Love Your Enemy

7.5/10 is my rating. This is a 2024 South Korean Romantic Comedy with 12, 70 minute episodes.

First I provide a unique synopsis then review. I provide the synopsis to give another description of the story since particularly with Chinese and Japanese shows the descriptions aren’t very good. If you’re not interested in the synopsis, the review is labeled you can scroll down to it.

Synopsis

Born of two rival families, Seok Ji-won (Ju Ji-hoon) and Yoon Ji-won (Jung Yu-mi) were destined to be enemies. But in true Romeo and Juliet style, they fall in love as teenagers. But a misunderstanding drives them apart for 18 years and circumstances reunite them as adults. But now they not only have their family rivalry but their own personal grudges to overcome. Can they put aside their differences and convince their families that their love is the key to end the long standing feud?

Review

I’m actually surprised by how many other reviewers really like this one. Perhaps because I’ve watched over 300 dramas and I tend to prefer romantic dramas so most of those of the romances so admit it’s hard for there to be an original blot and I actually like a lot of the tropes When I saw this one and it was going to be like a love to hate. It’s actually one of my more preferred troops and I thought they may try to get one over on each other in funny ways and that would be the comedy part of it, but it really wasn’t much thought at all, and it was a rather uninspired romance.I thought it would have somewhat of an interesting plot where they were getting each other back-and-forth maybe with prank like things and it might be funny and interesting. There really wasn’t much of that. It was mostly like some bickering exchanges and then all kinds of blocks in the road towards romance. Because they didn’t go for some kind of tit for tat battle between them that would’ve been funny the romance between them really wasn’t all that interesting and there wasn’t much else because none of that other stuff really panned out if you’re a fan of either actor, you might wanna watch it Might be worth a watch once if you’re just a huge romance fan and consumes every romance that comes out

Spoilers

Yoon Ji-won’s friend, Cha Ji-hye (Kim Ye-won) is the worst snake of a friend. Her violating Yoon’s privacy to delete messages and even respond to break Seok and Joon up was just bottom feeder low. Then she does similar again as an adult. They tried for this redemption arc in the end where she admitted what she had done and her friend forgave her and they just went on the problem I had with that is she didn’t really admit everything she had done. She just admitted deleting a few emails when they were younger, she didn’t tell her she actually replied with a nasty Comment back to him. She also didn’t tell her she stole her phone again as an adult and did similar so if you forgive somebody based on them, not really telling you all the wrongs, it’s not really a full forgiveness nor does it make you a better person because you didn’t fess up to everything you did so I was actually very disappointed that main girl forgave her without even telling her off. And then we never even got to see Mail lead find out that the snake of her friend had lied to her, not once but twice and kept them apart, not once but twiceso I never could feel good about that character at all

Of the battling elders I thought Seok’s father was not a very likable man. He was abusive to his son. I liked Yoon’s grandather and was on team Yoon in the to golf course or not to goof course battle. Seahawks father did have some redemption in the end when he decided to be nicer. It was hard to forgive him for those early slaps he gave to his son that was just physically abusive.

The other thing I did not like about this one was them as a young couple were both top-tier attractive, but then the adults played the part. They’re still very attractive, but just a little less and I know that can happen with age, but it just wasn’t a very good match of the young actors to the older actors I also thought it was ridiculous. When the elders found out they were together that they treated them like teenagers and were like you can’t even be in the same house.

whomever did the wardrobe for the lead female part put her in the most dumpy from the clothes I think I’ve seen in a while. It’s somehow in parts even made her look like she was a little chubby, even though you could tell she was so completely skinny and that wedding dress killed any romantic thoughts one might have it in that what should be very romantic moment it was the ugliest wedding dress I’ve seen in any of them and I’ve seen some pretty ugly wedding dresses, the veil look like they just plops them to feta on her head and called it a day at one point she moved her arms, and the dress became even more shapeless, which I honestly did not think was possible. And when it showed up from the back, it even made her look like she had a bigger butt, just horrible, horrible costing for her that did make her look like she wasn’t very attractive.

It ends OK lead couples get together and are on their way to marriage finally. But I just wasn’t all that invested in any of the relationships. They didn’t show enough of the suite side of the main girl even when she was younger to make you understand why he would like her And then they had a young couple that were in high school. I guess that we’re supposed to be similar to them and I thought that girl was extremely unlikable she was mean to all of her classmates so I don’t know. Is there this trend where attractive weed guy likes mean lead girl? Did he only like her because she was pretty? Because he should have been relieved of that notion with the frumpy mess that made her look less attractive later.

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