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For a slice of life lover
"While men stay friends when they still have some feelings left, women stay friends when they have no feelings left." - Lee Soo's fatherA great drama, any narrative art piece, is one that foreshadows and alludes. This was filled with alluding lines. This was a deep drama where every essence added to a beautiful masterpiece.
For instance Lee Soo says near the start of the drama "If you knock 10 times, I'll give in."
When looking for a cafe they said "It's annoying because we went around 10 times and it's been here all along... like feelings you didn't know about that just show up."
If you don't examine the drama you won't see it's beauty. Watching them walk in circles 10 times might seem slow but with someone you love, it's no time at all. And I loved these characters. If you pay attention then with every circle they grow closer and slowly realise their destination. And what I love most about slice of life dramas is that I am meandering with them and growing with them.
This is one of the best slice of life dramas out there. These characters are not shallow beings that are created just to kiss. These are real people. Woo Yeon did not blindly fall in love with the school bully like in Boys Over Flowers and many other dramas. She fell in love with someone cute and entertaining who cared for her and she had deep conversations with. Who teased her and protected her. He was not a stupid jerk who was playing with her just because, he was scared and alone. These are real emotions people have and these are real reactions too. Plenty of people are scared of being alone but are even more scared of being abandoned and reject bonds before they can be formed to protect themselves. This topic is also explored in Healer. "Everyone wanted to be free but not everyone was able to come the way they wanted to."
and "People are wasteful, they throw things out then coming looking for it."
and "Running away doesn't have to be anywhere far."
People have flaws and there's good and bad in everyone. Do you think love stories always end in a happily ever after? No, a couple can be together for 70 years and love each other dearly but can also fight all the time. Even for couples like this there are misunderstandings and a want to be selfish. This drama is not about the destination but the journey.
I loved Ong Seong Woo knowing how hot he is, I love Shin Ye Eun in everything she does. In fact this might as well be Meow the Secret Boy take 2 with how cat-like Lee Soo is. Just when you think your cat doesn't love you, it comes back purring and rubbing your legs. Lee Soo referring to an animal... or perhaps himself... "Do you think it could've had a new start if it wasn't abandoned?"
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Y'all can watch this for Jun Su and Jun Su only
I watched till ep 11 and I can't anymore. it was nice at the beginning but honestly, at this point, I literally like everyone except Lee Soo and Woo Yeon. I'm definitely not making it till the end it just feels forcibly dragged out at this pointLee Soo and Woo Yeon are honestly really bad main characters. Lee soo is your typical jerk but WORSE??? and don't even get me started on Woo Yeon bruh this girl is just embarrassing. At the beginning of the drama I genuinely thought id have SLS but let me tell you Jun Su is the only MAIN ROLE that you will even like. I actually liked the side characters so much more. y'all I just wasted about 11 hours on this.
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it's just that I like the two main characters so I watched them: ")
many didn't like this drama, but I watched it without missing an episode.I don't know what I can take in this drama but if you like mellow drama you can watch it
about story =
I think this story was created a long time ago. Lee-Soo and WooYeon's love story is very boring.
Their story only repeated in a circle until the end of the drama, but on the other hand I watched it out of respect for their friend's story "Hyunjae" he is very mature, how can someone survive like that, I love it !!! And what I just found out that they both had previously been guest roles in Strangers from Hell
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NEVER WATCHING THIS AGAIN.
Ahhh.... let's start from the beginning high school, let's all face it you liked her then and now y the ML is just so fucking annoying and narcissistic.The FL honestly I really like her but I just don't like how she just played with 12+ people's hearts it isn't fair on them and also I honestly feel like the SML was so nice and would've also made the perfect boyfriend but of course and if you've watched love alarm she ended up with the SML and honestly that wasn't too bad.
Another thing is that this story was WAAAAAY to fucking predictable like you could state everything that would happen at the end of ep 3.
Another is the ML "trauma", Look I know that trauma comes is different ways but his own was Wayyy to stupid man it was just lacking that GUSTO to make it tangible.
But in all honesty, I was shocked at the ratings, they didn't do the SML justice and I really wished that she had ended up with him instead of some narcissistic, annoying, self-absorbed jerk.
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Historia, którą warto obejrzeć
Mam wrażenie, że podobało mi się to głównie dzięki grze aktorskiej nie tylko głównych bohaterów, ale także postaci pobocznych.Historia jest dosyć prosta, nie za nudna i nie za ciekawa. Odcinki za to są długie i jest ich sporo bo aż 16. Jednak mimo tego wszystkiego co opisałam wyżej, obejrzałam wszystkie i ani chwili się nie nudziłam.
Całość jest raczej dla osób wytrwałych, ponieważ szczerze, trochę ciężko oglądało się jak uczucia głównej bohaterki zostają odrzucone trzy razy w przeciągu dziesięciu lat, a później nagle ten, który odrzucał te uczucia uświadamia sobie, że jednak ją kocha i zrobi wszystko, aby to co czuła do niego kiedyś wróciło.
Co dla mnie najważniejsze - chemia między bohaterami. Była jak najbardziej widoczna i nie brakowało naprawdę bardzo uroczych momentów, które wyglądały realistycznie dzięki dobrej grze aktorskiej, co niewątpliwie pomagało w utrzymaniu ciekawości widza co będzie dalej i jak to się skończy?
Jeśli mam powiedzieć czy warto to oglądać to myślę, że jeśli ma się czas to jak najbardziej, ponieważ mimo tej nie wysokich lotów historii jest to przyjemne w oglądaniu i można się momentami naprawdę wciągnąć.
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A master class in frustration
I strongly disliked this series. Dialogue was poetic but everything said made me increasingly frustrated and annoyed. Cast was gorgeous and performed well, but I disliked most of them entirely or at some point. Whoever created this story hates relationships and the characters they created. From beginning to end, very little character development or movement. I realized late in the series, around episode 12, that the story has become redundant and was astonished I had four more episodes to go. And in those last four episodes, outside of the last 15 minutes of the last episode, I became more annoyed, more frustrated, and more over it than any time during the rest of the series. The writer just made some bad choices for these characters that did not make the watching experience pleasant in any way. I kept watching simply because I'd gotten that far.Honestly, with so many shows on my Viki, iQiyi, and Netflix playlists, I wish I'd skipped this one.
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How not to act in a relationship - a study in human psychology?
6/10 is my rating. This is a 2020 South Korean Romantic Drama with 16, 70 minute episodes.Kyung Woo Yeon (Shin Ye-eun) met Lee Soo (Ong Seo-wul) as a high school student who was smart but bullied by the other kids because, although she was a smart kid, she came from modest means and was kind and liked to avoid conflict. Lee Soo (Ong Seong-wu) was wealthy and popular and admired Woo Yeon for her kind nature. He became her defender and friend. It was not long before Woo Yeon's 18 year old heart fell for Lee Soo and she was crushed when she confessed her feelings and he friend zoned her.
Lee Soo leaves to study abroad and Woo Yeon misses him and spends a lot of time drunk calling his old number and pouring her heart out to the open line. Ten years passes and Woo Yeon still has not gotten over Lee Soo. After working a series of part-time jobs, Woo Yeon is finally pursing her dream of being a calligrapher/writer. Lee Soo is now a highly sought after professional photographer. The two continue to be drawn to each other despite Lee Soo's insistence that he only loves her as a friend and Woo Yeon's profession that she still likes Lee Soo and is unwilling to be any less than a couple.
Woo Yeon and Lee Soo are now finally reunited in Seoul and wind up working on a project together. Woo Yeon, tired of being rejected, has locked her feelings up just as Lee Soo is beginning to acknowledge he likes Woo Yeon as more than a friend and perhaps always has. But Lee Soo is not the only man in Woo Yeon's life who sees her for the wonderful person she is. Have the two something more than friends missed their timing and hurt each other too much to ever have more or have they finally matured enough to be honest with their hearts?
This was a drama series with so much potential. The trope of starting as friends and becoming more is a rarer in k-dramas and those of us who like it tend to seek it out. I was excited by the title and premise of this and figured it would be a heartwarming account of people who had been friends for a long time then discovered their feelings were more. This was a train wreck of women who were just mean to the men in their lives. Seriously it was hard to watch the men be emotionally abused. Rather than run to them there were actually points where there was a break up and I was like good now get away from that toxic woman. Ye-eun confessed to Lee Soo multiple time and he rejected her kindly I thought. Basically told her he liked her but just as a friend. But that is where the title is confusing she never wanted to be just his friend. She kept telling him leave and get away. To me if you really care about someone you would be in their life however you could be but she just didn't want anything to do with him if she couldn't be his girlfriend. Then she would cry, miserably, and everyone would feel sorry for her. Okay I get that, it is heart breaking when someone doesn't like you back. But what got me was, later on, everyone blamed him for not accepting her feelings and making her cry. I thought that was completely unreasonable and ridiculous. No one is responsible for anyone else's feelings. You cannot make yourself love someone just because they want you to. I thought he let her down gently. The things is she never made the effort to know what was going on in his life and why he might have responded as he did. He was so nice to her and really made her school years livable by heading off bullies. Then she has a whole string of men she dates and breaks their hearts because she is unable to return their love because she is supposedly so "damaged" by Lee Soo's rejection. She seemed cold and heartless to me. Her mother even commented about her dating and hurting other people's precious sons. She has a longer term relationship with the CEO and he seems like the perfect guy but she strings him along while she is trying to decide if she still has feelings for Lee Soo. So she basically has two guys fighting over her and both feeling inadequate and heartbroken. I thought the CEO went a little over the top in his pursuit of her after she broke up with him but I can understand why he was confused about her absolute coldness. I really felt like she did not deserve any of the men in her life and was emotionally abusive to them. There were two side couples which started with really heartwarming relationships but then devolved into the same type of emotionally abusive relationship as the main character. All three women were horrible in my opinion and emotionally abusive to the men in their lives. You don't make a person walk on egg shells for fear of making you withdraw your affection - that is exactly what the three did. If the men did not do exactly as they wanted, and evens sometimes when they did, they would withdraw from them. I was really frustrated with the main character when he had an opportunity to travel the world and photograph for an airline and was originally not going to take it because she did not want him to leave. She comes around and is going to travel with him. But then she gets an opportunity in South Korea and he encourages her to take it. They agree that they should not give up their dreams or they will resent it later and decide to have a long distance relationship until he finishes. He rushes through finishing so he can get back to her and, as a result, cannot meet her fantasy of multiple calls a day. So, she breaks up with him. That made no sense to me and seemed entirely selfish on her part. Then he gets back and she is once again stringing the poor CEO along and pitting the two men against each other. She is like the ice queen. If you want to see episodes of men being emotionally abused by the women in their lives then you might be interested in this. Those that hate men and think they should be demasculinized may find this okay. I could not recommend this to anyone unless they are wondering how not to act toward someone you profess to love.
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Pride and prejudice? or maybe more pride and I'm scared sh**** to let any one close
This is a fun story about six friends who really, really. really need to learn how to communicate and let go of their insecurity and pride.This drama tackles issues of poverty, divorce, as well as finding ones place in life with or without a partner bringing to light things that may effect a relationship that go way beyond the simple I love you or can I trust you? Is love enough or will we make each other miserable. Are we standing in the way of our loved ones happiness or can we find a way to be happy together? And can I really bring someone else in to my miserable life or is it better to set the person free? As well as whose choice is that to make? All can summed up in the balance between love, fear and self acceptance as a person worthy of love. We could also call this drama 1000 ways to f**** up a relationship.
This drama really has it all relationship wise, the deep bonds of long lasting friendship, the happily married, the divorced, the kind stalker, the emotionally scared , the dieng, the long term relationship and the just just starting out, the friendships to lovers and the love triangle. All with their separate issues. I loved the relationships in this drama as well as more or less every single character in this drama BUT I wanted to yell at them to make better choices over, and over, and over again... Honestly if this show would have ended at the 12th episode (with just a few adjustments) I would probably have given it a 9 or even a 10 but they just kept making these bad decisions that drove me nuts all the way to the end, and made me loose my previous love for some of the characters,
The photography here is gorgeous (yes I chose the word photography, and if you see it you will understand why), as well as the attention to details making me want to visit Sole, so all in all a pretty good drama worth a watch.
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cliche , lame (imo), bad cycle of problems, too unrealistic, red flag
wow, the amount of bad words i can give to this piece. i appreciate all the people behind this work i just want to be honest because i kind of feel sad for the main lead's chemistry. su and yeon, i dound myself rewatching their scenes a lot, i also have favorites. however, the storyline is so 'blah' the male main lead's acting is SO good that i thought he's not that good but the thing is it is a kinda bad material :(((( the problems is sucha cycle. is this kind of storylines still a thing? it is in the plot though, a lot of misunderstandings. i just didnt expect the worse because the trailer is so good, the actors are good, osts good, foreword's good. the storyline ruined it. the characters are wow, cant understand them :(((( even if i want too. walking red flag. loved the male main lead tho, liked him since i watched this show. he's good.Was this review helpful to you?
I hope someone ignores the bad ratings and reviews like me and gives it a try.
Most of the time I focus too much on the ratings and reviews when I watch something I know nothing about, I was really really excited about this drama when it was airing because of the cast but because of the ratings and reviews, I couldn't bring myself to watch it. It felt like even if I watched it then I wouldn't have liked it.First of all, I strongly recommend you binge-watching this drama. Don't watch it if you don't have time to finish it in few days. because it has so many events and it changes a lot so if you take some time away from it, you wouldn't feel the characters well, and that's why people hated it probably.
My favorite part about the drama was how realistic it is. A lot of us were in a dramatic love when we were young and this person can never leave our minds, just hearing their name brings so many memories back.
I really loved how cool the male main lead is in the first episodes and how he becomes a fool and pathetic but still in a way that we won't hate him. I loved how the female main lead finds love something really important and how she likes him no matter how many misunderstandings happen. I think the many twists are a disadvantage to the drama because you get tired a bit but i really loved how they still make you smile and not tired of their exhausting love.
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Such a silently pain.
Acting is good but characters habit is not well producing. feels frustrate for some sequence..Anyways, I like this kind of story telling, and I was in this kind of situation before. If you stuck for someone it's true that you can feels incomplete for a long time. it's takes slowly pain for main characters, This drama didn't telling we should grow from 'pain', instead we can understand why and reason of love and missing someone. love is not perfect and pain is kind of romance. also I like drama that contained a lot of phrases for thinking but really can't rewatch. it's too much and takes a lot of energy to watch it again.
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Why people don’t understand the Male Lead, but should.
Lee Soo (Played by Ong Seong-wu from At Eighteen)More Than Friends (2020) is about a woman who is friend-zoned by the ML Character for 10 years, starting with High School. Lee Soo is so hated by so many viewers as obnoxious, selfish, and self-centered and this character earns these strips by his actions (seemingly). This is one Korean drama where the Second Lead is the overwhelming favorite to get the girl by the viewing public. Why do I feel that this character is misunderstood? His actions are a result of his childhood trauma. The parents of Lee Soo got divorced when his was a kid. They hated each other. After divorcing, the parents got along more civilly. Lee Soo was schooled about romance from the bad example of his parents. They got along with each other as long as they were not married. This fostered the notion in Lee Soo that it was better to be friends with the one you love. The girl in question (FL) never picked up on this, and neither did she see all the endearing ways all through their lives where Lee Soo secretly helped and rescued her, because he did so behind the shadows. Is it not true that our first example of love, affection, and romance are parents mostly, as a good or bad example? I was so in tuned to this character. This is one of my highest rated Korean dramas. Others score this drama lower, maybe in part because they don’t fully grasp the character.
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