Went into this series right off the back of SITR and mainly for the sake of Hae In. I didn’t have that huge of expectations but this still managed to disappoint.

The story seemed like it was put together last minute and no amount of good acting could save the nonsensical plot, lines and actions of the characters; particularly the female lead.

Jeung In was portrayed as this strong, decisive confident person while in reality she was just self-cantered, self-absorbed, and anything but decisive.
And her inability to communicate properly was the cherry on top. It made any attempts at trying to portray her character as this private, independent kind of person who keeps to themselves fall flat as all she only managed to appear as was defensive and childish.

From her being passive aggressive to her EX instead of just breaking it off completely to her continuing to still meet up with him after each “break up”; being all moody screaming at him one day and inviting him to wine and dine the next, and dear lord don’t get me started on the cheating which for some reason everyone avoided calling it that. Making it seem like her actions were justified and instead shifting the blame to the male lead.

Speaking of which, Ji Hu’s character I did not mind but at times his relationship with his son seemed.. off and yet again I blame it on the bad writing. His feelings for Jeung In were unjustified as she was nothing but rude to him. Was he just desperate? I don’t know. Their whole relationship didn’t make sense; how they jumped from liking one another to being crazily in love, none of it made sense.

As for other characters, her older sister’s inability to just get a divorce and get it over with just annoyed me. I get it societal pressure and what not but, yet again, it must be the poor writing ‘cuz I did not feel none of it. As for the youngest sister, even though a lot of people seemed to like her, I couldn’t. She was imposing and immature and the way she kept on stalking that dude was just creepy.

Each and every episode was basically the same thing. The plot didn’t go nowhere. Characters would meet, converse in lines that, despite the good acting, felt extremely shallow, argue about struggles that were very difficult to relate to when you couldn’t make sense of the plot and that was pretty much it.

And while SITR was not my cup of tea when it comes to k-dramas, it was a well-written show and I overall enjoyed it. The fact that OSN was by the same director was even more disappointing.
Using the same themes and “concepts” like the osts for instance. Has the show been more well-written I wouldn’t have minded it, but as the episodes continued it felt just lazy.

As far as realism goes, they did get one thing right. People who cheat are damn unlikable.

But to give credit where credit is due, and after finishing this drama (skipped forward a lot of it), The female lead acting in silent moments; or when nothing seemed to be happening i.e. having food, lazying around the house was very natural and I honestly was impressed with a lot of these “just hanging around” scenes.

Yet again, the acting was never the problem.