Perfect first half, dragged second half

This drama has high quality of production, not usual lakorn, also no cliches, stupid or one dimensional characters, predictable plot, old school mentality or even bad tasting clothes. Also everyone are so good looking, good actors... beautiful scenes, crazy chemistry romance(s), even music is good (I never liked music in Tai series)...
But... problem is that while first 5-6 episodes are super fast paced, 10/10 with every component being perfect, also first half of series (11-12 series) could do 8 or 9 rating, was interesting, beautiful and really great! but then it becomes soo stretched out... Maybe it's even more noticeable and disturbing because the beginning of the story unfolded so quickly and perfectly.
they added soap opera lines and cringe scenes, by the last episodes I had so many cringes, already skipped many scenes, I think ending was also very week and unsatisfactory. Not because who chooses whom, and the resolution of the love triangles, It just could simply be done much more efficiently and logically.
P.S. Also, even though FL is very beautiful and nice, at some point you get tired of her constant crying (she doesn't cry for no reason, but she has had too much).


Despite everything, it's really worth watching, because you won't find many such series, with quality, beautiful, good acting and strong chemistry, also unpredictable plot,
my advice: the perfection of the first series should not make you expect that it will be at this level at the end, having that in mind you will enjoy and watch drama much better then 90% of Tai series.

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don't think it's usual love story (like it seems in first part)

for those people who don't know anything about this manga, other adaptations or what is story about; If you, like me, just picked it up and think watch or not, if you like me think drop it after few episodes, because it looks like another romance about shy girl and popular/cool boy, nothing new or exciding ... JUST WAIT... this drama isn't about love story between Kira and Rei ))))
you will see signs and start understand in second half of the drama but everything will be shown in last 2 episodes, you will see who tells the story and who is main hero/God of war )))

was worth to watch for last 2 episodes full with angst and mystery

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GOD of acting Jo In Sung made pathetic weak not smart ML star of the show

This is really good drama, quite complex and amazing acting from greatest actor Jo In Sung, others were good too. many things are different from classic romance-melodramas, I mean it shows not fairy tale but reality and real characters.
though it should be shorter, I think 12-14 episodes would be good, because many situations are repetitive and even makes it boring in the middle - in the beginning story catches you, ending is bomb too, but most episodes are drugged, but you can't skip because there are many emotional scenes (though repetitive), so it would be much effective drama with interesting start, emotional development and bomb like (perfect) ending if it was shorter.

about Jo In Sung's character: this character would be absolutely unlikable if not acting of Jo In Sung - he wasn't bad guy we all like, wasn't good hero we all cheer, wasn't smart/badass/capable character we all admire, wasn't that kind dramaland classic CEO/rich guy who is attractive... he had nothing to like but Jo In Sung is real god of acting that made this pathetic weak not smart character star of the show....

SPOILERS about ending:
I like the tragic fact, it was perfect fit, Jo In Sung is amazing brilliant actor and I watched it because of him... BUT the whole drama build up natural chemistry between FL and SML, it was obvious that she loved him, though we could feel very sorry for ML (Jo In Sung) it was understandable why she fall in love for second guy. ML really loved her, had everything to give her... but somehow he was misfortunate and it's realistic when some people want to do right thing but their actions become opposite, so she fall for SML not ML...
Also ML's obsession and what he does in the end is understandable and great ending...
I just don't understand last dialogue between FL and SML... after everything she is in good place, with man she wanted, without problems, and all of a sudden she understands that she isn't happy with him and loves other guy? WTF? I can understand if she loved both, maybe more SML (it was obvious from her actions and expressions through all story) but in some way she fall for ML too, loving 2 men same time is rare in movies and maybe never was in kdramas but it's quite realistic and I would like if any drama has courage to show that... But even if she understood that loves/feels sorry for other guy too, it couldn't make her unhappy with the man she loved so long and wanting to leave him (and goo again in same repetitive, hard , impossible situation where she suffered so long) ...

p.s. she was ice cold to ML all the time he loved her like crazy and then says "I love you" when was killed by him in another man's bed? .....

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BOMB of emotions, rarely perfect combination from comedy to drama

it was such amazing drama, couldn't stop watching... Can't believe how it is so underrated ???

when I'm getting bored after 4-6 episodes of 80% dramas, skip half of episodes and almost never cry, with this one I wanted to watch every scene till the end, laughed so much, then cried, but soon after I was laughing loud... but last 3-5 episodes were absolute bomb of emotions. after 200+ doramas I could count on fingers when I was so emotional because of drama...

this drama has simple and warm story like slice of life, that makes you emotional 2-3 times (at list) per episode; sadness of melodrama and so much really funny moments like good comedy; Also it catches you to binge watch like action/adventure/suspense.

it has really amazing positive 3D characters, realistic relationships and overall realistic plot, without primitive cliches, endless misunderstandings, unnatural villains and stupid and/or superhero characters. characters are real humans, not only black and white. There are 5 main leads and 2-3 storyline, all really interesting.

SMALL SPOILERS:
there is emotional friendships: 3 women (FL, SFL and one more) who are friends since high school and support each other and amazing bromance which starts between ML and SML after short time love triangle, they have such healthy relationship, soo sweet... SML is very good guy who can see when his feelings are unrequited (though FL first liked him) and move on, like it would be in real life normal situation, he can be real friend with FL and ML too and ML very much likes him, they form soo lovely bromance which by the end becomes soo deep friendship with understanding and compassion... there were details that is soo rare in Asian dramas (man who is ready to plan date for woman he loves and new friend/ex-rival in love - that much compassion to friend).

everyone were really good, natural acting and delivering realistic 3D characters: positive-funny-supportive-little narcissist ML; strong independent FL; amazing human-supportive-funny-adequate SML, once badass but now abused SFL with character development; very honest-right-smart young guy in love SML (Ji Soo, who was as usual amazing).

p.s.
Kim Tae Hoon was star of the show!!!!

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why they fall in love? story lacks reasons... other that it's great drama

I don't judge it like pedophilia, there are many other teacher/student dramas too.
I have problem with reason - why he falls for her or she falls for him. Though this is really good, high quality drama, with amazing edit and cinematography, good acting and every reason to feel for characters, see chemistry, for me it's kind of misses something big/main from the beginning: ML is in love already in first ep, FL has feelings in 3rd ep, so soon we can't understand their reasons:

What he saw soo soon (almost without any interaction/communication), or what she saw while being in love with other and quite happy.
When you are getting married, really like/love your fiance, are happy and always smiling, there should be something really big to change it and start feeling for 15 year old (it's not only about taboo, but common things, understanding, which is more usual with same age people, and if there is big age/social gap there should be some big reasons, strong emotional changes, not only liking same poem, few meetings alone and hear "I love you" from teenager). Plus FL seems quite strong person, not usual naive/childish female from dramas, she knows what she wants, she really likes (I think loves, but I'm used to see in dramas when main lead then "discovers" that "it wasn't real love", because she/he was not main but second lead and real love should only be once in life and for main lead) her BF, so someone like her/in her situation there should be really big things to start changing feelings.

If they didn't rushed with main leads feelings, give them more time and reasons to see each other, feel, understand each other and then start loving, this would be perfect drama.

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cute story and beautiful mains

It's quite good short drama; beautiful, cute, sweet romance and really sweet chemistry. it's about forbidden love and taboo. We have seen this plot earlier, but still it's really good and worth to watch. Also unlike many (especially Jdramas) other dramas with teacher/student romance, it's not dark and hard watch.
Plus beautiful main leads make watching more enjoyable.

Acting is good and natural. Tor really is good actor with amazing (and very cute) facial expresiones. it's my third drama of him and I like him more and more. Female lead did decent job too.

It's good sometimes to see drama with no cliches, primitive details and banal plot turns.

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mature realistic story, great acting and chemistry

It is really good drama, with realistic plot, where you will see story that could and happens in real life and not primitive cliche soap opera with romantized slap/kiss/violence and/or fairy tale. Maybe it's not every ones cup of tea because it's about infidelity and cheating, but if you haven't problem with it and don't look only dramas with Romeo/Juliete like story, fairy tale fluffs and very morally right characters, this is really interesting story, not drugged (only 4 hours) and overall quite good lakorn/drama.

Acting is really really good, especially 2 leads. ML and FL really have amazing chemistry. their acting, body language is natural and even with this short time you really feel story and characters. I could search only first episodes with subs but it cached me that much first time in my life I watched drama without subs (and I don't understand even word on Thai language) but with good acting I could understand and enjoy it.

big plus is really good looking FL and ML, only watching them is one pleasure especially when they have so good chemistry (as I saw they have another drama and I'm going to start it tomorrow).
Also (for my taste) it's good to see gray characters, real humans, not too perfect or too evil. Practically no one is here fully good or right... subject of infidelity itself causes it, but this drama also added characters extra layers and complexity to relationships.
Another plus is quite unpredictable plot - you won't know what will happen next or how it will end. some may like ending, some (including me) not really, but I think it's also realistic and fits the drama. It's not that kind story which could have super happy ending or tragic, there isn't any version which would be super happy or tragic.

I really recommend it

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Great second season

Second season was better and much deeper which is rare.
I really had British "Skins" (greatest teen tv series) vibe with second season and last episode of 1th season. Win is much like to Tony and Phai/Sprite are kind of (much) lighter version of Freddie/Effy. These 3 characters were my favorite!

Win's and Phai's episodes were mind blowing! mature deep, amazingly acted and directed/executed.
Other characters also developed good, love/romance wasn't too much (I mean unrealistically romantized) everithing was like real life.

how can same country produce something like that and those vulgar primitive lakorns with middle ages social mentality ???

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Antihero ML, main couple's realistic romance and second couple more like ML/FL with better chemistry

ML and FL are more like SML and SFL (especially anti hero-ish ML) and kind hearted SML and positive lovely but poor SFL are more like ML and FL. Plus all 4 main leads have almost equal screen time (though FL maybe has more and except of 4 lead's screen time there are lots of scenes/story line of FL's family). Even romance of second couple looks more like main romance, on the other hand main couples relationship is somehow cold and uncertain. I would say in this drama 4 leads are equally mains.

As everyone mentions, second couple as characters and as romance are better, though I still have interest in main couple, because 1. I like ML actor 2. I'm interested in ML as character, we still don't know what kind of person he is, what's his goal and what he really feels about his close people. Though I can't see chemistry in main couple and will be bored/skip after story will be clear.

one of best thing in this drama - it doesn't have primitive cliche dialogues, silly misunderstandings and stupid characters who can't see/think/understand obvious things and doesn't have 0 logic. This characters think and talk like normal people, sometimes dialogues are even quite complex and about subjects that really makes you think about it.

Overall it's not WOW drama but still interesting, it quite realistically shows human characteristic trough main leads, I like that it hasn't traditional narrative that poor ML is better person than rich playboy-ish SML (for the middle of the drama it's more opposite), also showing that poor people want to be rich/powerful is natural, also these wish can have different shades (ML and SFL for example). At the end all this details make characters real humans not fairytale-ish perfect heroes and I like it. In this drama main 4 characters are all different and quite 3D, though I less like FL and her reasons/characteristics could be better written.

Edit: I don't agree that main couple is bad/uninteresting, opposite - they are very interesting because story is realistic, ML even kind of "bad" is realistic, which is rare... Not every couple who dates has big chemistry and big love from the beginning but in dramas we only see this "true big love stories" especially with main leads, so I liked that in this case it was realistic story/romance. On the other hand we have second couple with cute chemistry and all the vanilla that drama lovers like!
So could be said - this drama managed to show both realistic and fairytale romances, without much primitiveness and cliches.

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Beautiful, emotional, sad and amazing!

OMG this was so emotional, so beautiful and sad like poetry !
I rare have that much emotions after movie... and first time on MDL I feel angry about other peoples reviews.... how anyone can rate this movie so low and say "couldn't feel love"...
Main leads chemistry was crazy, male leads acting is sooo great you can feel how he can't breath from love, female lead was good too, her acting isn't on ML's level but it's understandable - she was young actress next to veteran actor.
Cinematography with music was so beautiful and harmonic, every scene was needed and good or great!
Main plot and screen time is romance and main leads (though movie is ML's point of view, more his story) but even few scenes without main leads was so well done to show society (not in very dark colors, how it is often with subject of infidelity but still with it's real bitterness) trough soldier's wives and how they discus events and people. I had expectations of more dark/tragic consequenses from society/outer world and was afraid of it, I've seen movies with infidelity especially not modern world and often it's so dark and cruel that after watching you have very hard/bed mood, and I was glad that this movie didn't dramatized too much. Also secondary characters are good, not too much bad or good, I mean to credit main leads or justify their actions (especially infidelity), often movies and tv shows make other characters too bad, so here wasn't that case. Overall every detail, every scene, character was exactly how it should be.
Mature context and sex scenes were also sooo beautiful, I can't remember sex shown as beautifully (I only had this feeling about western tv series "Outlander"), it was so open, shown full acts and still so esthetic... it was making love!

p.s. I'm rating story 9'5 because when I see "all 10" reviews I think it's not rational and trustworthy, though story hadn't weak parts, but always is chance of something better, so because I don't love rate every aspect with 10, story gets unfear 9'5 ))))

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trash that still makes you want to watch )))

it's bad written trash without logic, unrealistic plot and cliches, I was going to drop from first part of episode 1 but... now I'm watching 10th episode ))) why? here are only reasons:
1. Rain - I liked him in "full house" and "a love to kill" but here he is even better, soooo funny, cute, somehow different, good acting, hilarious body language and expressions + more hot and good looking then he was ever
2. FL and SML are good looking, cool and as good characters as it is possible in primitive plot/writing like this.
3. it's comedy and Rain's character/acting really makes you lough or at list positive mood, so if you watch it as comedy, not expect anything, not even try understand full plot, skip everything except Rain, FL and SML (as I do) you may enjoy and watch even full series... I'm saying one more episode and I'll drop but still watching )))

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first part - greatest, second part - good, becomes quite repetitive

It's really great drama, but not greatest. in the beginning episodes you will think you found one of hundreds level drama, though second half isn't that level. in first part there is real tension, twists and turns, unexpected turns, every element of really high quality greatest drama, but in second half kind of nothing new, same and same "searching saving her" and "madly in love ML". in the beginning I thought it even could compare (not same level but could be close) to Cruel City, but at some point it becomes repetitive, by episode 10(+/-) I already knew there wont be anything new and big anymore, he will search her and love her till the end.
I'm not saying ML should give up on her, but after first few episodes you have expectations that this isn't usual action or usual romance, you expect more, because first half is really great and different, and you think second part will show also great plot and unexpected events, turns of story and character, like in "Cruel City" or "Kairos". just "saving girl he loves" becomes repetitive and for me disappointing, I was waiting something like it was in Kairos, when at the half way ML realizes she wasn't who he thought, or dynamic changes of situation like in "Cruel City"... but here actual "status" kind of stays same for 16 episodes: lost girl, searching/fighting for her ML, madly in love ML and modern Romeo/Juliet vibe.
Drama has one of greatest potential in first half or at list first episodes but then it's just another good action/saving FL/revenge drama.

I'm not saying not to watch it, on opposite it's really good and way better drama then 70-80% of kdramas, I'm just saying it could be better then 90-95% of kdramas.

p.s. I can forgive rom-cos for cliches, but high level dramas, when will you stop showing ML's like almighty supermans and bad guys with "evil laugh"???

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sweet romance with beautiful mains

It's old and simple romance, nothing new or deep, but it's really sweet to watch, because of main leads are really beautiful people and nice characters, also these old dramas are more free, without usual clieches (yes, there are clieches, bot not so many and same as we see in 90% modern dramas, where every story, character and situations are in same narrative); in old dramas even clothes are more free, characters act more free with less taboos, it doesn't have to be first and only love and many things like this...

drama would be better with less episodes, because there isn't much story and it's repetitive, they fight and FL or they together clean up house (like all the time), but still I didn't wanted to skip, though I'm skipping 90% dramas).

best thing in this romance is realistic emotional developments, I mean when person loves someone very much it wont change in one day, even if old love is SFL and new FL ))) ML's feelings aren't changing fast and it's natural, though FL is much better person then SFL, more beautiful and nice, supportive (SFL is very selfish and depressive person, nothing to like, but the fact that ML loves him very much is natural, because he loved him from childhood) .

so recommend it, at list you will look at really beautiful boy and girl, nice FL and sexy charismatic ML )))

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high quality, interesting, intense, well written characters - very underrated drama

I can't understand why is this drama so underrated with only 2 reviews.
I didn't expected to like plot or FL, started only because of Kim Jae Young (and secondary romance), but story is really really interesting and intense. it's rare case when story isn't dragged and I even think more episodes would be perfect.
it's not usual female centered drama, it has more to offer. there are events and actions by character which make you think about human nature, think about fact that your actions are returning to you, revenge often is more painful for them who submits it, because if you go to the war, you should know there's always things and people you can loose.

Plot is really interesting, often quite original (which is rare in dramaland); yes, there are some plot holes but most of them is because in 16 episodes there are soo many events, character developments (some characters in fact didn't change but we saw more and more layers of them).
Characters, as I said are very interesting, not primitive but complex and difficult, realistic... you may like them or hate, but they are good and interesting as characters, very well written. I didn't wanted to be interested in FL but she and her story is interesting! how she makes people hate or love and be extremally loyal to her. Park Hee Bon was only annoying character for me.
Male characters (2 main) are also very interesting (in female centered drama, they are still and maybe with FL most multilayered characters), I could feel for them, their pain, their love and loyalty...
Acting is also very good, very natural, you know.. when acting and directing together make you completely feel/understand characters.
Music was also really good and correct! Cinematography beautiful and directing great!

definitely recommend! it's an intense, interesting story with good amount of romantic vibe and love.

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