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Melting Me Softly Unspoiled

I read an awful lot of bad press about Melting Me Softly before I started it, so maybe that caused me to lower my expectations.  I didn’t agree with all the haters, but I do see how some people felt like the writing missed it’s mark a bit. Melting Me Softly is a romantic comedy with a touch of sci-fi and some suspense on the side, to keep things interesting.  The story is  about a man and woman who agree to take part in a medical experiment in 1999.  The experiment involved being frozen for 24 hours, but due to an accident they end up waking up 20 years later.
They wake up to find a world that is very different from the one they left, in terms of friends, family, society, and technology.  There are also lingering side effects from the experiment.  Most importantly, they have to maintain a body temperature of 31.5 degrees Celsius.  At first, this is merely inconvenient, but it soon becomes apparent that their bodies cannot sustain the effects long-term and a cure has to be found.
To make matters more complicated, as they spend time together learning to adjust to this new life, they begin to develop feelings for each other.  But in Korean Tv’s answer to Five Feet Apart, they realize that too much interaction between them can be fatal for them both, because it raises their body temperature.
All sci-fi aside, this is a story about a man and women who just want a chance to live their lives like everyone else, and have to fight to find a way to make that happen.

Should I Watch

I enjoyed watching Melting Me Softly as a fun love story with some interesting twists and turns.  There is plenty of over-the-top humor to keep things light.  It is written by the same person who wrote Strong Girl Bong-Soon, and the similarities are evident in the humor, so if you enjoyed that one, I definitely recommend giving this one a try too.

The cast did a great job. The forbidden attraction element between the leads gives them a fun push-and-pull chemistry that feels like it takes everything they have to keep their distance. And there is a fairly big pool of interesting, supporting characters to add some flavor to the plot. But it is true that the script and story had some disjointed moments, where different storylines float in and out randomly, and seemed to lack some continuity. I think for a lot of the haters, it is important to remember that sci-fi always requires a bit of creative license. It’s not a story that is meant to be heavily analyzed or realistic. For the few criticisms that I have, I think this one is a worthwhile watch.

I give it an 8 out of 10 ramen.

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