The experience of watching Love Next Door for me was a frustrating one so having it end this weekend felt like a release of sorts. Now I don’t have to keep waiting each week for the drama to get better as a whole while accepting the little nuggets of satisfying moments and scenes strung between filler. One thing tvN did well is promo and market the heck out of leads Jung Hae In and Jung So Min, there was never ending new posters, stills, and cute BTS to buoy what was lacking onscreen, and ultimately the two delivered in the last four episodes of genuine natural chemistry with each other that was more forced in the first half of the drama. I would still recommend this drama as worth watching because unlike other rom-coms that start off strong and then fall off a second half cliff, this drama started off shaky and kept getting better, so there’s that. The ending was well-written, realistic and nicely built up, and all the frustrating problems I had with it fell by the wayside as the two leads left me with a smile as the final scene rolled.