Temperature of Love Remains Lukewarm in Second Week Ratings Even in Weak Competition

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• This drama is receiving polarizing reviews it seem. Some praise it, while others dislike it. Can it be worse than Doctors though? That drama was critisized for being boring but had pretty high ratings I recall. But 10% now is also a feat since most dramas stay in the single digit ranking.

  Can't wait for 20th century boy and girl next week to shake things up. Personally really like Han Yeseul and Kim Jisuk.

  • Regarding polarizing review- i thk thjat also applies to Hospital ship. Some fans gae rave reviews. Amd some totally did not feel the chemistry at all.
    I thk Kim Ji Suk will knock it out of the park- i have consisently like his potrayal of his last few roles- even if its a mean role. Was so happy for him when he got casted in 20th century b & g

    • I like Kim Ji Suk.He just has this likeable charm/aura when he is on screen.I actually think he had more chemistry with Son Hye Jin in 'personal taste' than Lee Min Ho.More chemistry with Jung Yung Min than Lee Jin Wook in "I need romance 2".He even outshine LMH and LJW acting wise.Maybe because both(LMH and LJW) of them are quite bland in acting. I also liked him in Chuno.He was such a fresh breath of air in there, so whiny and funny.

  • Finally Kim Jisuk got a male lead role. I never thought he would tbh ?
    Doctors plot may have become pointless after certain number of episodes, but it was able to capture viewers interest early on, despite very little promotions. Most stayed for the romance between the teacher and the student to be quite honest. It was a romance/growth drama with hospital as its setting, nothing more or nothing less. Temperature of Love’s disadvantage was a green male lead (it would have raised more interest if both the male and female leads were higher profile actors) and that the timing is so bad. Almost all the dramas at the moment are suffering for ratings loss.

    • Quite agree. Doctors got a strong start and really got everyone hooked in the first few episodes with lots of plot twists. Here this show is bland from the beginning. I don't think the timing is bad; timing actually works to the show's advantage for there is very little competition and the audience is desperate for anything decent, hence its double digit rating despite a bland plot.

• Tbh, I find Seo Hyun Jin is so overrated. One good performance (though I hate the drama Another Oh Hae Young so very much) is what drama fans been bragging about her on and on. I checked Temperature of Love and honestly, there is nothing fresh about this drama either the writing nor the actors' performance. And I so don't understand why these days K-drama kept being headlined by actors with lack of calibre and charisma. We have Nam Joo Hyuk, Kang Min Hyuk and now Yang Se Jong. I am not saying they are so bad but they are not yet leading men status.

  • Have you watched any other drama of SHJ? She's been acting for years. Oh Hae Young only brought her to limelight but even that wasn't her best performance though you admitted she was good in it. Even if you don't like her performance in this show, based on your limited experience of her acting [I'm assuming you haven't watched King's Daughter Seo Baek Hyang, Three Musketeers, Goddess of Fire, Feast of Gods or Let's Eat 2, because if you did, you could not Not mention them], your declaration of her being 'Soo overrated', I find very hard to swallow.

    • I have watched King's Daughter Soo Baek Hyang and Three Musketeers and watched AOHY which I dropped halfway because it was annoying. I watched RDTK halfway too because I find it boring but the show is all about Han Suk Kyu. Tbf, I still will say that Seo Hyun Jin is mediocre. Her earlier performances are forgettable and that is why I will still reiterate that she is so overrated all because of AOHY. Nevertheless, whatever the performances of Temperature of Love is not to be blamed on her. Like some commentators here said, we have so many good actresses got sucked into lousy scripts and writings this year and the same goes with SHJ in TOL.

    • Still much more watchable than most k-leading actress nowadays tho...

  • And......we have the actresses fans' coming to her defence. Sigh!! I feel the same way you do. I don't know why but she's on my list of allergic actresses that are underwhelming and she tends of overact. I still don't get why everyone is raving about her performances in Let's Eat 2 and Another Oh Hae Young. At first I thought it was the character she portrayed in LE2 but when I watch AOHY, I realised I'm simply allergic to her, so couldn't finish the drama.

    As for male leads....it's either idols headlining them or experienced actors relegated to 2nd leads. Case in point, Kim Jae Wook. Even Min Myuk in Hospital Ship is not leading man material YET, at least, he shouldn't be paired with Ha Ji Won, and it's not the age thing.

    • @Alexa

      If her performance in those dramas didn't change your opinion then I guess I'd just have to accept and respect it as difference of views.

      @Juliesean

      If disagreeing with someone's comment automatically marks one as crazy-fan-coming-to-defence then I guess I indeed stupid to come and expect any sane conversation here.

  • Lols... Mte. I dropped ohy cuz her character was 'cheap' to me. No offense, my opinion tho. I think she's fantastic as an antagonist but as protagonist, she's indeed overrated.

    I dropped hospital ships since they developed love triangle, like.. Cant we focus on the 'hospital ship' story without adding any romance between the leads? Just like Code Blue from Japan? Sigh.

    Even so, Yang Sejong is so damn fine. He's so handsome, tall and his smile... Darn it... Hawt. But i watch a drama for a story. Gonna give it another try this week but if the story goes bad, i'll quit.

    Glad that i found some people qho have the same thought about OHY hehe

    • I can't stand OHY either
      She is in 3 Musketeers that i liked, LE2, and OHY but her acting style are the same

      I don't even bother continuing this drama after ep 1. Nothing sucked me in

    • At least OHY wasn’t that always bright and morally upright girl who only has lovable traits. I would have dropped OHYA right in the first few episodes weren’t it for SHJ. Because Eric and his irritating character were so underwhelming. I ended up dropping it because the main couple’s relationship shenanigans became too annoying. I ended up feeling more sorry for Jeon Hye Bin’s character and OHY’s ex fiancé’s character.

      I agree with you on Hospital Ship. Whose bright idea was it to cast Kang Min Hyuk as a male lead, and with Ha Ji Won at that? His acting is unfortunately subpar and he should have stayed in idol dramas with idol cast. And Yang Se Jong is so underwhelming. Even the female lead and her female friend have better chemistry than the main couple.

  • she is fine but she is overrated by her fans, I think AOHY also get the same rave and I feel like there is more wrong about the drama than the charm for general audience,

    just like SHJ, she is fine but not that godly as her fans describe her.

  • Seo Hyun Jin actually made OHYA tolerable. It had such a terrible plot and a flawed protagonists but she did a good job with OHY, she made her more human like. Her roles in Three Musketeers, Daughter Seo Baek Hyang and Lets Eat 2 are pretty unmemorable and generic. She is good at portraying morally ambiguous characters though. It’s just now, that her acting style is the same in Temperature of love, it’s nothing new. Not that many actors can change their innate acting style much, unless they are capable of complete, chameleon like transformation.
    That and the fact that many of her fans tend to hype her a lot more than necessary. She is Baeksang best drama actress winner but she hasn’t shown much growth since OHYA. She was quite frankly irritating in RDTK, but that drama was purely pulled off by Han Suk Kyu. It is true however that many dramas have sucked script-wise this year and that even the better actors are stuck with bland scripts and subpar co-satrs. Speaking of which, Yang Se Jong has barely any acting experience yet he is headlining a drama, same with Kang Min Hyuk who is just sad to watch and Nam Joo Hyuk whose acting comes straight from a shitty anus.

  • More like everyone can't stand the character and not the acting of Seo Hyun Jin in OHYA. I find her roles here is quite different compare to her OHYA days. What really make these character look the same both are seems a cheerful character on the outside. Her character here more like the same character Jeon Hye Bin's roles in Oh Hae Young. in Ohya, she played an ordinary a supposed unattrative woman who is fierce and loud. here she act as A pretty woman (and she is really really pretty here, here body language is different) who are unaware something around her, act like as an innocent woman but without knowing she act like a burdersome and can't stand in someone else eyes.

• I thk Kim Jae Wook would have been way better as the lead of the drama. Story wise i cant say as the premise didnt really make me wanna follow the drama. The rating isnt a dud; there are dramas who did worse. It just feels like kdramas continue to linger in the woeful zone (only a very few exceptions). At least for me.

• Overall the quality of K-dramas has gone down the drain... Very talented actors like Yoo Seung Ho and Yeo Jin Goo got sucky scripts (ie. Ruler, Reunited Worlds). Seo Hyun Jin is a good actress but her characters are so repetitive that it becomes very boring to watch... I don't know Yang Se Jong much but so far he is meh...

  • Its true for actresses as well. Kim So Hyun, Moon Chae Won and Ha Ji Won have all had terrible scripts this year. Its just a bad year for Kdrama over all.

  • Agree with you @candycane ! I couldn't finish their drama even with them ! I don't know if you are a long time drama viewer like me . If you are, don't you think that perhaps we are being too demanding . Just saying . I liked "Save Me" "Tunnel" " Forest secret" and until now Age of youth. Still waiting for a good rom com !

    • I have watched K-dramas for a few years... some older kdramas/actors are recommendations from my mom so I have some knowledge. Sometimes I learn from reading comments... I like "Save Me" too cause the story is different and I like thrillers, I just don't understand why some delulu fans ship SM with the second lead while it is clearly not a rom-com!

  • say yes to Yeo Jin Go, say no to Yo Seung Ho. I know in Rulers Yo Seung Ho is really tried hard.... but well still a big NO NO.

• I thought they had good chemistry!
  I'm surprised with the polarizing comments coz they seemed very well matched to me and i like the cinematography.

  • Yeah, I guess chemistry is in the eye (mind? heart? hormones?) of the beholder, because I feel their chemistry and am enjoying it. I sometimes don't feel much chemistry between other OTPs that are very popular (e.g. Kim Soo Hyun and Jeon Ji Hyun in You From Another Star), so I get that it's pretty subjective.

    And I agree that it hasn't been a great year for k-dramas, especially in terms of quality scripts.

  • Chemistry is subjective. I'm fine with this drama and actually think hitting 10% the second week out is pretty good especially since we are still in flash back mode. This is probably going to be a pretty solid middle of the road drama; not the best and not the worst. I can already see issues with both sets of parents (I want you to marry someone from a happy background) versus his psycho mom. This writer couldn't hold it together for Doctors with an unnecessary last four episodes and that's what concerns me the most.

    My surprise is that this is about as unpolarizing as a drama can be. If you buy into the couple, watch and if you don't, that's fine as well.

• Such a good chemistry they have! It's just the bias talking (for KJW) nothing else

• I love this drama, it's the only one that's holding my interest right now. I've dropped the rest right after the first episode. Seo hyun-jin is the only actress who's able to make me like her character in an instant. She is also the very reason why I wanted to watch this drama. I also think that the main couple's onscreen chemistry is quite adorable.

  About the ratings, I think it's rather unfair to single out this particular drama when even Hospital Ship,which is a medical drama,could not even barely reach 13%.

  Korean dramas, in general, is in a ratings slump. Unless there is an alien or a mythical magic sword involved, or even a walkie talkie that can let you talk with someone from the past, dramas these days are just not getting the love from Korean audiences. Even Park Do Kyung in AOH could see the future. It did wonderfully, ratings wise.

  Can't wait to see the ratings for Suzy and LJS drama. I'm pretty sure it would have no problem getting the audience since her character is supposed to have dreams about the future. If this one tanked, it would be quite a shocker. Then poor Suzy will get the blame again.

• I also feel like they just a people that try romantic because they looked matched but no chemistry,

  what if kim jae wook is the final otp, hahaha, I would like to see that for the laugh

  • im secretly hoping for that. i wont watch the drama but i might follow the recaps once in awhile. if she ends up with KJW i just might watch

• I think that they casted idol or not big actor like Yang se jong cause with the Thaad I don't know if broadcast channels make a lot of money like they used to with big name. This is why now we are stuck with not so good actor and this is painful... right now im just enjoying Age of youth 2 and the eng sub are so long to come...painful life as a non Korean speaker. Sorry for my English I am better in French:))

• I didn't watch the last episode yet. But I think chemistry between two actors depends a lot of our view about the actors. In this case, if I like YSJ, i prefer a lot KJW (he's so hot in this drama :p), so I like the main couple but I can't stop thinking why she didn't choose KJW :p

  For Hospital Ship, I like the main couple because there is any other actor I would like to see her with. And Kang Min Hyuk is really manly even if he has this lovely smile :p

  Then, I can love an actor and don't like his couple, like in Ruler he didn't any chemistry with Kim So Hyun... It's kind of lottery...

  • For me they had amazing chemistry and the one thing that got me through the drama. I FF everything else and just saw their scenes because they were bursting with chemistry whenever together.