#throwing three versions up 'cause why not 😂

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Happy anniversary to one of my favourite stories ever!! Will always have a place in my heart <3

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A Love So Beautiful (2020)

Genre: Coming of age, Romance

Synopsis: Shin Sol-i has a massive crush on her classmate and neighbor Cha Heon, and is not afraid to express it. Cha Heon is seemingly indifferent to her efforts in trying to kindle a relationship with him, but perhaps he isn’t as cold as he seems on the outside. We follow these two and their friends through school and as they grow up together. Can love stand the test of time? Well, only time will tell.

Episode info: 24 episodes / Runtime around 25 minutes

Lead cast: Kim Yo-han (Cha Heon), Soo Joo-yeon (Shin Sol-i), Yeo Hoe-hyun (Woo Dae-sung), Jo Hye-joo (Kang Ha-young), Jeong Jin-hwan (Jeong Jin-hwan)

Link to watch: You can watch on Netflix or Dramacool

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I actually want to start this review out with my first notes from this drama, and then I’ll talk about why I was very wrong after that.

It’s a typical high school romance drama, and you can pretty much predict every single plot line they throw at you. Cute, but haven’t got much else going for it to be honest. Most of it is teenagers being teenagers - in love, overdramatic and well... teenagers. Which I do actually think is quite nice, as sometimes teenagers in dramas can come off as way too mature.

The episodes are somewhat repetitive, though I can’t say much more than that without spoiling - though I do think they could have shortened it down a bit without ruining much of the plot.

All in all, a pretty cute drama, though not for me. - I did also only watch is because and irl friend actually started watching kdramas on her own, and really wanted me to watch it. I had originally ignored it because I could see the love triangle coming from a mile away, but that was actually maybe the only thing that I was not disappointed by. Though the main love interest was a brat as predicted, I think the second male lead was surprisingly mature about it all. So points on that from me.

That is where it ends, though. After 17 episodes of standard high school drama, only occasionally skipping a little time here and there, the drama suddenly starts skipping months or even years ahead of time - sometimes multiple times in the same episodes.

They will skip time, show a single scene, then skip years ahead again. They gloss over so much of their adulthood, when they spent over half the drama on their teenage years. I was so confused, and I cannot understand why the director chose to create the drama like this (I haven’t watched the original Chinese version, and I do not want to, so maybe it is something they do there as well?) Either way, I hated it.

It was a totally different drama from one episode to another. If they had cut out some of their time in high school, they could have made more time to see them actually grow up and grow into the careers they all end up choosing. But no, we see them in school uniform for 17 episodes, and suddenly they go through uni in like 3 or 4 episodes and are now all grown up and have jobs. 

Had the drama ended after the 17 episodes, I would have given it about three stars, cause I really wasn’t bothered by it. Not my type of drama, but nothing bad about it either. But now? I actually thought about going down to a one star, though I do end up on two because after all, more than half of it was decent enough. 

But yeah, I finished this on a day when I wasn’t in the best mood and had hoped it would help a little, but I ended up so mad about it 😂