Number of Cases to Go From Friends to Lovers (2020)

A Shame it was so Disappointing

I rarely write reviews for dramas I watch but I feel like I just had to for this one. This drama started out with a promising outlook. I was excited for an easygoing drama about school friends and crushes that extended into adult life but this drama really changed for the worst.

It has such promising actors and could have been so much better but it just wasn't. Woo Yeon was blinded by Soo for so long and it was quite annoying and I thought Soo was just being horrible. Then Joon Soo comes along and I was excited for Woo Yeon to possibly have a normal relationship with someone who genuinely liked her. And then Soo's feelings towards her miraculously changed and he wouldn't give up until she liked him back. What?

This annoyed me so much and at first Soo was just a jerk to Woo Yeon and now he was an entitled jerk. He kept getting in the way of Woo Yeon and Joon Soo's relationship and Woo Yeon was stupid enough to give him another chance. And then to make matters worse, the writers decided to make Joon Soo clingy and borderline obsessive just so viewers would stop wanting her with him and instead with Soo. Once again, what?

Eventually I didn't end up rooting for either of the main relationships and instead only cared about the two secondary couples and what would happen with them. Especially Young Hee and Hyun Jae who had a genuine relationship and real problems and they couldn't catch a break. I cared for their scenes a lot more than the main couple's.

It's such a shame because Seongwoo and Yeeun are good actors and their past couple of roles really haven't done them any justice. This is the first time I've seen Dong Joon and while I liked his character at first, he was also wasted potential.

They said they were made for each other but I honestly thought at the end of it all, it was the opposite. Woo Yeon's last goodbye with Joon Soo made me more bitter as I believed they were a much better match. At least Young Jee and Hyun Jae had a happy ending.

I really don't like leaving dramas unfinished, even if I have to force myself to watch them, in the hopes that I'll feel more satisfied once I've finished or that things might get better but I honestly feel like I wasted my time with this one.

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started out great but...

I've waited a while to write this review because I wanted to think about it thoroughly before I gave my opinion.
I personally felt like this drama started out extremely well and had the perfect formula for a tragic story. However, it felt like the director changed his mind halfway through and wanted to make this drama a happy ending.
Let me explain. The male lead comes from a broken family. He is extremely affected by his parents' divorce and their arguments leading up to it so he believes that love should just be kept far away because at the end "there are no happy endings" (a direct quote from the drama). He likes to exclude himself from the world around him because he thinks that if he gets attached to someone, it will only lead to pain. The female lead on the other hand is somewhat of a pushover and falls in love with the male lead because he cares for her. In fact he hates that she's a pushover and wants her to be confident and happy on her own. Basically they are two very different people with very different outlooks on life. When the male lead decides to move to America, she confesses her love to him only for him to reject her because he just sees her as a friend. This leads her to have commitment issues and later in life dates multiple guys just to get over him but she never truly loves any of the other guys she's met.

The rest of the drama is a very kdrama style story with a love triangle and of course the second lead is extremely nice and rich and wants to be with her while she is in love with the male lead. For the first time, I did not have a second lead syndrome. I just really liked the male lead.

There were many scenes in the drama where it seemed like the pessimistic dialogues that the male lead was saying were somehow a foreshadowing. The male lead mentions that he doesn't believe in happy endings and there was a dramatic closeup scene and I wish that was a foreshadowing. IT JUST MAKES SENSE YOU KNOW? Either I was overanalyzing these scenes or interpreted them wrong but the story did not go the tragic route which I was very disappointed by. I love happy endings but for this drama... I just wanted it to be different.

The leads were brought together by many coincidences and until the very end of the drama they weren't officially together. I wish the story took the route where the leads would not end up together because 1. they are very toxic for each other and 2. they have very different definitions of love. So they could've played with the idea of letting a person go because you love them but aren't the right person for them. I feel like that would make more sense with the way the scenes were set up in the initial episodes.
The side characters were fun and overall I like the cast. However, half way through the show became a very formulaic kdrama with a happy ending.

serendipity by ha sungwoon was an amazing ost and my wannable heart was happy. Talented actors and a story that had potential were kind of wasted :/

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if youre new in kdrama, you probably will enjoy it since the story is easy to follow, but for old kdrama lovers, it's way too predictable and nothing exciting idk why. i love all the casts tho it's just the first male and female character are kind of annoying.
The girl hoding onto false hope of her first love for more than 10 years despite all her busyness doing part time jobs here and there so it's kinda sick. And she used "cursed" as an excuse saying that she cant love other man but him. Once she started to be more mature and independent, the male lead just came out of nowhere and there she fell for him over again! ugh
Also, the second lead deserves so much better!! he's so understanding but the girl only came to him whenever she feel sad and at the moment she started develop feelings for him, the male lead who was her first love came and stopped her for doing that and yeah as the cycle should she fell for him over again.

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Not even surprised at this point

I don't know where to start . Honestly i had a really hard time trying to finish this drama. The story is way too messed up and unacceptable. At first i had fun watching it. It that a cute love triangle thing going on but as the episodes started going onward, it went downhill. Our FL is a dumb stuck up who's been in love with a guy for 8 years or something and can't forget him no matter how she tries. She dates other people while being in love with this dude and breaks up eventually because she can't love them back and she's supposed to be pitiful for that? She keeps calling the dude whenever she's drunk like a creep and keeps confessing to him from time and time again just to get rejected but never learns her lesson and tries again.

The ML Lee Soo , played by Ong Seong Wu, seemed to be an interesting and edgy character at first. I was actually happy because the previous roles played by Ong Seong Wu were timid and shy so it felt fresh to see a new side to him. But as time went by, all that the ML seemed like was a jerk who couldn't control his emotions and kept pushing all his troubles under the rag. He'd have sudden outbursts and take it all out on FL and make her cry. The Fl was nothing but a punching bag to him but then he suddenly realises his feelings for her and we're supposed to sympathise with him and cheer him on? I think it's high time we should stop applauding the MLs mistreating the FLs because it's his way to show love and it's justified because he had a bad/sad past.

Honestly i really liked the second male lead Oh Joon Soo. His character seemed mature and understanding and to be honest, the only sensible adult among the leads. All he did was treat the FL with love, care and kindness but got nada in return. He didn't deserve such a pathetic ending. He was true to himself and his
feelings until the end.


The other characters like "Jin Sang Hyuk-Han Jin Joo" and "Kim Young Hee-Shin Hyun Jae" seemed fairly good, it seemed fascinating and compelling . Sang Hyuk and Jin Joo had a light, bubbly relationship were as Young Hee and Hyun Jae had a more realistic relationship. I enjoyed the segments were their stories were being told and it wasn't as much boring comparing to our FL ML's story which felt more like kids whining for lollipops. I saw character growth in Jin Joo, Young Hee and Hyun Jae but our FL Woo Yeon seemed pretty pathetic till the end and I guess Lee Soo learnt not to be an emotional baggage to everyone but i wouldn't say he was completely enlightened and finally matured but definitely better the Woo Young. Just one thing i never understood is that what in the world did Woo Young do to have two handsome men fighting over her. lol because at least one of them were sane.

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Not Worth Watching

I am amazed at how the writers were able to spread out the story and create 16 episodes. I guess they leveraged on all that fighting and bickering but only for the female lead to just eat all that she said - this happening in a good 7 episodes of this drama. I excruciatingly finished it till the end because I just wanted to know who the female lead would end up with. And what a disappointment! They deserve each other.

I think this drama could have scored a higher viewer rating if it was just a 2-hour movie or the story of Young Hee and Hyun Jae became the main plot instead.

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Easy Drop

I had such high expectations for this kdrama because not only ong seungwoo was staring in it but also shin yeeun, one of my all time favorite actresses. Not going to lie, I did enjoy watching the first few episodes. However, as the show carried on, the storyline became, perhaps, repetitive; everything was predictable and there wasn’t anything to look forward to. The relationship between the leads was not developed very well. What shocked me was that it took the male lead 10 years to figure out that his feelings for the female lead were finally mutual, only to find out that she had (sort of) moved on like a few months ago? That’s seemed quite strange and too far stretched. Taking in account the on and off relationship between the leads, there was no particular storyline. The situations in which the side characters were in also became very predictable, and were too basic. Despite the show having a below mediocre plot, I did enjoy watching it because of the cast. Jinjoo’s role and acting, she was definitely my favorite. The soundtracks of the kdrama were amazing, especially the one by ha sungwoon, loved the mini wanna one interaction :]. Frankly, I don’t think that I would ever rewatch this and I don’t ever plan on recommending it to someone. :(

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Waste of time

I have never been compelled to make a negative review because they are not worth my time but I just have things to get out there or it will just continue to bug me since it will all bundle up and annoy me. I literally didn't enjoy a single thing about this drama except from the 1st episode in which we get introduced to the two main leads and the supporting cast, maybe it was the best part of the drama because we haven't experienced all the bullshit to come from everyone.

In Kdramas you can feel various emotions like happiness, sadness, tension but for the first time ever in a drama, I felt genuine anger towards to show. Around episode 6-7 where Lee Soo got in a car accident and missed the timing which caused the CEO a Woo Yeon to meet and go out just pissed me off so much because it seemed like the writer just loved to make the two main leads miss each other by the hair in every situation.

I'll be honest I did not like a single character in this show, maybe with the exception of Jin Joo and Sang Hyuk in which they were the only bearable characters. I can tell a lot of people got Second Lead Syndrome which is warranted but I got 'Everyone's a Brick Wall Syndrome'.

First off with the main male lead. I can't like I was really looking forward to him due to Ong Seung Woo but not even he can save the abysmal character that he is. They introduce him as someone who's heart and actions say one thing but his mouth says the complete opposite, like seriously. It was so obvious that he like Woo Yeon but for some reason, he just friend-zoned her time and time again. His cocky narcissistic personality was also so annoying and I don't know how Woo Yeon fell in love with him and stayed that way for 10 years.

Woo Yeon's character also made no sense to me. Why go into relationships purposely knowing you love another person across the planet just to hurt the person you are currently going out with. I disliked her indecisiveness and how she always second-guesses herself. Like if I was Lee Soo I wouldn't like her too. Her character was that boring I literally have nothing to say about her.

The CEO character was also a massive wet wipe. Literally holding everything back being tough on the outside and insecure on the inside. When he realised that Woo Yeon might really go to Lee Soo, he just became plain right annoying with his stalker vibes literally going to where she works and waiting outside her house. He just doesn't know when to give up.

The supporting cast in this drama wasn't anything special in this show. The couple that went out for 10 years was just hard to watch at the female just kept self wallowing in self-pity and didn't know when to accept help and just to overreact and get angry at the people around her was stupid. Her boyfriend deserved so much more for putting up with her. I actually quite like Jin Joo's story that intertwined with Sang Hyuk as they eventually got together after having to jump a few hurdles.

The OST was not anything special to make a not on, to be honest.

Overall I should've listened to my gut around episode 7 and dropped it but my eagerness to see Ong Seung Woo and Shin Ye Eun in a relationship overpowered that and it wasn't even that special, it just felt really different can out of place compared to other dramas I just don't get it. Anyway, I only recommend this drama if you don't give a damn about the story and is only there for the cast in which even that could do that for me. I hope Ong Seung Woo takes a better project next time as he deserved more.

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No lesson learned no wounds healed no apologize

One thing I don't understand the life isn't like that , in life the second lead would already become first , what i would actually do is like life is doing teaching you a lesson , I would tell her don't try to like Him try to find something to bring yourself to love Him , so you would see that a crush you had earlier has gone and you actually had fallen in love with that person he should show her that is so easy for a person to go from friend to lover is just a matter of changing the perspective. Thats my opinion cause it wouldbe more unpredictable like life itself is , now just by tittle i can predict that he would try to understand , heal himself fight back with the past but yet he would not learn any lesson from it cause would recive that what he wanted so I would say a story like many others that i don't even know if it actually deserve high number , rewatch value it' s low, acting is good yet that lesson is taken away so is sad, it didn't help the overall of the drama. The story didn't held a lesson it is hurting to watch it. It isn't story about two friends becoming lovers He is a centre of attention , he is the most important because he was hurt. It was her biggest mistake that she hasn't said " You understand my decision yet You said You can't because you need to see me , so respect me and my decision and look from afar" . I would give you the example the short web drama Real Ending this drama is holding a lesson , Strong Woman Doo Bong Soon is holding the good way to go from friend to lover.
I would state that those new dramas which are comming out and those which came it' s very big gap between them . I would say I think they are becoming worse and worse nowadays .
I rearly am dropping any dramas even if i am it's mostly because of they feel too corny yet I am thinking of maybe in future giving them another try this is diffrent , this drama is watched once no more , i am watching it cause i do not like not knowing the end . Yet I don't like this drama at all.

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Ain't nobody got time for that

A classic story about misunderstandings with no twists. It is what you expect. Timing isn't right for the main leads and it only is in the last 2 minutes. But there are 16 episodes of regretful looks, a very annoying second lead that never gets the love he wants (so he is sad and jelous all the time), and second characters also feeling like their romantic lives suck because they are afraid of stable romantic relationships.

The main leads are also very annoying characters. We have a girl that never trusts the guy she likes and treats him like shit because she had a one sided crush for him (when he clearly stated he DIDN'T LIKED HER FOR 10 YEARS). Also the main guy lead is an ass until he decides he's in love with her. And that magically changes everything in his personal relationships. Now he's afraid and fearful of her. It's all about toxicity here.

I finished watching because the actors and the production were really good. But I'm never watching this again. I hoped that the plot would change eventually but it never did.

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