Cliche... pensive for like 5 minutes...

The whole memory loss thing... why do writers still use such overused, cliche plot events??

Sooo... she gets her memories back. And she's so chill about it? She doesn't tell anyone? (I HATE WHEN CHARACTERS DON'T TELL ANYONE ABOUT A HUGE LIFE CHANGE IN A SHOW!!! SO UNREALISTIC) She doesn't contact Harumichi or confront her mother. Also, Harumichi's a bit of a slimeball. Poor Tsunemi, she is forreal just cast aside. He uses then dumps her.

This obsession with first love in so many dramas is lowkey depressing... life is a bountiful and diverse experience, through one's youth to their death. Love and meaningful experiences can be found and had at any age. Some people find their person at 45, 50, 80... no need to put love in youth on a pedestal.

I did like how Harumichi was like are you going to full send and go after what you want from life, or follow life's tail wind? or whatever. I was like so true. So many tail wind moments. She just finds him in a small Iceland airport? Why do dramas always have such a rushed lazy ending? They're so slow with development the entire show then cram a ton of stuff into the last episode. Like pace yourself...

Tsuzuru's music bangs though.

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Regardless of execution, I am glad that Korean media is fostering some gender dialogue - it's a start, and we've got a ways to go...

I'll be honest. I could relate to her initial opinions, her distrust of men, etc. Why the h*ll did she fall in love with a misogynist borderline incel? I'm sorry, dude get over your bad breakup. Like he literally hates women and cannot even have a normal conversation with one, let alone touch one. Move on!!! Get some therapy! There's no closure to his misogyny either (by episode 8, when she reciprocates his feelings). Not much of a feminist, in the end she still ended up with the kind of man she hated. Sorry, the ML is so not charming.

The FL is a hot mess. It's like a man's idea of a modern woman? She sleeps with 100+ guys but is strong and violent and is like a succubus to them. She isn't really a person with depth, she's just "not like other girls...

I enjoyed the first episode or two, as it was different and interesting. But damn, it got boring and ridiculous. Why did the FL's friend and the ML's manager/friend start dating-ish? I never got to the end obvi, but I could tell they were going to. So lazy.

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I still ponder this drama from time to time

This was my first drama that I watched to the end and it was honestly really good. It holds a special place in my heart now. I, of course, was bawling at the ending (two people so in love and deeply intertwined parting ways!!!) and took a long time to process it.

I don't have an issue with them breaking up at the end. It made sense for them at the time. I just hated how isolated adult Hee-Do was in the present, with her mediocre Mom and daughter. Okay, she's not with Yi-Jin anymore, but where's 40-year-old Yu-Rim??? Like she married a guy who's never around, so she might as well have married Yi-Jin. It was just a sad, lonely ending for her, and the adult Hee-Do did not read as Hee-Do. She was too subdued and insightful. People don't lose their personality at 40!

I just wanted better for her, and happiness for them both. I think everything after the breakup was executed poorly. But, I loved the beginning to the breakup.

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Repetitive!

It started off very strong, funny, whatever in the first few episodes. Eventually, it became so repetitive it was hard to watch. They constantly got into hair-brained situations where they had to tell convoluted lies or dramatically hide themselves. When the FL kept putting her hair over her face in front of the chairman for the first half of the show it pissed me off! When she refused to come out of the bathroom and pushed him down with the door... so frustrating to watch. Just chill out!!! The writers just kept reusing the same plot events over and over, it was so boring by the end.

The ML had two moods: immature/defensive and smug. He delivers all of his lines with the same cadence... and the fact that he kept taking her on dates but coming up with a work excuse, like 5 times. He gave me the ick.

I did like the grandpa/chairman, and the meta motif of the chairman's drama he was watching (and how it was the same stupid plot of the actual drama).

So many things going on... fake identity to fake dating... too much happening.

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I don't get the hype

I just don't get the hype. The ML and FL act like teenagers when they're pushing 40 (not charming, no chemistry)... they can't even look one another in the eyes after a normal display of affection.

The way the ML is risking his life here is insane. Their tangled web of lies only gets more complex and it's stressful to watch it all go down. They are reckless!
I also hate the back and forth, like she's gonna leave for real this time... sike!!! The plot doesn't hold up if you think about it critically even a little and it's just a bit boring. Sorry, I don't mean to be a total hater, I like all the actors and they do well in their respective roles, but I don't see how people rate this a 9 or 10 out of 10 consistently.

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um what the h*ll. So many things wrong here. It felt like 5 stories smooshed together. At the beginning, the ML has this haunting thing going on with the red hand grabbing him, which goes away after like 2 episodes? I assume that represents the symptoms of his illness?

And his chronic/terminal illness seemingly goes away for 5+ episodes after they do the spell, which by the way those don't actually work!

Then the random stalking plot. Why did it change from this supernatural creepy story to a weird love story where they fall in love and things become so ordinary? I am just in disbelief of how poorly the story was executed. I only got halfway through but it changed so much - the story was devolving - to the point that I can't even imagine what happens next.

Okay NO when she makes the first spell, the love spell, and puts the potion in her tumbler, puts most of it in the glass for her coworker to drink.... okay. Then, her boss takes her tumbler off her desk and drinks the water in it, then keeps it? what? In that scene she CLEARLY holds it upside down and shakes it to show that there is NO love potion left. Yet, a few episodes later, she brings it to a work thing in the forest and the creepy gardener drinks some? Hello, what? Why would there A. be any potion left after we SAW IT EMPTY and B. why would she bring that with her days later? Like girl what?! Am I misremembering this or something? The more I type the worse I remember it being.

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