It was so highly rated and so much talked about, but I couldn't bring myself to watch it as I didn't find the plot too exciting.
Finally I gave it a shot, as I love time traveling cinema, although I knew this was supposed to be less scifi time travel and more life emotional drama based.
But I haven't seen such overrated kdrama. It nowhere deserves an almost 9/10 rating. It's a below average show.
For starters, it is supposed to be an emotional depth drama with teenage fun and issues, and understanding our parents as teenagers. But sadly it falls flat on those parts. The two male leads, though had good chemistry and you can see them as friends, but couldn't connect on an emotional level, they hardly had any deep emotional exchange, except maybe a couple of scenes, one on the island and one in the end, but even those weren't impactful.
The two main couples, neither of them had any romantic chemistry, neither they felt like a couple, if you are hoping this to be a romantic kdrama, then it isn't by any means , so don't watch it for romance reasons.
A large core of the show is music, but I personally didn't like any of it, none of the songs made an impact and I didn't bother to even look them up to add to my music playlist, on the contrary after a while of same repetition of songs in their band practice sessions etc, I even skipped a few scenes of just same rock music playing and nothing else happening.
A whole lot of ultra slow motion scenes, sometimes so slow it feels like your screen is frozen. Again, none of such slow motion scenes had any impact or depth. Usually kdramas are good at that. Not here.
The only scenes which felt emotional, were between our ML and his now teenage mom who he meets in past, and they were introduced so late in the show, like happens around 7th episode, and the emotions and feelings were instantly visible, but they were so less, way too less. The amount of time spent on son and dad, not even 1/10 of the time was spent on son and mom, and that should have happened more, because she was in much more need of his help than anyone, learning sign language and getting bullied at school, from being a completely shut off person, to home abuse, she needed help in everything, and it would've been a lot better of a show if it was focused on these things. Instead of wasting so much time on creating band, and music and festival preparations etc.
The biggest plothole for me was the FL part. She comes back, and in trying to set up her mother with her first love instead of his father, what was that ? Like she thought if she imitates her mother, and make the second male lead fall for her, and then she disappers, her actual teen mom comes back from US, , and then she'll magically become a couple with the second ML? She obviously knew that her mom never comes back from the US till years after she was born. Even if by any chance her mom comes back, she won't be a couple with second male lead. It was so rubbish that even explaining it is bothersome. That whole part that happens in first 11-12 episodes is absolute garbage and stupi and senseless
The acting was subpar with ML being good in emotional scenes.
I won't even mention the details of how time travel happens, because that's just a tool used here without any explanation.
Also, it falters in a very important reason. Why were both leads made to time travel? I can understand FL reason, as to why she was made to time travel, and it feels justified. But problem is that hers wasn't the core of the show and not even shown in the end. Hers was like a sub sub plot.
The ML reason to time travel and then comeback wasn't impactful at all. ML and his family were already decently living, not ultra rich, but well settled. Both parents were loving, bond between brothers was great, ML wasn't having any major life altering issues, except that his dad found out about his guitar music love. And then he goes back, and then comes back to present. All he managed to do was make his family ultra rich. Their love and bonds didn't change, because there was no need for any improvement. His love for music found out by dad could've been easily resolved , as ML parents were so loving and understanding.
On the contrary FL reason to travel back in time, understand her teen mom and come back to future, what changes she made, that wasn't even shown in the end, how her bonding with mom and her father, and between her parents improved or changed, it wasn't even shown.
This show is totally messed up and plain garbage. A Time Called You, is way way way much better than this and so beautifully executed. Twinkling watermelon is the most overrated kdrama. Not at all recommended.
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