THE SHORT VERDICT:
Spooky in Love is, for the most part, a pretty great homage to the Classic k-rom-com.
At its best, Show blithely serves up tropes and serves them up well – while occasionally also freshening things up by turning some of the tropes on their heads.
Beyond the fun and hijinks, our OTP is wonderfully wholesome while sharing a warm, endearing sort of vibe. Park Eun Bin and Yang Se Jong pair surprisingly well as our slightly awkward, dorky OTP.
I do think that Show ends on a comparatively weaker note than the one on which it started, but overall, I did have a good time and would consider this one worthwhile.
THE LONG VERDICT:
You know how sometimes, you might go back to a once-viral food item — say, Cinnabon — after not having had it for quite a few years, and you’re pleasantly surprised to discover, Hey, this is still very delicious after all?
Not only that, maybe they’ve even tweaked the recipe a little in the intervening years, so that it feels just that little bit more satisfying than you remembered.
Yes, it’s still a little doughy when you get to the last bite, but overall, it’s nostalgic, it’s pleasant, and you’re really not mad at it?
Well. That’s pretty much how I feel about this show. 😆
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OST ALBUM: FOR YOUR LISTENING PLEASURE
Here’s the OST album, in case you’d like to listen to it as you read the review.
Honestly, I really enjoyed the music in this show. Not only were the tracks breezy and enjoyable, they were applied in a way that reminded me of classic rom-coms – so that hearing the songs just ignited a “feeeels 🥰” reaction from my fangirl heart, y’know?
I liked that a lot. And the song that had the biggest effect on me that way? Promise Rings – which I’ve also included here on its own, in case you’d like to listen to it on repeat instead. 🥰🥰
MANAGING EXPECTATIONS / THE VIEWING LENS
Here are a few things that I think might be useful to keep in mind, if you want to maximize your chances of enjoying your watch:
1. Show is a classic rom-com at heart
If you’re looking for something fresh and new, then I think you might be disappointed.
However, if you’re happy to just enjoy the journey of a familiar story executed well, this could really work for you.
2. The ghosts aren’t really scary
If you’re worried about the ghostly part of our story, I just wanted to set your mind at ease, because the ghosts in this show aren’t actually scary.
They basically look like regular people – just invisible, mostly – and it also very much helps that Show’s not out to use the ghosts for jump-scares or the like. Most of the time, anyway. 😅
STUFF I LIKED
General handling and execution
Coming into this one, I wasn’t expecting to be particularly taken with it, to be honest. I’m just not naturally drawn to stories involving ghosts, and this one has a LOT of ghosts baked into its premise.
And yet, whaddya know? I had a genuinely good time with this drama.
Show’s not exactly reinventing the wheel, and in fact, there were quite a few times when I could see where Show was going well before it got there – but had fun anyway.
Like this scene in our opening episodes.
[SPOILER ALERT]
It’s entirely predictable that in the car chase, Gang Uk would be giving Yeo Ri directions on how to cut the other vehicle off – but Yeo Ri does the opposite, because she’s listening to the ghost’s directions instead, BUT IT WAS STILL FUN. 😁
It’s in the comedic timing of the scene, and it’s also in Yang Se Jong’s reaction faces, as Gang Uk gets greener and greener in the face at Yeo Ri’s race-car level driving, while hanging on for dear life. 🤭
[END SPOILER]
There was something genuinely pleasurable about watching Show take well-worn ingredients and put them together with warmth, humor, momentum and confidence.
Show repeatedly demonstrated that a story doesn’t have to reinvent the wheel if it knows how to make the journey enjoyable.
I didn’t care about the lack of originality because I was having fun.
That was why I was happy to go along for the ride – right up until that final, slightly doughy bite, anyway. 🤭 (We’ll talk about that later.)
Show’s idea of Funny
If you’ve been around the blog for a while, you’ll likely know that I don’t often jive with k-humor, so it thrills me quite a bit, to be able to say that Show had me laughing out loud, at points.
Yes, a good chunk of it isn’t very original, but the execution was the thing that had me in fits of giggles.
Here are a few of my personal highlights:
[SPOILER ALERT]
1. The whole sequence of Gang Uk trying to hunt Yeo Ri down at the hotel, while Yeo Ri determinedly tries to avoid him – their expressions were so funny, and the longer this all went on, the funnier I found it. 😁
2. The way our OTP ends up accidentally sharing a room on Jeju Island – I found it really fun, the way Show plays with their perspectives in order to delay their realization of the truth. 🤭
3. The fact that Gang Uk gets haunted, not via all the other times that he’s been in close proximity to Yeo Ri for various valid reasons, but via a Dramaland Supertrope, where he pulls her out of the way of oncoming traffic. This tickled me. 😁
4. Gang Uk’s reactions to the little boy ghost, including actually scaring Boy Ghost – funny! 😂
[END SPOILER]
The lashings of poignance
One of the things I really appreciated about this drama, is that, even in the midst of serving up the funny, Show takes the time and trouble to slip a bit of poignance, which really added a nice amount of emotional heft to my watch.
[SPOILER ALERT]
I felt it in the sequence where Gang Uk’s trying to hunt down Yeo Ri at the hotel, which was funny, but then Show undercuts it all with that beat of Yeo Ri hiding in the locker room, where she overhears those staff members gossiping about her and how she’s so heartless that she’d even ignore a crying child.
Aw. In that moment, I felt misunderstood on Yeo Ri’s behalf, and wished that people actually knew how considerate she actually is. 🥹
I thought that was very effectively done.
[END SPOILER]
Affecting ghost stories
Honestly, the ghost cases ended up taking up less screen time than I’d originally imagined – which I didn’t mind at all personally, not being one for ghost stories – but the ghost stories that Show does touch on, tended to be quite poignant.
Not always, but often, I found myself feeling unexpectedly emotional in response to the ghost story at hand.
[SPOILER ALERT]
For example, I found the story of Boy Ghost particularly affecting.
It’s sad enough to see Boy Ghost lead Yeo Ri and Gang Uk to the car wreck where his dad is lying semi-conscious; it’s even more gutting to see him point out where his baby sister is, within the wreckage – because we also see that Little Boy had promised to be a good big brother to her.
Gulp. This was his way of being the best big brother he could be – even in death.
SOB. MY HEART. 😭😭😭
[END SPOILER]
This felt like a sudden suckerpunches of emotional heft when I least expected it – and I mean that in the best way. 🥲
Overall treatment of the OTP
For the most part, Show prioritizes the nudging closer of our would-be OTP even as it weaves its story.
Whether Show is dealing with ghost stories, workplace stuff or family stuff, it mostly keeps its focus mostly on the OTP, and as someone here primarily for the romance, I was very pleased about how that. 😁
STUFF THAT WAS OK
The Chaebol machinations
I wasn’t too bothered by all the chaebol machinations, with Nasty Aunt (Baek Ji Won) and her nasty offspring Ha Ri (Jo Hye Joo) and Dong Jun (Lee Dal) constantly maneuvering in the background, with their eyes on removing Yeo Ri from her position as CEO of Reina Hotel – so that they can gain more control within the Group.
To me, this is par for the course whenever there’s a lead chaebol character, so the very fact that Yeo Ri’s introduced to us as a chaebol CEO, basically indicates that there would be scheming and plotting to go with.
The only time I felt like Show overstepped its boundaries and gave our schemers too much screen time is in the finale – which I’ll talk about later.
Logic stretches – sometimes
Show doesn’t do this too often, but there were occasions when it definitely stretched logic, and more than a little.
[SPOILER ALERT]
Yes, I’m thinking about the time at the end of episode 4, where Gang Uk flatlines after the car crash – only to show up in front of Yeo Ri on the hospital grounds, looking none the worse for wear, after he’d literally almost died.
It is a HUGE stretch that Gang Uk would be on his feet at all after flatlining literal minutes ago, but.. I rationalize that maybe all that haunting has imparted some kind of supernatural resilience to him..? 😅
[END SPOILER]
STUFF I DIDN’T LIKE SO MUCH
The Finale’s Rush To The Finish Line
If there’s one major weakness that stands out to me when looking back on the show as a whole, it’s the final stretch.
I’ll talk more about this later, but overall, I felt like Show could have served up a much stronger finale than the one we ended up getting.
Not that the finale we got was bad; it just wasn’t as satisfying as I had hoped.
SPOTLIGHT ON CHARACTERS / RELATIONSHIPS
Park Eun Bin as Yeo Ri
I really, really enjoyed Park Eun Bin as Yeo Ri. 🤩
There’s a touch of quirky-wacky about Yeo Ri in our opening episodes, and there’s all that fabulous glove fashion too, which I can’t help but admire because any time I’ve tried to wear gloves in the past, I’ve looked and felt more like Mickey Mouse than an heiress. 🤭
Beyond these initial impressions, though, I grew to really enjoy Yeo Ri for her sincerity, consideration and compassion, which we see in particular, when she helps the various ghosts that come her way.
[SPOILER ALERT]
Beneath her quirky and slightly eccentric initial impression, we soon learn that Yeo Ri’s not just fiercely capable, but deeply lonely and almost painfully selfless.
That really made my heart go out to her.
When I think about it, everything about the way she lives her life revolves around protecting other people.
She wears the gloves; she keeps her distance; she isolates herself; she limits human contact; she turns down things she wants.
She repeatedly accepts personal unhappiness if she believes it will keep somebody else safe.
One of my favorite details is when she explains that she’d basically worked her way up from being terrified of ghosts to merely tolerating them, because that says so much about her, doesn’t it?
Life handed her an impossible situation and her response was essentially: “Well, I guess I’d better learn how to live with this.”
How could I not admire that, yes?
Most of all, I love that even that after the years of isolation, she remains unbelievably kind.
And yet, underneath it all, we can see how she yearns for things to be different.
That scene where she reserves half the tables at the restaurant so that she can experience the semblance of being around people without actually putting anyone in danger says so much about her.
She clearly wants human connection, but she’s willing to deprive herself of it because she thinks that’s the responsible thing to do.
That made me feel very protective of her, and I couldn’t help but want all of the good things for her, as I rooted for her. 🥲
[END SPOILER]
Yang Se Jong as Gang Uk
Honestly, I’d been rather indifferent to Yang Se Jong’s casting, coming into this show, and I have to say, I really grew to love him as Gang Uk.
Not only is he a righteous prosecutor who sincerely wants to see justice done, rather than someone who’s just doing his job, he’s a truly good egg, which we come to see over and over, during the course of our story.
[SPOILER ALERT]
If Yeo Ri won me over through her resilience, Gang Uk won me over through his decency. Seriously.
The man is just absurdly wholesome.
When he first showed up, I expected a fairly standard prosecutor-type male lead. Competent. Righteous. Slightly arrogant, perhaps.
Instead, what I got was a giant dork with the emotional instincts of a golden retriever. 🤭 SO ENDEARING. 🤩
The thing that sticks out most when I think about Gang Uk is how consistently he’s oriented toward caring for other people.
He takes care of his grandmother; he plays with kids at the orphanage; he worries about victims; he worries about Yeo Ri.
He notices when she’s tired; he notices when she’s cold; he notices when she’s scared.
What I find especially persuasive about Gang Uk’s feelings is that he never tries to minimize the ghost situation. He’s scared of ghosts, but continues to care about Yeo Ri anyway. 🥲
I think the highest compliment I can give Gang Uk, though, is that I found him consistently, solidly trustworthy.
I trusted that he would tell the truth; I trusted that he would help; I trusted that he would show up; I trusted that if Yeo Ri called, he’d drop everything and come running.
That’s exactly the kind of rock-solid, reliable, honorable person he proved himself to be, over and over.
Honestly, by the end of the show, I wasn’t swooning because Gang Uk was the coolest man in the room; I was swooning because he was the nicest man in the room.
What a surprising and lovely thing. 🥰
[END SPOILER]
Yeo Ri and Gang Uk
This OTP turned out to be the highlight of my watch, to my very pleasant surprise.
Honestly, when I’d first seen this casting, I hadn’t been super sure about this particular pairing.
Happily, Show put all my initial reservations to rest.
Very quickly into my watch, I started to enjoy the chemistry between Park Eun Bin and Yang Se Jong, which I found to be warm and gently sparky (I mean that in a good way!).
Not only are both leads just really decent, compassionate people, they make a pretty great team once they join forces too.
My favorite thing though, is how awkwardly sincere and dorky this OTP relationship turned out to be.
If you like awkwardly bashful OTP cuteness, you’d enjoy this OTP, I’m pretty sure.
[BROAD SPOILERS]
One of the key things I loved about this OTP, is that these two were always on the same side. That might sound like a simple thing, but it’s actually surprisingly rare.
So many romance dramas manufacture conflict by turning the couple against each other. Misunderstandings balloon, trust evaporates, communication collapses – and everybody spends three episodes refusing to explain anything. 😂
In contrast, Yeo Ri and Gang Uk spend most of this drama trying very hard to protect, support, help and understand each other.
That made all the difference for me.
Well, that and the fact that they are just the softest pair of dorks. 😁
One of my favourite things about them is that they’re both kind of awkward about being in love.
They remind me of the OTP from Do You Like Brahms? (review here!) in the best way. 🥰
I mean, they clearly like each other, everybody can see they clearly like each other, they themselves know that they clearly like each other… and yet they still somehow become flustered every time they’re standing within three feet of each other. 🤭
It’s ADORABLE. 😍
I got so much enjoyment out of things like:
Gang Uk making increasingly transparent excuses just to spend time with Yeo Ri; Gang Uk desperately pretending to see ghosts so she wouldn’t walk away; Gang Uk craning his neck every chance he got just to catch a glimpse of her.
The way the two of them became ridiculously pleased whenever circumstances provided a legitimate reason to spend time together, just made me grin from the sheer cuteness of it all. 😁
Another very important piece, for me, is the fact that at their core, these are two genuinely caring people.
Yeo Ri’s instinct is always to protect others, even at personal cost, while Gang Uk’s instinct is always to show up for people who need him.
As a result, their romance never felt like two people becoming better people because of love; it felt like two already-good people recognizing goodness in each other. 🥲
Looking back, I think one of the cleverest things about this OTP is that the central obstacle wasn’t truly the ghosts.
The real obstacle was Yeo Ri’s belief that whoever loved her would inevitably get hurt.
That’s why so many of my favourite moments involve Gang Uk choosing her despite the ghosts.
Not because he’s fearless. I mean, the man is clearly terrified of ghosts. 😂 But over and over again, he looks at the risks and basically says: “You’re still worth it.”
Whether it’s enduring hauntings, reaching for her hand, touching her hair, flying to another country, or casually announcing that if he sees ghosts again then so be it, his actions all communicate the same thing: “I choose you.”
I found that not only romantic, but very touching as well.
Because what Yeo Ri needs more than anything isn’t someone who can magically eliminate the ghosts; she needs someone who freely chooses her despite them – and Gang Uk is that person. 🥹
By the time Gang Uk turned into an eager fiancé-shaped missile whose solution to every problem was to “go see Yeo Ri immediately,” while Yeo Ri melted into a flustered puddle whenever he appeared unexpectedly, I was completely sold on this relationship. 🥰
What a great blend of mutual pining, mutual care, and mutual dorkery these two made. 😁🥰
Here are some of my favorite OTP beats from the show.
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[SPOILER ALERT]
“It must have been so hard to live with, all this time.”
E3-4. After the whole Boy Ghost incident, I really love the conversation that Yeo Ri and Gang Uk share.
When he asks her when her ghost-seeing abilities had started, she tells him honestly about the yacht accident, and how she’d started seeing her dead friend Ji Hwan, who’d died in the same accident, and how she’d found that other people would be haunted by ghosts, if she touched them.
Isn’t it so fundamentally decent and compassionate of Gang Uk to then apologize to Yeo Ri for having suspected her of being an accomplice in crime?
And then when she apologizes to him that he’ll now be haunted too, how considerate is he, to shrug it off, saying that it can’t be helped?
The thing that really gets me right in the heart though, is the way Gang Uk takes Yeo Ri’s hands in his own (despite the known ghost-related skinship issue), and tells her that he finally understands her words on Jeju Island – and says, with so much empathy in his gaze, “It must have been so hard to live with, all this time.”
AUGH. Gang Uk. You’re SUCH a considerate lovely person. I think I love you. 😍
The way Yeo Ri looks so affected by his kind words, makes me think that his words are a balm to her lonely heart.
For the first time in her life, someone’s voluntarily touching her hand, and expressing understanding and compassion for her, without recoiling from her.
It’s beautiful, honestly. 🥹
“It’s tough, isn’t it?”
E3-4. Given how poor Gang Uk’s at the end of his rope pretty much with all the haunting, I can see why he would seek Yeo Ri out at her home.
Isn’t it again so instinctively decent of the both of them, to each see the difficulties of the other person?
It all starts with Yeo Ri asking, “It’s tough, isn’t it?” – and that’s the thing that gets Gang Uk to muse that he’s barely been able to get through a week of being haunted, so how much harder must it have been for her, all these years? And that his suffering is a drop in the ocean compared to hers. 🥹
The mutual understanding is really lovely here, and I gotta say, I am loving that this is where writer-nim is choosing to lean in, when it comes to our OTP connection. ❤️
I love-love-LOVE Yeo Ri’s suggestion that she guide Gang Uk through the rest of the month.
How adorable is it, that they end up basically connected via video call all day long, as she talks him through how to ignore the various ghosts, and how to establish distance from them.
Ahhh. This feels so precious on both sides, really.
For him, he’s getting a real lifeline as he navigates these very strange haunted waters, and for her, she’s getting the taste of friendship and true companionship – something that she’s long convinced herself as not being hers to enjoy. 🥹
“I’m grateful for the ghosts.”
E9-10. How sweet is it, that he takes her to that Moonlight Bridge to commemorate their engagement, and then tells her that being haunted hadn’t been hard at all, and that he’s even grateful to the ghosts – because they brought him to her.
Awww. That is very, very sweet, and I especially love that he’s taking the ghosts – the very thing that’s made Yeo Ri feel self-conscious and isolated all this time – and saying that he’s GRATEFUL for them, because of how he’s gained Yeo Ri’s person and presence, in exchange.
That is especially lovely, and I can’t help but melt at how Gang Uk manages to be so lovely and sweet, in his dorky, matter-of-fact way. 🥰
And then when Yeo Ri remarks that it would be even nicer if they could hold hands, Gang Uk doesn’t hesitate for a second – he just holds out his hands, expecting Yeo Ri to take them.
It’s true that she’s wearing gloves, but as we see, this doesn’t convince Yeo Ri entirely that it would be safe for Gang Uk to hold her hand – and that’s why she demurs.
It really is touching to see how much she wants to protect Gang Uk, and how much he wants to be with her, never mind the ghostly risks.
[END SPOILER]
Ong Seong Wu as Min Hwan
It had been a hot minute since I’d had Ong Seong Wu on my screen, and I’d welcomed the chance to see him as some kind of chaebol prince type, since my strongest impression of him was as an earnest highschooler in A Moment At Eighteen (a really good show – review here!).
Overall, I’d say that while Ong Seong Wu had some particularly strong moments (like the scene when Min Hwan learns the truth about his birth), this evened out to be a just-ok sort of outing for him, in my opinion.
I do think that part of the reason is that Min Hwan feels underwritten as a character.
There are some interesting layers here which I think could have been fleshed out better – which might have then offered Ong Seong Wu more to work with, and more opportunities to shine. 🥲
[SPOILER ALERT]
When I think about Min Hwan, I realize that for a good chunk of the drama, I found him quite sympathetic.
Early on, what struck me most about Min Hwan was how lonely he seemed.
The adoption reveal hit pretty hard precisely because it felt like it explained so much.
Suddenly, all those little moments of uncertainty – all those subtle signs that he didn’t feel secure in his place within the family – started fitting together.
And my heart did genuinely go out to him, because it was pretty clear to see that he never felt fully accepted around even his own family; it was only with Yeo Ri that he felt fully safe and accepted.
The problem is that there came a point where Show decided Min Hwan wasn’t simply going to be sad; he was going to become an antagonist.
And while I didn’t completely reject that development per set, I did find it a lot more abrupt than I would’ve liked.
Honestly, I don’t think Show did a sufficiently strong job of explaining Min Hwan’s turn to the dark side.
As it stands, there were stretches where I found myself doing a good amount of the character work on Show’s behalf, in my effort to try to understand Min Hwan.
The key insight that helped me make peace with Min Hwan’s arc was realizing that he wasn’t actually trying to win Yeo Ri’s heart anymore; he was trying to prevent himself from losing the only thing that had ever made him feel accepted.
Once I started viewing his behavior through the lens of fear and abandonment, his actions made much more emotional sense. Suddenly, all the controlling behaviour started looking less like romantic pursuit and more like desperation.
In some ways, I actually think Min Hwan is one of the saddest characters in the drama, because the thing he wanted most was never really available to him.
The harder he fought to hold on to Yeo Ri, the further away he effectively pushed her. The more desperate he became, the less likely he was to achieve the thing he wanted.
Importantly, I never actively hated Min Hwan, because underneath all the poor choices, I could still see the wounded, lonely boy who was terrified of being abandoned.
By the time we reached the end of our story, I found myself viewing Min Hwan less as the rival, less as the antagonist, and more as a tragedy; a cautionary tale about what can happen when the desire to be loved slowly morphs into the fear of being left behind. 🥲
[END SPOILER]
Special shout-out:
Hyeong Min and Pil Dong
I just wanted to give a quick shout-out to Hyeong Min and Pil Dong (Kim Min Ho and Lee Chang Hoon), because I thought that they were a really good pair of colleagues to Gang Uk.
You could tell that through the ribbing and teasing, they really liked Gang Uk.
And I love how that affection showed up, with them helping him and standing by him whenever things got hard.
Gang Uk knew that he could depend on them, and I found that all very, very wholesome. 🥰
THOUGHTS ON THE ENDING [SPOILERS]
At the risk of sounding contradictory, I think my feelings on this ending boil down to this: I thought it worked – I just didn’t think it worked as well as it could have. 🥲
In broad strokes, Show does resolve the main things that need resolving: the villains get dealt with; the emotional arcs reach their intended destinations; the OTP gets their happy ending.
However.
While I watched this finale, I couldn’t help but feel like Show had a list of things that it just needed to check off its list before the credits rolled.
That wasn’t very satisfying, to be honest. 😅
The biggest misstep, to my eyes, is that Show spent so much screen time wrapping up everything else, that our OTP got very little screen time as a result.
For a story that’s been centered on our OTP for so much of its run, this felt.. unbalanced and just.. wrong? 😅
What I would’ve preferred
When I think about it, I think what would have worked better for me, is if Show had been more intentional about a few things.
I would have liked our OTP to have found the memory card together (intentionally, together), and I would have liked Show to have done more to establish the emotional logic in a couple of places.
Like a line where Min Hwan articulates what the necklace meant to him; a line where Ji Hwan mentions why he’d stayed away from Yeo Ri all this time.
Both of these things wouldn’t have taken much screen time, but would have made a big difference in terms of demonstrating how intentional Show was being.
Even though I managed to rationalize the emotional logic behind each of these things, I would have liked if Show had given us something more concrete to make that emotional logic concrete, rather than something I had to work to conjure up on Show’s behalf.
Another thing that I wanted, was for Show to have spent less time on various smaller things – particularly Nasty Aunt and her children – and spent that time on the OTP instead.
I would have liked it if writer-nim had somehow tweaked the approach to episode 12, so that most of it is viewed through our OTP’s eyes; that would have kept them front-and-center, while allowing Show to deal with all the secondary characters.
AND, I would have liked a scene where, after Yeo Ri wakes up from her coma, she and Gang Uk keep holding hands and testing / verifying that neither of them sees ghosts any longer.
I think it could’ve been a cute but important beat, where they soak in the thrill of just being able to hold hands, and I think it would’ve made a positive difference to have had this moment earlier rather than right at the end of episode 12.
Because then, them holding hands at every opportunity could’ve been a sweet running gag through the rest of the episode, as we see the rest of the finale through their eyes, yes?
And for the final scene, I would’ve liked a wedding.
I mean, c’mon. Gang Uk’s spent a whole year away and is finally back in Seoul? We need a wedding to celebrate, don’t we?
I would’ve loved for us to get to see the wedding, and I would want to see Yeo Ri specifically decline to wear gloves as a bride (even though it’s such a norm for brides to wear gloves) – because she wants to be able to hold hands with her groom.
AND, I would want to see Gang Uk get to put their wedding band on her finger – which would’ve been a great echo of how he’d practiced so hard previously, to put the engagement ring on her finger.
Then, amidst warm, happy cheers from all the people who love them, I’d want our bare-handed couple to sink into the happiest ever-after sort of kiss – right there on the Sienna Hall lawn, just like Yeo Ri’s parents would have wanted.
Now, that’s an ending that I would’ve eaten up with a spoon. 🥲
THE FINAL VERDICT:
Loses some of its oomph at the end, but is, overall, a warm and enjoyable watch in the tradition of classic k-romcoms.
FINAL GRADE: B+
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