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Truly one that lives up to its hype!!
Rewatched for the second time - and somehow the feelings I had when I watched for the first time intensified while rewatching that it felt like I was watching for the first time.Exceptional drama with an amazingly built storyline for the squad of 5. From the very start to the end, not a single moment was wasted.
Zhang Lurang and Su Zaizai’s chemistry is so unmatched -truly a ‘she fell first but he fell harder’ moment. She was the light in his dim world.
Aside from the main couple, even the second couple had phenomenal chemistry with quite the realistic yearning. Their friendship was enemies to lovers but they both fell in love in the process through acts of service.
This drama portrays the different love languages through multiple characters and does so seamlessly.
Amazing scripts and phenomenal cinematography - it truly deserves to be one of the top 2023 chinese dramas.
One of the most beautiful ending I’ve seen and I couldn’t picture it any otherway, especially with how beautiful the script was for the last episode.
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wasted potential
The drama had an amazingly strong start but loses its plot midway and gets insanely dramatic for no reason.The only enjoyable aspect is the strong chemistry between Moon Sangmin and Jeong Jongseo as their romance was main thing that was consistent in the drama and even took half of the drama.
The plot had A LOT of potential and it showed with the first few episodes but then it just becomes an enemies to lovers for MSM and JJS with the actual plot being a side story.
My biggest gripe is the fact that the story revolves around creating a marriage contract to hide that Dohan was gay, but it barely gets touched upon. Its almost as if they were scared to mention the word “gay” as the only mentions of it is seen once. He has zero story aside from being gay. Everything surrounding the sexuality is insanely subtle - which is the typical mainstream treatment. Every aspect of the gay story is so EMPTY and has no concrete story its frustrating.
Last few episodes were so hard to push through as it just gets more and more frustrating - which is hilarious to say because its a 12 episode drama.
All characters are poorly built and the lack of depth is wild to me.
The actors and actress nailed their parts and the acting was amazing! Too bad for the lacklustre writing.
They tried to add in every possible awful scenario just to finish the drama.
Truly wasted potential.
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Good Light Romance drama
The story isn’t too unique but the chemistry between youngdae and sungkyung is amazing.It portrays the celebrity lifestyle fantastically- even the many twist with no endings.
Side characters are built up great and there are characters who don’t have a definite ending but it also adds lot to their character - not everything has a beginning and end.
To be quite honest; the chemistry between youngdae and sungkyung became the main reason I enjoyed it and its extremely satisfying to see that last few episodes were just them enjoying their romance.
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Horrible Writing
Had so much potential at the beginning but so so so much flaws.Female lead is obsessed with one side character for 90% of the drama and makes herself sad on purpose.
Side characters have the most awful writing I have ever seen in any drama. I could write so much but I’ll digress.
The characters have HORRIBLE emotional development, its supposed to coming of age story from highschool to college and adulthood but the characters have the emotional intelligence of a highschooler all throughout the 36 episodes; MOST SPECIFICALLY FEMALE LEAD.
This whole drama is about miscommunication and misunderstanding that never gets resolved and its just forgotten.
The only well made character is the second male lead - quite frankly the only reason I was motivated to complete this drama.
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Recommended for Good Reasons!
At first I watched solely knowing SWL was in it but after finishing, wow it became one of my favourite dramas of all time.The storyline is insanely realistic, it portrays interpersonal conflicts phenomenally. The stories built on the main trio are amazing enough on their own, but the added details for the supporting female characters was a great touch - personally one of my favorite aspects of the show as its a common occurence in asian households.
The 40 episodes (online ver) was amazingly paced. The actors/actresses did fantastic job showcasing the emotion for each climatic scene ; with SWL and ZXC doing phenomenal for their character.
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Cliche
The plot itself is very cliche but I watched solely because I found the leads nice to watch but last 2-4 episodes were very frustrating to watch.The game company x artist was a nice plot to watch but with the female character being insanely stupid when it came to romance was annoying to see; one mention of a name and all logic goes out the window.
The female support character was the only consistent character but even her part is very lacklustre.
The male lead, while gorgeous, lacks heavily in the emotion department. Even with kisses, it reminded me of kdrama kisses when one person has their eyes open lol.
Late introduction of an antagonist was insanely annoying when said antagonist disrupted the storyline with minimal effort.
Side note: what irks me with this drama is how 2 female characters are written as “I dont care about anything else but I like you and I dont care about your opinion”
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Cliche
Short, but the new lineup of actors is nice! The main story is a bit boring and luckluster as its the same old “we’re bestfriends and dating would ruin that” trope.I was enjoying the main story until FL went down the boring route and completely threw away the development out the window on the last episode.
FL’s development ruined this drama ; she was doing amazing in exploring a relationship outside her circle but she came running back the moment ML confessed to her.
Also disliked the story for the side characters, especially Taeyongs.
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Immersive
The movie relies on the element of the dark and suprise as its main source of horror and it works.The POV is shown from a vlog camera and it really makes you immersed and feel the horror through the screen but imo it also made me heavily dizzy at times, and quite frankly frustrated.
The story is scary, with eerie surroundings that go on throughout, and occasional gore, but I wasn’t on the edge for the entire movie, mostly on some tense parts.
70% of the film is spent in the dark which isn’t very fun but the movie is okay. The constant switch of time makes the story hard to follow and could have been done more efficiently tho I do understand why it switches back and forth.
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Insanely thrilling
The overall buildup is amazing and had me on edge of my seat! Story was great and they made an amazing mixture of supernatural, folklore, shamanism.The use of subtle horror rather than giving a physical face in some scenes was amazing and gave more thrill and suspense.
Each actor/actress pulled of their role perfectly - as expected of a star studded lineup!
The movie sets the tone perfectly ; despite having some scenes where it drops, but overall, a very good and enjoyable watch.
Side note: Lee Dohyun and Kim Goeun are so attractive in this film <3
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Insanely dramatic
In a way the drama reminded me of 2016 kdramas where theres a LOT of twist, and I liked it. I didn’t read the webtoon so this is entirely just on the drama.Story isnt very new but it was enjoyable.
Acting from the cast was very subpar imo, Jung Yoo Min carried it heavily for me. Lee Minyoung cannot act but its the type of cannot act that adds a lot of comedic value so it doesn’t ruin the drama.
The leads have great chemistry despite Sunghoon mostly beingly consistent with his limited facial expressions lol but paired with Jung Yoomin they made it fantastic!
The side plot of the power battle adds flair to the drama as both parties are rich so it was moreso a battle of morals than anything which I liked.
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Main leads carry this show
Insanely outdated story with an outdated film style and Im watching solely for Uee and Hajoon as every other character is INSANELY annoying.Award for most annoying character and actress has to be given to Hyo Sim’s mother whos entire personality is 1) to care for his sons 2) spend money that isnt hers senselessly 3) be phenomenally dramatic and emotional
Cannot believe this drama was given the thumbs up for 50 episodes
Only watch this drama if you enjoy Uee and Hajoon’s acting and need background noise
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Enjoyable
The suspense and thrill is very enjoyable but story wise its senseless killing imo. Very few smart and witty deaths but there are far too many idiotic civillians, and majority of the “smart” students became mafia.The plot twist at the end revealing that it was all just a game created by grieving parents whose child were bullied to death from a rumour the students created does answer some questions story wise but it just feels incomplete. The integration of se eun’s story in a mafia game is just her parents wanting revenge and justice for their child but what is the point when the students dont learn any of this and no reflection of morals is done? Its just a cycle of inflicting psychological pain over and over again, except yunseo now has her memories.
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Prep for the finale
If I were to compare, I enjoyed season 1 a lot more story wise, season 2 seemed more like a filler and preparation for the season finale. The CGI did get a lot better in some scenes, with season 1 already having amazing cgi as is.Majority of the original cast was killed off (to no surprise) but the main gang lives on which I enjoyed. Season 2 is mostly introduction of characters that I assume will play a role in season 3, tho personality and story wise, they weren’t super interesting to me.
The mixture of military, emotional battles, and theorizing was nice.
There is definitely a lot of loose ends in which I hope season 3 answers.
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Average story but great acting
Plot is not something new, but both leads have great chemistry which makes it fun to watch, but the age gap (17 year old/MINOR with 23 year old) does make me uncomfortably to an extent - and its what I find A LOT of people are brushing off lolAge aside and story aside, the cast does a wondful job is saving this drama to the point I’m kicking my feet and giggling during romance scenes.
I have only watched 9/13 as of writing this and episode 9 made me very frustrated with how they decided to add in memory lost on top of having Bai Zong Yi get a brain injury - could have went a different route.
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Supernatural but mundane
The plot was there but also very lacking. In a way certain aspects made sense, especially Sol-Hui’s attraction to Do Ha - which was not because she COULDNT hear his lies, but rather he did not lie often.It had the potential for a thriller/mystery story , which it sort of went with the latter part of the drama but the supernatural ability was used for a mundane lifestyle ; which I find does fit the title “Lovely Liar”. However, it is more on a romance/drama than mystery which I still enjoyed.
Slightly boring and slow but still entertaining.
Would have liked it more if they didn’t make the gay character into a villain but I digress.
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