Las inclemencias del amor (2022)

The forecast is bad

I should've known when I wasn't captured by the first episode that this would be a trainwreck you can't look away from. However, I try to give a drama a few episodes before I drop it. So, I kept watching & episode two was better so I continued on. By the time we were reaching the second half of the drama, I felt this drama was losing what could make this a decent drama.

For starters, while using weather as symbolism for what was happening in the story was fine, the weather talk itself during their jobs wasn't appealing & only got more boring as the episodes went on. I think the concept was okay in theory but the way it was written & executed was greatly lacking. For example, while it brought awareness to some forecast issues that we may have never thought about, it simultaneously made things appear overdramatic.

The drama started with the leads showing that they could have chemistry & then it just fell apart as the writing of their characters got worse. There was inconsistencies & actions that the characters made that didn't make sense given what had happened in the story before. I didn't feel their chemistry at all. (Also, I love PMY but her acting was awkward here & the worst that I've seen from her.)
I wasn't interested in the stories of the secondary characters.

But, the worst part about this drama was the way the cheaters were glorified and got away with gaslighting. It made me feel so upset seeing FL's ex run to her for relationship advice & her giving it to as if he didn't hurt her in the way that he did. Some will say that he apologized her & it's okay to be friends with your ex but this case isn't it. To me, his apology was the bare minimum, as he didn't fully apologize for everything that he did & because of how he still felt a need to show off to her. Thinking about it again is making me shake my head so I will end this by saying skip this drama. I wanted to give the rewatch a zero but I wasn't allowed to :p

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Disappointed

I love both leads but oh dear what a waste! There was a palpable lack of chemistry between the two - despite both being so good in other dramas and capable of some really believable intimate scenes, these two just seemed awkward even when just hugging each other. Was it their 7 year age difference that made them uneasy with each other? Although their relationship started with one night stand there was no further obvious desire for each other - so we were left with the marriage/no marriage scenario. On his part I didn't quite get it- so he based this on his awful father? Because he was such a failure so he distrusted marriage or because he would be a burden? Well he was a burden already so what difference would marriage make?!
I just felt from the word go their relationship made no sense - particularly them getting together after their break ups of only 2 months? You don't get over a break up in such a short time - I guess this led to their difficulties as a couple as they had unresolved issues. However this just dragged without any really fun and believable scenes to give any depth to their relationship.
The second leads? They certainly had a character development arc - which lets face it they needed as they both cheated on their partners and therefore started pretty low. Theitrfast wedding led to the harsh realities of marriage. The 2ML I just didn't get- why was he so obsessed with her ex and his relationship with his ex? Comedy factor with him following them? Just seemed bizarre behaviour. Frankly I wasn't interested in their relationship or character development as they both cheated in the most awful way and for that I could not forgive them, despite even his developing awareness of how he acted so badly. I can't believe The Fl and him ever lasted 10 years with him being so immature and selfish - even if she also had faults in the relationship. Plus the way the exes turned to each other for advice? Please- too much too soon given how they cheated- just why would their exes want to give them relationship advice let aone her helping him write his column!!
The other couples - again immature men not communicating or facing their their responsibilities. How many dramas can withstand so many weak men?!!
The weather aspect was good - as an analogy to relationships and for its information on S Koreas climate and weather. But the meeting scenes dragged on and broke up the relationship stories.
I fast forwarded so many scenes as the series went on - a sure sign a drama is just not engaging me!
The ending? His father suddenly had a complete change of character due to his cancer diagnosis? Sorry just not believable. The fact it seemed like their was a wedding meeting between respective parents? Where did this suddenly come from? The couple just started their relationship again with the same lines from when they started- this sums up the weakness of how this couples relationship was dealt with - where was the sharing and connecting of minds, what did they love about each other, and what was that pathetic breakup all about? They didn't share their thoughts or feelings in any believable way.

I could go on venting my disappointment at the waste of two such good actors - lets hope they both get better roles and this doesn't tarnish their future. I'm finding it hard to see her in any future roles - she has become possibly a little too old to be in such immature relationship dramas with none of the depth of character of her previous roles.?

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Dont sleep on this drama!

If you saw the trailer and thought , nah doesn't look good ( like me before ) rethink you decision and watch it. I started watvhing ot because thats one drama of SK and PMY i haven't watched it and so I thought since I'm waiting for my other drama to come out this week ( My Demon ) why not watch it.
I SHOULD HAVE DONE THE EARLIER!

This drama is ro REAL, the actors did such a good job of portraying the struglles and problems of their age and situation.

And not just that , also the relationships between their parents is so real. The struggles of gaving a mother pushing you constantly to marry or a father who's constantly pesting you for money and taking al your savings.... which in turn makes it hard for you to buy a house or sth like that.

But the way thay portrayed the traume of a bad break up was well done. Like trust issues, ceeping a wall between the other partner so that you can protect yourself and don't get to attached/love to beeply. And the struggles of the other partner trying to make the other feel less anxious and make them feel loved and be honest in communicating.

Or like one person not believing in marriage and the other only dated with marriage in mind. How and why they think so is shown to the viewers so good!

The communicaton was also done so well ! I mist dramas they always get jealous and dont communicate why they're upset or if they do its childish done.
In this drama both almost always, mostly immediately told the other partner what was wrong so there where no misunderstandings like "she/he saw her ex does this means she/he still has feeling for him/her " Sure they didn't like it when the other saw their ex lover and they got annoyed but they communicated why as well.

Also the relationships between the exes is also life like, what I mean is that some couples even if they ended on bad terms or one of the 2 cheated, some get over it and stay frendish?😂

What i didnt like:

I didn't like that JHK ( FML) got so quickly in a new relationship after the bad breakup, is it so easy to get over a person with whom you've been 10 years together? She still loved him when he betrayed her, so her getting so easly over him makes it nonchalant. Like it was nothing, but when you see the scene how of how sad and broken she is .... Not that she should stay single forever 😂 but the thing is I don't know how many months its beens since she and the SML split up... it would have been nice to know the exact time frame.

LSW' father redemption arc: The only thing i didnt like is that they gave LSW ( ML) ' father a redemption arc in the last 2 episodes
Thats why I gave this drama a 8/10, if they did it little differently I would have given them a 10/10 .


I'll stop here, cause I don't want to spoil the whole drama. Moreover I can keep going on 😂 but the review is already so long and I don't wanna write a book.

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What's was the point of this?

It really felt like the plot was going in circles for 16 chapters.
They showed us something very promising in the first episodes, it felt fresh and new but then it was so tiring to see the leads fight and get back together in every single episode, so little by little I lost interest and at the end of the drama they were the ones that mattered the least to me, I think that the couple that saved the drama in the end was "the penguin couple".
And the thing that left the worst taste in our mouths was that they showed that pair of cheaters living happily and pretending to be good people, what happened in the writer's head here?, seeing the comments is a share opinion, it was so disgusting to see them.
In this drama we didn't see any growth of the characters, no development and that they give it to us until the last moment of the drama as if nothing, it feels so unnatural.
The weather plot was something I enjoyed but combining it with these ridiculous love stories was not good.

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The last episodes felt rushed

I have too much to say avout this drama i dont know where to start.
I started this drama because of the two mainleads and i found myself watching 3 additional love story in the process. In other circumstances, i would not complain but what was that ?
First of all, the main couple:
They were both traumatised by their previous relationship vecause they got cheated on and their exes got married in two months. All of their excuses and couple problems were valid but why did they get resolved in 1 episode. Lee si woo's gambling father becomes a father when in 15th episode all he cared about was money ! And now he is sick and almost dead and now he decide to be good. And while speaking how did he avoid jail or the police ?
Now, Jin Ha kyung, i have nothing to say except that Park Min Young's face looked really pale. And she never looked that pale in every other drama i watched her in.
Now the second lead couple:
They were like a bad joke, really. They both cheated on their partners to be together, for whatever reasons they didn't like their relationship. But they hurt their partner and had the audacity to want to "stay friends" and want help in their marriage ? Nothing ever happened in their marriage really appart from the fact that they were immature. Honestly Char Yu-Jin wasnt that bad but her husband was the very definition of shameless. He acted impulsively and childishly and had the audacity to not understand why people were mad at him. They were tiring to watch, i skipped almost every scenes with them. Quite frankly i dont get why it was needed to see them be happy in their relationship when they are the reason why Tae-Kyung was struggling so much with her relationship.
The third couple was the cute and light couple. Nothing to say about them, really.
I want to add that the 3 last episodes were rushed and made no sense to me. Characters personalities were twisted to fit a prematured happy ending. I think they miscalculated the pace of the drama.
Would not reccomend at all

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A little on the dreary side,

I really wanted to give this a higher rating but it did drag a bit in the middle, and I wish they gave us more of the 'fluffy romance' between the leads since the latter half became so blogged down with the problems in their life that you wondered why they even started it. I didn't see it as a lack of chemistry between the leads - more of a missed opportunity to let it shine.

While some of the issues in the drama did make me lose interest at times - they were important, mainly on the side of how hard it is for a woman in a field like this. How getting married and having children could destroy your fledging career, how woman are still expected to be the primary caregiver even when working full time, how its always harder for the woman in the the case of a office break up, or how it's still okay for a man to talk down even when they are on the same level. Even with the FL mom's obsession with marriage to the point her own daughters couldn't stand her most of the time. She was annoying - but I think, also the in the case of Si Woo's dad (who was a complete POS for most of the drama and caused his son so much pain) was to showcase how their behavior wasn't okay. The discussion of marriage itself was important - and is it really the most important thing in a relationship? Is it okay to burden someone you love?

(Also please don't treat civil servants like your own personal punching bags because they got the forecast wrong. I can't imagine how hard is to predict these things, especially where I live where this winter it was 60 degrees one day, snowing the next, cold, hot, snow, rain. It made no sense).

Some writing for some characters was better than others - Lee Si Woo and Ki Joon probably stood out the most. Si Woo seeming so positive despite the demons in his past and Ki Joon, who was just such a flat out jerk (dumping his girlfriend of 10 years who he was planning a wedding with only to marry the woman he was sleeping with on the side instead, trying to scam his ex out of money, at one point stalking her, trying to blame her for his problems, etc) who had relied so much on his ex he couldn't function and had a wife that was expecting to lean on him. Ha Kyung, herself, was just so difficult to read, so it was hard to judge if it was PMY's acting or just the character in general. They showed us moments of her growth only for her to do nothing with them.

As for the cheating aspect - what they did was terrible, but I don't think they deserve a life sentence, because the drama did show us the aftereffects of the hasty decision to get married so quickly, and the lack of trust in the relationship. I think I was just more mad they didn't really seem to understand or care about how selfish they were being, or the pain they caused.

I'm not mad I invested time into watching it, or disappointed, but I'm not left with that usual finished drama high either. It's just kind of there.

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Jolie romance même si ce n'est pas le drama du siècle

Je ne comprends pas les critiques assez sévères qui sont émises sur ce drama. A cause des 2 leads, les attentes étaient très hautes ce qui explique la déception ?? Franchement, ce drama n'est pas si mauvais ...

STORY :
Le plot tourne essentiellement autour de la romance au sein du service de Prévisions Météo Nationales, entre 1 directrice = Park Min Young et 1 jeune météorologue surdoué = Song Kang (après leurs ruptures respectives).
Leur histoire est traitée de façon actuelle (on n'attend pas 15 épisodes pour qu'ils se mettent ensemble :), et assez réaliste.

On suit de façon détaillée le travail, les relations au sein de ce Département de Météo. Je n'avais jamais imaginé auparavant que des prévisions météo (que le téléspectateur regarde d'un œil distrait) puissent avoir autant d'impacts économiques, de sécurité publique, de conséquences financières !
D'autres thèmes sont évoqués :
- Pour avoir le sentiment d'avoir réussi sa vie, est-ce une obligation d'être en couple ? de se marier ? (les femmes subissent visiblement une très forte pression familiale et sociale à ce propos, bien plus en Asie qu'en Europe, j'ai l'impression)
- Équilibre vie professionnelle/ vie personnelle
- Relations familiales quand un des parents travaille à distance (longtemps)
- Angoisse à créer de nouveaux liens quand on a été blessé
Etc.

ACTING :
Hormis les 2 leads dont les éloges ne sont plus à faire tant au niveau de leurs visuels que de leur talent, tous les acteurs sont excellents. Les personnages secondaires (très nombreux puisqu'on suit l'évolution de chaque membre de la Team 2 et de 4 couples) sont bien développés.

TECHNIQUE :
La narration est assez lente. Il n'y a pas de longueurs, mais le rythme est volontairement très mesuré.
Le recours très fréquent à des navettes chronologiques (on vous montre le résultat d'une action, puis ce qui c'est passé 2 jours plus tôt, puis on revient au présent) est un peu agaçant.
Les images sont belles, tant les paysages que les phénomènes météo.
Les OST accompagnent bien les émotions, et j'ai beaucoup aimé les génériques de fin d'épisodes.

Pour conclure, si vous n'avez pas envie d'une série d'action, de suspens, mais plutôt d'une paisible romance, n'hésitez pas ce drama est fait pour vous !

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It's so hard to keep watching. It's so boring.
It started off so good and was really interesting at first, and then at least for me it started to feel like every episode was the same thing happening over and over just in different places. It's an ok show but definitely not the greatest show I've ever seen. I can't sit through the whole hour anymore just to see what happens, it just feels so repetitive. I love Song Kang and the stuff he has been in (Nevertheless) and same goes for Min young (Busted), but her character in this show just annoys me so much to the point where I actually wanted to know what happens more with Han Ki Joon and Chae Yoo Jin more than Ha Kyung and Shi Woo.
I also hated the characters because Shi Woo and Ha Kyung were very hypocritical and so annoying, and fought about the smallest things. They literally broke up so many times just to get back together and then argue over something and break up again.
They were so toxic in my opinion and It was just so hard to watch, especially due to Shi Woo getting upset over the fact that Ha Kyung would talk to her ex fiancé but would go talk to his ex girlfriend to tell her not to be so upset over her husbands past like what? Also Ha Kyung gets upset over Shi Woo living with his ex girlfriend when they were together isn't something to get so upset over since it was in the past.
I was very excited for this show but I feel disappointed that I'm struggling to even finish the last two episodes, and I'm so disappointed with the characters and how they act.

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A show that could have had great potential but went downhill after the first few episodes

When this drama first released I loved the cast and the first few episodes were great too. It was nice seeing a drama where the main couple got together pretty early on but that just ended up making the show a lot less exciting to watch. This show used to be something I waited ever weekend for and eventually I started watching the episodes only when I had nothing else to watch. It's ironic that I even made it to episode 15 but I can't be bothered to continue it anymore, I kept telling myself that it could get better but it really did not.

Amongst that many things I didn't like about the show here are the main ones:

1. When the exes go to each other for advice??? Makes no sense and it felt ridiculous to watch the FL give and get advice from the man who cheated on her. Same with the ML.
2. FL's ex is so strange, he behaves like a toddler--has terrible communication skills and a huge inferiority complex.
2. The whole weather station concept could've been a great way to show a job that hasn't been shown much in kdramas but God they made it so boring.
3. I'm a huge fan of OSTs but this one did not stand out at all...you could play a song from there and I probably wouldn't recognise it.
4. The couples did not have much chemistry at all for the most part. Ironic how flashbacks of the FL with her ex had more chemistry than her with her current boyfriend.
5. It feels like this drama could've been made into 12 episodes instead of 16 and nothing would be taken away from the plot.

I know this is a pretty harsh review and I'm genuinely not one to dislike a drama that much but save your time, this isn't worth the watch. I am a fan of Song Kang and Park Minyoung but this drama was far from their best work.

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This drama is surprisingly good to be honest. It's worth the time when the writer researched in KMA for 1 or 2 years if I'm not mistaken. The weather parts are so interesting despite that I don't know much about the terms of it. I like when they add story how realistic an adult relationship in office romance and blended so well with the weather theme as a title in each episode. I love everything about the side stories of every character and the development. I'm writing this review but I don't have anyone in this drama as my bias, so this is pure my honest feeling when I watched it ^^

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First off, if you go into this expecting a Rom-Com or heavy romance, this show won't be for you.

It's much more of a workplace/life drama with some focus on falling in love and romance.

There is a cheating plotline but not between the main couple - Hakyung and Siwoo. Their exes cheat on them with one another and end up married. Which is just one level of the drama within this series.

The show shows us the challenges of falling in love after having been so hurt, and on figuring out a relationship between two people who are pretty different in terms of ideals and the way they view life. We get to see them falling in love over the course of a year. The road is rocky and some of their arguments are almost infuriating because they're so silly and from not communicating well - but that's what makes it real.

It's not super fast paced and is much more of a slice-of-life type show. There's humor thrown in, as well as depicting various ways that women get treated differently (negatively) in the workplace. However the strong women characters show their worth and we get to see some of the men being put in their place which is a nice change in pace. I enjoyed it and will definitely be watching it again.

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