Wanna hear a secret?? I finished this drama in a day and, well, pretty much, enjoyed it. How, you ask?

I actually turned on (English) dubbing halfway through.

I've never thought "You know, I should listen to this drama dubbed," in my entire life. But I started with subs, and once I moved to dubbing, I actually went back to listen to earlier scenes again, only in dubbed English...and I really do feel it was funnier that way 😉

It was so much more enjoyable for me, in fact, that I'd actually recommend it to folks who can stand it--the cursing hits home better, the comedic timing is pretty darn good, and the guy who voices Ahn Jae-hong sort of sounds a tiny bit like Matthew Broderick, which really hit the right spot. Those f'ing jingles from the early episodes are really gonna be in my head for a long while--when they're sung in English, they translated the words quite a bit differently so they make "sense" ("I'm walking duck-footed...Like a big duck, a big fucking duuuck").

CHA EUN-WOOO!!!

PS: For those paying attention--and I'm sure there were many--Twerp is played by Punchable Face from PMR. I guess he's not moving up in the world 😂

Mix of deadpan/aggressive/self-enhancing humour in Ep 1 made me go "Ehhh?", but the drama found its grove in Ep 2, but I quickly got bored by Ep 3 and 4. Maybe people who like absurd humour will find it engaging, but I did not, so DROP!

This drama's type of humor isn't for me.

I expected something more whacky and bizarre. The humor was more slapstick than intellectual. It was a sci-fi com but light on the sci-fi as the rules were not super clear. Ahn Jae-Hong was the off-center lead of the series while Ryu Seung-Ryong was very expressive as the stressed out dad. I thought the nugget would have been intelligent or interactive. That was a let-down. The show kept raising moral paradoxes between science, religion and human greed, but no strong life lesson in the end since only memories were erased but not the characters' fates (which means it starts all over again.) It was an OK show but it relied too much on flashbacks. I think it would have made a better movie than a web series.

I just started. I will be back (only watched first 30 minutes, and not yet finding the groove).

I tried! Could we get half beans🤣🤣
Watched first 2 in English. Korean wouldn't have made a difference in the experience for me. I am a Rom-COM girl, not just COM I guess. I even watched the last episode to see if I could enjoy but not this time. Dropped.
But- it did inspire me to watch My Demon instead. Laughed lots in the first 3 episodes. And it's still a bean.
I hope you all have a better sense of humor than I do and love CN!

I think the story was ok but it was too long for what it was. It reminded me of The sound of your heart in terms of the humour as that was hysterically funny in parts too but other parts didn’t work for me. The meta of the far away look leading to the ‘we don’t have time for this’ flashbacks and the links with Be melodramatic were the funniest scenes for me.

Did anyone work out how the family story was passed on in the Joseon era as we didn’t see him explain the story to his wife and we didn’t see any children either unless I missed that scene. They should have shown that one instead of the drunken escapades with the women in the courtesan house.

I watched it all the way through in Korean and whilst it was an ok the male lead was in a more consistently funny film Secret zoo which had a ridiculous concept carried through because it was short. Be melodramatic is in my top 10 dramas, and he is the male lead in that too.

Even if it wasn't always my kind of humour, there were enough funny scenes to keep me watching. Of course, it also helped that the episodes are only thirty minutes long.

However, in the middle of the eighth episode, when the drama went back to the past, I suddenly lost all interest and dropped it.

By the way, I'm now craving these chicken meatballs.

Based on the premise, this was the type of show I normally would have passed over. But with Ahn Jae-Hong and Ryu Seung-Ryong as the leads, I figured it was a good opportunity to expand my horizons and try something out of my comfort zone. I binged the entire show in one sitting.

Ahn Jae-Hong knows how to walk the fine line between endearingly silly and annoyingly dumb. I was charmed by the absurdist tone he set at the opening of the show as his character, Baek-Joong, danced and sang his way down the street wearing his signature yellow pants. Baek-Joong and his crush Min-A were adorable together. Unfortunately, Min-A chicken-nuggeted out of the picture way too soon, before establishing with the audience her close relationship with Baek-Joong and her father, Sun-Man. It made it difficult to connect emotionally to their grief and desperation at her alarming transformation. I was taken aback when Sun-Man instantly accepted Baek-Joong’s whackadoodle assertion that the mysterious machine had turned her into a savory snack; he didn’t even stop to ask for an explanation or confirmation before launching into hysterics.

After the promising start, “absurd” degenerated into just plain stupid. The tone of the show was wildly inconsistent, as if the creative team had randomly tossed together a bunch of bits and sequences from other dramas. It might have worked had there had been an overarching framework to provide some cohesion. I wish there had been more moments that channeled the vibe from the beginning of the show, like the meta “we don’t have time for a flashback” routine.

The show’s pacing was awful: extended sight gags that weren’t all that funny seemed to go on forever, burying the drama’s emotional core. (Somewhere along the way, Sun-Man got pushed into the background, a shameful waste of the talented Ryu Seung-Ryong. The writers gave him practically nothing to work with.) The story meandered, jumped around, and circled back on itself to no apparent purpose. The weak ending was a real letdown. With better/tighter writing, directing, and editing, the show could have made a saucy little chicken nugget of a movie, instead of a big ol’ turkey of a drama series.

One positive note… I had a great time singing along to “Your Shampoo Scent in the Flowers”! I haven’t watched Be Melodramatic and so didn't get the meta-reference, but I’m a big fan of Jang Beom-June and know the song well. I also love his contributions to the OSTs of three shows I *have* seen: Signal, Hospital Playlist 2, and Search: WWW.

I honestly enjoyed this drama. I was laughing every episode. The ending did leave me a little confused as to how that would benefit the main couple but perhaps there was an issue with the translation? This is one that I would recommend to any Beanie who hasn't watched it.

It was funny, light, and just silly. Don't expect anything intellectual or deep.

I finished it in two sittings although it dragged toward the end. The first K-drama I finished in a long time. Disclaimer: I think my taste in drama is just strange lately. (The previous one I finished was Mask Girl).

What a quirky little fun show this turned out to be! I enjoyed this in bits, like nuggets, and laughed hard at the silliness and writing.
Inspite of the silliness, there were times when it hits deep. By the time I reached Ep 9, it all tied up neatly in its own absurd way.
I enjoyed the leads, the side characters etc especially the professional slacker Kim!!

Ryu Seung-ryong and Ahn Jae-hong were awesome, though I loved AJH a bit more because he owned those yellow pants like a champ.

while i made a joke prior to this airing about needing chicken karaage while watching -- i actually got nauseous when the nugget flew and got mixed with other nuggets and a toddler/kid bit one...

had to drop it. couldn't stomach the possibility....