Ignorance disguise as friendship

Cute Yo is so ignorant that she does not realize that Ishida Ren has always been in love with her.
Interesting knowing that she dated some men, had boyfriends, but never compare how different her "best friend" was and why did he behave like that.
Living happily ever selfish, she could count on Ren every time. She wants to marry someone that can love her. WTF?!?!?!?!!?!?.
Does she deserve Ren’s love? Do not think so… Does Ren deserve to have this adoration for Yo?...
STORY - it is interesting the way that her job is portrait, her love for the shoes and the way she uses shoes to live her life… That part was very good for me.
A “bestie” always by her side, a former Boyfriend so stupid and selfish that she wants to go back to him and married, a painful feeling of longing and unintended love be Ren…
But the end can wash away all that.

ACTING – I really like it. The 2 main leads are very cute and there is a warm feeling as a sort of peeping tom. Everyone made a good job.

MUSIC – suits the mood very well.

REWATCH – maybe some parts. The way Ren loved her, the beautiful gestures he did…

OVERALL – even if sometimes I wish Ren could find someone that could cherish his ten year love, they are wonderful together. The ending, after that marathon, seems short. But I have almost always this feeling with JDramas.

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Não vale a pena...

Poderia ser a história sobre um carpinteiro ou trolha, mas é sobre um bombeiro...

STORY - um ex delinquente juvenil é um bombeiro destemido e inconsequente. Para ajudar o Comandante, a pessoa que o "salvou" de uma vida de ilegalidade, aceita pousar nu. Na verdade, pousará apenas sem camisola, e por isso ganhará uma pipa de massa. A muler que deseja ter um modelo procura incessantemente por alguém com uma queimadura no dorso, devido ao seu passado e de acreditar que o homicida dos seus pais será essa personagem. e pronto, Alea Jacta Est...
Entre maus entendidos, memórias mal interpretadas, etc., o drama vai-se desenrolando até terminar com um vilão imbecil e um relacionamento desprovido de qualquer elemento da tabela periódica.

ACTING - não é mau, mas também não é muito relevante, quiçá pela superficialidade dos personagens.

MUSIC - nenhuma melodia me ficou no ouvido, a esquecer...

REWATCH - nunca, só se ,e pagarem 10.000 $ para posar de tronco nu a assistir a esta série.

OVERALL - Nem sei bem o que dizer. A história é fraca, mas fiquei à espera para ver como terminaria. Contudo, o final é, a meu ver, mau.
Melhor ir beber um sumo de uva para esquecer este drama que é como aquele restaurante de marisco ou peixe que estava sempre encerrado, mas que tinha as portas abertas...

O bom deste drama é ser curto, mas com tão pouca matéria pelo menos não andaram a inventar assuntos como em algumas séries coreanas e especialmente chinesas.

Dizem existir romance. E realmente há, mas entre a tia e o criminoso amado.
Entre o Bombeiro e a Pintora poderá haver uma fagulha, que o Bombeiro zeloso apagará imediatamente...

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Finally a good story with good acting.

Yes, age is not important for almost nothing—not to fall in love, not to act like teenagers, or maybe just being happy people...

Story: The drama transports us in a 4x4 vehicle with four couples who drive us to a pleasant and entertaining series. It is about 4 great friends and their love relationships.

First couple: Kim Do Jin and Seo Yi Soo. He's an architect with extreme confidence who does everything for his friends. He's cool, responsible, and makes amazing surprises and loving gestures for his loved one.  She's a ethics teacher who really cares for her students, but treats them with responsibility and accountability. She does not know what it is like to be loved and is afraid of being hurt... She is in love with her longtime best friend, and she was the one who introduced him to her girlfriend. 

Second couple: Im Tae San and Hong Se Ra. He's the partner of Kim Do Jin, the one that Seo Yi Soo loves. He's not a patient man, but a very trust worthy friend. Hong Se Ra is a professional golfer. She knows how sexy and beautiful she is and takes their relationship very casual. She is Seo Yi Soo best friend and house companion.

Third Couple: Lee Jung Rok and his wife, Park Min Sook. He's a ladies' man who is always trying to talk to and meet young, lovely ladies. He's careless and irresponsible. Park Min Sook is wealthy and sophisticated. They are constantly on the verge of divorce because she is always looking for her husband, who is cheating on her. Although he does nothing but talk, he lies, meets with other girls, and is always begging for his friends to cover his actions from Min Sook.

Fourth couple: Choi Yo on and Im Me Ah Ri. They are not a couple. He is a widow who lost his young wife long ago. He is trustworthy, a good lawyer. He still wears the marriage ring. Im Me Ah Ri is Im Tar San's sister, 17 years younger (24). She's been in love with him for as long as she can remember.

With some twists and turns, interesting secondary characters, and some unnecessary episodes, this drama is funny, with excellent dialogue and scenes. 

ACTING - wonderful. All of the main 8 characters were very well performed!

Music: I think there are two songs that I like. But it was okay.

REWATCH: Yes, why not? or just some dialogues or scenes.

Overall, I recommend watching this wonderful rom-com. I enjoyed it a lot. It felt like a breath of fresh air (I had just finished this December 2022, so it was new to me). 

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Too too long with few going on

The story is ok.


STORY - A tough, interesting woman struggling in a male society with the help of a caring and loving companion. He starts as her assistant and become in love with her and her support.
In between, the age gap problem, the conservative mother, a sort of love triangles, backstabbing attempts,etc.
There are also other 2 couples, both not so interesting, especially Qi Xiao roommate.
This is an interesting portrait of some of society problems, maybe is modern China also.

CAST - Most done a good job, particularly the main couple.

MUSIC - do not remember any song, so it was not interesting for me.

REWATCH - I will never rewatch mainly because of 2 things: the unnecessary length and the lack of awesome and memorable moments. Although I enjoyed watching

OVERALL - It was ok. The subject of electric cars and some of the issues like charging were interesting. The main couple was nice to see. The stories around the drum girl, motherhood, dependency, etc was ok. Even the fashion and design was not bad. But most of the themes were treated shallowly.

ENDING - I never understood the way these dramas are shot! During all the series we are conducted by the director, as if we were stupid to not understand the feelings or who or what the characters were thinking. And then, they deliver short endings, sometimes open endings or without the closure that I, at least, would like to see...

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Very very bad!

I am so surprised by the rating of this drama, it is so so high! Are all this live series dramas that bad?!?!
This was the most painful drama I watched. I have a big flaw because I want to see the end of dramas, so I struggle ao much to finish this.

STORY - uninteresting, bad, even the clichés were so bad! At least the show is awful from the beginning until the end !

ACTING - the characters were so bad that I cannot have a good opinion.

MUSIC - do not recall any songs.

REWATCH - never! Only if I want to kill myself or all of my brain cells

OVERALL - all is bad. Stupid, spoiled FL, boring and uninteresting ML, the second couple is even worse.
There is nothing good about the drama, maybe some of the few moments of food...

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Nice watch with lots of plot holes

STORY - a former gangster wants to be a chef, even a not so good one. A teenager appears, love between them, a sort of love based more in friendship and maybe the dream of happiness.
But he was targeted to be killed...

CAST - good FL, nice ML. The characters, except FL were not so interesting so acting could shine...

MUSIC - nothing special to me.

REWATCH - never. I enjoyed it, but there is not a single scene to remember.

OVERALL - I like and I am happy to have watch this movie. But there are so much better, even with this age gap love, more friendship love...

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Wish i could travel back before watching this...

I even think i rewatch this, that how so forgettable this was for me.
Traveling in time burning photos it is ok. Everyone doing that it is strange. The plot has lots of holes and incongruences…
STORY – a suicide that can be prevent traveling to the past. Changing the past will lead to bad karma…
Seo Joon travels to prevent her long-time friend from all kinds of bad things (from hurting her knee to falling the stairs). Ten years ago, he is find dead, presumably suicide.
Ha Rin loved him for so long and she still misses him after a decade. With nine photos from his camera, she reads a note where he confess his love for her. She, strangely, burn one of the photos and find herself in the past.
Then the story goes from trying to save him, changing the past what tuning the consequences…
SPOILERS – murder and not suicide, so… who is the killer, the villain?
The friends were ok, I guess. However, all of them could be the suspect…
The villain is so boring, one-dimensional and a psycho.
ACTING – I do not follow the k-pop and drama thing. I do not know the actors and their lives. I just did not like the acting, but it was not awful.
MUSIC – forgettable. It was not my thing.
REWATCH – no, never again!
OVERALL – the premise is interesting. The plot could be great, but it is not. The characters and their stories are boring, with lots of incoherence. The changes in the future are minimal.

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A massa do escritor deve ter azedado

Bem, o que dizer deste drama? Começou muito bem, com ideias interessantes a explorar. Depois....
História - conta a história de um chefe pasteleiro (Do Woo) que coloca todo o seu sentimento nos bolos e doçarias que faz.
Então aparece Mi Rae, que lhe propõe entrar num concurso televisivo para ganhar popularidade (algo que ele já possui). Do Woo não mostra interesse, e ela reformula a proposta (vá -se lá saber que reformulações fez, visto o concurso ser igual a tantos outros) e ele aceita.
Concurso com intrigas, twists, etc
Afinal, ele conhecê-la muito bem e ela tem amnésia. Esta falta de memória foi provocada por alguém que se diz amigo do Do Woo e que termina relacionamentos . A razão do término? Sabe-se lá!!!?!?! Pelos vistos algo de mau acontece quando se amam...
Concurso termina, ela recupera a memória e ele a perde devido ao, supostamente, grande amigo.
No final, resquícios de memórias retornam ao Do Woo quando conhece pela primeira vez, acredita ele, Mi Rae.
E voilà! Já terminou?
No meio disto tudo, uma CEO de uma empresa de confeitaria com complexo de inferioridade inferniza a vida do pai de Do Woo. O pai de Do Woo inferniza a vida do filho! O amigo de Do Woo inferniza a vida dele, assim como a filha da CEO (porque será?!). O colega de quarto de Do Woo em Paris quer mas não consegue, infernizar a vida de Do Woo. A chefe de Mi Rae inferniza a vida de qualquer ser vivo, etc

ATUAÇÃO - suficiente, nada de extraordinário na história para haver grandes performances.

MÚSICA - nem me apercebi das músicas, por isso...

REVER - não! Nem as pitadas interessantes da confeção das delícias...

RESUMINDO - é curto e isso será a sua mais-valia. Poderia ser uma série bem interessante, e a culpa não será a duração n a execução, mas sim a incoerência superficialidade em que a história mergulha. Se quer uma história sobre chefs, gastronomia, etc há imensas bem melhores. Romance? Centenas melhores. Só para passar o tempo? Também haverá imensos candidatos melhores que este drama...

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Another love triangle...

I am a little tired of love triangles...
STORY - Kurumi does not know what is her dream, but works hard to please her boss. She has a crush on him.
Shun took a chance in life, fail and lost everything. He does not want to loose anything more, so he lives his life as a carefree, minimalist person, with things and relationships. Then he meets Kurumi...
All characters live in K house, Charing feelings and supporting each other. Cute stories, except President - influencer relationship.
Too boring for me and cut the flow.
I like the relationships in the house and I do not regret f
ACTING - good!
MUSIC - nothing special, but was pleasant and well mixed with the scenes
REWATCH - I Don't think so. It has a nice story that I already know and I do not need to revisit again.
OVERALL - it is ok. But near the end it was not as good as I expected.

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Is it love, affection or ssomething else?

STORY – Kang Tae Joo and Shin Hae Won are best friends. They are inseparable until Tae Joo goes to the US to persue a Baseball career. Suddenly, a fairy, maybe on drugs, turns Hae Won into a girl. Tae Joo returns to Korea to meet his true love and cannot find him, because he is now a girl.
What will they do? Maybe the fairy has the answer of that and also of global warming…

ACTING / CAST – I think they were ok, especially the girls did a better job.

MUSIC – I really recall only one song and it suits the plot. So, for me it was ok, I guess.

REWATCH - I think that this is nice to watch, but I do not find any reason to come back.

OVERALL – the last episodes are so draggy, even in a short drama. The introspections of Hae Yoon are not very good, for me. With this kind of feeling, I think gender does not matter. And does changing physically means that the love for the person changes also?

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Not bad, but a little disapointed with the way the story is told...

Could have been amazing if delivers what I was expecting…

STORY – interesting, with a mystery to solve that make a successful surgeon to become a lawyer. So, we are always waiting for the final punch, the great finale…
The cases that the weird workers of room 1 deal are not as interesting as they could have been, the story promise but don’t deliver, at least for me.

ACTING / CAST – I like the pragmatic and genius lawyer, the naïve daughter of his mentor, etc. But that’s it.

MUSIC – I really cannot recall any song, so for me it was ok I guess.

REWATCH - I know the ending and it is not as satisfying as I would expect. I will never watch this again, just because there are so many interesting things way better.

OVERALL – the mistake was mine. I read the synopsis and I thought that it will be a good mystery with a great ending. It wasn’t so bad, but I was not pleased with it. For me, even understanding Takano’s love for Amamiya, the ending was not good. 5 years investigating, thinking and living with that mystery… and to behave in a different way all of a sudden was strange for me…

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Slow and long for some seconds of closure...

Just some thoughts just after watching the show...

STORY - interesting story about a merciless boss that we, as the show progresses, discover the feelings and sweetness towards FL. Interesting stories, projects and a taste of investment in new ideas.
Great and powerful women also! Chasing the dreams is a wonderful way of living...
Some things didn't make sense to me like Su Wei choosing to go to the police, the extremely radical change in Lu Ji Min.

CHARACTERS / ACTING - wonderful acting for most.

MUSIC - didn't pay much attention to the music.

REWATCH - I think I will never rewatch this again, especially due to the abrupt ending.

OVERALL - I enjoyed watching this. For me, what downgraded the drama for me was the ending. After more than 30 episodes, a kiss is not enough for me.
I don't agree with lots of opinions saying this isn't romance. For me it is, all the movements and decisions of Lu Ji Min were for love, even if he didn't knew that.

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Is kindness and equality a real thing when money is involved?!

This is the continuation of the first one, so the review will be almost the same. The major difference is Katsuragi Ryo, a former colleague of Shinichi, and the only person to have defeated him. I think that someone that reads this, certainly saw the first season, so i will not talk much.

STORY – Katsuragi is a genious without any kind of scrupolous, so she will be a master in the game Honesty - Trickery. Kanzaki Nao continues to live in the happiness and trusting paradise of herself. Again, Shinichi have to save her and their team from the behaviour of his partner.
ACTING – The main characters are very well played, Nao, Fukunaga Yuji and especially Shinichi and Katsuragi. The rest are also good.
MUSIC – did not find any music to keep and play, but the music is very well combined with the plot!
REWATCH – I will, certainly, watch some of the games again. Some games are awesome.

OVERALL – I really like this, especially the games and the back and forth between Shinichi and Katsuragi strategies.
I found Kanzaki Nao less hateful, maybe because she suddenly became smarter (go figure) or because I was used to her.
If you like riddles, games, etc please watch this!
And please, do not watch the Korean version. If you want to do that, please start with that first. I did the opposite and my brain cells committed seppuku!!! Nothing, nothing in the K version is better that this, and I usually love k dramas.
I give overall 8.5 because i think Nao is not a coherent character and she drives the story...

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