See, all korean dramas I ever watched had episodes at least hour long and forgive me to say, most of the cases it did NOT flatter them. Such runtime can actually afford only truly super-fun series, like 'Boys Over Flowers'... Else, the single episode runtime is like the K-DRAMA GREATEST WEAKNESS. (Note: I never binge-watch and require the SERIES to be actually working IN episodes. Each episode must win me over, again. Each should end so I feel excited to see more, not tired to death.) Here, at Her Lovely Heels, we're at the opposite extreme. It is not sitcom, yet the episodes are 15 minutes only. I am accustomed to 22-minute japanese anime episode runtimes, and it works well. But 15 minutes?

It's really as short as it can get. Can that be enough for a drama? Surprisingly, yes. It doesn't feel rushed, or like something is missing. Turns out, with such runtime, we just got short all the clamoring side-characters that only annoy, all the (in pure fact) un-related side-stories that only tire. Nothing is disturbing the drama's pace. Nothing dilutes it to more average feel.

As this is a romance drama, I can confirm what happens to the main couple in 1 episode, IS equal to what happens in 1 episode of regular k-drama. Amazing how much time this drama saves you, LOL. No seriously, you don't get the familiar FEEL of wading-through just 1 episode (I'm not saying the dramas won't reward you for your patience, but still:)

On the other hand, it also kinda exposes how banal most of the dramas are, LOL. Take away all the embellishments and fluff and this is what remains bare. Truth to be told, the actual story is often nothing much. But didn't I always insist that story is NOT what's truly important in a drama? Yeah! LOL:) So, good drama has that untangible "something" more... Some atmosphere, some vibrance, humour, chemistry, feeling... Something. Can that SOMETHING fit in the 15-minute runtime, too?

I think in this case, we got all the conversation and interaction and sad song playing scenes as we would have, even if this was full k-drama runtime. To me this was an average romance. Had I watched this with say 3-4 more side-character's stories, about twice as many scenes with the plotting rival and some ocasional comic relief, I bet I should definitely complain about it being a draggy drama. Because not much is actually happening. But! My point is I DID watch some k-dramas which had even LESS content than this one and they DID bore me with 1,5 hour long episodes. So even if this is an average k-drama, it still achieved something above average.