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I liked the basic idea of ​​swapping carriages. Then I was happy with the romantic side of the series.
Two brides meet and are swapped and taken to the wrong grooms. Too late for a change, they agree to take their respective roles.
The girl who practices martial arts marries the sickly young man, while the intellectual marries the general.
The stories are alternated, a way to avoid boredom (a break is fine).
All is well until episode 13, when the point comes where they want to separate these two happy couples. On one side, the king orders the general to marry his daughter and thus become prince consort; on the other, the mean cousin convinces an old flame to come between them. With ruse, they manage to circumvent the problem and reunite. The princess has her eye on the general's right-hand man, and the evil cousin will do everything they can to avoid being killed and trap him.
Things that don't add up: dressed as a man one moment, then as a woman with a super sophisticated hairstyle? They drink so much tea that a little poison and they'd all be dead already. Why doesn't the doctor deliver the lotus flower to the queen?
In the 24 episodes, the background music is nice, but they could have added more to avoid being too repetitive.

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All begin when a man was accused of murdered a student when in the realty was innocent. 5 years after, a young and intelligent detective must resolve a case of the disappearing of a girl with an old investigetor who followed the case of the other student.
A lot of people involved and guilty, want to hide the true.
A young journalist will help the 2 investigators.

Things that don't add up: who notified the police of the guard's death, which occurred in such an isolated place? They were already there before the body was even cold!
A police chief who doesn't listen to anyone, a journalist who repeats everything she hears on the phone? Cops who show up "drunk" at the crime scene and are always tipsy (what a disgrace). Things aren't going well, and the police chief tells them to drink?
Cops who silence thugs by paying them off!
Passable until episode 7, but after episode 8, I feel like dropping the series to avoid getting angry. What kind of characters:
Starting with the journalist who starts out strong, determined, and convinced she's saving the world, and then turns out to be pathetic (what a bitch, she had evidence that could help the poor guy on death row and she's keeping it for herself)! She entered the profession to seek justice but in front of evidence that her boss is corrupted, and doesn't even publish her writes pieces, she continues to trust him. The policeman's sister, who's divorced and is only seen drinking (but pull yourself together if you want to see your son). Even the young detective is starting to get on my nerves. He's committed to his work, but he keeps squandering money like nothing, paying here and there (it's obvious it's money he didn't earn, but received). The investigator who perjured himself and begged his former subordinate to let him work as an inspector again. The murderer cousin who thinks he's God on Earth. The editor-in-chief who covers up the mess.
What a terrible world!

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Magnitude 6.5 earthquake, buildings collapse, hospitals closed... a group expedition to transfer patients to another private, earthquake-proof hospital.
This doctor who does everything for the patients who sometimes has shaking hands from post-traumatic stress syndrome, and yet another doctor who wants to please the director and only takes on easy cases, stand in silence, while for a disease is losing his sight.
In this emergency, the first activates and assembles his trust own team that includes also an orthopedic surgeon from Busan who will be involved in the operations.
Certain parts are nerve-wracking: for example, when he's in a hurry to get back to the hospital with bags of platelets and blood and stops in the old, collapsed hospital, gets hit in the head, and has his motorcycle stolen. But is it possible!!! The doctor chief who loses her son and masks the pain of the loss and continues working?
By episode 14, I'm sick of the constant boycotts of this poor, competent doctor, who's being blackmailed into transferring his mother into a vegetative state. They blame him, take credit for him, revoke his license, fire him...
This manipulative system is solely for financial gain, willing to do anything, even kill people, to profit from it! Disgusting.
Eps 16-17 are really starting to tire me out, this push-pull, this bastard director who wants to be a puppeteer (you die, you don't operate anymore, I'll throw you out on the street...) While there's a shitty situation, he listens to classical music in the office, pursuing his model-making hobby, thinking only of how to get rich!
His henchman, this idiot (who no one knows how he became a doctor) who's a spy... The new "governor" who sent a firefighter to sacrifice himself!
It just makes me nervous and I don't understand why they dragged the series on for 20 episodes when they could have done half that.
It's getting repetitive. This doctor who can't operate, who operates. The doctor who should operate, doesn't operate because he's sick.
I honestly couldn't wait for it to end.

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EVERY SOLITARY JOURNEY ENDS WITH A MEETING ORDERED BY DESTINY

He is fire, she is ice, lifelong companions in 3 Kingdoms.
This child, whose blood is contested, is confined to a mountain for 500 years. Many girls approach him, intent on taking his life, but only this new and unsuspecting girl will win him over with her sincerity. Thus she will begin to be his servant and, with time and trust, even his beloved.
What a bad thing, all this blood, extracted from innocents, just to fuel the flame of the Spiritual Fire!
Until episode 19, when he melts the second Spiritual Fire and destroys half the Kingdom, leaving no trace of Her.
Ep 19: Demonic Kingdom vs. Immortals, 18 years after Her disappearance, He awakens.
From episode 20, the atmosphere changes. From hot to cold, from love to hate, from "well-being" to "survival"—it seems like a different story.
He can't accept that he can't find her anymore and goes looking for her even in the Demon Realm, where she, having lost her memory, lives as the daughter of the enemy who urges her to kill the Him she once loved.
He finds her, but she tries to kill him because she doesn't remember him. He is so kind to her that she changes her mind and wants to spare him but still stay with her "father."
She will unwittingly kill him and he will be reborn into the mortal world, and that's another story.
Resume of 3 parts: one in the Realm of the Immortals (they fall in love), the second in the Demon Realm (she loses her memory and he goes looking for her), and the third in the Mortal Realm (he doesn't remember her).
In all 3, people always want to kill him to have his blood!
Luckily they will have the chance to meet again in the Modern world.

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Better to lose with dignity than to win with dishonor!

I appreciate the revenge of this rugby player who fell from grace for doping. He disappeared and three years later, he will return to this sports school to coach this team of seven boys.
I found the soundtrack to be spot on, especially the music during the explanation of "what rugby is" that made me smile because it reminded me of the Quark programm. I liked the natural acting and the interludes with comics based on the images, as well as... the handsome young men.
A little less so are the moments where the shooting coach is treated like a slave by these school principals.
Their dirty methods to undermine the rugby team for more funding or for themselves. New guidelines, manipulation, unfavorable situations, unequal battles between the best in their classes against people who have never practiced... I couldn't wait for the showdown, especially from episode 9 onwards, when kneeling seemed to be the order of the day.
I didn't know about the existence of this rare disease, MYASTHENIA, which causes muscle weakness, eyelid damage (eyelids, double vision), and respiratory paralysis. Kudos to the actor for his performance, which makes these moments so touching. His character is a brilliant motivator for these kids, winning them over with his actions and advocating for them.
A mix of feelings: anger, seeing that those who play dirty, despite injustice and violence, always have everyone at their feet. Emotion, accompanied by a few tears, for these two coaches who put the well-being of their players before their own (support, sacrifices); tenderness for this captain who timidly confesses his love to the girl he likes; praise for the director who supports this coach through thick and thin; admiration for this shooter who trains hard to regain her balance after the accident.
A few emotional tears in the last few episodes.

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We're talking about a series from 10 years ago. This is for a bit of healthy retro flair. From the start, we empathize with this "poor" hostess whose boyfriend cheats on her with a colleague. If that weren't enough, her mother dies, and after her funeral, she also discovers she has a young stepfather. Bomb start.
At the heart of it all is the dispute over this dumpling restaurant.
We'll find out why the mother got married and what her relationship was with this boy with a troubled past.
The first part is more interesting, then it loses its luster.
The soundtrack is so-so, but I enjoyed "What to do," sung by Henry Lau.

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Boyfriend on demand - Fiction or reality?

The protagonist is offered a device that allows you to virtually experience different dates as if they were real. She falls in love with a boyfriend but discovers she's not the only one going out with him, and she says and does the same things to all the others. So she upgrades, where, at his direction, she describes her ideal boyfriend and discovers she's been describing her colleague with whom she didn't get along. A moment of confusion as she tries to figure out where fiction ends and reality begins, and she opts for reality.
I initially liked the idea of ​​this plot itself because it was novel, but then it was poorly (trivially) exploited.
Virtual life is great, but if it were actually commercialized, it would lead to a disconnect from reality and chronic/dangerous indebtedness.

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To my beloved thief

Award of the Year to the female lead's father. He married her to a dying 70-year-old.
She, a mix between Robin Hood and William Tell, steals from the rich to give to the poor. She meets the prince, and from the fourth episode onward, their bodies are swapped. I didn't appreciate this identity swap because I've seen this pattern in several series (for example, Taking the Male Lead's First Night / Secret Garden / My Runway / Mr. Queen, to name a few). I thought to myself... "Why?" But in this series, they thought they could confuse viewers and complicate things even further by sometimes temporarily returning characters to their roles, even if they weren't in the story.
In the first part, some of the music seemed too Hollywood for the period and didn't fit the context.
The character of the prince, on the other hand, made me sad. Poor guy, he was rejected several times, despite his courage in declaring his love, and it wasn't enough. His brother (the king) was thought to have killed his beloved's father. As a prince, when their roles were reversed, he also had to play a nurse.
A plot that didn't convince me. The king's abdication and the death of the traitorous minister especially didn't satisfy me.
While the ending makes sense because it ties in with the wish expressed by this "thief," which came true.

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TOP photo shooting

I really liked the novelty of the photo shoot. It's clear the cast wasn't chosen at random. They aim for high standards of beauty, including Miss Korea, athletes, and photogenic people like models and actors. I have no complaints about it, because it's beautiful to look at, but on the other hand, I feel like they somehow "look fake" and are acting rather than truly interested in finding their soulmate.
In this season, compared to the other four, I missed the part where they get to know each other in their bedrooms, where their personalities could have emerged more (where they sleep, when they wake up, small gestures like brushing their teeth together or drying their hair...) than in the restaurant or in a group setting, where those personalities aren't easily revealed.
During the last dinner, I was disappointed that they didn't show everyone's reactions to the two taboo things they couldn't reveal: their age and job. I also found it unfair that the questions weren't asked to everyone, but almost exclusively to Go Eun.
What about the news that one of the commentators, Hong Jin Kyung, was supposed to apologize to Mina for something she said about her? Afterward, there was a real sense of self-censorship and a restraint in the comments, and I'm disappointed about that. Personally, I think they're all excellent and never inappropriate.
Mina, for sure, was a self-centered figure who repeatedly disrupted the stability of some couples just for the sake of getting attention. I also find her final choice purely selfish, so as not to go out alone. A woman like Min Gee, direct and honest, my best, would have been much better. Another woman who made us despair was Go Eun, who, the entire time, kept three men on edge before surprising us with her final choice. On the men's side, I'll definitely remember Jae Jin with his guru-like aplomb: calm, reassuring, and quite intriguing.
"Paradise," the 5-star Inspire Hotel in Incheon, was truly a fairytale.
After every reality show of this kind, I'm always curious to see if the couples hold up outside the bubble that is the show, or if they fall apart in everyday life. In this regard, I saw that six episodes of "Single's Inferno Reunion" are scheduled to air on February 14, 2026, which I absolutely must watch.

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From the stars to the stables

I love Jung Kyung Ho's character, cunning and intelligent, yet playful.
It's a shame that because of a video showing him being corrupt, he's demoted from a prodigy judge to the newest addition to a small, dank "PRO BONO" law firm.
Far below his expectations, he makes a deal to work there for only one year, after which he'll be nominated for chief judge. Since the agreement stipulates a 70% success rate, he'll give it his all.
The cases he'll take on are truly unique, but with his acumen and the cooperation of his team, they'll achieve good results.
Unfortunately, the video circulating about him reaches his colleagues, who begin to doubt his actions.
At that point, the man who wanted to frame him turns to his own team to defend him.
So he finds himself in court having to defend himself against his own subordinates.
From episode 9 onwards, the situation becomes even more interesting. The ending is consistent with his personality, and I could see a future "Pro Bono 2" coming up.

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Drugs and friendship

A drug enforcement officer is captured and drugged to the point of becoming addicted to this new substance. Upon his release, he tries to discover who did it and what ties him to the death of his old friend, who apparently committed suicide.
His investigation will lead him to relive situations dating back to 20 years earlier, when a serious incident had led him to separate from his friend and to never forgive him in the years to come.
A reporter who was their coursemate and who, along with him, is the beneficiary of his insurance policy, will help him and she will stay next him.
Why, with a wife and closer "friends", did he leave this large sum to these two?
A tangled story of drugs, murders, betrayals but also of friendship.

I think Ji Sung acted masterfully, as in other series like The devil judge, Doctor John or Defendant.

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Behind every great man, there is always a great woman

A man becomes President thanks to his wife, but he wants to divorce her at all costs to "protect" her. Twenty years of marriage and a daughter, but at a certain point he'll be forced to choose between his family and the mission for which he wanted to become President: to pass this "special act" to bring justice to friends who died in a fire at a chemical plant.
For mysterious reasons, his wife was the first to want to block the passage and refuse to divorce.
To protect herself, she hires the only lawyer who accepts her, a friend of her husband. He also betrays her, stealing evidence from her and handing the bag to the President.
At a certain point, the plot thickens, and it's no longer clear who's the good guy and who's the bad guy, who's upright and who's a traitor. Everyone is seeking revenge for the death of a mother, a friend or their parents.
In the end, I felt disappointed by this powerful "Madame," whom I pitied throughout the series but who also had her share of blame.
They could have saved the final scene because we're short on time. They don't find him, but how (?) she knew perfectly well where he was. In the meantime, she was hospitalized, recovered, had time to give a conference about her beloved husband (to whom she had told she had only used him to achieve her goals), then she waits for the rescuers to find him and... surprise... a word, which I won't reveal!

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