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Friday, December 16, 2016

TDrama to Watch: Just You (2013)

Just You (2013)

Grade: B
39 Episodes, 40 minutes each
Viewing Platform: Netflix

Cheng Liang Liang is a happy-go-lucky, clumsy, slightly messy, naive girl who believes the best in everyone and every situation. She is working at a local advertising company, about to celebrate her best friend and coworker's engagement to another coworker when the new owner/boss arrives and shuts down the festivities. He declares there is now an anti-offfice romance policy, and anyone in violation of the policy will face termination. Liang Liang can't stand Xi Yi's interference with true love, so she and her friends concoct a plan: make the fastidious new boss fall in love with her so he is forced to withdraw his policy! But what happens when Liang Liang realizes all the time spent wooing her boss is actually magnifying his good qualities? Will the employees start to quit in order to pursue romance when Liang Liang falters? What happens when Xi Yi's ex, the girl behind the “no romance at work” policy, comes back into his life?

*I loved the cheesy action, cartoon-like sound effects, and heart-pounding “will they kiss or not?” moments in this drama. It's not quite up to Kdrama standards, especially when the music cuts out and starts in again at random moments, but there are a lot of fun elements in this show. The primary reason this drama didn't earn a higher grade is because it is JUST TOO LONG. There is a lot more character development, but the plot's pace suffers as a result. The character development also slowed down the romantic progress between Liang Liang and Xi Yi, which was annoying, and I did not understand why Xi Yi's parents were separated in the first place. I thiiiiink his mom had to be on the run for writing a fraudulent check that his dad cashed in order to try and dig themselves out of debt, but after the set 3 year time period ran out, he still hadn't paid off the debt, so she had to stay on the lamb? Then 20 years later she forgives him for missing out on raising her only child – that was very hard for me to believe. I did like the second male lead's motivation, though. The writers even have him come out and state that supporting Liang Liang's choices in love is how he showed his love for her; his sacrifice was cast in a noble light instead of the typical masochistic light. If you can handle an extremely long drama, this one is pretty good, with a decent ending and a great on-screen kisser (Aaron Yan from “Fall In Love With Me”).*

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