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Love Next Door korean drama review
Dropped 9/16
Love Next Door
2 people found this review helpful
by rapendergast
Oct 14, 2024
9 of 16 episodes seen
Dropped
Overall 6.0
Story 6.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 6.0

Lost interest

[Updated] Wanted to like this one but lost interest halfway through. The reasons:

1) The acting's great, the leads are good together and the mom group is interesting, but
2) The side stories are forced and formulaic filler with zero character development
3) There's a bit of over-acting
4) Too many annoying flashbacks
5) Typical character setup: overbearing mom/pliant dad; ML is sure, successful and has annoying assistant/FL is lost, searching and has bubbly side friend
6) Typical kdrama plot habit: they start off light, airy and funny and then halfway through the "dark and tragic past" backstory kicks in and they get all dark and depressing
7) [Update] Gave it another couple episodes and saw yet another annoying trope: hiding their relationship from everyone for no justifiable reason.

I was forcing myself to watch by episode nine and once I hit that point it's just work and not a fun watch. YMMV.
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