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Gemini Fourth making a history.

To start with, i never watched nor read My Love Mix Up Japanese version, so this review won't contain any comparison.
I love G4 couple, these guys can act and they are truly a future of Thailand, so i was really exited to watch their new show. And guess what? I loved it. Gem's acting like "I don't know wtf is going on here" and Fourth's "Veggies are my fave, oh hold on i almost threw up..." Those folks can act for sure.
That's why i don't understand why their new show getting so much hate? Gemini once said "I hope this world will be kind to us". While they have many fans to protect them, there are a lot of haters, who come here and write some shit to drop rating of this show. Bunch of miserable, angry mf with no life. I wish everything you wrote bad about G4 will return to you 10 times more. Shame on you.
P.S. Fourth face when he was eating veggie was so adorable, he's just like those babies who doesn't like broccoli.

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Too Overhyped

There are a few long reviews by people that didn't like this drama, so I won't bother. But the FL is so annoying - her voice grates and the unsuccessful attempt to be cute just feels like wading in saccharine. I really can't stand another episode - I'm surprised I made it through 3.

There doesn't seem to be any real substance, although dropping after 3 episodes means that things might have gotten better. But when I'm watching K-Dramas, I want the characters to be interesting and have some depth. Would I invite them to a party at my house? Would I enjoy sitting next to them on a long plane ride? And the answer is no, not these characters.

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What was that?

This show is really weird and im kind if bamboozled how people can give such high reviews.
Let me tell you something - i honestly more than half of the time never even understood what the people were talking about. Like seriously there were scenes where thd main couple was talking and suddenly the female lead was mad and i was like "what just happend" tried to rewind it and listen several times but the conversation was just too weird and puzzling and abstract.
And thats my biggest issue NO ONE in real world talks like people in this show. Let me give you example: main lead cries and there is this conversation: "please dont teach me that", "dont teach you what?", "teach me everything but dont teach me how to break up." Like does that supposed to sound smart and deep? No its just weird because no one talks like that. And that just the tip of the eisberg, most of the dialogs are eve worse. Because if this you dont even understand motives or desires if all the characters and when the talk about their desires and dreams for tenth time its just cringe.
Also the chemistry for both couples were really weak and even their attraction was unreasonable. You can always tell when at the end of the show there is this flashback montage where one of the character recall those sweet moments of their past together but there are barely any sweet moments and you can feel how to director of the show struggles to pick something up but there is nothing to pick from -, just talking talking talking and thats not really exciting.
All and all really confusing show which act as slice of life drama even though no one in actual real world act or talk like people in this show

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Review 5? (im losing track now)

非常好! 非常好！有人告诉我，当我说“非常好”时，我听起来像个白痴，但是这部中国戏剧（看我的Vocabulary在进步！）太好了。我以为这部剧会是马马虎虎，但是真的很好看.

哈喽嘉嘉!

你好吗？中国怎么样？你现在感觉像海归吗？我想那是稍后的事... 我们稍后再打电话吧! 我想听听一切！

我的想法:
1. 他们是so goddamn gay。
2. 他们的故事很美丽。
3. 这正是我讨厌标签和其他人的原因。他们有unconditional的爱。
4. 中国censoringBL哈哈哈哈.
5. 这是我的第一个BL，但它是FEI CHANG HAO!!

其他想法:
1. 这些天我太忙了，根本无法思考！2. 别取笑我……我最近买了Jellycat……怎么这么可爱，快把我的钱都拿走吧！3. masiwei是明天，lauren觉得他听起来像中国的warren hue色调。4. 记得给我发ootd照片！我意识到我赢不了。当我穿上masc的衣服时，我看起来就像一个masc bisexual。当我穿上fem的衣服时，我看起来像fem lesbian. 我放弃我放弃我放弃我放弃我放弃我放弃. 5. 现在我喜欢Buddhism。我什至买了项链。请杀了我

我正在与 Lion 交谈，我们认为明年将是最好的一年。电视剧第一季很有趣，对吧？如此疯狂！大家回到Quincy。呵呵呵。现在让我们来点真正的乐趣吧。

我学会了有理走遍天下，无理寸步难行。所以我要诚实地生活在下一个semester！你也是！

P.S. 我要告诉你一件事...

拜拜
你天才、美丽、酷的朋友

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checked off my list

Now this drama have been on my radar for a while that I actually managed to find the time to watch this. Am I disappointed because of what I just finished? Yes I am.

Kong was my favourite as he was the one standing up for his friends in the hazing situation and was a good friend overall.

However arthit needed a better actor as krist didn't fully portray the emotions needed at times and so made it seem he was disinterested and didn't care. However we got to learn he is just a big Teddy bear. Who realised - not me.

The story itself i found it boring nearing the end as I felt we didn't get enough romance in that was done properly. Would have liked to see May and Mix relationship develop

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well done story, could have been better!

Let me preface by saying I did enjoy this. I think the time travel bit was interesting, more than the other one we had earlier this year (forgot the name). But there are many parts I did not understand and don't wish to bother researching.

I think the acting was on-point. All the actors did super good in that department.

What I think could have been better is having the writer not rely on the cliche points that are ever so present in every single kdrama. Those little things that drive me mad. For example, the male lead not waking up the female lead when she is sleeping in the bus because idk why...she getting almost kidnapped as a result (why wouldn't you wake her up or keep a serious eye out for her when you can see it's bloody dark outside and you're both far away from home????), the female lead running bang in the middle of the road while the kidnapper is chasing her. These little things are just plain lazy writing. Doing away with such stupid moments would have elevated my viewing experience.

let's come back to the good parts. And not trying to be contrarian but the writer did a good job overall making the time travel plot interesting. I really liked the little twists in their cute love story. It was enjoyable to see him be so in love with her. It was not so enjoyable to see her torture him (okay, that isn't fair, she wasn't doing that deliberately). I loved the 10CM Spring Snow!! The best part of this drama was the little moments of cute romance between the leads and this OST really worked in their favour and made it so much better.

All in all, it's the best tropey-over-the-top-cliche Korean drama I've watched in a minute.

While you are here, I'd urge you to watch The Atypical Family on Netflix. If you want something different, not so cliche, this one's for you!!

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Predictable but Comforting. Adorable Leads with Great Chemistry!

Subjective Gut Rating; 8.5
Objective Rating: 7.5-8.0

Why am I rating this quite high? Well, because this is my cup of tea! I love when main leads are in love with each other, yet thinking the other doesn’t like them. I LOVE the guessing game. That’s my jam! If you are like me, then you will enjoy this drama. If this is not your thing, then “Goodbye’s Love Begins With Betting” is a predictable, easy and light watch. You have seen everything. There is no surprise, but a comfort watch.

Nao (FL) and Koichi (ML) are both very likable characters. Nao is known as the Ice Iron lady, and Koichi is known as the handsome, but indecisive guy who will say yes to everyone. Both of them started dating due to a bet. And you probably can guess that they ended up liking each other and are worried about how this bet is going to ruin their relationship. The leads have great chemistry and I enjoy all their scenes together.

There are a lot of internal monologues to show Nao’s internal conflict and how she is so different outwardly than her true self. She is adorable and it’s quite interesting to hear the internal turmoil while watching her with an emotionless face. Yamazaki Hirona played Nao really well. I was rooting for her the whole time. But what I adore even more is Koseki Yuta’s beautiful and sunshine smile. It’s no wonder our female lead is so in love with him. Koichi might be indecisive but I don’t find him frustrating because he presents himself so well and because Yuta plays his role so well.

The best friends are the rational and sensible support system that our leads need. I’m glad the drama doesn’t force-feed us a secondary romance, but really centers all attention to our leads. The two best friends play an important supporting role in the story and not just wallflowers. I also adore FL’s co-worker as the cute cheerleader. The ‘villain’ isn’t too irritating either.

If you are looking for a fun, easy and light watch, this is it for you. Don’t expect anything unique or groundbreaking, but sit back, relax and enjoy the ride!



Completed: 6/8/2024 - Review #450

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Will yu shuo will return or not in season 2 (it's in demand please make it )

The drama is 👍 awesome and main part where he sacrifice his existence. I want to watch its season 2 with a happy ending not like separated or back to his universe rather than that he must delete his time line and make his created timeline as main time line so that lu xiao can never able to search him and then the plot reveal that yu shuo is now a part or his timeline and will never disappear again and all of a sudden every body able to remember him as yu shuo rather than giving him another character and it would be fun to enjoy son and mom reappeared as the same in season 1 and have a happy ending but su ling as his god mother not his girlfriend because it will not make any sense as his god mother as his girlfriend. But still i think it will hurt su ling not to be accepted as his girlfriend and in season 2 we want to know how he travel back at the last episode and did his mother still remember him as her son after he disappeared in last second episode.

Thanks you if you have read my review. I think my review had saved your time.

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An Ambitious Failure That I Still Kind of Liked

So there's a lot to appreciate about this series... and a ton of problems.

I really appreciated that the producers attempted to do something different by creating a complex plot with complex emotions and problems that don't really imitate any other BL that I've ever seen. The cinematography was quite nice and OST was great. Additionally, Ha Jong Woo brought an adorable and goofy demeanor to his character that reminded me of a labrador retriever. I can see how some people were annoyed by his spacey almost surfer-esque character, but I thought it was endearing. I also couldn't take my eyes off his lips. Also, a lot of people commented that they were annoyed by Im Too Chul's character, Kang Woo Joo. I have to disagree. He's got great comedic timing and without him this series would have been interminably dull. Ha Jong Woo's character, Han Tae Young was kind of flighty, and Karam's Cha Jung Woo and Leo's Kim Jung Hyun were very dour. If it had just been the three of them, the series would have felt to aimless and too dark. It needed Im Too Chul to keep things upbeat and pushing plot points that the other characters were too self-immersed focus on.

However, despite the producers attempts to do something different, they also lost sight of the forest through the trees. Somehow they thought it would be clever to never directly explain what Cha Jung Woo said or did at the beginning of the series to offend the legendary writer Jang Su Cheol. This was a huge mistake since the entire driving force of the series were the ramifications of this act. It's always possible that my confusion is a victim or poor subtitling, but I've read the comments on here and it seems many other people have the same issue.

Other glaring problems included the unfortunate choice of repeating scenes from the previous episode. I'm not talking about a 30 second, "previously on Happy Ending Romance..." kind of thing. I'm talking about whole scenes replayed. Like 10 minutes of a 30-minute episode were scenes from the previous episode. This happened more heavily in the early episodes, but it really sucked. It always sucks when shows do this! Do the creators really think we can't remember what happened half an hour ago (in this day and age of binge watching) or if watching weekly single episode roll-outs, that we can't remember what we watched last week? It's a little insulting to the viewers' time.

The show also spent a lot of it's time having Han Tae Young explain his infatuation with Cha Jung Woo's writing and how it made him quit trying to write and instead decided to focus on publishing. We got it! You don't have to have him explain this over and over and over. He explained to to Kang Woo Joo and then it felt like he covered it with Cha Jung Woo multiple times. Again, it feels like the creators are underestimating our intelligence. It would have been better to remove some of these scenes and instead built a better story around what Cha Jung Woo did initially to set off this chain of events.

It would be easy to blame the actors for how they presented their characters, and where they failed to make them seem real. There were were plenty of failures of this sort in this series. However, ultimately I blame the directors and writers. If the writers can't write a believable and multidimensional character, and if the director can't articulate and guide an actor to a nuanced performance that displays the full range of the character, then the writers should have written better characters, and the director should have done more rehearsals, or additional takes to coax those performances out of the actors. In this series Cha Jung Woo is portrayed as a wounded, fragile and depressed man with zero personality. He's not cute, nor interesting. He's just a boring sniveling baby that no one would like. So much so, that Han Tae Young falling in love with him is completely unbelievable. No one would like Cha Jung Woo. I don't care how much they loved his writing. The writers needed to write a better character for Cha Jung Woo, and the director needed to a ensure a better performance out of Karam so that he does something or says something that makes it believable that Han Tae Young is falling in love with him. There was ZERO chemistry between these two characters. I also think that failure of the show to reveal Cha Jung Woo's "original sin" added to this problem. If we knew what he did, we may have been more sympathetic to his depression, but not knowing what it was makes us think he should get over himself already. And this is where the series really failed. They failed to put forth a couple that you were rooting for. You sort of wanted Han Tae Young to run in the other direction. Not only was Cha Jung Woo a risky investment for his publishing house, he also seems like he'd be a sucky boyfriend.

My criticism of one dimensional characters continues with Kim Jung Hyun. This character in my humble opinion had the greatest challenge, and it totally failed. The writers, directors and producers of the show thought they were being clever with this character by being deliberately opaque with his motivations, but in the end the performance of the character (again, due to writing and direction, not the actor's talents) felt incredibly one note. It's like they told him to just be a moody bad guy. They didn't give him any lines or scenes to hang the characters true feelings on. This wouldn't have had to give away the series' twist either. There are many possible ways that they could have portrayed Kim Jung Hyun as caring about Cha Jung Woo, without only making him look only like a controlling bad guy. With a little nuance they could have made you feel that he cared about Cha Jung Woo and their relationship, while still allowing that creeping feeling entering in the story that maybe Kim Jung Hyun was still up to something no good. Then when the final episodes take place, you might feel the pull of this three way relationship and the pain of all the characters, but instead you're just happy that Kim Jung Hyun who was portrayed only as a villain for too much of the series, is finally getting his punishment. It's a cheap trope instead of a thoughtful character arc. How much more would we have been shocked by Kim Jung Hyun trying to block Cha Jung Woo from writing, if we saw Kim Jung Hyun being very loving to Cha Jung Woo to his face, and then doing this stuff behind his back. We would have thought he was a terrible two-face liar. But in the end, when the truth came out, we would have been able to identify with his loving side. As presented, even though he was motivated to do something good for Cha Jung Woo, he couldn't surmount his villain status and we just don't really care about him.

In the end, I still enjoyed watching a BL drama that attempted to tackle something other than love for love's sake. A crush is never enough for an entire series plot. This unique plot gave the characters something to care about other than the "will he or won't he fall in love with me" trope. Unfortunately, with the execution of this series they made things unnecessarily confusing by never revealing an important plot point, portraying characters to one-dimensionally, and most importantly, by forgetting to develop an actual love story.

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Horrible

I enjoy cheesy romance and all the cringey little things that come with it, but this one... oh my god, this one is beyond horrible. Predictable story line, horrible acting, horrible shallow writing with no thoughts behind all the horrible overused word choices.

I was interested in this drama for the descriptions and the cover art. Honestly, knowing its a k-drama with that very typical description of the shallow power difference between the two main leads, my expectation is on the floor. I was ready for everything, really. I was just looking for ways to waste my free time.

Lo and behold, 7 episodes in, i just cannot continue anymore. Not even interested to know the ending from spoilers. I have forced myself to enjoy it but every minute of watching it is a torture. I feel like i have to dumb down myself to the level of an elementary school kid who has a hard time figuring out that 2+2 is 4. My god i wanted to throw up. This is just pure stupidity. Forget about morality talking, which is even horrible, but the writing.. i cannot. The "are you lost baby girl" line is pale in comparison to all the stupidity this drama has.

-10/10 because you will lose some braincells trying to convince yourself this drama is at least decent.

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Now, we are breaking up. Yes a lot of this.

This TV series is about loss and people not adjusting healthily to it. And poor communication within families and workplace.
I thought the script was ambitious and was weighed down too heavily with bitterness from mother in laws/ex GF etc. But dealing with a child's reaction to cancer was commendable.
All the actors were very good and I liked the direction that was given to the two lead roles. I presume they were trying to act as the offspring of their very selfish, loud and bullying parents.
This is not a bright and breezy watch and I found some episodes easier than others. But I would still recommend 90%.

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Story could have been condensed to move the storyline along.

I watched this drama because I’m a fan of Liu Shi Shi. She is a great actress. Although the story was somewhat boring and draggy she portrayed her character well to keep me interested to see what she would do in the following episodes. She can change her personality and expressions to fit her role. I watched A Journey to Love and Lost Love in Times and loved her in both films. I didn't notice any of her behavior and actions from those films in this film, making her a great actress. She is a different person with different personalities in her films where some actresses and actors use the same facial expressions and behavior in all of their films.
I first watched Tong Dawei in the film The Centimeter of Love. His demeanor is about the same in that film and this film.
Overall, I felt that this drama was somewhat boring with some scenes having meaningless conversations. This story lacks humor and the chance to see the main leads looking outstanding in a crowd.
I hope that there is a twist to the story towards the end so that I don’t feel that I wasted my time watching this drama.

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