protoninhibited

I like dramas with ghosts, particularly ones with 'good' ghosts. This show wasn't that. It barely adheres to its core premise. It's more of a family/corporate drama than a supernatural crime rom com. That's my one issue with it (perhaps the biggest). The first sign that this wasn't going to focus on the 'Spooky' is the fact that the ghosts hardly spoke. At first, I thought it was a cool and unique creative decision, but I guess it was just an indicator of the writer's priorities.

Now I won't dwell on the cliches. Common tropes are not bad if the story is well written, plausible and consistent. The show suffers from a weak script. Character motivations and actions sometimes felt out of place and unearned, things happening to quickly (like the romance). I think the show tried to do so much and failed. Some of the storylines could have been done away with and instead spent on building a convincing romance (and crime) plot.

Now I did like some aspects of it, the friendship between the ML and his two colleagues for one. I typically find most romcom friendships (moreso on the ML) unconvincing, in that the non-leads seem to put all the effort in while the ML just exists to benefit from it without reciprocation, but I didn't feel much of it with this drama. I guess that's a plus.

I didn't hate watching this, but it's a drama I'll probably not recall much of in a few months. Nothing in it standouts, it's just average, be it the OST, the story, characters, acting.