Interesting way to tell a story

Short and sweet.
Talks about love, first one sided... This love is shown in words, time is different for the couple. He always talks about her. She talks about life, herself and the realisation of boy becoming a man and the difference between the way she looked at him in high school and university...
STORY - simple, with just one direction

ACTINGS - like it, enough for the personality of the characters.

MUSIC - like it

REWATCH - don't think so, even if it is sweet and short. Since it's a simple story, there isn't much to find in a rewatch, maybe just to warm our heart.

OVERALL - nice to spend some time watching this. A good short drama.

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A simple story with confusing narrative.

Is it about love? Are the 2 friends in love? No.
I think this is about feelings portrait in a superficial way. Everybody is very understanding, ex- boyfriend and female friend. They talk about feelings regardless of sexual orientation and that is good.
Heeju fell in love for Yoo Hyun?… Does Yoo Hyun has only strong friendship feelings? Why did she starting dating her friend if she didn’t like girls? She just destroyed their relationship or was she the victim?
She cried after the break up… the end… 5 years apart or maybe forever… Did she lost her friend? Did she realised after the break up that love comes with consequences as well as not been in love? Did she miss the lover or just the friend? Does she recalls the 2 things Heeju said to her?

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Too long for what it serves

I like k dramas and some with historical stories. I don't know much about Joseon period or the way beliefs, chinese characters, confucio's philosophy, social classes, religion and mysticism were viewed in that era.

STORY - I don't know if the the plot is coherent, if things must be like in this plot. Even so, i think is not so great. The intrigue, the active and passive players, the way a ruler has to act within the laws, etc., i didn't like it. It was boring for me, more if i compare with other dramas with this kind of plots in Joseon... A king that can't act, a king's brother so selfish that thinks being a prince or a king is awsome and can do whatever he wants to protect her lover...

ACTING - the best part of the story. The young cast is amazing. Congratulations, specially, to young: Lee Hwon (Yeo Jin Goo); Heo Yun Woo (Kim Yoo Jung); Yoon Bo Kyung (Kim So Hyun); Seol (Seo Ji Hee); Jan Shi (Jo Min Ah). But, overall, most of the adult cast was great.

CHARACTERS -

Heo Yeon Woo / Wol - The moon that had a Shaman who kills her to protect her. Go figure... Why do we need enemies with such friends? She was intelligent, beautiful, wise and with great dialogues and philosophical conversations in the begining. After that, she was only a talisman and then the future queen. Would like to see her qualities explore more, as well as his brother's. But maybe is because i find that kind of dialogue and philosophy with the prince appealing.

The prince / king Lee Hwon was a person stuck in the intrigues and the obstacles of being the leader of the nation... Never loved anyone but Yeon Woo. Also wise and fair...

Prince Yang Myung - can't like this character. Selfish, envious, didn't care of Yeon Woo's and his brother's feelings but his own. He lived well, lots of party and fun and... Don't know if a guy like him could be so ignorant about the way the royalty had to be (like his father). How can he accused his brother and tell him that he would give up everything??!?!?!!

Queen Yoon Bo Kyung - Selfish and with the desire of power that she mistook with love for the king.

Princess Min Hwa - naive, with a love obsession for Heo Yeom. She was used to "kill" Yeon Woo, but only later she understand that...

Like Seol and Jan Shil.

Mother Queen - awful as she would have to be. Not as clever as other queens in different dramas.

Shaman Jang Nok Young seems strange. Was really that the only way? Don't think so...

OST - fine but not great for me.

REWATCH - never. Too stressful where nothing happens in some episodes.

ENDING - Too cheesy for me. I will miss the three girls being together.
I didn't know that Joseon had awful military soldiers. Lots of the king's elite guards died in the hands of fat middle aged politicians!

5 stars for the acting.

Volta Mr. Queen que estás perdoado(a)!!!

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A Hymn to love. Go with the flow of beauty...

I don't care if they are related... Their hearts doesn't care either.

I had the similar feeling when I watch: In the mood for love or Comrades: Almost a Love Story. Some kind of forbidden love, the feeling that we can sense in every look, gesture, without having the complete scene.
The rhythm is slow, built with the story, the ten-year gap where they never forget each other, even if they don’t understand it.
STORY – simple and beautiful, with the way that was filmed. The silence, the expressions saying a thousand words. The chemistry was awesome!
ACTING – it was good! If you just consider the 2 main actors it was AMAZING!!
MUSIC – loved Taek Ik Theme, painted so beautifully the last scenes…
REWATCH – maybe, with someone next to me, holding hands…
OVERALL – something like: “Whenever you feel like smoking, just think of me”… Holding a plant instead of a cigarette, laughing as only someone in love can.
I think if you are used to independent great movies, with the velocity of a story and not the superfluous way that we live now, if you just enjoy beautiful stories with depth, please watch it…
If you are used to Hollywood media, k-pop or kdrama world of beauty and visuals and that kind of stuff, don’t watch this. The world will appreciate.
Someone wrote that you have to be intelligent to watch this movie and understand it. I am not sure if I agree, I think is more of having a sane emotional intelligence. If you have, enjoy the ride!

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Too long and less interesting...

Even the main couple is not very interesting...
I endure 30 episodes expecting that anything would be different and the plot would improve. I was wrong.
STORY – nothing interesting, even the theme, animation, is not well develop and it is almost unnecessary. Could be anything else and the drama would be the same.

ACTING – sufficient, but the characters were not interesting nor complex to me. However, most of them deliver.

MUSIC – interesting with a couple of themes that I enjoy.

REWATCH – no, I will never do it. Maybe, just maybe one or two scenes if I stumble with them…

OVERALL – Do not advise watching this drama because there are better dramas in every aspect, from the chemistry of the couple, plot, characters, etc. I prefer some actors to others but I am not that kind of fan that watch dramas because of them…
Believe me that i wanted to like more of this show, but could not...

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40 episodes of painful watch

Very very very bad.

STORY
Story uninteresting, shallow and stupid. The plot was awful. Lousy villains and heroes.
ACTING - the characters were not interesting. but I think ML and FL were ok. Only ML Liang Zemu was ok and his friend Tian Yong. FL Xia Chu was a little boring, but she is the saviour of Chinese health system! She discovered new ways of treatment, find cure for diseases and only in her first year an intern!!!
Her best friend Mi Gu was a dumb, stupid, shallow person that helped a man murdering people and hurting her friend!
The villain was very boring, angry with the world.
All is bad, I don't even have the energy to criticize this show.
I may have to go to a brain surgeon to remove some tissue that died with this drama.

MUSIC - do not remember

REWATCH - never. Well, if I want to kill myself by destroying my brain...

OVERALL - a drama that I really want to forget

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In a friends with benefits relationship both should be friends

Don't understand most of the reviews....
Maybe sex, attraction, etc should be labeled...

The story is about Na Bi, who desires and feels sexual attraction for Jae Eon. She has lots of feelings for him. He only wants to have sex with her, at her apartment, without any other shared moments, while having other relationships with others.
Friends with benefits has to do with friendship and that is not the case. He doesn't care about her as well as the other girls...
Jealousy exists when someone thinks that owns the other. It is a feeling of possession. And that is why Park Jeon wants to be with her after she rejects him ..
She will agree, will be used by him but knowing that he will not changed and will hurt her.
So, it ends with a relationship where he will cheat on her and she will gladly endure! But the sex is good but even when they are together, as Kyu Hyun was saying, she will not be happy because their objectives and feelings are not the same..

And then a love triangle (what a refreshing plot!!!!!) With a childhood friend.
The other couples were way more interesting. They save this drama.

Don't like it. Not the sex part or the relationship when based in truth. He doesn't care about her and she is willing to bear with that. And the most interesting part is her friends, who knew that Park Jeon was awful and hurted and played with lots or girls, are trying to help them to be together...

Well...

Do you like a cheating man that looks good?
Do you like a woman who is treated as a good f...?
Do you enjoy a relationship that is Doom to end badly?
Then watch this drama!

If someone could edit only the story of the other couples this would be more interesting!

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Is there a living creature that didn't desire Go Ho!?

I am seriously amazed by the reviews, even more since i saw lots of k dramas...

Story? - there is none... a girl who had a dream...maybe living in Hawai after retirement or commercials that can touch someone hearts?

Characters

Go Ho - abandoned by her boyfriend without any explanation, even goes to jail for stalking him. The boyfriend that leaves her due to finacial problems (maybe in Korea, poor people can't be in love) returns and, without explaning why, wants to start all over (because now he has money?). After all this, she rate him 5/5 stars as a person.

So, she is flooded by lots of guys wanting her. In the middle of this, there is one that falls in love since he saw her. Ok. He is very timid, supports a lot of frustration and helps her without any compensation and even without her knowledge. But then, he becames silly and starts to do lots of stupid and childish things.

Don't know who wrote this drama and if koreans have different ways of dealing with hormones. In some dramas, kissing is like proposing. Here, they kiss, they are always grabbing Go Ho's arm and touching her. Maybe if they were ugly, she could think this is sexual harrassment or even the reviewers...

When i finished yesterday the drama i was bored to death. Even with short episodes i think it's too long and i made myself watch until the end...

ACTING - it is ok

REWATCH - never

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A drama about a writer that was way better than this script

Do not know or care about the original story

Could not like any characters! (Maybe the grandmother was ok…).
STORY – awful, with lots of plot holes that I do not think it is due to the length of the drama. I kept putting 2x the speed because I did not have higher speed to add.
Nothing in the story makes sense. Maybe just the love from a mother towards her baby, even gotten pregnant as she did. Her choices, her boomerang love, etc… I think Oh Woo Ri is the less interesting female character I have seen…

ACTING / CAST – nothing interesting here. Maybe Lee Ma Ri / Lee Mal Ja and her inner fight.
Woo Ri – cannot think of any positive thing rather than her beauty.
Raphael – a crybaby, a man that disappear as an individual to take care of a baby that has only his genetic DNA. For someone that faced death, I think he did not realised that his neurons really died. Not interesting or charming.

Lee Kang Jae – the worst lead detective I ever saw. Incompetent, liar, soft, etc. Do not understand this person. The way that he interact with Woo Ri or Raphael is so bad.

Oh Eun Ran – had a child, lying to everyone, including the man that loved her totally and did not know he was a father. Wanted to be a singer.

The rest is also bad. The criminals or villains were so bad! President Kim, please return! You should have killed this script!!

MUSIC – different from the silence.

REWATCH – only if my life depended on it. Maybe the dozens or hundreds of episodes from the telenovela from Venezuela would be better!!

OVERALL – I wasted time watching this. The premise had me curious, but sometimes the best ideas of a drama comes in the synopsis, where imagination runs wild!

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Soooooooo long

The story revolves around 2 interesting characters: Sheng Zhe Ning and Xia Qian. They are strong; good people and have a good chemistry.
But…
STORY - The story deserves less than half the episodes. Therefore, what could have been an interesting romantic drama turn out to be a boring never-ending plot, where nothing happens… For me, the struggle to have the control of the hotel, the second couple, the internet online business, etc… all was so boring.
ACTING - Wu Jin Yan was very good in the role! Love her. Lin Geng Xin was good also, but the character is not so engaging to me. The others were ok; I just think the characters were boring.

MUSIC – don’t remember any, so for me not very good

REWATCH – no, never. I like some of the scenes, but I will forget this drama.

OVERALL – if it were 15 episodes or so, I think it would be amazing. For me it was so long and hard to finish. I love happy endings, but even that is boring after so many episodes of nothing.

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Boring to death

So disappointed.
The sinopsis talks about a Go player that uses his knowledge to deal with corporation work.
Sometimes, he talks about Go strategies, but that almost doesn't matter.
Boring because I don't want to exploit the way corporation works and the hierarchy.
So disappointed for the whole thing. Slave like employees, bad bosses, etc.
Will never watch it again and j really don't understand the ratings, the Go theme (almost unexistent).
Did not like the story and the characters.
The acting is not good, mainly because of the shallow personalities of the cast, the plot, etc.
Forced myself to finish...

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Does everyone still loves the same person after 10 years?!

Maybe one day my desire to write this review will increase...

STORY – the story is not very interesting. Even the characters are not interesting to me. The couple is cute, but that is it. The documentary about the top and the worst student is a great idea and it was funny. I cannot understand why those two would film again, after they broke up in such painful way…

ACTING/CAST – the acting is ok. I do not understand the role of some characters and the importance in this drama.
Choi Woong is an artist that draws buildings, works for more than 12 hours per day and yet, he says that he is lazy. His artistic vein is not well explore…
His sweetheart broke up 5 years without tell him the reason and lives in the shadow of happiness… He has great parents and a story behind that…
Kook Yeon Soo (Choi ex-girlfriend) is a hardworking woman that lives without any purpose, except, maybe, taking care of her grandmother. She lacks social skills.
Kim Ji Woong is Choi’s best friend, but also in love (even after 10!!!!!!! Years) with Choi’s ex-girlfriend. He is lonely and without family, enduring the pain of loving Yeon Soo and having an absent mother.
NJ – the most interesting character for me and the only character I was rooting. Do not understand why she should be interested in a man that does not pay any attention to her, but…
Koo Eun Ho (Choi’s manager) and Lee Sol Yi (Yeon Soo’s best friend) are cute.

MUSIC – I find one or 2 themes very good and well used in the drama.

REWATCH VALUE – maybe some parts. Just to understand how Koreans endure 10 years loving someone, even when they do not see or even communicate with each other for more than 5 years.
OVERALL – cute story, a nice warm ending but… I think it is too long for the lack of depth in the story and the characters.

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So many stories badly blended...

I love romances.
I even try to endure the absurd length of this show, the boring pace and shallow characters.
So… here I go…

STORY – the premise could lead to a great story… Lots of stories badly condensed in a show. Maybe some could be developed or not even included… Maybe there will be a time without movie actors or singers… Really try hard to like the idea of that couple or even imagining 5 years of silent dinner…
Most of the characters are envolved in a masochist relationship, fighting to see who suffers more to protect others…

ACTING
Choi Sang Eun (Park Min Young) – I like her shows. I think this one is one of the worst I saw from her, specially because of the story and her character…
Jung Ji Ho (Go Kyung Pyo) – lacking any social skills became a judge. His love for Sang-Eun is sweet, he even showed power and competence taking care of her…With him I learn that in Korea a broken arm leads to spending days in the Hospital…
His team was good entertainment…
Kim Jae Young (Kang Hae Jin) – of course, the actor. Very likable. A little naïve with his feelings and actions that put all in risk. His team was ok.
Lee Joo Bin (Jung Ji Eun) – a good alpinist, climbing the ladder of the rich and powerful… thought that her end would be different.
Jin Kyung (Yoo Mi Ho) – Badass woman. Mixed feelings about her. Deserves most of the interest in the drama for me. Could her story be more explored…

MUSIC – I do not follow much k-pop and that kind of music. Some are great, but in this show, I cannot remember any…

REWATCH VALUE – maybe one or two scenes, but I doubt. In every aspect in a show, I can recall better shows than this.

OVERALL – sometimes I had to watch in 1,5x because it was a little boring, especially the boomerang story in the second half. I enjoyed enough not to think that I completely wasted my time.

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Feel good with a right ending

Good story.

STORY - nice story about a lawyer that is killed by mistake in heaven and, to return to her rightful place, has to take the place of the mother and wife in a family. She has to endure a completely different life, but in the end, she understands that love and be loved is the best thing she can have.

ACTING - good. All is done with competence

MUSIC - Did not pay attention to the OST

REWATCH - if I stumble with this I can watch it again. However, it will not be in my rewatch list!

OVERALL - good story. If you like light feel good and a little comedy this is good to watch. The ending is good, because I have in my mind the follow up...

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