⚖When you're feeling a bit like a tw!t, this is the romcom you watch ~Maybe~ It's perfect to watch for flushing out a tearjerker ~Maybe~ It'll help you lighten up on those pesky heavy emotions ~Maybe~
The good news is it does have its moments. Unfortunately, it's inane, overall. It's stupid like a stupid Hollywood romcom with dumbed-down formulaic writing, and my viewing eyes have expatriated to 🌏 to get away from that junk. Some of the characters' reactions to situations that arise are truly insulting. Then it's insulting to the power of 2, 4, & 8. This we don't appreciate. It's laziness. Perhaps the best thing to be said about RL is that I watched the whole thing. Looking back, maybe that wasn't a good decision, but since I have a lot of ⏳ right now I'm trying to finish the 📺 that I start. If you aren't happy with the earlier episodes, it gets no better. It gets worse. If you are working 5 part-time jobs and don't have much 🕛, this is not the show to squeeze in between shifts to the neglect of better offerings available. It's only worth your time if you are a shut-in like me, or you are seriously in need of something brainless.
Hyuk (Choi Si Won) is the n'er-do-well youngest of a Chairman's family. His brother (the beautifully square-jawed Lee Jae Yoon) will take over the business, but schmyuk Hyuk has never been good at anything except playing around and running with women. That kind of thing will generate a scandal or two. One day he dud it - one scandal too many. Chairdad kicked him out with n⚫thing. Nada. Zilch. Just pocket lint. It's so bad with dad that Hyuk must go into hiding. He needs 💰. He has to work, but he has no skills. Fortunately he just met her (Baek Jun played by Kang So Ra) as she lives near his assistant, Jehun/Je Hoon (Gong Myung). That's two people he can turn to in a crisis, and this is a crisis of unimaginable (to him) proportions. You need work? Jun ain't weakly. She's 📆 weekly! 'Okay,' Jun says: '👣Follow me on the temp-job parade!👣'
After a gig or two they end up as janitors cleaning chairdad's office building... with the opportunity to go FULL💲TIME. She's in heaven. He's in hell, worried he'll be recognized, but she guarantees him he won't be. It is hilarious when Hyuk stands in the lobby and realizes that he's utterly invisible when he's dressed as a janitor. It's a great scene. (Psst - do you know the names of the cleaning people at your job? Do you ever thank them? Common courtesy is free; it costs you nothing to say "Thank you.") Once their little gang moves from the construction site to the corporate gig, they face many challenges together, the ultimate one being the quest for full-time jobs. Temping is just so temporary.
On the whole, though, Hyuk is just too childish. This isn't about the actor (It took about 4 episodes before his goofy smile started to win me over a bit. It dropped on me like a cinder block at a construction site - What a cute little winsome, dimpled smile). It's the way the character is written and directed. This actor should never wear black, btw; it's a dreadful color on him. Overall, his character is a poor 💓 lead. Yes, even in a silly romcom, that matters.
"I can't believe she gets comfort from eating a pig's ear." RL does manage to sweep up here and there; at times it's adorable. In episode 6 I actually laughed out loud. Mom, played by Kyeon Mi Ri who often gets the role of a pampered trophy-wife, is precious. (Even she is too often shrill, though). From a Mars & Venus perspective, it's truly humorous how men are devastated when they hear: "I like you as a friend🤝." Men aren't looking for friends, ladies. Women think they're being °nice°, and women can like someone ~genuinely~ but not be romantically interested in the person. Men don't look at personal interactions the same way, as they prioritize other kinds of connections, ahem. This is an illustration of how being °nice°, is just a °nice° term for WEAK. It's better to be straight and forward. Look at the person, ladies, and tell the truth: 'I have no control over my feelings, and that's not the way I feel right now.' Always be kind & gentle, and always be FIRM. Here's the signing bonus: It will get easier. Flex those social muscles. Next thing you know, your whole life is going to change✨.
Jehun is Hyuk's lifelong friend and assistant. His father worked for the fam, and now he does. In many ways it's worked out well for Jehun, but he and his father have had to put up with alot of demoralizing condescension. It wears on a person. As of episode 11, however, I no longer cared what he was thinking, I didn't care what his motives were, I didn't care about the pain he's had in his life - he's just an a$$, and I couldn't stand him. He's bristly, grumpy, rude, callous, disdainful, cold-hearted, brusque, uncivil, judgmental, unappreciative of his father... he is a consummate jerk. There cannot be a good enough reason for his attitude. There's not many Kromcoms without a love triangle. Je-hun has a thing for Jun and that's added on to the existing pile of baggage. In fairness, he had plenty of time with her and he never made a move, so he has only himself to blame. But it's much more comforting to project our angst onto somebody else. The truth seems to be that he refuses to accept that he's closed off his emotions. His experiences and the hurts that he's suffered have chauffeured him to a bad place. If we don't face the truth about ourselves we only hurt us - and people are just awful at facing truth. We are the chairmen of excuses and blaming - we exist in lies that we tell ourselves, but these lies eventually cage us. This is another form of toxic weakness: Jehun put himself in a cage and is blaming Hyuk for it, while at the same time, he's blind to how distasteful his personality has become.
RL does have a theme: Noblesse obligue. Those of us that have are morally obligated to look out for those less fortunate. There's certainly a time for giving out freebies, but that doesn't fix poverty. Looking out means looking beyond throwing 💰 at problems. It also means to be decent/kind/courteous, volunteer, and yes, certainly give to charities that are on the ground sweeping up the debris that most people step over without a glance🙈. If you think that it's just the rich who are obligated, remember that by world standards, the entire middle class in the USA IS RICH. We could confiscate the wealth of the top 3% of the rich in this country and it wouldn't make much of a dent. We all need to do our part. "Where am I now? Is this Seoul, the city I've been living in all this time?" Hyuk is surrounded by day workers scrounging to be chosen for work, and he's shocked. They've always been there, but he's never seen them before🙈. Every society has people that have been left behind, and we put blinders on because we don't know how to fix it. Then we get used to those blinders and no longer see the disadvantaged, or we tell ourselves (we lie) that they are thus due to their own fault - that's not always the case, and who among us hasn't made mistakes, anyway? It's not just the jobless, many workers are left behind. Workplaces don't need to be miserable. Bosses have a tiny bit of power, and power is one thing that flushes some of the character turds to the surface. People that abuse power to feed their pride are horrible, and also horribly delusional. How does belittling another person elevate them? It doesn't, but it does reveal how small their minds are. We can talk about laws and oversight, but the truth is that this is a matter of the💛 and we cannot legislate the 🖤. I've seen bully bosses operate and I've been victimized by one. Nobody wanted to speak up. Everyone kept their heads down hoping they wouldn't be the next 🎯. This is where social strength becomes important - we should call out abusive bosses - kindly, gently, and firmly, but not weakly. Noblesse obligue. We need to look out for eachother. Workers Unite!
QUOTE📢
Only those who suffer discrimination can feel the subtle sense of alienation.
Try not to use the third stall in the bathroom on the 8th floor.
〰🖍 IMHO
📣6 📝5 🎭7 💓6 🦋5 🌞7 🎨7⚡4 🎵7 😅6 🤔3 🔚7
Age 14+? Here's a feature that's on the tween/young teen level but for 1 F💣.
👁📺again? Nope
I was watching Oh My Venus(7.4) at the same time as this. OMV could also be classified as a silly, throwaway romcom but it is so much better than RL, so RL suffered from the side-by-side quality inspection. In order of ~lite & trite~ to ~heavy & serious~ you may also like:
Mad For Each Other 7.8 ~silly fun;
My Secret Romance 7 (too many flashbacks just ff thru them);
Start-up 7.5;
Her Private Life 8;
A Witch's Love 7.8;
love to hate you 8.9;
Touch your heart 8.2;
Romance is a bonus book 7.9;
Boys Over Flowers 8 ~melodrama to the max;
Crash Landing On You 9.1;
Oh My Ghost 10;
It's okay not to be okay 9;
Love Struck in the city 7.3;
Hospital Playlist 9;
My Mister 9.5;
More than friends 8;
I'll see you when the weather is fine 9;
Something in the Rain 9
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