I freaking loved this show!! the soundtrack is my favorite track of all time. I loved that they changed the romantic pairings and introduced new characters!

Thank you @sailorjumun. I ❤ this show and I feel like I can say a LOT about it, yet it is one of those shows where saying those words outloud would not do this show justice. I will remember this forever and thank you show for being in existence!

I said this in the Open thread and I'll say it again because it bears repeating, what am I going to do without this drama in my life(reruns don't count)? I loved how the show drew on my emotions and helped me deal with my own pain as the characters dealt with theirs. It wasn't loss through a death that I've dealt with but over the last 4 years I've dealt with the loss of my home and had to move into a homeless shelter. I also had to leave school for a while to save up enough to go back. I've also felt the joy of getting back on track again and of dreams being renewed. Through these characters, this drama helped me process hurt, celebrate growth and simply own my weird because there are people who love me inspite of or perhaps because of those weird bits of myself. I also loved the little injections of humor throughout the show: PPL water right after making fun of PPL scene, the "Whisper" conversation, any scene with the weird director dude. I will hold dear the memories we made while waiting for another gem to come my way.

I liked the show, expect for the lead couple and the fact that it was all from their prospective. It would be better if Jin joo and Beom soo were more interesting people. They were trying so hard to be different that it fell flat.

Jin joo was not the one upset about the crew going to Hwan dong, it was Beon soo ,who by the way did not have the greenlight for the show yet so the crew he was use to took work with someone else and for some reason he was entitled and being a complete dick about it.

And I don't think Hwan dong wanted to reconcile with Jin joo, I think he wanted closure as their last official breakup really was not on good footing for either of them. I think he just wanted to do something nice for Jin joo to make up for the lean years during their relationship. And Jin joo being Jin joo saw it as something else and gave the big speech.

This drama was a breath of fresh air. I love everything about it. The characters (yes jin joo too!), the meta humour, the self-awareness.... All this while managing to be extremely real. While jin joo in the later half of the series was more comic relief, the two other friends broke my heart. Eun Jung learning to be happy and move on (i love that she's still working on herself), and Han Joo's conversation with the male coworker was SOO insightful. And she got a boyfriend!! Im sad but glad she didnt end up with him. Cuz she's right. He's a good friend but he's toxic.

Also, can we talk about the soundtrack? The Smell of Shampoo <3 Or even the Poop «smelly» song XD this drama is an underrated gem and I'm so lucky to have been able to watch it live.

The show is honest, real, sarcastic, therefore it's painful... I never waste any episode without crying over Eun-joong's story, and that the friends and the brother are always there for her... This show, has all my heart <3 <3 <3

I love how the serial is like our real life: with various different characters with their own lives without anyone being too outstanding, and sometimes without extreme villain.... It's fun to watch a serial without extreme love triangle. Well, even there's an ex that might keep lingering, or suspicious girlfriend (Ha-yoon). The story flows naturally without too much drama with heart-warming conversation. My favorite lines are between Jin-joo and her sister about poverty. Like, how long she will be poor. And Jin-joo realistically said, she will be poor her whole life.

Topic about farting in episode 13 had my heart almost sunk with Jin-joo's father reaction... :(( The scene when her father handled her mother the check-up brochure while saying "I've schedule an appointment with the doctor" had me crying like a river. That scene is simple yet poignant.

I love the message what the drama wants to convey: about moving on with your life even if shits happen, and you're still lucky if still have people who love you around you: Eun-joong finally said goodbye to the "ghost" of Hong-dae; Han-joo decided to move on with her current steady relationship with the guy she met in the club; Jin-joo with her writing career and relations with Beom-soo; Jae-hoon who at the ends wants to still have a good relation with Ha-yoon (by asking her for beer after the musical)....This drama is like our lives: it's moving on. As the viewer we can continue the story in our minds...

I love this show! I love how the writers developed the relationships between Jin Joo and Bum Soo. How sweet to go from disliking each other to maintaining that love temperature. I loved their conversations about how to confess, is it necessary to confess, and finally deciding to go for the best thing in the world.

I love the sunbae-hoobae relationship of Han Joo and Jae-hoon and how despite sparks, they are respectful friends in a professional relationship.

I love how So Min and her manager finally took that step to be together and how simple that realization was made. Him going from a bully to her protector to her manager then boyfriend, and husband was so heartwarming. She was his dream come true.

Can't say enough good things about this show! <3

The meta and the pop culture references to Reply 1988, etc. are too good! Why are you so witty, show?!

overall, i greatly enjoyed the the drama. my favorite was definitely eun-jung. her story just resonated with me. but i swear the show had me on an emotional rollercoaster. one minute i'd be in tears and then the next i'd be laughing at the most unexpected thing.

i wanted more screen time for eun-jong's brother and his beau. i wanted more exploration of the relationship. i went in expecting more of him than so-min, even if the latter's relationship was entertaining, but was glad to get at least some bread crumbs...

my favorite quote from this show has to be jin-joo's speech when hwan-dong takes her out to the fancy dinner...to be able to let the past be because expectations for what's to come have finally exceeded past regrets...that's a life goal right there! like many of you i will greatly miss this gem.

This show almost slipped past my radar despite effusive Beanie praise for early episodes. Thankfully @sailorjumun’s hilarious review of Ep. 2-8 alerted me to this jewel and the show quickly became essential viewing. Once Jin Joo’s radio-controlled cart sped past the tiny dogs at the park, I built an drama alter and waited for Fridays. God, I lived for those English subs!

Because it’s all too easy for me to fall into obsessive gif-making frenzies, I restricted myself to a couple screen captures and happily watched every episode a couple times—alternating between hoots of laughter and moist eyes.

While I grew to love all the characters, Eun Jung’s journey especially touched my heart. Jeon Yeo Bin’s performance was a perfect blend of joy, pathos, sarcasm and hope. In addition to her co-leads, she had excellent male screen partners too. Showing how lovely Hong Dae was made her loss more palpable and I loved every interaction with Director Nice-n-Warm, thanks to Son Seok Koo’s lethal combination of sex appeal and goofiness.

I’m praying to the drama gods that a talented writer will take to Archive of Our Own to write fan fiction detailing what happens when Eun Jung meets with Director Nice-n-Warm in Casablanca. I’ll add some more Quiznos to the altar, shall I?

This show had some of the most brilliant scenes and twists. My heart ached at Hyo Bong and his boyfriend's experience at the restaurant. It was so subtle and so powerful. The whisper scene left me shaking my head in awe and I think that I became dehydrated by the tears that I shed for Eun Jung. This show made me miss the many years I was blessed to live with friends. JTBC is truely a gift that keeps giving great dramas.

I described that last episode to someone as a mobius strip, the drama turning back on itself in an infinite loop. The most *unusual* scene was when Han-joo turns into Jae-hoon's girlfriend in order to tell him the HE was actually the bad guy in the relationship. There's no way that scene should have made sense or worked but it did.

I watched the Viki version of 'Melo is my nature' then afterwards Googled Youtube scenes from 'Be Melodramatic'. The scene with writer Jung under the red umbrella in the rain was to the song 'Stand by your man' straight out of 'Pretty Noona Who Buys Me Food'. Except that song was excised from the Viki version. Viki had also half-wrecked 'Radiant' that way by cutting out significant songs that can be found in 'Dazzling'.

I love this little gem of a drama! I love its use of pop culture references, inside jokes and all that meta. At first I was quite confused about the humor but grew to love it as the episodes went on. It's silly yet poignant and brutally honest about daily life and our society. The ratings could have been better but I'm happy the drama is getting a lot of love from netizens, and the cast and crew seem to be very fond of this project, as well. It would be nice if we could get a season 2. I want to see more of our characters, especially Eunjung and funny-weird Director Kim.

This drama was great!

Eun Jung's journey was my favourite part of the story. I really liked her! I want a season 2 about her in Europe and Morocco!

It was nice all the characters had their own story and not just be a part of the general story. The actors were great.

I really liked the drama in the drama, when Jin-joo and Beom So are takling about the end of each character's story. I liked the references to other dramas like Pretty Noona scene or My Country that will air after their drama :p

I loved this show so much. All the characters were three-dimensional and interesting.

Plus, the emotional roller-coaster, where you are sad one moment and laughing your head off the next moment. In ep 16, where Director Ex takes a Pilates class because he wants to get good at ... arm wrestling, had me in stitches.

Melo effortlessly filled the WWW-shaped hole in my life and I am seriously wondering if any of the currently-airing dramas are good enough to get me over the ending of this one.

Thank you @sailorjumun for the screenshot of Eun-jung & shouty PD! Can't get enough of his "I got a nice and warm hug and you totally don't, nyahnyah!" face, LOL.
I binged this series in 2 big halves, then sat aquiver waiting for the so worth-it finale week. Love all the characters and their bantering conversations, and those quotable quotes at the end of every episode; somehow this drama gave me the feels of reading a book instead of watching.
The PPL inception & meta is smart and crazy effective for the storyline because I am a sucker for happy (or happily open) endings.
A quote from Chief PD when he was walking in the rain with Writer Jung: "When I was younger, I got lost because I didn't know. But now, I get lost pretending like I don't know." May all of us find someone/something worthy to get lost in...

Easily the best show of 2019 for me. Even if the year hasn't ended and there were a few gems (Sky castle, Tale of nokdu), this seems to surpass them all for me.

By the end of the show, I was as envious as the director. He mentioned in his interview that he was jelous of these friends who got to live together. 20s and 30s are one of toughest times in one's life and that too very lonely. Plus most people lose contact with any of their friends in pursuit of success. This show reminded me of my time with my friends in uni, a time that I think is hard to come by. One of my favorite scenes was when all 4 of these college friends met. But I liked how realistically they showed that not every one might be happy to have that reunion again lol.

Other than that, I also loved the drama's format. If you have ever seen me write here you might know that I detest episodic shows. The one where there is one theme a single episode and then we start anew the next episode. But i loved it here. It fitted well because there wasn't a running factor that we had to look forward to (like episodic shows have that format of chasing that one serial killer or bringing that one couple together while we see other short form of stories-that makes it less different than any us/uk shows and i like how kdramas are formatted as dramas). While it could be distracting to a few people because it reduces engagement as there is nothing to look forward to- for me as JJ said, the engagement lied in the characters and I looked forward to them and their growth, which was eventually where the show was headed. This format gives me a reason to rewatch this show and thanks to the heavy dialogue, a rewatch will become easier as even if knowing what happened, it won't be tedious to watch the second time around.

I have praised the show enough and even though I had a few reservations (one of the bigger worries of people ij 20s or 30s are ageing parents and the show only slighted hinted at that plus the growth of all characters was getting them love and a partner-that was initially what the show was setup on provided it started with saranghae but love isn't necessarily the growth for everyone ) the good things surpassed the bad. I loved JJ and BS. I have never seen someone like them, but they looked so real and showed us another side of how 30 somethings could be this way too. EJ 's story was the most interesting but wrapped up the most neatly. Han Joo and JH always seemed like good friends to me (even if sparks were there) so I wasn't disappointed by their story. Infact I was really glad that JH was confronted. Even though exhausting, People tend to stay with their families in their hard times but drop friends or partners like a hot coal. HY's cheating was unforgivable but the fact that JH turned his back on her when she suffered wasn't quite right either. But like most of us JH was just trting to make things work while they got worse. It really doesn't bother me that HJ's...

Thank you, Be Melodramatic. You were such a charming, witty, raw look at life. You made me laugh at loud, cry, and empathize with the characters. You made me examine my own life.

Eun Jung's growth in the last half of this drama was great. And I loved the positive, healthy view of mental health counseling that was provided. I wasn't sure if I would like her character early on in the drama, but she easily became one of my favorites.

Such a gem of a drama. That's really all I can say. It was like a warm embrace and I loved cozying into their world every weekend. It will most likely be receiving all of my beans in a few months.

Ah, the good times. I remember when the topic was looking at your boyfriend's phone. Beom-soo turns to the camera and scolds the viewers DON'T! Then they switch camera angles and Beom-soo is staring into a brick wall with Jin-joo asking 'What are you doing'? That's when I knew This series was going to dare to do things that other series would never do.

I loved this show so so much. I want a season 2 so bad. The ending was so GREAT. I git so much satisfaction from it.

Can we comment on how much *fun* Jung So-min seemed to be having in her cameo as the actress getting her nails done?

The relationship with Jae-hoon and Ha-yoon always bothered me, it seemed so toxic, and it seemed so much to be HY's fault. But one tiny scene from early on kept niggling at my mind. Remember when Jae-Hoon and Hee-Joo go out for dinner shortly after he's been hired and they get drunk, and he gets really drunk and says some things that push the line, and he holds HJ's hands- but it's all ignored because he's drunk?
That same night he's in bed irked with HY, who isn't home yet. She stumbles in drunk and says she didn't drink that much and she's not like Jae-Hoon who never gets drunk or loses control no matter how much he drinks. The implication is that he really wasn't drunk when he was saying all those flirty things to HJ- he was sober, pretending to be drunk so he could get away with crossing the line. That's... kind of creepy. Show never revisited that and never revealed that he doesn't really get drunk, so I thought I misunderstood and forgot about it.

But when Hee Joo channels HY and tells JH all the ways he was unfair to her, I remembered and realized HY wasn't suspicious for no reason- she probably had a feeling something was off with her boyfriend for a reason.

Finally got caught up with this show and finished it this evening, and I must say, I'm very happy I watched this it. And I definitely think Melo's finale ep holds the record for most consecutive journal pages of drama quotes for me. Jin Joo just wouldn't stop talking, damn it, lol.

I loved this show so much! Very sad to see it end. My favorite episodes were the fakeout early in the series, where they kept almost touching/ kissing but then didn't, and then episode 13. So funny! So relatable! I found the Han Joo and Jae-hoon thing a little confusing. I expected them to get together, and it was weird when out of nowhere, she says that she is sort of seeing someone. How did we never see any of this? I also thought his breakup went on too long. I've known toxic couples like this IRL and I just find it depressing and exhausting. But overall, it was a great show, and would love S2 or just another series from this writer.

OK, I loved this show, too...except for the ending.

I realize I am in the minority here, but I was really dismayed that Eun Jung was letting Director Yeller into her life. That guy was plastered with red flags from head to toe! I don't care if he donates every last penny he makes to orphans, or if he is sometimes unexpectedly silly and cute - he was just Trouble (yes, that's with a capital T) of the toxic variety.

Ragey, abusive, controlling, rude...it cannot be a sign of her improving mental/emotional health that she is letting this guy in.

I also was not in favor of the toxic relationship between Jae-hoon and Ha-yoon starting again being shown as in any way hopeful. They need to leave each other alone, have some therapy, and continue their growth alone or with other people. It would be way too easy for them to slip into their old habits of behavior and continue their awful dynamic.

I feel like the writer of this show was far too optimistic and naive about these two potential couples. (I have no opinion about Han Joo and her new boyfriend - we have no data about him. We don't even know if he was Club Guy.)

That sounds like big criticism, but I really did love a lot of this show otherwise.

The ending for Jin Joo was written incorrectly. The 1percent rating was talking about the first two episodes then a year later her and the director were arguing about her debut and it turned out to be a success which is most likely the reason for the two drama deal and the bigger writers room.

Just finished on Viki and loved it too. Even the minor characters were great. I thought the “nutritionist” Da Mi was an absolute hoot.

Jin Joo’s character is one of those characters that are hard to like...in fact, I thought my enjoyment of this show would be dampened by her character’s presence in the show, but I’m surprised. I grew to love her!

I love how she can be so chill and rational (or pretend to be), and how she can also be SOOO DRAMATICALLY! LOOL! I especially love when she just falls to the ground or lays on the floor, kinda like,
“just lead me die” or “ground, pls swallow me now” in those moments of embarrassment and frustration. We’ve all wished we could just do the same in such moments. Well, Jin Joo does it😂

I think the turning point for me when I finally became a fan of her character was in the episode after that epically disastrous presentation by Beom Soo before the drama execs. She sists on the couch all day and does nothing, with the reasoning that, since she tries so hard all the time, yet only fails while the universe conspires to give her a hard time. This time, she figures she’ll simply do nothing instead and maybe, the universe will conspire to reward her this time, and the very thing she desires will drop right into her hands without any effort. And that is EXACTLY what happens at the end of the episode with Han Joo’s company needing a drama to produce, Eun Jung’s documentary subject (the actress) needing a drama to act in, giving both Jin Joo and Beom Soo the blessings the way looking for, right there in the living room as they exchanged contacts at the dining table. Idk why, but that logic both resonated and comforted me about all my struggles in life needing a breakthrough.❤️❤️❣️

Well well..... another comment from me on a 5 year old show. I really need to catchup. I'm reading comments on how great this show is and it does have some great moments. All the pairings are good, except for the main one. After Reply 1988 it really threw me off to see Ahn Jae-hong as a love interest and I never recovered.

Some of the writing was just brilliant, possibly the highlight being the whispering scene. But.... I thought the conversation between the main pair was really stretched out and in some cases, ridiculous.

The first product placement just had me in stitches. That was really funny.

I also don't like farting in any drama but somehow, it worked a little better here but still.... if they made it 12 shows instead of 16, it could have been removed and the dialogue tightened up a bit.

I loved Han Ji-eun/Hwang Han-joo. Just superb acting and dancing!! The way she handled her feckless ex-husband, her in-laws and straightening out Chu Jae-hoon. And of course, all the product placement discussions with the directors.

And another highlight for me was the cameo of Jung So-min. Thank you!!