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First of all, I must say that this drama takes A LOT OF energy and effort to digest. I mean it. Although I'm a huge fan of heavy, emotional, brainwashing, and historical dramas, but still this drama is too much even for me. I'm not a fan of crime drama since the very beginning, so that might be the cause too. This drama gives too many names, too many characters, and unclear plot of how, why, and what. Everything just falls over to the place. I'm getting so confused until around episode 5-7 and everything just boom, suddenly clears out after hanging the cloud of confusion for the first half of the drama.
Even if I'm the fan of a heavy plotted drama, I still need sufficient sweet thing called romance to balance the plot out and to put more intensity, but I think the romance in this drama is quite dry. I know it's due to the main characters' characters and personality, but still. I think the other is too active, while the other one is too passive. If you watch it, you'll know who I'm referring to. Although there's some improvements, it was very slow and unsatisfying. I know some didn't like 'pushed' and unnatural romance where the leads fall in love like in, less than 7 days. But still, I need more than this. They don't even hug, let alone kissing. I'm confused whether they really have feelings for each other and mutual love, or just childhood nostalgia seeps in.
But one thing I must praise is the ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK. I love them all. The soundtracks were so intense, great music and wonderful lyrics. I must praise this drama for the effort of presenting wonderful soundtracks that I'll always remember. Just like the soundtrack of Sky Castle, "We All Lie", the soundtrack from this drama is also very good. I really like it.
Another thing is, (I might be biased by my own personal opinion, but heck yeah, all this review is part of my personal opinion, so yeah) I want to praise the producers to pick my fav Im Jin-ah a.k.a Nana 'After School' as the female lead. I fell in love for her legendary beauty, of course, and hearing that she'll star in a drama with Park Hae-jin this 2019 really made my day, but suddenly she pulled out from the drama, and I was really depressed. Fortunately, she decided to join another drama, which is Kill It! And I also love Jang Ki-young since the days he starred in IU's MV (MY ULTIMATE BIAS IS IU / LEE JI-EUN) and after he starred again in IU's drama 'My Ahjussi'. Even though he played the role of a jerk, but I can't deny that HE'S HOT! Having both ultimate visuals of Korea really brighten up this drama. And I must admit the only great things that this drama has is its wonderful visual casts and beautiful soundtracks.
I hope whoever watching this enjoy this drama enough. I'm determined to watch this until the end and promise to myself that I won't drop this off in the middle (this is that kind of drama that can make me feel so distracted by other things, like playing my phone for example, due to boring plots and confusing dialogues), because as much as it is complicated, confusing, and boring (I don't know how many times already I repeat these 3 words), I'm still very drawn by the characters and potential (although it's almost 0%) romance development, and how will everything revealed in the end, the aftereffect, and the reactions of each cast. I'm still so curious of how this drama end. So stay tune pals!
score 7/10
chelsietristany 26 April 2019
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