a female gazing
USA
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revolting lakorn you should avoid at all costs!
legitimately the worst, most infuriating lakorn i've ever watched. maybe i should have known when the first 1.5 minutes made me wonder if i had pressed play on the wrong episode that the budget and pacing were not going to wow me, but still, i persisted. well, that was a mistake, because i remained disgusted from around ep 10 onwards, and by the end i hated EVERY SINGLE character in this whole show, except possibly ji, and maybe even her too.
you can ignore a lot of absurd plot holes for the sake of a fun story, but this one pushed the boundaries of stupidity at every turn. you won't BELIEVE how dumb these people are. you will guess the twist around episode 3. meanwhile, the MC's don't guess the twist even after they see a VIDEO OF IT!
never getting over the ML cruelly gaslighting FL about her own twin sister's GRUESOME abuse and likely murder, even after he himself sees his brother's domestic violence on tape. this moronic coward isn't even called to action by his own complicity in sa's death, that she had asked ML for help and he turned her away. this man should have been broken, groveling, on his knees, for the rest of his life. the police chief too—gaslighting and ignoring evidence. prejudice against a crime victim....because of something that happened with your mom 20yrs ago? this man should have handed in his badge.
but the ML's treatment of the FL, was particularly repulsive. yes—even for a lakorn. i am NOT easily offended, in fact i actually enjoy toxic tropes on the regular, but this was a travesty. i was yelling at my screen and not in a fun way. this show DOES NOT treat these heavy topics (domestic violence, the silent struggles of women in a misogynistic world) with the respect they deserve. i really thought this show was trying to bait us somehow—that ML was treating FL this way for her own good in a noble idiocy type of way, but nope! even after repetitive bland plot and repetitive bland performances by every actor, i was still giving this show far too much credit and it kept getting worse. ML didn't have a character, he did whatever the script needed him to do in order to move the plot along. FL had zero backbone and consistency, and was doling out forgiveness—to the dregs of humanity around her—like it was on sale at the dollar store.
never before wanted a lead couple to end up together less than here. i wanted her to pack her sh*t and fly to another continent to escape these lunatics.
hellish. i will never get these 17 hours of my life back.
you can ignore a lot of absurd plot holes for the sake of a fun story, but this one pushed the boundaries of stupidity at every turn. you won't BELIEVE how dumb these people are. you will guess the twist around episode 3. meanwhile, the MC's don't guess the twist even after they see a VIDEO OF IT!
never getting over the ML cruelly gaslighting FL about her own twin sister's GRUESOME abuse and likely murder, even after he himself sees his brother's domestic violence on tape. this moronic coward isn't even called to action by his own complicity in sa's death, that she had asked ML for help and he turned her away. this man should have been broken, groveling, on his knees, for the rest of his life. the police chief too—gaslighting and ignoring evidence. prejudice against a crime victim....because of something that happened with your mom 20yrs ago? this man should have handed in his badge.
but the ML's treatment of the FL, was particularly repulsive. yes—even for a lakorn. i am NOT easily offended, in fact i actually enjoy toxic tropes on the regular, but this was a travesty. i was yelling at my screen and not in a fun way. this show DOES NOT treat these heavy topics (domestic violence, the silent struggles of women in a misogynistic world) with the respect they deserve. i really thought this show was trying to bait us somehow—that ML was treating FL this way for her own good in a noble idiocy type of way, but nope! even after repetitive bland plot and repetitive bland performances by every actor, i was still giving this show far too much credit and it kept getting worse. ML didn't have a character, he did whatever the script needed him to do in order to move the plot along. FL had zero backbone and consistency, and was doling out forgiveness—to the dregs of humanity around her—like it was on sale at the dollar store.
never before wanted a lead couple to end up together less than here. i wanted her to pack her sh*t and fly to another continent to escape these lunatics.
hellish. i will never get these 17 hours of my life back.
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