The Midnight Studio | Review

A cursed photographer for ghosts counts down the days to his 35th birthday.

Notable Actors/Actresses

Joo Won: Seo Ki-joo

Kwon Na-ra: Han Bom

Hangul Title Translation

Sexy Photo Studio

Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Team, Fantasy, Contemporary Romance

Year: 2024
Episodes: 16

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Romcom/Romance Checklist

How much of the plot is angst/romance?

0 / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5

The ML: 

Cold–Lukewarm–Warm / Timid / Tsundere / Falls in Love First / Noble Idiot / CEO / General /

The FL: 

Bold / Cute / Cool & Independent / Falls in Love First / Better than ML / Noble Idiot / 

Describe the Relationship (the tropes):

Annoying Love (F/M) Rival+++ / Bickering Start / Childhood Connection / Cohabitation / Contract Marriage or Fake Couple / Enemies to Lovers / Friends to Lovers / Harem / Hidden Identity / School to Adulthood / Love Triangle / Married Couple (Real) / Secretly in Love (F/ML) / Star-Crossed Lovers / 

Relationship Progress (officially together; first (official) kiss; breakup*):

Ep 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 / 15 / 16 

# of CPs (including main CP):
0 / 1 / 2 / 3

Ending:

Happy / Sad / Open Happy / Open Sad / Bad/ Rushed+++

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Reviewer: FanFanX

Date: May 2024

My first Joo Won series. I love him, especially with Yoo In-soo and/or Eum Moon-suk. The first half was fun as it was focused on ghost cases. While I enjoyed the majority of this series, I hated the romance for main CP, and wished they would have scrapped it. What a buzzkill. I will likely not watch another series with Kwon Na-ra as main FL as I don't find much to like about her characters. I wanted to drop this so many times because of her. I actually rooted more for the unconventional 2CP, and stayed for the bromance and ghosts. I truly miss their bickering. This series has an amazing OST.

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