Bruh
You must have seen lots of reviews complaining about this drama. I would have to say that I also have the same thought.The only reason I watched this till the end is Shin Ye Eun. I'm her fan. So if you aren’t one of the actors fan just skip this one.
Don’t waste your 18 hrs. I beg ❤️ (Just to make it reach 500 characters ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssSssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssSssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssSssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssSssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssSssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssSssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssSssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssSssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss )
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Not as Bad as Some Say...
I liked this one. I understood why the characters acted the way they did. And, with similar interests (arts) and not really moving from their birthplaces - it is easy to understand why they kept running into each other.I appreciated his growth. Keeping people at bay his entire life, when he finally admitted to himself that he liked someone - he didn't know what to do. Too much pride to ask anyone and too scared to risk being rejected. Loved his honesty. Her growth was well done. It took her time to get a backbone and start to fight back. To decide not to be a doormat takes time.
The parents? Understandable. Dad finally got it. He thought he had a chance to start over and she thought she was finally set free. I agree they should have divorced sooner. I appreciated the Dad's attempts at reconciliation with the son but, I would have been the same - thanks but, no thanks.
You need a triangle to create tension in the relationships. So, understood why we had the CEO involved. I will be happy to see how these last few episodes go.
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Simple and beautiful
There are many different kinds of dramas coming out nowadays and while that's great and exciting, sometimes it's nice to sit back, take a pause and watch something that reminds us of the kind of shows we first fell in love with.The story is not something new, it's tried and tested and it works, it's beautiful but what makes this drama great for me is the small moments between the leads.
Moments of old friendships with the kind of bond that can only form over time.
This drama is also fast paced so there aren't any dull moments and the OST oh my god I cannot express how much I love the soundtrack <3
Furthermore, the leads look great together and have amazing chemistry.
The direction, music direction, acting, storyline everything put together is just beautiful and makes you feel like you are in love.
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love this drama♥♥
I really liked the drama and I don't understand how I didn't see it until now, the drama contains a realistic life story of teenagers and adults, a story of the right timing in the lives of all couples (both the teenagers and the adults, children / parents) the opportunities that are lost due to bad timing, the drama Touches the depths of the soul and touches on issues such as divorce, marriage, relationships between parents and children, love between couples and between parents (what is love - sacrifice is given), friendship, caring feelings and sensitivity to others. Great acting by all the characters. The characters manage to convey to the viewer the spectrum of emotions, from joy to design in a phenomenal way. I highly recommend watching it and reading between the lines of the wonderful script, which is conveyed to the viewer both through the photographer (his photos and photographs) and through the proverbs (calligraphy) she writes on the postcards.I have only one comment regarding the length of the drama, in my opinion they could have shortened it to 12 episodes and still would not have detracted from the message of the drama, and the plot would not have been damaged.
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Everlasting Love
This drama focuses on how a relationship builds on friendship that turns to love. Being in love in schools and how family ties help in shaping the personality of an individual. We can see the youths are struggling in finding love and their own identity. How family background shapes up the stability of the family and sometimes shaken the family relationships due to working conditions.But at the end of the day, by hard work, loves, and support, they manage to overcome all the troubles.
I love the characters portray. Good job to everybody. Nice Scenery.
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Reasons why I dont support the love line between the girl and the male lead character
First of all, I would like to say that I don't have nothing against the actors, and all I'm saying it here it's just about the characters.Good points:
* The support characteres seems to have a background history and they're showing it to the viewrs in a nice and complete way, what make us understand why they act the way they acts, and it its really a good thing since theyre not there just to be the "support characteres".
* The scenes are well produceds and the takes are good to see, the cinematography its on point.
* The OST its on point.
* All characteres have some line that can be taken as "real life lessons" and its showed thorugt theis personalities and the way they had to solve theirs lives struggles.
Bad points:
* For me the main problem of this drama is about the love line being build in a way where the male lead its a jerk one and the female lead it's almost a submissive one who's exccessively good for that problematic guy.
I mean its already 2020 and I think everyone agree that's there no more time to lose with that "old and cringe" history where the "handsome and rich guy is a jerk one, have no education, its cold, and the poor girl will make him "change" and realize that he likes her, but until he realizes it he'll be a total idiot and treat her like a garbage".
I think almost everyone is aware that it's not a "cute thing" anymore, but instead it's a toxic guy building a toxic relationship, and the way they're putting it like if he's the victim its the worst problem.
They should've put this in a way that the viewers would be able to see that is something wrong, but they're letting he acts like that and at the end he will take the girl, so it wents likes "anyways", it's like the message what they're passing through the drama is: "its okay to be a jerk one, you just need to have a reason to act that way" for the guys, and for the girls like, "its okay to be treated like a garbage because the guy its doing it to you just because he don't knows how to deal with his own feelings, but he likes you, he's acting like a bad guy, but he's a good one, right? you just need to be patient and wait for him to realize that he loves you, you just need to support him and his things and be mistreatened a just a bit more right, you can do it for him right?".
Like what????? no one should be treated as this way, its totally bad to see a woman who works, who do her things to make her live having to be at this situation to "win a guy's heart" its totally wrong.
And the fact that this drama it's already predictable and we already know which one she will be in the end it's making it even worse. The male lead have issues with relationships since his parents marriage was a disaster and he's putting all of his trauma into the others, rather than they're his employes or the girl he "likes", he just has no respect for everyone, and keep wanting the female lead to be next to him, he's not good for her, but he don't want to let her go, he wants her next to him even knowing she's suffering from this kinda of relationship, and when she asked to end the firendshipo he went like "no, I want to keep seeing you", but please, she's not his psycoologist or something like this, if hes not ready for love its okay, but he should let her go, and live her life as well.
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Tired, old trope and I don't have time for that.
So, i gave this drama 2 chances. episode 1, then episode 2. I'm not interested in seeing anymore because we all know how it's going to end.Neither of the 2 leads are likeable.
This entire show is just a case of drawing it out with pointless drama, when we all know the pushover FL is going to end up with the jerk she's had a crush on since she was a schoolgirl. This drama gives me "fake deep" vibes.
You know, its kinda try hard? Like it WANTS to be a really deep, maybe profound romance thing, thats like deep, but thats kinda hard to take seriously when the FL's been pining over a stupid highschool crush for more than 10 years. Like wth? Girl, its been a whole decade. Move on? And the ML is an asshole and I can't get behind him lmao.
it took me 10 seconds to see the second male lead and instantly realize i was going to get second-lead syndrome. the second male lead could have been an entire light post and the same thing would happen ;-; that's how hard it is to root for any of these characters.
Anyways, this entire "relationship" is just toxic, the story is going to be the most painful, excruciatingly long CHORE of a drama to finish; and I don't have time for that :) dramas should NEVER turn into a chore for me to dread watching. I'll keep my light-hearted do do sol sol la la sol tyvm. This can stay on the shelves :)
tl;dr nothing that's already been said about this (in all the other low rating reviews) is any different from what i'm sayinG. I just wrote this review anyways, because a 8.0 rating is lowkey deceptive. this drama isn;t worth anyone's time :/ Good production quality and a decent OST can't save bad writing. This is the old, tired trope of childhood friends to lovers, only executed in the nastiest way possible. Hard pass.
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Nothing new, nothing fresh but still watchable!
I think Shin Ye Eun haven't learn anything from her previous project, the Cat drama, I mean, I almost died of frustration and there was nothing in that drama, no logic, no story and above all poor production. SYE choose this drama for reasons only she knows, but this series has same elements as the previous one - unrequited love, suffering, innocent female, stubborn male, poor second lead.JTBC is best at producing romantic slow place dramas, I love their dreamy settings, use of Jeju Island, raining scenes and subtle interaction between leads. However, it has toxic environment more than it requires. Based on 2 episodes, and my experience, this drama is not going anywhere in terms of creativity and story. Two leads fighting over female lead, and viewers guessing who she will end up with is a trademark plot of Korean TV industry and then there is always feeling of immense sadness for poor second lead.
However, More Than Friends will still be addictive to many, reason? Isn't it obvious? People are more focused on idol boy OSW than the story itself. As long as this Idol boy chasing girl, whom he disregarded earlier and used her as a pawn to satisfy his own feelings only to reject her thrice, for his disbelief in love and dysfunctional family problems. I would slap that person so hard to make them come to senses and then move on with my life.
The production and camerawork of series is beautiful, just like Something In The Rain, cinematography, the raining scenes, and coldness of scenes, is kinda my favourite. There are moments coming to story, that will make female lead suffer more and it is yet to seen whom she would side with. I just hope there is no 2nd female lead. I want this between, ML-FL-2LD.
MTF is more than ok, but less than something interesting. It is a typical tale told thousand times made for demographic falls between 18-24.
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So far...
Up to episode 8 and cant see why there are so many negative reviews! I agree the ML is a jerk but dont agree that the female is a doormat. So far she has spoken back frankly to the ML - rejecting his advances and realistically saying its delusional and only because she has found someone else. She is obv drawn to him but is resisting his advances as she knows she shouldnt trust him. Remarkable self control and self preservation!Just have to wait and see how the storyline continues....
I feel all the characters are well drawn and acted - they all have weaknesses and flaws as we all do!
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Relationship Through Words
This was a wonderful story that put into words what the heart wants to say. The dialogues were beautiful. So many times I thought to myself, "that was a really neat way to describe that." That was the essence of this drama. The challenging part, and maybe I just don't know the Korean culture very well, but it was dry in light of physical affection. Are Koreans just like that in a relationship? There was passion that was missing in all three couples. Not passionate love making, but just things like grabbing each other, hugging each other spontaneously. They were all just too polite! Believe me, I am a Pride and Prejudice kind of lover. I love words. So it made up for it. But I can understand the critics in their reviews because it seemed we all wanted more. The stand off between a man and a woman and the lack of understanding where each is coming from was greatly depicted. That's what made it a success. So it was worth watching, but once again, being an American, I like passionate displays of affection. Spooning in bed displays more passion than facing each other with an arm politely resting over the other. It seemed contrived. So that's why I couldn't bring it to a 10. But it was enjoyable and worthy of a watch!Was this review helpful to you?
