You get what the trailer promises, but that ending

I was quite excited for this series to come out after the trailer aired. It seemed interesting and a focus on the different situations under which infidelity occur was interesting.

Having just finished the show (writing while episode 8 is fresh in my mind), I can say I enjoyed all the episodes except the last one.

It is a show about sex and infidelity so definitely expect a healthy dose of explicit scenes which to me considering how they were done was not off-putting. I enjoyed many of the anthology like stories of the side couples finding them a good balance to the annoyance one feels with the main husband Takuya and the sometimes underwhelming Sakura. Not to say I didn't enjoy the romance of Sakura and Haruto , more so I didn't enjoy the conclusion.

I am all for an open ending. I think it is a good story choice in many cases especially when there is character change involved. However, in this case, I don't think the story was strong enough to support it. The ending left me annoyed and frustrated. It was largely too vague to be a true open ending in my book. The real annoyance comes from the initial separation. Sakura leaving right after the divorce, feels like she is using Haruto rather than actually being invested in them as had previously been stated. As well, the motivations for the breakup felt a bit weak. Why couldn't they have continued on and she opened her studio while they were today? His dream was to open a shop someday, not immediately. This isn't a case of they needed to leave the country to pursue dreams and why not support each other while doing that especially when they expressed they devotion. Felt very contradictory.

So the series was enjoyable but marred by an ambiguous ending.

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