As someone who is a sucker for love, I really enjoyed Love is for Suckers, probably one of the best romcoms available for streaming now.
Unlike many Korean series which like to portray Koreans as people who love to scream and hate to listen, this one doesn’t.
I think it’s good that directors have figured out unnecessary twists and turns because people don’t communicate is not the way to go.
Try sitting down and have a nice chat, which is what Gu Yeo-Reum(played by Lee Da-Hee) and Park Jae-Hoon(Choi Si-Won) do a lot, and I think that also helps to make them a lovable couple you want to root for.
And naturally, they appear to have chemistry – a must-have ingredient celebrity chef John Jang(Park Yeon-Woo) alludes to in the very first episode.
Credits must be given to the team for cleverly using a reality dating show as a device to weave in the plots and subplots.
But the good looking leads aside, this series would not have been enjoyable without the mastermind PD Kang Chae-Ri(Cho Soohyang).
I really want to know where they found her because it has been a long time since I see a possessed, evil, bloodless producer who has no time for the weaklings.
Her only belief – the ratings. She is so bad that she’s good. More than that, this series has the whole spectrum of the word love we will all cherish – bromance, sisterhood, parental, peer.
Even unrequited love, one of the most heartwrenching, becomes admirable because it keeps challenging us to answer a very simple question – “what are you prepared to give, even if your effort is not reciprocated?”