RedFlower
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DISAPPOINTED
When I started the show based on the preview and the name of the show , I assumed that it would be on the lines of Business Proposal - romance , comedy , little bit of drama and tons of fun but it was nothing of that sort.I will start with issues
1)first and foremost there was no need of murder mystery in CRASH COURSE IN ROMANCE.
2)the backstory of the killer was so lame that i kept asking myself what were the writers smoking when they came up with this track.
3) they could have given more time to love stories - the older ones and younger ones which totally pissed me .They could have explored so much more with both the generations but no they had to fill in evil moms, unwanted murders and useless investigation.
4) Didn't had to show Moms such vile creatures, instead of bringing comic reliefs they brought in more misery with the plot (in start episodes, they were real funny with their petty efforts for their kids, towards the end they were simply toxic)
5) Why they had to chose Jeon Do-yeon who is almost 10 years older to Jung Kyuong-ho as female lead is beyond me, she looks visibly old and doesn't bring any chemistry to table. She looked odd in every scenes with him , apart from looking older , she looked more of try hard to suit the image of younger person and their romantic scenes had zero charm.she was the only actor who did not suit the character. She looked too old as hae-yi's mom as well and she was supposed to be younger sister of her Mom.
6) seriously they brought in hae-yi's Mom(I mean WTF like we it wasn't already messed enough). other than trying to elevate Nam Haeng-seon to the saint status and trying to fill in to complete 16 episodes, there was no need to bring her in.
7) As if two love stories weren't enough, they squeezed in third love story also in 13/14 episode which obviously was rushed due to no time.
After reading this , people may think why would i continue to watch this show and didn't drop it ,pls allow me to explaing.
The only reason i continued with this show is Jung Kyung-ho who was absolutely fabulous as Choi Chi-yeol. What a fine actor he is , never in the whole of 16 episodes he has gone astray or left his character , he did full justice and finely portrayed the arc from being miserable even though successful to actually being happy. Dude even crammed Maths formulas like a pro, it doesn't look like he is acting when he is teaching , he makes you feel that yes he is the actually the star teacher as he is hailed in the show - plus points for that.
Lastly the last episode was good quality - they closed all the loops nothing left hanging for imagination , this is the most important thing for me in any series I watch. I loathe the shows in which they keep the audience hanging and leave the answer for audience to interpret. Also they gave us going on knees proposal by Choi Chi-yeol which almost made me not angry /forget with the issues. - total swoon worthy it was .
so to complete my review i would say watch it you are fan of Jung Kyung-ho or you have nothing better to watch.
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Absolutely trashy ending
The end of the show makes you disappointed , sad , cheated and complexly frustrated.They just made the fool of the audience who invested time , money and most importantly their feelings with the show.
This show is a revenge story with a super amazing plots and twists and keeps you on the hook for 15 episodes, the excitement reaches to sky level on hoping how amazing the ending will be but the writers disappoint you so terribly that you just want to bang your head.
The show would be enough if you watch episode 1 and episode 16, the 14 episodes in between are total waste, have no significance what so ever in the journey .After watching the final episode you keep asking what is even the meaning of showing the awesome bonding between grand father and grand son. The ending totally killed and disqualified the whole process.
so many questions and so many leftovers , either the writer go lazy or it is the classic case of starting/thinking this amazing/intriguing plot but not knowing what to do or how to deal with it. The writers got buried under their own weight by not able to figure out answer of the question they created.
Yes, song jong ki is amazing , he always is , the guy playing grand father is excellent and all the other characters were also good , music nothing to talk about ,the love story was never in the forefront but the bland acting of female lead made it non existent .
final verdict - Watch only if you are fan of SJK.
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BIG WASTE OF TIME
I don't understand why people create mystery/thriller shows when they only how to create intrigue and have no idea what so ever to resolve any of them.The message with which they started was really very good but they totally completely absolutely missed the point.
I assume that they wanted to show that if you have confidence in yourself and continue to follow your heart you can defy your fate and create your own life but boy oh boy .. what a disappointment
There are so many questions and none of questions are answered and the viewers are left in WTF state and think why the hell did we waste so much time on this utter rubbish.
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Li Xun is horrible , arrogant , narcissist ,believes everyone is inferior to him and treats everyone around him as piece of trash .I am fine with male lead having negative traits ( I am sure all of us have watched n number of shows with same concept) but the thing which totally put me off is showing the female lead running behind him even after he bullies her at every single point and shows no signs of remorse. I can not watch any shows where girls have zero self respect and continue to act as door mat.
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