Office Romance Cruelty (2022)

Not as good as hoped

I'd really been looking forward to this, and after a slow start I enjoyed the first few episodes. Then, except for the odd fun moment the series became boring and a bit of a drudge. I'm not quite sure why I'm still watching it.

The ML and FL have no chemistry and I'm not sure why or if I should be rooting for them. The only main character I really enjoy time with left his fiancée of 10 years, seems to be completely self absorbed, a stalker and pretty stupid. Yet he's the only lively presence. A sorry state of affairs.

I should stop watching it. I'll be hoping PMY will have a better role next time. It takes quite something to make her dull to watch.

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I started watching the show because of a clip I saw on social media where the FL stands up to her demanding ex at their workplace. I loved that she wasn't shy and timid like the majority of Korean female characters I've seen when faced with a similar situation. And her arguing points in the scene showed how intelligent and professional she was - qualities that stuck with her through the entire show. In fact, my favorite part of this show is how great of a grasp the writers and actors had of their characters. They were consistent, multi-dimensional, and grew with the story. In fact, even the most grating of characters which I had a deep distaste for in the beginning, all showed excellent character growth by the end - even resulting in me rooting for some of their successes. Furthermore, the fact that of these characters, some had a sort of redemption arc without the forgiveness aspect (that so many stories feel is necessary for redemption) was refreshing. The presence of a lovers to enemies to friends dynamic was refreshing as well.

And the cinematography of the show was gorgeous - clean, bright, emotional, and fitting for every scene. The narrative style, in which a plot relevant quote was used to start and end each episode (often with a double meaning for weather and life), was really well executed. Honestly, despite the very different genres - it reminded me of the style used with the US show Criminal Minds. The music was also well chosen, and many songs were added to my own collection to listen to later.

Despite my high rating, I'm not gonna say the show is perfect. Some characters went way too far in my opinion to get the happy ending they did without the amount of work they should've done. And I would have loved it if the show went an even rarer route of keeping estranged family members estranged (they were estranged for a reason).

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A life-lesson drama

Why 9/10?
I usually rate romance dramas around 7 or 8 at most. I gave this one an extra point because of its focus on the understanding needed for a couple and how well it was portrayed. From start to finish, this was all about what happens when:
1 - you don't try to put yourself in the other person's shoes,
2 - what happens if you do try,
3 - and what happens if you try too much.

Story:
I liked the parallel with the weather but as I said the most interesting thing in this drama is its psychological aspect.
The secondary couple was fun to watch, I guess that's how producers justified to call it a romantic comedy. But with the main couple, it's a borderline melodrama at times so I agree that the comedy tag had to be removed.

Acting/Cast:
I'm not a big fan of Park Min Young but it's the first time I actually liked her acting. I'm guessing that's because she doesn't smile as much in this drama so it doesn't feel forced. I suppose her character's personnality is closer to her own actual self.
As for Song Kang, it's my first time watching him as a main lead and I quite liked him.

What is this life-lesson you'll learn in this drama ?
Do try to understand how others think and why, but above all don't just assume things and go talk to them to be sure you're right before doing anything stupid.

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Both love and weather are hard to predict but at least there’s science behind weather…

At first it’s just like cliche Office romance. I just got curious about their work as weather forecasters. What they do and how they do it is interesting.

Song Kang and Park Min Young's chemistry is great. Swoon worthy! I don’t understand why some people think they don’t have Chemistry, maybe because of the age gap? But that’s part of the story line.

I like that it’s fast pace and that there were no boring episodes but the last few episodes are kinda disappointing. Characters have become so inconsistent and there were a lot of nosy coworkers. (Which I think is normal in Korea?)

I love Yoon Park but I really hate his Character. He's childish and kinda narcissist. And I hate the fact that Kijun and Hakyeong become somewhat friends after he cheated on her. I don’t think it’s realistic even though both already moved on. He still cheated and he hasn’t properly apologized!!

1st episode, they said that Hakyeong was being too careful but for me she isn’t. She ignored everything and trusted the wrong guy. But she admitted it redeemed herself afterwards.

I actually hate that it looks like they just exchanged partners. Maybe could be better if they changed this part. IDK. I hate the cheating part and people seem not to care. Hayssss

Donghan- kind man but can’t even man up to his wife. I hate his wife. Hays. Though I liked that his wife said instead of always saying 'sorry' he could have said 'thank you' instead.

Taekyung and Shin's story is so cute too! Love them!

The ending? I am only curious about what will happen to Hakyeong and Siwoo and I am not disappointed. Love may be difficult for them but love is still stronger.

Although I don’t think what happened to Siwoo's father is realistic.

Anyway, overall, I enjoyed it. Their office romance is swoon worthy. Though it could have been better in some ways.

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A beautiful story about relationships!

I absolutely loved this drama!! I binged the hell out of it! I don't know why people have been so harsh. It reminded me a lot of Search:WWW which also received harsh reviews. I think some people find the introspective nature of the show to be slow paced. I completely disagree, I was enthralled by the entire show the whole time! People are complicated and emotions are complicated. And people have a very hard time sorting through those emotions which can make relationships with each other difficult and the show demonstrated that beautifully. The way the drew similarities between weather phenomena and the characters was so well done and poignant. I thought this story and all of the characters were just so incredibly well written. The characters were well-rounded, complete human beings, each with their own failings and fears and wishes. It was a really beautiful story, I just loved it so much!

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Heartfelt progress throughout every episode

I guess many have underestimated this drama as just a shallow romantic drama, but somehow it has the ability to tap into modern relationship problems deeply, especially during the latter half of the drama where there are serious talks about the effects and consequences of engaging in a relationship. Consideration ranges from workplace, marriage, children, parents, and family, the story involved multilayered factors from several viewpoints. Well of course some may choose to refrain from going into this path, but for those who're already in it or soon, this drama has surprisingly given most of its insights with strong reference to reality. Actors were able to leave a great impression with excellent acting, plus the well built structure of the storyline including its meteorology material, it's been a long time since there's a rom-com that could achieve such heartfelt progress throughout every episode.

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Had a potential but not anymore

This is a very realistic and honest review, I'm not into biased side.
Well this show actually had a potential to be "decent" but its hot mess after 12 episodes. Very disappointing.
First 4 episodes were kinda fine, we got to know the backstory and the relations of the Main and side characters but it went downhill from there I'd say.
Relationship between main leads is just not connected and is very random. You can't just relate to any character of this show, they just live in their own worlds where logic and rational thinking doesn't exist at all. FL got cheated because she never talked to her ex, ML's gf just left him without any word. No one in this show knows how to COMMUNICATE with each other, they just do whatever they want and even FL's mom is on that side, she just desperately wants her daughter get married despite her own marriage was failure and her both daughter's marriages were called off too, like who the hell would do that?
Just like how this show isn't getting any better we got salt in the wound, ML's dad. I get it, director wants him to look like he's leeching his son and making his life hard in any way possible but c'mon you could do it way better. His actions are very unnecessary and forced, popping out of nowhere and making extremely awkward situations that no one in the world can relate.
At last, the narration of this show is just pure disappointment. We barely get screentime of main characters and when they get it they're just into some drama that they love each other but can't be together. There's no character development in this show whatsoever, everyone's relationship with each other is problematic, no one is happy but everything somehow will be fine in the last episode after couple of moments. Just that's how it's gonna be.
Didn't expect anything much after reading the synopsis when this drama was about to be aired, just expected it to be average but here we are. Gave this drama chance because of Park Min Young, really liked her role in Whats Wrong With Secretary Kim, I think rom-com genre suits her better, not this forced melodrama, conflicted snoozefest.

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Accidentally Dropped Mid-Airing Because It's So Dull

It tries to be deep with weather analogies, but most of the time is spent with people pulling each other aside to have tense arguments at work or sullenly avoiding each other. Usually, by the time I get this far, I might as well finish it. I just don't care what happens to the main leads, which is unfortunate because there was so much potentially initially with the happy-go-lucky ML meteorologist.

Everyone is unhappy in their relationship. Perhaps it ends up that they're happy, but it's such a drag to watch.

I might watch the final one but I can't stand the thought of sitting through another episode of sullen adults who can't communicate with each other and can't get their priorities straight.

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“A small thing can change everything.”

“When body temperature drops by 1°C, our body’s immune system weakens by as much as 30 percent. This means that you become vulnerable to external attacks. The same goes for the temperature between people.”- Lee SiWoo

This drama has finally came to an end. It started off quite big, due to it's interesting plot with weather and meteorologists, and after a while, it lost it's sparkle and many people dropped it.
I'm glad I didn't.
The drama isn't for everyone. It simply focuses on daily life, daily working life, peoples' ups and downs, hardships and relationships.
“Forecasting Love and Weather” is a JTBC romance drama about the work and love lives of people who work at the Korea Meteorological Administration, Korea’s national weather forecast service.
Park Min Young stars as the frosty and cold Jin Ha Kyung, who does everything by the book and is careful and steady about keeping her personal and professional lives separate after being hurt throughout her whole life by many people, while Song Kang stars as the free-spiritedLee Si Woo, who is extremely intelligent but only cares about the weather, for some reason.
As their sweet secret office romance continued and kept on growing- it became so sweet that the people around them started to smell something.
Hope the whole cast gets more roles in future and I hope to see PMY in a drama that challenges her outside of rich lifestyle, office and same wardrobe type of drama. It'd be extremely fun to see her in a role she hasn't played before.
The drama didn't have a special plot but kept me around for some reason, it was one of those dramas you'd watch after you realise you have nothing else to watch, so I'd recommend seeing it if that's the case.

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Me encantó pese a no verlo en el momento correcto

Mi problema con este drama es que a pesar de tener todo lo que me podría gustar, se me hizo tedioso y terminé bastante en terminarlo. Siento que no lo vi en el momento correcto o quizás por estar esperando a que Netflix lo emitiera. Pero no por ello lo voy a menospreciar porque ya es algo personal. Forecasting Love and Weather en verdad me ha encantado tanto su trama, los personajes y su evolución. Me ha gustado como ha tratada los temas principales: El matrimonio y el amor. Lo que sucede al enlazarnos con una persona. Contando así varias versiones de esta y agregando el punto de vista de la sociedad. Porque por culpa de ella normalizamos cosas que luego ni siquiera sabemos qué tiene eso de malo.

Nos encontramos con historias tan diferentes y tan bien tratadas. Con una evolución bastante buena. Una cosa que se ha merecido mi respeto por este drama es que te incita a que casarse no es la meta en la vida sino, disfrutarla y ya ahí tomar la decisión que veas correcta para aplicarla a tu vida.

Vemos ese lado de el qué dirán, la familia, estatus, etcétera. Básicamente: La sociedad.

La madre de la protagonista está completamente entregada a encontrar un marido a su hija pequeña tras la cancelación de su boda. Esta tan empeñada que en vez de encontrarle marido acaba perdiendo la confianza de su hija. Porque nadie debe interponerse en una relación, da igual quién sea esa persona y menos exigirle qué prototipo debe buscar.

Según la sociedad es una vergüenza que a cierta edad no hayas cumplido lo que todo el mundo espera. Es un protocolo que pocas personas se saltan y así es como han normalizado y visto tan raro que no hayan cumplido este orden. Son tan curiosos e incluso quieren saber el estatus de la persona, edad, familia. Sacando todos los temas posibles sobre su vida privada y ya ahí calificar a las personas según vean correcto. Por eso me ha gustado todavía más porque en ningún momento lo han normalizado.

Tengo que mencionar que la historia de dos personajes me ha encantado su evolución pese que al principio no me importaban en absoluto. Se me ha hecho súper bonito y un claro ejemplo de lo que es amar realmente.

Me ha gustado mucho como han relacionado el amor y la vida misma, con el clima. Explicando ciertos sucesos que ocurren con los cambios climáticos. Porque así es realmente la vida.

La estética de este drama la he sentido muy bonita. Es una historia tan tranquila para verla mientras tomas algo. Y a veces este tipo de dramas se te hace muy reconfortante.

Mi puntuación es 9,5/10

La única pega que quizás le pongo y ya es SPOILER: No me ha gustado que perdone al padre solo porque tiene cáncer. Es decir, le ha robado, le ha tratado fatal. Podrían haber hecho algo mejor para mantener esa relación. Siento que fue puro relleno para ponerle historia al protagonista o una excusa, pero bueno, he visto casos peores. Así que como la trama no va de esto voy a dejarlo pasar.

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The forecast is bad

I should've known when I wasn't captured by the first episode that this would be a trainwreck you can't look away from. However, I try to give a drama a few episodes before I drop it. So, I kept watching & episode two was better so I continued on. By the time we were reaching the second half of the drama, I felt this drama was losing what could make this a decent drama.

For starters, while using weather as symbolism for what was happening in the story was fine, the weather talk itself during their jobs wasn't appealing & only got more boring as the episodes went on. I think the concept was okay in theory but the way it was written & executed was greatly lacking. For example, while it brought awareness to some forecast issues that we may have never thought about, it simultaneously made things appear overdramatic.

The drama started with the leads showing that they could have chemistry & then it just fell apart as the writing of their characters got worse. There was inconsistencies & actions that the characters made that didn't make sense given what had happened in the story before. I didn't feel their chemistry at all. (Also, I love PMY but her acting was awkward here & the worst that I've seen from her.)
I wasn't interested in the stories of the secondary characters.

But, the worst part about this drama was the way the cheaters were glorified and got away with gaslighting. It made me feel so upset seeing FL's ex run to her for relationship advice & her giving it to as if he didn't hurt her in the way that he did. Some will say that he apologized her & it's okay to be friends with your ex but this case isn't it. To me, his apology was the bare minimum, as he didn't fully apologize for everything that he did & because of how he still felt a need to show off to her. Thinking about it again is making me shake my head so I will end this by saying skip this drama. I wanted to give the rewatch a zero but I wasn't allowed to :p

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Disappointed

I love both leads but oh dear what a waste! There was a palpable lack of chemistry between the two - despite both being so good in other dramas and capable of some really believable intimate scenes, these two just seemed awkward even when just hugging each other. Was it their 7 year age difference that made them uneasy with each other? Although their relationship started with one night stand there was no further obvious desire for each other - so we were left with the marriage/no marriage scenario. On his part I didn't quite get it- so he based this on his awful father? Because he was such a failure so he distrusted marriage or because he would be a burden? Well he was a burden already so what difference would marriage make?!
I just felt from the word go their relationship made no sense - particularly them getting together after their break ups of only 2 months? You don't get over a break up in such a short time - I guess this led to their difficulties as a couple as they had unresolved issues. However this just dragged without any really fun and believable scenes to give any depth to their relationship.
The second leads? They certainly had a character development arc - which lets face it they needed as they both cheated on their partners and therefore started pretty low. Theitrfast wedding led to the harsh realities of marriage. The 2ML I just didn't get- why was he so obsessed with her ex and his relationship with his ex? Comedy factor with him following them? Just seemed bizarre behaviour. Frankly I wasn't interested in their relationship or character development as they both cheated in the most awful way and for that I could not forgive them, despite even his developing awareness of how he acted so badly. I can't believe The Fl and him ever lasted 10 years with him being so immature and selfish - even if she also had faults in the relationship. Plus the way the exes turned to each other for advice? Please- too much too soon given how they cheated- just why would their exes want to give them relationship advice let aone her helping him write his column!!
The other couples - again immature men not communicating or facing their their responsibilities. How many dramas can withstand so many weak men?!!
The weather aspect was good - as an analogy to relationships and for its information on S Koreas climate and weather. But the meeting scenes dragged on and broke up the relationship stories.
I fast forwarded so many scenes as the series went on - a sure sign a drama is just not engaging me!
The ending? His father suddenly had a complete change of character due to his cancer diagnosis? Sorry just not believable. The fact it seemed like their was a wedding meeting between respective parents? Where did this suddenly come from? The couple just started their relationship again with the same lines from when they started- this sums up the weakness of how this couples relationship was dealt with - where was the sharing and connecting of minds, what did they love about each other, and what was that pathetic breakup all about? They didn't share their thoughts or feelings in any believable way.

I could go on venting my disappointment at the waste of two such good actors - lets hope they both get better roles and this doesn't tarnish their future. I'm finding it hard to see her in any future roles - she has become possibly a little too old to be in such immature relationship dramas with none of the depth of character of her previous roles.?

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