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Imagine this drama is a chocolate bar. You break off a piece at one end and discover that it is milk chocolate – easy, approachable, sweet, fun. As you eat your way through the bar, sometimes you notice that some pieces are a little darker, slightly more cacao, but still plenty of milk chocolate in there, no big deal, nice variation even! And then when you put the last piece in your mouth, you suddenly realize it’s like 97% cacao. It’s not bad, but it is pretty shocking, and nothing in the rest of the chocolate-eating experience really prepared you for this last bite. As you let it sit in your mouth, you realize that you still sort of like this piece, but it seems like part of a totally different chocolate bar, and you wish it had been more consistent with the rest of the one you were eating. This was my drama watching experience with this show, in the least spoilery way I can think to say it.
There were so many fantastic things about this drama – a slow burn romance, some campy vampire action, Taecyeon being an absolute goofball (but also incredibly sweet and thoughtful and kind), a FL who can hold her own against the force of our ML’s gigantic personality. There’s a SML who I could never quite decide how I felt about (in a mostly good way), and a SFL who is absolutely terrible (in a fun way). Our leads have realistic conflicts with each other, but none ever last long before they communicate, apologize, and figure things out. It was a beautiful relationship to watch, and there were so many adorable moments between them!
It certainly wasn’t perfect, and there were times when I thought that it would have been easy to handle the story better. Cat Man was a bit of a crutch that the story leans on occasionally whenever it needs the other characters (or the audience) to have mysterious information that they never could have had otherwise, and he changes the rules of the game late in the drama in a way that felt sloppy to me. Because of this rule-shifting, I wasn’t really prepared for the new world-info to hold up until the end, but – fair warning – it does. I don’t know if I should applaud them for finally having internal consistency, or fault them for only bending the rules when they wanted to and not when I wanted them to.
In the end, I still can’t say whether I recommend this drama or not. It was such a fun ride, but the ending was so inconsistent with the tone of the rest of the show that the whole thing feels a bit strange. Proceed with caution.
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