This show is a full 10. My first K-Drama and I’m in love. I’m in love with the actors and the story, which is sweet and funny, heart-wrenching, gripping and full of suspense. I cried so hard and laughed out loud and bit my nails and held my breath. It’s all there in a perfect balance. Right when it might drop into silliness it becomes serious again and when there is a threat that it might become too heavy it turns light again in a very fine way. The story has many twists and unexpected turns. They never drag out a certain theme for too long, which usually annoys the hell out of me. And it has the best bitter-sweet wrapped up ending I’ve seen in a long time. Not rushed and squeezed into the last 5-10 minutes. If anything, maybe there are some repetitions (like saying good bye over and over again), but then they address that in the show themselves and it is still sweet and heart-warming every single time.

The main couple is a perfect cast. I felt the chemistry between them right from the start. I could feel it through the screen when they just looked at each other. The love story is amazing, too. The way they slowly but so, so deeply fall in love until it’s just no question anymore. Their scenes together are filled with sweetness and the acting in general is superb. I love the main actress. She is truly amazing. She manages to give her character so much depth. She is spoiled and childish, sweet and warm and vulnerable and grown up and sensible and funny and so much more and still never seems fake.
I also enjoyed the other characters, too. Over time each one gets a kind of depth that I haven’t expected or seen coming in the beginning. They are very well crafted, with all their human flaws, but basically and refreshingly as decent people. I also liked that in this show there are so many strong female characters. Dan's mother surprisingly turned out to become one of my favourites. In most of the c-dramas I watched so far, the female lead seems to be more of a support for the male lead, instead of having her own story. This is different here.

There is great dialogue in there, too. And a very cool fighting scene with the North-Korean squad near the end, that I also didn’t see coming. I’m very glad I got to watch this show and will feel a bit mushy and empty till hopefully the next good thing comes along. I’m going to miss the two and somehow wished I could see more of them.