From A Webtoon Reader’s Perspective

Please take note that I have read and I am a huge fan of the webtoon, but for the sake of your watching experience, I suggest you don’t compare this to the webtoon at all.

THE STORY: The director only took some elements of the story and plopped it into a whole different scenario. Right off the bat, you’ll see a bunch of difference and from episode 5 and up, there’s almost little to nothing that’s similar to the story. However, if you’ve read the webtoon this should not scare you away from watching. Just keep in mind that you should try your best not to think of the webtoon, because I did that and over time it just ate me up. The show in itself is not bad at all. It is a good drama, but I think it failed to adapt the webtoon successfully. The main issue that I had with the show is that they made the characters more “distant” to each other and none of them had the relationship like in the webtoon. The chemistry each character had is what made it so special, and the fact that they cut this element out is so disappointing. Eunhyuk and Hyunsu’s friendship was my favorite. Their interactions was one of the best parts of the story and I’m mad they took out Eunhyuk’s nerdy side. I also didn’t like how you couldn’t see the thought process whenever they transformed into monsters. By that, I mean Dusik and the husband. Seeing how Dusik wanted his legs just so he can see his wife and son made it so much more meaningful and made his death a lot more sadder. The same goes for the husband. He is self centered and that ate him up in the end, so even if he annoyed you, you still kind of sympathized with him in the end. Now, like I said you shouldn’t compare the show to much to the webtoon (like what I just did now) because there are so much more things I can point out about the show that the webtoon did better. But I don’t want to be unfair because the show is good. The story is a bit more on the action side and had some focus on the outside world instead of just the residents of Green Home. The ending is also open, so it gives room for a second season. In my opinion, the CGI isn’t bad as people make it out to be, and is actually a lot better than you’d see in most shows. I really loved how the Protein Monster looked like and I don’t think they butchered any designs of the monsters at all. Overall, the story itself is good and you shouldn’t shy away from this if you’ve read the webtoon.

ACTING: The entire cast did a phenomenal job with this. Song Kang never disappoints and I don’t think anybody could’ve pulled Hyunsu as well as he did. The rest of the cast also did amazing so I have no complaints on this end.

SOUNDTRACK: The soundtrack is a bit weird ??Every time they played Warriors by Imagine Dragons I would try to tune it out of my ears because it felt so out of place.

REWATCH VALUE: I’m not the type to rewatch types of shows like these, but it is pretty short and you could rewatch it again.

OVERALL: Compared to the webtoon, this show isn’t that much. But it is a good watch as it is pretty short and the story itself isn’t bad.

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Oh god, this drama just annoyed me more and more every episode. I could see why some people enjoyed this show, but oh god I’m surprised I didn’t pull all my hair out by the end of the show

Likes:
The first 3 episodes were really enjoyable ngl. By the first episode it pulls you in. Most of the cast was also very enjoyable (besides Park Shin Hye’s role but we’ll get into that later). Enrique was so adorable and his spirits lifted up most of the show. He’s honestly the main reason why I kept going. Oh Jin Rak was also pretty cool, annoying at some times, but I did feel bad for him. I liked Enrique more, but I wouldn’t have been mad if he ended up with Dok Mi. I also liked the secondary couple between Kim Seulgi and Go Kyung Pyo, in fact, I actually liked them more than the actual main couple. The show also has some good moments, mainly when it was comedic and happy and stuff. Too bad most of those moments were short lived since Dok Mi always ALWAYS seemed to weigh down the light mood. The show did give me a few laughs at times and there was some really cute moments between the main couple.

Dislikes:
Dok Mi oh mY GOD. At first, I was intrigued by her, and in a way I could relate to her (besides the whole spying-on-a-guy thing). The whole being anti social and crap was laughable at first, and I would think of myself at some moments, but after a while it just got plain annoying. She’d do this whole push-and-pull thing with Enrique. One day she’ll like him and then like an hour later, something will like go off in her brain and she’d ignore him. She also had like little to no character development. So how she was in episode 1, she was almost the same in like episode 13. The only thing that changed was the whole stalking ordeal, but it really wasn’t that big of an issue. I honestly found her more and more annoying every episode. Also Do Hwi was just, ugh. Instead of just 1 irritating female character let’s just add 2 in the show while we’re at it. Do Hwi had no purpose and was just there to make things annoying. These two characters pissed me off the most and it makes it even worse that one of them is literally the protagonist so I could barely enjoy the show without rolling my eyes. There also wasn’t really much of a story, which I didn’t really mind that much, but (SPOILER) the last 4-5 episodes about Enrique going to Spain was pretty much useless and was kinda just there to keep the show going. (SPOILER END). This show could’ve been a lot better if it was a web drama or if it was like 12 episodes instead of 16.

Overall:
This show does has some good points, but there was so many things weighing it down that I couldn’t enjoy it as much as I anticipated it to be. That is not to say that other wouldn’t enjoy it. I found some moments of the show cute, and Enrique was just so adorable that he really carried the whole show. The plot is simple, so don’t expect a whole mind-blowing story. The OST is not really ground-breaking. I didn’t really pay attention to it. It’s not terribly though. Overall, if you can deal with the annoying push-and-pull relationship then you might like this show. If you can’t, stay faaaarrrrr away from this drama.

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