strawgal

The dementia part they almost got right, only it was just a plot device not to address anything, and it's really funny she was complaint in dementia, and not the aggressive untidy, manic,incontinent sort but that would have been too realistic. In real life the estranged husband wouldn't be seen for dust, I ME.
I suppose what really pees me off is the depiction of the child. Now I have worked with children of that age, boys are very adapt at covering up their emotions, but it comes out somewhere, usually in some sort of self harm, anti social behaviour or aggression. He and his school friends behaved like mild aged marionettes. If it's normal to expect their children to behave this way it perhaps explains so sort of abnormal behaviour I have seen in my work.
The leads, two adults in search of some sort of normal emotion, who avoided making active choices, which is fine for them but not when a child is involved.
The friend became a scape goat for all actions of adults, so the FL had some sort of vent, but really she had been manipulated as well, I suppose her biggest sin was she didn't fess up sooner, but she thought FL was leading her best life., while she was stuck in just being ordinary.
Then you have the absent father, well no real hard conversation with him, and he ends conveniently in a chair, tidy that.
No one gets untidily upset or angry except for the female friend, which perhaps has the most range of emotions, which must obviously make her human and bad.

You can only work with what you are given, but they need better agents.
Who ever cast the younger versions of the actors did a good job, that is my only positive.

One of my lowest ratings, 6, I usually make at least a 7 for effort if the production values are OK.
This has left me fuming, rubbish writing, a plot which perhaps would have passed in the 80's c drama, just and a depiction of MH health problems which has no grounding in actual research, someone’s idea how a long standing double trauma, grief and abandonment can be solved by, moving on.

Nothing new, but really well done. A peaceful watch because every character is a positive one with out being abnormal.

This is such a rare thing, a proper rom com, which is not cringe and played seriously.
I huge fan of comedy that takes something that most of us could imagine happening, just taking it a bit further and then playing it straight, so the reaction is not forced.
I once worked in a school where a new foreign student dressed in long tail coat and bow tie when he wasn't in school uniform, I think he had been watching too much 19th period English drama.

She treated him like some obnoxious teenage girl, couldn't make her mind up but still wanted him under her control.
There are very few people that meet their life partner when they are very young and stay in that relationship until adults because you change so much as you get older, so as a trope its a pretty unrealistic one.
I have friends who met in school when they were fourteen and have never dated anyone else, and married and have been together for over fifty years, but they are very similar in temperament and back ground.
The construction of the plot is all based on the ML having little control and doing things to make himself worthy, and she must be well aware how much control she has, she is also told how it made him unwell.
Its not in any sense a healthy relationship, Her other love interest is also treated badly. If she was male I think it would perhaps seen that she is more manipulative, even if she is not aware of her behaviour.
I was bored because it was so predictable, it was the role reversal of the normal idea that the FL has to be good and worthy. I didn't even think the FL was that charming, her personality pretty beige.

Just boring. A circular plot that goes no where really, too many flashbacks just to extend the eps. If it was 10eps perhaps there would have been a enough plot too sustain it.
I hate the fact that yet again a women is acting like an immature teen, and who ever dressed of room it looked like a teenager was living there.

There all types of adult female clothing, not everyone over the age 20 dress es the same, but if you work in an office you often have workplace guidelines on what is suitable to follow.
If costume helps define a character, some actors start with the shoes, what does the costume say about this character. Child like, undefined? Which would be fine if that is what they were trying to hint at, but they way she is acting is really a bit like pantomime, over exaggerated, which clashes with the rest of the cast clothing, acting and set dressing, which is mainly realistic.
I hate when stories make women look stupid, because in my experience most I the young women I have known are not, and even if they are not the sharpest knife in the draw, I have never seen one behave like this, they have grown out of this stage by 12.

I watch a lot of drama of all types, and I am comparing on the range of those dramas and the actors that are in them.
So I am not sure if the director wants her to act that way or its just her normal style. It's just my POV. I just find it very unrealistic and expressionless but it obviously appeals to some people.
There is this tendency in Asian drama either to make the FL a good girl, or infantilise them, which in my experience of young women most have a lot to say for themselves,often very loudly.

It looks obvous that the money must come because the casting but OMG is she seriously miscast and the wardrobe they have given her doesn't help. She looks about twelve 'trying out' grown up clothes and failing.

I dropped after 1.5 eps, I can not get past the FL goldfish face, at the start I thought it was a plus that she didn't have the squeaky childish voice. Who ever is directing just make it look as if she has nothing between her ears, which is a shame because the production values look amazing.

Well its apparently endless, which is nothing to wish for',endless or apparently endless'.
For the money spent it 's disapointing. Like a an over decorated Christmas Tree, they throw in an extra gimmick to try and cover the empty spaces where the plot should be, there is enough plot perhaps for some short drama on Youtube.
It just all a bit misjudged, full of stock character, dodgy make up and very odd wardrobe choices so it gives no reality to the sense of place and time.
The script is just basically the same lines repeated in various versions. It just makes me tired.

You what is sad it that if this was a real person she is not getting any support from anyone, when in real life there is usually someone even if it's only a therapist or medical staff saying this will get better and we just need to try and stop your stress bucket filling. its going to be OK. Or we will tweak your meds. That how she she is feeling is on the range of a normal reaction.
It's the general writers lets make, usually the women, life as hell as possible, they put up with it to be seen as good, and then they are miraculously cured by love.
There is not one person unless you count her 'friend' who listens to her or even watches her body language. I was thinking last night who can she actually be open with because part of the problem is not wanting hurt people, like the 'friends' brother or the son, whilst being shat on by every other adult, including the ML. He would be binned, not a keeper.
Even the ex girl friend had to be a saint for eff all.

Yep, you can withdraw if you feel depressed, but the character is easily distracted , when its something she wants to do. There is also the question she wants to be a good mother, but she is completely avoiding what it would take to be a an effective mother.
The idea of paroxetine is it helps you get some sort of clarity, I know several people who have used it, they work they function, it may not solve every problem , but it certainly helps people focus, when they have so many worries they are mentally exhausted.

I am not at the end yet, but as a parent I just thing WTF, how can the M and FL, leave a child to make up their own mind when the information that are getting is from social media. They both seem to think that being passive is a good thing, where as children will see a hole and fill it with something. It's emotional abuse through inertia, in the hope he will make the right choice. Its as if being 'good and mature' inoculates you from stress and worry due to uncertainty.
And who wants a partner who leaves you alone and doesn't stand up to you until cornered.
Then there is a grandmother who gets a free pass because she is old and has declining mental fuction, so nothing will be addressed and they can have a happy clappy ending.
The actors are too old for the age they are playing, and the characters are behaving like twenty somethings, not like responsible adults,
I do not know what the script writer idea was, but the writing and casting is foolish.

This is just not doing it for me. I think its the direction and the way its shot, there is no tension and looks old fashioned and it's just going through the motions.

The highest rate for law breaking is in young males up to the age of twenty and most will go on to have law abiding lives. The idea is if you are punished for an offence you have paid debt to society.
Unfortunately there seems to be people who seem to be making money about dragging up peoples past mistakes, either through ' journalism' or a form of blackmail which not only affects the actor but also the production company.
I respect the actors decision, perhaps it's what he thinks is best for himself and his family. I think I have enjoyed his performance in every thing I have seen him in.

Everyone likes to have dig a major international streamers but if actors made more money for acting and did not have to rely on advertising endorsements it perhaps would be a healthier industry. Koreans could end you seriously damaging their own industry.
There must be something in the air, this popped up in my feed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snulkyo9-3Q

If they cut of all the sentimentality and in the end cartoon villain this could have been a 9.5, unfortunately they tried almost to make a family drama with action sequences.
The tech manipulation part of the plot, which is scary in its self with the development of AI could have been better.
Its not terrible just a bit of a disappointment.

Most characters are made to have a perhaps the most two character traits when most people, can behave differently at different times depending on the circumstances, and what they have learned.
I think perhaps You Shu Lang has a stealer side which he covers up, like
Fan Xiao is a spoilt teenager forever testing and blustering while appearing in control, not really knowing what he wants and why. He needs control, like the art, set dressing the room, those pictures, so he can make something and destroy it before someone else gets the chance.

Ep 9, OMG
the contrast between the adult who knows what he has to do, controls himself although distraught, and the spoilt teenager who has to win at any cost to prove something. and then finds he has nothing.
There are going to be blood and tears before bedtime.

Well I never expected this, characters that are not one dimensional and a plot which is bit like mean girl bullying and manipulation but so well constructed, it has an actual timeline and drops hints of what may happen not to obviously.
I am impressed with both leads acting.