Thank you for the Be Your Own Prince Charming recap.

Thank you dramagods for blessing us with this pitch perfect drama which all the fairytale we ever need in our lives.

I love the OTP so much that I'll even magnanimously forgive the secondary leads who I thoroughly disliked even while sympathizing with them. 😅

And uri Cinderella and her Prince Cha-min lived happily ever after.

The END!!

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I might be in the minority, but I was really disappointed with these last 2 episodes. It felt like we spent half a season going in circles with 50 variations of "I like him, but he doesn't like me, or maybe I don't like him, but he does like me", and when the penultimate episode did this once again, I was just tired of it. And it didn't help that the comedy was sorely lacking too. The writing just felt lazy here, as if they were out of ideas and just wanted it to be over with. I really do like the message, but it honestly felt like that was the only idea they had left.

The highlight this week for me was pretty much everything to do with Jae-rim's family. Love the development there.

I really did enjoy this show overall, sadly I don't think we went out with a bang.

This was a cute little show, did a fun use of tropes and the little cartoonish flights of fantasy from both leads' povs were really creative and genuienly laugh out loud funny. Loved the heightened over the top comedy bits, somehow they managed to be fun without being awkward.

I wasn't really sure i'd like it, but her catching him on the staircase in a reversal of the usual gendered kdrama cliche really set the tone and the rest carried it out well. The funny/sweet chemistry between the two leads was great. The family complication and eventual understanding with Jae Rim and her stepmom and stepsisters was so nice too, I loved that there was no evil stepfamily and they loved her. The earnest in love bits for Cha Min and Jae Rim were very (ahem) charming too.

I do have one gripe, Dan Ah was meant to be funny evil, and she was at the start, but honestly she felt more genuinely abusive than anything by the end. It struck a sour note for me, probably because the story and acting had serious and depressed notes to it when she was acting out about Jae Rim at Cha Min and the phsyical consequences for him from that. Hong Do was mostly unlikable and pointless as a flimsy sl cliche, but Dan Ah's part with the tropey manipulation > misunderstanding > resolution arc could have been done a bit more lightheartedly imo, more like the kidnapping which had serious/emotional bits but was overall comic.

That said, I did enjoy it a lot as a fun little show that did not stretch itself out for no reason, I'd like more dramas like this.

I loved loved this drama, minus the nonsense in episode 9. Our OTP was just pitch perfect and this was a true Rom-com and that is all we have been asking for. It was signed, sealed, delivered, and all I have is absolute joy for this drama. Thank you. Jun and PYJ more than made up for those other terrible dramas.

I'm so glad we finally got to being your own prince charming. The last episode was great. I just wish we could have gotten there sooner, and so could have had a plot of the leads overcoming hardships with this new knowledge, rather than constant rounds of miscommunication. I like the idea that the prince needed to be momentarily penniless, but the way we got there was through a ridiculous situations with the use of one of the worst 2FL. Regardless, the OTP was so cute and fun and sexy. This year seems to be the year of many really cute rom-com couples!
I would also like to thank blinkpink on dailymotion for getting me around the availability problem with only slightly annoying ads.

This has been one of my favorite dramas of the year. I too will miss it and yet I am also glad that the story was not strung out with fillers. It really was the perfect length for the story it told.

Dramatically has so perfectly summed up this story that there is nothing for me to add other than thanks for re-capping this tale so well.

I will simply conclude with a fond farewell to this fairy tale that was told so well and express my wish that the writers in Kdramaland will take note and learn lessons from the story.

I am really going to miss this drama. I came in with no expectations and end up loving every minute of it!

I just wish we could have seen more of them as a couple.

What an easy fun ride till the end. The leads were terrific and it was nice to see Jun in a happy charming role!!
I loved the humor in the early episodes, and hope they had kept it longer. Ep 9 was a drag. Ep 10 kisses made up for it.

I didn't get the ending.
The unnecessary angst in episode 9 was so painful to watch. And I don't even know what was episode 10 about. No, let me correct myself, I don't know what was this show about.

All that happened to Jae Rim was that some random rich guy got obsessed with her for no real reason, and he decided to hire her for a project (that we never saw), and thanks to that another guy randomly saw her work and decided to hire her.

Oh, she also got a boyfriend to tell her to be confident in herself, and that made her try to "follow her joy."
Because what really was draining her wasn't the madness of capitalism but just lack of confidence/self-love?

When she ran way from the tiny apartment she's sharing with her family, she ended sleeping practically on the street because her old home is completely destroyed, but yeah, the real issue was that she didn't have the confidence to follow her dreams. Dreams she didn't even seem that passionate about.

Whoever wrote this most think that being economically unstable is hilarious.

Anyway, I would've liked this better if she actually had become Cinderella. That would've made more sense since they fixed her life using luck instead of effort. She got lucky with her chaebol boyfriend, why are you pretending this is Yu Mi's Cells or something?

And Chan... I disliked him these episodes. He treated her like trash and didn't apologized. Tbh, his entire arc was a mess. He had looks, money and humor but apparently the humor was what I liked about him because without his umbrella I couldn't stand him. I have no idea what Jae Rim saw in him.
And that makes it harder for me to believe the no-Cinderella ending.

This is not a drama I watched for either depth or logic. As a critic I can take it apart because it's not a masterpiece of drama making. And there lies its brilliance.

I loved it. I loved its silliness, its frivolity, and its earnestness in telling a good story well.

They set out to make a drama out of tropes, and they checked each and every box, and landed spectacularly. A poor girl - rich man? Check. Poor girl can't find a job? Check. ML good at everything? Check. Poor girl has two rich guys chasing her? Check. Poor girl has a brilliant hidden talent? Check. She magically has a career in the end? Check.

I didn't mind anything - not the separation, not the outlandish second FL (ok scratch that - she was terrible, as was the wooden SML), not the cliched getting together of the parents with their happily ever after restored. We all knew she would accept him if he was dirt poor and she did. This drama was in your face, and not wrapped in anything but what it promised - pure, unadulterated romance in its corniest form.

However, what elevated this drama for me was that for once, this was a normal couple doing normal things - and having sex without being apologetic about it. It even touched something which I had never seen before - a reference to BL and the easy handling of it as a topic without making it a butt of jokes for once.

The best of all - I love how this drama went from being a freaking fairytale to being your own Prince Charming of your own life. Nothing truly beats that.

This squarely rises to the top of my 'love it' dramas.

This was a short and sweet ride. The show understood its format (10 short episodes as a fairy tale) and delivered its twist with flair and heart. The use of the narrator, the quick depictions (like the fingernail trauma which seemed trivial at first but was later linked to something greater), and the seemingly cartoon like scenes all were efficiently and entertainingly used to create a story with greater depth than one would expect. It turned many tropes on its head--from the main message of be your own Prince Charming to the step family actually loving you if you let them--and did it with a lightness and whimsy that made it fun. Finally, Lee Jun Young and Pro Ye Jin gave such great performances that captured both the quirkiness and depth of their characters, and they seemed like they were having fun, which as a meta narrative seemed like a liberation for both from each of their previous dreary dramas (Impossible Heir and Moon in the Day) and was a message in itself to see them free to give entertaining performances. What a lovely little show.

I will miss this lovely drama. I will miss Jun and Pyo Ye Jin flirting and being adorable as their characters.
I love the message that you are your own Prince Charming. I love how they resolved the story of our two leads that came from different backgrounds but made it work.
I do not know why this show has such a low rating when its just so darn perfect fairytale for the modern times. It deserves so much more.
I love Jae Rim's stepmom and sisters. I do hope they get to live their own happily ever after.

This drama had only 10 episodes but I already was tired by their "Je t'aime... moi non plus" game.

It wasn't just be the hero of your life kind of message, the FL played the victim of her family during the whole show without really trying...

If they wanted the message to be more convincing they shouldn't have to make the love story with the rich guy who was poor during one night...

I forgot that Korean dramas used to be like this - rich male lead, poor female lead, and they fall in love. It's such an old trope but a classic one that never ever fails. It reminds me of the dramas I used to love but would be too simple in today's eyes. Korean dramas are no longer like this, they have complex plots and characters, deep, dark and explore social issues. But sometimes, I just want to have some fun. This drama brought all the fun that I wanted. This is like having lobster bisque and clam chowder meals after meals and is served with a simple chicken soup. This is the chicken soup. Simple but good. Satisfy all cravings. Most importantly, it's easy to watch and brings lots of joy. I love such tropes, please make more of these, Korean drama!

I have been watching the beginnings of another drama which is OK but I just want to go back and watch this all over again.
Thank you for making my heart chuckle through the recap.