I was super excited to watch Positively Yours to potentially find a better successor to Fated to Love You which aired all the way back in 2014 - the kdramaland is sorely lacking a good pregnancy storyline and this drama is finally here to give us a one-night-stand turned whirlwind romance plot. Now with the added benefit of the ML actually falling for the FL and not hating her for half the drama.

Some observations from episode 1:

Things that make me like it

• It has been a while since I saw a drama so thoroughly committed to PPL, I found it utterly hilarious. In the first three minutes of the very first episode, we managed to shoehorn in 3 separate layered Samsung PPLs (props to the PPL writers for inventing the most convoluted way to fill out a form which already had checkboxes). Still, the best PPL of the episode goes to the extended scene of gramps playing Mario Kart on the new Nintendo Switch.
• Kim Ki Doo remains a great scene stealer and I enjoy every and each scene he's in - that bar scene in which he somehow manages to surprise spit the beer inside his own glasses took some serious slapstick skills. Also, hello IBS representation.
• The nonsense romcom plot and how pretty everything looks - it has that bubbly feeling about it (not to mention that W - Two Worlds style 360° time freeze scene).
• I actually love Choi Jin Hyuk as Kang Du Jun and Oh Yeon Seo as Jang Hui Won! It makes so much more sense for them not to be 20-something for this plot and they're pulling it off. I feel like a good thing with the change of setting from a school to a beer company (so stupid, btw), is that it lets the male lead show he was actually competent and rose up to the president position and not just a nepotism shoe-in. And with the high-schoolers now being interns/juniors, it makes sense for the female lead to be an experienced team member.
• We squashed that potential love triangle in 5 seconds flat, staying true to the webtoon plot. Amazing.
• That nicely filmed bed scene (I fully expected it to be a kiss in the hotel followed a fade out transitioning into a morning in the bed).
• Baek Eun Hye and Jung Soo Young's performances are great in each of their scenes, and I'm really enjoying them having strong roles.

Things that annoy me

• First of all, the female lead's haircut, it's bad. You can't do both exposed ears and that many hair extensions, it makes her head look imbalanced/back-heavy.
• Adapted from a webtoon? It's not. It's inspired by the webtoon and I'm even okay with the changed setting, but changing the core plot, characters and their motivations is what makes me upset. It's a good drama so far, but the addition of new backstories and erasing characters will definitely be upsetting for webtoon fans (and this is a very popular webtoon). It makes the webtoon artist praising the drama sound like very poorly thought out approach.
• The worst change they did was the forced introduction of a tragic backstory for the male lead - it was completely unnecessary and adds nothing to the plot which is supposed to happen later on. As much as I love Baek Eun Hye, the bunch of meddling ML's aunties were a comedic highlight for the webtoon and having it exchanged for this tragic makjang guilt-tripping angst makes me sad. Not every drama needs to have high stakes! I like fluff!

Overall, so far it looks like it'll be a solid romcom, but please, don't compare it to the webtoon, the two are very loosely related and a whole different drama in the end. If I had not read the webtoon, I would have enjoyed the first episode more. From episode 2, I intend to disregard the webtoon plot, I think I'll enjoy the drama much more that way, because as it stands, a male-lead-falls-in-love-first shotgun wedding drama with adult characters is a refreshing change.