chaotic plot genre (?) but good (?)

ok, so I really like this but also I didn't. I feel very conflicted cause I got very attached to the side characters (THE SECOND LEAD COUPLE AND THEIR LITTLE FAMILY LITERALLY HAS MY HEART) and also to the dads, moms, and aunties. The story around architecture, food, paramedicine and finding hobbies when you are older were so inspiring!! Also the male lead was so so hot and the actor killed this performance. However I feel like this drama tried to do too many things at once. First the banter almost family-like, then the I liked-you-first, then the illness, then the small town found family, then the family drama... I don't know I feel like it would have been an amazing short cozy drama (maybe like 8 to 12 episodes) and I would have loved it, but it just went in too many directions and for too long so I lost all my interest in the main couple and was not feeling butterflies for them anymore. I stayed for the side characters and do not regret it at all.

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nothing can ever compare

I don't even know where to start.. I am crying like a baby cause I just can't accept the fact that I finished this drama. Nothing Nothing Nothing will ever compare to the feeling of comfort this tv show brought to me. I am afraid I'll never like any piece of fiction more than this, no I am almost certaint I will never enjoy a piece of fiction like this one. My heart is swollen with passion, heartache, joy, sweetness, nostalgia and every emotion possible all together. I will never never never forget this drama. There is no comfort drama that could ever top the way this drama healed me. At the same time it is also my biggest heartache cause I just passed my teenage years and I now know for sure I will never experience a youth like theirs. I will long forever for a group friends like theirs, and even tho I never got my young Zhang Lurang, I will keep waiting for adult Zhang Lurang in my future. Ah... I just can't stop writing... the lingering feeling that this has really ended... I just can't let go of these characters!! I will miss them so much it's unreal I could start crying all over again ...
pls pls pls if u are reading this and still haven't watched it don't waste a single second! I can swear on my heart you'll never regret it.

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my favorite k-drama to date!!

this is definitely my favorite k-drama ever and I can proudly say it with no hesitation. Even though I must say that I almost died during the last episode because of stress (THAT WAS SO FUCKING TENSEFUL I HAD TO PAUSE LIKE TEN TIMES). I never watched a k-drama that made me scream, cry, SHIVER, giggle and smile like this one. If you like suspense, and thriller but also a romantic comedy and a inspiring slice of life about sports... this is everything you'll ever need. Now how do I say goodbye to these characters and their world? I think I'll forever treasure Kim Tae-young and Lee Kwon-sook smiles in my heart. Truly a showstopper.

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Refreshing

very cute cozy kdrama with also a lot of angst and melodrama. I loved how they discussed mental health and so many other important themes such as burnout, friendship, single parents, grief, absent parents and so on. Great chemistry, great delivery by all actors and great plot. I don't really have nothing to say to this drama and maybe that's why I stop at a 8.0 grade. It was great, meaningful, cute but nothing incredibly memorable. I had lost interest at one particular episode (I think after episode 9) but thankfully after a two weeks break decided to try it again and I was very pleased with the ending.

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this drama could have been a 10...

Overall this drama was really my style. Without doubt one of the best thriller subplot I have ever watched in a kdrama. The killer mystery was just the best ever, and the police team among my favorites for this genre of kdrama. The chemistry between the two main leads? Incredible. The slowburn? Great. But... what was that end... I was really disappointed by the end... like up until episode 15 I was so glued to the screen my eyes were hunting. Episode 16 felt directed by a whole different person I don't get it... I love this drama but will forever be bitter but that rushful and exaggerated ending. I wanted the two have a happy ending however, there were so many other ways they could have done it without ruining it so much.

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this show surprised me

I was not expecting this but I am so pleased.
Sometimes warm, sometimes heartwrenching, sometimes sweet, sometimes bitter... it was a rollercoaster of emotions.

Got really attached to the hometown and almost all of the characters I am going to miss some of them dearly. The actors did such an incredible job I was amazed by all of them, even the small roles.

In conclusion, such a classic! A k-drama staple which is worth to rematch for comfort <3

The couple also had a lot of chemistry which sometimes can be hard for slow slice of life k-dramas but they made my heart beat so fast!!

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mixed feelings

i have mixed feelings about this drama. On one hand it was a rollacoaster of emotions with an amazing plot, incredible actors' performances and unimaginable plost twists but on the other side... I don't know I can't understand if I got attached to the characters or not... for some reason I feel like at the start I was very fond of them while towards the last 3-4 episodes I want forward only to see the plot unfolding cause the story was so addicting. Props to the female actresses, from the main to the villains, they all did an amazing job the acting level was phenomenal that's for sure. Overall I liked it even though I feel the last three episodes lacked of something the first ten had ..

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bittersweet

this wonderful drama deserved 16 episodes and a better written ending. Still deserves 9 stars cause I haven't felt this way about a kdrama since a very long time. Definitely will end up in my comfort rewatch list. I just wished they would make the plot unfold better from episode 10 onwards, that's all. Still work it to watch. I love the chemistry, loved the originality, loved the drama underlining the story and how sad it was, amazing sceneries and some serious nice comfort vibes. The first 7-8 episodes truly felt like a 2016 kdrama and I was HOOKED by the two main leads. It's not like the ending it's that bad, I still cry, laughed and smile, I appreciate it, its just not as good as the start. Would I watch it if back then I knew the ending would disappoint me? Yes 100%, still rare comfort kdrama vibes I can't renounce to.

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