Please Don't Spoil Me Season 4 (2023)

Meh

I feel like this is an example of producers stretching out a story for monetary value - but no artistic or creative value.

The entire series would've been better off ending at Season 3 but with the ending being an open one showing the FL meeting the modern world ML and hinting at romance. Instead they continue to drag on the story, making it lose the poignancy and depth of emotion that came from the first three seasons.

Also, when the FL's memory was erased, it inexplicably made her a ditz - she lost her sharpness and maturity, which made me like her so much in the first three seasons. What's up with that?

Based on reviews for Season 5, I'll be skipping it, unless I'm epically bored and have nothing else to watch.

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Season 4/5: His turn now!

Our novelist is back home but in spite of all success, she is not happy, missing the emperor all the time. The Book Scholar erases her memory of falling into her own book. But the emperor suddenly shows up wanting to pick up where they left off. When the Book Scholar tries to send him back to his own world, he realizes that the emperor is connected to the novelist too much. She has to find a way to make him want to go back otherwise she's going to suffer because of his presence. Now the emperor has to learn how to live in the modern society.

The comedy is back after the serious third chapter of this story. Unfortunately not as funny as before! Now it is his turn to be fish out of water and try to get used to the new setting. And just like the novelist in the first part, he gets comfortable very quickly and the focus of the story shifts to her workplace, friends and family. Mostly workplace as she tries to sell the sequel to her book and is having trouble being approved by the big boss. The workplace dynamics are quite fun to watch: the jealous supervisor, the love struck boss and his dragon of a mother big boss, the novelist's brainstorming team.... The relationship that stands out the most, though, is between the emperor and his secretary: there is a real bromance(without romance!) in the making there.

The big problem is the production value: the drama looks like their budget was cut in half: the cinematography is ugly, the colours are pale and when colours there are, they are obviously fake. The costumes are ugly, the hair is ugly (why does the emperor sport that horrible army buzzcut?). The music has been reduced to one song: I like it but I need variety.

Nevertheless, it is a fun watch, one cannot help but root for them and wonder if and how they are going to get their happy ending!

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