strawgal

The elephant in the room is all the actors in this are basically too old for the story.
There is this c drama fantasy that forty somethings and above can play thirty somethings and behave like they are in their late twenties.
The ML is just weak, and the idea that they kiss and make up because it's all a huge misunderstanding and the mother gets the free pass of declining age related function and she is an manipulative old b!tch, but what can you do.

I expected a trash plot very done, and it is a trash plot, it's just a shame it wastes the WC talent, his character just look like he has a wasp in his mouth and debating whether to chuck or swallow, or he is thoughtfully constipated.
FL seems to play the same sort of part, therefore its rinse and repeat, an how she does depends on wholely on the script, which makes her unbelievable.

Its a job why would they be 'committed' off screen. I think most of the time if you have a close working relationship with someone you have another life outside that relationship.

Gun has always been a skilled actor, if you watch The Blue Hour (2015), which is pretty dark, I have always thought they have been using a Ferrari to run in 2nd gear.
Just like Dew I believe his looks have dictated the roles he is cast in, If you look at some of Off's old interviews I think he wouldn't have stayed in this partnership unless he knew that Gun was actually a benefit to his career.

Did they run out of money by the end? I just wish script writers would plot stories properly and think as much about the end as they do the hook and USP as they do at the start. The end is the last thing you remember, like a bad meal followed with a good desert can make you forget the tasteless main course.
It ended up a cut and shut of too many tropes, the stock bad females with reaction shots that look as if the were sucking a lemon with narrowed eyes. Too much and too long..
No body expects something like this not to have plot holes but some of them were just a drop too far.
I can not really fault the ML's acting, they carried it , but who ever was producing didn't do a good enough quality control, the end looked ragged and unfinished, as if the budget or time had run out.

I have been trying to decide about this. Sometimes I think its a satire or like one of those old Holywood movies where the plot what there is is so OTT but the style over powers what ever critical thinking you have, like in All That heaven Allows.
One thing I have decided is not to take it seriously, the last episode should have perhaps been the tone for the whole of it, because its pretty much camp melodrama, but very well done most of the time.. You just shouldn't think about the under lying misogyny, a class system the plot is based on with the lack biological reality.
The stand out actor is Huang Xing, but he had the most multi layered character, all the traits of a sociopath but still managed some how to make him charming.

I wanted the plot to go totally off the rails and man in the coffee shop be a serial killer.

Not the worst I have watched but so predictable and annoying. Just meh.

I would rather it had an unhappy, untidy ending, it was all a bit too neat and cliche.
I felt I had seen these scenes too many times before, and could could virtually guess most of the content of the last episode.

Why am I watching this, it's unremittingly grim ? Ground Hog Day, each episode you think it's going somewhere, any where but the circle of introspection, and then it doesn't.
I find neither ML's interesting as characters, and the fact they have virtually the same insecurities gives little light and shade. They are about as interesting as wet cement.

My vote for best car chase of the year, and I am someone who has sit through just about every action drama/ movie because apart from Interview with a Vampire my husbands taste rarely coincide with mine. The fight scenes are pretty good as well.

Its just not funny, its too normal to be funny. IME
I think its the idea that he not married because he his odd, when really he has a good job, and he is just self involved, so a pretty good catch. Some women would have snapped him up, and manipulated him in to seeing the advantages of a gofor, like is co worker is trying to do. My daughter is married to one, has no social graces, but she gets what ever she wants. In real life if the Dr wanted him she could run rings around him.
It makes me smile when a man thinks he is getting what he wants and not what his wife lets him have though enablement. Piss us off and life gets difficult.
I once met someone whose husband was autistic, and she was explaining why appeared abrupt, when I just thought he was pretty much in the normal range of British male directness.

The only gag that has worked for me so far is the hat. My husband decided to grow a beard after being clean shaven all his life. He was so proud you would thought he had laid an egg.
I also do not get his taste in music light classics and ballet scores, he doesn't seem like a ballet bunny.,
The FL doctor, being involved in someone you knows medical care is just a no, you find someone else to do it. Prescribing drugs randomly to a patient without a full history is just a no, and a bigger no with no advice on side effects and arranging a follow up.
You talk to women who have been a relationship and most realise they are with someone who outside work has little understanding of anything outside what they are interested in and they delegate as much of real life as they can. My husband once gave me a bunch of flowers and didn't know they were fake. He is good at DIY, so he has his uses but he is obsessed by tools, like women collect handbags.

I may not last to the end. Its just not funny enough for me, anyone who lives with a man knows that this is normal male behaviour, being totally unaware of what the said and how the message comes across, able to focus mainly on things that interest them and live in their own world.

I am glad it's not only me.
It has so many good elements, and I am old enough to remember wearing terrible knit wear and being spoken to as if I was a small child. Can you really buy a car without your husband? I feel I could walk in to that office and smell cigs and cheap after shave,
The script is just so flat, and one paced, if I want to watch reality I can go down to the builders merchants and experience retro male work practices at first hand. So many men with so little charm or ability in one place.
I am not looking for a car chase, but I haven't got the anticipation for the next episode.
The acting is amazing, but it just hasn't seemed to have the episode structure of something like Misaeng: Incomplete Life, to hold my attention, which it is not a progression on.

I think its because of inversion.
They take a story that if you look at some C dramas still seems popular that the young innocent girl, who seems always to act like a child, who is being chased by suitors, there always has to be a bit of a user, and the earnest but faithful one 'saves' her.
I think it's just lack of the ability to think of an original safe plot that has some basis in the real world, so they use one that was past it's sell by date forty years ago.
I am sort of addicted to old C drama clips they put on Youtube, and I think some of the writers must be mining them as well. So far they do not use the cheating boyfriend/ husband because that would spoil the whole sanitised trope of this genre,
I just find it amusing because it's so retro, I hope most teenagers are aware it just fantasy. I do wonder who the target audience is for this particular one is.

Lets face it none of these men really act like real life men. At that age he would have beeing watching p!orn on his phone for years and the other two would have a string of exes and hangers on.
The the K filter of adult content and real life male behaviour.

I know this is bad but good because I am frigging annoyed.
How dumb can someone be, has he got special educational needs or just no watched enough c or k drama to see when he is being manipulated. What parent sends their child in to the world without preparing them with the basic of tools of how to avoid being someone's hors d'oeuvre. And WTF why are two of them even bothered?
Is it like wanting to put a footprint on fresh snow, I was here, because he has the personality of a plant. He is not exactly entertaining. Its total trash, but addictive.

Scraping in at 7.5, mainly a score for the production values, I think I am being generous.
I was like a large expensive firework that , went phut, and then died.
Good basic story idea that was wasted with too many tropes, so tired they could hardly get out of bed, and never did any work, because they were just put in to pad the plot.
The last three episodes could have been cut but that would have meant losing all the pathetic plot 'twists', which were not, You could almost plot out the whole script from ep 4 or at least play trope bingo.
I think the worst sin was having good actors, no great actors being completely wasted on this sh!t, the script was so dire. I always hope that they get paid well , or its there is a good script but you penance is....
God save us from the next plot where the leads met as children and then become linked , its so done.

And I think she is brilliant.
She can play anything from a room come to the manipulative villain.
It helps that she has an expressive face and seems to be interested in taking roles where perhaps she morally grey character. She seems happy to not look like she has a lot of white out on her face.
I hope she getting a good deal from Netflix.

Well done the writers for pulling off the amnesia plot being less clunky than most.
They say that part of amnesia is trying to forget trauma. like a time out for the brain, so you can internally process it. Lets hope the writers can merge the old and the new well in the last ep.