Mediocre Kromcom
While I love Kromcom and I love romances, this is basically a 6 hour miniseries done in 16 hour-long episodes. Even for me this was a bit much.
I understand why people like it. Good directing. Good acting. Tearjerker moments. It has all the elements you'd expect in a series like this... except it just draaaagggss on.
The plot is predictable and has been done oh so many times before (and better). The love triangle sub-story is blase. I was ready for it to be done by the 8th episode... but it went eight episodes further. There are a large number of repeated scenes, the same song used over and over in each episode, and a canned, recycled plot.
Oh, and evidently the primary reason to fall in love with someone is because they're "handsome" or "beautiful"... as this is stressed repeatedly throughout the series. I hope there aren't many ordinary-looking people in the audience, because it's quite clear we're all bottom of the barrel romance-wise.
The actors are good in their parts, but the characters are cookie-cutter 2-dimensional. The main actress is cute and versatile but mercurial. The main male actor plays Doom well enough, but has about 3 facial expressions (he surely is capable of much more if the director would just use his abilities better). The supporting actors are good in their parts, but the younger brother is annoyingly hyper-cliche immature (I got so tired of him crying I wanted to strangle him. Is that "funny" in Korea?). Some of the parts are totally unnecessary to the show, evidently thrown to stretch the one-trick-pony storyline to 16 episodes.
So no, I don't find it "the best Krom ever", I don't have any desire to watch it again, and despite my love for this genre found myself repeatedly wincing after the first few episodes as they pulled plot element after plot element out of the major-cliche bag, re-used the same scenery in the same way (how many trips to the beach does one show warrant?), and made me hope they would pull it together in the end. That's never a good sign.
Look, I love this genre. I watch Kromcoms regularly. Production-wise it was impeccable. But story-wise, it could have used a lot more imagination and originality. With this subject matter and acting talent, they could have been a whole lot more creative and produced a much better series. So 5-star mediocre. Some incurable romantics might find it 10-star worthy, but honestly, there are better series out there.
Note: some viewers may find the "fictitious religious presentation" of God objectionable. I won't go into details due to spoilers, but be forewarned. Neither the role of Doom nor God is well-defined in this series, and some will even find the roles objectionable.
I understand why people like it. Good directing. Good acting. Tearjerker moments. It has all the elements you'd expect in a series like this... except it just draaaagggss on.
The plot is predictable and has been done oh so many times before (and better). The love triangle sub-story is blase. I was ready for it to be done by the 8th episode... but it went eight episodes further. There are a large number of repeated scenes, the same song used over and over in each episode, and a canned, recycled plot.
Oh, and evidently the primary reason to fall in love with someone is because they're "handsome" or "beautiful"... as this is stressed repeatedly throughout the series. I hope there aren't many ordinary-looking people in the audience, because it's quite clear we're all bottom of the barrel romance-wise.
The actors are good in their parts, but the characters are cookie-cutter 2-dimensional. The main actress is cute and versatile but mercurial. The main male actor plays Doom well enough, but has about 3 facial expressions (he surely is capable of much more if the director would just use his abilities better). The supporting actors are good in their parts, but the younger brother is annoyingly hyper-cliche immature (I got so tired of him crying I wanted to strangle him. Is that "funny" in Korea?). Some of the parts are totally unnecessary to the show, evidently thrown to stretch the one-trick-pony storyline to 16 episodes.
So no, I don't find it "the best Krom ever", I don't have any desire to watch it again, and despite my love for this genre found myself repeatedly wincing after the first few episodes as they pulled plot element after plot element out of the major-cliche bag, re-used the same scenery in the same way (how many trips to the beach does one show warrant?), and made me hope they would pull it together in the end. That's never a good sign.
Look, I love this genre. I watch Kromcoms regularly. Production-wise it was impeccable. But story-wise, it could have used a lot more imagination and originality. With this subject matter and acting talent, they could have been a whole lot more creative and produced a much better series. So 5-star mediocre. Some incurable romantics might find it 10-star worthy, but honestly, there are better series out there.
Note: some viewers may find the "fictitious religious presentation" of God objectionable. I won't go into details due to spoilers, but be forewarned. Neither the role of Doom nor God is well-defined in this series, and some will even find the roles objectionable.
- Snootz
- Jul 12, 2023