Kate

I like Gong Seung Yeon scenes when she is more quiet, but when she is screaming... it's just over the top. I don't feel god about her character here too...

I don't think so? There are some romance difficulties, but nothing I would describe as your typical kdrama love triangle.

If we believe the characters chart, Min Jae is 100% male lead and the end game :(

well the theme is really dark: mental health issue, murder, manipulation, abuse, ptsd, etc. Male lead instead of getting better is getting worse with every ep. I don't see how this all could lead to happy ending. But it also depends on what do you understand under the term "happy ending".

Ma Hoon (the silent leader matchmaker) is the male lead character that will end ep with Gae Ddong. Lee Soo (The King) is the 2nd lead. The characters chart shows love line between Ma Hoon and Gae Ddong, and only one sided love between GaeDdong and Lee Soo. Which is stupid tbh, coz they established in first 2 episodes that Gae Ddong at least strongly likes Lee Soo... But yeah, sadly Ma Hoon is the end game.

I don't think it has to end in a good way. It would make perfect sense for it to have tragic ending.

they will, it's shown in the characters chart. they are the end game. Poor Lee Soo

Yeah, before watching episodes I was ready to ship Gae Ddong with Ma Hoon since i love Kim Min Jae. But
Gong Seung Yeon has honestly way better chemistry with
Seo Ji Hoon and it's so frustrating ;/

Yeah, Ma Hoon, the "silent" leader dude. What frustrated me was that on the characters chart it showed the romance between him and Gae Ddong and that Lee Soo is in one sided love with Gae Ddong. They literally were about to get married and she is trying her best to find him. It's obvious she loves him. I don't know, I don;t like the romance in this drama... I prefer the king over the matchmaker...

I know who she will end up with but I already wish she did with the other dude. I might drop it because of that too...

I can tell you if you don't mind spoilers. You can check characters chart too to find out

I feel you on this one. Especially with how preview of ep 13 is kind of focused on them!

Up till episode 12 it was amazing, but eps 13 and 14... I don't know... lightsabers were a bit much for me hahaha

True. I mean i wrote that comment before watching episode 5. Now I feel like Joon Ho is a progressive, but is in conservatives just because of his father, and Dae Han is just all over the place. But we need to also remember that being more left or right leaning does not mean you have to agree with all the stuff in said ideology. Maybe (highly doubt it) Dae Han agrees with progressives in all aspect except from abortion + honestly I am so use to politicians calling themselves one thing and doing an opposite, this just looks really realistic for me. In Poland conservatives want to give high social aid/welfare to everyone, when the progressives want to take it back. Does not exactly fit the ideologies too hahaha

He is representing progressives because the other guy is conservative. He wanted to be in the show, he would call himself whatever is necessary to be part of the cast. At least that's what I think is happening. He goes with whatever gives him more opportunities.

I would say majority of dramas have serious topic in them, but some present them in a lighter way to make them more approachable. I rarely come across a drama that has literally nothing going on for them except from the cutesy romance. Just the presentation of the topic is different. Sometimes they fail with the delivery, but the topic was there.
That said, people who expect from this drama light and fun story made a huge mistake, especially since all the promotion done for it and tags + synopsis does clearly show what kind of show it is. I understand the intention behind your comment and I agree with it, I just feel like delivery of it was unnecessarily strong that it came off as aggressive. It would have the same meaning without 1st sentence or at least the use of the "shallow" word), but it would not come off as belittling people who might like lighter dramas. Again, sorry for a long reply. I just want to make sure there is no misunderstand here.

I would say this is a bit unfair of you. Just because the drama is not dark does not mean it's shallow. Just because there is a lot of romance and it's "cute" also does not mean it's shallow. There are people who for some strange reason start watching drama not fitting their taste and then rate them low in both groups. There are planty of people who start watching dramas which clearly had in synopsis that it will be lighthearted drama with romance and some daily problems and then complain it was boring and not exciting enough. I myself like both types: cute romance and horror and would never just say one genre is better than the other. To be honest, majority of dramas has some serious topics in them, they just present them in a different way.
I'm sorry for the lengthy comment, but while I agree with your 2nd sentence, the 1st one seemed passive-aggressive for me. Even if you did not mean to call all the "simpler and nor dark" dramas as shallow, it did come out this way.

This year I am officially closer to 30 than to 20 (beautiful 25 mark lol) and I truly love this drama. Especially since none of the problems and dilemma the characters are facing are strictly related to only people in their 30'. Chasing your dreams, mental health issue, self-worth, relationship problems, abuse... like none of those is a problem that specifically people in their 30' face, and no other age group does. How can you not relate to any aspect of this drama? I get that someone may not like this drama coz they don't like characters, the humor is not their cup of tea etc, but saying you don't like it coz you cannot relate to characters in their 30' is pretty ridiculous.

I honestly do not care that much about the relationship between Tanya and Eunsom . The writers did not give me enough time in the 1st season for me to like them as a duo and for the majority of the show they have been apart. Also, I think the plot, characters, their motivations, the whole world and the rules in it, all the elements are quite complex but the drama is way too short to truly show it. If you want to make a good fantasy show/movie/book you need to spend your time building that world and explaining it to the viewers. I cannot get too interested and into the story coz there is just too much and too quickly of it.
For me the whole "1st season" should be Tanya nad her people doing their things, Ta Gon and his people doing their. The last episode of it could show the whole taking over. And then 2nd season would go from that point. Just slow it down and show us more. Coz right now, I don't really care that much about any of the characters....

They had father-daughter relationship in the past. And no matter how mature she was, she was still just 18, extremely broken kid being daily abused by her real father, and he was 56 back then, he could be her grandfather. While I can understand her feelings for him, since she did not know who he was when she started developing feelings for him, Ha Rip falling for her seems just wrong for me. I truly hope they will not go there. Especially since this drama truly does not need romance. I would much rather see mentor-mentee scenerio. Not only romantic relationship are deep, important and profound.
This whole scenario of him being 66 years old, 56 when he met her when she was 18 is weird itself, but the fact that they added his son being in love with her is just crossing the line for me. We have 20 years old guy being in love with 28 years old girl who is in love with his father who is 66. Any other drama and I would call it bad makjang.