Amor Apimentado (2024)

perfect symbiosis of hot and hilarious

this little spin-off was made for me, and despite wanting to see a full-length one, i'll take it. i said it before, and i'll say it again: the story of ja-yeon and gyu-hyun deserves the best treatment in the world.

spice up our love is a light enhancement to the parent drama, and to be completely honest, even if i didn't watch no gain, no love (thank god i did; such a wholesome romcom), i would've devoured this purely for han ji-hyun and lee sang-yi whose agents should get to work and get them main lead parts in a full-length drama because their joint slay needs to be studied further for obvious scientific purposes.

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Wild and passionate

As a fan of Han Ji Hyun's character in this drama, I must say I was thrilled to see her return—even if it was within the world of her own smut novel.

These two short episodes offer a wild, fast-paced ride that cleverly connects the story of this spin-off to the main drama without altering its core plot. Instead, it simply enhances your enjoyment, providing additional layers to the narrative.

Plot: The female lead, a novelist, falls unconscious and, in her dream, finds herself trapped inside the world of her novel, living out the very scenarios she had written for her protagonist.

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the novel world of nam jae yeon unexpectedly so good!!!

this spin off of no gain, no love is so unexpectedly a great show where the journey of fun never ending and still continuous with the same beauty ambiance of entertaining and enjoyable watch like I never felt that no gain, no love has ended yesterday having the same high performance of second leads with their firing and attractive chemistry!!!!

I liked this spin off cause it was so hard to say goodbye for an amazing drama like no gain, no love but still having this completion for the drama came at a convenient time when I can't get over watching these second leads actors with a beautiful romantic story proving that this strong and powerful love being nam jae yeon and bok gyu hyun or the reincarnation characters of the novel as seo yeon seo and kang ha jun will have the same awesome romance I am used to see in no gain, no love!!!

this spinoff started strongly seeing nam jae yeon in her novel with bloody coat gave some mysterious hint that she wanted to avenge for the betrayal of her boyfriend just to came with the idea of being a beet juice!!!! so I felt that the pleasant element of comedy is still accompanying the spinoff in the same perfect way...

I liked how they made the idea of this spinoff making the writer living the character of the female protagonist of her novel unable to leave the fantasy world of novel after being fainted in the real world just to see that her true love will stay the one and only kang ha jun or bok gyu hyun wherever she will be traveling and trying to escape from her fantasy novel world!!!

the charming personality of lee sang yi as kang ha jun is still the same giving the role of a heroic male protagonist of a novel genuinely loving that awesome girl not leaving her alone and always saving her proving that their love story will be one of the best ever seen in any world they will be existing!!! han ji hyun did a great job and keep the same nice acting in portraying the cute girl between the original show no gain, no love and the spinoff!!!

it was so impressive how they made the novel world is a healing one for all the hard moments nam jae yeon lived in the real world, making a funny and beautiful other story of this adorable main characters couple!!!! the last scene of lee sang yi was singing the OST was so great and his voice was surprisingly so good!!!

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Should have made NGNL 2 episodes longer instead

All I can say about this is that you'll enjoy it if you were really rooting for the second couple in No Gain, No Love. I wasn't that much into them by the end of the original, but I was curious about this supposedly "spicy" short spin-off of a drama that I found to be an overall good time. At the very least, I thought it would give me more insight into why Ja-yeon fell for Gyu-hyun despite all he did in the main drama.

What I got was nearly 2 hours of nothing really. Somehow, Ja-yeon had more chemistry with the guy who originally played Ha-jun than she did with Gyu-hyun. I'm not sure if it was a directorial decision or from the writing, but once Gyu-hyun became the male lead, all the sexiness and charm went out the window, and that is quite a feat because I find the actor very sexy and charming. Most of the time he looked like he was pleading for her attention.

I also was a bit confused by the writing. Not the "writing" of the story within a story itself — as the synopsis states, the drama is an isekai, where Ja-yeon gets transported into her own novel and becomes the female lead, and I found her writing to be pretty realistic in its tropey-ness and ridiculousness (you'll understand if you're a frequent reader of web novels) — but the mechanics of the drama.

Why did the male lead of the drama have to change? It's not like Gyu-hyun was transported into the novel with her. And why did the male lead's secretary become the former Ha-jun? Why did she keep seeing the convenience store owner everywhere? And most importantly, how does this all inform her sudden crush on Gyu-hyun back in NGNL? I suppose this spin-off is just meant to be a cutesy diversion from the main drama.

And despite how it's been advertised, there's really not much spice to be found, especially when Gyu-hyun becomes the male lead. It definitely didn't help with their (lack of) chemistry here.

Again, I think this will be appealing to anyone who enjoyed NGNL's second couple and wants to see more of them. Unfortunately I wasn't in that camp, so it really wasn't for me. Some highlights were seeing Hui-seong again; I really wish she'd been given a more fleshed-out storyline in NGNL, she was cool.

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Flawed premise makes this a watered down and forgettable addition to the lovely OG romance

What I thought it did well:

- The first ep was SO funny, legit this writer knows how to do comedy.
- The writing of the scenes on a micro scale was good--fun and funny and romantic dialogue, moments that were moving, etc
- The FL is GREAT in this, she goes all in on the ridiculous and it works so well

What didn't work:

- It's just too flawed of a premise to have a couple from another show who already got together, fall in love again in a short show like this. Here is why it didn't work:
----We already got a very moving and 12 episode long romance between these two characters, and it didn't really change anything from the OG. So it just cannot compare for those who saw NGNL and it will seem weird and rushed for those who didn't.
----In NGNL I adored Lee Sang Yi as Bok Gyu Hyun the 2ML in that story, but as a lead in this story he plays essentially the same character, but without the weird quirks and human flaws that made him interesting in NGNL. So he is very bland here. And he HAS to be, because it would be weird for JaYeon to fall in love with someone who wasn't essentially Bok Gyu. This is all only made worse by...
---- Having en extended opening (like 20 mins!) with HJH and LSY (who played another 2ML who was a friend of HJH in NGNL) as the MCs of the OG webnovel was such a mistake, cause man they had great chemistry AND it was so fun to see them both as completely new characters. Much more fun than seeing the same characters that already fell in love in another story.

This would have been much better as:
- 2 episodes showing us the web novel story with HJH and LSY as the MCs
- A 12 ep drama with brand new characters

It was short so I don't really regret watching it but I would have been fine having never seen it.

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Isekai meets extraordinary you

It is like, a short sweet unexpected not properly explained mess of two of our favourite characters, I think even the writers were not ready to let go of these characters so they wanted to give us (and themselves more content) that's why they made this.

Overall I just felt like Lee Sang Yi, though a wonderful and talented actor, was not meant for an 18+ character's role. I'm sorry during those flash scenes where he is Kang Hajun I could not take him seriously because he's so cute and always just makes me laugh.

Lee Yoo jin on the other hand was a perfect catch for that type of a role (god help me) his scenes as Kang Hajun were a little too perfect, more than i would like to admit, but damn the whole things was hot, it was very nice though a little underdone but we forgive because the cast was wonderful and the end OST of Lee Sang Yi was so beautiful ❤️❤️

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it was…

I don’t know how to explain how I feel after seeing this spinoff. I was excited about it but at the same time I felt like it left me waiting more of it.
It was interesting she was conscious that she was in her story and love how she took the liberty of taking advantage of that. But I felt like he turned into a creeper when she wanted space so that made it a little uncomfortable for me to enjoy it 100%. This part gives mix signals to men that harassing women is OK and that by those actions they’ll fall in love with them. That was a red flag and a super no for me.

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