Watching this, I finally realized Park Min Young has three talents: the radiant smile, the sorrowful watery-eyes, and the full on beautiful crying. As long as she cycles through those three strengths, she's stellar. However, the second the script asks her to show a nuanced performance, she's overwhelmed. (I'm never going to unsee that now) This became clear every time Song Ha Yoon appeared in a scene with PMY. One actress shredded the screen, the other looked wooden. The gap between acting abilities was obvious.
Not all can be blamed on the actress. The script wasn't stellar either. Disappointing, because the series started off with a very gripping first episode, but the emotional grab generated during those few episodes soon weakened to a sloppy grip as the story unwound. There were plot holes, there were tropes, there were filler characters, there was some very obvious plot meandering--not surprisingly, under the weight of all this lack of originality, the story's momentum faltered. This gave me time to think about other things happening on the screen, like why did they create that character? He belongs better in a romantic comedy, no? Not only that, but what's with the new wardrobe? They have PMY sashaying into the office like she's strutting down a runway, while all the other office grunts wear wardrobes that say 'office grunt'. And they have all the females just loving her more the wilder and pricier her outfits get? Plausible? I think not. Also, why are glasses so maligned in fiction? Take a really good looking person, slap a less than flattering pair of glasses on them, and we suddenly we can't see that they're still a REALLY good looking person? Hello, Clark Kent...
It's never good when my mind wanders so freely.