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Malaria Monsters: Me Too, Flower: Musings on Genre--The OTP Drama

Over at Dramafever Me Too, Flower is described as proving “the power of love to defeat cynicism and boredom,” and having finished watching the show I’m inclined to agree. Me Too Flower is, at it’s core, a show about Bong Sun and Jae Hee: she’s the cynic and he’s the bored one. They…

I got through 5 or so episodes of Me Too, Flower and couldn’t take it. Cliche, rote, go-nowhere plot, bringing the two together only to break them up, again and again. Gave it two stars, deleted it from my queue.

Then I read Malaria Monster’s thoughts on an OTP drama and decided to give it a second chance.

That second chance became a weekend marathon. It’s the fucking characterization. It’s the goddamn romantic, horrible, amazingly emotional moments between them.

I cried all the tears, forever, over these fucking two made-up characters.

I gave it five stars.

And I haven’t been able to watch another kdrama episode since, because of the memory of Bong Sun and Jae Hee.

TL;DR: everything Malaria Monsters said.

Source: malariamonsters