Fast Binge Watch

WOW!! What did I just watch? It's wasn't bad at all but I wish the story had been developed more and maybe episode 4 had been at least 10 mins like the rest.

The premise of the show is really interesting and unexpected at the end. The writer(s) did a really good job of making the audience want to see more but unfortunately with the short runtime of each episode we can't get the emotional punch of those twist and turn of events.

Overall the cast was really good and I hope they all make more shows. For this to be the 1st or 2nd series for most of them I am super impressed. Hoetae was very convincing as the psychopath and I really liked Jang Yeo Bin and Park Min Sun.

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Monsta X Starting Point

The show was a heartbreaking, gut punch. I felt so bad for many of the trainees and then the monkey wrench of ADDING I.M. after the 7th episode seemed calluos indeed. Merciless as the cast said.

I cried on a few epsiode and I felt like the judging was bad and no one really gave constructive feedback!! It was also quite annoyng when all the judges would say "when I was a trainee..." Who cares about when you were a trainee, that's why you should be a little more sympatheic instead being jerks.

Joohoney was amazing in every episode and makes me wonder honestly why he didn't just become a solo rapper... he is that good.

I'm a new fan to Monsta X and the only reason I even watched this is b/c the new sinlgle they have out, One Day. I became obssessed with Hyungwon from the new MV and wanted to know what he looked like as a younger, not as poslished guy. At any rate, he was super adorable even though I think he looks better with black hair and this has nothing to do with the review of the show!!

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Very entertaining and enjoyable show

I loved the anime of The Prince of Tennis so when I saw this on my Netflix feed I was all in. This was so entertaining and I loved everything about the story, the characters and the tennis!! The casting choices were perfect. What I love most about the show is the male friendships and the camaraderie of it. I also loved that even though the teams were rivals there were really all respectful of each other.

What I dislike about the show is all the flashback scenes in almost every episode to the extent that t was just too much filler.

Episodes 33, and #37-40 were my favorites; 33 is Siyang's match with Ji Jingwu and I was here for it!!! so exciting. Also, Ji Jingwu being all concerned was so adorable. I was here for the bromance as well and would watch a show with just those two!! Loved Zhou Zhi's match and of course Lu Xia's final match.

Of all the episodes Episode 37 is one of the reasons I truly love this show. The scene when most of the tennis teams go to the all you can eat barbecue is spectacular and one of the funniest things I have seen in a long time. It was so funny and all the people who didn't want to sit next to each other had me in stitches!

This show was so good and repeat watches are in order!!

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"The Cop" is Super Annoying

This movie is entertaining thanks to the acting. "The Gangster" Ma Dong Soek is fantastic as usual and the actor playing "The Devil" Kim Sung Gyu is brilliant. I havent seen him in anything else but I will. There really are just evil people in the world. Kinda wished they would have given a little more background on the killer's motivations other than the standard abused as a child scenario. I thought they showed he might have been married but then didn't expound on that. "The Cop" was super annoyng and really got on my nerves from the moment he stepped on the screen.

This is overall an enjoyable film and the ending was perfection!

5/22/23

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I started watching this series over a year ago and stopped at episode 8 back in April of last year. Maybe I was bored. Too much was going on plotwise and honestly they really didn't explain the family dynamics to my liking. However, I have a goal of finishing the shows in my currently watching list. I started rewatching and the show actually is better in the 2nd half. I usually don't say that. Most shows go down hill but this one picked up and became more interesting each episode.

The 2 best things about the show are that the cast is phenomenal and there are some genuinely funny, full on, laugh out loud moments. Shin Hye Sun and Cha Chung Hwa are pure comedy gold. Choi Jin Hyuk's voice was perfection. It's a good series to watch at least once.

I am shouting out epsiode 10. This epsiode was LOL funny. First when the Queen rolled out of the bed at the beginning when she was about to touch the King's nose and 2nd when Lady Choi smacked the Chef on the lips, I about hit the floor. That whole scene in the bamboo forest was hysterical.

4/21/23

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Eye rollingly bad!!

This is absolutley, one of the worst if not the worst Kdrama's I have ever watched. The FL Ji Eun unlikeable and rude. The Joseph character behaved like an insolent 5 year old the entire series. The Shim Do Young character is completely unnecessary. Everything about the character is so random and nonsensical. I have never watched a show where the majority of the mains are unlikeable. The main characters are the most vapid 30 somethings that I have seen in a long time and maybe that was the point but there was no character development for anyone except Ye Seon Ho and barely.

I started watching b/c of Minho and he's so bland and boring here. Also, something about his makeup was off putting. I actually would have preferred the FL staying with her boyfriend from the begining of the series even though she ********SPOILER ALERT***** (it's not really important to the story though) cheated on him.

This was 8 epsiodes that I thought would be a fun and cute binge watch but it was so disappointing!

2/22/23

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One of the Worst Jdramas I have ever watched

This show is bad. This is another terrible Jdrama from 2018 that lacks in everything. Cleary this show was not made for me. I was looking for a light fun romcom and it was the pits!! FL is quite annoying and childish. I hate this combination in a main character. I hated her face too when she was thinking. It was driving me nuts.

I also really can't understand why she was so obsessed with ML. Every character was nonsensical in their actions. I was dumbfounded by 2 things that happened in the last episode. First thing is one of the couples that end up together makes no sense. The other thing is the FL gets a horrific text alert and I don't think it was necessary. It was quite dumb and not romantic at all.

The only good thing I can say about the series is that eps are short and it's a quick watch.

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I was expecting something totally different than what I watched. This show is terribly boring and dumb. FL was another super annoying character that I really couldn't root for. The 2 FL/villain was more interesting but ultimately she was the typical antagonist to the FL.

I did like the supporting cast and many of the girls and their butlers made quite the pair. Mameshibe was the only character I actually cared about and wanted to see. The good news is that this is a 10 episode series and not a lot of time was wasted on it.

There were some genuinely funny scenes, especially in episode 8 at the beginning and at the neighbors house when all the girls went to FL's small town. I also, really liked episode 5 b/c one of the characters got a chance to be a little girl and not some robot for the government.

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Total let down

Aish!! I did not like this at all. I wanted too. I really did and I watched or added to my list because RM said it was one of his favorite movies, but there is no there there!

I thought the beginning of the film was good and started out well and because of that I thought the story was going to be something it wasn't. I envisioned a John Woo type classic Hong Kong action film but it wasn't; so that's on me.

The first fight scene was done really well and Lee Byung Hun as Sun Woo is really good and charismatic. The cast is pretty good. The problem is that the story is lacking and/or not fully done. Especially at the middle to end. It was a total mess and Sun Woo asking why kinda pissed me off. Like, WTF am I watching. Also, Sun Woo was supposed to be a hit man/enforcer but the shooting scenes were laughable. The ending while mostly satisfying fizzled. There is a scene where the "Boss" says to Sun Woo are you really going to take it this far and I screamed at the TV like dude you are the one who took it this far. I was glad he finally killed him.

At any rate I will still seek out movies with Lee Byung Hun.

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So much potential

DAMN!! This had so much potential but alas it did not live up to it.

The premise is excellent, the cast is great and the setting perfect, so why was this movie so meh??

The first 40 minutes of the movie were hands down some of the best tension setting I have ever watched but it all went downhill after that. The movie is meh b/c of the stupid actions by the police, the victim, the brother of one of the victims and random people on the street.

The best thing about this movie was the actors. Wi Ha Joon is excellent as the serial killer. I had only seen him in Squid Game and I liked him there but he played the psychotic murderer very well. I only wish we knew what his motivations were. I guess we get a glimpse of it when the old drunk at the police station questions his upbringing but I needed a little more information. The lead actress, Jin Ki Joo and the actress playing her mother were really good too. I haven't seen the FL in anything else either but I look forward too seeing something else.

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Another Gem of a Movie

I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. It's a wonderful story about a flower shop owner who is just good to everyone. The title "Mellow" really does say it all. This was a very comforting watch.

Lead actor, Tanaka Kei is great as is the rest of the cast including the young actress, Shiratori Tamaki who plays the main character, Natsume's precocious niece, Saho. There are some great scenes between them including a moment when they are delivering flowers and Natsume says, "It sucks to be a grownup. Just inconvenient." and Saho says to him "but it can't be helped, can it?"; just brilliant.

********Spoiler Alert*********** I'm sorry but I have to write about this scene b/c it was WILD!!

Natsume delivers flowers to a regular customer who falls in, love with him. She tells her husband she wants a divorce b/c she loves Natsume; not knowing Natsume's feelings at all. The wife and the husband confront Natsume with this information and his face was my face when they proceed to tell him this. Natsume is shooketh and (who wouldn't be) says it's weird that they told him this together and honestly even told him at all. When he tells the wife he doesn't have any feelings for her the husband gets upset and puts him out of their house... WHAT??? it's actually a great and humorous scene.

Anyway, watch for a great, mellow, heartwarming movie full of love and understanding.

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Another Miniseries leaving me wanting more

I really should not watch anymore of these short miniseries/adverts. I always want something more. I really wanted the backstory of each of the 3 main FL. We get a little glimpse of it but would have been good to have an episode dedicated to each sister and possibly show how they became vampires and then ultimately sisters.

That being said, someone mentioned this was an advert for the clothes in the series, so it was never going to deep dive like that. I only wish now someone would create a full-on series out of it and give me the back story that I want and need!!

The positives though are that the cast is great. I mean everyone. I don't know any of the actors, but they all played their parts very well. The clothes were great as well. And they should be since this was essentially and advert for the clothes.

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Interesting but not fulfilling

This was my first Japanese fantasy series, and the description was very interesting. Demons, swords and fighting. I was here for it.

The short episodes were nice but after watching I feel like this could have been ten 1-hour long episodes and that way we would have gotten more backstory of the blade, the ultimate villain and the history of the priest, the Sword Collector and the history of Sho and his family. Everything felt rushed to get to the end. The female reporter was annoying, but she became useful in the end, and I started to like her a bit.

I still overall enjoyed the series though and it was a good ending per se at least the last fight scene with Godo Shin and Kakeru. I just wish more things would have been explained. Honestly, I may have missed somethings in translation.

The lead actor, Saotome Taichi was great, and the supporting cast was awesome.

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Very Meh and FL Super Annoying

I wanted to love this show.

I started watching b/c I watched Shen Yue in Meteor Garden last year. She was ok in that series but I wanted to see her in something else. Plus I see that she has been in a lot of dramas and people really seem to like her. I dont think she will be come one of my fave actor. So far she has played 2 annoying characters.

In this series she plays Xioa Xi. Worst FL I have seen so far. She was so childish and annoying it was hard for me to like her and root for main couple. I felt like practically every episode she was whining about something and /or crying like a damn 5 year old. Yes she's young and in high school at the beginning and in love for the 1st time but her antics bely her age. I guess being an only child and coddled by her parents will do that. Serioulsy it was too much. Really see why ML found her annoying even though he utimaley falls for her!!!!

Jiang Chen is the ML and for all his faults he was the same throughout so I understood his motivations or why he behaved in a certain manner. I even liked his explanation for why he ended up falling for FL.

Wu Bo Song very likeable guy but FL was never going to fall for him so it sucked that he was so hung up on her and did so much for her. Wasted efforts... but a fool and his money and apparently his heart are soon parted.

What I liked though was Lu Yang and Jing Xiao good friends to everyone and I like their story the most even though I felt like Jing Xiao was manipulated into liking Lu Yang b/c of his health condition.

Overall would never watch again and you can't give a 0 rewatch value.

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I really loved the American version... well the first 4 seasons but then it became how this show was to me from the get go.

I initially wanted to watch b/c of my PHS but his character is so annoying and self-righteous here that I couldn't stand him. I also hated the character of Chae Geun Shik and his teeth sucking was so damn gross and disturbing.

The best thing about this series is lead actor Jang Dong Gun. The man looks good in a suit. This is the first drama I have seen with him and I want to see more. Debonair, classy and all around good looking man!! I loved the clothes too. Great costume designer on the series.

Only the last 3 episodes were really good and that just not good enough!!

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