When recommending Kdramas to non-drama-watching friends, CLOY is always on the top of my list. The best way I can think to describe it is this: it knows exactly what it is, and it embraces it fully.

If you're looking for an everyday romance to project your own reality onto, this is not exactly the drama for you. The plot is spectacular and unbelievable, occasionally laughably so. Despite the high high stakes of the situation, everything always works out for our protagonists. The 'red string of fate'-ness of the plot could make you want to scream at your screen, 'this is not what real life is like!'

We know this, and we love CLOY anyway. Because CLOY also knows this, and leans right into the ridiculousness of the situations without ever making it cringey or annoying. The romance is grand, helmed by amazing performances by both HB and SYJ, whose chemistry is obviously off-the-charts. Every plot point is hit perfectly, never spending too much time on one problem or agonising the viewers with the will-they-wont-they. We know that they will, because we're all hopeless romantics here, and CLOY is a hopeless romantic's dream.

If you're in any way inclined to a good romance plot, CLOY is, in my opinion, the be-all-and-end-all. This is my Romeo and Juliet, guys. Park Ji Eun 작가님 is better than Shakespeare. Deadly serious. Watch it, laugh, cry, then watch it all over again.