Critty

It's a good laugh

Basically copy-pasting what I wrote in the comments section here-
Why would you wanna watch this? Well, why not?

This show was like a fever dream I swear!😂 You know when you're scrolling through youtube or insta and something peaks your interest every now and then? Well, that's exactly how I felt while watching this show! It was so over-the-top dramatic, silly, goofy, and at times, strangely funny, I was genuinely shocked each time I'd catch myself grinning or giggling😂
Honestly, wouldn't be offended by the idea of another season

This show is definitely not for everyone. The artistic style is a choice. It's meant to come off as bad, but entertaining and light-hearted. I respect it, and respect that it might not be everyone's cup of tea.

Will I be watching this series again? Maybe not the entire thing. But I might come back and watch an ep or 2 if I'm down just to lighten my mood

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The Best Drama I have seen yet!!!

This was a FREAKING AMAZING DRAMA! I'm in love with it! You all have no idea what you're missing out on if you don't watch it! Its was beautifully acted out. Every moment of every episode keeps you on your toes, wanting despirately to know what will happen next! And the number of time you will cry is just uncountable! I cried every episode and the last episode made me cry , and I kid you not, at least 12 time! The ending is just too perfect and wholesme and heart-warming! Finally seeing these two get a happy ending is truely a blissful feeling that can't be compared with anything else!
It was just so beautiful I can't even tell how much of a rollercoaster ride this was for me. And the number of Plot twist! Oh my God! They were killing me! It's an amazing series that should be watched! It's a must!

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Review for the ending episode

As expected from the finale, there were a lot of tears that were shed on Fushimi san's behalf! I swear this man has made me cry more than any other character I cried for!!! That amount of toxins released through those tears lol...!
Back to the plot of the episode, I love that Komaki wasn't Miho san's murderer as I was hopeful for! I rightfully believed in that child of mine! He was blackmailed into doing everything! and he did it all just to save Kyouske san and I love him for that!
Just like any other ep, I LOVED Minatogawa. She is so much fun to watch! Her not interfering in that fight while the minister was being abducted really ingenious of her!
We finally found out why Miho san was killed in the first place, that crazy-ass strong assassin, robotic ninja guy finally got his ass handed to him and that entire fight sequence was so much of fun to watch!!! I LOVED IT!!!
The ending was very bittersweet as we once again went back to the team operation on their own, after KSBC having been shut down due to the director being behind the cover-up of around 20 cases! It was similar to how the series began with Fushimi san running away from a group of thugs, then later being joined by Minatogawa to beat their asses!!!
And WHAT WAS THAT ENDING!!! LIKE EXCUSE ME! So you're telling me that no one EVER noticed that design tag on Shimabara's sister's bag! That ending snatched my wig I swear!!! LIKE WHAT!
Anyway, LOVED this series, and definitely would love it if they ever decide to make a sequel! I mean, I would definitely love it, but please, make my Fushimi Kyouske happy in it!!

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A story that treats its audience with dignity and respect!

Its been a while since I've written a review, so bear with me hehe😅
I'm giving the show a re-watch value of 8.5 cuz I think i need to be in a certain mind space to watch this show in its entirety due to the angst and anger 3 of the characters bring out within you! You can def catch me rewatching my fave scenes and moments from the show!

To Cherish and Love is one of those rare lakorns I've come across with good, consistent writing, where the audience feels like they are a part of the story themselves, living with the characters' lives and feeling what they feel.
Before I can delve into anything, I have to give a shout-out to the young actors portraying the younger versions of our main leads. They truly made the story feel alive, as if their life experience did happen; their friendship, love, heartbreak, everything was indeed lived through. So so beautifully portrayed, your healt wept for the characters, and understood them much better!

The story focuses on a hard-working woman- K'Ran who is the sole bread-winner of the household after the passing of her father. In order to meet basic needs, she works multiple jobs to keep their family of 4 afloat and comfortable, always taking care of others, but not herself, as she believes she doesn't deserve it.
N'Dao, the youngest character, is a very mischievous and energetic fujoushi, who goes to great lengths in order to make sure that her favourite pairing isn't separated (I wish they could have touched on this a bit more, showing that bl actors are human too, and need to be respected as such, and are not there for "fans" to force their beliefs onto their "idols". It at least shows that bl actors behind the scenes do have relationships with women, which I appreciated, so 0.5% cut!). N'Dao does this by basically managing to sneak past all the security of the TV-Station of the ML and gives him an earful.

The male lead, forced into an engagement by his mother with K'Nana, shows no affection towards her, as his heart still beats for K'Ran though he's been trying to forget about his hurtful past. When he meets his ex-K'Ran, the FL at his company unexpectedly, he is livid. He threatens to fire her, but K'Ran is resilient, patient, and self-sacrificing, painfully so. She tries her hardest to fight for her survival at her ex's company.

I did not like how K'Yai treated her, but based on what he believed: that K'Ran is a heartless, selfish woman who goes after rich men, his actions make sense. I am not saying I support him making the FL's life ever more of a living hell than it already is in the slightest, but the story is so well-written that you hate him for what he is doing, and also want him to have an honest conversation with himself and have his eyes opened! He truly cares for K'Ran, but at the same time, he is afraid she is after K'Sam (his best friend from the US, a bl actor at his company who also falls for K'Ran's kind heart and resilience) and his younger brother K'Lek as they are rich. He makes her overwork herself so that she doesn't get time to "seduce" his friend or brother.

The show is very well executed in that, you not even for a moment feel confused or lost in the plot. You do not feel like your emotions are being played with. When you have a doubt, it gets resolved, even if not immediately within the same ep. The best part is that there is not a single miscommunication or misunderstanding (yes I choose to say this because K'Ran chose to lie to K'Yai deliberately). There are NO dumb characters!!! The story flows naturally, and the characters are actually intelligent! They find out the truth on their own, and the audience doesn't feel like we are being spoon-fed/info-dumped.

I absolutely LOVED that the other 2 male characters did NOT fight for K'Ran. They instead fought to keep her happy, to help her earn, and eat well lol, cuz that woman refuses to take care of herself my God! Thank God for K'Lek being there! And once both K'Sam and K'Lek realise K'Yai still loves K'Ran, they do their absolute best to help them both get back together again!

I am not giving the show a 10 simply because I am not satisfied with how the story dealt with K'Yai's narcissistic, selfish, clearly, hurt, AND psychotic, masochist of a mother (I wanted to cut off an entire 1%, but that would mean the entire show in only 85%), who was the cause of the rift between K'Yai and K'Ran. Living with a person like her, I know first hand that such a person will not change, whether over a long period of time (in my family's case-25+ years), or overnight just because their safety is threatened. They can pretend they have turned a new leaf, but they will NEVER accept their mistake, or let the world know of it if they can help it. So K'Aoijay revealing her disgusting deeds to the world, AND getting off scot-free really pissed me off.

Character ranking:
Grandma: Hands-down best character! And truly wise!
K'Lek: Gosh adorable bean!
K'Ran: So glad she is finally happy!
K'Sam: Can we have more men/2nd leads like this please!!!
K'Yai: You can see he's gotten his mother's masochistic tendencies, but he becomes better, and learns from his mistakes!
K'Dao: Annoying little devil (saying this is the sweetest way possible😂)

K'Nana: Girl please learn some self-worth! And someone make her pay an actual price for trying to make K'Ran's life hellish in highschool!
K'Aoijay: Lady, you need to pay for your crimes against your son, you daughter-in-law (especially), and mother-in-law, AND your granddaughter!

I'd honestly love to see a continuation of the show with just our main CP living together, a happy and fullfilled life filled with laughter and warmth. That way we could also get to see if K'Ran wants to explore going back to her studies, or Taekwando, seeing that she's truly stopped blaming herself for her father's death

And, can someone PLEASE cast the young actors portraying K'Ran and K'Yai as a couple or even friends in another show! Their chemistry was so natural!!!

Truly a great journey overall!
PS: Did anyone else feel K'Film has lost more weight or was it just me...? Ma man, you are perfect the way you are! Please don't lose weight!

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Strong start and great yearning, but the lost writers...

Plot wise, the story had great potential! The coup, K'Great changing the timeline (which, tell me, HOW ARE THERE NO REPERCUSSIONS!), the poor linking of the past with present-day, and the obvious comparison this show has with LUOAT due to the similar time period (LD being set in 1036, and LUOAT in 1038), and having aired just a couple months apart.
I wish they had stuck with just one or two prominent plot points, and explored those throughout the series instead of throwing the characters in different scenarios. At one point, the characters weren't causing the plot progression, bt rather, the plot was happening to them just because there were episodes to be filled in my opinion.

The finale was very choppy. The sudden odd pacing, juming from one scene to the next, the weird pre-credits ending, leading to us thinking there might be a 2nd season...

Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy the show alot, and infact, at the time of its airing, this was the only ongoing thai bl I was looking forward to every week, and anticipating what would happen next (futile though), but after a while I feel the writers didn't know what to do with so much they had set up. And that finale was just...
Like I mentioned earlier, the coup happening with Falcon, his love marriage with K'Marie (which I don't see happening as she has very different thinking and morals by the end of the show), then the murder attempt on Falcon as well. Did they ever actually resolve that? I don't remember anymore...
To top it off, Falcon is apparently working with the French to overthrow the govt as well. Then there is K'Siri, a renowned poet. His story also gets unfairly treated, with the writers killing him off in the penultimate ep. The issue is that we didn't get to sit with his death. Yeah we saw how everyone reacted, but there should have been more to it than just them being sad, and crying, and the king killing the ruler of the other province who killed him.

Then there's the matter of K'Great changing the history inexplicably by telling people what to do and what not to do w/o any repercussions which I hated.

But, as a love story it was nice. The yearning, the pining! Absolute peak! I have to say, I'd have loved to see more of the recent day timeline, or at least more of K'Reung and Dr. Wad/Dr. Rit and nurse Wayu. The fact that the second couple got together before the main couple, and even the servants being in a relationship sent me laughing like crazy! Really enjoyed that unexpected turn of events!

I wished that this show would have treated gay love as normal, cuz I remember a friend of mine had said that the laws on same-sex weren't there (or as strict, I'm not entirely certain since this was a couple years back) back in the 1670s . So no threat of prison, execution, or any of that. I had wished for it in LUOAT, and here as well, but alas...

Cinematography: Stunning!
Chemistry: Really good!
Costumes: Really good!
OST: Absolute bop!
Makeup and props: Wonderful!

Characters:
Past-
K'Gaew: A kind-hearted idiot who doesn't care about the consequences of spoiling the timeline, but lovable nonetheless
K'Dech: Good suspicious, but could have questioned K'Gaew straightup, even if he realised it wasn't his Gaew.
K'Reung: This man had me pining for his love!
K'Wad: A bit of a prik at the start, but you grow to love him! kinda...

Present-day-
Dr.'Great: one of the worst surgeons I have ever scene! Can never forget screaming at my screen in ep one for him to continue with the heart massage, instead of turning around, looking at his collegue, and declaring death!!!
Dr.'Rit: Same as K'Great. Some great docs they are!
Dr.Duncan: Didn't get to see much of him, but same critic of whatever we did see of him.
K'Wayu: Bro is a little bean! You go punish your man when he humiliates you due to his own fear!!!
Wish we'd gotten to see Rit/Wayu a whole lot more! I need their story! How did they start! what lead them to e/o! So much potential! And the chemistry muah! chef's kiss!

LUOAT did great with juggling the story b/w the present and the past, the side characters, and even the multiple romance plots going on, whereas this left a lot to be desired. I'm still not sure how to rate this actually cuz I did enjoy it while it aired, but when thinking back to the entire story progression, it fell down real fast, which is a real shame.

Honestly, with that ending before the credits rolled, I expected a 2nd season, but unfortunately (or fortunately lmao) that won't happen cuz they fixed that conundrum up real quick...

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Episode 1 Review

The beginning was interesting, and the plot progressed relatively well and had a slow pace to it, which worried me honestly, and my fears weren't in vain because, I think after 3/4th of the ep, the main CP's relationship development jumped from the bottom of the sea to the atmosphere! Literally, there was a difference of day and night!
I get Tew disliked Aek, and I also get Aek disliking Tew for some reason and that was all well and all, until suddenly after that unintentional kiss, they suddenly were nice with each other and were sweet and by the end, lovey-dovey!!!(except that one scene which confused me when Aek refused P'Kong on taking Tew to the hospital, like why was that even there cuz it seemed like it would have fit better before their sudden feelings developed for one another!) I also get that we see 'extremely hard to catch' hints of Tew being gay probably (especially after that sudden chu), but apart from that, there was nothing atall that said he'd develop feelings for a guy, and that too for Aek out of all people!
The story had a lot of potential I'm not gonna lie and I'm sure if they had utilized at least 5 episodes to develop their feelings for one another, I'd have had this ranked higher, and maybe even liked it!
Because these are new characters for us, I think if they had 2 CPs per episode, then it would have been nice and their stories might have had made some sense and may have also been cohesive in the end.

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