I was honestly so freaking ready to absolutely love this drama that it came as a HUGE let down the way things started to develop around episode 5…
The authors said this was supposed to be a healing drama, but from the cast, that counts with a main lead with a history of sexual assault, to the frustrating romance and lacking of proper conclusion to the main lead’s mental disorder, this was truly a failure.
The drama started off great, with Shin Hye Sun truly shinning with her acting and the narrative that felt just so good, however, that fulfilling feeling didn’t last for long.
The author was determined to push a couple on us that just wasn’t it. Rather than love, I think that what Hyun-oh felt for Eun-ho was closer to obsession, while Joo-yeon truly came to love and accept her along the way, which lead me to truly root for them, holding on to straws, hoping the screenwriter would see the light and go with what made more sense rather than what she had planned for the story at first… what a dumb ambition on my part.
Honestly, everything they showed us about Hyun-oh to justify his actions just made me dislike him even more. He was truly a man child who couldn’t communicate with the woman he claimed to love, although I can’t really call it love when he was so willing to let go of her hand without ever truly explaining to her his reasoning, simply letting go of an 8 years long relationship with a “let’s breakup, hope you’ll be well”, because she wanted to marry and he didn’t. And while that’s understandable, it’s also maddening, because he never gave her the choice to stay or explained why he didn’t want to marry in the first place.
Moving on, we had the relationship between Joo-yeon and Hyeri (Eun-ho’s second personality), and although there was a frustrating moment when he found out about her disorder, it was understandable, and he later came to terms with it, choosing to love Eun-ho because no matter what, Hyeri was a part of her. And while he was worried about her well being and looking out for her, Hyun-ho got stuck on the part that they both were dating, and be damned that she had a mental disorder ‘caused by such grief and pain… Honestly, what a horrible main lead if I might say so.
And after all that, there wasn’t really a proper conclusion to the Hyeri thing, because she simply disappears at some point without an explanation and never comes back, even when Eun-ho goes through some great distress, where she should’ve resurfaced in full force, but didn’t, and my best guess for that it’s because of the few episodes they had to put a conclusion to things.
As a psychologist myself, I was greatly disappointed in that, honestly, although I guess I was expecting too much of this having Kill Me, Heal Me as a reference when it comes to a drama addressing dissociative personality disorder.
Eitherway, this drama had the potential to be one of the best dramas of this year, honestly, but in the end it had a frustrating ending, about timing for love and stuff (which I didn’t buy, because Hyun-oh only woke up to life because Eun-ho started to show interest in someone else and his obsession kicked in), and never really gave proper closure to the one thing that the drama rotated around, going so far as naming it over this…
If you are thinking about watching it, truly don’t, but if you still want to go ahead and give it a try, do so with low expectations, because this one won’t live up to it.