michelleoc

I'm normally on board for an office romance. I'm ALWAYS on board for Seo In Guk. So, to say I was disappointed with this offering is an understatement. I think the major blame needs to go to the writer, for a number of reasons. The lead couple and the second couple felt like their stories were too much alike. Sure, one woman was ghosted and the other left for someone else, but the female responses to both situations was the same. The females seemed weak and needy to me. When the SFL said to SML "I'm always going to put myself first", I think the point was that she was going to start believing in herself more, but the result was selfishness - that's not a relationship that's going to work in the long run.
The FL came across as childish and seemed to always be making emotional demands of the ML. Her internal conversations always seemed to be about why he wasn't behaving in the way she thought he should.
I'm also very tired of the trope where the couple goes through so much, they are supposedly very in love, but then she is reluctant to get married.
Seo In Guk - he has never been one to over-emote. He can convey so much using just his eyes and a slight upturn of his lips. In this show, first I felt an extreme lack of energy from him, like he was slogging through mud or something. I kept thinking of Winnie the Pooh's friend Eeyore.
There was a real lack of chemistry between the leads and I didn't believe in them or their love.
Small thing related to makeup/lighting. There were a number of scenes when the main couple was outside at night, talking. The makeup for the FL was strange, lots of reddish around her eyes and not in scenes where she was supposed to have been crying. And the scene where she goes into the bathroom after he showered, I don't know if it was makeup or lighting, but Seo In Guk looked yellow. Not a good look.
This is one of those shows, that after completing, I'm gun shy about being disappointed again. I guess I'll have to re-watch something that I know I loved.