Technically, I should not write a review since I only managed a quarter of the series, but I feel like mentioning why I dropped it should be reason enough.
I was hooked for the first 2 episodes because the filming quality, story line, main character, and her character introduction moved at a comfortably fast pace. The camera shots portrayed the drowsy, stagnating summer heat of the city, giving the drama an overall tone of melancholy yet with some passionate life to it as well. For example, the scenes that caught the blinding glare of the sun as the MC squatted on the ground, playing with a machine until it was empty, her watering the plants in cooling sprays as she she first sees her love interest, etc. The main character came across as worn out, 'limp like soba' (another reference to the summer as it's eaten in that season particularly), and aimless as to what she wanted. And that's what turned me off. I understood her need to get a job or get married. Those were legitimate concerns but she goes about it by basically being lustful for a child. Yes, the kid was super handsome, he was sexually willing & curious, but by the 3rd episode I was like wtf she's taking advantage of him?
She kept saying to herself that she never felt such a connection with a person, but I felt like that trope came off across as weak because it was simply their mutual love for similar films. Her "connection" was more like she hadn't been turned on this hard by a guy before. The scene where I stopped was where she was thinking of how to get them to a love motel without getting caught by her bf while the kid is innocently telling her he's excited to see her movie collection. Like no. Perhaps it got better later in the eps, but for the 2nd half of the 3rd episode, their "connection" development was sickening and poorly written.