Good intentions, bad execution...

This is the story about a guy that retires from the military after his brother's death and joins the family business to save the family legacy and an aspiring designer and her way to develop her own brand.

The idea behind this one sounds awesome, on paper..: The leads that never break up through the story which means that they conquer every obstacle together and develop their careers and dreams! A story with business rivals and the mystery around the brother's death. However, they failed miserably.

The acting is average, and the characters lack real motive behind all of their actions. The rivals do not compete using strategy, but illegal and unethical stuff, and turn into good guys as soon as the real villain shows by the end, which is basically doing the same thing they have been doing for most of the show.

The relationship between the leads is also lacking. No chemistry, a ML that looks like he likes the FL, but is dating her because he needs her for his business, and she claims that she wants to be independent and do things by herself, but ends up relaying too much on her boyfriend (husband eventually) and her brother (that opposed them for no reason.

This drama seems to have potential, but is completely wasted on execution. It does not matter how epic or beautiful the scene is supposed to be they fail with the setup, development and delivery.

Overall, a great opportunity that did not meet expectations.

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This could have been so much more!

I should be forgiving considering how old this show is, but there too many missed opportunities!

This show is about a kid that witnessed his father being killed, but is saved by a school girl who also testifies on trial helping to put the villain away in jail.

The story was good, but was poorly executed! This show required a darker tone, and for the villain and his actions to remain concealed most of the time to create tension and suspense. The male lead dedicating his whole life and falling in love with the girl from the moment he was saved is something we have seen before.

About the male lead:
Park So Ha seemed like he was going to be a mature and cool guy that regardless of his age would take good decisions based on logic and even strategy, but he ended up being a moodie young kid was was putting up a front, but in the end was immature and hotheaded. He seemed like a guy who had a plan, but ended up being a kid who was influenced by absolutely everything around him. This guy had a superpower, the power of reading minds, which was never relevant through the story; every discovery he makes with his power could have been revealed with tactics or plain strategies and traps.

The female lead:
Jang Hye Sung was a perfect candidate for good character development, but she never really changed until the end, the only thing that changed is that the people around her were not strangers anymore.

The "Love Triangle" guy:
Annoying character with way too much screentime, that won his cases playing America's Got Talent appealing for the feelings instead of the law or evidence, which worked for some reason.

The villain:
He was supposed to be the big bad wolf, but he was just a normal guy that was inflated by his incredible luck to not get captured until the end of the show. His motivations are shown towards the end, but they felt hollow for some reason.

The plot:
I don't think we can call this one a legal drama, but it is supposed to be one. The plot is basically about this bad guy that killed Park Soo Ha's father, how they survive him and how he ends up in jail and paying for his crimes, but we never see actual strategy in trial, plot twists with new evidence or just well written arguments between prosecution and the defenders.

I don't think the show is bad, but once again, I would have appreciated if the male lead was actually mature but scarred; if he did not fall love with the female lead so early; if they broke the love triangle within the first 5 episodes and just took lawyer Cha out of the equation; if there was another lawyer who supported the female lead at a professional level as a lawyer like a big brother or father for her; if instead of making the leads fall in love for no reason and out of nowhere they allowed a few sparks along the way to make sense when they recognize their feelings; and a lot of more ifs.

Enough with the Ifs... This is good show with average acting, below average plot and weak romance.

In the end, we are left unsatisfied and with our time wasted since things never really moved from episode 1.

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Kitchen, Age Gap and Cliches

"Dating in the Kitchen" follows the trope of the rich guy falling in love with a poor girl.

The show has a good start with enough comedy and flirty moments to keep you entertained, but this is lost quickly following old tropes that end up making no sense and indicating that there was no character development at all. They only start "dating in the kitchen", but this is left behind from mid show when the story changes to family drama and company scheming.

This is yet another show where they do not honor the title. You may believe that the most relevant from both main leads is the girl because she is the chef, but the final plot is all about the business man male lead winning the fight against his brother to save his company.

Misunderstandings and love triangles will be present across the whole story with at least three love triangles. One for each main lead until half the show, and a completely unnecessary last love triangle between the male lead, female lead and male lead's brother, where the female lead makes all classic mistakes of allowing too much from a guy that she just met versus the boyfriend that is supposed to be truly in love with.

The show can be a funny and cute rom com, but the story is all around the place and lacks character development. This is yet another show where you just don't understand why the male lead wants to be with the female lead, but I guess is fate.

Watch it for the fun, and feel free to skip or risk dropping the show.

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Not bad

"My Lovely Liar" is a good show, but some details blocked it from being a great show!

I wanted to watch this one from the beginning, but I ended up dropping and picking back up a few times before I could finish it.

The first part is engaging, and you can't stop yourself from watching the next episode for maybe the first 10 episodes, which is more than 50% of the show. However, the show went downhill after episode 10, and some of those reason could be because:

- The mystery was good, but the reason behind the culprit's actions were not enough for me. I wish the culprit would be more twisted and evil in order to guide our feelings of justice properly.
- The redemption arcs felt hollow, since they happened too quickly or some characters did not even deserve redemption. The culprit did not deserve forgiveness or redemption, and those who did should have been shown in a good light a few times, and start the whole redemption arc earlier.
- Some people complain about the chemistry between the main leads, and I have to agree that it is not the best, but it is not that bad. However, we only got to see a little of the "singer" and her new "bodyguard", and their chemistry was great, so I wish we could see more of them.
- I love happy endings, but everyone reaching success magically feels fake, instead show me some progress before that, so I can believe it when they are all having their perfect happy ending by the end.

With all the things described above, this shown would have been better with only 12 episodes.

I love "no break up" shows, or lighthearted and low angst romance, but I have to accept that they can be boring, so I hope that they make more beautiful romance stories with those elements, but with interesting plot, character development and even villains if they fit the story.

"My Lovely Liar" is a good show, but it could've been much better... Best luck next time.

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Welcome to every possible trope and cliche in Dramaland! Still, good show!

This was a comment, but I wrote so much that ended up making a review and that's why I am sharing here as well.

Family Drama is there until the last episode, but honestly prefer that than having the main couple having a million misunderstandings or breaking up for every little thing. What bothered is that the whole scheming and lying got repetitive and felt draggy for the last 20 episodes or more. There is no way somebody can fall in the same traps infinite times.

Karma came for the bad ones, but the good and the bad was out of balance. We have some shows where something really bad happens and the villain does everything to keep that secret safe, but here, the bad guy (girl) kept doing bad after bad after bad, to the point of being ridiculous.

My biggest complain is in the plot holes, since all the lies could have been easily solved, but the writers forced us to believe that it was impossible when it was obvious and everything had a million ways to come out in the open, at least after episode 18 when everyone is living in the same city.

The romance was excellent. The main leads had an amazing chemistry, and for once they were coherent, since they behaved and sometimes even looked how they were when they where children. The female lead pushed the male lead away and was "funny" rude way too many times, but our ML was just perfect so he would always know how to turn things around.

There were no major misunderstandings, and no break ups after the main leads got together around episode 25, but being a family drama you can imagine that everything else beside the main leads and their romance took a lot of screentime, including the villains.

Overall, the show was good and you get involved to the point where you disregard the obvious plot holes while you wait for karma to finally hit. Every actor did an amazing job for this production and kudos to the accidents and car crashes scenes, they were very good!

Suffer the family drama, enjoy the beautiful and invincible true love and get rewarded with karma, specially in the last episode.

This is a 7/10 for me, but romance alone would be 8.5/10!

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Classic and full of emotions!

This is a love story, but also a story about family and connections.

This amazing drama from 2007 is packed with references of those years. Music is a good example, if you pay close attention and you remember those years you will be able to make the connection.

This drama is different from most I have seen, since this one allows you go deeper into the relationship between the main leads. Other dramas will feel only like an introduction after you watch this one, since most dramas end where this one starts. You will get to see a married couple going through a lot together with unwavering determination.

The story is full clichés, but my opinion about clichés is the following: They are good as long as they are well integrated in the story and they have a good justification; which is the case in Golden Bride.

The love story between the leads is wonderful, but it takes a few episodes to kick in, since they take their time developing the characters from the families that will inevitably clash causing most of the drama.

The leads relationship is worth watching and enjoying throughout the 64 episodes of Golden Bride. You will see them meet, create sparks, fall in love and remain in love. They will have issues, but nothing that they cannot overcome together.

Of course, there are antagonists on this story, but they are not completely evil. There are only a few devils on this story, but the main ones will be selfishness, cowardice and envy. I like how these antagonists have their redeeming side as well, since they are not monsters, they are only human.

As mentioned above, this is not only about love, but about family, so you will get to see the life of the parents and siblings and their own side stories. Some of them seem to exist for comedy relieve, but they strongly contribute to the main story.

There is also the contrast between the main leads and the secondary couple. How they can be the complete opposite at times will have you thinking about real love and karma.

Overall, this is a beautiful love story with a lot of family drama but stronger connections, which will make you laugh, cry, get mad, but laugh again and feel what family means, and most of all, that love conquers all.

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Great Medical Drama!

This medical drama has an original approach with focus in bromance!

There are many shows that suffer from having more than 12 episodes lately, since they would feel like the plot is either going nowhere, dragging or adding last minutes elements that make no sense. I am glad to share that it is not the case with this show; The show has a great pace with the plot and character development which never feels like dragging even after those infamous episode 12 to 16.

I enjoy romance, so I am disappointed with the lack of closure from the young main couple, but extremely happy with the happy ending for the older main couple. If left a feeling of an open ending when the last interaction between the young main leads was the male lead feeling jealous because the girl was getting close with another guy and nothing else after that. On the other hand, everything else had a proper closure.

The medical drama and bromance are the main thing here, and the slight romance, specially for the old main couple are the driver for a lot of actions within the plot and the cherry on top at the end.

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