My Notes / Opinions
For me, this was a smooth, low drama rom com that mostly just works without trying too hard to manufacture villains or chaos. The main couple gets cute and stays cute, and the only antagonist energy is really just the ML’s strict grandmother, who ends up softening anyway. The biggest standout for me is how much I loved the second couple, and while they get less screen time, whenever they show up, they hit so well it’s almost a toss up whether I like them more than the main pairing, and they gave me Business Proposal second couple vibes. Also the ML had to have taken a lot of inspiration from What's Wrong With Secretary Kim, as a lot of the manerism he has heavily remind of the ML from that drama. The only parts that genuinely annoyed me were a few familiar rom com beats (the blind date detour, the breakup regret loop that resolves fast), but overall I finished it feeling like it was solid the whole way through. The one constant negative for me is the insane amount of obvious product placement, especially the repeated chocolate candy and chocolate milk pushes and the car ads.