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User Reviews for: Dinner Mate

chillikun
CONTAINS SPOILERS8/10  4 years ago
> Would you like to have dinner with me ?

99 times its just an ordinary way to ask someone out but there is the other time it forever changes you !! Kim Hae-Kyung ; an extraordinary psychiatrist with abandonment issues meets Do-hee aka **Dan** who just got cheated by [spoiler] her CLOY love [spoiler] the reason being he couldn't stand eating with her anymore [/spoiler] Another Miss Oh reference [/spoiler]. That one question from Dr.Kim ; a stranger ; changes her life and when they unexpectedly meet in places they shouldn't be meeting making the coincidences a miracles.

Usually dramas that rely in fate and coincidences fizzle out once the two leads introduce themselves ; since our dinner mates decide to not reveal themself due to their own fears they meet regularly and start vlogging and slowly get adapted to each other so much that its natural to eat with eachother.

To make the drama spicy we have the exes-firstloves back in the picture . Jae-Hyeok ; no offence to the actor ; was a borderline psycho-path with neediness and obsessive disorder on Do-hee is back after 5 yrs and No-eul realizes what she has done and lacking --> unconditional love of a man that loved her for 8 yrs despite her cheating scandals. They both assume they are on the ring but the targets are absentee as they are in their own ship already.

We also have a second couple who take the troupes to the extreme and I had to unfortunately skip their scenes .

Throughout the drama you will realize the mental sickness and issues of each character and how we perceive certain actions ; in most kdramas ; as ordinary are borderline harmful.

In the end we are treated a nice yet not-so-fluffy romance with few frustrating moments but I still like this show over the highly acclaimed __It's Okay to Be Not Okay__ when it comes to mental health and healthy healing romance. If they have shrunk the show 12-14 epsiodes or added in few more emotional scenes or backstory on the second leads ( the exes ) it would have been a great hit.

But while its not perfect I still think this is one the shows we needed in 2020 with people unable to go dates and notice lot of mental health problems due to pandemic. I can't get enough of the CLOY references in the show and given that this placed right after CLOY and was really nice to see Seo Dan in positive and joyous vibe and with [spoiler] Koo Seung Joon although however brief it might have been . Re-Jung-Hyeok and Se-ri references are funny .[/spoiler]
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