Radio Romance Synopsis | Review

Radio Romance Synopsis | Review

hello youtube and welcome to another

full kdrama review this time let's talk

about the entire season of now before we

go any farther I want you to go click

the link below and watch my first

impressions.

So it's been about a week

since I finished radio romance and with

that time I really digested what I've

watched and thought about the things

that I liked and didn't like so let's

just get right into it and let's talk

about the secondary or the supporting

cast first in my first impressions I

said that there wasn't a lot to really

say about them they don't give much of

an impact and by the end of the series

that's definitely not the case there's a

secondary romance plot line that even

develops with two of the characters that

I wasn't expecting to see but I really

did love especially near the end when

they're like in the relationship and you

get little snippets of them they're

super cute oh my god I love them also

there's this writer producer duo that

our female lead used to work for and in

the first four episodes especially the

female writer comes off as really mean

and cruel toward their female character

but at the end of the show I did a

complete 180 on her character I ended up

really liking her and understanding her

and she did remind me of like a family

member that you don't really get along

with in the fact that they're kind of

mean to you they give you a hard time

but they they do have your back when it

counts for my first problem with the

show has to also do with secondary

characters maybe not even secondary

they're like third tier characters you

don't get much screen time with them at

all and they're these group of three

like other writers that our main female

lead is friends with I do friends

because they really don't interact a lot

and so my issue with them is that they

feel very very stereotypical they feel

like they're serving a very superficial

purpose and that you know like we need

to give our female leads some

girlfriends so let's just give them

these people that have no depth at all

and have like no characterization so

they really do feel like throwaway

members of the cast that I would have

preferred just to be cut out completely

because if you're not gonna take the

time to flesh out a character or even

give them some sort of motivation or a

purpose like why are they even there

just get rid of them and that actually

leads to my biggest problem with the

show in our female lead and that her

relationship with those three characters

really reflects her because they're

superficial and not necessary and just

like archetypes of female friends and

she is I feel like I'm gonna get some

people upset by saying this but she

comes off as very formulaic I might

argue that she's like the actress who

plays her is very talented and that you

know she she can cry and she can laugh

and she can't smile but all the moments

that you know her acting shines feel

very planned I mean she she cries when

she should cry and she smiles when she's

expected to smile like everything feels

very very sterile very by-the-book

very like oh this character should

should be sad now like that's what's

expected so let's make her sad now it

never feels true and when she's not

being very by-the-book she's got this

very like blank deer-in-the-headlights

look to her that I found so annoying and

dry like it just felt so shallow

portrayals of emotion and as the series

goes on my initial feeling

being detached from the female

protagonists just intensified and I'll

give you an example possible spoilers

but really not really if you're spoiled

and upset by this you know put on your

big-girl panties when the to officially

get together it really brings out the

male leads like immature childish side

to him in that he will be extremely

clean like he calls her all the time and

she's acting like she's very annoyed by

this that she feels suffocated but

instead of acting like an adult and

pulling him inside and be like okay this

is the problems I'm having with this

relationship like that's work through it

the like the writers decide to drop that

issue once they get the drama from it so

it makes her seem like a character that

has no agency and I'm just one like left

wondering why she was even acting like

she was upset by it like if there's not

gonna be something that comes of it what

was the point and that's not the only

instance

feels like everything is for the sake of

doing it and not because the character

themselves would have done it now

talking about the male lead

he remains all throughout the show the

best part

he's got flaws in the fact that he is

very mature and that probably stems from

the fact that you know his family life

is so turbo turbo treeless he seems like

such a real person like I could walk up

to this character on the street whereas

she seems to exist only in the TV show

space and yeah we do get a little bit of

narration from him very little narration

from him

I think it's episode 7 but when you do

it's now you might be surprised but I am

gonna give this show four out of five

stars and that's because even though I

did have problems with the main female

lead there completely overshadowed about

how amazing the male lead is and the

actual storyline of the show and the

reveals and like the and the conflicts

between his family life and being an

idol and there's a lot to love with this

show I don't think you'll be

disappointed just because I tend to be a

little bit harder on my female

characters then I think the average

viewer if you watch it if you give it a

chance you're gonna fall in love with

everybody and have a great time because

overall this show is a great time we

have

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