This show is simple.

- When it's focusing on the leads, it's pretty good.
- When the secondary leads are on screen, which is way too often, it is absolutely miserable.

They are insufferable and their relationship is toxic. I think the secondary male lead played by Hwang Chan Sung (who isn't actually a bad actor from what I could see here, he was simply dealt poor material) is one of my least favorite characters of all-time simply due to how abusive he was and how much screen time was devoted to him. Horrible. So much angst! And we are somehow meant to root for him which makes it worse. Truly a crash course on "How Not To Write A Character".

And then, near the end, the show commits the worst sin of them all: gaslighting not just the characters, but the viewers, into thinking that something wrong was something right via emotional manipulation and bullshit retconning. Garbage writing.

Literally the only positive thing about this show is that the main romance worked well, for the most part.

Lastly, I think it's funny how Choi Soo-young is superstar-level pretty (she's actually in kpop group Girls Generation) and yet we're supposed to believe everybody's like "eh, she's kind of average"?

Ah but you see, nobody notices… except for the male lead, of course! Lmao