There is only one reason why I am still watching…

There is only one reason why I am still watching this: the visual.

The general atmosphere created by some stunning photography and beautiful music is very... european, for some reason. Not that I ever asked an Asian drama to look like a walk through the small streets of Paris, but still it's kind of original and visually romantic. And the songs by Rachael Yamagata are enchanting.
The main couple is equally beautiful to look at. The long scenes showing them talking, laughing and walking are fresh and sweet.

However, there are many things I'm royally annoyed with.

1. That mother of hers! Please, someone gag her and lock her into a closet for the rest of the show. The woman is the embodiment of shallowness, greed, twisted values and gender discrimination, all in one irritating package. As if the drama didn't have enough idiotic males in it! Her brother comes second in my displeasure chart. And just to appease all chauvinistic viewers out there they give us a nasty piece of work ex boyfriend, harrassment at work and a steady flow of improper comments.

2. They are making a tragedy out of a 4 year gap in age! It's not as though she were a fossil and he a baby, come on! This obsession with age displayed in so many Korean dramas borders on ridicule. Jin Ah is a gorgous woman in her prime, for pete's sake. I can understand the issue "friend of my younger brother and younger brother of my friend", that's a harder nut to crack, but I wish they would stop calling her old at every given chance.

3. The amount of alcohol consumed by all in every episode so far. So, let me get this right: it's a scandal to date a slightly younger man, to be single at 35, but there's no problem whatsoever that half of the city population is wobbling and blabbing around in the grip of soju? Bah...

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