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High-quality cinematography, hot bikers, familiar but still heart-fluttering tropes. What is there not to like? Rain and Sky’s friendship is funny and realistic. The music in the initial scene was unnecessarily scary, though. I thought that there were drugs in those trucks. xDNo! I take my words back. This is extremely creepy and scary. It is making me uncomfortable.
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The cryptic scary scenes are what drew me in, but the supernatural element is the most interesting part. The OSTs are beautiful. However, I think that at least ten minutes of this episode could have been cut out without losing any important scenes.
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This episode was a heart-warming conclusion to the series – a beautiful happy ending that brought tears to my eyes.
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This episode is a hilarious start to the series. Annie, the main character, was fleshed out well, and I warmed up to her despite her flaws as a person. I am curious to trace her character development in the subsequent episodes. Cris's acting is too much at times, though, as is Pookie's. I understand that this was done for comedic effect, but I wish that the production team had asked both actresses to tone their performances down. Furthermore, they should have cast other girls as Annie and Tina's younger versions because Cris looks too young to be her older self, while Pookie looks too old to be her younger self.Drake deserves special praise. Although he had only a minute of screentime in this episode, he stood out to me. I feel like he will shine in this role more than in any of his previous ones. The way in which he delivered his line "But Mom, this is my life" had no business being this funny.
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This episode was refreshing to watch after I struggled through the previous two episodes. The plot finally progressed, and we finally got a little of Puen's backstory. I am glad that the cliché love triangle was taken care of in the beginning of the episode – this spared unnecessary drama. Talay and Puen's interactions continue to be touchingly sweet and a delight to watch. The cinematography again delievered several breathtaking scenes.However, I had to skip many scenes because they dragged, or were irrelevant to the plot, and the product placements continue to be annoying. Furthermore, while Sea and Jimmy handle sweet, funny, and romantic scenes well, their acting is not convincing when they have to convey negative emotions.
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The main couple still has sweet chemistry, and their interactions make my heart flutter. The cinematography is just as brilliant as in the previous episodes. Some scenes are breathtakingly beautiful, and Sea and Jimmy's acting is great. Jimmy especially is deliciously charismatic. As the series progresses, I am increasingly impressed with his performance. Kudos to him for the improvement. However, the story does not have the pacing and tension needed in a science fiction series. The plot is that of a well-done college romance reminiscent of Theory of Love. The development of the alternate-universe subplot is insufficient. I think that it would have been so much better if this series was written as just a college romance with a body-swap trope.On a side note, I do not understand why viewers are complaining about an excessive number of product placements. For now at least, the product placements are neither many nor obtrusive.
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Wow! This episode was a masterpiece from its stunning cinematography to the OSTs, to the beautiful development of the characters' relationship. The tender, deeply romantic chemistry between Talay and Puen made my heart flutter. But the final scene, ah! It was the culmination: the fond and passionate gazes, Jimmy's gentle voice, the lighting – magical. I am falling in love with this series.
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This series is getting more intriguing each episode. I think that it has become obvious by now that FirstKhao’s chemistry is hot and makes our hearts flutter, so I will not comment on this. I will just say that I appreciate that this series is doing the enemies-to-lovers trope justice by not skipping any of the stages of this trope.I am astonished by Ayan’s complexity. For me, he is easily one of the best written characters in BL ever. To watch his facade slowly break and his true self – kind, vulnerable, broken – reveal itself was fascinating. Maybe it is because I experienced similar oppression in high school when I dared to go against the system and because I also lost people I love that Ayan and his struggles speak volumes to me, but I do not remember when I was last so in love with a fictional character. Kudos to Khao and the scriptwriters. Magical. Although this was a relatively light-hearted episode, it brought tears to my eyes. This series hits disturbingly close to home for me.I graduated from my country’s most prestigious high school this year. The teachers there were more or less copies of those in these series in terms of how they treated us students. Aunt Waree eerily reminds me of my Math teacher – she treated me the same way Waree treats Ayan. In junior year of high school, I decided to go against the system. I will not get into details, but overall, I fought for my freedom of choice. I won. At what cost, though? The teachers did to me what they were doing to Ayan in this episode. They targeted me and lowered my grades on purpose so that eventually I would not have as high a GPA as I needed for the prestigious universities that I was applying to. Furthermore, my class teacher told my classmates while I was absent that I disliked them, which was a complete lie. Episode four does not explore this in that much detail, but believe me, Ayan is going through Hell. I know it because I have been there. I also know the pain of grieving for a beloved person who is not with you anymore. I know how it feels to tell someone “He is dead” and smile and brush it off when they say that they are sorry. I know what it is like to cry alone in bed and put on a stoic facade in front of close ones who are also grieving and in front of those who want to see you break. Ayan is gorgeous in his inner strength and kindness. He is a character that touches and inspires – a rare gem. Overall, episode four was brilliant. I cannot wait for next week!
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Aside from the final part, this episode did not develop the plot in any important way. Furthermore, the scene with the doll was unnecessarily dramatic. Its burning was not any more serious than the other incidents that happened throughout the series. Khan and Thua's confession scene was wholesome, though.
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What can I say? The couples got their happy endings. There were sweet moments and emotional moments, and funny moments. It was a delight to watch.However, there were so many plot holes left unfilled that I could not help feeling annoyed.
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We are introduced to another couple whose dynamics border on the non-consensual. It is not romantic in the slightest. The scene itself was great, though, and so was the OST for it.
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With each episode, this series becomes more like a fanfic. I skipped half of episode ten because it was so predictable. The plot continues to be nonexistent.
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The first half of episode two shows what happened in episode one again. I do not understand what the point of this is. This series drags too much. I like Kang Ji Hoon a lot, though. He is a kind person. However, what the script makes him do makes no sense. How could he take the child to his dorm? The child told him that his mother will come home in the morning. Does Ji Hoon not realize that she will be scared when she sees that her son is missing?
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High&Low: The Story of S.W.O.R.D. Season 2 Episode 2
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Friends cannot always stay together. Life separates us, but it might bring us together again, and there is no use to cling to the past. This is the message of this episode. I feel sorry for Kohaku, though. Mugen was his only family. Tatsuya is a such a wise person and good friend. It makes sense that Cobra and Yamato became great people too. They learned from him. High and Low turns out to be a card game! It is nice to learn where the names of this series comes from. The Mighty Warriors' fashion is something. That one T-shirt with Soviet emblems on it cracked me up. It is so great to see positive black representation. At a time when Hollywood was still giving black actors the roles of one-dimensional sidekicks, the scriptwriters of High&Low gave ELLY's character a likeable personality and a story.
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High&Low: The Story of S.W.O.R.D. Season 2 Episode 1
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If you follow the light, a shadow will appear. However, the stronger the light is, the thicker the shadow will get. This episode told the story of Mugen. Tatsuya is the person at whose photo Naomi was looking in season one. The Mighty Warriors are something like good pirates? I like them.
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