I'm sorry I didn't like it (''´艸`) I'll explain what was distracting me the most first. Because I had no idea how cheering squads in Korea looked like, I was surprised by seeing their costumes, believe it or not, but they are dressed exactly like tamer in circus here, all those jackets and velvet and bling-bling. I know they're supposed to cheer, but I thought of our circus all the time.

There's nothing particularly bad about it actually, but to me it is a passable drama. And I also didn't like it making it into a love triangle, because it is obvious that someone will leave with a broken heart and don't feed me this bs that second male lead is for the audience to love.

The only good part is that Cheer Up managed to reconnect me with kdramas after I saw several cuts from it on YT. I watched several kdramas years ago, but I guess either I was unlucky in my choosing or melodramatic plots were the thing back then and I honestly couldn't watch those. But during this time I felt like I could give it a try and added few dramas in the list and Cheer Up was one of them. I will say my deep thanks to it for that, things changed and I was left amazed on how production grew, cinematography is insane and overall there are gems. Unfortunately, I can't say that Cheer Up is one of them.

I thought the beginning was pretty okay, the university like any other has their own legends and the cheering squad has those too. The intrigue is there after all. I was amazed to find how cheering squads dress and what they do... I mean it's cheering, okay, but I wonder if it's me, but seeing them doing almost the same thing made me wonder, if it's that hard (?_? ) You need stamina, but they felt like going for cheering olympics. I understand it's more about passion and ability to rile up the crowd, to have that presence on stage. I think I'm too far away from it as a foreigner to truly feel the charm of it, I understand the passion, but when you never went through same experience it's hard to relate, my life in uni was bleak too. I also had my main costumes distraction at all times.
The mains were also interesting, Do Hae Yi is so lively and striving, there is nothing bad about wanting to earn and when you have money you can do many things. Park Jung Woo is responsible and serious about the cheering squad, he truly wants it to work, despite the legends. Seemingly different people together start to strive for the same goal. Although Do Hae Yi joined the club for the money, but she came to care about it and it stopped being just a task or a contract. But I particularly don't like when they have the second male lead who also falls in love with FL, but we all know he won't get anything.
I wasn't even mad that both of Hae Yi and Jung Woo acted like children when they came together, very sugary couple. But the sudden twist at the ending I felt not needed. I'm not a fan when they add a sudden illness of the loved ones, like can't you do without it? I thought having a villain who wants the profecy to work is enough for the thrill.
And with the sporty campus love story and thrilling chase after the person behind the scenes I felt like the ending drowned me with so many couples and relationships :'D

My personal favorites were actually Hae Yi and Sun Ho moms. I don't know, they brought me joy, even if you knew that Sun Ho's mom drank not out of happy married life and Hae Yi's mom spent in poverty most of her life. But here they are and keep on going. Aye.