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Friendly Rivalry korean drama review
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Friendly Rivalry
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by beachcorgi
1 day ago
16 of 16 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 2.0
Story 1.0
Acting/Cast 5.0
Music 1.0
Rewatch Value 1.0

Disappointing.

After seeing the first episode, i was MORE than excited to watch this K-Drama, as especially by the way it was narrated and filmed gave me a feeling that this could be the Euphoria of K-Drama. BOY WAS I WRONG.

The creators really poured their braincells into the first few episodes and then seemingly watched too much AI Slop on YouTube Shorts, frying their brains, and then continued writing the story. Theres no other explanation for this, as after the first half of the series the story just... LITERALLY falls off. Like... it doesnt make any sense anymore. All the build-up is thrown out of the window, plot points are forgotten, the story is made up out of thin air without substance.

Not to mention the romance aspect - it seemed to build up a really cool wlw plot after a while, which I was getting excited about, but then they also just... dont go any further? Like they build it up and then midway through the relationship build-up said "actually theyre just friends nvm" EVEN THO THAT WAS 100% NOT WHAT WAS BUILDING UP.

Not to mention the ending... the story was nowhere near done and had terrible pacing, so they try to conclude the story within 1 last episode and as i said: everything that happened there didnt make sense and went by way too fast. It was as if the writers just wanted to wrap things up as fast as possible so they could finally hit the bed. Thats how lazy it was.

OVERALL: DONT WATCH IT! This is literally the K-Drama together with "Hierarchy" that I can name INSTANTLY when somebody asks me about bad dramas ive seen without thinking twice. Which is so disappointing, as the FLs actress is really good and was in my fav drama ever (Reply 1988).
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