Lookout

Lookout

7.5/10

Lookout

Genre:                                                Episodes: 16                                  Year: 2017

Mystery

Thriller

Synopsis:

After her daughter is murdered, Detective Jo Soo Ji does everything she can to bring he killer to justice. Due to corrupt prosecutors, the murderer avoids arrest and Soo Ji loses her faith in the justice system. She is approached by a strange group who act outside the law to bring un-convicted criminals to justice, and joins them in the hopes that one day her daughter’s killer will face the justice he has avoided.

Cast:

Lee Shi Young (Jo Soo Ji)

Kim Young Kwang (Jang Do Han)

Kim Seul Gi (Seo Bo Mi)

Key (Ko Kyung Soo)

Kim Tae Hoon (Kim Eun Joong)

Choi Moo Sung (Yoon Seung Ro)

Jung Suk Yong (Nam Byung Tae)

Park Solomon (Yoon Shi Wan)

General Thoughts:

‘Lookout’ for the most part was an exciting, emotional story of a ragtag vigilante group. Right from the first episode we’re drawn directly into the conflict and the series manages to keep its racing momentum for most of its run.

Super exciting pretty much all the time

It was a good move to have our heroine join the team mid-way through their revenge plot as it gave us an easy way in. Rather than trying to figure out who was who and how they all came together, we were drawn into the group along with our heroine. And what a heroine she was.

Our poor baby

Soo Ji was a character that was hard to dislike- a proud parent who worked hard both at her job and raising her (adorable) daughter. Yoon Ah’s death was brutal and shocking and was a surefire way to get us hating the villain and squarely on the Lookout Team. ‘Lookout’ isn’t the first K-Drama to go with the death of a child being the motivation for the hero/ine (‘Bad Guys’ being one), but most I’ve seen tend to have the children being murdered once they’ve hit their teenage years. It was much more horrific having Yoo Na murdered as a child- it’s basically the unwritten law of the world that hurting children makes you the worst of the worst. So with Yoon Ah’s death, the writers ensured that we all had a burning vengeance to see Team Lookout bring down Shi Wan and his father. Having other members of the team allowed us to be satisfied with the long game. Had there only been Soo Ji going for revenge the plot would have seemed very slow and ponderous, but adding in Bo Mi and Kyung Soo meant the series could keep its momentum rolling. As we’re introduced to the other members of the team, it’s obvious that there’s something linking them all together and each step towards that truth feels like a reward rather than a story simply being drawn out to cover more episodes.

Yoon Seung Ro sure messed up a lot of families

The show moved quickly and smoothly from Soo Ji joining the team to Bo Mi’s story to Kyung Soo’s story, with pieces of Do Han’s story sprinkled throughout the lot. Each of the different character arcs were woven together brilliantly, and as an audience we could see how solving each crime was bringing us closer and closer to catching Shi Wan and Dad Yoon. As interesting as each development was on its own, it was really the characters that were the driving force behind the story.

I adore that Kim Seul Gi got to play a pretty character.
I will forever curse 'Queen of the Ring' for calling her ugly. Curse you.

Soo Ji was obviously our main hero, but the people that surrounded her helped with shaping the story into something that was emotionally rewarding rather than just intellectually satisfying. Bo Mi was one of my favourite characters, and her survivor’s guilt was a poignant point throughout the show. Bo Mi's slowly developing relationship with Kyung Soo was also one of the show's highlights. With child murders and abductions and other rather dark things going on, Bo Mi and Kyung Soo became a little ray of much-needed hope in the show. Despite how bleak things may be getting in the show, those two could always be relied upon to provide a little bit of warmth and even humour. It kept the show from feeling too hopeless. While Soo Ji and Do Han were so focused on revenge and getting to that point, they'd never actually thought about what comes after. Bo Mi and Kyung Soo were the opposite of that- planning a happy future together once their task was over. Do Han as hero was rather interesting. At first I thought Kim Young Kwang was acting Do Han's smarmy prosecutor persona too well, and it was actually quite hard to like him. While as an audience we were always aware that he had underlying motives and that he actually was on Team Lookout, he was just so good at being a d*ck to characters we really cared about- like Soo Ji and Eun Joong.

I won't lie, it took a while to warm up to our hero

I really thought the nail in his coffin had come when he admitted that he'd thought Shi Wan might do something to Yoon Ah and didn’t stop it. But that was just another fascinating aspect to his character- and Soo Ji's as well. Most of the series I identified strongly with Soo Ji's emotions (except that one time she thought finding out who Leader is was more important than the mission at hand),

I still kinda can't believe you didn't try to save her...

and when it came to that revelation it was the same. I was shocked and extremely disappointed at Do Han’s confession and didn't think anything could redeem him. Yet as the show progressed, I found myself accepting Do Han and his situation more and more. It wasn’t okay or right that he’d not rushed to help Yoo Na right away, but his clear guilt about the situation and the fact that it was a brief hesitation and not a total unwillingness to help assisted in softening the blow and making Do Han seem likeable again. It was an added bonus that we could see these same emotions being played out with Soo Ji. While there was no way she could forgive him for playing a role in her daughter's murder, she could understand him after hearing his story and seeing his regret, and she was able to look past his mistake and work together again. Do Han really had excellent character development- I absolutely hated him at the start, but by the end I pitied him greatly and wanted the team to succeed- not just for the others, but for Do Han as well. This was a role where Kim Young Kwang really stepped up his acting a notch. While I personally haven’t found him bad in anything, he's also never floored me with his acting.

A rare moment of honesty from Do Han

In ‘Lookout’ there were several scenes where I was impressed with Kim Young Kwang’s acting ability. The moments he was himself with his brother the Priest were often emotionally heavy scenes where we experienced rare glimpses of Do Han’s true face. It was through these extremely brief moments that Kim Young Kwang had to pull us into Do Han’s story and make him a character we can feel for, and I think he was really successful in doing that.

The best I-f*cking-got-you face I've ever seen

I often felt Do Han’s fear, anger and regret in those short scenes. Another great example of Kim Young Kwang’s improved acting was toward the end when Dad Yoon discovered Do Han’s identity and his true goal. Kim Young Kwang’s manic, ecstatic grinning actually gave me goosebumps and made me extremely nervous/excited about the events that would follow. It was an expression that showed both severe joy and severe hate, and hinted at how close to unravelling Do Han had been all along, and how obsessed he had been with achieving his goal. Lee Shi Young was excellent as the heroine beside Do Han, with her quietly determined ways. A lot of her heavy lifting in the acting department came early on in the series. It was Soo Ji’s complete and utter devastation after losing her daughter that really captured my interest and pulled me into the series. Seeing this amazing woman lose everything she held dear made me want to see her succeed in ruining the person who took her baby from her. If Lee Shi Young hadn’t acted as brilliantly as she did in those scenes, I doubt I would have had such a reaction. The scene that really stands out in my mind for Lee Shi Young is when Soo Ji goes to Shi Wan's school to kill him.

I know on a moral level I shouldn't want her to kill the kid. But on a K-Drama level- killhimkillhimkillhim.

I never thought that I’d want the heroine of my drama to kill a teenager in cold blood, but there you go. I wanted it. I wanted it so bad. Lee Shi Young was able to get me right there in Soo Ji's mindset. I felt her hate and her anger, and I understood that it didn’t matter what happened after so long as Shi Wan died. Thankfully that didn't happen and we got a really good drama out of what came after, but it was a truly emotional, stunning performance from the actress. Both Kim Seul Gi and Key gave heartfelt, believable performances of their own, and definitely pulled their own weight when their turn in the spotlight came.

Cutest couple on the show (even though they had no competition)

The directing was all pretty schmick, with quite a few slick and stylish action sequences- particularly early on when we were getting introduced to the Lookout Team. During many of the missions, clever deviations into flashback often elaborated on how our heroes were able to succeed without disrupting the flow of the narrative. The soundtrack was also excellently effective (and ridiculously catchy). 

What Was Great:

The Team:

I think I’ve rambled on about this quite a bit above, but the driving force of this drama was really the characters that were in the vigilante squad. As we learned more about these characters and watched them grow as individuals and as a team it made us more desperate to see them beat Dad Yoon and his twisted son.

The lookout fam was just wonderful

While the plot itself was fast and addictive, it was the characters that really drove it. Yes it was interesting to have a whole family murdered leaving a sole survivor who became a shut-in constantly watching CCTV, but it’s the survivor’s feelings of fear and guilt and her slowly learning to rely on others and step outside her comfort zone that really won me over. Each of the characters had such rich backstory that shaped who they were. Sometimes even the smallest pieces of information could lead to huge emotional moments- such as Soo Ji blaming herself for Yoo Na’s accident because she lied that Yoo Na’s father was dead and ‘in the sky’ rather than admitting that he’d left them both. And of course the small moments of interaction between the team were just golden. It often felt like Soo Ji was becoming a sort of mother to Bo Mi and Kyung Soo (like the way she fixed Kyung Soo’s tie) and the relationship between Soo Ji and Do Han was endlessly fascinating. Although I do wish we could have seen a few more of these moments were the team really bonded together, I was satisfied with what we got, and the characters were brilliant at driving their own story arcs so that we could lead up to the final showdown.

What Wasn’t:

The Final Huzzah: 

Considering how excellent the series was for most of its run, it was a little disappointing that the final conflict was really the least thrilling one. I enjoyed the courtroom takedown of Dad Yoon, and while it wasn’t exactly an action packed scene, it was the swift, accurate move that the team needed to make.

I am adequately placated with that a-hole's smackdown

However, I was expecting something more spectacular for Shi Wan. I’d sort of come to accept that we weren’t going to get any backstory on Shi Wan- he was just born a psycho apparently, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t have an exciting downfall. Frankly speaking, I liked Shi Wan better when he was a quietly dangerous, you-don’t-know-what-he’ll-do-next kind of villain.

Your final plan was bad and you should feel bad

He had a stealthy sort of creepiness about him that just wasn’t used to its full potential in his final murderous plan. His ‘game’ was really just too out in the open. So far he’s been hurting small children and those weaker than him subtly and without anyone knowing. Suddenly he’s built a bomb and is making threats and is video chatting people mid-threat. He’s spent so much time and effort making people believe he’s normal that it just felt weird to have him throw all of that away in the final hour. Not to mention he’s not exactly threatening. He’s not a big kid and I don’t doubt that our two female officers could have overpowered him easily if they tried. I was actually pretty disappointed in Officer Lee’s reaction to the whole scenario. Sure, your daughter is in a dangerous situation but you’re a well seasoned detective for crying out loud! Her complete inability to even attempt to come up with a plan that could save Soo Ji and Se Won just annoyed me. Her response would have been acceptable for a regular mother, but I felt like she’d been constructed as a character who was smarter and better under high-pressure situations than she was at the end. And Se Won. Sigh, Se Won. I mean, what the f*ck. She is quite possibly one of the stupidest characters I’ve ever seen, and she flip-flops like a fish out of water.

Like...what did you think was gonna happen??

First she has a crush on Shi Wan. Then she totally believes that he pushed a little girl of a roof. Then she likes him when he befriends her (acceptable so far, she’s a total outcast and there wasn’t any solid proof he was a murderer), then she finds out without a shadow of a doubt that he pushed Yoo Na off a roof and avoids him (smart move). Then, oh my gosh I still can’t believe the stupidity of it, then she goes to a frigging ROOFTOP after she finds a note implying that he’ll jump off the roof.

The start was much more intense than the finale

Like, why follow him? He’s a psycho killer who’s been lying to you and murdered a child- if he jumps of the roof then good riddance. But no. She follows him to a place similar to where he’s killed someone before and then goes into a small, dark room that’s completely out of the public eye. And she kind of seems surprised that Shi Wan is trying to kill her. It’s just so stupid and so baffling, and cruel as it is I kind of didn’t care that much if she died or not because 1- she’s a fictional character who 2- apparently forgot that this dude is a nut-job completely happy pushing people off buildings. Even if Se Won hadn’t been the hight of stupidity, it still wouldn’t have made for a very exciting finale. We see very little of Se Won compared to our Lookout Team and I’m sad to say that I just wasn’t invested in her character. Sure, it would be sad if she was killed by the crazy dude- but better her than Bo Mi or Kyung Soo who I’m so completely involved with. I really think it would have been a better move if the writers had chosen to endanger either Bo Mi or Kyung Soo. While I would have been devastated if either of them died, I wouldn’t have put it past the show to take one of them out as Shi Wan’s last horrific act- the suspense would have upped the stakes in a thrilling way that just wasn’t possible with a character like Se Won. And now we arrive at it- Do Han’s death. Hm. Yeah. I don’t completely hate it, but it didn’t leave me feeling particularly satisfied either.

If I don't feel broken yet satisfied, then you didn't really pull off the hero's death well...

It actually felt like a bit of a cop-out. I’ve been waiting to see how Do Han and Soo Ji cope (or don’t) post-Dad Yoon and psycho son. They’ve invested so much time and energy into their revenge (particularly Do Han) that I wanted to see how they would live after they didn’t have that revenge driving them. But then Do Han dies.

How about NOT pushing him off a building? Hmm?

He’s lived most of his life as someone else in order to bring Dad Yoon to justice, so it kind of seems a bit meaningless for him to die as soon as his revenge is complete. It just felt narratively weak- like the writers were looking for an easy way out. Do Han’s death means that they don’t have to create a life for him after his revenge and it guarantees Soo Ji’s forgiveness- because you can’t really hate a man who saves you once and then moments later dies for you. You just can’t. Also, what happened to Shi Wan? Did he die too? Did he ever actually get convicted for murdering Yoon Ah? My distaste for the finale might make it seem as though the drama had a lot of downsides as I’ve written so much here, but most of the show was actually pretty airtight with 95% of the things I’m annoyed about coming in the last episode. It’s just a bit of a bummer when you love a show so much and it just lets you down at the end because the end is your last impression and what you remember the clearest (as it's the most recent). On the bright side, I appreciated how Team Lookout were still doing their vigilante business after they’d accomplished their main goal.

Recommend?

Yeah I would. ‘Lookout’ is one of the more successful vigilante K-Dramas around. It manages to neatly balance humour and heart-break (and even a nice little bit of action) and delivers a thrilling story.

Pretty awesome 

Drinking Solo

Drinking Solo

6.5/10

Drinking Solo

Genre:                                 Episodes: 16                          Year: 2016

Romance

Comedy

Synopsis:

After starting her new job as a private institute lecturer, Park Ha Na meets Jin Jung Suk, a man famous for his brilliant teaching ability and terrible personality. While others in the institute enjoy drinking together, both Ha Na and Jung Suk prefer taking time for themselves and drinking alone.

Cast:

Park Ha Sun (Park Ha Na)

Ha Suk Jin (Jin Jung Suk)

Gong Myung (Jin Gong Myung)

Hwang Woo Seul Hye (Hwang Jin Yi)

Min Jin Woong (Min Jin Woong)

Key (Kim Ki Bum)

Kim Dong Young (Kim Dong Young)

Jung Chae Yeon (Jung Chae Yeon)

General Thoughts:

I wanted to love this drama much more than I actually ended up liking it, and I’m sad to say that the main male lead is the cause of most of my dissatisfaction. The plot was fairly small and slow, and so the drama focused heavily on its characters and all their relationships. Most of the characters were cute and realistically flawed, and it was enjoyable to watch them take this journey through a very specific part of time in their lives.

Drink yourself into oblivion, you toss-bucket

The three younger boys were always fun to watch, and were insanely endearing in their friendship that could go from fighting one moment to crying and professing love for one another in the next. The two other teachers in the academy both had wonderful trajectories, their stories gradually building and unravelling before eventually entangling in the cutest way possible.

Not feelin' it

But our leads…never really captured my heart. At first Ha Na was charming in her quiet determined ways, but as the ‘romance’ started taking centre stage her personality became less and less and her determination all but disappeared. She was a likeable character as we were watching her fight an uphill battle as the newbie teacher with a lot to learn and everything going against her, but as the story shifted more to her romance she just seemed to become too boy-crazy (or Jung Suk-crazy) and her teaching completely fell into the background- along with most of her character. And Jung Suk- hoo boy. I did not. Like. Jung. Suk. I mean really, what a wanker. I completely and utterly failed to see his charm and couldn’t understand what in the world caused Ha Na to fall for him- except the fact that he liked her first. On the top of my list of most hated traits in a man is arrogance (barring things like axe-murderer or complete sociopath), and goodness did Jung Suk have a lot of that. I can deal with male leads who are hard on the outside but gradually show their soft underbelly as it turns out they’re just very insecure- but Jung Suk was not one of these men. He was just so up himself.

No. 1 teacher, No. 1 asshat.

His head was so far up his ass that I don’t think anything could unstick it- and of course, nothing ever did. While he became tolerable awards Ha Na during the progression of their romance, he still treated the rest of the people around him like garbage- which is just not cool. Even when he was romancing Ha Na he seemed to imply that she was lucky for a high-class man such as himself to take interest in someone like her. Sure it might seem cute that he sets up all these rules for their dates (like no popcorn because it distracts from the movie) only to be completely distracted by Ha Na anyway- but what happens when that initial infatuation wears off? Will he revert back to being an asshole to Ha Na? Probably- because that’s all he’s ever done.

I know I called you trash- but I stared at you for like two hours so that makes up for it, right?

While I know many viewers found him cute, I just couldn't understand it myself as I personally found him so utterly dislikable. If Jung Suk and I met in real life we would not be friends- no matter how handsome he was. And of course my dislike of the male lead meant that I was disconnected from our female lead as well- because she thinks this man is marvellous while I think he’s sucky.

WHY WON'T SHE GO FOR THE GUY WHO ACTUALLY TREATS HER WELL?

Ha Na’s personality just gradually slipped away as the drama went on, and she wound up being a rather unremarkable heroine. Plot-wise there’s not a lot going on- it’s just watching this bunch of people going about their daily lives. It’s not rivetting, but it’s interesting enough, and the three young boys carry a lot of the entertainment-factor. I do wish the worlds of the teachers and the students had collided a little more than it did, because it felt a bit like I was watching two different dramas- a really cute, fun one about three boys in a bromance studying, and a kinda boring one with a dislikable lead. As Gong Myung was the only real point of connection between these worlds (even though every character spent all day at the same location) it meant that he dominated the screen-time. I was on Team Gong Myung pretty early on, as he wasn’t a giant douche. Sure he was a little immature sometimes, but he was mature enough around Ha Na and liked her for all the right reasons- her sincerity, her determination and her personality. So next to him, Jung Suk (who is constantly calling Ha Na ‘low-quality’ and treating her like poop) looks even worse. All in all, there were heaps of great things about the show, but I wasn’t onboard for the romance which sucked out a lot of the enjoyment.

What Was Great:

Noryangjin Idiots:

The three young boys are what made this drama bearable for me. They were always fun, but could hit strong emotional notes out of nowhere. Every one of them had a serious undertone to their character even if they were mostly just mucking around.

Adorable dorks

Each of our boys faced different struggles which made them loveable in their own ways. The bromance was killer with the boys always trying to protect each other- and they were just so darn cute. Key and Gong Myung put in excellent performances.

That haircut though...

They truly shook free of the ‘idol’ tag during filming and embraced their characters. Key was wonderfully hilarious and was the source of a lot of the fun. While his character could be a tad irritating at times (he was also painted a bit with the arrogance brush), his love for his friends always pulled him through and he had a couple of nice emotional beats that really solidified him as a character that was more than just comedic support. And Gong Myung kind of stole the show. Even though the main romance didn’t actually involve him, it definitely felt like it was a story about his growth and maturing through his heart-break. Due to his large amount of screen-time and constant development, it felt a lot like Gong Myung was our main character. We watched him struggle and grow, and while he wasn’t always in the right he was an easy character to cheer for. The acting to back his character was superb. Gong Myung nailed both happy-puppy and heart-broken-puppy and delivered a strong, relatable performance. 

Emotion:

The thing the show really nailed was the way it slowly and steadily built emotion. The emotional scenes were built so subtly that it never felt like we were being thrown from a comedic scene to an emotional one, even if it did happen rather rapidly.

From dancing to weeping in 10 seconds

Characters were given their own backstories and enough hints were dropped about them and their situations that by the time it was their turn to have a bit of their story unravelled it didn’t feel unexpected or out of place.

Cuter than our leads by far

The best examples of this are definitely Jin Yi and Jin Woong. Jin Woong’s story arc hit like a ton of bricks and gave the character a huge amount of unexpected depth. Even though he faded back into the background again after his story was done in the spotlight, once his history had been revealed his character was viewed in a new light which made him more realistic and likeable. While Jin Yi was a character that was a bit up and down (she was likeable enough but it was a huge let-down whenever she got snarky and jealous of Ha Na), her resolution was superb. As more light is shed on her character, we see how unloved she feels and how her more annoying moments tend to be a result of that. Her tie-off with Jin Woong is insanely adorable, and while it came on pretty fast it wasn’t a leap of logic nor was it unwanted. All three young boys had similar flows of emotion, going gracefully from comedic to serious and back again. Weirdly, it was our two main leads who didn’t really snag the emotional flow. 

What Wasn’t:

Main Love-Line:

In case you haven’t already guessed, I wasn’t that keen on our main pairing. There were a few reasons this couple didn’t fit well with me (mainly Jung Suk’s overinflated ego), but the main disappointment was the lack of development in both our main leads as they fell for each other.

NOT KEEN

Ha Na is pretty sweet natured, but at no point in the series does she grow any backbone. Sure, it can be seen as a good trait when she refuses to throw others under the bus during misunderstandings in order to clear her own name (like when Jin Woong sent flowers to Jung Suk under Ha Na’s name), but when Jung Suk continued to put her down and she continued to shrink in front of him it just became a tad boring. I never quite grasped how Ha Na went from respecting Jung Suk to liking him either.

NO THANKS

She seemed fairly happy to know that he liked her (even though he adamantly denied it), but there was no real reason that Ha Na should have liked him back. And I knooooow that love and feelings don’t follow reason in the slightest, but when a man is constantly telling our heroine how trashy she is and how superior he is to her, I fail to see what part of him could be considered charming. Sure, he does some cute things for her like give her his jacket and peel her prawns- but then he also leaves her drunk on a bridge in the middle of the night with no way to get home that very same day. Yeah, not appealing at all. I could have forgiven him if he came in on his knees with some serious grovelling, and while it was amusing to watch Ha Na reject his advances, I was completely put off by his lack of apology. He acted completely appallingly towards this woman, and no amount of ‘I couldn’t take my attention off you’ is going to cover for that. The two seemed lost in their honey-moon phase, and while I can see how people found it cute, it also lacked depth. Unlike every other relationship in the drama, at no point did Ha Na and Jung Suk actually have a deep and meaningful conversation with each other. The only time that they came close was when Ha Na admitted that she liked drinking alone occasionally as well. But that was it.

Much better

There was a distinct lack of emotional connection between the leads, and it felt as though they only ended up together simply because they were the main leads. While I found Gong Myung completely adorable, I will admit that he also probably wasn’t a great fit for Ha Na- but I still prefer him over Jung Suk.

What's not to like?

Occasional immaturity expressed in goofiness is passable, but constant emotional immaturity is a big ol’ no-no. I was kind of hoping that our heroine wouldn’t end up with either of them as the story didn’t naturally flow with either brother. Jung Suk dumping Ha Na (by once again telling her that he was too good for her) because of Gong Myung’s love for her was just so out of character that it didn’t really make sense. He’s spent all drama long criticising his little brother and belittling his feelings that his change of heart is unreasonable. While it could have been a sweet plot-point, there wasn’t enough buildup for the brother’s reconciliation for it to be impactful, and instead came across as wishy-washy character construction. At no point were we given hints that Jung Suk had any warm feelings or felt any brotherly responsibility towards Gong Myung, so it all felt a bit random. The quick patch-up of Ha Na and Jung Suk’s relationship in the last episode was also rather patchy. It should have taken much more than one measly hospital visit (where he didn’t actually visit her, only glanced from a distance) that didn’t require any sacrifices, and Gong Myung saying Jung Suk still liked her for Ha Na to even consider Jung Suk again. Because he was such a d*ck.

They've hated each other all drama long but now will both give up the girl for the other (her own opinion be damned)

They also dated for what…two weeks? Three? Then they were broken up for three months. At no point did I feel like Ha Na loved Jung Suk so much that she should struggle moving on from him, because once again- he treated her like complete poo. At least I can remain slightly satisfied that they ended with smiling across the room rather than a huge reconciliation snog- because that would have been ridiculous. 

Top-quality asshole

‘Quality’:

This drama has made me hate the word ‘quality’. I wanted to punch Jung Suk whenever the word came out of his mouth. It reeked of obnoxiousness and was Jung Suk’s way of measuring absolutely everything. Example: himself- high-quality, Ha Na- low-quality. It’s actually made me hate hearing the word in real life. Thank the good Lord it’s not something Australians say often else I probably would have hit someone.

Re-watch?

I wouldn’t say so. I really disliked Jung Suk, and Ha Na’s blind love for him kind of made me dislike her too.

Side characters were so fab though