Worst Korean Drama script of all time

I cannot even imagine how the same scriptwriter who gave us Crash Landing on You somehow managed to come up with this steaming pile of excrement. Colleges and universities should use this as a case study in bad writing. It constantly insults the viewers intelligence to the point that one is left completely exasperated and confused at how it could even exist. This viewer only managed to reach the end it all through a combination of hate watching and intrigue at how such a high end, expensive major studio production with top class actors and soundtrack could come to this. One completely idiotic, unrealistic, completely unbelievable plot twist after another with every conceivable k-drama trope after another used and then reused until the viewer feels brutalized by the stupidity of it all. This show is dog ____.

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Best part is it's finally over.

This shows is just all over the place. I kept watching to see if anything ever happens, but it never does. But what I really came here to talk about is how one of the good guys in show gets thrown off a 60 story building and in the next scenes is shown in a hospital bed with just a light bandage around his head, with zero explanation of how he survived, or any of the characters commenting or questioning it at all. Just really bizarre and baffling writing. Yes, he's in a coma which I guess is supposed to drive home just how dangerous it can be getting thrown off a 60 story building, but not to worry he is otherwise unscathed and on his way to recovery by show's ending, all without a single character ever making a single remark at how unusual it is to survive such a fall.

The other weird thing about this drama is that it begins with a time jump and the main character uses what he learned before the jump to help him through the next few episodes, and it is then never explored or commented on ever again, and the other main character that participated in the jump has no memory of it, and this too is never explored or in any way resolved. It's a major plot point in the beginning of the show and then just completely dropped and forgotten half way through as if the writers just didn't want to bother with it anymore.

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Very slow dreary slice of life

This drama moves incredibly slowly and seems to be centered around stereotypical kdrama misunderstandings and missed timing in romance. That could be fine if handled well, but the misunderstandings so far stretch through countless episode after episode, without resolution, while just adding ever new ones to the pile. After awhile you stop rooting for the 1st leads to resolve their misunderstandings and start to root for them hooking up with the second leads instead who look better together, meet cuter than the main leads do and who seem much better suited for each other.

Spoiler alert! .............................. So now I have watched all episodes and my review numbers don't change but now will add some final thoughts. Most Kdramas I don't think much about afterwards, but this show is nothing if not memorable. The lives of the four main characters are changed forever by a single moment of hesitation by one lead.

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Brilliant drama marred by fantastic impossibility

This drama is packed with good storytelling and great acting, and I would give it a higher rating if not for the main thing I'm here to talk about. Spoiler alert: In one the early episodes one of the female leads is pushed off a tall 30 or so story building and we assume she must be dead because there is no other possible outcome in real life, but the next thing you know we see her in a hospital bed with a sling on one arm and apparently no broken bones or other serious injuries.

This show is otherwise a serious drama about serious situations, not about the supernatural or a cartoon, but here is this woman that miraculously survives a fall from a skyscraper and not a single character ever questions it or otherwise even makes a single remark wondering how she could have survived it or how unusual and fantastic it is. This is the second drama I've watched recently where a character falls from a skyscraper and survives and no one questions it at all, so I'm wondering if it's a uniquely kdrama inside joke or a new trope that writers are playing with to deliberately tease their viewers.

A Hollywood production or really any kind of production I've ever heard of could not include such an event and be taken seriously thereafter because viewers would be angry at such nonsense. It was a very interesting and fun drama otherwise but that stunt left me puzzled and confused at what is going on with that.

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Extremely weird romcom

I read that older female leads are often paired with younger male leads to attract the large female viewer share but this drama takes it further than I've ever seen before. The FL looks to be about twenty years older than the ML. It strains credulity to pretend this could happen especially given that there is absolutely zero chemistry between them. It's pure older female fantasy fiction. 30 something handsome rich man is going to fall for 50 something women who is neither particularly attractive or well off? She is too old to even bare children for him. How does that even work? Ironically he sees a female therapist who would be a much better and more natural match for him. They look really good together and it leaves the viewer wondering why he doesn't pursue someone like her.

On top of all that there is a muder and police drama subplot out of nowhere. It's like they thought the story was too boring as is and decided to throw in the kitchen sink. Weird weird weird drama.

Last but not least, the lying: To lie about something as serious as having a husband living overseas when in fact the lead has never been married is just too much for a Westerner to comprehend. Lying is used extensively in Kdramas as a lazy plot device leading to misunderstandings but the amount of both very serious black lies and completely unnecessary white lies for the smallest bit of convenience sake leaves this viewer wondering if lying is the norm more than the exception in Korean daily life. I mostly love the characters in Kdramas but the non-stop lying for no good reason always leaves a sour taste. Not giving up on it yet but close.

So now I have watched the entire show and have to change my review to the lowest rating possible. I have never seen such a thing in my life. I ended up just fast forwarding through the last episode. Spoiler Alert!...................The show mixes a light hearted romance with a serial killer story. One minute the show is focused on romance and the next minute the ML's teaching assistant is murdering and kidnapping people (including a main character) and then literally kills himself while the ML helplessly watches. Five minutes later show drops that plot point entirely and none of the characters ever mention or reflect upon it again. We never see the reaction of ML's other assistants to these developments either. The last we see of the guy is him dead on the sidewalk after jumping and never a single mention of it ever again. WTAF! Insane!!! Do not watch! OMG!

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This review contains spoilers

I did not realize when I started watching this drama that, spoiler alert, suicide would be a major plot point, and I might not have started it if I had. But once engaged I was going along with it as best I could when suddenly the reason for said suicide is revealed in episode 5. So here it is: The guy is a prosecutor and is unjustly accused of professional and criminal misconduct when, instead of choosing to stay alive for his wife and child who adore him, and fight the charges, he instead decides to secretly record his suicide note with his version of the truth on a handheld recorder, say a heartfelt farewell to his daughter on said recording, and then leaves it completely to chance if anyone finds said recording on said recording device after he is dead. He even says on the recording itself that it doesn't matter if anyone finds it, but also that he is making the recording so people will know the truth. Then why does it not matter if it's found or not, he does not say! He also says elsewhere, in some kind of a riddle I guess that he is committing this act so that the truth will NOT come out or be known., and it's left completely unclear how such a contradiction can exist. The problem with all this besides just seeming like very lazy writing is that the stated reason for this man to commit suicide is so nonsensical, preposterous and unbelievable and counter intuitive for someone trained in and committed to the law, that it seriously trivializes suicide itself, and it is disappointing to see a show handle such a serious subject so objectionably and inartfully.

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A remake of Call My Agent

It took me awhile before I realized that this show is a remake of French TV comedy series Call My Agent. While I did very much enjoy the original Call My Agent series, behaviors and actions that seem plausible, relatable, humorous or ring true for French characters seem way less so or even impossible for S. Korean characters, and thus many of the things the charactors do and say feels very inauthentic and unlikely in the Korean context. Whereas most kdrams are a window into S. Korean society, this drama is not because it's written for French characters, so it's kind of an odd and confusing watch.

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Depraved manipulation

Before I begin, I would like to address the plague of 10 star reviews on this site. What's the point of giving everything you watch and moderately think is ok 10 stars? It makes all reviews, yours and others completely meaningless. My Mister is the only drama I would give 10's across the board to as it is arguably one of the greatest works of art ever made. But if everything you like is a ten, then the whole exercise is pointless. I never read 10 star reviews because these people are simply untrustworthy shills and attention seekers

Rant over

This story shows the physical and physcholological torture of a high school girl at the hands of her sick and twisted classmates. The girl is further tortured and humiliated by the school principals who side with the sadistic students because it would reflect poorly on them if they allowed her reports of abuse to go forward. The show itself is sick and twisted and manipulative and cruel. This completely unrealistic and over the top introduction is supposed to set up the subsequent revenge plot coming in the next 16 episodes, with last 8 episodes to come in a later 2nd season, so even if you start watching this now, there will be no payoff till much later, so why bother? Why tourture oneself with this garbage? Dropped after 1/2 episode.

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