I really, really wanted to like this drama. The premise was pretty unique. Our heroine has magical abilities that might help our hero out of his misfortunes. That set-up should make for a cute story, right? Plus I absolutely loved Na In Woo in Mr Queen and was happy to see he was cast as the main lead.

The first few episodes were fine. The female lead annoyed me at first but then grew on me. She’s basically like Giselle in Enchanted. The market people were over the top but the entire show was a bit cartoonish so I could live with that. The villains were pretty well portrayed, again a bit over the top but ok. And then… it almost felt like someone took over the second half of the script who didn’t read the first part. Nothing made sense anymore. The light-hearted feeling of the first few episodes was just gone.

At times, I felt bad for the actors who had to deal with this messy script. I usually don’t pay much attention to the directing but in this case, it was just jarring, scenes jumbled or randomly cut together and apparently no instructions to the actors about varying their expressions. Several comments in particular criticized the second male lead for that, but I think he was just limited by the script to be this stoic character.

I thought about dropping this show but then kept going, and it did get better in the last few episodes. But I finished it with a strong feeling of watching a missed opportunity.