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krork

this drama..is adopted from a manhwa...and usually manhwas are super long...so it's just simply impossible for the makers to fir everything into mere 8 eps...and deliver a godd story

the drama feels a bit cut out from between...

the first 2 episodes were literally boring n pointless for me because I just couldn't understand why taesung was behaving in that way...but then later in ep3 the misunderstanding was cleared and it gave reasoning to taesungs actions in tha first 2 episodes...the story upto ep 4 or 5 was okay..
but after that it just feels boring cringey and too stiff...the scenes which are supposed to make u blush actually made me cringe...like that scene where taesung was eating something (cream bun I suppose) and the filling was dripping so haebom just bit the other end to prevent the filling from coming out..it just seemed cringe to me

as for the acting..not to be rude to any of the actors but I really did not like the acting of anyyyyy actor...now i haven't watched other dramas of any of these actors so idk about their overall acting ...but in this drama it was not good

as for the story..as I said already it was adopted from a manhwa..ig the original manhwa has about 140 achapters so clearly...the flow of the story in the manhwa will be much smoother...in the drama I feel...the makers have just simply like..picked some scenes from manhwa which they thought wd serve as gr8 fanservixe and they just put it up there in each episode due to which everything felt weirdly cut off

so i wd not suggest watching this drama...you should just go for the webtoon because I feel the webtoon or manhwa serves a lot better than the drama...

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the cast is perfect

i’d say the story is pretty generic but the casting was done very well and everyone did well to tell the story so it’s really good. in my opinion i don’t see any romance in this show especially between the main 3 characters bc i think their love feels more familial.

i think the ending is pretty good. it’s very sad but it’s doesn’t make it a bad ending. i like that they didn’t miraculously find a cure like how most dramas would. my interpretation of the ending is that llh was at the beach before the other two came but when they arrived he was gone (probably somewhere where he actually does die).

i think a season two isn’t necessary for this story. llh would’ve wanted it to end. however i would like the see the cast again.

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OVERRATED - TIRESOME - MAIN LEADS HAS REALLY LOW SIGNFICANCE ON HOW THINGS ARE GOING

Emotional rollercoaster is okay but when this is driven by a third person it becomes annoying. Why I say that will be revealed in a moment. Continue reading if you want...

I will start with the good things.
Acting & Cast: I rated it 7. Though it deserves more. They are good. But I think I am a bit disappointed that's why I rated 7. They are really good actors. Casting was also good.
Music. Quite good. But it didn't really hooked me into them for long.

Now then.....
Story: Typical rich kid CEO & a random girl but really famous being pursued by almost everyone in this universe. Just because of how this develops forward i rated it 3.5 or else maybe it would get 4.5-5.

What I hate most about this Drama:
I absolutely hated Bi Ruo Shan aka Shan Shan. The support role is in the driving seat how the relationship develops between the ML's. She is absolutely a B*tCh. At first she gives the FL idea on how to pursue Shi Yan in a negative way. Well there is nothing wrong about. Almost all the typical dramas have same story. But when our female lead is feeling sorry for her action, shan shan the B*tch is trying to stop her. Why? because it will ruin the scholarship. Well, girl you gave her Idea. WTF. This happens countless times. Now after the ML Shi Yan gets to know why the FL Shu Yi pursues her, he becomes upset. Well, obviously anyone will be, right? Weather it's male or female. If anyone bonds up with someone with some intention not because of own gain anyone will be upset & depressed. Now when the ML leaves the FL, she decides not to explain . Well it's too late but at least try. What is wrong with you? FL decides to write an email. AN EMAIL, guys!! Seriously. Okay let's say Email is okay but she writes an email regarding work not about clearing things between them. On the top of that she allows the other side characters like Yi Yang gets close to her acting like she doesn't know what goes through the male lead is going through. Well, let's say she is an absolute immature character & doesn't know about these things. Let's forgive her. Now, Shan Shan again becomes a bi*ch & ask the female lead to be involved with Yi Yang this time. Again controlling the leads love life,. Our female lead still didn't apologize & explain things to the male lead. The male lead is not also taking any action. But according the situation, in my opinion the male lead owes her nothing. He loved her from start to finish. Some might disagree but It's just my opinion. Then the b*tch shan shan hears about Shi Yan from the female lead that he is not doing anything, she becomes upset with Shi Yan for this. The b*tch things Shi Yan is the problem. WTF. Girl, you were doing everything from the beginning. Putting ideas on female leads mind, doesn't let her clear things before disaster came, then asks the female lead to hook up with others, becoming angry at Shi Yan for nothing. Everything is about you. What funny is she couldn't even handle her own love life at the beginning while she was sharing tips about love with FL. That makes me more furious.

I don't know how this drama rates 8. It has absolute downfall. You can disagree but I don't care. I watch drama to relieve myself from stress not to gain more.

And never have friends like shan shan. They ruin love life. Talking from personal experience.

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Edit: (After watching the remaining eps)
Still shi*t. childish ending.

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thought provoking if nothing else

this was thought provoking if nothing else.

The primary conflict revolves around the FL. Will she find a date?

That's basically all there is to it. The potential male suitors are varying degrees of mediocre to awful. You've got the slob that had negative social and emotional IQ. The ex that is told No, the FL is not interested on at least three occasions, but still inserts himself into her personal life (while being her manager).The junior that is told No a couple times but keeps harassing the FL and propositioning an intimate relationship. And lastly, the long term manager with a temper and strange power relationship.

Just ignore the brother and mother. they are meaningless to the story and never developed as characters.

The story is happy feel-good introspection interspersed with awful harassment of the FL. It reached a pinnacle when the various male love interests setup a scoring rubric to give themselves the privilege of asking out the FL for dinner. wtf?

Wish the FL quit the job, cut all of them out and leveraged her newspaper column to work as a writer. She deserved more than a shitty marketing agency that has rampant sexual harassment.

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A Buffet of Romance Stories

This anthology-style drama consists of 10 romance stories that happened during the COVID-19 pandemic. Except for the last episode, you can watch the other 9 in any order, and you wouldn’t be confused. For me, I just watched it from the beginning. Even though these are stories of love, they are not necessarily all cute and fluffy. But it does give us variety and viewers will probably like some more than others.

“At the Moment” has a star-studded cast. If you watch enough Taiwanese dramas, you will recognize or have seen all of them in other dramas. It seems like the whole cast was in the “Light the Night” series, some as main/supporting characters, and others in guest roles. This is probably because director Lian Yi Qi also directed all 3 “Light the Night” dramas.

The acting is pretty good and the stories are interesting enough. I do have my favorites.

Ep 1 - Scripted Love - this is an interesting and not a bad introduction to the drama.
Ep 2 - Price for a ‘happy ending’ - this is one of my favorite ones. Love the actors and it’s funny!
Ep 3 - Blinded by love - not one of my favorites as I don’t like the female character that much. The male lead is quite good-looking though.
Ep 4 - ET phone home - this is quite weird to begin with but I like the interesting twist (thought somewhat predictable).
Ep 5 - Dodgeball - not one of my favorites because I don’t like the portrayal of the sudden change of feelings.
Ep 6 - Let’s try again - this one is OK, even though I like both leads.
Ep 7 - Hot and sexy revenge - there’s just something about Chris Wu that makes him so damn sexy, even though he’s not the typical pretty boy. Watch this for him. LOL
Ep 8 - Role Reversal - this one is different from the others. A very ‘normal’ relationship but it’s actually really sweet to see how the couple supports each other.
Ep 9 - Badminton never dies - a pleasant surprise to see the portrayal of such a relationship.
Ep 10 - I’m sorry Jie Jie 姐姐 - gotta include this trope within these 10 episodes. It was nice to have a quick recap of how everyone’s doing.


Completed: 11/21/2023 - Review #379

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A completely different BL series than the others. I only felt the similarity with 1000 stars. The thirty-two-year-old director chose 6 BL series unloved boys aged 19-21 for the main roles. They tried very hard, so I rated them a 10 for the selection and a 6 for the acting, so overall an eight, and the "something" they showed towards each other in connection with the almost perfect music really evoked something nice in me.
On the other hand, a big disappointment regarding the other two aspects of the evaluation. If you play the music videos that are listed in the link I share in the Comment, you will see the director singing the theme song directly, and he can't open his mouth properly while singing. Just as he can't articulate properly and doesn't even open his mouth, that's exactly how he directed this series. The processing is literally lousy, very below average, I deducted 7 points from perfection, the inconsistencies are glaring. The fights with the "gangsters" in the seventh episode reminded me of caricatures of bickering three-year-olds in the sandbox. It's a shame that the creators weren't inspired by the series Golden Blood ... The biggest sex between guys is holding hands, I don't need anything physical, but here the guys were calling for something closer, more intimate. There was tons that could have been used from the story itself that remained hidden. Damage.


Naprosto jiný seriál BL než ostatní. Cítil jsem pouze podobnost s 1000 stars. Třicetidvouletý režisér si vybral do hlavních rolí 6 kluků BL seriály nepolíbených ve věku 19-21 let. Ti se moc snažili, takže jsem si je výběrem ohodnotil na 10 a herectvím na 6, celkově tedy osmička, a to "něco" co předvedli vůči sobě navzájem ve spojitosti s téměř dokonalou hudbou ve mě vyvolalo opravdu něco hezkého.
Na druhé straně velké zklamání, co se týče dalších dvou aspektů hodnocení. Pokud si pustíte hudební videa, která jsou uvedena v odkazu, který sdílím v Komentu, tak tam uvidíte zpívat ústřední píseň přímo režiséra, a ten neumí při zpěvu pořádně otevřít svou papulu. Tak, jak neumí správně artikulovat a neotvírá ani hubu, tak přesně tak i zrežíroval tuto sérii. Zpracování doslova prachbídné, hodně podprůměrné, odebral jsem z dokonalosti celých 7 bodů, ty nesrovnalosti bijí do očí. Rvačky s "gangstery" v sedmém díle mi připomínaly karikarury hašteřících se tříletých kloučků na pískovišti. Škoda, že se tvůrci neinspirovali v seriálu Golden Blood ... Největším sexem mezi kluky je chytnutí se za ručičku, nepotřebuji nic fyzického, ale tady ti kluci přímo herecky volali po něčem bližším, intimnějším. Ze samotného příběhu se daly využít tuny, které zůstaly schovány. Škoda.

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As of 6 episodes

I genuinely want this drama to end on good note .It's not that i'm loving this drama to the core but there 's something about that backstory that's making me root for this drama .I am looking forward to the historic tale in the elisode thaat's gonna release today .I hope it'll make it up . I'm repeating I just want this drama to have a satisfactory end please 😭.
Note: The modern story is so uninteresting btw .but it's forgivable as it's a setup for the upcoming episodes . and also want to appreciate the leading lady who is elevating the drama with her acting so well

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I was slightly disappointed with Serpiente. I expected a bit more. The story could be told, even if it is nothing groundbreaking, but it was not used as a filmmaker or director, such a mild pall mall, the shots were often unnecessarily dark (if the intention was to achieve a bigger mystery), a long-winded shot of the laundry in the first episode (I don't understand) . I was looking forward to an actor named Kaleb Ong, whom I know from the series Meet My Angel, he did not disappoint, but he was bound by the script and the director. So life the Filipino way .... aka love, sex, betrayal.



Serpiente mě mírně zklamalo. Čekal jsem poněkud více. Příběh by se dal, i když nic průlomového to není, ale nebyl filmařsky ani režijně využit, takový mírný pall mall, záběry byly často zbytečně tmavé (jestli se tím chtělo docílit nějakého většího tajemna), dlouhatánský záběr v první epizodě na praní (nechápu). Těšil jsem se na herce jménem Kaleb Ong, kterého znám ze seriálu Meet My Angel, nezklamal, ale byl svázán scénářem a režisérem. Takže život po filipínsku .... alias láska, sex, zrada.

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The "stupid" effect of the series was much less on me than on many others. Yes, we have the right to judge from the point of view of an ordinary European that something is stupid, but that does not mean that we are right. There are a few billion more Asians like us and I evaluate from the point of view of this kind of production and in that case this evaluation of mine worked out for me.
But the simpler, low-budget mini-series caught my attention, and it even has some advantages over other Thai productions of this type. Above all, it had a plot, it didn't branch out, there were no secondary characters or an annoying school. Still amateur acting young actors are trying, that "something" for the users of this server was also there (searching for a gay, bisexual feeling). But otherwise, a very naive piece, as if filmed really only for elementary school girls.
On the plus side: there weren't those horrible Asian lids (I still can't get over the last series I saw, The Best Story, when the creators turned nice guys into six lid cunts), the entire faces of the actors stood out. It was interesting that Win, with the figure of a Thai boxer and the type of brawler that the creators liked to reveal in a swimsuit, was getting picked on by both Pun and Porsche, and that girl seemed like a thorn in the heel or rather in the fart.. .
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"Hloupě" na mě působil seriál daleko méně, než na mnohé jiné. Ano, máme právo soudit z pohledu běžného Evropana, že je něco hloupé, ale to ještě neznamená, že máme pravdu. Asiatů je o několik miliard více, jako nás a já hodnotím úhlem pohledu na tento druh produkce a v tom případě mi vyšlo toto mé hodnocení.
Jednodužší, nízkoropočtový miniseriálek mě ale zaujal, a má dokonce i některé přednosti oproti jiným z tohoto druhu thajské produkce. Především měl spád, nevětvil se, nebyly žádné vedlejší postavy ani otravná škola. Ještě amatérsky působící mladí herci snaživí, to "něco" pro uživatele tohoto serveru tam také bylo (hledání citu gay, bisex). Ale jinak hodně naivní dílko, jakoby točené opravdu jen pro žákyně základních škol.
Pozitiva: nebyly ty příšerné asijské poklice-afinky (stále se nemohu probrat z posledního seriálu, který jsem viděl The Best Story, kdy tvůrci udělali ze sympatických kluků šest poklicových pizd), vynikly celé tváře herců. Zajímavé bylo, že Win s postavou thajského boxera a typem bitkaře, kterého tvůrci rádi odhalovali do plavek, dostával nakládačky jak od Pun-a, tak i Porsche-ho a ta dívka tam působila jako trn v patě nebo spíše v prd.li ...

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I'm very glad that the creators didn't choose his real friend with whom he played in the very nice music series BoyBand Love for Gus Villa (we have him here), but they chose the symposia Dri Arias.
Two close friends, friends who have problems with their girlfriends and one of them quits his job, go on a trip of several days to relax mentally. Here, in a foreign environment and alone, the two of them will suddenly learn SOMETHING new, beautiful. Even though the story is rather simpler and free, I was interested in this. On the contrary, this series is also partly musical, and this component disappointed my sensitive musical ears. Perhaps only the theme song, although even there there is one false note, otherwise nothing worth "sin", which is why in this respect my rating for a musical product is ultimately the worst. I think that BoyBand Love was a little better musically, and I still play four songs from it in the car to this day.


Jsem moc rád, že ke Gus Villovi nevybrali nakonec tvůrci jeho skutečného přítele, se kterým hrál v pro mě moc hezkém hudebním seriálu BoyBand Love (máme jej zde uveden), ale vybrali sympoše Drei Ariase.
Dva blízcí přátelé, kamarádi, co mají problémy se svými přítelkyněmi a jeden z nich podá v práci výpověď, si vyjíždí na několikadenní výlet si psychicky vydechnout. Zde, v cizím prostředí a sami dva najednou po čase poznají NĚCO nového, krásného. I když je příběh spíše takový jednodužší a free, tak mě tímto zaujal. Naopak, tento seriál je částečně i hudebním, a tato složka mě mé citlivé hudební uši zklamala. Snad jen ta ústřední píseň, i když i tam je jeden falešný tón, jinak nic, co by stálo "za hřích", a proto je v tomto ohledu mé hodnocení u hudebního produktu nakonec nejhorší. Myslím si, že BoyBand Love byl hudebně přeci jen o něco lepší a čtyři písně z něj si dodnes pouštím v autě.

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This Korean series surprised me. I was the least interested in the story, sometimes I wanted to give it a shot, but thanks to the cast of all three boys and two girls in the main roles (all likeable, solid acting, young Hoo has an excellent dance nipple in the second part) I persevered.
Well...boys and girls, they were all 25 years old at the time of filming. The gay component is woefully lacking, in fact only a few minutes in the fourth episode. The processing is excellent, believable, adults are rude, smoke, steal, masturbate, they also have positive aspects. I was surprised that there are actually almost the same youth as elsewhere in the world, after all, Asian countries have more combed, uniformed education, there is more respect for adults, for the elderly... Despite the fact that this series does not deserve a below average rating, it is I do not recommend this site for most users because of the small percentage of the gay component, which could bother many.


Tento korejský seriál mě překvapil. Příběh zaujal nejméně, někdy jsem měl chuť s tím praštit, ale díky hereckému obsazení všech tří kluků a dvou dívek v hlavních rolích (všichni sympatičtí, herectví solidní, mladík Hoo tam má ve druhém díle výbornou taneční vsuvku) jsem vydržel.
No ... kluků a dívek, oni měli všichni herci v době natáčení už 25 let. Gay složky je tam žalostně málo, vlastně jen pár minut ve čtvrtém díle. Zpracováni výborné, uvěřitelné, dospělci jsou drzí, kouří, kradou, masturbují, mají i kladné stránky. Překvapilo mě, že je tam vlastně téměř stejná mládež jako jinde ve světě, přeci jenom asijské země školství mají více učesané, uniformní, je tam větší úcta k dospělým, ke stáří ... Přesto, že tento seriál si nezaslouží podprůměrné hodnocení, jej na tyto stránky pro většinu uživatelů nedoporučuji právě pro mizivé procento gay složky, což by mohlo mnohým vadit.

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"...MY BODY DESPERATELY WANTS TO LIVE, WHILE INSIDE I'VE ALREADY BEEN DEAD FOR A LONG TIME..." The surprisingly beautiful and immeasurably deep Japanese project will appeal primarily to gay viewers. I devoured everything in one Sunday. How fate waved the hidden eighteen-year-old gay Jun (perfectly played by actor Kaneko Daichi, 22 years old, I added four photos to the Pictures folder) in the last year of high school is not seen. He lives only with his mother Yoko, he loves Makoto, a married man with a family who could be his father and secretly meets him for sex, he gets closer to his classmate Miura, who is a fujoshi and ... I won't reveal more. Such a true story that many gays go through, I would not expect from this series at all. All the characters (including Mr. Fahrenheit's online characters - a big shock at the end of the series) are drawn absolutely flawlessly, everything fits together (often sadly). I recommend it to all the more sensitive souls, but I only recommend it more, because the Japanese method of processing is different and someone may not take it...


"...MOJE TĚLO CHCE ZOUFALE ŽÍT, ZATÍMCO UVNITŘ UŽ JSEM DÁVNO MRTVEJ..." Překvapivě krásný a nezměrně hluboký japonský projekt zaujme především gay diváka. Já jsem vše zhltl za jednu neděli. Jak osud zamával skrytým osmnáctiletým gayem Jun-em (skvěle zahráno hercem Kaneko Daichi-m, 22let, přidal jsem čtyři fotky do složky Obrázky) v posledním ročníku střední školy se jen tak nevidí. Žije jen s matkou Yoko, miluje Makotu, ženatého muže s rodinou, který by mohl být jeho otcem a tajně se s ním schází na sex, sbližuje se spolužačkou Miurou, která je fujoshi a ... dál neprozradím. Tak pravdivý příběh, kterým prochází řada gayů, bych vůbec od tohoto seriálu nečekal. Všechny postavy (vč. online postavy Mr. Fahrenheita - na konci seriálu velký šok) vykresleny naprosto bezvadně, vše do sebe (mnohdy smutně) zapadá. Doporučuji všem citlivějším dušičkám, ale jen spíše doporučuji, neboť japonský způsob zpracování je odlišný a někdo to nemusí pobrat ...

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A remote and poor remote province, a shack far from civilization, where a girl and a boy do not live on the motifs of a folk song, but everything is transformed into two young men who love each other and the current scourge - covid - is grafted into it. From the point of view of a non-Filipino viewer, everything is quite whiny, dramatized, naive, but all this is normal in a Pinoy production and I take it that way. In my opinion, the most striking story, even if it drags on and is slow (the message can be felt and perhaps for the first time covid with death is incorporated into the relationship of two gay men), the boys are nice, on the other hand, the processing is weaker, very gloomy, by candlelight (perhaps this is the intention, but it bothered me a bit at times), the final half-meter hanging snot is terrible, but in one shot of the shack you can see that there is a road behind it where he is riding his bike, even though it is supposed to be in an abandoned place. The creators somehow forgot about that. Overall, a hair better than the average Pinoy production, thanks to the story.


Vzdálená a chudá zapadlá provincie, chatrč daleko od civilizace, kde na motivy lidové písně nežije dívka s chlapcem, ale vše je přetransformováno do dvou mladých mužů, kteří se milují a do toho je naroubována současná metla - covid. Z pohledu nefilipínského diváka je vše dost ukňučené, zdramatizované, naivní, ale to vše patří v pinoy produkci k normálu a já to tak beru. Dle mě je nejvýraznější příběh, i když se vleče a je pomalý (to poselství je cítit a snad poprvé covid s úmrtím zapracován do vztahu dvou gayů), kluci sympatičtí, naopak zpracování je slabší, hodně ponuré, při svíčkách (možná to je záměr, ale mě to chvilkami trošku vadilo), ten závěrečný visící půlmetrový sopel je hrozný, v jednom záběru na chatrč je ale vidět, že za ní je silnice, kde jezdí na kole, i když má být na opuštěném místě. Na to jaksi tvůrci zapomněli. Celkově o chloupek lepší, než průměr pinoy produkce, díky příběhu.

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Waste of My Time

I found it perplexing that 'Hidden Love' received a high rating of 9.1 which is equivalent to 'Nirvana on Fire.' I watch about 10 episodes but ultimately had to abandon it, lacking any inclination to resume. The series felt monotonous and lacked the promised romantic essence. The male lead's persistent pursuit of his friend's younger sister struck me as inappropriate, to the extent that I would have severed ties if I were the brother. Overall, the drama failed to captivate my interest. I'd advise against investing time in it. If you're seeking a contemporary romance drama, I highly recommend the Korean series 'Crash Landing on You' instead.

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