Drama_ junkie
Passable
Calculating Love starts off with an interesting premise of math formulas as parallels to relationships. The story is about two lifelong friends (Sine and Tan) who are both studying math in college. They realize in their last year in college that they, like the mathematical functions of sine and TANgent, complement each other. More than just complement but more than just friends.
The story’s mathematical basis is an interesting take and was a draw to continue to watch the series. The challenge with this series is that it’s very slow paced and arguably very repetitive especially in the middle episodes. It was like you were going through the same story path over and over again. Unfortunately, the slow pace wasn’t used to provide much depth to any of the characters, which made them pretty uninteresting. As the story progressed I felt less and less empathy towards Sine and Tan. I think they were trying to go after a Kai and Third vibe from Theory of Love but Calculating Love was unable to create that same emotional feeling or empathy towards either Sine or Tan with the struggles with their relationship which leads to an overall story in Calculating Love that’s very uninteresting.
The final episode wasn’t bad but like the rest of the series it could have been cut by a 1/3 as it too fell into the same cyclical story path with a slow resolution for the story. Maybe this was done on purpose to show how solving difficult math problems takes time, much like a relationship. Sometimes it takes a bit of trial and error before you come up with a solution. Hmmm...
The overall acting was ok as was the music in the series. Neither were at the top end but both passable enough to make it watchable.
Overall, Calculating Love is a fair series. The episodes came out a month or longer apart from each other. Had it not been for that, I would have probably dropped the series for its slow pace and generally uninteresting characters. With so many other series out there now I wouldn’t recommend this as a top-25 for 2020 to watch. As a filler while waiting in between other series, yeah why not.
The story’s mathematical basis is an interesting take and was a draw to continue to watch the series. The challenge with this series is that it’s very slow paced and arguably very repetitive especially in the middle episodes. It was like you were going through the same story path over and over again. Unfortunately, the slow pace wasn’t used to provide much depth to any of the characters, which made them pretty uninteresting. As the story progressed I felt less and less empathy towards Sine and Tan. I think they were trying to go after a Kai and Third vibe from Theory of Love but Calculating Love was unable to create that same emotional feeling or empathy towards either Sine or Tan with the struggles with their relationship which leads to an overall story in Calculating Love that’s very uninteresting.
The final episode wasn’t bad but like the rest of the series it could have been cut by a 1/3 as it too fell into the same cyclical story path with a slow resolution for the story. Maybe this was done on purpose to show how solving difficult math problems takes time, much like a relationship. Sometimes it takes a bit of trial and error before you come up with a solution. Hmmm...
The overall acting was ok as was the music in the series. Neither were at the top end but both passable enough to make it watchable.
Overall, Calculating Love is a fair series. The episodes came out a month or longer apart from each other. Had it not been for that, I would have probably dropped the series for its slow pace and generally uninteresting characters. With so many other series out there now I wouldn’t recommend this as a top-25 for 2020 to watch. As a filler while waiting in between other series, yeah why not.
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