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Doesnt deserve such bad reviews

Hinestly shocked byt the reviews here!
I thought this show was one of the funniest I've seen and i loved the whole cast.
Yes, there were some questionable/ wrong things, i definitely dint like the plot with ex and that other gay guy.
And the worst part for me is how Chon confessed, i honestly thought it will be a dream sequence because it was ridiculous. But it kept going and it took me way too long to accept that happen. It came out of nowehere.
Also show has some weird cuts, especially with music (the scene i was just talking about).
Im on ep 6 and will continue watching but ibwanted to leave one positive review in the sea of such bad ones.

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Binjin forever❤️

Okay ,this story was amazing!the chemistry was off the charts in reel and in real!I watched this after their marriage but still you can tell the fans really saw signs way before the announcement!let the binjin couple aside(although we all love them),their characters were great!I loved the whole North Korean -South Korean plot!the gang of the Korean soldiers was really funny and the bromance was entertaining!son ye Jin looks like her character ,I could believe she is such a niceand kind diva in reality!and Hyun bin was portraying a character that is the ideal of many women (except the fact that he was North Korean maybe -so where can you meet him😅)and was quite serious and a man of few words(a bit like his real self)!!the second leads were ok to me but the chemistry of the first was quite intense for me so the comparison was imbalanced!a romance worth watching that looks a bit like Romeo and Juliet!perfetto!❤️
ps :i don t know a single person that didn’t like this drama‼️

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Shin hye sun is amazing!

Ok my top drama or at least one of my top!it was funny,interesting and captivating!I was very much immersed in it!the chemistry of the cast was great!I loved the couple queen and king!they were both great and actually not just them but the whole cast!omg shin hye sun was amazing!she portrayed a man inside the body of a woman at a different era so convincingly!I always liked her at her other roles too!but here I enjoyed this and this portrayal so much!I saw the Chinese version years before the Korean and I can tell there is a huge difference!I loved the Korean and I think it was better quality also!waiting for next projects!fighting🫶🏻

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Sweet and short

This is the show that I have been looking for this whole time. It has everything: a strong female lead with a soul, a supportive and warm male lead, humor, and cute scenes. You won't find any cringy or iffy moments.

CHARACTERS
All the characters are very realistic and diverse. Some might say that a few of them are over the top, but in my opinion, keep it in the believable zone. I especially enjoyed the backstories. They're a bit cliché; however, they make so much sense. Moreover, they're not just told to be told; they help the plot progress. We can see characters grow and bloom. What helps this development is communication. Something unheard of in most dramas. All characters act consistently and logically.

PLOT
Their love story is cute and mature. I loved every moment, even the clichés. The warmth it gives off, mixed with a bit of sadness and resolution to overcome all the problems, is just addictive. The biggest strength of this plot is how realistic it is. It's a story that might've happened. I didn't catch any plot holes nor see major problems in characters behavior that weren't pointed out in the show (eg. mental abuse). Every conflict and misunderstanding presented made sense. Not to mention the ending was pure perfection.

I don't have much to say about the technical side, as I never gave it much thought. So I'll keep it simple: great acting, enjoyable music, and pretty sets/shots.
I highly recommend it to every person that likes mature and romantic dramas.
My favorites for reference: Because This Is My First Life, When The Weather Is Fine, A Tale Of Thousand Stars.
Dislikes: Lovely Runner, Uncontrollably Fond, Fish Upon The Sky

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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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