I liked the show from the beginning. But it was a hit and a miss overall. I loved the FL, her character was quite good and the part was played well by her, like she always does. I disliked how ML was portrayed as a character, writer botched that up, I have seen the actor doing well in his previous shows that I have seen. But here he acted way too obnoxiously a lot of times, especially whenever he had to act silly/cute/immature, he overreacted a lot, and such scenes of him take a large part of the show. And most of the times his makeup done was too flaky and made him look weird, it drew my attention to his makeup, which shouldn't happen.
Still the first half was good, two broken people, in their own miseries, find happiness and joy in each other, which was good to see, the main story of the ML patient's table death, that was also okay, although very predictable.
But it gets resolved around mid of the show, and thus the second half starts getting dull, as lot of scenes and dialogues keep on repeating throughout the show.
With the content and story arc and character development, this should have been a 10-12 episode show. Also I disliked how ML ptsd was handled, like we see sessions of FL curing her depression, not once ML session was shown, him working on his ptsd issues, just one scene where FL shows up in his surgery and bam his ptsd is cured. I get the dramatic gesture, but this doesn't suit the tone of the show at all, where so much footage and theme and monologue is dedicated to people in depression and other mental health issues. This was done very very poorly. He also had insomnia because of same anxiety and ptsd, and he has suffered that from last 15 years, but even that isn't addressed properly, nor shown that how he is handling that.
A lot of issues for me in the way male leads character was written, because there was so much they missed or didn't consider it important enough to address.
Also, though the chemistry between leads was okay, but it wasn't what it should have been, felt like there was a severe lack of intimacy between them at times. Again, not the fault of actors, because there were like 2-3 kissing scenes, and they really did good there, passion was visible, writers and director should have used that.
I had such hopes from this show, as I have loved both the lead actors from their previous shows, but the writing here failed otherwise what could have been one of the best kdramas this year. I wouldn't recommend this show.
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