This drama was a mixed bag of tropes and cliches, but also the unexpected. I went in expecting an angst ridden love square, with over the top scenarios. I also subconsciously expected to be given a female lead who was a body guard but somehow completely inept and incapable compared to her strong, male colleague who inevitable have to save the damsel. I expected it because so many times I’ve started dramas and got so fed up with female characterization, that I dropped the show in disgust.

This was a pleasant surprise and incredibly refreshing. Chearim’s character was flawed and made mistakes and had some amount of arrogance at first, but through out the series, her character is unwaveringly feminist. She never gives a crap about how she appears to the male gaze, she stays comfortable and true to herself. She gives chauvinistic characters to verbal smack down and gently educates the little Gonim with words and actions. But most importantly, she stays true to her goals and dreams, despite many, many distractions along the way.

This wasn’t a prefect drama, one of the subplots in particular was unnecessarily drawn out and made the drama a little draggy in the first half; But once that is cleared up, the story picks up quite a bit. Frankly though, even when it was draggy, it was just so refreshing to see a flawed, but still likeable female character in the midst of growing as a person, who was strong and had even stronger convictions.

The whole drama is not really rewatchable, so much as specific parts are, but it’s definitely worth pushing through to the end.