Nice To Not Meet You Ep 3 has another ratings drop – viewers split between loving it and not
Michelle Topham 
Lee Jung Jae’s Nice To Not Meet You, Episode 3 loses more of the audience share
The recently premiered Korean drama Nice To Not Meet You aired its third episode to another ratings drop last night.
This after the Lee Jung Jae-led K-drama premiered to 5.45 percent nationwide for its first episode, then dropped to 4.79 percent for its second.
Last night, Nice to Not Meet You saw its ratings drop further, earning 4.24 percent nationwide – the tvN drama’s lowest rating yet – and one that seems to herald a further drop in the K-drama’s audience share as it continues to air.
The same also occurred with viewers in Seoul on Monday night, where Nice To Not Meet You, Episode 3 earned 4.21 percent of the viewership last night.
That is down from Episode 1’s audience share of 5.19 percent, and down again from Episode 2’s 4.81 percent.
Why is Nice To Not Meet You not hitting with a substantial part of the audience?
Complaints from viewers, both in South Korea and internationally, are generally that Lee Jung Jae, who is phenomenal in Squid Game, is massively miscast in the drama (although he is doing a valiant job in his role, for me too, he simply doesn’t ‘fit’ it).
The artificial-looking make-up and hair (bad wigs in some instances?) have also come under scrutiny.
Meanwhile, social media users are still complaining the chemistry between the male lead and female lead Im Ji Yeon (whose character’s personality is awful so far) is non-existent, and that the casting of Kim Ji Hoon as Lim Hyun Joon would have been preferable.
The nasty rhetoric towards Lee Jung Jae by some netizens (mostly South Koreans) has calmed down somewhat though, now that Episode 3 is upon us.
Nice To Not Meet You is also billed as a ‘romantic comedy’ but, if there is any comedy in the first two episodes I have watched so far, I missed it.
Others are in agreement, with some social media/online forum users commenting now three episodes in, and they haven’t laughed once.
Nice To Not Meet You does hit some people’s funny bones the right way, though, with some forum users commenting they watched a specific scene several times, as they laughed so hard the first time they missed some of it.
All in all, Nice To Not Meet You seems to be a K-drama that has a cast and comedy writing that hits you, or it doesn’t. For me, I am still struggling with it, and not sure yet where I will eventually land.
Episode 4 of Nice To Not Meet You airs tonight. My guess is we will probably see another viewership fall then. We’ll let you know here at Baozi Buns when the data drops.
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