299. Radio Romance 라디오 로맨스 (2018) Korean

Yoon Doo Joon, Kim So Hyun, Yoon Park, Yura

Drama Rating: 3/10     Neck Score: A

Also known as Ladio Lowmance, aka Too Many Bitcas, aka She's Too Young/a minor. Honestly, I started this one against my better judgement. The age gap was squicky and the plot seemed cliche. However, Curdy had just finished watching Splash Splash Love, so she was on a Doo Joon high, and Lizabreff loves Yoon Park, so they were planning on it. I joined in because of fomo. By the end, I was forcing them to finish it, because I am a finisher, while they aren't necessarily. It was torture. We literally could only watch one at a time, and only if we had something else to watch to bring our spirits up, because it was so badly written. It was all over the place. It was super draggy too. The plot didn't actually start moving along until it was almost over. It was just the same nasty bitca fighting, hurting our main girl, and the two male leads having constant weenie wars EVERY SINGLE EPISODE. Seriously, dudes, put them away. No one cares about either of your feelings, just let the girl do what she wants!

Thanks for making this, Lizabreff, haha.

It was also crazy how some of the best characters at the beginning became some of the worst by the end, and some of the most blah became the best. That shows you how flip floppy the show was. That Hyung Manager was so annoying at first, as he just henchman-ed for the evil mom, and Jason was the apple of our eyes. Then, all the sudden, Jason starts sending hate mail and acting like an evil wierdo (like worse psychiatrist ever) and Hyung becomes an adorable namja. Who kisses like an adult (something this show was seriously short on because, like I said, she's a minor). I thought that Jason was hilarious at first, and I loved how he acted like someone who studies psychology because they find people fascinating, but then he suddenly became just another mole for the mom, and then on top of that he was crazy obsessed with unearthing all the emotions and feelings that he was actually causing trauma. But of course they had to wait until literally the last week of episodes before they solved any of the actual plot. So we just had to deal with how crazy Jason suddenly was while never knowing who the heck Woo Ji Woo was or why Jason was obsessed with him, or even anything. It was just weenie wars and constant blither about radio before that. The mom pulling too many evil strings while the second female lead and the evil writing sunbae were just evil for no reason. Too many bitcas, for serious.

I really didn't find the main couple compelling because 1. she's a minor, and 2. he's a weird poo butt, and 3. bad writing, like seriously. It was a really weird development of feelings. He always liked her, but spent a huge time at the start denying that and acting like a poo butt. She was just all work, but then when he finally confessed she was like "huh?" and then it took a ridiculously short time for her to go from coworkers/bossy DJ vs writer to I pity him because he has a sad family life to I think I love him. Like too fast. It was just always awkward. But at least we never had any of the noble idiocy or pushing people away because they killed their best friend who also liked their first love, and by killed they meant that they were remotely connected to their accidental death but actually in no way were responsible in anyway, etc.

So, the fact that we started it for Doo Joon and Yoon Park was sad, because they were both not great characters. I would have loved to have a bromance between them sooner, but they prolonged the weenie wars too long, and though there was a beautiful airport scene between them at the end, it could have been so much better. That basically sums up the whole show. It could have been better. Then it would have been at least okay. But as it was, it was just jumbled up garbage of reused tropes and prolonged situations with little actual substance, since they shoved all the plot development into the last 4 or so episodes. <sarcasm>Yeah. It was sooooooo good </sarcasm>.