strawgal

I watched this on Youtube with very poor subs, what kept me hooked was the acting. For some it would perhaps be really boring because there is not a lot of conflict, just people making the best of their life and sometimes making mistakes, and compromises they have to live with, so it perhaps it could have been to condensed to 30 eps. I just wish again the FL didn't have to be a passive saint.

I so agree with this, There is something that I used to say to my children when they really peed me off, I love you but I do not really like you today, and that is how love is complex and this is a step up this year in how relationships are portrayed and I can understand why some people do not like it because everyone likes to feel safe, when the best drama is based on conflict or twisted love for either a person or power
Everyone thinks Romeo and Juliet is a romantic story, when in it has six deaths, two by suicide, and Romeo kills two people. From the parents point of view R&J were selfish toads, likely to cause a civil war in an era that if you made the wrong alliance you could end up poisoned or your whole family executed. We only think its romantic because of the aspect of star crossed lovers pushed in more modern adaptions, of a play that has conflict at it's heart. I think the Nurse is a villain.

W know or own or others motivations really. In life you may think you have done something for a reason, and then when you look back you have totally different perspective of why you did something,
I think the trunk is a metaphor for all those things we keep locked inside ourselves, I certainly have mental box that I put negative feelings or bad experiences in, and as you get older the box gets bigger. I opened the box a little bit the other day, and had another thought about why something happened the way it did.
The pregnancy was a bit of a box that was being opened, that realisation that you are not in control of your body, and will never be really in control of your life again, and she needed control. She may have walked in the road on impulse, and then took advantage of the situation as another pressure point for control.
I my job I have to read people, I find what they do not say is often more important than what they do say.

I liked it but like @MianhaKdrama has said it ran out of steam and I think they could have cut four eps.
Considering the age group it should be aimed at I do wish the trope that you can make someone love you if you try hard enough being binned. Its not a healthy thought for anyone to have and certainly not something that should be tried.
The cast did a really good job.

My take is Johan has always been chased, and North who has little guile, and not really in to who does what and why, just didn't really get the message, the car phone scene, so Johan just stopped being subtle.
If you have never really had to be nice to get what you want, people keep telling him you can not treat North the same as everyone else, you have fewer social skills, and used to pretty privilege. I think the money and being openly affectionate is just a way to force a choice, I think North is quite capable of telling him to go shove it, he didn't like the guy in the bar and was quite forceful. North has turned down at least three people so far, if he didn't like Johan he would have been angry, most of the time he is just been WTF perplexed.

I hate BL partnerships but in this case Earth would perhaps benefit from being a couple, with the right partner. They just do not know what to do with him. The writing for this couple is the contrast between two shade of white, and being cute and a bit of a gossip is not really a life objective. Now if he could have played as a waspish with some killing lines, that would have interesting.
North is just so better written, and most like a lot of the men I have known of that age.

Finished! Like a good novel I wanted to savoir it. I will be so disappointed if they do not finish the story, all the actors produced totally grounded believable performances, and you will have a heart of stone not to cry.
Its great LMH has a chance to literally grow in to a part, makes everything else he has been in look a waste of his talent, Brad Pitt syndrome.

The ring of men which its seems not one them knows how to fight.

Its just life. When you talk to people you realise how many families, just get on with it. We have also had someone break in to the house with an axe, no one was harmed, and it becomes one of those stories that over time you hardly believe happened.

When I think of my own family I sometimes think it has parts like a soap opera, but when its happening around you can only make descions on what you know, My step-father was like the husband, my mum had 'everything' but had no agency in the end. It sneeks up on you,.

It just didn't go far enough. I have watched a couple of pieces about the Burning Sun, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001n9kv

I think they reduced it to formula, Mask Girl was even a bit more raw.
In reality is a lot of the girls would not look as good, and sexual injuries are common, I have worked on gynae wards and looked after OD's and drug addicts.
ATM our area, which is mainly rural has the highest rate of deaths from synthetic opioids in the UK, they think from spiking and drug cocktails, and perhaps because we also have a lot of science based industry, so there are plenty of people with enough knowledge to make them.

This should be really bad, its just about got every trope in one pot, but its really good, Good script, good acting, all the charecters pushed almost to the edge of caricature, but its all done so well its completely believable. It gives me Perfect Marriage Revenge vibes, with better production values.
A cheer for the bad guys, because they really make this sort of thing.

Just completed, a bit disappointed really with the cliche plot and the fight set pieces. The 'working girls' too pretty when in real life you can see they are wired from 20 metres and shows on their bodies.
Just not as unsettling as Worst of Evil, where the fight scenes in that were very realistic IMO.
I do not like the neat end either, but on the plus side the main actors were excelent.

A lot of the most successful UK stand up, and the ones that can sell out big venues are based on obsevational humour, about family and general life, some do politics, but a lot don't, its more about human behavoir, Its possible to make a living and not be controverisal.Not everyone is Ricky Gervais( netfllix) who will have a pop at anything.
A lot of Asian UK stand up is often based on family, like the obsession of being a doctor marrying a doctor etc, or cultural differences.
I think its possible for Chinese stand up to travel, because as humans the things that make us laugh are basically the same. Mr Bean is culturally British, but the humour is universal. I often do a double take when he is used in a non UK show.
The Edinburgh Fringe is the battle ground of UK stand up, its where most get trashed or get great. My favourite stand up, Dave Allen , you can find him on Youtube, Irish but made fun of God and the Catholic church at the time of the Troubles, just sat in a chair with a drink and let the audience come to him.

Binge watched eight eps last night, its one of the best thing I have watched for a long time. The handling of female charecters makes it relatable, non of the tropes of women being stupid or hysterically emotional,
The stand up is not that bad, I didn't expect it to be as funny as it was, so far no theme of the Asian parents which seems to be a commen one in Asian stand up
Unfortuately how women are treated by men, often like they have a brain pea, and the man in the relationship being seen as the rational and capable one still rings true. I buy everything in our home, including buying and selling the home, go and buy anthing and they still want to talk to the man, you verbally have to hit them over the head with a bat before they get who is making the choices.

Its not really as advertised, you start of with the light stuff, and then it gets heavy and complicted, I would say its a thinking watch. I liked it but I like complicated.

I just found it irriating, it has all the things I hate where they make the female look like an idiot,

Available, no risk of pregnancy and you can play football or PlayStation for hours together.

Do you not find the depiction of girls/women in most of these dramas what ever genre annoying. They are usually totally self absorbed, live in a sort of fan fiction in their head about their 'love' interest, will not take no for an answer, deceptive, manipulative or the odd 'hero' female is supposed to put up or shut up to be seen as worthy to be 'saved' or loved.
When you find out a women has actually been the script writer I despair, its like the only sort of female characters are a bitch, witch or have severe mental health problems and they are only plot devices. Both of the FL in this, surprise, one has MH problems and the other is deluded or desperate.

My biggest gripe is non of the males are depicted as having feminine traits, not all boys/men behave like straight guys. My daughters male friends from the age of twelve the had the same interests as her, horse riding seems to attract men with what is seen as feminine traits, only one has a guy as a partner, In most of these dramas feminine is seen as a bad thing in a male, usually the character has all the spiteful attributes usually reserved for female characters or seen as weak.
Being seen as a 'tom boy' not such a bad attribute because you can either disguise your self as a nerd, slightly higher up the acceptability tree, or
change into the standard vision of femininity.
I skim female plots just because they are so poorly written, they make angry.

I think in that age group and in that situation you are discovering your emotions and sexuality, its not about just being 'gay', or not.