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Summer Strike korean drama review
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Summer Strike
1 people found this review helpful
by Kello
Mar 5, 2023
12 of 12 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 6.0
Story 5.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 7.5
Rewatch Value 4.0
This review may contain spoilers

Started off as a promising healing drama, but

I really enjoyed the first couple of episodes and was excited about a light-hearted, small-town, healing drama. But with how the plot developed in the latter portion, it felt like we were being pulled in several directions and I just didn't know what to take from the story anymore. It really did not need the whole murder mystery premise; that seemed so pointless to me. Felt like such an unnecessary plot twist :/ Instead of using the episode time on that, they could've focused it more on Ji Young + Sung Min or the students/bullies.

If the grandma weRe to die in the plot, it could've been from an accident/natural causes and we could go through the grieving process with the characters to learn more about processing and healing, rather than pinning her death on a potential assailant and being detectives to figure out who killed her.

It could've focused more on the relationship between the two main characters; their cute interactions and their healing with each other. While we did get that in the beginning, it was completely lost towards the end until they decided to randomly bring back the wholesome vibes, which gave me whiplash.

I love Im Siwan and I thought Seolhyun's acting was pretty good here too. It sucks that the plot wasn't up to par, at least in my opinion.
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