Ugh. Where should I start? I believe this drama is overhyped and overrated. It was good the first two episodes because the female lead had an actual significant role and it looked like she was ready to do something to fight her destiny and get her happy ending.

Ever since the romance took over the show, though, Dan Oh forgot who she was, what she wanted, and everything else apart from her boy crush. I swear her running after the guy and going "Haru-ya" every half a second was the most annoying thing EVER. For a drama that was supposedly about gaining your agency and becoming the owner of your own choices and life, Dan Oh became a non-entity outside of her romantic storyline. Not happy with that, the writers made her two love interests (Haru and Baek Kyung) far more relevant than her character and completely sidelined her. She became a damsel in distress waiting for the "Haru in shining armour" to save her. Where is the empowered female lead we were introduced to in the first episode? All I see is a girl with no character growth and an obsession with romance. SMH. However, I didn't drop the drama right away hoping for an improvement. I waited patiently... until the moment Dan Oh threw away her medication because Haru had disappeared. (*facepalm*). That was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. What's the big idea? If the object of your affection disappears, you're supposed to throw away your life?! That's about the most messed up message I've ever seen in all of my kdrama watching history. Wasn't Dan Oh absolutely desperate because she didn't want to die? Let me get this straight, was Haru her only motivation to want to live? Has she forgotten that other people love her too? I never expected this drama to stoop to Twilight-levels of terrible writing, but it did. It had so much potential but it threw it away.

Anyways, this show is a parody of the godawful "Boys Over Flowers", but it wound up being equally terrible because of its one-dimensional characters, cliche tropes, and messed up messages. The only saving grace is the cast's acting. Hard pass.

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