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Making: 막판로맨스  |  Last Minute Romance

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For this drama, I don’t really know how to treat it. On DramaFever, it’s available as a two episodes long drama (I tend to refer to DramaFever as an authority reference simply because it’s one of the few legal streaming site), but on many sites, it’s said to be a ten episodes web series. Since I watched it under the for of ten episodes, I would tend to treat it as such. I just wanted to specify it beforehand to avoid misunderstanding.

Last-Minute Romance is a melodrama. Baek Se, a cheerful and positive young woman who works at a suicide call center, has a pancreatic cancer at the third stage. Before her death, she wants to do everything on her bucket list. The last point on it is to date her idol. To arrive to such mean, she decides to find someone who would look just like him to live her fantasy, since she knows quite well that she would never have the opportunity to date the real person.

As always, I tried to put the less spoilers it was possible in the review, but some might have escaped me, so please stay careful as you read.

I think what needed to be said would be that quite early on the tone is set. The viewer is well-aware that Baek Se is ill and is in the last moments of her life, so we don’t have the impression that she might have a happy ending and live happily with the male lead. Even though such thing is said to the viewer at the very start, the tone of the vast majority of the drama is quite light and humoristic. I mean, it never falls in the “too” dramatic. At the opposite of Uncontrollably Fond who just drags the male lead misery, Last-Minute Romance keeps the drama to the minimum, even if the drama presents in the story was avoidable, which means that it was a little bit frustrating. The progression and the ending are okay, and I want to make sure to explain the “okay”. I didn’t say excellent or good because it was realistic and, in my opinion, sometimes because a drama is too realistic it can lower a little bit its quality (not that being realistic is a bad thing, but more that it isn’t what I wished for). The story is quite usual, but it doesn’t mean that it’s bad mostly because it was so short. Since the drama didn’t drag and had really few lengths, it made the typical plot look a little bit less annoying (annoying in the sense that it would be predictable and a bit boring because of such thing) that it would have been for a 20 episodes drama. What I preferred in the drama was that the focus was more on the relationship between the two characters than the illness in general, which greatly contributed to the light tone of the drama. Also, the relationship progression was awesome because each character started to learn how deal with the other. Overall, I would say that even if the progression was, from time to time, made of regretful decisions from the characters, the drama was quite good.

Since it’s a web series, there are only a few characters that are really developed – or developed how much as they could in the limited time. The female lead might seem a little bit forceful, but, at the same time, she has only three months to live at the start of the drama, so it doesn’t seem unreasonable that she wants to take care of her bucket list quickly, so I won’t hold it against her. I tend to say that I don’t like characters who accept the fatality of their fate, but the way by which it was brought made me a little bit less bothered by such thing. Baek Se wasn’t always resigned to her fate, she just realized with time that it was already too late, so she should enjoy herself and do what she wants while she could. The male lead was quite a jerk at the beginning. I mean, sure, the female lead might not be the most believable, but the way by which he doesn’t take her seriously is quite annoying. But, even though they have a rocky start, these two characters are absolutely adorable together and Dong-Joon’s attitude towards Baek Se is the best when he starts to take her seriously and has feelings for her. Most of the characters in the drama have a really superficial personality and have a very small progression – even though I would have to admit that the male lead’s progression was just enough in my opinion. Also, a lot of the characters are either sweethearts and really insensitive – like Baek Se’s idol… I hate him so much, he was a way bigger jerk than Dong-Joon because of how he twisted things at the end.

I’ll conclude there. The plot would be worth a 7/10 because even if the plot is quite good, I can’t pass over that it’s mildly developed and quite typical. The characters would be a 2.5/5 because their personalities lack a little bit. The tearjerker factor would be a 1/5 because even though it’s quite sad, the tone is quite light, so it isn’t that hard to swallow (not like Uncontrollably Fond… I still hate you damn drama…)

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