Honestly, K dramas don't have to do much to entertain me. It's about comforting cliches. But I hand it to the writers in this one.
After a misunderstanding at an event, I found the FL/Reporter's rush to judgement and reluctance to accept any responsibility for her behavior or its consequences infuriating, much as the ML/K-pop idol did after he was subjected to vomit and shoe-chucking. And I found the artificial saintliness the K-pop idol presents to his fans in public utterly cloying and disingenuous, just as she did. So I believed their reactions to one another because I had the same reactions myself. I was annoyed by them both.
So there's that.
I have no idea if the kpop industrial complex actually cranks out highly disciplined homogenized pop stars the way it's presented here, but it may be trainees do put up with a lot of 'handling' and reinvention on their way up. Additional characters include two friends and trainees who failed. One is the mandatory mopey pop wannabe ex-girlfriend who's with the other frenemy, a rich washed up K-pop wannabe now running his own talent agency. He's the jealous antagonist who seeks every chance to attack his former friend now major star.
Shoechucker gets fired after pressure from K-pop idol's people and so she goes on a social media rant to slag him off. This creates a backlash against her which inspires fan retaliation, a smarmy rescue by K-pop idol and a TV show "So I married my Anti-Fan." It's a fake 'reality' show putting enemies under one roof to see what happens.
Well, enemies let down their guards, learn about each other and fall in lurvvvvv, which causes all kinds of trouble for kpop idol, whose fans hate her.
As I say, not Dostoyevsky but a cozy K-romcom.
After a misunderstanding at an event, I found the FL/Reporter's rush to judgement and reluctance to accept any responsibility for her behavior or its consequences infuriating, much as the ML/K-pop idol did after he was subjected to vomit and shoe-chucking. And I found the artificial saintliness the K-pop idol presents to his fans in public utterly cloying and disingenuous, just as she did. So I believed their reactions to one another because I had the same reactions myself. I was annoyed by them both.
So there's that.
I have no idea if the kpop industrial complex actually cranks out highly disciplined homogenized pop stars the way it's presented here, but it may be trainees do put up with a lot of 'handling' and reinvention on their way up. Additional characters include two friends and trainees who failed. One is the mandatory mopey pop wannabe ex-girlfriend who's with the other frenemy, a rich washed up K-pop wannabe now running his own talent agency. He's the jealous antagonist who seeks every chance to attack his former friend now major star.
Shoechucker gets fired after pressure from K-pop idol's people and so she goes on a social media rant to slag him off. This creates a backlash against her which inspires fan retaliation, a smarmy rescue by K-pop idol and a TV show "So I married my Anti-Fan." It's a fake 'reality' show putting enemies under one roof to see what happens.
Well, enemies let down their guards, learn about each other and fall in lurvvvvv, which causes all kinds of trouble for kpop idol, whose fans hate her.
As I say, not Dostoyevsky but a cozy K-romcom.