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A drama full of unbearable characters
I don't know what the writers are thinking while making this drama. The only likeable and logical character in this drama is the Female Lead. Let me start off by breaking the characters:
- Male Lead is very unlikeable in the beginning, instead, the Female Lead is the only one that makes sense to me. And yet the writers tried hard to make him appeared as a "saint" too. In the corporate world, especially in the industry where making sales are significant, every employees must be diligent and focused on reaching the target sales in order for the firm to operate. And yet, as the branch manager, ML chose to not lead the employees and chose the line "most important thing is people" bullshit. Yes, in property business, all of the elements need to be considered, including the providing the clients' needs and wants. However, most clients that they faced are too severe, to the point where the firm became the client's personal problem solver.
- Male lead also takes business too personal, which can be very unprofessional at times. For example, when one of the client decided to buy a house for his mistress. This situation led for the firm becoming a punching bag for both the husband, the wife, and the cheater. ML doesn't want to sell the house, but FL is different. She sold the house to the husband&mistress, which led her being slapped by the wife. In the end, ML said the slap is worth it. I have mix feelings about this situation. True, the situation sucks, but property agents are NOT marriage counsellor, nor private investigator. At this point, rather than not liking ML in this situation, I blame more on the writer, who prolong this situation just to make more episodes. Rather than showing us a good drama with the agents buying houses of their dreams, the writers chose to show makjang of a client's family situations, in which the scenes are very off-topic and unrelated to the entire plot line.
- As for other characters in the drama (the FL's mom) - I don't know if these situations are realistically happen in real life, but most of them are pretty relatable for my family sadly. I especially empathized with the FL family situation since my dad is in the similar situation as her. Yes, as much as unrealistic it seems, my dad too, also becomes the black sheep in the family, where he becomes the punching bag to everyone. I especially empathized where FL's mom extort all of her money for the siblings.
- The clients are very unbearable to watch, hence I skipped most of the scenes. I grew up in a Chinese family and surrounding, so it seems pretty realistic to me too. I don't want to judge, but yes, these clients actions happen in real life.
Overall, the drama is decent, but not to the point where it deserves the title "underrated drama". It's just that I don't understand why the writers purposely prolong these unnecessary plot line, are they trying too hard to reach 53 episodes? I feel like this should've been an office setting drama, but it somehow became a makjang (family themed drama, where the melodrama plot is often exaggerated). I just wished that they removed those unrelated scenes, instead, they could've focused more on the important events, such as the relationship between the Leads. Too bad, if this drama has 32 episodes, focusing on the daily life of a property agents and became a feel good drama, this drama could've been easily became a hit, or at least get higher ratings.
- Male Lead is very unlikeable in the beginning, instead, the Female Lead is the only one that makes sense to me. And yet the writers tried hard to make him appeared as a "saint" too. In the corporate world, especially in the industry where making sales are significant, every employees must be diligent and focused on reaching the target sales in order for the firm to operate. And yet, as the branch manager, ML chose to not lead the employees and chose the line "most important thing is people" bullshit. Yes, in property business, all of the elements need to be considered, including the providing the clients' needs and wants. However, most clients that they faced are too severe, to the point where the firm became the client's personal problem solver.
- Male lead also takes business too personal, which can be very unprofessional at times. For example, when one of the client decided to buy a house for his mistress. This situation led for the firm becoming a punching bag for both the husband, the wife, and the cheater. ML doesn't want to sell the house, but FL is different. She sold the house to the husband&mistress, which led her being slapped by the wife. In the end, ML said the slap is worth it. I have mix feelings about this situation. True, the situation sucks, but property agents are NOT marriage counsellor, nor private investigator. At this point, rather than not liking ML in this situation, I blame more on the writer, who prolong this situation just to make more episodes. Rather than showing us a good drama with the agents buying houses of their dreams, the writers chose to show makjang of a client's family situations, in which the scenes are very off-topic and unrelated to the entire plot line.
- As for other characters in the drama (the FL's mom) - I don't know if these situations are realistically happen in real life, but most of them are pretty relatable for my family sadly. I especially empathized with the FL family situation since my dad is in the similar situation as her. Yes, as much as unrealistic it seems, my dad too, also becomes the black sheep in the family, where he becomes the punching bag to everyone. I especially empathized where FL's mom extort all of her money for the siblings.
- The clients are very unbearable to watch, hence I skipped most of the scenes. I grew up in a Chinese family and surrounding, so it seems pretty realistic to me too. I don't want to judge, but yes, these clients actions happen in real life.
Overall, the drama is decent, but not to the point where it deserves the title "underrated drama". It's just that I don't understand why the writers purposely prolong these unnecessary plot line, are they trying too hard to reach 53 episodes? I feel like this should've been an office setting drama, but it somehow became a makjang (family themed drama, where the melodrama plot is often exaggerated). I just wished that they removed those unrelated scenes, instead, they could've focused more on the important events, such as the relationship between the Leads. Too bad, if this drama has 32 episodes, focusing on the daily life of a property agents and became a feel good drama, this drama could've been easily became a hit, or at least get higher ratings.
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