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Even though it's rare sometimes you know you'll love a drama even before watching it. I read the drama description before it started airing and from the very first moment I was excited and I already couldn't wait anymore. Back then when the Drama just had started airing I remember reading some comments about Seo In Guk and that someone else should play his character. I think he later showed everyone that he was in case the most perfect actor for this role. Moo Young's trauma, his pain and his growing love for Jin Kang - he let us feel what he felt. I think Jin Kang could feel it too because from the very first moment she was drawn to him. Jung So Min told us Jin Kang's story perfectly. Even her body language showed the viewer how her opinion of Moo Young went from "danger" to "I want to be your safe place". Both of them did an amazing job and their chemistry was overwhelming good. It may be obvious but to me the plot was perfect as well. I haven't watched such an entertaining drama since some time. I was never bored not even for a single second and I was really happy that they changed the original plot to their own version. Till the end this Drama was amazing written and played. The ending couldn't have been better. Bittersweet but also full of love that can't ever be destroyed. I'm so going to miss this Drama and it's characters. May the future bring us more dramas like TSHLYE. Was this review helpful to you?
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Great melodrama
I've been planning to watch this drama for 4 years and somehow couldn't get around to it. Recently I was looking for something to make me sad and I found it. Great acting, full of drama, mysteries, death, murders, crime story and Seo In Guk in the main role. In my opinion he played the role very well. There were some things that I didn't understand too much, especially that they completely forgot about the first murder. After all, the main character was also involved in that murder, so why didn't they do anything about it. I also don't understand why Jin Gook stabbed Moo Young back then if he felt so sorry for him. Perhaps he was afraid that Jin Kang would find out about her past? I don't know because it wasn't explained.I fell pain when because of a stupid joke about Jin Kang being Moo Young's sister, it ruined everything. But on the other hand, I really like it because I like to feel that way while watching tv shows. I'm very happy with the ending, it made me sad and cry, which is what I was looking for. It's just a pity that I watched it after such a long time and missed a really good drama.Was this review helpful to you?
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Worth my time
I always feel sad and after seeing any death in drama. But this drama show death of people like its very common. I think writer loves deaths too much.Apart from deaths, everything was perfect. It's just that so many people died without any special meaning or effort or anything. While whole story revolve around Moo Young father's death. But they didn't give any attention to other deaths.
Me who love happy endings so much, I feel last two episodes were not needed, we can call it a happy ending just after episode 14.
Character Development
There is very little progress in characters.
Kim Moo young who is portrayed as bad but good person, who still becomes bad person at end who can be overtaken by his anger. Jang family both children were dead but still Moo young doesn't feel any remorse or anything.
Yoo Jin Gook is same throughout the drama, a very good person with a bad past. but still some points which did not even matched with his character like he stabbing Moo Young.
Yoo Jin Kang is the character I love the most, there is progress in her character
Tak is also a very good character which make this drama so lovely.
But still no explanation between Jin Gook and Tak has been provided like why they are not married when she is also good to Jin Kang.
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Less secrets are healthier
Although the plot interest solely relies on keeping secrets and never telling important and at times crucial facts to the main leads I think it went too far for melodrama's sake.I still give it a 9 because the main couple does really well, but personally, I would have preferred a more positive last 4 episodes if, at least, the most crucial fact had been known to the ML. This could have been easily achieved by the writers and I believe it would have made more sense, helping to balance all the previous sorrows that are pretty heavy all throughout the drama. I thought it was really a shame to harness till the very end on an overdramatic plot.
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Not my usual watch.
This is not what i usually watch but i did so because i like to two lead actors. The story is a little confusing and the early episodes set the tone of the ML character and later the FL character. The story revolves around what happened many years ago and tells a tale of the failure of adults to protect the children. The lack of honesty and selfishness of the brother and his female friend left me feeling very angry with those characters. Also the doctors character is somewhat questionable.In the end of course through many twists and turns it is the children/now adults who pay the price for all the deception.
The ML and FL portrayed their characters in a stunning performance from start to finish. I will look for more from these two actors. they were the shining light that carried the story through to the end.
It is a story that you need to be strong to watch.
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One of best melodramas
You are hooked In first episodes with the enigmatic storyline. You fell in love with Kim Moo Young but also feels wary towards him.All the twists and mystery around the 2 main characters keep you in suspense. The passion and the complicated character of the male lead is the most interesting one. It feels real, well written and the scenarists actually did an amazing job to depict such complicated emotions.
Two things made me tick though! When Yoo Jin Gook stabbed Kim Moo Young. When you finally understand how they’re related and what Yoo Jin Gook did to his father, the way he treated him didn’t make sense, and to want to kill him was way out of the picture and didn’t fit the regrets and guilt that he felt.
And then it is how Yoo Jink Kang reacted to that vs how she felt completely desperate when she learned her brother killed Kim Moo Young’s father. It felt strange and also out of place.
We will learn only in the last episode who she really is and how the 2 main characters are intertwined.
Regardless, these flaws, the drama worked for me as the psychology of the characters is really well written and makes you question how you would react in these scenarios. Human beings are indeed complicated animals.
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WARNINGIf you are the kind of those people who like happy and comic dramas
Definitely you should avoid this one
I've phobia from tragic ends, Although I am one of this kind, I took the risk inspite of knowing that they will die together
And sure I hated the end
The writer was masterful in torturing the ML in every way sometimes with no need
The plot was good
The romance was nice
The Story was solid
But.... over dose sulk and depression
Specially the end
As if the writer hated the idea that the ML wanted to be good person, so he punished him for this idea
As if the message behind this drama was
No place for those who want to be good
What I disliked about this drama
1. The ML face expression was extremely dead
He is not a good actor for me
2. What sung woong did at episode 11 when he stabbed the ML was extremely annoying and with no reason except the writer want more sadness and torturing the ML in every way
3. Definitely the end,
This is just a drama so why should I watch such a toxic end like this, he made their relationship impossible to be continued in every way,
So the only logical end was to make them die together
4. Jang se ran .. that B**** should definitely die 🤬🤬
But why the ML should be the one who killed her
These kinds should be exterminated not the ML
I was so happy for the first time when someone got killed
5. The twist at the end
that the FL was his sister was the beginning that the end was going to be catastrophic
for me it was good till the last 2 episodes
So if I'm going to rewatch it I'll stop till the scene when she hugged him and said I accept you the way you are
You are who you are
End of drama for me 😂
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A sad but value lesson
I don't know yet how to describe my feelings about this drama, but I'll start by saying that this was the saddest drama that I watched until now. I already know about the ending (no spoilers here), but I'm talking about the entire process and plot.Starting with the performance of Seo In Guk, this is my second place in my top five of his dramas. His performance as Kim Moo Young/Kang Seon Ho is totally heartbreaking and I felt like crying every time that I saw him on the screen. The character was incredibly deep and make us think about how life can be tough to some people and how trauma could change everything in your life for good if you don't find out some kind of fortune in your path. With Yoo Jin Kang, the story goes the other way. I caught myself thinking many times who was the pitful one, and in which position I should prefer being if was me, but I really couldn't decide. Yoo Jin Kang had scars as Moo Young did (literally), and she was repressed by the wall that she built around her emotions as the same as him. Jung So Min is amazing, and I already say here that I love her. I really hope that she can shine in dramaland beautifully. The ahjussi Yoo Jin Gook was the most difficult part to process in this show. I begin loving him, and then I started to hate him, but at the end of it all, I finally comprehend him. He is the third traumatized in the main plot, and he let his trauma overcome the sense, confounding his fear with his love for Jin Kang. Park Sung Woong did an incredible job being cute and terrifying at the same time.
This is definitely not a drama that will make you happy and light, but will push you through a deep analysis of life and about stereotypes. The saddest thing to me was to think that this is real life in most part of cases. People who are hunted by its ghosts and aren't able to deal with it without struggling like crazy. It's a big lesson and a big warning.
This is a drama with many triggers, so certify to watch if you are feeling good with yourself and in a good moment. For me, definitely a chosen one (★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★) and definitely a drama that will be printed in my mind for a long time.
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Stirs emotions deeply !!
This is the first melodrama that i liked watching and dint get annoyed or bored at !I am so not into melodramas , and I started this one without knowing that its a melodrama ! That being said I found the basic story very week and unacceptable , as it has many main unanswered questions , but still somehow the twists-turns of events and unfolding of relationships is done so aptly that even though you know the truth it still stirs your emotions every time !!
Basic questions like why dint the brother want them together , is kept a secret til almost the end of the series , when you might think that he must have done something wrong to her ! But then in the end you realise that he got that burn trying to save her and the brother knows it and saw it , and still wishes to separate them ???? Why would he stab him , when he was just sorry towards him ??? He would give Yoori a chance to redeem herself , but just hate moo-yeong ?? Also few things from the first murder and seong-ahs accident aren't very clear .... I just waited till the end to thing to unfold , but few things were just left out .
It was a good watch , with little to no annoying characters , all felt right at their places except oppa :D !! Enjoy :)
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the lead charecters seem unrealisticly obssessed with each other
I haven't finished the series so i don't know if things improve drastically in the later half of the series but up until i saw, the characters seem to live in their own bubble world, while stuff around them is falling apart. This is expected in a romance based light-hearted series, but the topics this show covers(abandonment, effects of crime, anti-social behavior), i expected an intense romance with at least a bit of realism. The characters just seemed unreasonable to me and weren't quiet in the moment. P.S: i absolutely fan-girl over booth Seo In Guk and Jung So Min, and hence found their acting phenomenal.Was this review helpful to you?
I don't know why, but I fell in love with this show right in the first 5min. I loved the idea of a guy who has always been cold due to an incident and just uses everyone developing into someone with feelings who has the desire to protect what he cares for. The story overall was beautiful as it was slow-paced but not slow enough where you would drop it as it provoked thought and you felt the emotion alongside the characters.
The cast was a good decision as Seo Kang Joon played the role perfectly as the anti-hero in the story as it is always nice to take a break from the nice heroic ML. Jung So Min also did good job alongside him as she played her role well but Seo Kang Joon still overall stood out to me even though the rest of the cast was good.
The music was a nice touch to it as it made you feel in the moment with perfect timing. The music was a positive aspect in the plot as I can't help but cry when I hear the music sometimes.
I rewatched this show twice and every time it was good still filling you with emotion and the story as you never get bored watching this show.
The ending of the show was beautiful in my opinion as I love the type of endings that are associated with these shows and this will always be one of my top shows.
Overall: 9.5/10
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But I follow dramas of Seo In Guk and Jung So Min, and have been waiting for a good kdrama to be released. It was hard to resist watching this, although the plot seemed heavy and the Japanese version was quite popular as well.
The plot in itself is intriguing at best, and paired with fittingly cast actors, their expressions of mixed emotions that need to be delivered as per the storyline, kept me waiting for the episode each week!
I never watched mysteries that haven't released fully yet, (because, annoying right!), However its hard not to look forward to what happens each day in Jin Kang's (female lead) and Moo Young's ( male lead) lives.
You end up getting so hooked to their lives and roles, you end up wondering what Moo Young's pace is, why he does what he does. It keeps you guessing and the chemistry between the two is unmistakably electric. But it's kindof push/pull and makes you want to punch the rest that comes in their ways, but what stands between the two is more than just people ; it's unforgotten lives and a misguided fate. Paths of some shouldnot have crossed; unfortunately cursed destinies.
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