I watched Mary Stayed Out all Night and picked this for a shallow reason: the male lead is beautiful. I found I really liked the first ten or so episodes because how interesting it was to see someone so desired/high and mighty male lead fall in love first and how it was the female lead whose reaction--you are a jerk/you mistreat people/so I will not like you--was more realistic. I thought the story of the parents was sad...but i just did not like her mom. She was so passive it was annoying and oh my god it seemed like some bad thing was always happening to her. I enjoyed the themes, the colors, and the symbolism. I pitied the boy's mom. I did not like the comedic relief/found it to be a drag. Sometimes it dragged. My biggest frustration: the writer's obsession with 'purity' in women. The male lead was a player, the female lead could not have sexual bone in her body which felt totally unrealistic of reality. I mean it was like she didn't even entertain a single sexual thought about this man. You can be chaste but still have desires, yeesh. This is why I give it an 8.5--it was delivering a very mature story but at the same time would not acknowledge adult themes that made it realistic. I'm not saying that their needed to be sex/kissing/hugging, but it felt like the female leads were all on pedastals, and the most realistic female of them all was probably the boy's mom who was also the villian.