Okay, firstly this drama shouldn’t have been sixteen episodes at all. I don’t think we would have had so many emotional arcs if it was 12 or so. I enjoyed the first Episodes quite a bit and then the charm fell off. While the FL is bright, cheerful personality, it doesn’t naturally come off. The writers intention to portray positivity in a workplace seems almost one dimensional. Any character who struggles to enjoy their work and sees it simply as their means to make money is pushed into a direction to feel for it. But this isn’t the biggest issue I had with the story or the characters. What annoyed me the most was how abusive characters were given so much leeway! The abuse they inflict on other characters is seen in an almost sympathetic lens. I’m sorry I don’t care if they have a sob story which justifies their behaviour. It doesn’t matter because their actions are horrible towards others. Especially with the employee who nearly gives up her dream, and the artist Shin and his abusive mother. The latter was the last straw, I simply couldn’t get behind the forgiving arc they were playing for her.

I wish the drama delved more on the plot than emotionally connecting the characters together, would have been so much better if they focused on healthy ways of healing instead of pushing the abused characters into forgiving the abuser arc. If you want to watch something without this emotional abuse romanticised, do give the Japanese version a watch. That’s so much better than this adaptation!