Why Did I Watch This?
I honestly don't know what I was expecting, as.... it sounds like a very annoying story idea with the usual vampire cliches, which is exactly what it was.I guess I just needed some background noise. I think the part I liked most was the theme song "This vampire is on fire, this vampire is a liar".
Basically, whatever they could get to rhyme with vampire was thrown in, exactly in the same way as every vampire cliche was thrown into the story.
The FL is a beautiful swan-necked woman who has become a harsh, closed sort of individual. She's cold, and the vampire ML is warm in comparison, even without a pulse.
I have seen the second female in several dramas before, and they did an excellent job of making her insufferable in every way from the very first episode. Not only that, but they filmed her in the most unflattering way they could, as she is a stunning beauty normally, but they had to make sure the FL outshone her in this. The SFL was written as the archetypal wealthy "enemy of the people". In Korea's socialist brainwashing, attaining wealth is the biggest sin one can commit, so the wealthy are always portrayed in the most unflattering and undeservingly bad light. Think of Squid Game and Parasite. It's awful to think people cannot be judged by the content of their character, as neither wealth nor lack of wealth should be the deciding factor of a person's worth or output.
The SML was really good and heartfelt in his role. Yes, I was rooting for the good-hearted SML, who ironically needed a heart transplant. Not that our ML was lacking as an actor, but I felt his character wasn't developed as well. It made sense for the FL to be a closed person, but I found her to be lacking in charisma. I mean, I've enjoyed cold FL characters before, but I just couldn't bring myself to care about her, and I'm not sure why. There was a secondary female character named Rose that had hardly any lines, and yet I liked her more than the FL, because she had personality.
This drama is a waste of your time.
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A SAD ENDING DONT WATCH IT YOU DONT LIKE SAD ENDINGS (IT WAS A GOOD SAD ENDING)
it started off good with the taecyeon comedy and all,but the chemistry between the leads just wasn't enough I didn't ship them hard or even normally,I feel like most of the PPL expected the sad ending but yeah it was a good sad ending not much of a disaster. it was rlly boring in middle of the episodes I wish that they improved the story. LOVED TAECYEON, it was a pretty okay KDRAMA. Some people might actually hate ig because of the ending but it was a heartfelt drama it was good, the theme of love and hope was good. And I loved how she waited for him, it was an pretty open ending no need to get angry about it.And yeah I agree the story was a bit off and had its rough patches but it was an beautiful open end and a rlly hopeful and a heartful one.
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I love it
I don’t care what people have said about it. My own opinion is that I love it. So so much. It is beautiful and sensational. I hope there’s a season 2 to be honest. This cliffhanger is intense but worth it. Everybody learned a thing or two and more. I’ll watch it again given the chance frfr ❤️❤️ I love you all for making it worthwhile. The movie was not what I expected I will say and that is what made it so much better. He is such a good man and a great actor. All the characters are worth it. I love them. Got me crying and I’m about to cry because of how the storyline was. Everybody did an excellent job. Thank you to all of you.Was this review helpful to you?
Could not stop watching it
It's been a long time since I found a K-drama that I could just not stop watching.I just love this drama, especially the humor and acting. I have not laughed so much watching a K-drama in I don't even remember how long its been.
It was sooo refreshing to finally watch a drama that just made me feel good, i even rewatched several parts that was just pure golden.
The current average rating is so much below what I personally rate this, if you want a "lighthearted" drama that both got drama parts but especially some of the best comedy acting In a long time, watch it.
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Bad drama
I feel bad for the actors for making such a bad drama. The drama spent 15 episodes plotting a path to having that ending. This is a drama that I do not indicate to anyone. A friend and I were watching and commenting on each episode, there came a time when we said, let's watch until the end because we've already watched more than half...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
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can you feel my heartbeat ?
Comecei a assistir pelo Taecyeon e me apaixonei pelo drama . Achei o cast muito bom e os personagens são bem trabalhados durante a série .Minha nota só não foi mais alta pelo final triste do protagonista , eu achei injusto o Woo Hyul ter morrido e se sacrificado pela In Hae quando ela quem bagunçou tudo abrindo o caixão dele . Eu acho que dava pra fazer um final feliz com tudo se resolvendo melhor , até o Do Sik teve um final melhor que o protagonista rs .
Sobre os personagens em si eu achei o Min hwi um ótimo vilão . O ator tinha expressões muito boas e eu adorei a perfomance dele nesse drama , espero ver ele mais vezes !!
A história do drama em si é boa , porém , curta , não tinha necessidade de todas aquelas cenas chatinhas envolvendo a açougueira e a vizinhança , achei repetitivo .
Em sumo é um drama legal com um bom elenco porém com um final inesperado , não sei se reassistiria , porém recomendo .
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Could be better with a strong FL
I came here for Taec Yeon and he didn't disappoint as usual, but the storyline, especially the FL is disappointing.It started out really funny and then it just went downhill.
I really am so disappointed with the ending. I didn't watch 16 episodes for this. Story gets messy and draggy in middle, so I've to skip episodes.
What pissed me most is the weak FL. She is a typical "I have a poor life, save me, victim mentality" where she needs constant saving, and even sacrifice from ML. I don't think this storyline is "romantic" at this day and age.
If its not for Taec Yeon, I'd have dropped the show long ago, but on hindsight, I probably sjould just have dropped it and saved myself from the disappointment
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achei que era uma comédia romântica
Comecei a assistir achando que ia ser aquela comédia romântica básica mas que ia entregar alguma diversão. Isso acontece no começo, só que em algum momento, as coisas foram tomando um caminho meio turbulento. Assistir a esse kdrama foi como uma montanha russa pra mim, uma hora tava lá em cima outra outra tava lá em baixo.Nos 4 primeiros episódios tava tudo normal, aí depois deu aquela decaída e voltou a subir mais ou menos no episódio 10. Depois desse episódio, começou a cair de novo, quando faltava apenas 3 episódios pro fim, caiu outra vez e percebi que ia ficar lá mesmo.
Falando do final, era realmente necessário a morte do protagonista? Eu entendo o conceito mas achei meio incoerente. Porque? Pra quê? Qual a necessidade? E a premissa, o conceito do começo? Não sei a resposta. O autor queria que eu ficasse triste, que eu achasse emocionante? Minha resposta é: não fiquei e não achei emocionante.
Parecia que o autor queria fazer um final com uma grandeza maior do que realmente ele era. Não foi. A única tristeza que eu senti foi em relação a infeliz decisão do autor em acabar uma coisa que já não era grande o suficiente.
Depois de tanto esculacho, será que eu odiei o kdrama? Não. E eu não sei como ainda conseguiu me prender até o fim. É aquilo... é ruim que é bom. Talvez minha nota seja até alta. Mas, no geral, foi uma boa distração para mim.
Obs: ... toda a parte daqueles vizinhos se metendo sobre a mansão foi uma chatisse.
A morte do vampiro vilão foi tão rápido e fácil, e os vilões não tiveram um fim ruim como mereciam.
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É possível se sentir assim
O que seria um final feliz pra você? O casal principal ficar junto? O vampiro se tornar humano? Então deixa eu te dizer uma coisa: esse não é um Dorama com final feliz!Agora, se sua visão de final feliz seria ver o amor florescer onde parecia impossível, as amizades resistirem ao tempo e os laços familiares se fortalecendo, então esse definitivamente é um Dorama com final feliz!
Sim, ele morre no final se sacrificando por quem ama mas, antes disso ele vivência o que buscou a vida toda, com a Hae-sun
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Atrocious horrible awful writing
This drama sucked out 16 hours of my life that I'll never get back.What I liked:
*The performances. The acting is pretty good in this drama, considering the awful script, except for one and a half (?) actors who gave consistently bad performances. Baek Seo Hoo who plays Lee Man Hwi... No comment. I'm not 100% convinced about Won Ji An though. It could be In Hae's unlikeable character or the actress herself, I haven't seen her other dramas so I can't judge it fairly. Yoon So Hee who was unfortunately given a horrible character (Hae Won) played her well, good for her, I hope in her next drama she is the MFL, I kind of want to watch her play a well-written character.
*The characters of Woo Heol and his friends, Do Sik and Hae Won. Overall the characters are pretty shallow and one dimensional but they don't annoy me. I felt bad for Hae Won at first, she seemed like a good person, and she was honest the whole time and got nothing, she deserved better, until, of course, her character's assassination happened and erased some part of the complexity (which it doesn't have a lot in the first place) in this drama and turned her into a stereotypical evil and jealous female second lead.
*The soundtrack is pretty nice, especially the title song. That song introduced me to the singer Han Seung Yun whose discography I liked a lot. Btw stream Han Seung Yun's album 'Lovender'.
What I didn't like:
*I don't like how the main female lead has no chemistry with either of the male leads. I'm not rooting for either of the couples. I wish her 'falling in love' arc was about finding herself and loving herself but alas.
*The plot dragged. If the characters weren't so slow figuring out the basic plot, this drama could have been shortened by half. Also, there are weird cuts/transitions between scenes/plotlines. Lots of unnecessary flashbacks when the flashbacked snippet happened literally one scene ago. Also, why did the plot start normally happening only after the 10th episode? Overall, an interesting premise ruined by dumb slow characters, horrible pacing, and overall bad script. From the 14th episode, I started to skip through filler parts where nothing was happening. Thank god I saved some time which I'll be using watching better dramas.
*This drama has a 'no communication' trope instead of the 'miscommunication' trope which is so much worse: (Woo Hyeol doesn't say that he's going to die if In Hae doesn't fall in love; Do Sik doesn't directly ask In Hae about Woo Hyeol being a vampire immediately after seeing Woo Hyeol's supernatural powers; Do Sik takes out the journal about vampires, which he has been safekeeping as a family relic, straight after finding out about their existence and does not read it right away (????????); Mr. Ko telling Woo Hyeol the conditions of turning himself human bit by bit during the drama and not at once). Everyone is lying/omitting information and being vague about everything being okay. This only artificially builds conflict to solve later in the drama. All of the conflicts arise from not communicating properly and not actual problems/dilemmas. It's just bad writing.
*In Hae's character and Lee Man Hwi + other characters. She is a girlboss for being principled and not letting anyone push her around but dear god she's so annoying. In Hae has the audacity to be angry when Woo Heyol rightfully states that she ruined everything by waking him up early. She also has the audacity to forbid Woo Heol from leaving the house. Is he a child, is she his mother? Also, her personality turns 180 degrees after she confesses she likes Woo Hyeol. She said she needs him in a too-dependent kind of way. It's so weird and uncharacteristic of her. 'Don't you think it's selfish' says In Hae to Woo Hyeol who said that he would rather die than kill her because he already has lived a long life. Absolutely unhinged behavior by the MFL. This was done with no organic build-up. /// Baek Seo Hoo who plays Lee Man Hwi gave a pretty terrible performance, his portrayal of a villainous vampire seemed so fake it took me out of the drama. /// Most of the other characters are also written pretty badly. Everyone, including the characters that I do like, is so slow/dumb, they do not understand basic subtext/meaning when somebody says something or they don't understand what is happening. Watching them question what other characters have said or done when it's obvious is torture.
*The character assassination of Hae Won. At first, she was a nice, ambitious woman, straightforward about her intentions but then, after Woo Heol rejects her (very nicely by the way), she turns into a cartoonish villain who says 'This (the drawing of Woo Heol's first love who looks just like her) is enough to kick out In Hae (from her own freaking home that she owns and take over her place so Woo Hyeol can fall in love with her instead)'. Pardon me? Who wrote this? Because this is not how good writing looks. She spews similar absurd obsessive statements a bunch of times absolutely demolishing her character.
All in all, I will be avoiding the screenwriters of this drama because this is the worst writing I've seen in a long time.
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Not Good Enough
Korean Drama " Heartbeat " is a fantasy romantic comedy about a vampire and a human girl who have to live together.The first part of the drama was smooth, with plenty of comical acts, enjoyable pace, interesting story, an intriguing mystery, and engaging mythology concerning the vampires. The action scenes were nicely handled as well.
However, things started deteriorating after that first half. The romance was cheesy and boring, and, thus, not enough to save the drama, that started leaking from its many plot holes. All of which led to the shipwreck that was the ending, which more or less did not make any sense and ruined every plot development that was made in the previous episodes. And sure, I don't believe that what makes a good drama is a happy ending, but an ending that makes sense and doesn't erase everything that one has watched for the previous 15 episodes is a major factor for success.
Still, the performances were enjoyable and the actors did a good job with their characters.
So, overall, four and a half out of ten.
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Not a strong story...
Definitely a hot/cute/handsome ML. The story is everywhere, meaning you will have unanswered questions throughout the 16 episodes. You will need to use some imagination to make sense of the ending. I am really not a fan of the first and second female leads. I don't know exactly why but there just aren't enough strong scenes for me to like both actresses. In other words, it was boring to watch them. I typically can tear up easily whenever there is separation/death but I did not feel much of the last bit of the story. It would have been a better scene if she chose to cut herself and drain her blood to save the ML but nothing. It was a huge disappointment because she practically did not do enough to save him. And again, their time together were not sweet and steamy enough for me to even consider give this a 7/10.Was this review helpful to you?
