Personal Taste - so it does get better!
I thought eps 1-4 of Personal Taste were rough. Really, really rough. To be honest, if it wasn't for the fact of my big Lee Min Ho crush and innate stubborness, I probably wouldn't have persevered with the drama.
Eps five and six got much better (though the pacing is still weird - their director/editor need serious help), mainly because the two main characters finally warmed up to each other and also because the drama got a little bit more serious. Our leading lady, Son Ye Jin, is not equipped for comedy at all but she is excellent at drama. And as for Lee Min Ho, he was hilarious in Boys Over Flowers but it's hard to be hilarious or even noticeable when you are playing a straight man (harhar pun) to the wacky heroine whose actress does not do wacky well. He emotes beautifully though, so the serious scenes are best for him, as well.
Also, all the stuff I learned about ep 7 made me extra-gleeful mainly because I am beyond amused at the Director asking LMH out. Said Director is totally the guy he needs to win over in order to get his architecture project! Heeeee. Soompiers are all appalled Director asks him out because the guy is old enough to be his father but come on - powerful straight men date girls young enough to be their daughters all the time and, let's face it, I think many a gay man would think he hit the jackpot if he found out someone as hot as LMH was gay :P Also, Director is quite attractive in a Distinguished Older Gentleman way:
Nice to know heroine's ex, in addition to all his other charms, is a gay-basher. Does not surprise me. I think except for pacing that is my biggest problem with this drama - I find her ex and the cheating former best friend really really boring and too much of the drama is dedicated to them. Yeah, they are hateful and shallow but honestly, I don't mind that - I mind that they are really really boring. Oh well, I am slowly warming up to the heroine so that's good - probably because she's finally beginning to balance niceness with spine. Though she is going to be hella mad to find out the guy she slept in the same bed with and who dealt with her periods and saw her naked is not gay after all. I cannot wait!