Cheese in the Trap (2016)

Really good

The drama was really interesting and fun. I thought many times about watching this drama because I really liked the synopsis, but as the rating was low, I gave up every time... But now I feel I really did well that I decided to watch it..
Not just plot but the main leads were also superb.. I never got bored watching the drama, I always was curious what was going to happen between them.
Each and every one's character was unique and cheerful. I will start with Park Hae Jin.. I always have seen him as the second lead in the dramas.. This is my second drama seeing him as main lead.. His role really suited him very well. I had seen him in FOREST, but that wasn't something to be praised.. But here I can't help but praise , admire him.. He wasn't a good friend, but to me he was a perfect boyfriend..With his good looks, acting skill and charming role he really won my heart.
There is nothing to say about Kim go eun.. She always does a great on her every role.. She did let my expectations down.. Her role was also very special and tough.. It was really a great experience watching them together..
I nearly had second lead syndrome.. seo Kang joon's character, and his superbly well suited look with the role made me angry to the makers of the drama.. They placed two excellent main lead together with two unique and wish-to-watch more character. In Jo's smile, way to handle things, sense of responsibility were not something one can ignore. So I loved it..
And then comes In Ha, Lee sung Kyung, was not a joke anymore... Her scary, arrogant, funny, trouble maker character ,I don't know how she did, really suited her...I couldn't imagine her in this role after dr. Romantic 2 and weightlifting fairy Kim bok joo.
The drama was really excellent and well plotted. I don't know why everyone is giving it low rating.. But try watching it.. You will never regret for sure.

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Cheese in the Trap is one of those dramas I didn't expect to like as much as I do now. This drama approaches an unique way of portraying college life and what I love most about the drama is how every character in the show has a flaw in one way or another. This is refreshing to see because it can be tiring to see the main characters being absolutely perfect while the rest of the characters act unreasonably with almost no redeemable qualities to them. I also love the pacing of the show and how it didn't drag the scenes in an unnecessary way.

While I love the realistic nature of the show, I think the biggest issue with the show is the character development throughout the show rather than the ending. I do think the ending left me unsatisfied, but I don't think it was the worst part of the show. Throughout the show, Hong Seol and Yoo Jung as a couple was quite odd to me. The weirdness of their relationship was entertaining and I was intrigued to see how their relationship would progress, but I was left disappointed towards the end of the show. Hong Seol was always angry with Yoo Jung because of his inability to be more open to her. Every fight they have is just her being mad at him for not being honest. Because of this, I expected him to be more honest with her. However, towards the latter part of the show Hong Seol just gives up and Yoo Jung continues his way of being passive aggressive with everyone. I also disliked In Ha. I wished she had better character development because towards the end the show dismisses her selfish behavior instead of evolving her to be more mature.

Overall, the show was good and I would recommend to watch the drama. I would say the beginning of the drama is way better than the latter part. Most of my disappointment is due to the potential I see in this drama. If they fleshed out the characters more in the latter part of the drama, I believe it wouldn't have left me on an unsatisfied note.

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Second lead syndrome hits very hard, my warning to viewers!!!

Second lead , Baek In Ho is one of my fav characters in this show!! I prefer second lead and main female lead moments the most here. In my opinion , i didn't felt attracted to the male lead's character. Baek in ho has much more likable character.
The casting of Park Hae Jin felt quite wrong, not because he is a bad actor, just cause he does not look like a college student . He looks much older than other main characters. The acting was perfect, everyone did their character perfectly.
I personally didn't liked the main character's relationship , i didn't feel anything tbh. Sometime the scenes get so boring but i still watched it .

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my first review on k dramas, ... it would have been great series if she didnt go for messed up,controlling guy over guy who had looked out for her from the beginning. im at episode 8 and finding it hard to watch, relationship between two leads is like pulling a tooth with tweezers. if this was real life im pretty sure there is a diagnosis for the kind of person like the lead male is.


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I'm not an expert at writing reviews on any dramas and this will probably be viewed by 0 people but I'd like to get my rage and a little bit of my love on this drama and explain to you why I rated this what it is. Please take your time to read this, it is helpful haha.

First off, if your planning on watching this... I WOULD recommend it but if you have no patience for dumb girls then don't. So the main character, Hong Seol is this average college student who at first really dislikes Yoo Jung but surprise they fall in love in like episode 3 and start dating around that episode or 4ish 5ish. This relationship absolutely disgusted me. They pretty much just put the antagonist and "protagonist" together. Honestly, it's my opinion that Jung was kind of like an antagonist but still. So this is how the relationship went, Jung would do something bizarre like ruin someone's life or mess with them because they "made fun of him or viewed him some way" or "irritated Seol" and Seol would go crying to him saying it's okay that all that matters is that he can trust her. I didn't get it because in the beginning, she herself called him out for it but while they were dating she found it perfectly okay. The script in no way explained why Jung would do the things he did thoroughly. ESPECIALLY what he did to In-ho I won't tell you about the emotions at the end... but... ugh. All Jung would say was that people thought he was "weird" which I didn't think was a good word for his actions. And from what I saw it was unless he did something really mean that people would view him that way. He acted as if NO ONE wanted to get to know him or thought he was some type of serial killer automatically when people actually tried befriending him. The directors also didn't explain why exactly he would go out of his way to do something so pathetic and jerk-like. He tried explaining his feelings but I had to rewatch so many scenes to still end up not getting it. One clip was with him and a little girl and he managed to get her drunk JUST because she wanted to play with him and cried when he didn't want to? That's exactly what I am talking about when I say people were trying to be nice to him but he always viewed them as dolls putting on a fake smile to just secretly make fun of him, I understood why he was mad at his family but then again I was confused on why his family thought of him the way they did... I can't even put this into simple words because NONE of it made sense.

What I really like about this drama and the rating I gave other than the relationship between Seol and Jung is the background story between Jung and In Ho really wasn't that bad and actually got you wondering a lot about what it was about and personally I don't think it dragged too much at all. And Seol's troubles weren't THAT bad either but I can't say that she's the person to stand up for herself so quickly it took her to pretty much 5-6 episodes before the end of the show to really get out there and her classmates bugged me so much no one there really saw how pathetic they were I really wanted to smuggle them because of how they treated Seol.

Now let me explain to you who In Ho is! My. favorite. character. throughout. the. whole. show. period. He is the reason why I got excited about talking about cheese in the trap with my friend. I swear I skipped more parts with Jung than I did with In-ho... and I skipped none with him. I swear Seo Kang Joon was like one of the first actors in a drama I actually could just not with. His light eyes, smile, and his personality overall in the show was perfect. He had this "bad boy" "I kind of don't care I'm just going about with life" "talk to me when you need to" "it is what it is but i'll keep trying" "she might be petty but I still care about her" personality which was just... MATERIAL and eye candy the whole time. He actually made me smile every time he had a moment with Seol or was just being him. In-ho I had emotions for because of the tough life he had gone through ever since a child and how his dreams were pretty much taken away for one thing that did not have to become so problematic. His sister was TERRIBLE to him throughout the whole show but it wasn't about the present he cared about the things they'd been through together and he himself knew his sister deep down inside and truly cared about her and wanted her to grow for the better throughout the whole show. Even when she stole his money. The thing about In-ho was that he never really let his emotions carry him he still managed to try harder or restart. Things kept going terrible and he didn't get anything he wanted when he wanted it and he had to stop everything to put others in front of him. Ah. Loved him but I can't spoil no more.

The acting was cool. The background story of Seol's friends was... not important you knew what would happen anyway at the end with them at some parts they seemed distance but that didn't matter since many things were already going on anyway. The only reason I would rewatch is because of In-ho scenes and when he came in the beginning of the show and how him and Seol's relationship built up. I hated, and still do, Jung so much but he was always justified by Seol which got on my nerves. The rest is for you to see anyway.

Thank you for reading!

P.S. if you care about music, I just put it at 10 because I can't remember what type of songs were played lol.

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I could firmly say that this is the best drama series that I've ever seen. First of all, the casting for this show was superb, all of the actors were so natural and perfect for their roles. I sang along to the soundtrack all the time and even now, I come back to the OST once in a while. Without spoiling anything I'd like to say that you really need to watch this drama 2 times at least. The first time you're gonna be smiling, talking to yourself and encouraging the characters. Also, you're probably gonna be very shocked as well. The second time, you're going to be viewing those characters a lot differently, but also laughing and hoping for a better ending.
Definitely one of the best Korean dramas out there. With a combination of comedy, romance and drama this will be a great series for a 2-day binge :D

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the story

i really liked this show and i always find myself rewatching it. i love it so much and i know some people might not like it, but it’s def one of my comfort shows. i feel like i always come running back to watch it. i like when i forget what happens and watch it again like it’s the first time.

The only problem is that i felt like when they would be in a good place in their relationship, it wouldn’t last 5 seconds, because someone would come out of no where and say that he did something rude and evil to them and that he did this for her by hurting others and i absolutely hated that. there was on time for them to for real show pure love to each other. they were always in some kind of fighting uncomfortable faze. don’t get me wrong i think they are a great couple, but i didn’t like how they always had something to fight about and Also the ending killed me. they didn’t even let us see them happy one more time😭

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As soon as I started this drama I couldn't stop watching. The story was something else and always kept me on edge; with the male lead's suspicious and mysterious personality and the female lead's very relatable character. By the end of it I started getting really scared as of how it's gonna end because I read a lot of disappointed reviews. Thankfully though, the ending was good, in my opinion ofcourse. The cast was amazing and the acting was so so good!! I fell in love with baek in ha's crazy personality and weird facial expressions. The actress really took the role to a new level! :D
I pretty much liked how realistic the story was from beginning to end. It's safe to say that I haven't watched a korean drama that was similar in anyway to this before. I highly recommend it. It is not a waste of time, and you'll enjoy every second of it.

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Spoiler!!
It is wrong to say that i feel what the lead male doing is right? I mean they deserved it... Even the lead female judge him before know him.... And i think that he really a good person..nice person from the start even i get a little confius... he just always being misunderstand..and being misunderstand or being blame or always being tabs on is really hard.... Always have to do what other ask..always need to wear smile on face... It really hard.. Even the 2 lead actor misunderstood him for a long time... And he was his bestfriend who tabs on him.. I can see why he think everyone is the same...and he doest do anything to other... He just tell something and they make their choose.... It their fault but always blame other.... Take advantage of other.... Think like other people doest have feeling...

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Esse dorama parece a memória de um pesadelo longo para mim, não lembro de nada na história e só sei que eram tantas coisas acontecendo ao mesmo tempo e nada fazia sentido, o único acerto nesse dorama foi o elenco. As vezes não vale a pena tentar assistir esses doramas famosos e antigos que marcaram a dramaland, essa desculpa de ser um dorama mais antigo e ter algumas coisas polêmicas que eram consideradas normais não cola, geralmente isso só é uma desculpa para passar pano por cima de coisas tóxicas ou só muito ruins mesmo. Infelizmente nem o elenco salvou esse roteiro caótico.

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