“Crazy Love” is a 2022 Korean drama series, with 16 episodes, streaming on Disney Plus/Hulu, and can be categorized as Workplace or Office, Mystery, Romance, and Comedy.
SUMMARY: In “Crazy Love”, a CEO wakes up after a hit-an-run accident and is told that his secretary is his fiancée. He has amnesia and desn’t even remember his own name. So if his secretary says she’s the bride-to-be, he just has to take her word for it. Only … she’s not really his bride-to-be and only said that so she wouldn’t get arrested. She’s faking! How long will she be able to keep up the act? Suppose she actually falls in love with him and he finds out she lied? Suppose he was was faking his amnesia and knew she had been lying all along?
♦ The Boss From Hell is Killing Me!
In “Crazy Love”, Noh Go-Jin is CEO of GOTOP, and if you asked his secretary Lee Shin-A to describe him, she would easily say with absolutely no reservations that he is THE BOSS FROM HELL!! One would never think they would eventually fall in love with each other.
The President Noh Go-Jin you see today is not the Noh Go-Jin from the past. He had very humble beginnings. He lost his parents at a young age, was raised by his grandmother and then she died. His first love abandoned him and his reputation was almost destroyed by lies that had been spread about him. On the plus side, he did have one friend who stuck with him through thick and thin: the Vice-President of GOTOP, Oh Se-Gi. They were even closer than blood brothers. At least, that’s what Noh Go-Jin thought until …
Lee Shin-A lasted much longer than the president’s other secretaries. Most did not make it to 3 months. Lee Shin-A lasted for a whole year. She had a career goal and working as the president’s secretary was a stepping stone. She wanted to become an instructor and working at GOTOP allowed her to gain exposure to how educational companies operated. But how did she do it? She last for a year working as Noh Go-Jin because she was determined and because she kept a lot of medicine in her desk drawer. She took pills for terrible headaches, for her nerves, etc. No matter how awful her boss was she made it through each day.
How Did the Secretary Get Engaged to the Boss?
One day Lee Shin-A’s doctor told her that she had cancer and only six months to live. The doctor told her that sometimes stress can trigger cancer and asked her when did she start having headaches. It was about a year ago, the same time she started working for President Noh Go-Jin. She connected her diagnosis with the ill-treatment she received from her boss and decided that she had had enough!! She went directly to the home of her boss and did not hold back, spouting about everything she had been wanting to scream at him and even hitting him on the head with an onion. The president did not like onions.
When she left his home, Noh Go-Jin chased after her. But someone was waiting for him and hit him with their car. At the time of the accident he was talking with Lee Shin-A on the phone. When he stopped talking Lee Shin-A turned back. When she arrived at his home he was lying on the ground, unconscious and bleeding. Oh no! This wasn’t what Lee Shin-A wanted. Sure she was angry but she didn’t want him to die.
Lee Shin-A called for an ambulance and stayed by his side in the hospital. When Noh Go-Jin regained consciousness, a lot had happened. But he said he couldn’t remember anything. In other words, he had amnesia. Well! Since he can’t remember anything, Lee Shin-A announced that she was his fiancée. She had to think of something quick because the police were about to arrest her for being the one who intentionally hit the president with her car.
From that point forward she had to fake being his bride-to-be. Everybody around him, including Lee Shin-A and his BFF, Vice-President Oh Segi, and others believed he had lost his memories. But what if Noh Go-Jin was faking his amnesia? If he was faking … WHY?
Main Characters:
- CEO of GOTOP Noh Go-Jin (played by Kim Jae-Wook, “Death’s Game“)
- Secretary Lee Shin-A (played by Krystal AKA Jung Soo-Jung, “Police University“, “My Lovely Girl“, “The Player“)
- Vice-President of GOTOP Oh Se-Gi (played by Ha-Joon, “Destined With You“)
- Baek Soo-Young (played by Yu In-Young, “The Three Musketeers“)
- Park Yang-Tae (played by Lim Won-Hee)
Viewership and Rating:
- IMDb: 7.3 out of 10 stars
- MyDramaList: 8.2 out of 10 stars
- Dramabeans: 8.6 out of 10 stars
- FilmAffinity: 5.5 out of 10 stars
My personal rating is 9 out of 10 stars.
- Per K-Drama Review : Crazy Love | Blogging with Dragons: “Despite not finding his portrayal nearly as mesmerizing as Krystal’s, I have to say that the two leads of Crazy Love really have phenomenal chemistry.”
I agree with the quote above. If I were rating this Korean drama for the soundtrack, adorable cuteness, and chemistry between the lead characters, it would be 10 out of 10 stars. I was not expecting it to have elements of mystery. “Crazy Love” had romance, lots of comedic scenes, and lots of mystery scenes for you to try to figure out “Who dun it”. One thing the series made clear is that sometimes the unlovable just need to be loved. The other question this series asked is: Who will you forgive and how often?
LINKS OF INTEREST:
‘Crazy Love’ review: enemies-to-lovers trope gone sideways | NME
TRAILERS/TEASERS:
DeLalah. “Official Trailer Crazy Love (2022) | Kim Jae Wook, Krystal Jung, Yoon Sanha.” YouTube Video. YouTube, March 1, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy3sjMQB1M4.
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