to talk, like you imagine it would be.
In both Signal shows, conversations are "until fate decides enough has been said" so basically they get a blank cheque to engage in as many silent pauses as the audience can endure.
Sakurai gets to know in present time (2021) from Itagaki that Oyama senpai was killed by Yamazaki back in 1 April…
1) He had to have asked for backup, yes. Why he looks so surprised like it is unannounced protection, who knows... 2) Maybe "Sakurai wakes up to see she now has a family/children" is too weird a timeline change for JP audiences. And why he disappears like that, I have no idea what that is supposed to tell us. That they are 'fated never to meet'? 3) I'm not sure if the original hospital scene was supposed to be in 2018 or 2020, but in any case it's most likely something taken from the KR series and then disregarded with the other timelines the JP series went into. There are time/date problems in the JP series anyway, like how in that "hospital scene timeline" Oyama sends a letter to Saegusa with post stamp 03 August 2003 containing floppies proving corruption, but then future Saegusa talks about this to 2000 Oyama as if he had already sent these materials.
Can anyone tell me if this has a better more satisfying ending than the Korean one?
The show itself has the same ending, but the 2021 special continues the story (some new & some old content), and the 2021 movie does too afterwards. (IMO) start watching at the 2021 special and go on to the 2021 movie, if you still have the KR series in mind. You won't miss out on anything by not watching the JP series.
Acting, production and sound aren't great. There's more than enough plot holes and scenes that serve no purpose.
Unfortunately the whole middle of the show is full of filler scenes, and towards the end the writing goes into some really absurd directions. While it's not that bad early on, one episode near the end is almost entirely made of adverts. As is common in CN dramas, the audio dubbing is very noticeable and sometimes quite bad.
P.S.:
I've seen shows that have cliffhangers meant to make you tune in for some revelation every single episode.
I've seen shows that just stop between scenes and don't try to fake excitement.
But I've never seen a show where plenty of episodes just stop like it's in the middle of somebody's sentence.
They often come back too, for example Angel's Last Mission Love, Oh My Venus or Flower Of Evil all were previously removed and came back in the years after.
Outside of that there's always the less legal means, as in free streaming pages or classic downloads.
Loved that there were some truly crazy-in-a-good-way characters in this. Crazy Love from 2022 is all false advertisement, but this show delivers.
Neutral: Compared to other shows I found it refreshing that pretty much none of the episodes end in a "tune in next time!" cliffhanger.
Cons would be the drawn out melodramatic parts that I mostly didn't buy, some characters that are hard to bear or pointless, and an above-average amount of in-your-face product placement. The OSTs got very repetitive for me.
Instead of trying for tearjerky things, I'd have preferred the show to throw more funnies at me.
In some ways (breaking K-drama stereotypes, pretty honest relationship between leads, characters healing/growing/learning) it's like a lesser cousin of It's Okay, That's Love, and much like there, the first episode of Another Miss Oh is just bad. Persevere!
—
I've never skipped or fast-forwarded a drama before, but for those that do, my candidates to avoid are:
– ML's mother
– SFL
– SML (he's okay when angry though)
– all high-school flashbacks
– all crying scenes related to FL's cancelled wedding (FL's family is only okay in comedy scenes)
The SFL is not a villain because she is just an actually-insecure girl who has her wedding ruined by ML's mother: as the show spells out explicitly, a smart wife would mean ML's mother might not be able to milk him for money until the end of time.
SFL is semi-complicit in school bullying, and out of jealousy hides a love letter for FL from her for some 13 years, but there is really very little fault with her.
Another villain is the "rat" that takes over SML's company, but that one is not really related to the leads, besides being indirectly responsible for the fated(!) failure of FL's first marriage.
- a CD cover and shirt logo
- some missing or replaced background music in bars, nightclubs and the like
The "karaoke" in ep5 for example seems intact on Netflix.
However, in episode 17/18 something important is missing/muted (ML singing).
Anyone know if this has licensed/famous music, movies, karaoke scenes or anything else missing on Netflix?
In both Signal shows, conversations are "until fate decides enough has been said" so basically they get a blank cheque to engage in as many silent pauses as the audience can endure.
2) Maybe "Sakurai wakes up to see she now has a family/children" is too weird a timeline change for JP audiences.
And why he disappears like that, I have no idea what that is supposed to tell us. That they are 'fated never to meet'?
3) I'm not sure if the original hospital scene was supposed to be in 2018 or 2020, but in any case it's most likely something taken from the KR series and then disregarded with the other timelines the JP series went into.
There are time/date problems in the JP series anyway, like how in that "hospital scene timeline" Oyama sends a letter to Saegusa with post stamp 03 August 2003 containing floppies proving corruption, but then future Saegusa talks about this to 2000 Oyama as if he had already sent these materials.
(IMO) start watching at the 2021 special and go on to the 2021 movie, if you still have the KR series in mind. You won't miss out on anything by not watching the JP series.