Too many episode for its own good.

I really wanted to like this drama, people are always raving about and the reviews for the most part are glowing, here and on other sites.

And I did mostly like it. The first three episodes I found to be funny and touching with a bit of mystery looming in the background.

Cut to the end of Episode 10 and almost NOTHING has happened from Episode 3, it feels like we're still stuck on the same story as we were 7 episodes ago, I cannot believe how slow they were to get the ball rolling.
But when we arrived at Episode 11 things started to happen, plot points that had been left hanging for half a season suddenly became relevant again, even the writing overall seemed to become better, funnier and more emotional.

I just wish the show had been this all the time. Cause this had the potential to be an all-timer for me but as it is this will just be a so-so drama with a middle part that drags so much that it almost made me quit watching.
This is a drama that would have benefited from being 12 episodes instead of 16 REALLY long episodes, there just isn't enough story here to tell.

Or maybe there is?

This drama has a bunch of excellent side characters, from the people at OK Hospital to the people working at the book publishing company. But the show does so little with these characters it is almost criminal. We have an older man with PTSD from the Vietnam war, why not give him more of a character arc?

A show with 16 episodes like this one NEEDS to flesh out all of it’s characters but instead of almost completely focuses on the main trio for the bulk of the 16 episodes which just doesn’t work, it becomes trite and boring when we see the two brothers have yet another fight about the same thing they’ve already argued about for 4 episodes.

So yes, there is enough story to fill 16 episodes but I my mind they decided to focus on the wrong things, give the main couple and their drama time to breathe, make us miss seeing them on screen together by actually having the sideline characters do interesting things.

The OST in this is great with a lot of songs that I’ll probably keep listening to. Everything with this production is great, the acting, the wardrobe, the cinematography, it is all so very well done. It just isn’t enough when the script is this thin. I also cannot believe the whole deal with the antagonist of the show and how all that was dealt with, incredibly underwhelming.

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