My boyfriend and I love this drama! Great chemistry, tight writing, relevant subject matter (mental health), cute OST (Happy Anding hahaha).. and it was never boring! I feel it was too short, and the ending was kinda rushed. (Where did she go?) But the leads got together in the end, and that's good enough for me.

Mad is the only drama I've seen where the male lead RUNS AFTER the truck. I'm tired of trucks of doom, and this was refreshing. Also, hero putting a stop to her noble idiocy is good, too.

My favorite part was where love didn't cure their mental health issues. Seriously though, it was refreshing to watch a drama that neither demonized or minimized the effects of trauma and/or mental illness. There was also a pretty good representation of non-gender conformity, even if there was a little bit of ookiness about names being used incorrectly, but baby steps are better than no steps or worse. The dog was cute, the leads were fully faceted and well acted, and I quite liked them both even though Hwi-oh was yelled too much for my taste. I could have done without Min-kyung making that terrible decision to have coffee with the ex, but well, sometimes we do things that are dumb and dangerous especially when a writer wants to set up a certain kind of situation.

Overall, I liked this drama. I liked that it was short and not overly padded with unnecessary stuff and side stories and more angst and noble idiocy than needed, but mostly I liked that it really made a good show of the effects that trauma, gossip, biases, poverty, and societal pressures can have on individuals in many different ways.

I really liked this drama overall. I was pleased that they weren’t magically cured but still ended up together.

One of the things I didn’t like so much was the convenience store worker youtuber arc. Because I know singing is her real life main job I mostly just found it distracting from the story. Maybe if I didn’t know that it would have worked better?

I can’t rave about this drama enough. The second half of this show hurt so bad but so good (reminiscent of I’m not a robot so that’s great in my books).

Their plight felt real and heartbreaking. With her deeply rooted trust issues I could see why Min Kyung struggled to accept Hwi Oh and commit to another relationship but I’m so glad that Hwi Oh fought till the end to get her to change her mind. They’re not perfect characters but that’s what makes me root for them and sigh in relief that they found their happy ending together ♥️

I was 100% drawn into this drama until the last episode, when the plot fell apart. Why didn't Hwi-oh ever tell her she was right about Yang? Why did she reconcile with him in the hospital, then take the noble idiocy route? Why would Hwi-oh apparently assaulting someone be what changed her mind? Why the time skip? Ugh, just too many whys for one episode. They should have wrapped up Yang and the vindictive ex in ep 12, and given ep 13 to healing and reconciliation, not to mention wrapping up with the neighborhood friends and the moms. So after a strong beginning and a strong middle, I was disappointed in the poorly thought-out ending. Criminals and hospital stays stole the time that should have been spent on what this drama did best - finding that sweet spot between laughing and crying with our quirky leads.

I loved this drama. This is my first time seeing oh yeon seo (I tried odyssey but dropped after the first couple of epis, didn’t like it) and jung woo seriously in anything (haven’t been able to muster up the courage to watch reply 1994 knowing I will not be able to move on from yys not getting the girl) but know from snippets that they are great actors. Of course they owned their roles in this drama. But what surprised me was how much storytelling could be done in less than an hour! And very effectively so! This was soo refreshing!!!

"This hothead who's always beating people up just wants to be with the crazy woman who had an affair with a married man!"

Whoa. This was raw. This is one of the best confessions in the dramaland romance genre, a la, "I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her."

There were no more secrets between these two, no more reveals, no more shame or even a cultivated veneer of a restrained and proper public behavior. The best confession tell the simplest truth with false and devastating facts as if to say, “Even if it’s not a reality for the rest of humanity, it *is* a reality between the two of us, and this is what true love is.”

In Notting Hill, Anna wouldn’t be considered *just* a girl in any of the universes imaginable. She is a world-class star with all the baggage attached. Will is not *just* a boy — he’s a mature man burned by love in his past, and refusing to get hurt (especially in the eye of the public) again. But what Anna says is this: listen, the *others* might see us this way, but we, as lovers, create our own universe, our own understanding, our own contract, even if it’s raw and painful and devastating but certainly unfathomable to the rest of the universe.

Similarly, Hwi-Oh is not *just* a bully and Min-Kyung is not *just* a home-wrecker. This might be a reality constructed by others, but between the two of them, it’s a painful lie, with even higher stakes than in Notting Hills. It’s as if Hwi-Oh says, “Even if we believe that ourselves, even if we buy into this reality, I still want to be with you.” It’s especially poignant (and quite telling by Min-Kyung’s momentarily discombobulate reaction) because it’s precisely Min-Kyung who doesn’t trust herself, doesn’t believe herself, who questions her own reality.

This whole drama featured such an amazing writing. So many raw and vulnerable moments between our OTP that could have been deconstructed! And I could go hours about mental health issues that we could have all discussed, had the drama aired on prime tv slot with conventional 16 episode structure. But alas! This is how a tender, raw romance, including a very witty comedy should be.

I didn't expect to like the drama as much as I did; I was all in. It was a step in the right direction in many ways, and I appreciated that every character - even the secondary ones - were very human in that they made assumptions and did things based on them that weren't always right, but also showed a capacity to learn and change. I like that love didn't heal MK and HO, and also that despite them ending the story together, they didn't 'save' each other.

I, too, would have liked a less-packed finale episode, but overall in some ways the messiness of it was reflective of the reality of our OTP. Life isn't linear. But if we keep going, we get there in the end. Or, true to the OST, our 'and' - a happy 'anding' is a nice way to leave our characters.

This was a cute drama. I'm glad I watched it!!!

Hwi Oh and Min Kyung have the BEST I Love You confession scene in the history of all Kdramas. Don't @ me. It's the truth. Proof is in the scene itself.

Just what a gem. I thought the final episode went a touch over the top with Hwi-oh throwing himself onto the car and the CGI and it could have used another 10 minutes to let the episode breathe a bit, but it, nevertheless, landed a thoughtful, happy ending. The drama started off with the 2 characters alone, but we end the drama with a whole village - Hwi-oh's cop friends (including the one who was injured before the start of the drama), the women's group, and part-timer+Samantha.

The drama did a great job at showing our duo's struggle and how therapy and love don't necessarily cure them. There will be relapses and moments when they doubt themselves and each other because of that. But they will work on it.

The whole part where Min-kyung's trauma resurfaced was heartbreaking and beautifully acted. And given how creepy and abusive her ex was and how he went after her dog, tried to break into her apartment, and then drugged her in broad daylight at a cafe...those paranoid and OCD behaviors don't seem so out of place. And it never occurred me that one could get roofied during the day in a cafe. How scary!

A great, fulfilling story told in less than half the length of the usual kdrama miniseries. I'm not sure how korea does ratings with web dramas on kakao, but I hope this drama was considered a success!

I would have missed this lovely series had it not been for Dramabeans. My negative reaction to the trailer was the inverse of how deeply I love Mad for Each Other. The series did so many things right that my memory has already edited out the ridiculous car scene from the final episode.

This has to be one of my favorite dramas in a long while. Like a bunch of other posts, I thought the 30 min format really helped the story stay tight and focused without (too many) random stray threads that don't help the story. Reminded me in some ways of it's okay to not be okay but without the crazy mama arc that I thought really hurt that series. Very little of that filler here and I think having to pack a story into a limited amount of time really helped the writers stay focused. Awesome writing, terrific acting, and of course, wonderful recaps and reviews from missvictrix (Thank You!).

I loved this show a lot, although the final episode was pretty rushed and a bit confusing. In particular, who was the guy Hwi-Oh had in a headlock at the end? He seemed to be someone of significance, because Min-Kyung was walking away from Hwi-Oh forever before Hwi-Oh attacked the guy, and showed her his photos online. That made all the difference to her for some reason.

Also, as someone else pointed out, she reconciled with him at the hospital, and then she suddenly moves out and intends not to see him again. Hwi-oh comes home all excited and happy and she's gone. What happened? Show never explains it. But then she reverses herself because he says he'll go around beating people up unless she stays with him. I mean, what?

But I probably shouldn't nitpick, because the rest of the show was marvelous. I still give it a 9, although I thought it was a 10 or 11 before the last episode.

I have a question though, the scene where they went to the cinema and were watching a movie. I think starred by Ha Ji Won, what movie is that? I don’t think I have seen that