More Than Friends (2020)

Reasons why I dont support the love line between the girl and the male lead character

First of all, I would like to say that I don't have nothing against the actors, and all I'm saying it here it's just about the characters.

Good points:
* The support characteres seems to have a background history and they're showing it to the viewrs in a nice and complete way, what make us understand why they act the way they acts, and it its really a good thing since theyre not there just to be the "support characteres".

* The scenes are well produceds and the takes are good to see, the cinematography its on point.

* The OST its on point.

* All characteres have some line that can be taken as "real life lessons" and its showed thorugt theis personalities and the way they had to solve theirs lives struggles.

Bad points:
* For me the main problem of this drama is about the love line being build in a way where the male lead its a jerk one and the female lead it's almost a submissive one who's exccessively good for that problematic guy.
I mean its already 2020 and I think everyone agree that's there no more time to lose with that "old and cringe" history where the "handsome and rich guy is a jerk one, have no education, its cold, and the poor girl will make him "change" and realize that he likes her, but until he realizes it he'll be a total idiot and treat her like a garbage".
I think almost everyone is aware that it's not a "cute thing" anymore, but instead it's a toxic guy building a toxic relationship, and the way they're putting it like if he's the victim its the worst problem.
They should've put this in a way that the viewers would be able to see that is something wrong, but they're letting he acts like that and at the end he will take the girl, so it wents likes "anyways", it's like the message what they're passing through the drama is: "its okay to be a jerk one, you just need to have a reason to act that way" for the guys, and for the girls like, "its okay to be treated like a garbage because the guy its doing it to you just because he don't knows how to deal with his own feelings, but he likes you, he's acting like a bad guy, but he's a good one, right? you just need to be patient and wait for him to realize that he loves you, you just need to support him and his things and be mistreatened a just a bit more right, you can do it for him right?".
Like what????? no one should be treated as this way, its totally bad to see a woman who works, who do her things to make her live having to be at this situation to "win a guy's heart" its totally wrong.
And the fact that this drama it's already predictable and we already know which one she will be in the end it's making it even worse. The male lead have issues with relationships since his parents marriage was a disaster and he's putting all of his trauma into the others, rather than they're his employes or the girl he "likes", he just has no respect for everyone, and keep wanting the female lead to be next to him, he's not good for her, but he don't want to let her go, he wants her next to him even knowing she's suffering from this kinda of relationship, and when she asked to end the firendshipo he went like "no, I want to keep seeing you", but please, she's not his psycoologist or something like this, if hes not ready for love its okay, but he should let her go, and live her life as well.

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Tired, old trope and I don't have time for that.

So, i gave this drama 2 chances. episode 1, then episode 2. I'm not interested in seeing anymore because we all know how it's going to end.

Neither of the 2 leads are likeable.

This entire show is just a case of drawing it out with pointless drama, when we all know the pushover FL is going to end up with the jerk she's had a crush on since she was a schoolgirl. This drama gives me "fake deep" vibes.

You know, its kinda try hard? Like it WANTS to be a really deep, maybe profound romance thing, thats like deep, but thats kinda hard to take seriously when the FL's been pining over a stupid highschool crush for more than 10 years. Like wth? Girl, its been a whole decade. Move on? And the ML is an asshole and I can't get behind him lmao.

it took me 10 seconds to see the second male lead and instantly realize i was going to get second-lead syndrome. the second male lead could have been an entire light post and the same thing would happen ;-; that's how hard it is to root for any of these characters.

Anyways, this entire "relationship" is just toxic, the story is going to be the most painful, excruciatingly long CHORE of a drama to finish; and I don't have time for that :) dramas should NEVER turn into a chore for me to dread watching. I'll keep my light-hearted do do sol sol la la sol tyvm. This can stay on the shelves :)

tl;dr nothing that's already been said about this (in all the other low rating reviews) is any different from what i'm sayinG. I just wrote this review anyways, because a 8.0 rating is lowkey deceptive. this drama isn;t worth anyone's time :/ Good production quality and a decent OST can't save bad writing. This is the old, tired trope of childhood friends to lovers, only executed in the nastiest way possible. Hard pass.

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Nothing new, nothing fresh but still watchable!

I think Shin Ye Eun haven't learn anything from her previous project, the Cat drama, I mean, I almost died of frustration and there was nothing in that drama, no logic, no story and above all poor production. SYE choose this drama for reasons only she knows, but this series has same elements as the previous one - unrequited love, suffering, innocent female, stubborn male, poor second lead.

JTBC is best at producing romantic slow place dramas, I love their dreamy settings, use of Jeju Island, raining scenes and subtle interaction between leads. However, it has toxic environment more than it requires. Based on 2 episodes, and my experience, this drama is not going anywhere in terms of creativity and story. Two leads fighting over female lead, and viewers guessing who she will end up with is a trademark plot of Korean TV industry and then there is always feeling of immense sadness for poor second lead.

However, More Than Friends will still be addictive to many, reason? Isn't it obvious? People are more focused on idol boy OSW than the story itself. As long as this Idol boy chasing girl, whom he disregarded earlier and used her as a pawn to satisfy his own feelings only to reject her thrice, for his disbelief in love and dysfunctional family problems. I would slap that person so hard to make them come to senses and then move on with my life.

The production and camerawork of series is beautiful, just like Something In The Rain, cinematography, the raining scenes, and coldness of scenes, is kinda my favourite. There are moments coming to story, that will make female lead suffer more and it is yet to seen whom she would side with. I just hope there is no 2nd female lead. I want this between, ML-FL-2LD.

MTF is more than ok, but less than something interesting. It is a typical tale told thousand times made for demographic falls between 18-24.

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I actually do like the drama of this drama but the biggest fault Is that the male lead is a completely sadistic and cannot be repented at all . The writers try to make us like the relationship between the male lead was and female lead but it was impossible after the first episode. It gets really frustrating to even watch the drama because his character isn’t even human anymore because people can defend that it’s realistic cause people make mistakes but the main lead displays sociopathic behaviours , he wants her for himself but at the same time he doesn’t.it’s like the lives on her sadness.I’d say it’s still worth watching because the support characters stories are interesting and actually very very realistic in today’s society.This is also the greatest second male lead syndrome I’ve felt

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So far...

Up to episode 8 and cant see why there are so many negative reviews! I agree the ML is a jerk but dont agree that the female is a doormat. So far she has spoken back frankly to the ML - rejecting his advances and realistically saying its delusional and only because she has found someone else. She is obv drawn to him but is resisting his advances as she knows she shouldnt trust him. Remarkable self control and self preservation!
Just have to wait and see how the storyline continues....
I feel all the characters are well drawn and acted - they all have weaknesses and flaws as we all do!

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Actually I dropped this drama at first episode but at that time this drama was so popular and I saw lots of short clip from this drama so I continue to watch it again, and starts from the second episode it attracts my attention, each episode give me heartbreaks but then when the story about to connect the main character, then the story become flats for me, it’s still good to watch, I still watch it every week but it gave me different feeling with the first 6 episode, since the first half is pretty good, I’ll still recommend this drama when you don’t know what to watch, it’s pretty worth to watch

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Relationship Through Words

This was a wonderful story that put into words what the heart wants to say. The dialogues were beautiful. So many times I thought to myself, "that was a really neat way to describe that." That was the essence of this drama. The challenging part, and maybe I just don't know the Korean culture very well, but it was dry in light of physical affection. Are Koreans just like that in a relationship? There was passion that was missing in all three couples. Not passionate love making, but just things like grabbing each other, hugging each other spontaneously. They were all just too polite! Believe me, I am a Pride and Prejudice kind of lover. I love words. So it made up for it. But I can understand the critics in their reviews because it seemed we all wanted more. The stand off between a man and a woman and the lack of understanding where each is coming from was greatly depicted. That's what made it a success. So it was worth watching, but once again, being an American, I like passionate displays of affection. Spooning in bed displays more passion than facing each other with an arm politely resting over the other. It seemed contrived. So that's why I couldn't bring it to a 10. But it was enjoyable and worthy of a watch!

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The Music Score really sets the mood to the scenes. Though the storyline seem similar with other dramas, but I still find their take on it a bit different and quite refreshing. I don’t really cry a lot while watching any series but this one gave me tears from the first episode to the last. I guess that’s how the story is so relatable. The actors seem to have done well portraying how their characters have been written though i find the main male protagonist a bit lacking facial expressions.
After watching the series I was unable to appreciate any kdrama or lakorn for about a week because nothing seems to compare to it. But I’m still thinking if I would watch it again later on. It brought out a lot of emotions which am personally not comfortable with. I sincerely really enjoyed watching it the first time though.

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More Than Friends <3

I loved the cast, especially Ong Seong Woo as Lee Soo (slight bias). The main characters did not only shine in this show, but the supporting actors were also highlighted throughout More Than Friends. They all had their dramatic and heartfelt moments. There were many twists and unexpected turns throughout the show that made it exciting and sometimes made me angered by the decisions of the characters (but that's when you know you are so invested in a show that you get upset with a character's decisions). Although I found the plot was slightly repetitive, it was still very engaging and different from other shows I've watched. I also enjoyed the OST of this show. There are many kdramas out there and are being produced but overall, I love More Than Friends! I would highly recommend it! Hope season 2 comes out soon!

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Not an outstanding show but it was good in some way and painful in others.

This show was a hard one for me. It took me months to watch it off and on.

I think the last 3 episodes just ticked me off to the point that I wanted to shoot Woo Yeon! Who ever wrote her part should be shot! She was really really selfish in the end. She pushed him to go, promised to wait for him, and then started to blame him for going on the trip and leaving her instead of being honest with him. She was the one with the problem because she had thoughts of breaking up from the get go. She had no faith in him or his love for her and did not really believe he loved her to begin with. She made promises she did not keep and made him suffer and take the blame for it all. And if she was having that hard of a time why why WHY do she just not drop everything and fly to him??!! I would have dropped it all to be with him and THEN fulfill my dreams once we were back from the trip! Why does the guy always have to drop it all and run to the girl? So stupid! She turned it all on him and took no blame for her part. Even when he told her how he felt about their breakup over the phone and why he said what he said, she still ended it and blamed him for it all. ???‍♀️? Totally not mature at all!
Don’t get me started on the other girl who had been with her boyfriend for 10 yrs and then dumped him. Has anyone ever heard of bearing each others burdens makes it better and helps you grow closer. You have the support you need through those tough times. In the end and I mean IN THE END they all made up and were happy. Typical drama script.??‍♀️

Acting/Cast- I liked all the actors. I have seen many of them in other shows. They did a great job in pulling off their characters. I have no complaints in that area.

Ok so the story was not my favorite at all! Would I rewatch it? Probably not. This show was to painful in the immature department.?

Remember this is my thoughts and opinions. At least watch it ounce and get your own opinion. ?

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