Kate

I see more and more people wanting Ha Rip and Yi Kyung to be an end game and I truly do not understand it. When I see them and think about the romance all I can picture is a father's friend who saw the daughter of said father grow up since she was a teenager and later on dating her. Like switching from being a father/uncle figure to a romantic partner just... gross and nope. Especially since when they hint the romance from Ha Rip perspective, they show the flashback of when he was old and she was in high school. Thanks for reminding me how gross the romance would be.

I would agree that there are many selfish 2nd male leads But there is one line in your article I just cannot agree with:
"One of the many things I hate about second leads is when they choose to disregard the female lead’s feelings and confess to her"
I think everyone has the right to stay true to their feelings. Confessing their feelings is not something bad, even if they know the girl does not love them back. IF even after being rejected they are all over her and try to make her like them in a romantic way, this would be a problem. But I would never say just confessing your feelings is being selfish. As long as they are ready to accept rejection and deal with it themselves.

Don't know if you are reading the webtoon, but I feel like the characters there are explained way better. I don't think there are many people who prefer Seol to be with In Ho and not Jung if we talk about the original story. Which just shows how bad the drama presented characters. I guess it's hard to "ship" Seol with Jung in drama since the writers almost wrote him off the show in the second half, focusing on Inho, and giving him and not Jung the proper character development. I have many complains about Cheese in the trap hahaha

but that's way too broad theme coz under it we have euthanasia, no resuscitation form, legal aspect, morality aspect, emotional aspect, family of the ill person and more. And they show us bits of all of those things, but do not deep dive into any of them.

In life you have 24 hours (- lets say 8 for sleep) to know all the details you need about things happening around you. You have time to explore it, get to know people. In drama you have one hour for an episode, 16 hour total. That's why you need to cut some stuff just to make sure you truly explained your story and the motives of the characters, who who the characters are. And they have so much going on in this drama, it's simply impossible. I had exactly the same problem with Hotel del Luna.

This is so true it's painful...

of course it's my view point. You asked "why" and I gave you the answer. Everyone will have a different opinion about this drama, and that was mine.

Ji Sung is doing an amazing job, it's not the problem I have with a cast, but with a writing and directing of the drama. I will just copy what I wrote in feed, since those are my main problems:
I feel like they could not decide what theme to go for and what idea should be the main/leading one. On one hand you have the whole morality issue with euthanasia, but then there is this whole plot of Yohan's illness. Then we have the whole side plot about the murderer, prosecutor and the nurse. We also have this side plot about the drug created for euthanasia, all the romance stories, Si Yeong's father being in coma (or whatever state he is in) + All the side plots for specific episodes about the random patients. It's too much so nothing works. They should have focused ONLY on the euthanasia aspect + some (but not too many) side plots all to some extend being connected to the main, or leading to some character development. Yo Han being sick is so unnecessary for me. If they gave us more of Lee Kyu Hyung's character and truly played this "morality battle" between him and Yohan it would be such an interesting character driven drama. Now it's hole mess. We have not enough scenes for ALL plot lines except from the romance between Yohan and Si Yeong (which they focused way too much on, for me at least). I could do without the romance in this drama tbh. The topic of it is too heavy and they should have spent more time dwelling over it.

I love Ji Sung too and if it wan't for him, I'd drop the drama long time ago...

Am I the only one who is extremely disappointed with this one?

no, and that's the problem

I don't know... After all one of the criteria of dissocial personality (or anti-social personality disorder depending if you go by icd or dsm) is impulsiveness and poor planning skills (because of said impulsiveness) and bad control of your emotions. I guess he is quite inteligent so it might lessen his impulsiveness. I feel like this is a "cool tv show psychopath" kind of thing...
And seeing how far he goes (up to killing someone) he is definitely clinical patient, not just psychopath as people call it (since we all have some traits of all dark triad). It's fun tho, you looks at it from perspective of medical science and I do as a clinical and neuropsychology student. I think we put more emphasis on differentiating between psychopathy and ani-social personality disorder, and I would say Beom Jin has the latter.

no, the boyfriend was the female Commissioner. Soo Yeon was an informant for her. She saved her as a boyfriend so she can always pick the phone up and no one from the team would suspect anything.

I mean, with this ending it's just asking for 2nd season. And I would definitely love to see one :)

It was explained in 2nd half of the drama, that it's Yeom Dong Sook

Well... I hate the ending.

I cried a little bit when I was watching it haha It was amazing.

it's definitely not private since we know a lot of kids from poorer to middle-class families are in it. They would not get the money for it. Especially it would not make sense with the once that are not rich AND do not study well.
I also don't think the school is that rich. I think the writers just did not care that much if the scene will make sense and be realistic...

I think it depends on what do you understand under "strong female lead". For me there are lots of strong female characters in kdramas. But at the same time I would NEVER call a character like Bong Soon strong. So yeah, basically how many there are for you depends on what you see under the term.

That's her "ex-"husband. He died. She is grieving pretty bad to the point that she sees him. Basically she created him coz he can't deal with the loss.