The present is hinting it’s going to go in that course.
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SBS‘s new Ok-Drama, Love Scout (also referred to as My Excellent Secretary), premiered just lately and is rapidly changing into a success worldwide resulting from its recent tackle drained clichés.
A profitable and assured girl (Han Ji-Min) is the CEO of a head-hunting firm. To outlive within the fiercely aggressive headhunting subject, she places all the things she has into her work. Exterior of her job, she doesn’t know easy methods to do something. She has a secretary (Lee Joon-Hyuk) who takes care of just about all the things for her. Not like his boss, the secretary is pleasant, well-mannered, and thoughtful of different folks. He’s a single father, who can be good at parenting and home tasks.
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With its first three episodes, viewers praised the present for gender swapping a trope that has turn into cliché. Relatively than a person portraying the coldhearted and boastful CEO, Kang Ji Yun, with a tragic backstory, it’s truly actress Han Ji Min (Our Blues and Behind Your Contact). On this story, actor Lee Joon Hyuk (Our Beloved Summer season and Vigilante) portrays her pleasant secretary, Yu Eun Ho, whom she finally falls for regardless of initially hating him.
#lovescout first ep was actually a breath of recent air, be it the gender reversed roles or the distinctive occupation of head-hunting i completely loved it! lonely boastful girl-boss CEO & calm collected single lady dad off to a rocky begin….INJECT IT pic.twitter.com/ZBp1kG9PEo
— 𓍯 (@damibeen) January 4, 2025
feminine ceo with a painful previous and a sunshine male single dad secretary who will heal her wounds? They actually did a reverse of this cliche trope and I’m right here for it #lovescout pic.twitter.com/R0FHNkUJSo
— 𝑑. (@lunamoon104) January 7, 2025
everytime i might watch a present with a “lonely workholic male ceo with no color in his life, no meals in his fridge till he meets a feminine lead who brings color in his life” plot, i all the time wished to see a present the place the roles are reversed and #LoveScout is simply THAT present for me !! https://t.co/Vxm2PQOo3W
— yeobeen followers mumbai (@hiraikyung) January 5, 2025
Whereas Episode 3 ended on a excessive word for viewers, because it supplied one other twist on a typical Ok-Drama trope, Episode 4 disenchanted some.
different kdrama {couples} VS #LoveScout couple pic.twitter.com/oEL7meO4BS
— daisy han (@kdramadaisy) January 10, 2025
the pinkfong umbrella !! 🤣😂 #LoveScout pic.twitter.com/nlhrI28jad
— daisy han (@kdramadaisy) January 10, 2025
THE ICONIC PINKFONG UMBRELLA!!! 🩷#LoveScout #LoveScoutEp3 pic.twitter.com/Rltic1jmMf
— daisy han (@kdramadaisy) January 10, 2025
Whereas Love Scout has been recommended for its recent takes on overused tropes so far, a latest episode involved some.
In Episode 4, it was revealed that as a toddler, Eun Ho was in what was seemingly the identical fireplace that killed CEO Kang’s father. Eun Ho briefly had flashbacks as fireplace vehicles triggered him.
I’ve feeling that jiyoon’s dad went to avoid wasting eunho through the fireplace however he did not survived😭, oh no the plot twist😱#LoveScout #LoveScoutEp4 pic.twitter.com/C28jqzZka9
— mir (@moonskzk) January 11, 2025
Viewers have been shocked by the transient reveal. But, many have been disenchanted, because it indicated that the leads had been related since childhood.
wait Kang Ji Yun’s father died in a hearth as a result of he got here again to avoid wasting somebody and now we came upon that Yoo Eun Ho has a childhood trauma associated to the fireplace🧐… will or not it’s what I believe will probably be🤔#LoveScoutEp4 pic.twitter.com/L2Yj2tmg3V
— *🌙☀️ * (@winterboyksj) January 12, 2025
simply learn a concept saying that what if eunho’s childhood fireplace incident trauma is related to jieun’s dad accident and that this is sort of a “fated, meant tobe” trope the place they heal one another from the trauma they’re unknowingly related to #LoveScoutEp4
pic.twitter.com/1ut1ZvOwBB— t (@gyjbws) January 11, 2025
One other fundamental Ok-Drama trope is the leads discovering they met or knew one another as children and have lengthy been related. Viewers are uninterested in this, so if Love Scout goes this route, many can be disenchanted.
nonetheless desirous about this…. like why would you add this previous connection trope in between to this completely effective center aged cute workplace romance factor that they’ve happening like is it essential to have some childhood connection or one thing https://t.co/WzX3LfLj1P
— t (@gyjbws) January 12, 2025
oh no they’re utilizing this trope. looks like when Jiyun’s dad went again into the constructing to avoid wasting somebody, and that somebody is Yu Eunho? Eunho survived however Jiyun’s dad trapped inside and handed away 🥲🥲
oh I am unable to think about the angst when each of them came upon#LoveScout… pic.twitter.com/rhXVuE2bPN
— daisy han (@kdramadaisy) January 12, 2025
kdrama writers really want to normalize two folks falling in love with out some pressured previous connection😭 like some strangers simply meet and fall in love, no must make it look like they have been ‘meant to be’ https://t.co/QPiMFlEP1c
— gee (@geeforfreedom) January 12, 2025
Regardless of this, many viewers are nonetheless having fun with the present, particularly with Episode 4’s cliffhanger ending. Learn extra beneath.
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