I was bored by this short drama, beautifully filmed, maudlin but eventually unconvincing! I remember reading the webtoon a couple of years ago and finding the main couple boring and annoying, while the second couple was hot. I really do not remember the details of the webtoon, but these two made me finish it, they had sizzling chemistry and their story was far more compelling than the main one!

This drama on the other hand seems to try to check every trope on the list: childhood friends, zero communication skills, horrible family, moaning in pain while an almost invisible scrape is being treated, hair drying session, noble idiocy, time jump....

It also has beautiful cinematography, everything was filmed in warm and fuzzy yellow tones. The music was just enough there to stress the importance of scenes.

It is the storyline and the chemistry where this drama fails. Teenagers are as they are, exploring their burgeoning sexuality, they are confused and usually act before thinking. The two characters here are the opposites. One has been kicked out of the house by his father for being gay (how does he survive, go to school etc. Is his father still paying for him?)so he is serious and hard-working and has had a crush on his friend like forever. The friend in question has just lost his father and moved to this seaside town. Living with the other boy, he is an idiot, trying to recapture the past childhood emotions and not understanding why he cannot do it. The evolution of his feelings is shown rather smoothly. When he realizes he has a crush on the other boy, he first acts upon it but is confused by the boy's reaction. Then there is the noble idiocy part and the departure to go to med school in Seoul: what happened there? With what money? Why did he become the proud owner of a coffee shop? With what money?

These little practical things are what ruined this drama for me....

The plot lacks substance: we are given some facts and everything else are just dreamy pretty sequences. And being a prequel (which I saw and which does not really fit well with this drama's ending) the ending is open. They should have added another epilogue or an episode concluding their story after another time jump to after the first drama. Their story has a happy ending in the webtoon.

Pretty but empty!