First of all let me say life will not always be happy but it is the happy moments in it that should be reflected on when we are sad; it is the series, books or movies that make us happy that we should engage with because everyone deserves happiness. If you are struggling please talk to someone. With that said:

Love for Love's Sake 9/10

Wow, what a watching experience. It has been a while since I just laid down and binged a series without interruption. I managed to navigate the game theme without much confusion. I love that when the game started to glitch and the server started to malfunction we the audience got to experience it. At first it seemed as if I was being thrown random fragmented scenes but then I realized I was experiencing the glitch with the characters; it was like being put into the series itself. For lack of a better term, it was the opposite of "dramatic irony"; with dramatic irony the audience is aware of truths that the characters are not but in this case both the audience and the characters were thrown for a loop and conscious of the what was happening. I appreciated how each scene fragment I was thrust into gave a different emotional impact, for example when all of a sudden it was grandma sick in the hospital and Cha Yeon Woon was dead on the floor, this sudden scene was emotionally jarring and thought provoking which kept me on the edge of my seat. The glitch provided a constant switch between happiness and sadness which I believe to be symbolic of the central message which is life won't always be happy there will be sad moments, sometimes when we least expect it, just as how we could not predict whether the next scene the glitch gave us would be sad or not. Whitney Houston once said, "The Greatest love of all is learning to love yourself", and I believe this series is testament to that. Tae Myung Ha knew how to love and care for others but he did not know to accept love and let others care for him because the one person who is supposed to love you unconditionally abandoned him, his mother. Due to this sense of rejection every struggle he and his grandma went through, every breakup, and every sad moment in his life felt like a rejection until it seemed to him that life itself was rejecting him; and to him if life did not want you and even took away the one person who kept him, his grandma, then why live, so he walked out into that sea thinking that maybe somewhere beyond this life there is a place where it does not hurt so much. However the power of love made him want to stay; because every sad moment and rejection could not amount to the feelings of happiness Cha Yeon Woon brought to him; it gave him a reason to live, and he made friends that supported him; so maybe he won't always be happy but now there were people to cheer him up and turn that frown upside down.

Now the romance and affection captured me in every way. I love that we got to see them be a couple, they held hands like breathing and the kisses were not lewd or sexually just purely loving and affectionate and that made them special to me.

I truly enjoyed this series and I am glad I spent the time today and finished it; its not everyday I get to watch a series I think is over a 8 star rating so thank you to the producers, writers, directors and actors who made this beautifully deep series. The acting was amazing, every tear shed by the actors held true emotion and grief which made the scenes palpable. The cinematography was excellent every scene looked clean and aesthetically pleasing which only added to the feeling being poured out on screen because setting gives words and actions a place to live to truly evoke emotions from the audience.

I did not get my "special 10 scene", but this series is an amazing one.

Well done Love For Love's Sake