one more fake-feminist Netflix cash grab
I can't understand what this show was trying to be. It does have it's really awesome fun moments and comedy and cute romance but then sometimes it feels like they're laying it on so THICK, making the FL be whatever whenever it suits them. She's supposed to be super smart and a good lawyer and a badass fighter AND a DJ aND an actress and basically anything she puts her hands to she's a pro at but for pivotal plot points she has the critical thinking skills of a wet tissue?
Man she barely knows seen hugging a schoolgirl --> PEDOPHILE! (yes, a very famous actor would totally go around handing cash to and flirting with a minor right in front of his house)
Overhears ten seconds of a conversation with zero context whatsoever --> MISOGYNISTIC BASTARD! (this is a lawyer who fights high-profile celebrity cases btw)
I didn't even fully understand how she suddenly comes up with random things to hate him and wish to dump him for without even talking it out throughout this series. They keep trying to push it down our throats that she's "not like other girls" and that gets tiring after a certain point. It's so dumb that the ML is like "I fell for you because you're not selfish, manipulative, and calculating" and all she's done up to that point is be manipulative and calculating interspersed with short bouts of caring for him. Also, like... she'd have one night stands with guys, dump them, and said that was her way of teaching empathy to sleazebags? Whose lives exactly were being changed lol i don't care if she has a 100> body count but we don't need to bring in a hero-angle to that too
Her misunderstandings and the way she treats ML are so hard to watch sometimes, like they can't decide whether she's a mature character or she's still reeling from previous scars or whether she's just a petty moron who yo-yos between genuinely caring for him and playing with him because she's a "badass" or whatever. The points they raise about the patriarchy and feminism are genuine and important to speak about but at a certain point it becomes so in your face and preachy. Like SHOW us, don't keep TELLING us how fricking unbelievably unbreakable this FL is. For a show trying to promote feminism it looks really biased to have every other woman except the FL be brainless, childish, man-crazy delusional airheads. You kinda feel like everyone other than the main leads are toxic, two-faced, annoying and tiring-- even the SML turns out to be a kinda sleazy idk what they were trying to go for it felt like they suddenly decided halfway that they wanted him with the FL's BFF? More than characters who had growth and arcs it felt like the writers made them do whatever suited their storyline and helped the leads along.
The drama sure has it's really fun moments and well-written scenes, but it all plays out more like a shallow Netflix cash grab than a kdrama with heart.
Man she barely knows seen hugging a schoolgirl --> PEDOPHILE! (yes, a very famous actor would totally go around handing cash to and flirting with a minor right in front of his house)
Overhears ten seconds of a conversation with zero context whatsoever --> MISOGYNISTIC BASTARD! (this is a lawyer who fights high-profile celebrity cases btw)
I didn't even fully understand how she suddenly comes up with random things to hate him and wish to dump him for without even talking it out throughout this series. They keep trying to push it down our throats that she's "not like other girls" and that gets tiring after a certain point. It's so dumb that the ML is like "I fell for you because you're not selfish, manipulative, and calculating" and all she's done up to that point is be manipulative and calculating interspersed with short bouts of caring for him. Also, like... she'd have one night stands with guys, dump them, and said that was her way of teaching empathy to sleazebags? Whose lives exactly were being changed lol i don't care if she has a 100> body count but we don't need to bring in a hero-angle to that too
Her misunderstandings and the way she treats ML are so hard to watch sometimes, like they can't decide whether she's a mature character or she's still reeling from previous scars or whether she's just a petty moron who yo-yos between genuinely caring for him and playing with him because she's a "badass" or whatever. The points they raise about the patriarchy and feminism are genuine and important to speak about but at a certain point it becomes so in your face and preachy. Like SHOW us, don't keep TELLING us how fricking unbelievably unbreakable this FL is. For a show trying to promote feminism it looks really biased to have every other woman except the FL be brainless, childish, man-crazy delusional airheads. You kinda feel like everyone other than the main leads are toxic, two-faced, annoying and tiring-- even the SML turns out to be a kinda sleazy idk what they were trying to go for it felt like they suddenly decided halfway that they wanted him with the FL's BFF? More than characters who had growth and arcs it felt like the writers made them do whatever suited their storyline and helped the leads along.
The drama sure has it's really fun moments and well-written scenes, but it all plays out more like a shallow Netflix cash grab than a kdrama with heart.
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