I hope this is better than When I Was Most Beautiful, which I found about as interesting as watching weeds grow.

Unrequited love is probably the trope I hate the most.
I keep repeating Gun Woo words in Dinner Mate: unrequited love is not love, it’s violence.

HMMMMMMM, idk, maybe it will be interesting.

I've been soooo looking forward to this since A Moment at Eighteen ended.
I really loved Ong Sung-woo's performance.

Other than Ong Sung-woo, supporting actors are interesting too, P.O (Hotel Del Luna) and Ahn Eun-Jin (Hospital Playlist).

Hope this More Than Friends is going to be good and won't have unbearable second leads, like Dinner Mate...sigh

Actor 1: https://mydramalist.com/people/15814-ong-sung-woo
Actor 2: https://mydramalist.com/people/1909-kim-dong-jun

I mean, clearly one idol-actor has more experience than the other by working from the bottom up (cameos, dailies, weekenders, supporting roles) while the other got parachuted into a previous main role. Why is the more experienced guy being asked to play such a lame third-wheeler character? I get it if Actor 1 was someone who had serious acting talent but I honestly don't think the gap in acting abilities between the two is that big to warrant this.

That being said, I'm still going to watch the show as I like the leads personally. Writer is an unknown variable, maybe who knows we'll get a really interesting plot.

OHHH Kim Dong Jun

I might have never noticed him but he guested in RM and left Somin and even me all flustered.
Not that I would watch this drama for him but I will check the posts and scenes to see if it is good.

second lead syndrome here I come 🥳🐥💙

It's not my favourite kind of story : when a girl has a crush for a guy who doesn't share her feelings and he's super cold with her and suddenly when she could get over him, he suddenly has feelings for her... I often wish the FL to have more pride and the ML to end up alone...

90% of the time I hate love triangles and it looks like I would hate it here too.

Hopefully Shin Ye-eun chose a good project this time. I genuinely like her! I think she has talent (as do the other two, for that matter), but Meow was horrible. *shudder*

I feel like I'm totally going to like the second male lead more (that is, if I stick with the show). I honestly prefer characters who are certain of how they feel (or who discover their feelings relatively quickly) and act on those feelings over characters whose feelings have been quiescent for a long time. It strikes me as (a) more honest and (b) demonstrative of greater intensity of feeling. I think this is why I like Strong Women Do Bong-soon so much; here was a story where the person who'd be the second lead in any other story was the first lead.

I cannot look at Kim Dong Joon without seeing Han Ga In.

It definitely doesn't help that I'm currently watching Moon Embracing the Sun.

Any idea where I will be able to watch this?

Kim Dong joon "Charms" Woo Yeon?????? More like drounds her in cheeze and force feeds it to her using the job he gave her and her gratefulness as an excuse for never ending meetings. Anyone can see how skeezy he is approaching her especially since he has known of her love for the ML since day 1 at her airport confession as well as the year following where he bought a cellphone that was given the ML old number that she constantly calls when she is feeling down and/or drunk.
He takes his knowledge and weaponizes it to get what he wants. He doesnt tell her when he knows first about the ML's reason for not meeting her at Namsun after she unequivocally gave her answer to his confession at the musical as an emphatic no and sorry. Did it keep the skeeze bucket from waiting outside her house till she got home? No.
The SML is just an opportunist who wants to be desperately loved by someone since his previous history was one of cowardice not telling the girl he loved anything and she ended up marrying his brother! In many ways he is just as screwed up as the ML but simple pure minded innocent girls who give everyone the benefit of the doubt have difficulty separating to posers who use tricks and manipulation and temporatily twist/modify their personalities to get what they want from the guys who let girls see them warts and all. Which one will give buyers remorse eventually girls??? Come on! If the SML was ugly girls wouldnt have the same opinion of him.

By EP 10 she tells both suitors she chooses neither and wont meet either then of course she is tricked by the CEO into having dinner in front of the ML and his parents. She should have spit in his face!
The CEO is really disgusting. She should be livid seeing him at the restaurant especially since she told him the last time she wanted it to be the last coincidence. He admits he manipulated her then guilts her to stay saying if she left he would be a laughing stock and of course to prevent that she stays. STUPID. Isnt that just what he deserves for doing that at least? Pushing him to his death outside on the balcony would be better.
After the dinner the SML and FL come out of the restaurant and the ML is about to get in his car. She knows she has screwed up and starts walking to the ML and he gets in the car and leaves. She runs after and gets a taxi to his house, comes to his front door and effectively un wittingly does what the ML used to do to her. be Confusing.
She wants him to know it wasnt a date..... but she doesnt like him.

So why would she want him to know? Why would she come all that way to say that?
When he points that out she changes tactics and attacks like women caught in lies do. Twists it all around to him not waiting quietly as he said he would. Sort of a female version where she hits you and you are supposed to say, Thank you maam may I have another.

So she comes to fix her mistake, admits she was wavering, and then leaves after making it his fault.
She ends up leaving and of course the disgusting and useless CEO is waiting for her outside like the gum on your shoe you cant get rid of again.

It is so beyond reason why any woman would want a relationship with the CEO. He starts humbly but by EP9-10 he is as egotistical as the ML used to be bragging about his wealth and buying her whatever she wants and bragging to her parents, playing tricks against the ML with her parents and just being a general skumbag.
He offers to buy her affections at the restaurant as if she was a mistress. She doesnt have to like him but he will buy her whatever she asks for her affections. She simply declines as if this type of thing is normal in Korea.
How is it even possible he does this while at the same time arranging the words so it appears he is being selfless and caring?
Any scenes with the CEO eventually make you feel like you need a shower and disinfectant as if you were contaminated.
Since the ML confessed he has made 0 mistakes. He has dropped all pretense and ego and spoken as honestly from his heart as he knows how. At the scene in the abandoned amusement park he did this and she responded by accusing him of being arrogant to the end???
She wants her pound of flesh and wont accept an ounce that doesnt come from his heart.......