why is this just revealed, if expected birth is february 2024, she is already in her 6th months term this november.
Because if a woman's pregnancy is announced and a big deal is made of it, and then she has a miscarriage, having to share that kind of news with your family and friends and co-workers etc makes the pain of loss SO much worse for the parents than if they had kept it private until they're sure the baby is developing healthy and safe. For this reason, many couples will choose to wait to share the news of their pregnancy until the mother is showing and can't hide it any longer, or until they're confident the pregnancy is a healthy one.
So many things were good about this drama and it started off really strong. FL is such an amazing and talented actress. Aesthetics and styling were so awesome. Plot is exciting and mysterious. But after they get you all amped up for this amazing show, it nose dives in the last half like so many dramas do. It starts as a mysterious romance, and before you know it youre watching some confused makjang action who-done-it, and there's the standard "ML/FL fell in love and it turned into a painfest" thing. I heard there was a REAL kiss in this drama. So I was really anticipating some spice and fire in this show, but there was nearly none. No kilig moments, very little chemistry or fire or spice. That famous kiss kind of comes out of nowhere, leads to nothing, and is too little too late to save this otherwise pretty sanitized drama.
It does just go to show that Lee Min Ho actually CAN do amazing onscreen kissing, something that until now I was unaware of based on other things I've seen him in. I have no idea how that kiss got past the Korean censors, maybe because it was so short. But to me it was so odd how incongruous it was in the context of the rest of the drama which was relatively passionless and spiceless.
In the first half of the drama, the funny parts are so SO funny, and that is worth watching... and even re-watching. But the back half of the drama is so different from the first half it's like watching two different shows almost. Plus points for a very satisfying ending, I suppose.
I gave it a 7.5, but this was one of those dramas that make me wish there was a score between 7.5 and 8. I reserve ratings of 8 or higher for shows I think have very little in the way of faults and are truly fun watches from beginning to end. This didn't meet that criteria for me, but it came so close. I think the worst of it's faults was no kilig.
One of the most boring, flat, uninspired dramas I've ever seen. Lee Sung Kyun is a terrible terrible actress, so of course that didn't help matters. There was a very strange vibe to this show... quiet, tense, and awkward... kind of like the way it feels when you walk into a room where there's been a nasty fight but that fight is now over.
If you're an actress who has a problem with kiss scenes, then don't sign up to to a romance drama with JKY, it seems fairly simple to me. Plenty of other actresses have nailed their kiss scenes in romantic dramas. She's barely one step up from deer-in-headlights kissing. She just sits there with her eyes and her mouth closed and doesn't move. How is that acting? And the mismatch is so noticeable because JKY is a fantastic onscreen kisser, better than average. This was a terrible ML/FL pairing. The 2FL should have been the FL, and the FL should have been the 2FL.
Does having this opinion mean there's something wrong with me? No. In Her Private Life, both the leads went into that drama like "okay we are gonna NAIL those kiss scenes" and they did. Is there something wrong with actually wanting your kiss scenes to turn out looking amazing and conveying passion?
I will forever remember her as the FL who refused to kiss JKY in what would have been one of the best kiss scenes in all of k-drama if it wasn't completely ruined by SOMEone's inhibitions. JKY is the perfect onscreen kisser - he can make it look good AND get it past the censors. All she had to do was follow his lead.
What's really making me mad about this drama is that Im Soo Jung refuses to kiss properly in her kiss scenes. B*tch!!! Do you have any idea how hard JKY and the producers and writers and directors worked to give you the PERFECT kiss scene setups, and you are RUINING everything. He's one of the hottest men on the planet, just kiss him ffs! omg...
Never watching another drama with Im Soo Jung again.
This drama was trying to be all female empowered edgy modern romance but it just sucked. Several key characters are imo unlikeable and their motivations are impossible for me to get behind, making choices i'd never make. Much of the dialogue was uninspired and flat. One of those dramas that by the time it's 2/3rds of the way though, I don't even want to wach dramas anymore, I'd rather bake cookies and do my laundry, and when it's over all you feel is just relief that it's finally over and you can start a new drama. Ugh. I gave it a 6 for JKY and Lee Da Hee (the 2FL) who gave excellent performances, if it wasn't for that i'd give it like a 3.
I really really loved this show, but I absolutely HATE open/vague endings. I get that they want to give you the…
I went and looked it up at some point in the drama, and her kind of leukemia has about a 70% survival rate. That's not as bad of odds as the drama seems to suggest. But I use that fact to interpret the open ending as a good one.
I think the positive reviews raised my expectations too much. Where is the chemistry? Smouldering looks and coquettish…
The ending episode has maybe ten minutes of an absolutely gorgeous Han wedding that I think it worth watching, and then they have a scene where the ML and FL are lying in the snow, that's another 5 or 10 minutes worth the watch just to wrap up all that time you invested, if you wanted to. Most of the other stuff is pretty skippable, but those scenes are really nice i thought.
Hmmm this is a tough one to rate. It has spice, hotness, romance, angst, a little bit of kilig, beautiful aesthetics and style that feels distinctly more Taiwanese than chinese. The acting is subtle, free and natural, which also struck me as more Taiwanese-feeling than chinese. It has a compelling story, albeit a VERY simple one. The OST was sooo amazing, it added to the drama, and was never intrusive or mismatched to the mood of the actors.
However despite all that, I felt it didn't have enough skinship or fire, and that was due to two factors. One, the FL is an absolutely awesome and believable actress, but she refused to kiss with any real passion int he kiss scenes. Two, the directors/producers cut their hottest scenes too short and really played it safe when it came to setting the spice-levels of this drama. With a title like "Forbidden Flower" and two really hot leads, and a promotional picture like that, you'd think they wouldn't feel the need to keep it quite so safe and sanitized. It' still packs some spice don't get me wrong. But it left me dissatisfied a little bit.
It gets draggy in the middle. The side-stories dont have a lot of oomph to hold your attention, so theres a fair bit of skippable content.
One of the biggest issues I had was with the fact that there's this song that gets replayed a lot throughout the drama and the lyrics are: "I can heal you just with the brush of a hand, you feel it too, raging like waves on a sand, turning black, turning blue, do you understand" And maybe it's cultural or something, but to me those lyrics sound creepy af and come off as jarring and incongruous to the story., like a domestic abuse ballad or something.
IT'S DIFFICULT TO READ MANY SUBTITLES BECAUSE THEY ARE TRANSLATING THE SONGS AT THE SAME TIME. THE LINES KEEP…
Welcome to the world of modern c-drama. It's always like this, with just a few rare exceptions. One of the things I cannot understand when it comes to modern chinese fashion, is : What's with the guys wearing mom-jeans? Ughhhh.
The kid is cute, the ML and FL are great, and they have chemistry. Keeping in mind this is a short-length, the plot and storyline fit nicely as far as pacing, albeit overly simplistic and predictable. There's a distinct lack of artistic vision as far as the direction goes, and the slightly flat dialogie (but it's not too bad). There is a glaring fault to this drama, which is that they sanitize the kiss scenes, and do what they can to sanitize the romantic elements of the show. For this reason, I gave it a low score, because that's a pretty damn big fault for a ROMANCE to have.
This show was soooo stupid. ML is really weird lookin. He's somewhat handsome, but also really weird lookin. FL is cute and beautiful. Their onsscreen kisses were really fiery, but there's only a few and they're at the beginning of the drama. By at least the halfway point, you can kiss any chemistry or fire or spice goodbye, there's NONE left. Even the last episode doesn't even have a kiss scene. What were they thinking. I'm so glad I'm done watching this boring draggy show and can move on to something else. There were a few really really funny scenes in here, but they were all that chinese brand of "accidentally funny" where they weren't intending it to be that funny, but to a westerner it's hilariously awful.
That's called dramasplaining, and it's not kew. That's like saying a person likes vanilla ice cream more than…
> you: "The problem lies with the voter's lack of understanding of why others found it so enjoyable."
The title of the vote list is literally "I don't understand the hype". What problem. There is no problem. It's just a voting list. Why does there have to be a problem.
You're looking down on people for no reason.
Again, the chocolate and vanilla example works here. Someone says "I don't understand all the hype about chocolate" and you say "Well the problem is with you, not with chocolate ice cream". Do you see how you even sound?
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It does just go to show that Lee Min Ho actually CAN do amazing onscreen kissing, something that until now I was unaware of based on other things I've seen him in. I have no idea how that kiss got past the Korean censors, maybe because it was so short. But to me it was so odd how incongruous it was in the context of the rest of the drama which was relatively passionless and spiceless.
In the first half of the drama, the funny parts are so SO funny, and that is worth watching... and even re-watching. But the back half of the drama is so different from the first half it's like watching two different shows almost. Plus points for a very satisfying ending, I suppose.
I gave it a 7.5, but this was one of those dramas that make me wish there was a score between 7.5 and 8. I reserve ratings of 8 or higher for shows I think have very little in the way of faults and are truly fun watches from beginning to end. This didn't meet that criteria for me, but it came so close. I think the worst of it's faults was no kilig.
2. Boring
3. NONE WHATSOEVER
4. Yes and it's about as passionate as watching a 4 hour economics lecture while on valium.
Does having this opinion mean there's something wrong with me? No. In Her Private Life, both the leads went into that drama like "okay we are gonna NAIL those kiss scenes" and they did. Is there something wrong with actually wanting your kiss scenes to turn out looking amazing and conveying passion?
Never watching another drama with Im Soo Jung again.
This drama was trying to be all female empowered edgy modern romance but it just sucked. Several key characters are imo unlikeable and their motivations are impossible for me to get behind, making choices i'd never make. Much of the dialogue was uninspired and flat. One of those dramas that by the time it's 2/3rds of the way though, I don't even want to wach dramas anymore, I'd rather bake cookies and do my laundry, and when it's over all you feel is just relief that it's finally over and you can start a new drama. Ugh. I gave it a 6 for JKY and Lee Da Hee (the 2FL) who gave excellent performances, if it wasn't for that i'd give it like a 3.
However despite all that, I felt it didn't have enough skinship or fire, and that was due to two factors. One, the FL is an absolutely awesome and believable actress, but she refused to kiss with any real passion int he kiss scenes. Two, the directors/producers cut their hottest scenes too short and really played it safe when it came to setting the spice-levels of this drama. With a title like "Forbidden Flower" and two really hot leads, and a promotional picture like that, you'd think they wouldn't feel the need to keep it quite so safe and sanitized. It' still packs some spice don't get me wrong. But it left me dissatisfied a little bit.
It gets draggy in the middle. The side-stories dont have a lot of oomph to hold your attention, so theres a fair bit of skippable content.
One of the biggest issues I had was with the fact that there's this song that gets replayed a lot throughout the drama and the lyrics are: "I can heal you just with the brush of a hand, you feel it too, raging like waves on a sand, turning black, turning blue, do you understand" And maybe it's cultural or something, but to me those lyrics sound creepy af and come off as jarring and incongruous to the story., like a domestic abuse ballad or something.
I give it a 7. Not bad. Not superb.
The title of the vote list is literally "I don't understand the hype". What problem. There is no problem. It's just a voting list. Why does there have to be a problem.
You're looking down on people for no reason.
Again, the chocolate and vanilla example works here. Someone says "I don't understand all the hype about chocolate" and you say "Well the problem is with you, not with chocolate ice cream". Do you see how you even sound?