Rushed through it because it is brilliantly addicting and involving but I will be watching again for all the details. It is really well-done, a strong mix of romance, detective case, cyber thriller and psychological drama. The cast are all excellent and the directing is high quality and inventive. The writing is really tight, I did not feel like any episode dragged for me. But this is all first watch opinions so..I will be back to say more.

I thought she did an amazing job in Mother, so I'm looking forward to watching this too.

PS:
Per https://www.kdramapal.com/7-new-korean-dramas-watch-february-2020/, screenwriter Ryoo Yong-jae also wrote PSYCHOPATH DIARY, so dual roles are nothing new. ;-)

*opens door*

This is also Ryu Yongjae writer-nim's first romcom :D He's serving OT3s in the form of OTP, and personally I'm down

*closes door*

As a trekker, you got me with the The Doctor.
I've been a fan of Robert Picardo ever since I watched him in China Beach, one of my favourite shows ever.

I watched the first episode and I thought it was better than the 'lonely woman getting rescued' trope suggests. Actually having a pair of glasses to tell you everybody's name would be super useful.

What's the trope called when the female knocks over the male, they fall to the ground with her on top of him and their lips lock. Surely there's a proper name for this trope. Anyhow, that's when it lost me...

@msrabbit,
I didn't want to spoil, so refrained from going into detail. I will say that PD-nim jumped in feet first with a spiffy car chase that would have been at home in TIME BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF and LOOKOUT. I wasn't expecting that, but it fit in nicely with cutthroat competition and industrial espionage.

AI Holo is a keeper. Pleasant, soft-spoken, observant, and tactful. He's a good dancer, and knows how to instigate low-key fun. He quickly deduces that uri heroine has prosopagnosia, and demonstrates how he can assist her with it -- as well as her mountain of work. I could have used one of him when I worked as a secretary. We don't really meet his Dad / inventor in the first episode, other than to glimpse the family resemblance.

My sense is that MY HOLO LOVE has a much better handle on AIs and robots than MY ABSOLUTE BOYFRIEND did. (Granted, that bar was set very low...) MHL invoked three rules for artificial intelligences that are analogous to Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics. I'm not looking for industrial-strength science fiction in this show, but getting the basics right is a good start.

I'm pretty tuckered out when it comes to yet another instantiation of prosopagnosia (face blindness) in Kdramaland. On the other hand, having a "Seeing AI" hologram is actually a practical application of technology that makes eminent sense to me. The fact that it is achieved through the use of augmented eyeglasses screams Google Glass redux. (All I can think is that Capt. Ri and the Ducklings of CLOY would freak out at this revelation.)

I'll admit I am a bit conflicted with the timing of the premiere. STOVE LEAGUE is wrapping up next weekend, CRASH LANDING ON YOU is moving into the home stretch, ROMANTIC DOCTOR, TEACHER KIM 2 has just passed the half-way point, and TELL ME WHAT YOU SAW just started -- with several more shows debuting over the next few weeks. And KINGDOM season 2 premieres on March 13. When it rains, it pours. -- However, now that I think about it, Netflix has made the entire series available in one fell swoop, so I won't have to limit myself to two episodes per week. That makes it a lot easier in the long run. (Hmmm... so when can we expect KINGDOM season 3, Netflix??)

No cliffhangers, @pcch2345. All 12 episodes are available now on Netflix in the US. ;-)

I'm already on ep. 4 and I really like them both together!

@larelle79,
I agree. It was delightful. So-yeon's reactions when she initially encountered the gentlemanly Holo were cute. She thought he was a ghost. His appearance had a translucent, ectoplasmic quality that made her reach for her talismans and mudang's hand bells. I hadn't considered it before, but apparently humanoid holograms as well as android robots can elicit the "uncanny valley" response.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/unexplained-phenomena/uncanny-valley.htm

Thank you! Hmm... I thought I saw that in the "Coming Soon" section of Viki. But I guess not. Boo... :(

It was really good. I walked in expecting just a ton of melodrama right off the bat but it surprised me.

The writing of So yeon is impressed me in the 1st episode. She is not a cold, anti social person, she is just someone who is private and that seems to translate into being a bitch. And seeing her feelings hurt when she tried to put herself out there, again, so relateable. There was no conflict, no villain, the dude did not lead her on (from what we saw in the 1st ep); She just was too late to make a move. It happens.

She is a capable , competent adult who happens to have a illness that is not the end all be all for someone to have. When society stop making issue with women have issues, things will be alright.

I feel you! Now I won't even care about watching it.

I watched the whole thing from beginning to end and I don't remember any scene where she fell over and knocked him down and their lips locked. There was a scene where she had a rooftop evening with the AI and got drunk, and when the lookalike creator came to take back the AI, she woke up, decided to try kissing the AI and kissed the creator instead. It fit into the story.

I won't say My Holo Love is an outstanding drama -- it definitely has its faults (too much time on the evil mastermind and his thugs, for one). But it is a perfectly fine blend of romance, mystery, sci-fi, and action. It has appealing characters, it moves along pretty well, it has a consistent story from beginning to end, it's fun and a little suspenseful (although you probably will figure out the big background mystery long before the characters do). It's not trying to be a blockbuster like Memories of the Alhambra, but it definitely does a better job of following through on its premise. There's no letdown at the end.

All our devices do listen in on us...Holo is just doing the same but to the extreme (or just what the US gov seems to already been doing on a daily basis - as we now know thanks to NSA/Ed Snowden).
Holo is an unreleased product created by a hacker so it hacks into databases etc without much of a moral compass since the creator does not seem to have one. The released version would probably have less access to people's data until society gives its ok to have it all shared that way.
Plus this is k-dramaland where reasonable and realistic plots don't really happen often.

@sspat, you raise legitimate issues that do get addressed in the drama.

The story is over at the end of the 12th episode.