The first photo is giving off early 2000s vibe!

I am glad we got a hangout for this one as I feel like we could get some interesting perspectives on modern relationships. It is interesting how many dramas show long term relationships where the conversation about marriage or children was not discussed until very late in the process and often differences of opinion in these areas lead to significant conflict in a seemingly strong relationship.

I think the drama started well establishing the foundations of the relationship and I like that they showed the history of their journey in life as their relationship has seen them transition from students to setting up their own business to dealing with the challenges of growing a business. Some of the important character building events in life were shown so we will be able to see whether they are able to manage the current stage of their careers and the impact this is having on their relationship.

I also liked that we saw they both fail to communicate about important issues; timing was not always great for effective communication and they didn’t seem to prioritise time for these discussions. It was interesting to note that they don’t seem to have any friends who are in established relationships, they all presented as unable to read the room or give measured advice or support.

I like the way they showed the relationship it was light enough to keep it interesting whilst still demonstrating serious flaws. It will not be easy to keep the tone right for 16 episodes especially as it’s a once a week drop which is bound to be impacted on at least one occasion by something like a sports event. They will need to work hard so the audience doesn’t become so annoyed with one or both of the characters or start to feel it’s too depressing to be entertaining. I look forward to next week’s episode.

Why this kind of drama always are the same with different people? The scene of the toilet in the bathroom and sex talk after 3 minutes is so often used... They always have communication issues and misunderstandings.

It would be nice to see a couple already formed with an original story for once.

Our Super Junior Donghae hasn't been in K-drama since 2014 according to Asianwiki wow! He fits the role well. I got a pretty good impression after the first episode although Reply 1988 reminds us this is a once a week drop, which is a pet peeve of mine. Or at least it is in theory since I'm still watching It's a Good Day to be a Dog ha ha!
Oh, and it reminds me of my girlfriend who said her husband was watching cartoons with his brothers the morning they got married so, yeah, guys and hanging out can be relationship hurdle. Lack of communication is a self-protection mode and that certainly is evident with our couple. Because being honest means setting aside pride, ouch. I so wish he would have told her he protected "them" when he walked away from Underw . . . I mean Winders. Anyhoot, I'm in. Thank you for the link Reply 1988!

- The main lead's friends are morons - not only do they stay late in their friend's apartment and leave trash in there, but they also encourage said friend to cheat on his long time girlfriend (who btw pays for their hangout location). I hate these people and I know them in real life.

- The main couple is well written till now. I don't particularly cheer for them or wish for them to break up. In a lot of way, they came out exactly the way writer envisioned them - without a passion and almost instinctive (or family-like?) level of care.

- I genuinely hate the blurry filter. The actors are gorgeous, the locations are pretty. There is really no need to make it seem like it was shot on a low-budget Aliexpress camera.

I like! It's not exactly a comfort drama but I appreciate the premise & how realistic it is. I truly felt like I was standing on the precipice of the relationship along with the leads, teetering towards 'break up' and then pulling back into 'no but make it work' and I thought it was cool that both are flawed but not in a way that makes one more unlikeable, just in ways that make them feel more real and understandable.

And to that, I think having equal time split between ML and FL for audience to understand them really put a spin on things - because we're first privy to what the FL is going through, her thoughts and frustrations which made me fully sympathise with her during first fight, and then the meeting with Winders helped flesh out the ML's character more and made him more sympathetic in the second fight - but at the same time I understood exactly where the FL was coming from still. So in a weird way I understood both of them and could also see exactly where the points of tension were, and I like the depth that brings into making this situation feel really real.

Looking forward to seeing what happens next week - I'm 98% sure that the ending was a red herring in terms of what we're assuming happened, but given their current issues with communication it'll be interesting to see if this potential misunderstanding is what pushes the relationship over the edge, and how the leads grow from that.

Week two
This felt like a long time coming, I am so looking forward to tonight’s episode. I really hope I am not going to be disappointed after such an interesting start to the series.

The once a week drop, though, is a drama pace killer. *See It's a Good Day to be a Dog. Let's hope there aren't holiday or sports game preempts!!

I am also wondering about the never had a girlfriend friend anyone thinking he is going to be brought in as second male lead material? I got a hint of something in the first episode when he said he would leave with her then this episode he said she liked shrimps and when the male lead made some comment about she hates eating them because of the peeling he had said you know her best. It made me wonder if he had peeled them for her just as a matter of decency and she had eaten them happily but the male lead never puts in the effort so she wont eat them with the male lead.

Week three:

I think this week’s episode will determine whether the handful of beanies watching this drama, decide to keep watching or drop. The final episodes of Tell me that you love me come out next week and new dramas are dropping this month so the competition will only increase.

AKMU How can I love the breakup when you're the one I love https://www.google.com/search?q=akmu+how+could+i+love+the&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari

I guess we could say this is the 7-yr-dating-itch. A classic case of familiarity, taking one another for granted, not working out kinks, pride, mistrust. At least Seong Ok shows up with the b-day cake, but it's not much of a festive celebration for their poor uptight friend. Hyeon Seong looks worse for the wear. As for the communal vote that they can't break up (Seong Ok's ramyeon being the #1 reason), it's annoying but not unrealistic for friends to be nosy and surface involved. The drama ia dragging for me, and I'd like more reasons to care how things tuen out. I feel viewer investment in their story is lacking even though I wish I didn't feel that way. Am I missing something?

Week 4, we are a quarter of the way through the season.
Foundations have been rocked will they withstand the much needed frank discussion.

Lost my comments again, what is that all about?!

I feel like not very much happened because no one did very much. I don’t think Sungok was with Hyunmok in the hotel. I don’t have an ounce of respect for Hyunsung blurting out publicly that he cheated. Sure, he was avoiding having Sungok possibly say what he didn’t want to hear, but that admission among gathered friends was brutal. The lack of critical thinking on the part of Sungok and Hyunsung is maddening, and I wonder if she should just cut her losses and move on. At this point I’m not (re) shipping our main leads in my heart, although my head says that’s where things will end up. This drama is falling to a C- rating for me, and as my dad always said, Cs are scraping the bottom of the barrel because Ds and Fs get you kicked out!

Week five a change of viewing slot to the weekend with new shows dropping and an already busy schedule 😱 this could be a big mistake for the ratings which were already embarrassingly low.

The foundations have been set so let’s see what they bring to the story this week.

Episode 5 and, yet again, I find that I watched the whole thing beginning to end. I never want to click play, and then I always do, and I always watch every darn second.

I can list more easily the characters who do NOT grab me now, as most of them do--certainly most of the men. It's mainly the main couple that leaves me scratching my head. I had to finally break down and figure out who the ML was and why he'd been cast as the 'L.' Super Junior. Ah. Similarly not so taken with our blank-faced FL.

So, what exactly is Hyung-sub/O-bong doing? Let's get back to Eun-jung! Can she at least play soccer more? This noona romance with Si-hu is grrrreat. And, last but not least in the least, is uri Min-hyeok. People (rightly) will continue to complain about his nickname, but thing is, dude's working with it. Maybe as "chief teaser" of the group, he'll start to tone that down too. I don't even have an end game in mind.

You know what? In "conclusion," I sort of wish this were a weekender. I kinda want these relationships to go on and get more complicated and then backstabby and maybe throw in some twins separated at birth--oh, ok, not that, but it could just go on with no real conclusion for any of these folks, and that'd actually be OK with me. It could be, "Let's just see what happens to these folks for a bit, and then stop filming." You in at all, @reply1988 ?

i can attest to being in a long-term relationship (almost 10 years) and having it fizzle out, for a number of reasons. this drama shows how some considerations cannot be addressed painlessly (his being considerate of her business partnership and not wanting to tell her the contract demands), how some stupid friends can drag you into situations that LOOK BAD even tho you weren't going to do anything, how easily it is to be swayed when you are feeling unappreciated (in this case, her - but wrongly so)... and yes, ultimately sometimes there is infidelity and it is not impossible to overcome, but most times isn't worth trying to. doesn't negate the relationship, it sometimes means it has run its course and its time to move on.

friends suffer and it becomes a "who gets the kids" sorta "divorce" -- it realistically portrays the awkward stages of a breakup.

i'm hoping they can work things out and decide to stay together. but along with it comes a lot of pain, sadness, but mainly growth. and if they cannot grow into their changing path (marriages continue to grow, btw), they should separate.

it's call real life. and sometimes it sucks and is sad.

Week six
This week brings confirmation that fake out shock endings are going to be a constant with this drama. In this the episode lines are drawn, friendships are tested and hard hitting wake up calls are delivered.

Episode 7
Reminiscing, reflections and regrets lead to tears and new insights.

ep 8
so tired of the stubborn insistence of the new guy's buttinskying. and why does she have to accommodate when she already said she was going to be busy... i'm going to tell my daughter that when you say "no" to an invitation, it means NO even if he shows up. this is what i call RUDE. why the courtesy???

Episode 8 mid season in a break up drama what does this mean?

All the friends in the group have started to get resolution on their own love lives. Finally we see more of the story behind the only other female in the group. The serial one night stand man may finally feel ready to trust that real love does exist. Unrequited love man might wake up to a realistic solution if he friends dealt with these issues in an adult manner rather than teasing him all the time. The last member of the group’s fat shaming has toned right down so maybe this will remain the case once his story is back in the limelight.

Re the main couple now three months have passed and an embarrassing meet up stopped the tumbleweed rolling, they decide to have a proper sit down conversation. This of course is stretched into next week’s episode. I wonder if the purpose of the series is to focus on breaking up well and then have a brief hint of new relationships for the main couple in episode 16. The other option could be to show them drawing a line under the old relationship and all that made it fail so they can start again together with a healthy foundation but again only show that element in the last episode. I also wonder if they are commenting on the state of relationships generally through the various difficulties all the friendship group members have.

Episode nine
This episode left me confused. Two single friends made some steps towards changing their status. Main couple somehow managed to take 60 steps backwards in their attempts towards a clean closure of this phase of their relationship.

If I hear a second lead whine ‘Can’t it be me?’ one more time, they will be able to hear my scream on the International Space Station.

Episode ten
New beginnings in terms of letting go of past hurts, and unhelpful thinking so that healthy feelings can begin to grow in the friendship group.
The main couple have a positive outlook in the work context but an unhelpful coworker blocks progress in resolving the relationship woes.

Episode eleven
The main couple finally have the loooooooooooooog overdue conversation.
Progress continues to be made within the friendship group.

Throughout the drama it felt like we have mainly spent time with the male lead and his boys with occasional glimpses of the female lead chatting with her mum or the other female in the friendship group. It has been harder to understand the thinking guiding the female lead’s actions we just hear others giving advice it looks like she is following. This week it felt like we finally heard her voice.

Last episode!
They wrapped it up nicely, which was unexpected.

Just in case you like end credits that show the cast and crew, this one had the cast talking to camera as well as a couple of behind the scenes.

Very nice k-drama. Worth watching over a few days.

It isn't anything new, but I did like the performances of the actors. I wasn't familiar with any of them before I watched this drama besides the ML. I did like the ending for all couples involved.

I do want to point out some actors...
-Jeonghwa of EXID. Jeonghwa had a bigger part in this drama. I hope her acting continues to grow and continues her acting.
-Choi Won-Myeong. I think his character grew the most and I liked the ending to his story line.
-Baek Soo-Hee. I noticed her in Agency. It is great to see her get more lines. I've recently saw her in a few episodes of Flex x Cop. I hope to see more of her future work.
-Lee Seol. The FL. I'm smitten. She did a great job. I've never seen her work before, but I'll keep an eye out for her future work.

OST was outstanding. Perfectly sets the tone of the drama. I especially like When I With U, and Stay.

I don't regret watching this drama. As I said earlier - it is a very nice k-drama with a cast and crew that did a nice job.

i still give it a TEN STAR rating for its realism. no real baddies, just an irritating, whining second male love interest.