The thread is now open for spoilers and discussion.
The premise of the show seems to be the antithesis of “Business Proposal.”
From soompi:
“Crazy Love” is described in one sentence “as a battle between crazy people.” Noh Go Jin is worshipped by students as the best math instructor in the country, but to his employees at GOTOP, he’s just a crazy boss. He has just one standard in life: money. He says things like, “Even if it’s just by a penny, you have to become a more expensive instructor, that’s how you survive at GOTOP,” showing that he’s crazy for money.
His secretary, Lee Shin Ah, has been putting up with his prickly personality and unbearable behavior for years, but the final straw is her terminal illness diagnosis. After learning she doesn’t have much time left, she decides to get revenge on her boss. The vice-president of GOTOP, Oh Se Gi (Ha Jun), seems to be the only “normal” one of the three, but he also has an unspeakable secret. In the middle of this, Noh Go Jin is attacked in a hit-and-run and loses his memory. When he wakes up, Lee Shin Ah declares herself his fiancée.
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As the title implies, “Crazy Love” centers around the crazy romance between Noh Go Jin and Lee Shin Ah. Noh Go Jin was a terrible boss who would yell at his secretary, “I really hate parasites who nibble away at my money without even doing their job right. If you’re going to be like this, just quit!” When she’s diagnosed with cancer, Lee Shin Ah decides that the reason for her illness was all the stress she had accumulated from Noh Go Jin and resolves to get revenge. How this boss-secretary relationship and a promise of revenge turns into love is one of the key points of the drama.
source: soompi
Note the amnesia and revenge tropes.
I’m not wild about the actor, Kim Jae Wook (“Her Private Life”) but he might grow on me.
Their wedding cake poster reminded me of an art work I saw at the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Here’s the poster for the drama.
Here’s the wedding cake from the Mint Museum. It’s entitled, “Until Death Do Us Part.” The artist is Silvia Levenson.
source: mintmuseum.org
lol.
Let’s enjoy the show.
Can someone explain to me how to watch this in the USA? I subscribe to Disney + but apparently it’s not available except in Asian countries. Is there a way besides purchasing a VPN?
Hi @birdie007. I can’t see it on my Disney+ as well. Maybe try to watch it on dramacool or kissasian.
Thanks @pkml3. I may give this a go, time permitting. I don’t really mind the ML, it’s the FL I usually have a problem with. As usual, I’ll give them a chance… assuming I get around to watching this. Who knows, they may be fun to watch. 😉
@birdie007,
Dramacool.
Kiss Asian (one word)
Those are the two sites I use when I’ve to screenshot. Netflix, Viki, Apple TV, and Disney+ don’t allow me to take pix.
😂 Isn’t the female lead a kpop star from Girls’ Generation or something? I always confuse her with her group mate, the actress in “Bossam.”
One of them supposedly has the standoffish image so I want to see her do dark comedy.
@pkml3, I find Krystal standoffish. I’ve only watched the Bossam actress, Kwon Yuri in Go Ho’s Starry Night. She was approachable and adequate there, not standoffish. So I’m guessing you must mean Krystal. Well, maybe being a soon-to-be-dead FL with revenge on her mind will make her more approachable too! LOL.
Krystal is with girl group f(x), her sister Jessica is the one from Girls Generation, but she left the group a while back.
After some hesitation, I watched Episode 1. I did say I’d give it a try. It’s another show based on or off a manga/manhwa I believe. So some scenes struck the OTT manwha chord.
ML is unlikable, therefore I find it hard to be invested in his story… except for 1 bit of softness in him towards his brother. That was a rare redeeming quality.
FL is better here than when I saw her in “The Bride of Habaek”. While we might understand her frustrations, I cannot yet understand what drove her to want to commit murder… that’s a bit extreme a reaction. And why that particular weapon of choice?
I seem to be getting an overload of brain tumours… there was Doom at Your Service, The One and Only and now this one. And yet although among brain cancers it’s pretty common, it is considered uncommon generally among types of cancers generally.
I’m not sure if I’ll continue or how far I’ll go in watching this show. I find that 25/21, A Business Proposal and The Grid, are more than enough to keep me busy!! Only a premise that totally wows me or a mystery that intrigues the heck out of me, can get me to unhesitatingly commit to a series now.
Same here, @GB!
I’m trying hard to like this show but I’ll most likely drop this, too.
I don’t get why this actor has to pick these mean guy stereotypes. Guys who have an anger management issue. This actor did this too in “Her Private Life.” I remember the turning point for me. It was when he grabbed the heroine by her lanyard so hard that the lanyard broke. I walked away in disgust shortly after that. Not cool. Not tolerable.
Wrist-grabbing is already an annoying trope for me, and then we escalate it to lanyard-grabbing? Little details like that tell me that the writer is an idiot. He/she cannot tell what’s an acceptable masculinity in romcoms.
The mean guy/mean boss/misogynist is a passe. It’s soooo twenty years ago. And I wish this actor had the good sense to realize that and stop accepting roles like that.
The one show that I watched Kim Jae Wook taking on a different kind of role was The Guest. He played the part of the priest-exorcist and was quite convincing. That was the only show where the actions of the actor playing a priest were close to what I believe they do in exorcism. At least that show’s writer probably did more research on R.C. prayer rituals/practices.
I’m wary of shows that portray verbal, emotional or psychological or physical abuse as a romantic male trait. It contributes to socialising kids into thinking it’s acceptable in a relationship. I far prefer the awkward, cold, rigidity of Tae Moo in Business Proposal to Noh Go Jin’s unwarranted harshness in this show.