The female lead suffered a lot of “too stupid to live” syndrome, and it was a little annoying and dragged that she’d do way too stupid stuff and you’d have male mc chasing and nagging after her. Like… HOW MANY times did she decide it was ok to walk alone through alleys in the middle of the night knowing somebody was stalking her; or to enter alone the place she knew was dangerous?!! And then you have male mc being the one that manages things or “saves her”, like, I think there were way too many of this moments. Besides that, their relationship was nice to see and I liked that the writers didn’t make it insta-love, the brief scenes of shared moments of care and comfort that were portrayed in the restaurant when she had nightmares, along with them actually talking through their issues and admitting to their flaws, made me believe in their romance.
I do have to admit that I was way mooooore emotionally invested in the romance of the second lead couple. I think both actors were able to convey a lot of emotion in their scenes, and the “we’ve known each other intimately and know each other’s vulnerabilities/still care” just made me hold my breath at their interactions. I wish we had more scenes between them, but I was glad for the ones we had.
I think that what I liked the most was the relationship between female mc and her mother and grandmother. The three actresses did an amazing job portraying a close family, and their scenes were hilarious. Their scenes were so comforting and I loved the twist about (the grandma being the grandma in-law that considered Bokhee as her true daughter).
Regarding the little sister, a part of me was hoping that she’d just been kidnapped and adopted out or something, and we’d see her introduced as another character (the female cop crossed my mind) but if that happened I think it is something that would’ve been hard to believe as well. Same with the father, I was… kind of waiting for him to appear on the final episode after his inquires took him elsewhere. The scene in the forest was bittersweet but very well done.
The music was good, I really liked it, It was a little bit overused like, sad scene approaching “that song” and so on, like they’re nice songs but it was a little like “ you don’t need to put the song every time, you can let just the actor’s acting make the audience feel things without trying to influence them through the OST”