I like this drama despite its cliche scenes and impending doom hanging over Bang Yu Na, simply because this drama is an oasis in the midst of revenge/thiller/detective desert.

The child actors are adorable and I enjoyed all the meta about Soo Young's idol life (The hairflip, big eyes and rude attitude) 🤣🤣🤣

This is a lovely drama. Ep 2 is especially enchanting despite we can tell miles away how the story will unfold, like the Notting Hill-ish scene. Very happy that Yoon Park has this winning lead role. The girl playing his daughter is impressive and SooYoung is not bad too.

Four episodes are far too short and I won’t mind a few more.

We really loved these two episodes.

I was surprised how much I liked the first two episodes of this brightly coloured and sugar-sweet drama. It wrapped me up like a warm blanket.

By the way, I am optimistic that Yu-na will get out of the hospital alive. Anything else would not fit this drama.

This drama is off to an adorable start, but I can't get over how bright and pink walls are at the children's hospital!

Throw me any cliche and high school connections/perfect coincidences whatever I'll swallow no matter how large, besides it a small world. Isn't it!. It was so easy to be drawn into the world of this characters. I liked the relaxed room being around Jung Seok gave Kanghee, and the joy Kanghee implanted on Yuna as she now IRL in Yuna's presence. Not to mention the look but can't touch fire Kanghee and Jung Seok are throwing around.

Those malicious comments are heavy. Telling someone to jump off a bridge just like that...it's sad how unsteady the fan mind is. How they switch from praiser to predator doesn't surprise me, but I only feel for the recipient of the praise or hate as the sincere fans are mixed in with the bulky chaff.

The little comedies thrown in between are good medicine. The one that still gets to me while typing this is her exclamation when Jung Seok said he was a parent.

Reporter Son... I know he's played for comedy and he's doing a good job with it but I want to ghdghffjhfgjhfffsf.

Yoon Park as a father...he checks all the boxes✅✅✅.

the drama has a disastrous ending. Literally. (An asteroid hits the earth and everything goes up in flames!)

Raise your hand if you've ever seen a kdrama that would have been improved by an ending like that.

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Meanwhile, DB reports that Kkokdu’s Season will feature a Grim Reaper whose job is to murder "human trash". Can we get a crossover with him and the nasty reporter here?

One thing that stood out for me and hasn't really been mentioned is the way adoration of Kang-hee really substituted for a relationship with a mom in Yu-na's world. Yu-na really made that clear when she showed the stack of returned-to-send letters to her mother. Adoration of a distant idol is pretty safe. Accepting Kang-hee as a fallible human will require Yu-na to grow a bit. But her need for a mom in her life has only one real solution, and this drama is headed straight for it. Win for Yu-na, win for Kang-hee, and win for long-suffering Dad.

Fitting a whole show into just 4 episodes apparently requires filtering out all original ideas and keeping only standard tropes. Sick kid. Truck. Trip-almost-kiss on the couch. Pushy obnoxious reporter. Past connection. It works better than you'd expect from all that, and I'm not sure what lessons we can draw...

This is lovely, and just what I was hoping it would be!

I loved how reserved and respectful Jungseok was when he first encountered Kanghee again. He didn't assume that she remembered him or would know who he was. But all along she'd totally had her eyes open hoping to encounter him at some point! I wonder if her relationship with him has been one of the realest of her life. She seems so much more relaxed around him than anyone else. I was sort of dreading when she would have to explain her PTSD about fan mail to him, but luckily he was there then too, and is better placed than anyone to understand the situation.

All the scenes with Jungseok and Yuna are so cute. He's such an attentive dad, and they really are everything to one another. That scene where she comforted him after his mother died hit me right in the tear ducts. I'm still hopeful that we'll get a happy ending for everyone. Childhood leukemia is tragic, but the most common type has higher survival rates than a lot of other cancers. And it seems like she's getting good treatment in that extremely pink hospital (strong Dr. Seuss vibes), so come on Show!

This show is a delight so far and I’m grateful it’s being weecapped! Thank you!!

I don’t have much to add beyond what’s already been said, but something that struck me was that Yu Na expressed in one of her letters her worry that the ‘germs’ (which cause her and the other kids to be poorly) would go on to make the adults poorly.😭 Firstly, I hope her dad explains to her that her recovery will not mean that other people will get sick (even if he doesn’t want to explain what cancer is). Secondly, there’s a heartbreaking astuteness to that worry. In caring for a sick child, parents take on and bear a lot, and she may be picking up on how the parents around her are and have been affected.💔

By far, my favorite watch this past weekend. I enjoyed this so much, I paradoxically am glad it's 4 eps and also want it to be longer so I can spend more time with these characters, in this world.

As others have pointed out, the show is not trying to be original. In fact, I think originality is something we pretend we care about more than we actually do. The point of genre fiction is there are familiar, expected beats a story must hit in order to fit the bill. You need a killer to be revealed and caught in a murder mystery, a couple to get together in a romance, etc. Common tropes within and across genre also provide satisfaction--when adhered to and when subverted--and even subversions of tropes often become tropes themselves.

All that to say, I don't like this drama in spite of its use of certain tropes or cliches, I like it because of those things. It scratches the itch I needed scratched, it butters my biscuit. And I'm convinced that most others like it for that reason as well.

I love this drama; the horrible flashback images are manageable, the friendship between the dad and shop keeper is really sweet, the father/daughter relationship, the other cute kids and the baddie is cartoonish in his antics.

We have enough realism to ignore that despite being in the middle of treatment where she would need to manage infection control she can go off base and that none of the children have suffered hair loss. We are shown that treatment is horrible for the parent and the child through the side characters such as when a child runs off and the stressed and upset mum resorts to hitting him to make him submit.

A love story where the serious studious boy took the hit for the famous girl when she was caught smoking but stayed aloof and admired secretly. He grew up to be the man who did not call in the favours but tried to be respectful while fighting for his daughter’s need for the illusion to be maintained. I am hopeful that the story will wrap up well for all concerned and the trauma of the dodgy ‘gift’ put to bed as it looks like the potential offender could be a jealous ‘friend’ who is now a mum of one of the other sick children.

Do designated drivers have to take cabs to the destinations?
At first, I thought he was kinda like an uber where he got requested and then went to the people but that didn't seem the case with her.

What a sweet drama. Yoon Park is stealing the show for me and the portrayal of the relationship which his daughter is delightful. The imaginary kiss scene was hilarious, I found myself saying 'No it's only episode two!' Before realising there were only 4 episodes in total. 🤣