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There's some forced attempts at comedy (with Kim Won Hae and associated characters), but most of them aren't funny at all.

He's a humongous asshole throughout the entire show (besides the few minutes early on when he speaks Czech), and it's absurd how his mother dying and him regretting his behaviour towards her "cures" him of his paranoia and cruelty.

The final third or half of it was a real effort to get through. Filler content, dumb extra villains, and character actions that just serve to make the show drag on longer.

I don't understand why so many people were annoyed by the FL though. She's not the best FL ever, but so many dramas have five times as annoying FL characters?

The screenwriter Park Jae Bum made Manager Kim speak a bit of Danish, and in his newest drama Vincenzo, the male lead speaks a truckload of Italian. There's way more "European connection".

In some ways, the "upgraded" version of this, Vincenzo, does a lot of things worse. The comedy works way better here, even if a good portion of it is puberty-level jokes.

It's only for a few moments though. Vincenzo's "copy" of it with Italian is way deeper.

No, see https://mydramalist.com/discussions/hwayi-a-monster-boy/28657-who-are-hwayis-real-parents

If you think about it, you wouldn't have been born without your mother engaging in "kisses and bed scenes". The show contains very little in that direction.

The 'martial arts' guy is a caricature / joke character early on, but then they stop Han Seo's (perhaps incompetent) attackers using expert wrestling moves.

Or in another scene, "lightning scissors" suddenly is a thing and defeats 10+ lethal gang fighters.

It's like a household of superheroes with only sporadically functional super powers — unless they all fight together, then it's some Power Rangers synergy thing, except there's no actual synergy in the fighting.

No, I mean when a scene has the owner(s) of exactly one business in the plaza defend against some attackers.

Close-up of a fish being cut up; used for smuggling.

I can only think of three characters that didn't die, and that's because they didn't go to Jeju.

What are the jolliest 'bloody gun fights' and such productions you reference?

That and the Unexpected Pigeon Charge were the most '???' scenes.

It's basically Crash Landing On You, my face was stuck in " :| " during the entire epilogue.

Nothing really. Instead of stashing it in the basement safe, part of it is a few floors above in an instrument, and another part is in the FL's home. Nothing of it is cashed out or otherwise put to use to improve their lives. It's also not distributed among "the gang" (the residents) as it IMO should be.
It's really stupid.

The worst in that regard is when each of the tenants get their 30 seconds as an unstoppable combat monster or other form of super powers (hacker girl).

Might depend on your mother's tolerance or appreciation of violent killings & slapstick comedy.

Mixing a serious story with Airplane!-level comedy doesn't work.
The ending is about as facepalmy as that of Crash Landing and big topics are unresolved.

During the first 30-50%, Kim Na Na is a useful character; after that, she becomes a target of pointless domestic abuse for most of their arc. It's really uncomfortable to watch even as a guy.