A promising romance with thriller touches that ends in a bit of a disappointment

I don't usually watch dramas that are thriller or police/crime driven plots, tho I do enjoy them, but since Vincenzo and Hyena were the last dramas I watched I was looking for something that wasn't my usual romance, and I thought You Are My Spring would be that good balance between romance and thriller.

I was wrong.

The thing is, the photography, cinematography, acting and editing are delightful to see, and it takes you in from minute 1. However, the writing gets increasingly worse towards the second half and the thriller part of the plot gets completely thrown off. That storyline is, in my opinion, very badly resolved and towards the end completely removed from the main storyline, which made me wonder why even include it. It's like the writers wanted a cheesy romance with a bit of a suspense/psychological thriller touch to but they regretted the idea half way through.

Because of that, the second half becomes more and more boring and what honestly felt more intriguing, what i was truly looking forward too, was something on the thriller side of the plot. But it never came, the way that ends is very unsatisfying.

Meanwhile the romance side becomes increasingly dull, there's nothing to look forward to anymore. Maybe a sex scene (the Korean way but a subtle, elegant, sex scene nonetheless), but they fail to deliver there too.

I feel like I might be being too harsh because I'm salty after having just finished it, but I was truly disappointed, I expected much more from this!!!!

Anyways, I still think it deserves a 7 just because the camera work is wonderful, the acting is quite good too and the storytelling through their editing is one of the most enjoyable I've seen. Sadly, the writing doesn't come through despite all these good in the drama.

I will say, though, that I think their discourse on mental health is very nice and refreshing to see, so the writing did a good job at not portraying psychiatry in a bad light but the opposite, sending a positive and encouraging message instead.

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