Randomly funny and cute drama with that old school K-drama feel (2010?). BUT, and this is a big one. This is a horrible story, with sad and distasteful characters in the leads. The lead characters are so utterly unlikeable that one wants to fast forward every other minute. The FL is simple minded, sweet and good hearted. But so unbelievably stupid it invokes physical pain. One is constantly amazed at how fully incapable she is. Her sole purpose in this entire drama is to speak like a child and put up with the ML's rudeness and plain mean behavior. She has no great development and really no fire. The actress is probably excellent but the character is seriously painful to watch. And I could do nothing but wish better for her and feel a deep sadness for a life prospect of abuse. The ML is horrible. He is cute, may be, but that is all. He, as well as the FL, has no significant development throughout the drama and keeps being a livid jerk towards his thought to be nemesis and to-be love interest. Somehow his spite is portrayed as a sign of his love for the FL (witch in it self is an insane message), but in my eyes he is nothing short of an abusive and insecure man with nothing but sorrow and heartache to offer his counterpart. He does not respect her, appreciate her and keeps on putting her down constantly. Shaming and publicly humiliating her repeatedly. Not to mention his abuse of position and power in being the recipient of one-sided love and outspoken affection throughout the drama. I started out with great hopes for a classic and silly/cute love story and ended up with a complete study in bad relationship manners. I would like to say RUN to the FL and seriously slap some sense into the ML. No attractiveness in the world makes up for his poor personality and lack of consideration. Perhaps he has some autistic spectra diagnosis that is not outed in the backstory, and if this had been the case the entire drama could have taken another more humble approach and given a more interesting storyline. But this does not seem to be the case. He simply is no good. Cut your losses girl and look for self fulfillment or love somewhere, anywhere, else. Some of the supporting characters were very enjoyable and the entire acting cast were excellent. The story and writing is the problem. Watch this if you like incredibly frustrating stories of relationships with abusive imbalance in power and affection as well as stupid girls and horribly mean guys. Otherwise I can not recommend it. At all.
Review of Mischievous Kiss
