At first I was a little reluctant to watch this drama. It had gotten some bad reviews, bad, bad, bad reviews, but then, it has also gotten some good ones. Therefore the main factor for me, for watching this drama was the cast. And what a beautiful cast it is!

The acting and the casting is fine, I have no issues with that, there is on-screen chemistry and the crying is decent and believable and doesn't make me want to punch the soppy actors.

The soundtrack is really good! I really liked it and I have now downloaded the OST. All the songs are totally my cup of tea, and they aren't overplayed and they fit the feel of the drama, so all is well in that respect.

This, like most K-Dramas does not have much in the way of realism. Lots of stuff is exaggerated and some of the characters (e.g. the parents of Mae-Ri and Jung-In) whack everything totally out of proportion and throw hissy fits all over the place. Be prepared, but on the plus side, while they have a prominent role in the story their screen time isn't to the extent that I want to hunt down the script-writer for creating such awful characters.

Now, the first episode made me want to stop. Actually, that's not quite fair, the first ten minutes of it made me want to stop. It's a bit hectic and weird in the very beginning, but stick through the zombie wedding and it evens out. The plot itself, I personally haven't seen done before (so that is a plus) and I thoroughly enjoyed what was going on and the twists and turns (some of which were predictable and others not so) until about episode eight.

Around episode eight (of a sixteen episode drama, so halfway) it started to get a little monotonous... I felt like nothing that had happened had really progressed the situation and wondered if the story was going to be kept in an infinite loop for the other eight episodes. This was not the case, so rejoice!

And I think most of my reluctance to continue after episode eight is due to the love triangle (DON'T WORRY I'M NOT GOING TO SPOIL IT, EVEN THOUGH IT'S PREDICTABLE) In love triangles, I always end up rooting for the under-dog, or the one who gets left behind so I was a bit reluctant to keep seeing love-interest-2 being ignored especially after trying so hard in comparison to love-interest-1 who isn't nearly as nice, or as attractive. *sigh*.

Now, the re-watch value... Is pretty low. I don't think I'd watch it again, but then again I might.
And the sole reason for this would be to see Kim Jae Wook being his stunning, sexy, beautiful, perfect self in a SUIT. It's just total eye-candy.

I'd also like to mention that some people love, love, LOVE this drama and others HATE it. I enjoyed it. It had it's cute moments, it had it's ups and downs but in general I did not feel like I was slugging through it (like I did past episode 20 of Boys Over Flowers).

While I would not recommend this drama highly, I would encourage you to give it a try.

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