There's no in-between, either you are a die hard fan or you dislike it completely, and ngl i can see why. It's my first kdrama, as almost everyone at this point, and in the beginning I was skeptical, the first episode was so full of stereotypes it felt like reading a 2015 fanfiction, but I decided to embrace the chaos and keep going.
Everything is exaggerated, hilarious and quick, they took all the famous tropes and dumped them in the story along with traumas. At the end of the story Jan-Di had more traumatic experiences than hair.
But although being extremely cliché, I loved watching it. I laughed, i cried a lot, i got angry and emotional, and I'll probably keep rewatching it when I'll be feeling off.
I literally binge-watched it in 4 days and I'm still not regretting it.
I loved the cast, i fell really quickly for Gu Jun-Pyo, and I blame that on the daddy issues, Ji-hoo deserved more, and I wish we had more SO-EUL sadly.. I also wished they gave us more Woo-bin content since we only got a lil of him towards the end.
I would have definitely liked a "What happened after the ending" episode where they showed us the life of everyone, maybe seeing Jan-Di and Jun-Pyo in a somewhat healthy relationship, what happened with Ga-Eul and Yi-Jeon.
The OST are a bop, I can't stop replaying them in my head, they just live rent there.
The second lead syndrome is strong here, Ji-hoo had me on a chokehold.
But I reiterate, I understand why someone could not like it, not my case but it might be too much for someone else.