Unique Premise that Unevenly Blossoms into Confusion
I enjoyed watching this show but it clearly had no idea what it wanted to do. It started off with a bang, trying a unique premise of having a male lead with a veritable social phobia and dealing with suicide right off the bat. At first, the male lead was almost totally incapable of any human communication and the female lead was extremely meddlesome, to the point that I read that some viewers were put off by her inability to respect boundaries. However, by episode 5, the production tried to correct course due to falling ratings: they took a week off for the writers to completely rewrite episodes 5 and 6. Unfortunately, to me, the end result was even more confusing: they preserved the storylines they had already set up (the suicide and the "introverted" boss) and just introduced inconsistencies to try to make it a more traditional Kdrama -- suddenly, the male lead acted like a completely normal person in certain, specific scenarios and the female lead shifted to be more of a concerned, optimistic, prototypical female lead. However, they had already setup some really heavy storylines and themes, and by the end, unfortunately, not everything is resolved in a meaningful, and satisfying way.
I can safely say that the main thing that kept me watching was Park Hye Soo's performance -- to me, there is something reassuring about her: for example, she seems to smile all the time and it honestly melts my heart. But even then, I cannot say that I found her performance particularly skilled: a lot of her crying seemed very forced and fake to me. Still, I found myself glued to her for additional superficial reasons, like her beautiful outfits.
This show seemed to have big dreams but never really hit its goals, and I think most of it is the fault of a premise that's really weird and hard to pull off. And this show doesn't pull it off.
I can safely say that the main thing that kept me watching was Park Hye Soo's performance -- to me, there is something reassuring about her: for example, she seems to smile all the time and it honestly melts my heart. But even then, I cannot say that I found her performance particularly skilled: a lot of her crying seemed very forced and fake to me. Still, I found myself glued to her for additional superficial reasons, like her beautiful outfits.
This show seemed to have big dreams but never really hit its goals, and I think most of it is the fault of a premise that's really weird and hard to pull off. And this show doesn't pull it off.
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