Ugh

So, I watched this series after completing Reply 1988, which I loved by the way. I tried a couple of times to watch this one and thought it would be fun considering the boy band craze feature but it... wasn't. Once I finally could make myself complete an episode, I started to like it but then half way through the series it just became kind of boring and typical.
I was grossed out and slightly angered by the romance between the older brother and Si-Won for two reasons, 1- the age difference is gross. She's still in high school and he's a teacher & 2- how are you going to start a relationship with your dead fiances sister? And neither of them thought twice about her being a hindrance to them being together. Wtf was that about?! However, I do like that Yoon-Jae initially backed off for the brother since he gave up so much to raise him. Typically characters are selfish and go for their own satisfaction.
At first I hoped for Si-Won to end up with Yoon-Jae, but after the little teaser with Yoon-Jae and Jun-Hee, I totally changed my mind? ! I never actually thought they'd explore the gay angle and they still kept it very surface but it was enough for me to want it to happen. Jun-Hee seemed like the most mature out of everyone and it would have been nice to have seen him get who he wanted after patiently waiting in the background. It definitely seemed like Yoon-Jae was thinking about it and that would have been the best twist if they put them together.
Otherwise, character development got an F. It especially shows in Si-Won. She's still incredibly immature, in attitude and how she dresses.
Unfortunately, this installment of the Reply series isn't recommended.

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The series started off strong. Unique storyline & enjoyable characters. However some things annoyed me early on and then it totally went downhill around episode 8 or 10.
I didn't understand how the vibrant adult Hae Young lost all confidence once "pretty" Hae Young re-entered the picture. Come on. Pretty Hae Young herself never made fun of or put her down, it was always others around them. That was extremely disappointing & irksome. However, I still enjoyed the show until Hae Young's fiance Tae-Jin returned; then it torpedoed into hating it.
This is the man that you loved enough to marry & sent you into drinking stupor to try to deal with the loss but when he comes back & tells you the reason he left, you didn't run back into his arms???!!!! That's a freaking joke! She knows he broke things off with her to save her but was still cold towards him? Disgusting. Hadn't only a few months passed before he came back? In that time, she moved on and fell so hard for Do-Kyung she couldn't go back to her fiance? That's a lie and incredibly unrealistic. She still forgave him after finding out he ruined her potential marriage over he same woman she hated from high school? I think not. I'm infuriated by this and made me hate the whole series. Why not change up the standard ending & put her back with her fiance? If she moved on so easily, she never loved him in the first place. Do- Kyung didn't show her some love she couldn't move on from.
Lastly, Hae Young's mom was too much. Her first reaction when she found out she wanted to cancel her wedding was to beat her? Then when she saw her daughter spiraling & coming home drunk every night she kicked her out of the house instead of talking to and trying to help her because she was embarrassed by her daughter? Wow.

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Okay, so this show me to the edge of my sanity. Which is most definitely an ode to the writers. I put off watching this show for so long because I hate seeing affairs out but with the wife rebounding per the show description, I gave it a whirl.
Overall, it was a good story. Definitely an unflinching look at an affair and possible repercussions. There were some things that were lacking to me though.
Ah Zhen- She was perfect to a fault. A good & dutiful wife but her drab looks and being a doormat made her a little undesirable. Regardless, her husband seemed totally into her and reassured her about her dry looks. I was totally disappointed when I saw the reason for her make over was to get her husband back. Why tf would she still want him? I had hoped it was to get her self esteem back to restart her life (which ultimately it was). I'd disagree with calling her a fierce wife, even at her strongest she was still seemed to lack confidence. But considering where she started from, I was proud of how far she came. She let go of her anger and came out a new person for herself & her child.
Wen Rui Fan- What a disgusting piece of crap. There was nothing appealing about that cousin that would have lured him away from his wife. She was immature and had nothing going for herself. He was happy one day and supposedly unsatisfied the next. There should have been a more believable reason for his cheating. What was also unbelievable was how cold he was toward his wife! She never treated him wrong, so how he could be so cruel and uncaring toward her blew my mind. It made me sick to my stomach when he forced his wife to sign divorce papers in her hospital bed.
It also blew my mind that he never left Wei En. She showed how selfish she was and even dangerous toward his child and he always made excuses! What the heck?! He was the worst character I've seen in a while. Oh! And to move back in with the ex-wife with his mistress?! He didn't care about Ah Zhen at all.
Wei En- This b&%$. How she could come into that home & have no issue destroying it was insane. And I actually like that nothing the husband did was good enough for her and she ultimately left him. He deserved that. I don't like that they tried to make us believe we should be sympathetic towards her for breaking up her cousin's marriage. She went in with intentions to destroy and she did. A lot of people have past trauma and don't enact it on people in their present. It was incredible how she started o think she was the victim.

Liked the supporting cast and that they spit truth to the cheating husband. Also liked they stayed by the wife's side through it all.

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I liked it but I hated it too

Where to even start with this drama? Overall, despite its flaws, I couldn't stop watching. I like the main couple and the female leads best friend and the storyline though predictable in some spots and infuriating in others, did keep me engaged.
These are just some random thoughts that I had about the show and may not be in order:
-Off the bat, I didn't like that Ran Ran spent four years with Mingzhe and just up and left him in England with no explanation. This man was beyond good to her and though he had a weird demanding yet endearing attitude, you know he was a good person at heart. He deserved better then that. There was no reason that at the very least, she couldn't have called him on her way to the airport to say she was leaving instead of having him come home to an empty house.
-I liked the relationship that Mingzhe had with his cousin and it's a shame it had to go south.
-I don't like how some of the biggest mysteries of the show weren't fully explained, like why didn't Ran Ran's mother reach out to her after the accident? When she knew she was dying, why not reach out to her directly instead of leaving a video message and why did the man hold onto it for so long and not give it to Ran Ran years ago? Also, why did Mingzhe's father just disappear instead of saying he wanted to leave the mother to join the monkhood? It could have been so simple. Smh. Oh, and it looks like the father wanted to hold onto the marriage but it was Ran Ran's mother who wanted out, so why let Ran Ran think the stepmother was a homewrecker? And even further, why wasn't it fully explained to Mingzhe's mother that her husband didn't have an affair with Ran Ran's mother? Then she wouldn't have been so against them being together. And like a typical woman, more mad at the other woman instead of the man who took marriage vows with you.
- I was livid over how Ran Ran's father treated her. Not once but twice he took the stepmother's word over his own child's. Then even when he found out that the stepmother was scheming, he still allowed her to stay with him and even married her? Wtf?!?! Where was all this kindness for Ran Ran? I couldn't believe that when he found out the stepmother abandoned her in England he didn't get mad at her. There's no way in the world I could find out someone did my child wrong and still be with them. I lost all respect for him, no matter how much he tried to make up for it later on.
- I also loathe the lack of communication. I get that shows do this to create confusion and issues that will have to be resolved later on but it gets tiring. Why didn't Ran Ran just tell Mingzhe that his mother said he'd lose his position in the company if they're together so I'd rather sacrifice the relationship then let that happen? Let him make his own decision, it's stupid to make your whole relationship feel like a lie instead of givign him a choice in his future. Stop the self sacrificing crap.
- I hated Su Mo. She had the biggest chip on her shoulder and over what, exactly? A whole made up scenario she made up in her mind. Ran Ran was nothing but nice to her and Su Mo let her own insecurities take over. Also, Su Mo's fiance had to have been one of the worst characters I've ever seen. What he felt for Su Mo wasn't love, it was obsession. Why keep chasing after someone who obviously loves someone else? His blind loyalty to her made me want to vomit and I really wished they didn't end up with each other in the end.
-Speaking of the end...wtf was that? So they took a cop out and just made up an ending? Why not finish it out and have shown her going back to find Mingzhe and making up. That ending was beyond disappointing.

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Worth the watch

Overall, I enjoyed this series; especially the beginning and middle. I liked that it was about successful career women and friendship with romance on the side.
I liked Ma Li Sha and David's relationship the most, even though it was very typical and played out exactly how I knew it would.
Qing Qing's relationship made me the angriest. I couldn't believe she subjected herself to that arrangement in her marriage and after all they did to her, still let them off relatively easy. Why the heck would you set up that homewrecker to marry your husband and not expose that she was pregnant with another man's child?! That would have been the sweetest revenge and it just fell in her lap. Forget taking the higher road, they both deserved to be brought to their knees for what they did to her. Thank goodness it seems like she'll find her happy ending with a new guy too.
Kai Ting and Su Can. Ahh, smh. I didn't feel the chemistry began these two. He seemed like a dumb kid and would have never been on her level. For one, I actually wanted her with the ex. I think he was brought to his knees and wouldn't have cheated again. I get why she couldn't be with him but I liked this pair more so then with Su Can.
Give it a whirl, good one time watch though.

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This show was truly infuriating! It started out with promise and I was enjoying it but my gosh, like others have said, the showing made a 180 in the plot (btw, sorry for the long review. I don't have anyone else to discuss with, lol).
By the end, I felt so bad for Monghee. Though she became successful as a designer, she still seems pitiful and very lonely. I must say though that I actually like that they didn't put her with Hyun Soo and allowed him to reconcile with his wife. It made me angry though that she kept being a doormat for everyone!
Monghee's mother was among the most disgusting characters for me. To say she started out so humble but became a total monster toward the end was unbelievable. Her attitude toward Monghee was mind-blowing. To try and brush off the contribution that she willingly made to that family was hurtful to me. It was okay for Monghee to sell on the street but too good for her son? Wowwwwoowowowow! But yet she says she loves her like she was her own daughter? Absolutely not true. Then she had the nerve to judge Mong Kyu's girlfriend off the bat like she doesn't remember that she too married against her mother in law's wishes and had a trash background. How cruel of her to judge that girl because she was raised in an orphanage! Especially when you see how kind and eager to please she was. To be so openly disapproving of her like she was in a position to judge! She must have totally forgotten the mess she got her family into when she married her daughter off to a rich family, then she turned right back around and tried to marry above her means for the son as well! And what made me the angriest is that no one really gave her a major check about her behavior. Did she ever really realize the err of her ways?
The stepmother is another one who infuriated me. She is just a home-wrecking wh#(@ who stuck around for years but has the nastiest attitude and somehow thinks her son deserves the world over all his other kids. How could the father have not put his foot down regarding her when he saw how sneaky she was? I wanted to like him but then, ugh. Her scheming and conniving ways should have had a bigger consequence for her. I also didn't think the Sung Eun deserved a happy ending either.
I hated that they allowed the nastiest characters to have a happy ending. They all deserved to suffer in unimaginable ways. The little taste of anguish that they got was not enough.
I would not watch this show again. To have to sit through 50 episodes of this to be left with this horrible ending was almost cruel.

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Why, just why.

I was thoroughly enjoying this show at first. Light, cute, and a unique storyline. I'll fast forward to where I got turned off; it's when I realized the main female lead would end up with the main male lead. Dumb, right? But with the chemistry that she had with the second male lead and the fact that he was the one who brought her power back, I thought maybe beyond all hope, they'd actually put them together. Like, come on. Let's falter from the set character norms for once. There was absolutely nothing that made the male lead attractive. He was rude and had no personality to make him endearing despite his bad attitude.
My hopes were finally dashed maybe half way through, so I just skipped to the last episode. For some reason, I just couldn't stomach the show after that. Maybe because of the fluff storyline, maybe because I already knew how the show would end.
Anyway, I definitely wouldn't watch it again and I don't think I'd recommend.

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