Episode 6 contains a complete clusterfuck of "things you can't do in a drama".
After that, many episodes end with 'teaser trailer'-ish scenes of main characters speaking monologues into the camera (to the audience) about what is to come next. These are really bad and should not be used outside of advertising, but they end almost every episode afterwards.
From around ep 6 on, the unfunny comic relief group is expanded and more prominently used too. It's almost like a different writer took over.
I am rewatching business proposal just to appreciate how good it is compared to king the land.
There's a comment above how King the Land steals some scenes from other dramas, but the kind of shoplifting Business Proposal engages in is more straight up cloning..
Maybe your comment gave me too much hope. I didn't think it had those qualities. Functionally you still have one…
The FL keeps not telling the ML that she is just working with him to get acting practice, not because her career failed and she wants to be a full time law practitioner. The show gives really silly reasons for that ("keep her casting a secret"), and they're as paper-thin as how the FL must work 'exactly' three months as agreed. She could easily work more or less (or any other duration).
The ML does not tell the FL that her manager ordered the breakup.
On Netflix, the only obviously missing content were a few seconds of the often-mentioned classic movie that the leads watch together in a cinema. A few teddy bears are regularly blurred out, and once or so this affects the cover of the before-mentioned movie disc.
(Didn't notice anything like the usual karaoke scenes, and the music seemed to be intact on Netflix.)
Maybe your comment gave me too much hope. I didn't think it had those qualities. Functionally you still have one…
Namely the """mother in law""" ordering a breakup with a bit of a time skip too. And the person executing it thus engaging in "making life decisions for someone else". Before that, we additionally have "keeping secrets from the other one for no good reason".
This drama is refreshing...why?....because it lacks the obligatory SFL, that is a shrew and does anything to get…
Maybe your comment gave me too much hope. I didn't think it had those qualities. Functionally you still have one of those 'obligatory' elements, with all the downsides of the trope.
In some ways the show with the thinnest plot ever. Episode 1: we don't like each other. Episode 2: we're making a cup of coffee. Episode 3: we're comforting a teenage girl. (Indulging in extensive(!) flashbacks by the second episode reinforces this impression.)
I think the writing really lacked originality here, and it didn't go into details about all the stuff I kept waiting…
For a start, the whole "omg fated from childhood" cliche and how everybody is everyone else's relative, neighbour, and two people keep running into each other in a city part with a few hundred thousand inhabitants: This is super basic K-drama fare and then it only gets worse with the primary villain being the ML's father, and the father of FL having known him for decades, and so on. It's no better than birth secrets or amnesia plots.
We get teasing epilogues about their childhood friendship, but the dead brother of the ML never really appears, and we learn very little about his personality. We effectively learn nothing about the accident he dies in. If it was a real accident, or malice. We don't really learn about the aftermath either, except that it was what made his father enter politics, though we also don't know what he did before to afford a fancy-looking home. Their mother never appears, we never learn what lead her to leave the family (was it the villain-father becoming a politician?), how she did, or anything else. We never learn what the primary evil / corrupt deeds of the villain ultimately were. He's taken down by his own son, but again we aren't told what exactly he says.
There's a character that dies, and their death isn't really cleared up. The story keeps teasing this as something important, perhaps his death is related to the ML, or perhaps it's a killing orchestrated by his sometimes-omnipotent father, but ultimately it fizzles out into nothing.
I think the writing really lacked originality here, and it didn't go into details about all the stuff I kept waiting for. (The screenplay apparently had won a 2018 contest.) Like other comments note, there's a lot of funny camera shots, and also some nice production ideas. The actors also all do decent jobs in their roles. However, the story becomes lots of stereotypical K-drama stuff that doesn't really fit the creativity shown elsewhere. In retrospect, I would say the length made it drag on quite a bit – there's not enough content for sixteen hour-length episodes.
If you watched Crazy Love and thought the whole 'crazy' thing was straight-up false advertisement: that, at least, you get here.
After that, many episodes end with 'teaser trailer'-ish scenes of main characters speaking monologues into the camera (to the audience) about what is to come next. These are really bad and should not be used outside of advertising, but they end almost every episode afterwards.
From around ep 6 on, the unfunny comic relief group is expanded and more prominently used too. It's almost like a different writer took over.
- Unresolved really. Magical handwaving. All subplots are like that.
- It's a very incomplete one.
The ML does not tell the FL that her manager ordered the breakup.
There's no English subs, right?
A few teddy bears are regularly blurred out, and once or so this affects the cover of the before-mentioned movie disc.
(Didn't notice anything like the usual karaoke scenes, and the music seemed to be intact on Netflix.)
Episode 1: we don't like each other.
Episode 2: we're making a cup of coffee.
Episode 3: we're comforting a teenage girl.
(Indulging in extensive(!) flashbacks by the second episode reinforces this impression.)
We get teasing epilogues about their childhood friendship, but the dead brother of the ML never really appears, and we learn very little about his personality.
We effectively learn nothing about the accident he dies in. If it was a real accident, or malice. We don't really learn about the aftermath either, except that it was what made his father enter politics, though we also don't know what he did before to afford a fancy-looking home. Their mother never appears, we never learn what lead her to leave the family (was it the villain-father becoming a politician?), how she did, or anything else.
We never learn what the primary evil / corrupt deeds of the villain ultimately were.
He's taken down by his own son, but again we aren't told what exactly he says.
There's a character that dies, and their death isn't really cleared up. The story keeps teasing this as something important, perhaps his death is related to the ML, or perhaps it's a killing orchestrated by his sometimes-omnipotent father, but ultimately it fizzles out into nothing.
Like other comments note, there's a lot of funny camera shots, and also some nice production ideas. The actors also all do decent jobs in their roles. However, the story becomes lots of stereotypical K-drama stuff that doesn't really fit the creativity shown elsewhere. In retrospect, I would say the length made it drag on quite a bit – there's not enough content for sixteen hour-length episodes.
If you watched Crazy Love and thought the whole 'crazy' thing was straight-up false advertisement: that, at least, you get here.