So much potential for nothing.

Oh boy, here we go. Buckle in guys, apparently I have a lot to say.

The first couple episodes of this show were so close to perfection that I was very excited to see where it was going to go, only for there to be so much promise that went literally nowhere. At the start I was in full ship mode, on pins and needles waiting for her premonition to come true; but by the time it did, I just didn't care anymore.

My gut reaction is to say that the show should have been longer, but in all honestly 12 episodes would have been perfect if every minute had been utilised properly. There were so many unnecessary side plots that should have been done away with to give the actual storyline more room to breathe - i.e. the girl in the team who felt unappreciated, the new guy who was filming a youtube video or something? (I don't even know.) The writers really should have trimmed the fat and just kept the meat of the story.

It took too long for the pair to actually get together and so the rest of the main plot was rushed. The whole miscommunication aspect went on for far too long and if the cute parts of their relationship had happened in the first half of the show, they would have had plenty of time to flesh out the rest of the story. Instead the last two/three episodes felt out of left field - especially that finale which was basically just an info dump to get us to the HEA. Let's not even touch that last half an hour because wtf.

It didn’t help that the main relationship wasn’t all that interesting. In the beginning when Hong Ye Sul had the premonition of them having sex, that was H O T. But then the way they got together felt so cold and calculating. It didn’t feel like she was attracted to him at all, instead she was just going through the motions because she knew that was going to happen anyway. And I didn’t like how Min Hu’s character basically did a complete 180 once they got together properly.

Lee Pil Yo and Oh Ji Young were literally the most horrific pair of second leads I’ve seen in my kdrama journey thus far (usually there's at least one that I like). Every second they were on screen I just wanted them to get run over by a speeding truck. Their jealousy should have definitely ended earlier in the series which also would have given them room to grow as people. And yet, I liked their ending better than the main couple? Go figure.

This show felt like a melting pot where everything the writers could think of was added in, and not enough time was dedicated to the stuff that really mattered. The final episode took me impossibly long to finish as I found myself pausing just to scroll aimlessly through my phone. And I really need to reiterate, that last half an hour was an absolute shock to the system. Definitely won't be rewatching and am unlikely to recommend.

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