Marriage Contract

Marriage Contract

7.5/10

Marriage Contract

Genre:                               Episodes: 16                          Year: 2016

Romance

Melodrama

Synopsis:

Once Han Ji Hoon learns that his mother has a liver disease, he is determined to get her a transplant, but he himself is not a medical match. Kang Hye Soo is a single mother with a young daughter, who discovers that she has a brain tumour and does not have long to live. Hye Soo decides to do the surgery for Ji Hoon if he gives her enough money to provide for her daughter until she becomes an adult. As selling organs is illegal, the hospital only accepts transplants from family members, so Ji Hoon and Hye Soo write a contract and get married in order for the surgery to go ahead.

Cast:

Lee Seo Jin (Han Ji Hoon)

UEE (Kang Hye Soo)

Shin Rin Ah (Cha Eun Sung)

Kim Yong Gun (Han Sung Kook)

Lee Hwi Hyang (Oh Mi Ran)

Kim Young Pil (Han Jung Hoon)

Kim So Jin (Hwang Joo Yeon)

Kim Kwang Kyu (Park Ho Joon)

Kim Yoo Ri (Seo Na Yoon)

General Thoughts:

Although the drama presented nothing new plot-wise (neither contract relationships nor cancer are rarities in K-Dramaland), the characters had a feeling of uniqueness that gave the drama a fresh feeling, despite not presenting much new information. The three main characters were a loveable lot, and all I really wanted out the drama was to see them all become one big, happy family.

Just love each other already

Shin Rin Ah was adorable and perfect as the sassy little girl who stole hearts and made a family all her own- because while I don’t doubt that Ji Hoon loved Hye Soo, we all know that Eun Sung was the number 1 lady in his heart.

This kid is just plain delightful

And that actually added a fair bit of tension to the series, because no matter how much Ji Hoon loved Eun Sung, the only way he could have a relationship with her was through Hye Soo. Ji Hoon himself was a pretty fabulous character. It’s no secret that hard-ass men with squishy, emotional hearts are well loved by viewers, so watching Ji Hoon fall head over heels for the sweetness that was Eun Sung was just the most adorable thing. I don’t think I’ll ever stop finding men at the beck and call of a child fun to watch. Considering that it was the relationships that were the best parts of the drama, there weren’t very many of them. Besides the main three, no one else really got all that developed. We had some nice moments with Ji Hoon’s mum and Hye Soo’s step-mum but that was about it. Kim Kwang Kyu and Kim So Jin were entertaining as the best friends of our two leads, but never really developed much themselves. Joo Yeon was a great support for our heroine and their friendship was enjoyable to watch, but I started to dislike our heroine a bit when she didn’t tell anyone that she was sick- not even Joo Yeon who she’s wanting to look after her daughter when she dies.

'I want to prepare for my kid's future when I'm dead, so I won't tell anyone I'm dying or find a suitable guardian.'

In fact, I found the dragged out way Hye Soo dealt with her illness to be a tad exasperating. The issue was really pushed to the side and ignored a lot in order for Ji Hoon’s family plot-line to play out, but it meant that there was a significant portion of the series where no one but Hye Soo knew she was ill. While Hye Soo’s original break-down then picking herself up was done well, I did find myself getting more and more annoyed with her character when she refused to tell anyone that she was dying.

Just look at all that figurative and literal distance between them

I’m glad she ended up telling Joo Yeon, and wished she’d had the balls to tell Ji Hoon herself, because I do find it to be a bit of a betrayal when one side of the couple withholds information that huge. I can’t really stand Noble Idioting, so I would have preferred if Hye Soo had just outright said she was sick and that Ji Hoon could take or leave it, rather than having him find out from a third party- cuz that’s pretty sh*t.

UEE sure has become a pretty decent actor

Noble Idiotng aside, Hye Soo was quite a nice heroine. She was a bit of a Candy character, but not in the annoyingly useless way, but more of the loving, tries-her-best way. I’ve liked UEE in other dramas as she’s a competent actress, but she played Hye Soo with a depth and maturity she’s not displayed before. She embodied Hye Soo's struggles and it was easy to connect to her without the use of dialogue. The drama was very good at being quietly compulsive, and a lot of it’s powerful, quiet moments were Hye Soo’s, meaning UEE really had to step up her acting and deliver- which she did. She never seemed like a child or a teenager, and turned out to be a perfect fit for the character. Lee Seo Jin was wonderful as the man beside her, and could do cold chaebol who learns to love splendidly. The chemistry between the two was surprisingly good- able to capture the more mature feel of an adult relationship, but also the happy, giddy feel of a new relationship. The gradual softening of Ji Hoon’s heart towards Hye Soo and Eun Sung was done perfectly, and was just too cute. Kim Yoo Ri was supposed to be our second female lead, but really, she was hardly in the drama, and the bits she was in you could easily ignore and it wouldn’t make a difference.

Excuse me while I stop caring- oh wait, I never started

She’s so textbook second female lead, with her unexplained, unwanted love for the hero that leads to her desire to posses him rather than be in a mutual relationship. Any scene with Na Yoon was pretty boring to watch, as she mostly interacted with CEO Asshole and all they did was stand around and swap pretty talk about how Ji Hoon will eventually calm down and marry Na Yoon. Yeah, whatever, let’s go back to the child and the kittens please. The whole chaebol story was really not all that interesting.

Asshole is as asshole does

The two antagonists were pretty unreasonably unlikeable. Like, they seemed to be heartless wankers just because it’s easy for the story if they are, and it’s an easy cop-out because chaebols are usually always heartless wankers (except for when they're the heroes). I didn’t really care about Ji Hoon’s father, brother or company, and honestly it baffled me why Ji Hoon didn’t just walk away from the company a lot sooner (except that it would have sucked all the conflict out of the series). There wasn’t really any benefit to Ji Hoon’s father and brother’s meddling, unless they really hated seeing Ji Hoon happy that much. Their actions had no motivations and they were pretty weak villains. The momentum of the plot did start to drag on the far side of the halfway point. It was never exactly a drama that raced along, so at this point the drama slowed to crawl. Thankfully, it was able to pick itself up again to finish on a good few episodes. Normally I find it a bit of a cop-out when a main character has a terminal illness and then doesn’t die, but in this case I’m glad Hye Soo survived the duration of the drama. There wasn’t some magical cure and money didn’t somehow find a brilliant doctor who could make her live. It was plainly obvious that at some point Hye Soo would die- but the drama made a very quiet point of saying that everyone will. It finished on a nice note with our two leads accepting Hye Soo’s mortality, and just living normal lives together (with the addition of a few complications from Hye Soo’s tumour).

A Cancer Drama without too much cancer drama

The drama didn’t go full on into the issues with Hye Soo’s sickness, but nor were her symptoms ignored. The effects of radiation and pressure on her brain were touched on enough for the audience to have an understanding of what was happening, but it never really became a ‘Cancer’ drama- which is fine, that’s not what I was expecting (or wanting) it to be. It was a sweet love story about family and two people who found each other for necessity and stayed together for love. And Eun Sung.

What Was Great:

Happy Family:

The greatest parts of this drama were always the parts about Eun Sung, Ji Hoon and Hye Soo becoming a family.

It's pretty darn adorable

It was wonderful to see the way Ji Hoon fought to earn Eun Sung’s love, and the way he treasured it once he had received it. The two made an adorable, inseparable pair and they were always enjoyable to watch. The relationship between Ji Hoon and Hye Soo developed much slower, but was just as enjoyable. The love they ended up receiving from each other felt so well earned- Hye Soo because she always saw the best in everyone and loved unconditionally, and Ji Hoon for the love and support he poured into Eun Sung and Hye Soo. It was sweet and felt totally natural the way Ji Hoon’s mother eventually became a part of the make-shift family- Eun Sung’s charm is hard to resist. The drama was really a quiet look in on how this man built his own family from scratch- and it was an adorable, sweet watch.

Marshmallow Man:

Ji Hoon was a great hero for our drama. He was so sweet and squishy on the inside, and it was lovely to watch how what was inside was brought out. Firstly by Eun Sung, and eventually by Hye Soo. Ji Hoon was the type of character who gives 100% to everything he does, and it’s so hard to fault heroes that do that, because it’s so clearly obvious that they’re doing their best. All things being said, Ji Hoon was just a marvellous character that you couldn’t help cheering for- and you really wanted him to get the girl. And her mum.

Our grumpy prince charming tries so hard

What Wasn’t:

CEO Asshole and Co.:

Sometimes K-Drama leads me to believe that 90% of Korean fathers give zero f*cks about their children. I mean really, there can’t be that many horrible old men in one country can there? Ji Hoon’s father was your typical K-Drama chaebol old man who doesn’t care about anything except his company.

Generic bad father character

The problem here is that the CEO isn’t really given any characterisation that went beyond ‘I’m an asshat just cuz’. The main point of the drama was the contract relationship- not the cancer, and not the chaebol-ness. Which means the the plot-lines around the CEO are pretty thin, and basically just there because I suppose we can’t really have 16 episodes of one happy family.

Is it wrong for me to wish he'd get cancer and cark it? Probably...

But because it isn’t a chaebol drama, the company goings-on are given no stress. So while the Asshole CEO is very present and gets a lot of screen-time, his company doesn’t. Which kind of makes you wonder if anything Ji Hoon does actually has any effect on the company at all- because we never actually see any company backlash to Ji Hoon’s actions. Ever. So while every other drama I’ve ever watched is telling me the CEO does what he does to protect the company, I didn’t really feel it in this one. It just kind of seemed like CEO Asshole got off on making everyone else miserable and telling them to just go off and die quietly. Which he did frequently. I honestly don’t believe how he was ever likeable enough to have two women think he was decent and have children with them both. I’ll admit I was pretty chuffed to see him all alone and lonely at the end there though. The eldest son didn’t really make a lot of sense either. He had a bit more motivation than his father in that it appeared (to him) that Ji Hoon was given everything and he got nothing. So for an immature man-child it made sense for him to want to ruin his smarter, more successful, better looking sibling. The problem with the brother is that he’s really just thick.

He just bumbled around drunk half the time

There were no lights on upstairs. He was honestly one of the dumbest antagonists I’ve watched in a long time. He couldn’t hatch a deliciously despicable plan even if he were sitting on a deliciously diabolical egg. It didn’t help that I found neither of them acted all that well.

Re-watch?

Mmmmmm…probably not. I did enjoy the characters a lot, but the momentum of the series was probably a touch slow for watching a second time.

So cute

We Broke Up

We Broke Up

2.5/10

We Broke Up

Genre:                                Episodes: 10                             Year: 2015

Romance

Synopsis:

For three years, No Woo Ri and Ji Won Young have dated. They live in the same share house, but the situation becomes complicated when they break up. Due to the security deposit, neither can move out, so the two must continue living together.

Cast:

Sandara Park (No Woo Ri)

Kang Seung Yoon (Ji Won Young)

Jang Ki Yong (Seo Hyun Woo)

Kang Seung Hyun (Yoon Ni Na)

General Thoughts:

Well. That wasn’t good. I have to think that the huge popularity of Sandara Park and her enormous fan base is what made that web-drama so popular- because if we’re all honest, everything about it was pretty below-standard.

I'm so bored. So very, very bored.

As, much as I like Sandara Park and think she’s adorable, I don’t think her acting is all that good. Though it sure didn’t help that the character of Woo Ri was either acting like a five year old, or a retarded puppy. There was no part of me that bought that these characters were supposed to be functioning adults, because they were fairly stupid, and slaves to their emotions.

The acting...uh...wasn't good

All the characters were so one-dimensional that they seemed as though they could only feel or think one thing at a time. Kang Seung Hyun also didn’t really cut it as an actress. While she wasn’t downright terrible, she does tend to have a rather unexpressive face, and just like the rest of the characters in this show, her character of Ni Na was written without any depth or development, which probably didn’t help. The boys did a little bit better than the girls at acting, but still never quite sold their (horribly written) characters. Kang Seung Yoon did pretty well as the stroppy wannabe-star, and his voice is nice to listen to, but his character was never that likeable. Won Young came across selfish and temperamental- ready to blow his top at the drop of a hat. The character I liked most was probably Hyun Woo, because he was nice and caring, and a bit of a dork. Sure, he was a little bit bland, but he seemed sweet enough, and Jang Ki Yong acted him with a bit of sincerity which was nice to see. There were times when Hyun Woo seemed to act completely out of character, but again that’s the fault of the way the character was written, and nothing to do with the acting.

They broke up because she stopped walking?

Nothing happens in the plot. Woo Ri and Won Young broke up and we don’t really know why, and the small hint of a reason we’re given really doesn’t explain why they were so hostile towards each other.

I'm going to trail around after you forever because I'm an adult 

Likewise, the glimpses of their very juvenile romance that we saw didn’t really show anything that would prevent these people from moving on. In all honesty, it felt like Won Young was still very much a child- clinging to his dream of becoming a musician, but unwilling to compromise or work with anyone to achieve that dream, then kicking and screaming when it didn't work out. Hyun Woo’s more of an adult, seeming to have a mild amount of competence, and not yelling at people in every second scene. Due to this immaturity vs. maturity vibe going on with the boys, it felt like Woo Ri took a big step back in her life at the end of the series. Hyun Woo has helped her get an adult job, and helped her complete her tasks at said job. Won Young has taken her for granted, and has had her run around trying to promote him and his band. So, instead of growing up and moving past the failed relationship, Woo Ri quits her job because it’s ‘too hard’, and goes back to exactly where she was three years ago. So basically, there is no point to this show. None. At all.

What Was Great:

It Was Short:

The best thing about this drama was the very small amount of time it took to watch. It wasn’t all horrible, and there were some cute moments between Woo Ri and Hyun Woo. To be fair, it wasn’t obvious whether Woo Ri and Won Young would get back together or not, and that did make me (sort of) want to see how it ended. 

Short, a little sweet, and...did it have a point?

What Wasn’t:

It Was Bad:

All in all, the drama’s just not good. The acting is fairly poor, the plot is non-existent, and the characters are all either pretty bland (Hyun Woo and Ni Na) or pretty stupid (Woo Ri and Won Young). The writing is definitely the main reason behind why the show was so bad. The writers had no idea how to convert a webtoon into a drama series that didn’t make all it’s characters seem like childish cartoons. They also apparently had no idea how to create a story with any sort of forward momentum.

We ForNEVER

Sound:

I’ve never before seen a drama were the sounds annoyed me so much. They were terrible. The sound director of this drama better start looking for alternate career opportunities.

How can a drama all about music have such sh*t sound?

Sometimes the background sounds cut out completely for an ‘intense’ moment (like Ni Na kissing Won Young’s cheek), but instead of adding heightened tension to the moment, it just seemed like they forgot to add in the background sound, or just took out all the sound because there was some random loud noise that they didn’t want sneaking into the drama. Sometimes the voices of our characters were too soft, and sometimes they were almost a bit too loud and clear- and it was super obvious that the dialogue had been recorded in a studio and then placed over the top of the video track. There were also times that the background noise just wasn’t loud enough. Sure, it’s great to hear what our characters are saying, but that sounds like the most boring, lame-ass party in the background with the extras chanting ‘masyeora, masyeora’ as quietly as they possibly could to not drown out the dialogue. It did not create a party atmosphere. Also, it annoyed me to no end when we would start out having Kang Seung Yoon singing live on set and then switch to the studio-recorded version of the song. Just pick one or the other. Jeez.

Re-watch?

Good God no.

I'm breaking up with this drama

This Week, My Wife Will Have an Affair

This Week, My Wife Will Have an Affair

5.5/10

This Week, My Wife Will Have an Affair

Genre:                                   Episodes: 12                            Year: 2016

Melodrama

Romance

Synopsis:

Do Hyun Woo’s world is turned upside down after he reads a text sent to his wife and he discovers that she is planning an affair. Confused and unsure what to do, Hyun Woo makes an anonymous post online asking for help, and receives advice from many readers. 

Cast:

Lee Sun Kyun (Do Hyun Woo)

Song Ji Hyo (Jung Soo Yeon)

Lee Sang Yeob (Ahn Joon Young)

Kim Hee Won (Choi Yoon Ki)

BoA (Kwon Bo Young)

Ye Ji Won (Eun Ah Ra)

Kim Kang Hoon (Do Joon Soo)

General Thoughts:

It’s not a bad drama, it’s just not my cup of tea. I went in thinking it would focus a lot more on the comedic element than it did, and while it did have some funny moments, I wouldn’t call it a comedy. It was a very interesting drama to watch, but I just didn’t really enjoy watching it that much.

Because apparently all marriages end in disaster

I had a mild curiosity to see how Hyun Woo would respond to his wife’s affair, but I wasn’t exactly invested in their relationship. I think a lot of the disengagement came form how undeveloped Soo Yeon was as a character. Even by the end of the series I didn’t have a feel for who she was as a person besides the fact that she’s extremely overworked in the office and at home.

Lee Sun Kyun did a fab job

While Hyun Woo showed consistent growth throughout the series, Soo Yeon had none, leaving me wondering how they could possibly hope to continue a steady, healthy relationship if Soo Yeon still hadn’t learned how to express her thoughts and feelings. Song Ji Hyo did a wonderful job with the character, and did at times get me to feel sympathy for her character (though never enough to condone the affair). Both Song Ji Hyo and Lee Sun Kyun portrayed a very real, broken marriage and made the situation feel honest and relatable (unlike some characters *coughYoonKi*). The two actors did an excellent job of letting the emotions settle, and I didn’t find either of them to under or overact in simple scenes when it could have been very easy to do so. Unlike his wife, Hyun Woo was an interesting character to watch develop. At the start, we’re completely on his side as he begins to suspect, and then discover his wife’s affair. But as the story continues, he makes some choices and reacts in ways that are understandable, yet not all that acceptable. He’s a very convincing character who’s never perfect, which he discovers as the drama goes on. After a brief time of panic and disorientation (which was acted perfectly), Hyun Woo starts to focus more on himself and how he ended up in the situation, and how he should move forwards. He eventually learns to communicate with his wife (without getting into a one-sided yelling match), and begins to work on how he wants to handle the situation.

Natural human response to stress- drink an exuberant amount of alcohol

It was an enjoyable, fresh twist on the affair situation to have Hyun Woo reaching out to the anonymous internet for advice, as it’s a very modern take on coping with a problem that you’re not experienced in or equiped to deal with. The drama very cleverly showed both the upsides and downsides to communicating with strangers about very personal issues. While Hyun Woo did receive a lot of good advice on how to communicate with his wife, he also received a lot of negative comments that weren’t all that helpful.

Netizen party

I really appreciated the show showing how dangerous sharing personal information over the internet actually is, with one of the readers actually discovering Hyun Woo’s wife’s identity and threatening to reveal it. It was a nice reminder that not everyone on the internet is there to help you, and people can say and do some scary things under the guise of anonymity.

If Writer Kwon won't marry you, I sure as hell will

It was cute how the series went in and showed us some of the readers’ lives in a little more detail, as it made it more believable that there were people out there who would actually read and respond to Hyun Woo’s story. It was enjoyable to watch how Hyun Woo’s story had different impacts on people, and how each reader reacted differently based on their circumstances. One of the characters I enjoyed most was definitely Ahn PD. He was endearing and hilarious, and I adored how over-the-top his reactions were to other peoples’ problems, when he was so reserved about talking about his own issues. His obvious crush on Writer Kwon was pure adorableness, and the two of them together had a really cute, fun dynamic. Ahn PD provided a lot of the laughs that the posters and trailers promised, and was probably the most understandable of all the characters. Writer Kwon was pretty cute herself, but she baffled me a bit towards the end with her running off and pushing away Ahn PD. The other side couple was just rubbish. I didn’t really enjoy watching either of them at any point in time, which is shame because the actors behind the characters are fantastic and are usually very good at providing amusing characters. One of the bigger downsides (for me personally) was probably just the sheer lack of plot. I generally prefer to have a bit more going on in my dramas than just ‘shoot- my wife cheated on me, how do I deal with this?’.

Could really use a woman to clean up around there, couldn't ya?

It’s not that the drama’s boring, because it honestly is an interesting look into how difficult it is to figure out what to do when your partner is unfaithful. It’s very easy to sit back and say that you’d get a divorce, but the show did do a really excellent job at depicting that even though there are feelings of deep betrayal, loving feelings can still remain.

What Was Great:

PD X Writer:

They were so cute and it was so fun to watch the ways they interacted with each other. Lee Sang Yeob was just spectacular all-round, and he had some beautifully relaxed, but still sparky chemistry with BoA.

Who wouldn't want a house-husband as cute as that? 

The two characters tended to compliment each other well, with Ahn PD having huge reactions to everything, while Writer Kwon was much more subdued and levelheaded. At the beginning of the series, I think the viewers clued in pretty fast that there was something going on with Ahn PD’s ‘wife’ and that she probably wasn’t around. Once this knowledge was confirmed it was much more enjoyable to watch the easy banter between the two, knowing that Ahn PD wasn’t being another cheater. Writer Kwon’s character was mostly consistent throughout the series, as was evident in the completely undramatic way she responded to Ahn PD telling her about his wife leaving- which was exactly the calm response Ahn PD needed. From then on it was really just watching the two of them try and deny the ever growing feelings they were developing for each other. The whole relationship hit a whole new level of adorableness once Ahn PD realised his feelings, and kept nagging at Writer Kwon to admit to hers and just date him already. So cute. So very, very cute. The pregnancy was something I feel this couple could have done without, as I really didn’t understand Writer Kwon running off to be alone and refusing to have anything to do with Ahn PD. It was an unnecessary complication, but at least even that was concluded in the funny and hopelessly sweet way of Ahn PD.

I'd for sure watch a spin-off series about these kids learning to raise a baby. Or doing anything, really.

I think my favourite thing ever was watching him get so excited upon learning the baby was a girl, and rattling off all the things he was going to do with his daughter- like sneak out for ice-cream, and get really jealous when she got a boyfriend.

What Wasn’t:

Lawyer X Wife:

0/10: Not Fun

I despised seeing Yoon Ki on my screen. I think he was supposed to be the character that brought the humour to the show, but I really wasn’t feeling it. There’s just nothing all that funny about watching a man trying to balance aaaaalllll these affairs and keep them secret from his wife. He’s just a slimy, despicable man, and I honestly wonder how he managed to find so many women that would actually want to have affairs with him. Money I suppose. Anyway, there was nothing enjoyable in watching Yoon Ki and his many ridiculous affairs. Similarly, watching Ah Ra take her revenge was not nearly as enjoyable or satisfying as I was expecting it to be. The revenge was handled in the same silly, over-the-top way as the affairs were, with situations that would just never happen. Shooting him with a shotgun. Throwing a brick at him. Making out with a hot French dude. No part of their relationship was fun to watch, and felt a lot like filler and wasted screen-time.

Blame Game:

While it was great that the drama tried taking a look into the wife’s side of the story as well, what that tended to mean is that it was placing blame on Hyun Woo for the affair. Which is completely ridiculous.

Your husband did not force you to shag another man. Repeatedly.

You can be the worst husband on the face of the Earth- but that doesn’t force your wife to cheat on you. The sole person to blame for affairs is the one that was unfaithful. I know the show was trying to lean away from blaming Hyun Woo, but that's still how it felt every time the writers tried to gather up sympathy for Soo Yeon’s situation. Sure, Hyun Woo was a pretty lazy husband and father, and he didn’t do much to help Soo Yeon around the house, and that did contribute to her burning out. However, burning out does not equal affair. That was a choice she made on her own, and there’s no way that can be blamed on Hyun Woo.

All pain, no gain

Hyun Woo didn’t help her when she was struggling, but again it was Soo Yeon’s choice to not speak to her husband, and try and shoulder all the burdens on her own. So while I agree that Hyun Woo had some contribution to the relationship starting to fall apart, that in no way means he shares any of the blame for the affair.

Missing Son:

One of the things that bothered me most about this drama was the way Joon Soo kept getting shipped off to people that weren’t his parents. While it did make for some cute family time between him, Ahn PD and Writer Kwon, I was rather disappointed at how blatantly the show ignored the feelings of the child in this situation.

Complete parenting fail

During the whole aftermath of the affair, I would say that neither Hyun Woo nor Soo Yeon were being good parents. It kind of highlighted just how selfish our two main characters really were, as they always seemed to consider their own feelings and wants above Joon Soo’s- which is not the makings of a fabulous parent. The only times Joon Soo was really brought into the story was when the writers tried to gather up some sympathy for Soo Yeon. Joon Soo’s own feelings on his parents separation and finally divorce was widely ignored. Sure, the series didn’t exactly have time to go into Joon Soo’s emotions as well as his parents', but it was all too obvious that he was being used as a reason to not have Soo Yeon and Hyun Woo divorce immediately after the affair was discovered. It would have been nice if the writers had spared just a little more time on how the fallout of the affair effected Hyun Woo and Soo Yeon’s young child as well as themselves.

Re-watch?

Nah. Interesting as it was, I didn’t love it. I can appreciate what the drama set out to do, and completely understand how peoples’ hearts might be captured by it- but mine wasn’t.

There were no cute moments between our leads. None.