The kind of person I described in the title is exactly the type to give a low rating to this show.
To me, the best though not the only indicator of a good show is this feeling you get early on that the staff, from the director to the script writer(s) to finally the cast have been on the same page and also on par in terms of their respective abilities and skills.
The people who came up with this show knew exactly what they had in their minds: what story they wanted to tell and how they wanted to tell it.
You have to have that down in the first place for there to be anything that cast is to understand.
There were two stories told in parallel and yet in touch with each other, often times through a third person's type of narration that blatantly drew that parallel and yet refrained from pedanticness.
What is love, what leads to it or how it starts, what kills it or feeds it, what it transforms into and the kinds of relationships that are just too complex for us to mold them into the tangibly limited contexts/worlds that words we try to represent them with allow us... are the questions that this show deals with as masterfully as a lighthearted show could while also uncovering some of the many layers of show business through the story of an agency as we peep into its bits through said agency's collaboration with the producers of a particular show on a popular national channel.
The inner workings of show business and variety shows have been successfully shown in this dramedy to an extent that's just the right amount for all of it to remain relevant and pertinent, with the aforesaid questions, never straying out of focus.
The story is realistic yet not boring. It doesn't impose, it asks and it explores. The direction is very skilled, the pacing is very nicely done, the actors are talented. The actors... they were simply breathtaking, including IU. They made their characters almost three dimensional.
Anyone who has a story to tell will not pander to the audience when all they ask for is another stupid romcom with 2D characters whose shoes they want to fill so much that they are not even properly developed or they are changed in design midshow just because the audience didn't like the story or the character for the kind of reasons that make you question their awareness as to its being someone else's work, art, and creative decision.
To me, the best though not the only indicator of a good show is this feeling you get early on that the staff, from the director to the script writer(s) to finally the cast have been on the same page and also on par in terms of their respective abilities and skills.
The people who came up with this show knew exactly what they had in their minds: what story they wanted to tell and how they wanted to tell it.
You have to have that down in the first place for there to be anything that cast is to understand.
There were two stories told in parallel and yet in touch with each other, often times through a third person's type of narration that blatantly drew that parallel and yet refrained from pedanticness.
What is love, what leads to it or how it starts, what kills it or feeds it, what it transforms into and the kinds of relationships that are just too complex for us to mold them into the tangibly limited contexts/worlds that words we try to represent them with allow us... are the questions that this show deals with as masterfully as a lighthearted show could while also uncovering some of the many layers of show business through the story of an agency as we peep into its bits through said agency's collaboration with the producers of a particular show on a popular national channel.
The inner workings of show business and variety shows have been successfully shown in this dramedy to an extent that's just the right amount for all of it to remain relevant and pertinent, with the aforesaid questions, never straying out of focus.
The story is realistic yet not boring. It doesn't impose, it asks and it explores. The direction is very skilled, the pacing is very nicely done, the actors are talented. The actors... they were simply breathtaking, including IU. They made their characters almost three dimensional.
Anyone who has a story to tell will not pander to the audience when all they ask for is another stupid romcom with 2D characters whose shoes they want to fill so much that they are not even properly developed or they are changed in design midshow just because the audience didn't like the story or the character for the kind of reasons that make you question their awareness as to its being someone else's work, art, and creative decision.