The Muse of Section E Book 2: The Dark Side

Don't bother watching

Season 1 still had things to like, a bit of mystery, FL's acting, Yuri was still a decent guy. But season 2... utter garbage! Keifer is even worse of a red flag with all the sexual harassment but now Yuri has turned into a spineless guy watching everything from the sidelines making no effort to protect Jay-Jay. I suppose this is why she has to pick Keifer because it's between an abusive man who will bark in her face and a coward who will watch it happen.

They utterly ruined Yuri's character of being a caring guy, Ci-N's character of being a fun and cute little brother, Jay-Jay of being a strong girl who can stand up for herself. I never liked Keifer to begin with and his acting sucked so I had no expectations from him. Don't know why Aries was in protective brother mode in between this season only for him to say he doesn't care what happens to Jay-Jay at the end.

All the adults in this drama are selfish and should be jailed for forcefully trying to marry Jay Jay off for personal gain. Even Yuri's mother is weird.

This is just so bad, I would fall asleep even watching on 2x.

Let me save you some time and say nothing gets resolved this season except for hinting at why Jay Jay goes crazy (doesn't explain her reaction to blood) and it isn't worth watching at all.

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How can the phrase ‘You are mine, I am yours’ sound toxic?

Well, I have already read book 3, so I know what’s going to happen in this season and the last one, if they follow the original story. After watching this kind of drama, I feel like they really captured the main idea of the novel’s author and brought that vision into the series.

So, as toxic as we see in this drama, I’m not disappointed; they simply portrayed it in a live-action adaptation.

When it comes to the relationships, especially with Jay, I think she deserved a better partner. Even though it’s known that the male lead is her endgame, I think the second male lead probably has the most normal relationship with her, at least from what we can see.

I have to confess that while watching this series, I asked myself many times why I kept watching it. Why these kinds of chaotic and very unrealistic situations? Everything feels so plain and confusing. Why this combination? - At one point, I thought: "I just have to finish it quickly".

That’s just me, but I really hope they change the ending for Jay in the live-action version if they make a season 3.

If you haven’t watched this series yet, I recommend it if you want to understand what a toxic relationship can look like. At the same time, it reminds us to love ourselves more and not depend emotionally on anyone, unlike the protagonist, Jay.

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REGRET WATCHING

spoiler : THIS SHOW ENDS ON A CLIFFHANGER

So uh, i watched both seasons back to back i might mix up which plot was in which.

i have very chaotic thoughts about this season. the loudest of them is that im going to write my own fan fiction series to calm my mind after watching such a train wreck of a plot being made into a live action adaptation. I wish I was born in a country like Phillipines, i wouldve been able to write so much better books - which wouldve made so much better series. IF THE SHOWMAKERS ARE READING THIS REVIEW, I WANT TO MAKE A TV SERIES PLEASE HIRE ME!

*Clears throat* anyways, back to the topic,
1. The "love triangle" turns into "adultery" ? !?
2. Lots of revelation behind the toxic family of the problematic Male MC - Keifer
3. Attempt to make Yuri the bad guy but it still falls flat - IM TEAM YURI - if a choice must be made.
4. Detailed revelation about Jay -Jay's traumatisng childhood. Towards the end of the series i felt like reaching out through the screen and slapping her mom unconscious. Her cousin , aunt and grandma are very good godsent people.
5. There was a bit of a character arc of Male MC Keifer before all of it went to trash and his character devolved to -100000 in the last ep.
6. i still dislike aries
7. some random inconsequential stuff revealed about other side characters
8. The series ends on a cliffhanger and apparently even the source books havent been completed yet
9. i have been strongly inspired to write my own fanfiction based on the series since it is almost an year and theres no news of a season 3 yet.

This series has successfully re-ignited the fire to write in a burnt out person like me
STAY TUNED FOR UPDATES IM GOING TO WRITE A FANFIC
which platform should i write it on pls suggest.

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Genuinely might be one of the worst second seasons of television I've ever seen.

This season just felt like a downgrade compared to the first one in almost every manner. The songs didn't slap as hard, the acting still sucked, and the plot became more absurd.

Listen, I know the title says "Dark Side," but I didn't really think it was about to me viscerally disturbed by the end. Why is this season tagged as "comedy" and "romance"? This should be a psychological horror......I say this because the implications by the end are horrifying. But, I'll get to that later.

Season one's writing was no cake walk, but it at least had a charm to it that made it so absurd that it became hilarious. But this one? I can't say the same. It just felt like this whole season was about stupid love triangles involving Yuri and Keifer. No, seriously, why are these guys ALWAYS going for the same girls? And then they act all surprised when they have beef and yet MAYBE just don't argue over women you barely know? How are these guys even friends anymore? They are so petty and possessive over whatever (whoever) the other has! Every episode was just Jay-jay flipflopping between the two of them and the jealously fits from them NEVER end. Every. Episode. The other characters seem to become more irrelevant compared to season one and almost no one matters except the main three. The only other plot that seemed to be interesting was the one with Percy, but that is so poorly explained and blue-balling the audience until the end of the season that I stopped caring. This show also can't stop relying on how everyone gets kidnapped every time they need something to spice the plot up. This girl Jay-jay has been getting consistently kidnapped since before the start of the series! How she hasn't developed a sixth sense for it yet amazes me. Then her ex-boyfriend comes back and attacks her in public facilities! What is even happening in the plot anymore???

The acting was terrible per usual. Though, to no one's surprise, Keifer's remained the worst. His "YURI, YOU'RE WASTING YOUR STRENGTH!" remains embedded in my brain. I just couldn't take any scene with him in it seriously because of how terrible the line delivery was. The others pale in comparison so I don't think I even need to mention them, but they aren't particularly good either.

I don't know if I was just seeing things, but I swear the lighting was weird in a lot of scenes this season. It was like they had the lights shining so bright that things became fuzzy and it was really distracting. The opening also didn't slap the same as it did in season one.

The characters were absolutely butchered this season. Why are they written so terribly?:
- Jay-jay suddenly seems much weaker and co-dependent on the abusive men around her, and she can't make just address the situation with Yuri and Keifer properly even though she so clearly likes Keifer. Then, her family is abysmal and I couldn't stand them. They just sold off their teenage niece/cousin and then have the audacity to say they "didn't know how to tell [her]." YES YOU DID. This is literally a horror scenario for women (and anyone probably). She agrees to it to help her family, but then she has a not-so-secret affair with Keifer RIGHT after; so what was even the point then?! And can her mom please be booted from the family? How is she even allowed to keep bringing her new boy-toys to her relative's home? Put your foot down and send her away! Aries and Jay-jay are right to hate her. Also, I hate how she is so forgiving of the guy that literally drugged and attempted to rape her. She doesn't even seem phased whatsoever, and instead seems to view it in a joking manner. Why is her main concern how her shirt is inside out, if Keifer and Yuri saw her naked, and that she could've been knocked up like Grace???? How about how you were almost violated in a horrifying way......but no, the guys in the class cared far more than she did, and then she is critical of them for it. How does a girl that has been abused so much she has traumatic episodes and breakdowns around dangerous figures from her past have no reaction to someone that she liked doing something so awful to her? And then she even forgives and chats with him! What the fuck!
- Yuri was fucking weird this entire season. What the hell do you mean that you asked for the arranged marriage and then expected her to love you back.....? You literally planned to trap her with an arranged marriage that she can't refuse if she cares for her family. Then he flipflops between understanding of Jay-jay to then being jealous easily. It was soooo exhausting watching this weird feedback loop. Him getting with Freya in the past made no sense either and I was so confused on that plot. His weird switching between being a protective guy into then just watching as everyone lies and gets handsy with the fiancé he supposedly "loves" is fucking strange too.
- Keifer is definitely the worst part of this season. He suddenly becomes domestically abusive and screams at a clearly emotionally abused girl that he "loves." Horrors of the patriarchy. The scene where he forcefully pushes her against a wall and threatens her is terrifying, yet she just brushes past it and the guy isn't punished for it at all. He acts like a mega douche to all of his friends too. Always yelling and accusing them of nonsense. He also won't stop butting into Jay-jay's business and shows up unannounced all the time. Having the audacity to claim he doesn't want to be like his dad but then screams at an abused girl and mistreated Freya too. I get that the story is trying to show how he is fighting against his anger issues he learned from his father, but I seriously don't think they're going about it right. I felt terrified for Jay-jay. I also felt bad for his friends.
- Aries. Dear god, his whole small arc felt USELESS this entire season. What do you mean we're gonna get a whole background and secret sibling reveal from him along with him fighting for Jay-jay's sake in the last season ONLY TO SUDDENLY HAVE HIM SAY HE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT HER WELLBEING AT ALL??? Make it make sense. As someone that is very close with their sibling, I cannot stand this guy as an older brother. How can he just swap between caring and then not caring so easily? That is not how true sibling bonding works. As such, he must've not really cared from the beginning, or the writing sucks (I wonder which one it is!).
- David. He gets a special section to himself because I HATE what they did to him in the last episode. He was one of my favorite characters in both of the seasons UNTIL they made him kiss a distressed Jay-jay out of FUCKING NOWHERE!!! The first season even joked about how he didn't actually like her as anything more than a friend, but now he acts like a weirdo to 'justify' Keifer's subsequent outburst. Even thought David did everything in order for his girlfriend (that he loved very dearly) to get treatment. But then he kisses a girl that is dating his friend when she is in distress. Garbage.
- The other characters. Catty women and sidelined supporting dudes. Of course we have to have to ultra-feminine divas that are bitches but it's "justified" somehow. Freya, maybe Jay-jay views you as a bitch when you first met because THAT'S WHAT YOU SHOWED HER! And of course, the other guys in the class feel like they are irrelevant except for Ci-N and the two gay guys for like half an episode. But Ci-N feels less funny, and the gay guys are also somehow jerks or weirdos to Jay-jay so their representation is dogwater.

Then, of course, the ending and its implications are the worst part of this season. The whole season has been showing the red flags of Keifer and the last episode seals the deal with him literally slut-shaming Jay-jay and humiliating her. And yet, this man will inevitably be endgame. This becomes ten times more disturbing when you remember how the season shows firsthand how Jay-jay has been getting abused by people her whole life; her current family sold her off, and her friends have been lying to the whole show. She is severely traumatized, yet the man that threatens her, screams in her face, sexually harasses, and manhandles her will be her eventual partner for life. She is treated like a trading token by her family, as well as beaten often and almost raped on account of her association with her love interest. Meanwhile, her brother and fiancé are aware but watch from afar half of the time. Ella was framed as a spiteful mean girl, but she was on to something when she warned Jay-jay that being with Keifer won't go anywhere good; she will never be free from the cycle of abuse.

That's all I really had to say. I think this season should be considered a psychological horror depicting the torments of a girl under the patriarchal cycle of abuse. Threatened, slut-shamed, beaten, sexually assaulted, and sold off. But alas, the story will be wrapped up as a romance. Somehow.

I fear for Jay-jay's future. (╥╯⌒╰╥๑)

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I want to watch this but there is no option to see in on this app c

I want to watch this please help me to see this drama it's stunning romantic comedy and full of emotions Ang Mutya Section E is a light-hearted yet meaningful drama that focuses on school life, friendships, and personal growth. The story revolves around students of Section E, often considered the “least important” section, but full of unique and talented individuals.
One of the strongest aspects of the drama is its relatable characters. Each student has a different personality, background, and struggle, which makes the story realistic and engaging. The main character, often seen as the “mutya” (gem), represents hidden potential and shows how people should not be judged based on labels or sections.

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I AM PISSED (this review is a little rude but I was mad sorryyyy)

I'm so irritated first ep and right off the back they wanna show me JayJay and that rat tattatattat. don't get me started.
he said I'll stop when she tells me to stop then in the beginning he literally just fucking kissed her.
i'm very mad and I don't like him I'm completely for Yuri and the fact that they see nothing wrong with doing him like this is disgusting. like come on now and then the hospital..right in front of Yuri guys really? u js gon pick her up ?? like honestly that boy right she is js like Ella idgaf u got both of them but u still can't choose like if u want to be with that disgusting thing then tell Yuri u made up ur mind and u want to be with Kiefer and hand the ring tf back so he can give to the queen, ME.
cause personal I would let him put a thousand different rings on my hands.

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