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The plot description is pretty misleading. As far as I know, their characters are friends who support each other, not lovers. Noh Sanghyun's character is gay.

This is literally incorrect. “Any sort of sexual content” like mentioning masturbation and implying a character was masturbating without showing it directly is literally “teens and above” content. 18+ indicates explicit sex scenes. There’s nothing remotely like that in this drama and if you think it warrants such a rating, you’re a loser and a dumbass, therefore: get a life.

In terms of investigative/crime dramas, Nobody Knows, Through the Darkness, Stranger, King of Pigs, The Lies Within, Children of Nobody, Watcher to some extent. I'd also recommend the cdramas The Long Night and The Bad Kids.

This sounds like a Chinese Republican version of The Americans. Which is pretty cool! But I wonder if there will be actual romance within this fake marriage, since it's not in the tags.

My Wife Is a Thief was supposed to release on iQiyi a year ago…

I'm dropping this for the same reason I dropped 3 Nen A Gumi; I can't stand dramas where people in high-school uniforms sit around in a classroom and give long tearful speeches about how cruel bullying is that somehow make the bullies feel bad or break down in anger. It feels so theatrical in every sense of the word. The scene is static and artificial like in a play and so are the monologues. That's not how bullying gets resolved in the real world. Just take the recordings you made to the principal's office and the drama can end right there.

Korean school dramas tend to be more dynamic and less naive in their treatment of these issues. I want a thriller with some mystery and bite, not a melodrama about some mousy loser somehow browbeating a class of teenage monsters into submission by preaching to them for hours.

Also, like, the protagonist could just quit her job? No one's forcing her to stay there for a year until she gets killed? "Oh, but if a student already wants to kill me, they'll find me wherever I am." One, no they won't. Are your students Jason Bourne? Two, why would anyone already want to kill you when it's your first day teaching this class? Three, murder tends to be highly situational and if you remove yourself from the situation you won't get murdered. A high schooler isn't going to bother chasing you around the globe once you're no longer in direct proximity to them! Ugh, the premise itself is so stupid.

There's absolutely nothing explicit in it, so no, it's not. There's a brief discussion of masturbation, which is appropriate for teens and up. Unless you think 15-year-olds don't know what masturbation is?

What a weird question. No.

They're not airing it to promote brother-sister reproduction? This show has nothing to do with the Japanese birth rate.

OMG, the first episode was so fun and reminded me of my own relationship with my mother. If the rest of the drama holds up, it will join Into the Ring as another great Park Sunghoon romcom.

Ugh, THANK YOU. Overacted, underwritten, conventional schlock that gets a pass from horny viewers who've never seen a good thriller in their lives.

I'm intrigued by the pilot. It's funny this and Barakamon premiered in the same week; they're two very different shows about a dude who's facing a professional crisis and moves from Tokyo to the Japanese countryside to find himself.

ECOTVsubs are subbing it, I think. Search for their profile on Twitter if you can't find their blog using Google. You'll have to set up a profile on their site, but it's free and easy.

I agree Yang Yang is pretty stiff here. His character in the novel is a bit of a cipher as well; it's not clear whether he still has feelings for Xu Qin as soon as they reconnect or only becomes aware of his feelings/falls back in love with her later, and it's not clear when exactly he decides to forgive/pursue her, or even why he's in love with her in the first place. At the end of the novel it's revealed he saved up money over the years to buy the house she always wanted when they were together in school, but if he had no intention of getting back together with her, why did he do that? Why didn't he give up on the idea of buying the house when he was drummed out of the special forces and gave up on Xu Qin? If he did it just to spite her, when did his feelings change again? Was his initial indifference to her a mask hiding boiling hot anger and if yes, why did that never really come through?

Again, his character is very vague in the novel IMO. A competent screenwriter tasked with adapting the novel for TV would add some scenes to clarify Song Yan's feelings and motivations, but in order to really elevate the character and breathe life into him, you need an actor who can make Song Yan feel like a real person, and Yang Yang isn't the right guy for the job.

He played a similarly stoic man in You Are My Glory, but the script there did more to showcase his emotions/character development, so although Yang Yang wasn't very expressive, his character was fine. He was helped a lot by the script.

I have to say I don't find Zhang Bin Bin impressive either, though. He tends to overact with his voice. But I agree Wei Daxun is doing a good job.

I see, thank you!

Where did you find the subs? I've been looking everywhere, but I can't even figure out who's subbing it.

I also don’t get why she needed constant in-patient treatment and to spend her days in bed, other than to look pitiful and frail, but she wasn’t there for 13 years. I think it was mentioned at some point that she lost her memories a year before Anzu entered the Mitarai home. We don’t really know what triggered it, though. I agree that part of the story needed more work to make sense.

No.

I tried watching the first episode on dramacool, but the subs there were so bad they didn’t even get the FL’s name right but kept calling her “Emperor Ziyuan” (with all the misunderstandings that come from that). Are there better subs somewhere and will this drama be on Viki, iQiyi or Netflix? Since they provide their own subs, which are coherent at least.

I doubt a toddler could sit through 12 hours of any TV show for adults. Just show him some of OJS’s scenes and tell him about his character?