Kate

Well... well well well...
I loved it at first, and now I am amazed how much impact can questionable acting have on overall quality of a show. Namping why Why you don't use them muscles on your face much? 😭😭😭😭

I don't even want to talk about the conclusion coz that was a fucking joke. Cannot believe what I have seen in ep 12 🤡

Still, there is quite a lot to love.
🔥culture being an integral aspect of the story, not just decoration
🔥Master being a whole damn fucking meal
🔥acting from Green and FirstOne
🔥variety of loveable characters, even the ones I was scared at first would be annoying as fuck (some ended up as my favorites)
🔥special effects and styling
🔥proper and detailed backstory for the villain
🔥some rather great emotional takes (none from Namping tho 🤡)

For more in depth takes - review:
https://mydramalist.com/profile/theKate/review/504824

Also, that one emotional scene between Chan and Jet in one of the last episodes (I am sure you know which one I am talking about) was FUCKING AMAZING.

Oh god the audition scene was so good! The way both of them analyzed and understood the character is a completely different way.

Shirasaki Yuki interpretation gave me a character that thought to be "blameless" and thinking he was forced by external circumstances to do what he did. No confidence. Thinking of himself as a victim. He killed because he felt like he cannot achieve it on his own.

Hayama Asami gave me more cold and calculative. Confident in his scheme, angry when they are revealed. He is not a victim, he is a perpetrator and he knows it. He killed not because he did not think he can achieve it, but because he thought he deserves it more than the person who had it. A weird sense of something being stolen from him.

Funny how director thinks Hayama Asami was great, but I actually liked Shirasaki Yuki's interpretation more. Characters like that often spiral in the most interesting way possible.

Why punish reviewers for what bots do? Most of the reviewers that have their reviews on top right now are not some new accounts, but people who regularly write reviews.

The thing is, the drama was such a sandwich. First half and last episode were all about female friendship, chasing your dreams, surrounding yourself with people who care for you etc. But then the second half went against ALL of that 🤣

true... to give us 2 time jumps right when the aftermath of 2 important events happened in just last episode was... a choice 🤣

THIS ONE WAS SO HARD NOT TO REPLY TO 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I wasn't surprised either, it was obvious they are going yo end up together from episode 2 hahaha and i did not want Jong Hui with him either. My ideal ending would be the 3 being best friends only and the girls getting with oppas 🤣

not gonna lie, not spoiling was a torture 🤣

"So as Kate said" < everyone who is not on feeds be like: who the fuck is Kate 🤣

The brother and his friend, each time these two entered the screen they stole the show delivering the deepest emotion (the friend) or the most insightful lines (the brother). Hte guys friendships, drinking habits and so on where also pretty nice to watch. < this! 🔥🔥🔥

Glad you had fun watching! 💖💖💖

But the show reduce them to “love rivals” rather than an individual characters who have goals < the drama that goes "Girls be ambitious" but then shows the girls be anything and everything but ambitious 🤣

The last episode felt like a massive panic on writer's side when she remembered this is a female friendship story 🤣

I ate the delicious crumbs of my ship. Thank you very much.

We got another half assed borderline semi redemption arc for another abuser.

Technically they gave closure to all plotlines, but why do I feel so unsatisfied?

For more cohesive rant check the review 🤣🤡
https://mydramalist.com/profile/theKate/review/503136

You are right, she should have let YR be killed. She should not have saved her 👍🙄

Also she would not end up in jail. At worst she would get probation. He cannot claim attempted murder when she stabbed him in a fucking shoulder with a pen 🤣

It took it as it's meaning. Words and phrases have meanings. as much as means the things you compare are equal.

You made a mistake and now your tying to blame me for it. You said they struggled the same amount. You did not mean it like that? Okay. Then you made a mistake with how you stated your opinion. It's not my fault.

Again, words have meanings.

The intent was only clear in your head. The way you phrased it meant - they struggled the same amount. It's on you, not on me.

It's not me reading too much into it, it's you making a mistake with how you verbalize your opinion. You literally said she struggled AS MUCH as JH. I did not read too much into it. I read it exactly how you phrased it. If you meant she also had her own struggles then you should have phrased it like that.

Don't turn it on me like I made mistake reading too much into it, when it was your mistake of stating your opinion wrong 🙂

She struggled just as much as JH. < This is literally in your comment. This is literally you claiming YR struggled just as much as JH. This is you literally saying JH being abused is the same level of struggling as YR not being able to go to university because her family struggled financially.

Maybe next time reread your comment before posting, because your initial comment literally does say their struggled were equally bad.

To explain YR and JH's individual situations is a simple terms:

YR - someone who tripped, stumbled a little bit, scratched a knee, and then had a number of people help them get back up and ask if they are ok.

JH - someone who got punched in the face with full force, hit their head on the pavement getting injury that is hard to heal and then get asked: "why are you letting them punch you?" and then left alone on the ground.

IT DOES NOT MAKE YR A BAD PERSON. Having less struggles and better life and healthy support system is a good thing. It does not make a person bad. But it's wild to compare their situations like they are the same and they both had it equally bad in life. And since yesterday I see a lot of people do that. Saying that YR struggled too. Yes she did. Were her struggles comparable to JH? Nope. Her not having the easiest life, but also having easier life than JH can both be true statements, they are not mutually exclusive.

Good example - even with loving mother and amazing support system only now YR actually decided to put herself first and take the risk with Miss Korea competition to chase her dream of attending the university.

But JH with physically abusive mother and NO support system is blamed for being stuck in the past and not developing. When even YR who was in a better situation struggled to just think of herself first.

I am sorry, but you are saying being psychically abused most of your life and beaten so bad you almost died is THE SAME level of struggling as not being able to go to university because your family's financial situation is not the best 🤣 If you do not see this as wrong opinion, maybe you do need a little bit more life experience and chats with abuse victims.

I mean we are all free to be wrong 🤣

I know the drama will not go that way, but for me JH winning the competition could be her way of escaping the mother. The scholarship could let her have a new start without being financially dependable on abusive mother. She needs to get out of that house, but she needs to gain independence too. She needs to believe she can in fact live a normal and happy life, even if alone, so she won't fall back into abusive situations.

Here's what I think - they are both no bad friends, but they are not right friends for each other.

If she truly cared about their friendship then she wouldnt be throwing everything she claims she selflessly did in YR face to guilt her. < that's not true. People do a lot of impulsive things when they are hurt and in abusive situation they don't know how to explain. Her life in already a hell hole, the idea of blaming yourself for it would literally kill her. Her brain is literally keeping her alive by putting the blame on someone else. And while I do not blame YR for not understanding that since she does not have needed knowledge to know, her asking "why force yourself to live there like that?" was extremely insensitive thing to say to a victim of abuse and shows she was also never the right friend for JH. After witnessing her abusive brother, after knowing she had to be on the run after the attack, to not understand why someone would choose to stay in abusive, but stable environment is rather egocentric and shows she never tried to understand JH in the first place.

And again, it's not like any of them in truly wrong in this complicated and hard situation, they are just not right for each other.

She struggled just as much as JH. < oh this I STRONGLY disagree with. I am sorry, but having to help support your family financially which puts your dream job (which also majority of people do not get to do anyway in their live) on hold is not "struggling as bad" as living with physically abusive brother who literally beat you up so bad you almost died. Being on a run from someone who you think can kill you, so you can never settle down and you feel like you cannot make any connections because you might need to run again at any moment is in fact far worse than YR's struggles.

A lot of people here are clearly not mature enough to handle a drama the depicts the reality of life. < that's rich coming from you when you, you think their situations were comparable. Is not exactly mature way of viewing the show either. It's rather biased.

YR was not at fault for what happened to JH. That's a fact. YR did not do anything wrong. That's also fact. But it's also a fact that she had far better and easier life than JH - does NOT mean her life was easy. They both had it hard. One had it objectively worse tho. It's a fact that YR had a great support system around her that helped her develop, improve and deal with her hardships. And it's a fact JH had none of that. The biggest difference I guess was: YG was struggling, while JH was barely surviving.