MarkWasHere

Making decisions about what you watch based on other peoples opinions is a bit silly. If the plot interests you, then just start watching it. If you like it, keep watching it. If you don't like it, then drop it and watch something else. There probably isn't a drama on MDL that at least some people aren't insisting is terrible and you shouldn't watch it.

This drama is average. It's not great, but its also not nearly as terrible as some comments would have you believe. The current MDL score of 7.4 is an accurate measure of the quality of this drama in my opinion. Personally, I scored it as 7.5.

It is definitely on Netflix Australia. If you genuinely cannot watch it legally in your country, then the alternative is to watch it on an "unofficial" streaming platform such as kisskh.

You're best to join a group like …
https://mydramalist.com/discussions/general-asia-forum/91593-gl-drama-lovers-club
… and you'll get questions like that answered promptly.

AI … AI … AI …

I'm always interested to hear what AI thinks about things.

With a VPN, you can watch any country's Netflix.

It's a high quality drama, but it is hard to watch. Endless suffering, torture, murder followed up by some more suffering, torture and murder. If you watch dramas to feel good afterwards, then give this one a miss. This drama is dark.

I've submitted a page for Tanya Zhao. I've confirmed that it is still sitting in the queue waiting for someone to approve it.

I have also heard that she is 25, although I don't know her DOB. I submitted a MDL page for Tanya Zhao about three weeks ago, and have not yet heard anything back. I assume my submission is still sitting in a queue somewhere.

First I'd say that 7.9 is not "so low", but I agree it is a lower than what the show deserves. I'm hopeful the show will end up in the low 8's when it is done. Lots of viewers don't score a drama until its finished.
I do suspect that there would be at least some Yoko fans downvoting the show, but of course there's no way of knowing how many.
From what I've seen so far, the show is pretty good. I'm currently scoring it at 8.5. It certainly isn't flopping - episodes are getting about three quarters of a million views each.

I was wondering what AI felt about this episode. Thank you for sharing AI's opinion? Did you have your own opinion that you'd also like to share?

It's cute, but the plot is very thin, especially the first 6 episodes. There just isn't much happening and there are too many filler scenes that seem to exist solely to extend the runtime. The actors did an adequate job, but the plot didn't present them with any opportunity to showcase their acting skills. Graphics and sound effects were overused.
If you just want to see cute and fluffy, and don't care about the plot, then you might enjoy this. If you are after an engaging plot, tension, drama etc., then this drama probably isn't for you.
7/10.

Thanks. I actually dropped that drama, but a lot of people loved it.

My most hated trope is all of drama land is noble idiocy. I didn't realise when I started watching this drama that it has noble idiocy as a central plot point in the second half of the drama. If I knew this, I would have never started watching it. Even though I didn't enjoy the episodes during the noble idiocy years, and did a fair bit of skipping to get through them, I thought that overall the drama was pretty good, especially the first half.

What is "lbfad"?

'sup?

And some things you could possibly dislike … such as the very tired and way overused trope of noble idiocy.

I see similarities with Moon Ga Young, especially when you look at her face from the side.

I suspect that Faye chose a younger actress to work with because of the success of "Blank", and the fact that the age gap was generally popular with her fans. Personally I am a fan of age gap dramas, so I support the decision by Faye to work with Atom.