Cute Bad Guy (2023)

A Cute Guy, Cringe and an annoying Female Lead

This is one of those dramas that is kind of hard to rate... as it is an easy binge with a whole lot of good, humour (or parts to laugh at) and fluff in it but also a whole lot inconsistencies, second hand embarrassment and cringe (and not in a good way), at least in the first and the last few episodes. The middle is however lovely....

As we meet the slightly insane (not portrayed in a good way) comic artist, her awesome friends, the emotionally lacking with amnesia, his pet alpaca and a bunch of med students. As these people get to know each other thy seem to eat a lot of food, and create a whole lot of love geometry in the most beautiful fluffy way...

Giving us such great scenes as:

Girl thinks she is invisible whenever she covers her face and turns her body to face the handsome male lead...

People who study together get to play together

And fluffy supposedly evil alpace with odd haircut eats grass, carrots and grapes.

Though our female lead is not the stupidest I have seen in all of dramaland, I found her character hard to love... she has a lot of good friends (one of them would have made a much better female lead), and she has some good moments but overall this gal is selfish, self absorbed, and honestly not that talented... she is not a good friend to her friends.. at all...

Our male lead is just a little bit to innocent and does not seem to have a mean stoke at all, he is school smart, caring, maybe a bit too clingy, but otherwise pretty much a nice male lead and not at all a bad one.. as one may hope for considering the title of the drama.


All in all a decent watch with lots of gif material. You just have to overlook the bad parts.. And should be an ok pick for all those looking for something light and do not mind the female lead and the inconsistencies of the plot.

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Not Cute Bad Drama

Please excuse how critical my comments may seem. I just finished the last episode of another long drama that wasn’t very interesting and had a frustrating ending. This was a silly version of a slightly worn-out story. Instead of a nice, tightly woven, plot, it had 23 boring episodes (not the usual 24, which seems suspicious). The writers threw in too much “filler,” like every trope we prayed we would never have to see again. It was like a leftover beef stew with very little meat and lots of potatoes. The abrupt ending didn’t make sense, nor did it tie up loose ends. I was hoping for an exciting, satisfying, finale, but it ended with a head-scratching whimper. Most of the acting was reasonably good. But why is the chubby friend always the comic relief? Can’t a slender person be funny? I don’t even want to think about the wardrobe atrocities. For example, the sleepwear the FL and her friends wore in the dorm was meant to be over-sized, cuddly, fluffy, and humorous. They weren’t. They just looked like escapees from a Disneyland parade. The FL was annoyingly cute. She bounced and skipped and chattered like a precocious 5 year old. By episode 10, I wanted to poke her in her adorable little mouth. The writers had her constantly telling unnecessary lies that made no sense whatsoever, and made her seem untrustworthy and dishonest. The ML managed to have some charm even though he had little personality, which could have been the director’s choice, not the actor’s, since he wasn’t “a real live boy.” The most agreeable character was the ML’s animated pet (Alpaca?) with either a necklace, or something lethal, wrapped around its throat, and glitter-covered haunches. However, although it was introduced as if it were going to be an important character, in the end it didn’t seem to have any purpose in the plot. Speaking of plot, someone took a hatchet to the story and edited out all of the scenes that were meant to tie the plot-points together. It seemed like the ending was tacked on later. I read somewhere the Chinese government objects to plots based on time travel. Is that true? Time travel is offensive? Porque? If the production had to make last-minute adjustments because of the censors, it might explain the big, gaping, holes in the script, and amateurish editing. Perhaps I’ll feel less upset later and change my review accordingly. (But I don’t think so.)

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