Love Shuffle was one of those dramas that I
avoided for a long time because everyone raved about it. I didn't want to get
my expectations up and then be utterly disappointed when I watched the show for
myself. In the end, I ran out of dramas I was willing to watch, so it jumped to
the top of my list, and here I am. I'm mainly watching it now because of an
embarrassing fascination with Matsuda Shota and his wiry, attractive
self. Tamaki Hiroshi is another favorite
of mine, after Nodame Cantabile, so I
decided to just bite the bullet and watch this sucker. The premise is part of
the pull, and also part of the reason I was initially put off--swingers are so not my thing. It's about four
adults, each of them dealing with love problems in their own right, who decide
to play a game that involves "shuffling" their partners. Kind of
like… speed dating, without the speed part.
