5/10
A Great First Hal That Becomes Overly Long, Boring, and Disappointing
21 March 2023
Alas this television series breaks down terribly after the first eight or nine episodes. Lately, Korea has produced some of the best comedy romance movies and series. Unfortunately this is not one of them. What could have been a great comedy, romance, thriller unfortunately becomes an overly long, bloated series to too many characters, wacky and terrible subplots with other characters. With quality editing and shortening this sixteen episode series to eight, this Korean television series could have become one of the best romance comedies and or thrillers to come out o Korea. The first half this series was funny, hard-edged with its great mystery, and raised the bar for depicting romance between its two principal characters. But after the mystery is sorted out, the comedic banter between the principals is left to mostly sideshows of other characters often becoming a terrible, unfunny parodies. The pacing of the rest of the series till the end is uneven, and at times boringly, ploddingly slow. It is difficult to separate the American and Korean cultural niceties for quality, but Koreans are definitely depicted more prudish without much of the enticing open intimate depictions of American rom-coms or the rather off-putting Koreans lavishing on a "flirt" and a "date" period that is so atypical for Americans. The Korean scriptwriters could have learned a lot from the Japanese rom-com Good Morning Call series that went on for two seasons and 27 episodes (2016-2017) which even did not have to rely on sexy scenes to be a great television series. Top Korean or Chinese romance movies to watch include: Hotel Del Luna (2019), My Holo Love (2020), and Live Up To Your Name (2017).
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