No one else has posted yet so I will but it will be short- very short. I did in fact watch the entire drama with no fast-forwarding. And I can actually sum up my impressions very simply.

Nothing in this show ever really gelled. There were a few funny scenes, but the drama always seemed disjointed and oddly out of kilter. The over-all effect was a unique flatness. This was not a show that let us down because it never lifted us up to begin with.

I don't recommend this drama. It has some sweet and swoony moments that are harder to come by lately, but ultimately the romance is not well done and it comes across like frosting on a Styrofoam cake - yeah, it's pretty to look at and the frosting is even tasty, but in the end the frosting is still ruined by the Styrofoam taste. It's also empty and unfulfilling.

I'm jumping the gun a bit, having not finished the final episode yet, but the series never should have been a romance because there was no romantic chemistry (or reason for it to exist) between the two leads... at all. It should have leaned into just being a TV studio workplace comedy, maybe a bit 'enemies-to-respected colleagues'.

I'll copy and paste some of my comments from the individual recaps, because they sum up my thoughts pretty well:

The story has a lot of classic Kdrama tropes, and I'm perfectly happy to watch a tropey drama, but I still want something that uses its tropes well and in enjoyable/creative ways. This drama felt like the writers couldn't be bother to actually write a story.

They also barely use the source material which is mind-boggling seeing as that was the major draw of the whole drama. Surely there were more scenes from the cartoon (or even the manwha) they could have pulled in and made use of. Why even bother using the cartoon if they were going to use so little of it?

Final assessment? This drama gave me plenty of laughs. I won't pretend it didn't. But it was overwhelmingly a low-effort, poorly made, hot mess of a story, and I would trade all of those laughs in for having not watched it in the first place.