Wow, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen special effects done this well. Not even in top notch Hollywood blockbusters. All the magic they used, all the creatures... all that felt real while I was watching it, it felt absolutely seamless!

And the story! Qingming and Boya... from enemies to frienemies to reluctant friends to “You’re the one I want to protect with my life.” And all that within a 2+ hrs. movie. It was so good!

Also, when Boya first saw Qingming surrounded by beautiful young women in his bedroom and the next morning in the same place surrounded by beautiful young men... Honestly, how did that make it past the censors is beyond me. Not that I’m complaining, mind you.

But who was a real revelation to me was Wang Duo who played Shouye. Holy smokes, he was positively breathtaking! Like... wow. Seriously.

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Found family and urban fantasy in one? Awesome! I loved the friendship among the characters, not just among the Counters at the noodle shop but also between So Moon and his two friends. I also loved the budding partnership (that was unfortunately cut short) between Kim Jung Young, the female detective, and the young rookie who was assigned to her. Or the strange yet sincere... not-friendship between So Moon and Shin Hyuk Woo at the end.

Speaking of Shin Hyuk Woo, I loved that he got a believable redemption arc at the very end and I cross my fingers that we get to see him again in S2. His character, now that he turned a new page, could be so interesting!

I loved all the main actors, they were amazing, and their characters’ arcs were so marvelous. But who caught me totally by surprise was Lee Hong Nae who played Ji Chung Shin, the big bad of a demon. He was absolutely ah-mazing! He actually felt terribly scary to me. And I do hope that, after showcasing his acting skills here, he will receive many more interesting parts in the future. He sure deserves it!

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Gosh, this was sweet. It was very funny in certain places - I was happy that this drama offered Gao Hanyu the chance to showcase his comedy talent - while at the same time I bawled my eyes out watching the last three episodes! And the end credit song! That song! It gave me warm fuzzies. I really have to look it up.

Most of the characters were really not all that likable at first, they irked me a lot, but they all grew and matured throughout the drama, all of them, even the bad guys, that I ended up loving every single one of them. I basically started bawling when Shen Tong started telling her story and then cried my way through the remainder of the drama. The ending was so very, very soft.

What touched me the most was what Shi Lang and Kun Lan did at the end when they fulfilled Qi Tian’s wish and made it look like she was still alive and happy, travelling the world with her soon-to-be-husband, even though she died those two years ago. Because Qi Tian knew that Qi Xun and Shuangshuang would never stay together if their relationship cost Qi Tian her life. And Kun Lan liked both Qi Tian and Shuangshuang and Shi Lang loved both Qi Tian and Qi Xun so much that they kept up the pretense for the main couple to be happy. Even though it meant never coming back themselves.

And the sweetest surprise? When Wantian got a “Qi Xun” of her own in Zhang Lichuan.

I’m very glad I watched this drama. It was a sweet romance. Just with espers.

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As odd as it may sound, this was one of the dramas where I hoped that the bad guys would escape. I mean, they all did horrible things but when it came to Lee Jun Ho’s kids, Min and the other boy, I got where they were coming from? And especially Min: he watched his mother die, he watched his brother shoot the murderer, he was kidnapped by the guy who killed his father and then spent the next 20 years in his twisted “care”... well. Considering how many people Min killed, how many years did he have to spend in jail? I bet most of his remaining lifetime, even counting in all the above and his rather cracked psyche... I know that him coming back and facing the music was a character growth but I kinda would’ve preferred if he had died. Because for me personally, spending this many years in prison would be a fate worse than death.

Overall, a really intriguing drama that was way funnier than I expected. The highlight for me was the relationship between the brothers but then, I’m always in for brothers, so... It was also my first drama with both Park Bo Gum and Seo In Guk. I guess I now have two more great actors to follow? Good!

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There were moments when I really wasn’t sure if I was watching “just” a comedy or downright a parody. On the one hand, there were actual serious cases that the team had to solve, on the other hand, there was a slapstick comedy hiding behind every bush. It was an odd combination.

But I really loved the family angle, both between Junior and Gentle and among the team. I loved the message that once you joined the team, you became family and the others would do anything to help you. And I also adored that the whole team came to really love Junior and they took to him as their son/little brother. I also loved the up-n-down romance with Maeda, it was hilarious.

I would definitely recommend this drama for the father/son relationship between Gentle and Junior. The way their backstory was slowly peeled away, that it was revealed just how much they loved each other despite all the years of misunderstanding... Right up my alley, to be honest.

(Also, Takeru Satoh is really, really, really pretty here!)

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This is a very short web drama - 15 episodes, 5-6 min. each only - about two guys, neighbors, who maybe, sorta, kinda fall for each other through a series of mad mishaps. At the beginning, they hate each other like the plague, then they’re forced to move in together and then they fall for the same girl and start to get jealous - but the funny thing is, not of each other but of the girl. The series is left open-ended and if they do or don’t end up as a couple is basically left to the viewer - similar to Matching! Boys’ Archery Club - but the characters seem very, very happy with where they end up.

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I didn’t like the main heroine much but bonus points to the drama that it didn’t try to sell her behavior as normal, that it - and Teddy - acknowledged that she was a nut and immature to boot. So yeah, good.

But besides that, this drama was an interesting take on fan service. Teddy and Pascal were best friends and they were extremely popular at the university, so much so that their fan club started shipping them and they played into that with various fan-service-y things, up to and including kissing. Their popularity really helped them with their projects etc. But then their fan club started taking it too far...

Interesting is that several years later, New Thitipoom who played Pascal fell victim to the same thing, to fans taking fan service way too far, and they made his life a living hell. They insisted that, when he announced he had a girlfriend, he was cheating on Tay and destroying the TayNew ship and they cyber bullied him so badly that he actually deleted all his social media for a while and though he still remains friends with Tay - luckily, those jerks didn’t manage to destroy that - he now keeps a noticeable distance at any official outing. It was really a case of life imitating art. Unfortunately.

Overall, this drama was worth watching for Teddy and Pascal. Their friendship gave me warm fuzzies. They had so much obvious love for each other. Though I wish we were told why Pascal was actually living with Teddy in his villa...

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Unpopular opinion, apparently, but I really, really liked My Tee. Sure, it was cheaply made and it dragged in certain places but I really liked the plot. Yes, I liked Mork’s chronic illness - leukemia, I would guess from the symptoms? - and Tee’s slight mental instability and both Tee’s and Mork’s family situations and Tee’s mom’s blackmail and even the possible cheating plot.

Yes, I liked all of it. But then, I also loved the Non storyline in Dark Blue Kiss and I loved WaterBoyy The Series and I still do not get the hoopla about 2gether, so there’s that. You can say that my interests are very… niche.

In general, though, what I liked about My Tee was that, despite its undeniable shortcomings, the drama had an actual plot that focused on two pairings and that was it, there weren’t a hundred or so couples to fill out a plot void. And the chemistry between Frank and Drake was just… wow!

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The highlight of this drama is definitely the back-n-forth between Kim Sung Ryong & Seo Yool, played by Nam Goong Min & Lee Jun Ho, respectively. They put their all into their parts and it’s hilarious to watch both of their characters start off as unlikable goons and slowly, almost accidentally, just to spite the real bad guys become the heroes their company needs. Theirs is a real hero’s journey.

Another thing I loved was Dong Ha in one of his very few good guy roles. He plays psychopaths so well that he rarely gets to play a positive role which is a real shame because he truly shines here as the spoiled brat who becomes a good, decent man and a loving son. So lovely.

I wish the series was a bit shorter - 20 eps were too long, IMO, so the middle part dragged a bit and the good guys suffered almost too many setbacks - but that’s my only complaint. There’s no romance in this, it’s all about friendship, how to be a decent person and how to stand up for what’s right. And it’s also quite hilarious. Nam Goong Min is truly in his element here.

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My sole reason for watching this drama was so that I could compare it to its recent reboot, 2 Moons 2. And yeah, in that regard I found 2M really lacking.

Most of the actors felt so very flat but I could’ve taken that if at least the story was interesting. Spoiler: It wasn’t. To be perfectly honest, around mid-series, I started skipping the PhaYo scenes and I stuck around for one reason and one reason only: MingKit. Ming & Kit, their story, and especially Kit were the saving grace of this drama. They certainly gave me a different vibe than their reboot counterparts and that made it interesting enough for me to keep going.

To sum it up: Behind the scenes BS aside, I’m very glad that the production company didn’t make S2 of this drama but rather rebooted the whole thing. It seems namely that they learned from their own mistakes and they made 2M2 much faster paced and much more dynamic. Also, they developed all three pairings and not just PhaYo with a side dish of MingKit.

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This definitely wasn’t what I expected. I expected the usual university romance and little more but as it turned out, it was actually a story about friendship and traditions, about learning how to be respectful and how to cooperate with other people. All the characters were great, the writers actually paid attention not just to the leads but to the supporting ensemble too! I’ve rarely cared about a Thai drama as a whole, not just about one specific storyline, before but here I did.

I watched the series mainly for New Thitipoom, my Thai bias, who played M, the lead’s, Kong’s, best friend. And I loved how his character turned out, he was just precious, sweet and goofy and so nice! He made me root for M and May and it was too bad that after M’s love confession, May simply disappeared from the show, M was just seen talking to her on the phone and that was it.

What surprised me was how soft Arthit turned out to be. He as the head hazer seemed so hard and vengeful, a real bully, only for us to find out about halfway through the drama that he actually hated his role, he hated shouting and being so harsh to the freshmen, it just didn’t sit well with him at all. That was a really nice surprise.

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I picked up this drama for Ahn Jae Hyun but it turned out to be really good, the plot and everything. I liked the friendship among the main four protagonists, the lead detective and his ex-wife, the story itself…

There were two things that stuck with me.

When the lead detective, Seo Pan Seok, realized that unless someone did something, the prosecution would never let them investigate the assemblyman. When he asked his team, “Given a chance, will you do this? Will you get him?” and they all assented, he went and sacrificed his whole career to get them the chance they needed. I actually cried.

And then Park Tae Il, Ahn Jae Hyun’s character. I love that Ahn Jae Hyun likes to take chances with his characters, go against the stream. Like here, Park Tae Il’s guilt over how he handled his brother’s coming out. The fact that Park Tae Il fell in love with an older woman. And mainly that their cop colleagues claimed that he was gay because they saw him leaving gay bars - and it was never debunked by the drama, that he did that.

Overall, it was a very good show even though the ending felt a bit rushed and some of the conclusions they came to felt a bit too out there. I’m still very glad that I watched it.

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For once, I loved and I was interested in every character in this drama, both het and gay. I loved aggressive Pan and her soft Fah. I loved player Min and prickly Wan. I loved Puth and Sung and their friendship. I loved Kluay and Achi. I loved Coach Tee and Kan…

And I loved Waii and Apo.

Their stories weren’t always easy to watch. They didn’t always make the best decisions. The original members of the club were pretty much bullies, not really inherently bad, but spoiled brats who always got away with everything so they never had a reason to change and it took a lot of soul searching for them to become better people.

For me, the most interesting arcs were Pan & Fah’s and Waii & Apo’s. Mainly because Pan and Waii were so hard and aggressive and hostile, and Fah and Waii so soft and serene and kind. I also loved that both Pan and Waii were bi - Pan was leaning more towards women but she still fell for Fah; Waii was also leaning more towards women but he still fell for Apo. And I loved that the club members supported them both, that they never made an issue of Pan dating women or Waii, their captain, falling for a guy. They were all spoiled brats but this wasn’t an issue for them, go figure.

All in all, I loved this drama and I’m going to miss it. Especially Waii & Apo because the way their relationship developed so naturally and easily it was a pleasure to watch.

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I watched this drama pretty much the way I watched Love Sick: I stuck with one storyline and ignored everything else. In this case, I watched Sandee and Thada and their gang because their story was actually interesting - and it had Pete and Kao. The arc with Sandee’s older sister I skipped, it really didn’t grab me.

But, gosh, the gang, their friendship, the way they bickered, fought and made up, I loved it. It was funny and touching and there was so much going on in the background, especially with Pete and Kao, which was revealed very late in the game only for us to realize how much that impacted the whole story.

Another thing I found interesting was the arc with Thada and the girl he saw as his sister and who had mental problems and became fixated on him. That was very intriguing and I was glad that the girl’s parents didn’t actually blame Thada for the girl’s obsession.

So yeah, Sandee, Thada, Pete, Kao and June? Great. Everything else? Pass.

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I loved Cha Eunwoo in this drama. In RL, he’s such a ball of happy so his part was so different from his real him and he pulled it off marvelously. And I loved that he and the lead actress got along fabulously according to the BTS vids, those made me grin.

Now to the series. I wish we got to see more of Kyung Suk’s family, how he got along with his mom now, with his sister, if he ever reconciled with his dad. And the same goes for Mi Rae and her family. I would take that over the many side couples that mostly went nowhere.

Also, should I have felt bad for Soo Ah? Because I didn’t. She might’ve been a victim herself but that didn’t give her the right to abuse and bully others. And she didn’t even got her due for anything she did because at the end, everybody once again treated her like a victim. Only Kyung Suk saw right through her till the very end. Even then, she didn’t come to him to apologize for all the crap she pulled on him, no, she came to tell him she never liked him. Like the spiteful person she always was.

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