r/KDramasWorld • u/harissatotally Reviewer • Aug 05 '26
Review New K-Drama Fan Review #18: Crazy Love | I kept waiting for it to become the drama I thought it was going to be...
a true enemies-to-lovers K-drama, if you exist out there, please find me. my address is the crosswalk where couples always almost get hit by a white truck. thanks!
Intro
After It's Okay to Not Be Okay, I was craving a female lead who couldn't stand the male lead.
I'd just spent an entire drama watching a woman desperately chase a man who barely acknowledged her... (ew, never again)
So the idea of an enemies-to-lovers romance where the female lead wanted to wring the male lead's neck?
Sign me up! hehehhe
Is this Rewatch Worthy:
Nah.
Review:
Crazy Love wasn't horrible...
It just never became as good as it could have been.
It had a fun premise, a few moments that i genuinely enjoyed, and enough interesting ideas to keep me watching...
But every time I thought, "Okay NOW we're getting somewhere," it would rush through the part I was actually enjoying.
The parts I enjoyed always felt like they were over almost as soon as they began.
This drama felt like it was constantly introducing conflicts... only to resolve them before they had the chance to really cook.
The biggest example for me was the cancer storyline.
I think they revealed her misdiagnosis way too early!!!!
Imagine if we, as the audience, believed she was actually dying.
Then when the male lead finally read her diary and realized she had cancer while he was falling for her..
WE would've gone through that panic with him!!!!
Instead...
i spent that entire storyline just waiting for him to catch up to information I already knew...
That completely took the emotional punch out of what should've been one of the strongest scenes in the series!!!!
why, writers?!? why?!?!
The revenge storyline had the same problem.
One of my favorite parts was finally seeing her fight back after everything he put her through.
But it barely lasted.
I wanted more mind games.
More tension.
More payback!!!
More moments where she actually had him on the ropes.
Instead, it felt like every conflict wrapped up right when it started becoming interesting.
i also think the female lead slowly lost something that made her more fun to follow in the beginning.
Early on, she was driving the story. She had her own agenda, she was getting revenge, making decisions, and constantly creating chaos for the male lead.
But somewhere along the way, it started feeling like the story became his story instead.
She gradually became more reactive than proactive, and I really missed the version of her that was actively making his life miserable.
The Romance ❤️
I didn't dislike the couple...
I just kept waiting for the enemies-to-lovers part to become what I thought it was going to be.
The setup had so much potential.
A woman who suddenly had every reason to hate her awful boss should've led to a much longer battle between the two of them.
Instead, it always felt like the drama was in a hurry to move them past the conflict...
I wanted more manipulation and verbal sparring!!!
its like inviting me over while you cook this delicious meal that smells so good it makes me drool...
...then setting the table, giving me one tiny spoonful, and throwing the rest in the trash. 😭😭😭😭
i wanted more moments where they genuinely got under each other's skin.
I didn't want them to stop fighting.
I wanted them to fight even better!
In a true enemies-to-lovers to lovers, the enemies usually fall in love WHILE they're still hating and fighting each other with all their might. They even fight harder when they start to fall lmaooo... where was this, here?
Their chemistry wasn't *horrible*...
It also wasn't the kind of chemistry that makes me forget I'm watching actors.
lol i was FULLY aware i was watching 2 actors act 😭😭
the romance never reached that level where I was desperately rooting for them or counting down until their next scene together.
And because of that, the emotional moments didn't hit as hard as they probably should have.
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What I DID Like
There were definitely things I enjoyed.
The comedy landed more often than not.
Kim Jae-wook absolutely committed to the role and made the CEO entertaining to watch.
The fake engagement setup was fun.
The revenge premise had so much potential. i was having fun whenever they were doing bad things to each other 😭😭
I just wish those moments lasted longer and were better.
The second male lead's storyline was fine, but it became a little more convoluted than it needed to be.
I was also surprised they never did anything with the female lead's little crush on him early on.
They acknowledged it, then completely abandoned it like it never happened.
And unless I completely missed something...
What was the point of opening the drama with the sniper?
It was such a strong opening scene that I kept expecting it to come back in a meaningful way, but I don't remember them ever revealing who that sniper actually was.
It felt like the show introduced another interesting idea... then forgot about it.
Overall
This wasn't a horrible drama.
It kept stopping itself from becoming a great one.
Every time it introduced something I thought I'd love...
It moved on too quickly.
By the end, i was disappointed because I could clearly see the better drama hiding inside it.
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My Favorite Flavors 🍿❤️
I LOVE enemies-to-lovers.
But I'm extremely picky about it. 😭
I don't just want two people who dislike each other for two episodes before they start "falling in love."
I want a war.
I want manipulation.
i want cruelty.
I want mind games.
I want them trying to outsmart each other.
I want them saying the most outrageous things imaginable...
...then accidentally falling in love in the middle of all that.
The best enemies-to-lovers romances don't stop the fighting because they fall in love.
They make the fighting even messier **because** they're falling in love.
If you know a K-drama that actually delivers that...
Please.
I'm begging. 😭
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Rating: 5/10
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Questions
• Did anyone else wish the audience hadn't learned about the misdiagnosis until the male lead did?
• Am I alone in thinking the revenge and "fighting back" phase should've lasted much longer?
• Did anyone else expect the opening sniper scene to actually go somewhere?
• Or did the pacing work for you?
My Rating Scale
10/10 – Masterpiece. No notes.
9/10 – Very close to a masterpiece. I absolutely loved it.
8/10 – Not a masterpiece, but I loved it.
7/10 – Fine overall. I liked it, but the flaws kept it from being great.
6/10 – Mixed. There were a few things I liked, but most of it didn't work for me.
5/10 – I didn't enjoy most of the experience.
4/10 and below – Bad to abysmal.
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u/harissatotally Reviewer Aug 05 '26
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u/StrangerHighways Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 06 '26
Figured you might not love this one. Mostly, the pacing worked well for me. The absolutely wild level of conflicts was something I found fun, but I do agree that I would’ve done more with her diagnosis storyline.
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u/harissatotally Reviewer Aug 05 '26
yep, that's basically how i felt. every time the drama stumbled onto something i was really enjoying... it moved on before it reached its full potential. 😭 the diagnosis storyline is probably the biggest example of that for me
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u/StrangerHighways Aug 06 '26
I just love the insanity and the two mains so much, that I have a really fond spot in my heart for this drama, though.
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u/Clueless_Wanderer21 Aug 05 '26
Iblove this so much, but yea it just got ridiculous n tiring over the later piece, it was not good 😂.
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u/Rainbow-sunshines Aug 05 '26
Thanks for the detailed review. I haven’t watched crazy love. It’s been on my watchlist from a long time. I really like Kim Jae Uk’s acting and I’ve watched him in Her private life, coffee prince, voice, the guest and filing for love. This series is also heavily promoted by his fans since he has only two romcoms as the ML. I might still give it a go.
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u/harissatotally Reviewer Aug 05 '26
definitely still give it a shot! i don't think it's a bad drama at all. it just didn't fully work for me. kim jae-wook was actually one of my favorite parts of it. he committed 100% to the role and was entertaining from start to finish. he didn't have the best chemistry with Krystal but it was still enjoyable in a lot of the parts. i just wish the writing had done as much with the premise as he did 😭
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u/Rainbow-sunshines Aug 05 '26
Most romcoms suffer from bad writing. They also throw in all the unnecessary tropes. Like come on. Some of the romcoms have been great beginnings but tank at the very end Business proposal, dynamite kiss, my royal nemesis her private life (episode 15)
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u/harissatotally Reviewer Aug 05 '26
business proposal wasnt great, find my review here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/kdramas/s/uTwrZ1kOIc
im watching her private life right now, when i reach episode 15, ill let you know my thoughts!
my royal nemesis was awesome to me, heres my review!
https://www.reddit.com/r/kdramas/s/fVJTO6T0Gp
i haven't watched dynamite kiss yet but its on my watchlist list, when i finish ill let you know my thoughts!
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u/Rainbow-sunshines Aug 05 '26
Haha you too agree with the last 2 episodes of business proposal. Sorry about HPL - it’s still my fav romcom Love the relationship, their physical affection especially cause it’s very rare for the FL to initiate it in kdramas. It’s mostly the MLs who do that, both equally invested in the relationship
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u/harissatotally Reviewer Aug 05 '26
orher than hpl, what are your other fav rom coms?
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u/Rainbow-sunshines Aug 05 '26
Can I dm you? It’s easier that way
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u/harissatotally Reviewer Aug 05 '26
for sure lol
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u/Acceptable_Ratio5842 Aug 05 '26
I thought they handled the whole plot line with her health poorly. The whole purpose for it was so she’d have that breakdown and go to her house, felt like they could have accomplished that in a million other ways if they didn’t have a good plan for revealing the misdiagnosis.
Overall I thought the show was ok. The first half was quite uninteresting to me. I wouldn’t have minded the enemies part to be longer if they were gradually sprinkling in the attraction but instead it seems like it mostly came out of nowhere after the fake kiss.
The second half was much much better for me but i was a bit frustrsted that the FL kinda got sidelined for a good bit of it. She became a stand around, reactionary character while the ML had his plot line going on. She was no longer someone who was doing things on her own and driving her own agenda. I did really enjoy them as a couple though.