I binged watched all of hyun bin’s drama on netflix after crash lading on you. I was hesitating on this as i found him a little too skinny in this show for my liking. But knowing the hype it generated back then, decided to give it a try.

I was really irritated with JW’s behavior in the beginning as he was really stalking the FL and disrespectful to her in many ways. It made me question whether that was an appropriate way to woo a lady. FL also seemed to be very disturbed by his actions (i would be) but somehow still decided to fall in love with him. I was on the verge of dropping the drama at the start but still decided to pull through it as i was curious about the whole gender swap.

I must say that the gender swapping scenes were what really made it interesting for me. The leads were really brilliant acting as each other, especially HB. His actions and facial expressions were so similar to Gil Ra Im and he was really comedic in his scenes with Oscar.

A memorable scene for me was when JW was stuck in the lift and as he was claustrophobic, he started gasping for breath and fainted. That acting there was really epic. I could literally see his veins popping out. Ha Ji Won even praised HB for his acting in that scene which was certainly well deserved. I am glad that he received awards for his acting in this drama as well.

Now let’s talk about some of the cliches used.
The evil mum who throws an envelope of money to the woman who dares to go near his son. The mum was literally overreacting in every scene that i was so afraid she might just combust.

The romance which i felt was unconvincing. What made JW fall head over heels in love with GRI? Love at first sight? All he saw was her fighting and suddenly he was so in love with her that he had to stalk her. And when exactly did GRI start liking JW? To me it was also very sudden. I felt that she would probably be better off with her boss at the martial arts school.

The kisses. The famous foam kiss was rather cheesy to me... and also the typical scenes where the MLs tend to force their kisses on the FLs while they struggled. Those just don’t feel right to me.

Despite all these grievances, i completed the drama whilst fast forwarding the scenes involving the side characters. I must say the JW started becoming more likeable towards the later episodes and i was even rooting for him to have a happy ending with GRI. I kind of forgot how arrogant and irritating he was at the start. I wished they did not end it with them getting married and having kids though. Knowing that they would stay together would have been enough.