I didn't have high expectations of this drama and honestly, I caved in cause Netflix kept recommending it to me (putting it on the top of queue categories, as well as having it featured in my Netflix screensaver). I didn't know what I wanted to watch, and this one seemed different from what I normally watch. So why not?

And this blew me out of the water. Yes, it was a typical medical drama, but I enjoyed how it was about two different doctors, from two different time periods, who viewed life in completely different ways, BUT were extremely similar in how passionate they were with what they did.

I like to say that this was a drama about two doctors who were passionate about their work, but once they meet, they take this journey about getting that passion and turning it into compassion. It isn't enough to be a great doctor and being the best at what you do, but relearning that initial love for what they do as well as finding some compassion and empathy for the people around them. Not saying that the two mains Heo Im and Yeon Kyung were bad people, but they did need to step back and figure out what their motivations were and learning to re-fall in love with themselves as well as their work.

I really did like the characters and how this drama was more about Heo Im and Yeon Kyung supporting one another through hardship and finding out what even though they come off as different people, they have similar hearts, and eventually, in the final 5-6 episodes, we start to see that slow burn romance. And their romance didn't lack - if anything I appreciated it a lot more as they got to become friends first and built this trust where when something bad happened, they supported one another because they knew it was against the other's character. Not like other dramas where they would break up and realize, "oh they did this to protect me." But don't worry, there are still some heavy heartbreaking scenes in this drama still. That honestly took me by surprise and made me realize that we need to protect Heo Im at all costs.

I think Heo Im was my favorite character as well - there were so many sides to him. I thought he was the comedic relief who needed to teach Yeon Kyung the joys in life, and she needed to help him relearn why he got into medicine in the first place and not for greed. BUT NO. There was so much depth and grief and it made me tear up a couple of times when we got to witness his hardship. It made it that much more enjoyable whenever Heo Im would skip around and laugh and be a bubbly person. At first I thought it was annoying and I wanted to story to progress, but once you get to the middle around ep 10, your heart breaks for him. And that is why this took me by surprise. It wasn't just some random drama.

After saying all that though, I felt the ending was a bit generic. Still good and happy (with a good segway into a possible season two with new mains, which I would totally watch), but I felt that it didn't have the epicness I was hoping for. It just kind of happened in the last 10 minutes. It got to a point where I was okay with the drama ending a certain way because it made sense. It also probably didn't help that I kept pausing the middle of emotional and intense scenes on accident because I got distracted by other things.

I do recommend this though. It took me by a surprise. It was just something super random that I was like sure why not and I am happy I watched this.