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Warm and witty

This is one of those shows that you come back to rewatch because it's just a warm place to relax for awhile. Each sister gets her turn at being the romance focus, and each story is given its share of attention, without rushing or skipping through obstacles. In fact, the obstacles serve to highlight the real strength of the story, and that is the supportive family bond among the women. I enjoyed seeing the women affirming each other's worth and ensuring each of the male leads knows what a gem he is getting as a spouse. I also appreciate how the sisters honor their mother and appreciate all she has done for them. I particularly enjoyed the playful scenes of the brothers-in-law banding together for mutual goals and for survival! (A special shout out for Wang Xingyue who played the first romantic lead with so much charisma and chemistry!) It stretches historical believability at times, but not enough to really disrupt the flow of the story. Overall it's a well-paced mix of romance and humor in beautiful costumes and sets.

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what im looking for.

people are forgetting what friendship is, and only see any two close boys/girls as lover, so I'm glad we have this drama. it's so good and the friendship between Ling Dong and Lan Jing Hui is so beautiful.
there is love and support and protect and physical contact and development and misunderstanding then reconciliation from both sides.
they started as enemies then become best friends and i like that. but what i liked more is that they became close befor remembering that they are childhood friends.
not only them, the friendship between all the roof group is heartwarming.

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I cannot believe it's so highly rated

Hear me out: I like both leads as actors, and I enjoyed their performances in other romance shows in the past. I don't fault them for the show being not that great.

I instead think the story was haphazardly thrown together and it harmed the show. I've seen worse shows that had me glued at the screen nonetheless. Here, I never felt any urge to watch the next episode...

Some people say "it's not that deep, it's just a silly romcom". I like silly romcoms. I've watched and enjoyed silly romcoms. That's not the issue. It was silly and goofy, sure. I just can't with the amount of "oops, I've fallen into your arms" bit, which I can endure/enjoy when it's not done 1 million times, with no real impact or purpose.

Some say the side characters are great. I'd agree for the most part, but also, a lot of them are under-developed, here to serve a very small purpose in the storyline, and could be erased from the rest of the show without really harming the continuity. So... Some of them are interesting, others are good comedic relief, but otherwise, a bit lacking.

The whole dramatic backstory was a big ol' bore, through and through. Couldn't wait for it to be done. And once it was resolve, all the "trauma" just disappeared from people's life, magically. Commit to it or don't do it at all. Because of the tone of the rest of the show, it also didn't feel as emotionally charged as it should. I was just annoyed every time it came up, and the acting surrounding the issue felt forced and sorta dumb. Yet, again, I know these actors can do so much better, but the material was just too weak imo.

If you're unsure after a few ep, do yourself a favor: drop it. It almost put me in a kdrama slump. Instead, my advice is to go look at pictures of the fashion from this show. That's the one thing they did that was really EXTREMELY well done (except maybe for one thing on the last ep, but I guess it's just not to my taste). The show could be a "corporate girlie inspo" pinterest board on its own.

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I was bamboozled by the hype around this show

I pushed off this show for weeks because of the positive reviews saying how sad the first half was but how amazing the whole thing is. I didn't end up sad though, I was angry.....that was FIVE years of mistreatment. The circumstances of his misunderstanding doesn't matter; he has eyes, he has resources, he knew her for 3 years prior, married to her for 5 years, the same people that knew them both kept calling him out and saying what a good person she was, but it took the divorce for him to question if maybe he was wrong? She is gorgeous, and I love the ML actor, but there was not enough groveling to justify their reunion. The things he did for her is what you do out of kindness, and he owed her so much anyway, but there should've been a year of pursuing at LEAST if not longer. The tears wasn't enough either, like....I can't even say it's because I have a high tolerance/standards while watching because they're actually extremely low for these shows but he didn't just ignore her those 5 years, he actively insulted, he played into the rumors around her, had multiple scandals, he never defended her, and he jumped to conclusions. I was so glad when she told him that he never gave her chances to explain when he said he was kept in the dark. And as an orphan with her struggles and upbringings, she was the biggest victim of the whole thing. I remember watching this one short drama with Chensi about him regretting a divorce and I can't help but compare it because his character always treated her well before and after the divorce but he accepted the divorce because he thought he was respecting her choice when he never wanted it. Chensi's character was tormented and he cried in regret. This man was terrible to her (doesn't have to be abuse), and maybe I will just never understand being mean and going out of my way to insult people unless there was a pattern of abuse towards me. He took one incident within the 8 years they knew each other and built everything around it that he would later regret. He was a victim of the rich people politics, sure, but she was a victim of being a poor woman used in their scheme and continued being a victim of those schemes for 5 years. I'm only taking this seriously because the show wanted to take itself seriously, and my final humble personal opinion is....he did not deserve her. Acting was great, actors were great, writing was great, I was just too pissed off by him to give him the same chance that the FL did. I think this is my first review for a short drama because I usually like them all to some degree but this one somehow rubbed me the wrong way.

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severely unfortunate execution

so many things wrong with this show, i barely know where to start.

1) the main characters are insanely bland. no personality traits, no individual characteristics. they are cops who solve cases and that's it. there's general archetypes - poor little rich girl/sad french girl, her broke genius girlfriend, the porn addict comedic relief, and the nerd - but they don't even delve into these archetypes aside from two scenes for sad french rich girl and clothing for the nerd. i'm being so serious when i say i don't even know their names. for a show discussing misogyny, you'd think we'd get a little insight into how a female inspector and a female forensic doctor fare in the highly patriarchal police system, but they talk about it for three minutes in the first episode, and then it gets shoved underfoot. the police chief who seems to be against women taking on dangerous cases/doing fieldwork? he's just worried about his favorite niece (sad rich girl). the uniforms who verbally sexually harass them in ep 1 are actually perfectly happy to be working under female inspectors the rest of the show. ??? the doctor has no money and lives in a chicken coop in addition to being a woman, but do we get any sense of how this might have impacted her career trajectory?? absolutely not. what's funny is that there's actually a case with a female nurse who grew up poor and thus was severely abused by her superiors, so you'd think they might tie that in with our *main character,* but nada.

onto the two main males. like i mentioned before, one's purpose is to be the porn addict funny boy. there's a case with a brothel sex trafficking girls and he's ooh aahing and making sex jokes about visiting the *rape victims.* like okay. and no one checks him. like aren't yew a feminist @main girl 1 and 2?? then there's the nerd. he's actually not uber smart or anything, he just dresses like a starving victorian newsboy. his only purpose is that they needed an extra body to make their unit, or the chief would have benched the girls (literal plot point in ep 1 by the way, that chief was not letting them do anything at all, but we magically forget about it in the other 30 eps. bizarre). what's hilarious about newsboy is that in the last episode, he's crying over his dead grandma, and it's like i don't know you and i don't know her. who gaf. who are you.

the utter lack of characterization for these people made the last episode amazing, like they were doing these closure scenes for people who were never open in the first place. mind-boggling what these writers come up with.

2) the cases started off interesting, but after the first two, completely fell off. the characterization for the opera case (1) and the child kidnapping (2) were incredible. regardless of whether you like the victims or not, they had vibrant personalities and every decision they made, even if it was illogical, you could understand their motivation and how they got there in their situation.

then came the brothel case (3). it's so insane how unempathetic the mcs were to these girls who were trafficked. these girls basically have guns to their head forcing them to say they've consented to being prostitutes, and it's *your* police station handing out licenses to chinese ghislaine maxwell, so take some accountability. the fuck. they care about their one victim, and not a single other girl in that brothel. this fatass 400 pound BEAST tries to rape a girl, a girl who's barely an adult mind you, and one of the other girls kills him to protect her, and they arrest the girl. for killing a man in the middle of raping someone. ?? ghislaine maxwell, of course, gets off scot free, in exchange for our one favorite victim being able to escape. but what about the other victims? what about the girls that freak will traffick in the future? a lot of these cases is them arresting the victim instead of offering them help (except the kidnapping case i guess). i know it's to be realistic and historically accurate and blah blah, but i'd just like to say that the law is not neutral, it's pro-male. it was 500 times more pro-male in 1920. them upholding this law and going "all murder is murder" is not a neutral act, it's protecting rapists. you have cops now and certainly back then who will do backflips to protect rapists and wifebeaters and femiciders, so a woman cop who upholds the law to revictimize another woman is a gender traitor and a collaborationist times two. and half these cases, the victims will tell you to your face "i went to the police and no one believed me." your male coworkers will feign blindness every time to protect the male class, but you're sitting there jailing women and i'm supposed to root for you? go to hell. you have a male coworker *in your team* being a freak towards these girls and you won't even address that. like go to hell actually. the characters' normalization towards brothels/dance halls in general gives me the creeps. but apparently this is a story about women or whatever.

moving on to the two final cases, the female doctor (4) and the other child trafficker (5). the female doctor case was both insanely boring and also just off thematically. they focused more on the dead male instead of the woman at the center of the story (until the confession), and i just don't care. it's thematically jarring to sneak in dead male hospital director right in between two child trafficking cases. like i'm sorry, not all victims/stories are equal. the second trafficking case (to distinguish from the first) had potential, but it ended abruptly (there's a problem with the transitions between cases for all of them except the first case, but that's a miniscule issue compared to everything else, so i won't get into it). it's also incongruent with the first trafficking case. we have a girl who was about to be murdered but her brother stopped it by killing the murderer, and neither was arrested this time. the moral of the story is that self-defense is legal if you're a man.

tldr; white bread characters, including one porn addict who's a protagonist you're meant to empathize with, shitty execeution, excruciatingly pro-male brothel case that takes up ~eight episodes, underwhelming ending. 3.5 stars only for the lesbian opera actors, so watch for the first six eps i guess.

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Its just does not hit home.

I had purposed to write a review to this movie but there was no excitement in the movie and so the review just took a back burner....The cast was stellar so their performance was not a problem.The story was straight forward so the plot/script was also not the problem...but i just don't understand why it was lucklusture.From start to end the movie maintained a singular tone,and at no certain point was my heart rate high due to an exciting scene.An ironic point that never left me was that despite everything happening in the illegal side of the law,there was no police to take a bribe, doing an investigation or threaten anyone with blackmail or arrest, EVERYONE who appeared on screen should have had some sort of police interaction.To me that's an oversight i couldn't get over with, what do you mean there was not a righteous police or a 'dirty' police to even things out.Finishing the review makes me think maybe the police aspect was the thing missing to keep things tense or thrilling.

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A Love That Refuses to Be Forgotten

Some movies entertain you.
Some make you think.
And then there are the rare ones—the ones that reach into your chest, wrap around your heart, and refuse to let go.

This is one of those movies.

Even now, my eyes are still filled with tears, and my mind feels overwhelmed by how beautifully this story was put together. Without hesitation, I would rank this as my number one Korean film. It carries everything a powerful story should—growth, understanding, love, heartbreak—and blends them together so naturally that you don’t just watch it… you feel it.

The female lead (FL) lives with a condition where her memory resets each day. Every night, she writes down what happened and what she must remember for the next morning. There’s something quietly tragic about that kind of life—starting over again and again, holding onto fragments of yesterday through ink on paper. And yet, there’s also a strange beauty in it… like every day is a chance to rediscover the world.

Then there’s the male lead (ML).

From the very beginning, something about him feels off—not in a bad way, but in a way that makes you pause. Still, you find yourself drawn to him. You want to understand him. And when you finally do, it hits like a wave you didn’t see coming. He’s living with a serious heart condition, fully aware that his time is limited. There’s a quiet sadness in him, a kind of acceptance that makes his smiles feel heavier, more meaningful.

When they fall in love, it doesn’t feel rushed or forced. It feels real. It grows in the spaces between moments—in laughter, in shared experiences, in the small things that slowly become everything.

But love, especially this kind, is never simple.

In what I see as both a loving and selfish act, the ML makes a decision. Knowing he will die, he asks her friend to erase him from her life—to remove the items, the traces, the pieces of him that might cause her pain. Because she forgets each day, he believes he can spare her the heartbreak. He doesn’t want her to wake up to a world that suddenly feels empty, stripped of the joy he brought into it.

And I understand that… but I also don’t.

Because love isn’t just about protecting someone from pain. It’s also about the right to remember.

And that’s where one line from the film stays with me, echoing long after the credits roll:

“Memories don’t just disappear.”

That line… it says everything.

This movie reminded me that even when someone we love is gone, they never truly leave us. They live on in quiet ways—in habits we didn’t realize we picked up, in laughter that sounds like theirs, in moments that feel familiar without explanation.

They remain in us.

That’s what makes this story so powerful. It doesn’t just tell a love story—it honors what love leaves behind.

And for that… this movie isn’t just something you watch.

It’s something you carry with you.

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This K-drama deserves more hype !!!

I wasn't expecting anything from this K-drama, but OMG, it was fantastic.

After watching Mr. Queen, When Life Gives You Tangerines, and Love to Hate You, with very high scores on reviews but being so disappointed, l didn't expect this K-drama to level up like this!!
Everything was good - the plot, the acting, the realistic revenge. I loved it.
The drama keeps you on the edge of your seat, with intense emotions and constant suspense that make every episode so gripping.

The chemistry between the three leads was incredible, and Jung Yoo-jin and Kim Si-eun really did the job.
Don't be reluctant because of the reviews — run to watch it!!!

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It has everything what a drama needs to have

This is my first review ever, but this one made me come here and post this.

I am watching on Netflix and hence need to watch the remaining episodes after 32... I know there are so many spoilers floating around which is a shame.

I will start with the negative point - The only drawback is that it is a very hefty story with lots of characters (but all are very good actors), so I do feel that they need to cover a lot in 40 episodes and hence the last few episodes have too many threads being covered with characters which surfaced recently. Maybe it needed 50 episodes instead of 40....
Or maybe now I feel the starting of the show could have little more pace, but the way the ML/FL and characters developed was a treat to watch so I should not complain.
The good points are too many but listing the few...
I loved all episodes till his identity revealed to FL, after that it is a bit fast paced and sometimes I have to watch 2 times to understand the context...but I am doing it.

TXW, the actress is truly doing a marvelous job... She is a so lovely, cute and love her acting and martial art skills... she has aced her art... can see her shine through the role... she is always a luxury to watch.
ZLH has always had the looks but they way he has been presented and he has imbibed the character is a treat too for all us watchers.
All the other characters are doing such a great job that there are no complaints, and I love watching every scene, but I am thirsty for more of ML/FL scenes - hope that is covered well in the coming episodes.

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FL as killed the show (in a good way ofc)

Ok so I struggled to finish this K-drama, but it was worth it.
The story, the acting, the music, the sets: everything was impressive! I had a lot of fun and many laughing moments with this K-drama, but I still can’t give it more. The FL… what an actress!

The story is very addictive — the political side, the struggle with the inner self and pain, I really understood it.

What threw me off was the length… 20 episodes? It took me ages to finish it. I also didn’t find the romance between the FL and ML appealing… I can’t really tell why. Maybe because I was always wondering "Is he the ML inside the queen body gay" ???... It must be because of it.

Anyway .. the political aspect is also very, very central — if you don’t like this kind of plot in general, it could be complicated.

But of course, you should definitely give it a shot!!!

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Good Start, Horrible Finish

This show has a decent premise with a great start.

Go Rim's friendship and relationship with the father/ her friend was natural and wholesome. Nothing felt romantic (more on that later) and on top of that, both being pursued by wealthy love interest made for a fun dynamic. The Main lead is a bit cold, but not overly emotionless as some other leads. The SFL lead was fun and probably my favorite character, with the side couple being the one I paid more attention to.

So, with all of that going on, I was really looking forward to watching both relationships unfold and getting through the series until...my enjoyment was immediately snatched and burned right in front of me due to one writing decision.

The SML loves Go Rim too and always has? For years upon years, he's loved her but never confessed?

What in the cliche, boring plot reveal is this?

Adding a second male lead into a story where the female lead is 100% going to choose the other guy doesn't build tension. It builds annoyance.

And maybe the show writers didn't consider this or didn't care, but if SML has been in love with Go Rim for forever, what does that make the woman he had the child with? The writers could have easily made his reluctance to date the SFL be about his inability to move on from his first love, but no. We get a boring, random love triangle introduced instead.

Even after being hit with a wave of disappointment, I tried to keep going and skip over any scenes related to the love triangle, but my interest declined every episode, until I eventually just skipped to the end.

This drama reminded me of how much I don't enjoy second male leads. As I stated previously, even after his interest in Go Rim was revealed, him and her had no chemistry, and no other reason other than to make the male lead a little more jealous than he already was.

Halting the development of a relationship for the SML and the SFL (who end up together anyways!!) just didn't make sense to me. But, oh well.

Other than the love triangle, the other thing I didn't like was how the ML treated the SFL. While he was not aware that Go Rim wasn't married and felt guilty regarding his feeling for her, he suddenly becomes a man who's willing to force the SFL into an arranged marriage, despite the fact he didn't want that same arranged marriage forced onto him?
That's not heroic and it doesn't make me sympathize with him feeling sad. He just ends up looking selfish.

Overall, I'd said this show is a 5. Good start, good actors, but kind of feels like the writers didn't care by the end.

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Could have been great but I guess I am not the forgiving kind...

This drama has an adorable main couple, interesting side characters ans a whole lot of fun and good to it untill we get to the main plot-lines that pretty much killed my interest half of the time.

In the begining the drama felt a bit like Gilmore girls meeds Dharma and Greg in a Thai LGBTQsetting, had it kept this mix and added its own fun twist then thi could have been an 8,5 or even a 9. The romance has so much potential and could have been so much more if they focused on the mains relationship and the friends instead of constantly getting sidetracked by anooying plot-lines and awful just awful characters who supposedly have some kind of checter development leading to all being forgiven... And well I am just not the forgiving kind.


The quality of acting varies a lot, and there is a lot of cringe and over acting moments, that said out male lead is more or less perfect in every way. Papa Grace is a bit to preachy and forgiving but such.a sweetheart. Saving this from getting a lower score.

An okay watch that could have been grate, but just wasn't.

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