idk why this has 8.0 rating, there are so many dramas that do enemies-to-lovers better than whatever this was.

As much as I love Tae Joon and Soo Young this was a just badly written, it makes sense that this was made sometime during 2018 because I can't see these two actors picking up a script like this rn.

This didn't even make it to my guilty pleasure list, I completed this just out of spite.

None of the characters were likeable, which is alright with me in general, I don't watch dramas expecting to find perfect people. But when I say unlikable I mean they are written poorly.

What irks me is when dramas try to sell us unlikable people as someone we should sympathise with because they had a badly written traumatic past or when they try to make the audience believe that a female character is strong initially then completely throw that trait off by making her do stupid or downright embarrassing things which add absolutely nothing to the plot.

None of the characters had any traits that would make me root for them, literally none! I'd come to like a character and then two-three scenes later they'd end up doing something completely contradictory in the name of unnecessary angst. If this was a crime-thriller genre then this outcome would make sense but in a rom-com you'd expect to find the main characters likeable at least. Sad!

I won't talk about SML and SFL because holy shit I haven't hated fictional characters so much in a very long time, which was fine with me, it meant that they were doing their job well...that was until the writers practically forced us to feel bad for them by spoon feeding us 'justifiable' reasons for their actions. Hate it when writers think of audiences as empathetic fools.

Character development should happen naturally, you can't make us hate a character right until the 14th ep and then just aimlessly throw some sympathetic flashback scenes towards the end to make us feel something for them.

The only redeeming quality of this show was Soo Young despite me finding her character unlikable. I've seen Tae Joon's other works and he acts well but his acting seemed lax in this one, idk if its because his character was written haphazardly with a backstory that i simply didn't care about, whatever the reason might be for his lacklustre performance his character just didn't seem to have a presence of an idol who is supposedly loved by millions of people.

One thing I did genuinely enjoy was the lack of a crazy love triangle, it did have love triangle initially but it was resolved cleanly. Also the romantic scenes between the ML and FL were cute as hell, their intimacy was natural and the bickering didn't just suddenly stop after they got together it was fun to watch them together.


PS. The OST sucked BIG TIME though lol. (music is subjective though so take this with a grain of salt)