Pitching the question “are you lonely enough to love” – MBC every1’s new series aims at the single adult population. People who are deemed able to sustain a solitary life, because romance is not necessarily their priority.
Ji Hyun Woo and Kim So Eun star in this swift-moving love-themed series about people who co-exist in a “share house”. Lonely Enough To Love captures the current trend among single people in their 20’s and 30’s.
In the backdrop of living under the same roof, expect a bright romance story this summer. Penning the script is is Jo Jin Guk of Fated To Love You and Soul Mate fame. Director Lee Hyun Joo will call the shots of the production.
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Lonely Enough To Love Opening Week’s Story
Dreaming of publishing her own book, Lee Na Eun (Kim So Eun) works as a freelance proofreader. Although still needing a big break to launch her novelist dream, she gets by with what she has. Diligently working to have her work be published, she faces a let down with a publishing house she has been working with.
Adding to her problems, a crack in the place she stays forces her to move out temporarily. Enter her long-time friend Kang Hyun Jin (Park Geon Il), who was left no choice but let her her crash in his place. Hyun Jin lives at Happy Together, a place where he shares the house with fellow single people. Time is on Na Eun’s side because Hyun Jin is set to have a long vacation with his girlfriend.
Things take a cute spin when Na Eun bumps with Cha Kang Woo, a psychiatrist by profession. Prior to them meeting At Happy Together, they had a memorable encounter when Na Eun thought Kang Woo was terrorizing a woman she thought to be his girlfriend. Na Eun was unaware that Kang Woo at that time was having a psychotherapy with his patient.
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For Na Eun’s short stay, Dong Seok, the owner of Happy Together still insists on throwing a party, albeit none of the other occupants appear, but Kang Woo. Intoxicated by makgeolli, Na Eun pours out her sentiments of her bleak writing career.
Patiently listening to her outburst, Kang Woo drapes a blanket on her when she fell asleep. He accidentally eavesdropped on her conversation with a publishing company where she demands pointers she can take to better her writing. So, he had a picture of her grievances.
Waking up in the morning, Na Eun ponders on the event the night before. She slips while climbing the stairs and falls on Kang Woo’s arms just as Dong Seok emerges from his room witnessing the awkward situation.
Opening Peak Points & Musings
Signing up for Lonely Enough To Love was made easy because of writer Jo Jin Kuk. His work in Soul Mate I greatly enjoyed and he did a great job in the Korean adaptation of Fated To Love You. So far, the mood is breezy and the weaving of scenes does not appear abrupt for its less than an hour showing.
It is a kind of series that would make a viewer feel compelled to check on the story each week. The premise of delving to the world of single people living together in a shared house definitely piques interest. Hinting a love triangle spices up the intrigue. That is especially since the vibrant heroine is up to be entangled with a new man and an old friend.
Lonely Enough To Love brightly paints a rom-com story that is not bland and has room to amuse more based on its initial outing.
Catch it on MBC every Tuesday at 10:50 PM KST.
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