Okay, I watched it mostly for the SFL... and the dog ;)I watched most of the scenes not involving main leads or…
Lessons from the ML: 1) When the woman you love treats you like shit, keep loving her. She's going to change and love you back (trust me, that's not a recipe for a toxic relationship at all). 2) When you discover who the villain is, just go meet them without telling anyone. Sharing knowledge is for the weak. You need to be the hero after all. 3) In Korea, when you love somebody, you need to prove it by separating from her for around 3 years. If your love holds, then it's fine. If not, oh well. I guess you need to try again. Take that into consideration if you're trying any serious relationship with a Korean person. (This is also a lesson for any aspiring writers there: when your audience is totally pissed and you want to throw some final punches, consider using this cliche.).
Lessons from the FL: 1) If you're a psychiatrist and your patient tells you that you shared some moment in the past but you don't remember... don't check if it's true. Just assume that what you think may be true is in fact true, no matter what your patient says. 2) If you're conducting an experiment on a human being, always lie to them and manipulate them. It's for their own good and for the good of the experiment. 3) If you're a psychiatrist, don't really listen to your patients. They just say the same things over and over; that's boring, but it's ok as long as they pay. 4) When your personal feelings get in the way of your work. Don't ask for somebody to replace you. It's better to ruin the experiment and hurt the person involved than to give it to somebody else. And also, you're not hurting the person; you're protecting them, right? Right? ;)
Lesson from the SFL: In Korea, "cool person" means "a person who can drink alcohol." The more you can drink, the more cool you are. Alcoholism is not a sickness; it's a skill you want to level up. This is not a new lesson. It's repeated in almost every single Korean drama. I think you should know it by now. Cheers!
Lessons from SFL's mother: 1) If your grown-up child wants to know about the past that may be embarrassing or difficult, don't speak to them, and if they press on scold them, do anything so they stop but avoid serious, honest talk. Talking to your children and treating them like human beings is for the weak. 2) If your dangerous relative can harm the rest of your family, don't warn them about it. Maybe they will survive and thank you that you tried to "protect them" (while you were really running away from the problem like a real grown-up adult does). And if not, then... oh well, I guess they were unlucky.
Lesson from ML's mother: If you've been a bad parent for your children, start drinking with them. In Korea, alcoholism seems to be the remedy for depression. Also use physical violence against anybody that tries to do them harm because in Korea using violence is how you solve problems as an adult.
Okay, I watched it mostly for the SFL... and the dog ;) I watched most of the scenes not involving main leads or second leads on 4x speed though. It was not that bad... until episode 12 i think (until then one could've justify characters behaviour by filling the gaps the writer and director failed to fill). After ep12 it gets worse and worse and by ep 14 there is just total mess :D
In the end I don't regret watching it. I wanted to check Yang Hye Ji's acting and she did very good. I think her character (SFL) was the only one (if you ignore alcoholism) that's likeable in this drama... okay, there's also the dog ;) Other actors did their job well too. In my opinion it's the writer(s) and the directors who failed.
Some lessons from this drama in the spoiler comment below:
I'm thinking about binge watching this one but... 1. Everyone says I should expect a bad story writing and it's a waste of time. Okay... seems like 2x speed will be on and maybe some skipping. 2. Everyone is talking that the only thing that's good is the Main Lead's visuals... I don't care about male actors visuals... How about Female Leads acting? How about Female Leads visuals?
Is it very scary? I want to watch it but I'm weak to horror
I my opinion you can watch it if: 1. You're 15+ years old (I guess you could ask your parents, but honestly... if you're not 12 years old yet, then please don't watch it. Wait a bit so you can sleep normally and not be scared every time somebody knocks at the door or you look in the mirror). 2. You can watch the intro... yes, the intro is a bit scary and I think it's scarier than some of the episodes of this series.
More details below (no spoilers): - I'm not a horror fan (I don't really like feeling scared) but I did enjoy this series very much. I would say I was excited more than scared watching this series. - There are no ugly scenes. - There are some jump-scare scenes. - There are also few scenes with ghosts looking a bit scary (no eyes) - like 3 or 4 scenes in the whole series. Most of the scenes with ghost are either presenting the character's shadow or the main character just looking like herself but acting different (BTW. Kim Tae Ri acting in this one is great). I think they purposely made it so that there are no scary scenes to reach a wider audience. - Note that if you're a religious person you may find the events more believable, which may make it more intense/realistic for you.
Who also love Young Dae little lisp? I really find it cute.
Not me. Honestly for me it's distracting. This distraction becomes a bit annoying sometimes (when it breaks immersion and I start thinking about the lisp instead of focusing on the story). But it is what it is. It's nobody's fault. As you say some people even find it cute, so good for you guys😊
P.S. I know. I don't find it cute so I should've stayed quiet. Sorry.
The first 2 episodes were hard to watch for me. After i've heard some real bullying stories from South Korea it felt really uncomfortable to watch bullying. Every time i heard the whistle I was getting more triggered as the main character did.
I liked the story more from the point (around episode 3/4) where the drama focused on the game between the main protagonist and the main antagonist. From this point the episodes were very well written and produced. I also liked the performance from most of the cast.
After the main conflict was settled I lost my interest for a while, but then we got the right amount of time spent on the ending. Overall i liked the pacing in this drama very much. The only moments that were a bit boring for me were in episode 9.
This drama has an important message to spread and I hope it will give me and you some courage to not be a bystander in unfair situations.
Please remember to check "spoiler" for the people who may want to enjoy watching this drama ;)
1) When the woman you love treats you like shit, keep loving her. She's going to change and love you back (trust me, that's not a recipe for a toxic relationship at all).
2) When you discover who the villain is, just go meet them without telling anyone. Sharing knowledge is for the weak. You need to be the hero after all.
3) In Korea, when you love somebody, you need to prove it by separating from her for around 3 years. If your love holds, then it's fine. If not, oh well. I guess you need to try again. Take that into consideration if you're trying any serious relationship with a Korean person.
(This is also a lesson for any aspiring writers there: when your audience is totally pissed and you want to throw some final punches, consider using this cliche.).
Lessons from the FL:
1) If you're a psychiatrist and your patient tells you that you shared some moment in the past but you don't remember... don't check if it's true. Just assume that what you think may be true is in fact true, no matter what your patient says.
2) If you're conducting an experiment on a human being, always lie to them and manipulate them. It's for their own good and for the good of the experiment.
3) If you're a psychiatrist, don't really listen to your patients. They just say the same things over and over; that's boring, but it's ok as long as they pay.
4) When your personal feelings get in the way of your work. Don't ask for somebody to replace you. It's better to ruin the experiment and hurt the person involved than to give it to somebody else.
And also, you're not hurting the person; you're protecting them, right? Right? ;)
Lesson from the SFL:
In Korea, "cool person" means "a person who can drink alcohol." The more you can drink, the more cool you are. Alcoholism is not a sickness; it's a skill you want to level up.
This is not a new lesson. It's repeated in almost every single Korean drama. I think you should know it by now. Cheers!
Lessons from SFL's mother:
1) If your grown-up child wants to know about the past that may be embarrassing or difficult, don't speak to them, and if they press on scold them, do anything so they stop but avoid serious, honest talk. Talking to your children and treating them like human beings is for the weak.
2) If your dangerous relative can harm the rest of your family, don't warn them about it. Maybe they will survive and thank you that you tried to "protect them" (while you were really running away from the problem like a real grown-up adult does). And if not, then... oh well, I guess they were unlucky.
Lesson from ML's mother:
If you've been a bad parent for your children, start drinking with them. In Korea, alcoholism seems to be the remedy for depression.
Also use physical violence against anybody that tries to do them harm because in Korea using violence is how you solve problems as an adult.
I watched most of the scenes not involving main leads or second leads on 4x speed though.
It was not that bad... until episode 12 i think (until then one could've justify characters behaviour by filling the gaps the writer and director failed to fill). After ep12 it gets worse and worse and by ep 14 there is just total mess :D
In the end I don't regret watching it. I wanted to check Yang Hye Ji's acting and she did very good. I think her character (SFL) was the only one (if you ignore alcoholism) that's likeable in this drama... okay, there's also the dog ;) Other actors did their job well too. In my opinion it's the writer(s) and the directors who failed.
Some lessons from this drama in the spoiler comment below:
Thank you 🙂
1. Everyone says I should expect a bad story writing and it's a waste of time. Okay... seems like 2x speed will be on and maybe some skipping.
2. Everyone is talking that the only thing that's good is the Main Lead's visuals... I don't care about male actors visuals...
How about Female Leads acting?
How about Female Leads visuals?
After watching this show you may feel a bit uneasy seeing Kim Tae Ri smile 😉
1. You're 15+ years old (I guess you could ask your parents, but honestly... if you're not 12 years old yet, then please don't watch it. Wait a bit so you can sleep normally and not be scared every time somebody knocks at the door or you look in the mirror).
2. You can watch the intro... yes, the intro is a bit scary and I think it's scarier than some of the episodes of this series.
More details below (no spoilers):
- I'm not a horror fan (I don't really like feeling scared) but I did enjoy this series very much. I would say I was excited more than scared watching this series.
- There are no ugly scenes.
- There are some jump-scare scenes.
- There are also few scenes with ghosts looking a bit scary (no eyes) - like 3 or 4 scenes in the whole series. Most of the scenes with ghost are either presenting the character's shadow or the main character just looking like herself but acting different (BTW. Kim Tae Ri acting in this one is great). I think they purposely made it so that there are no scary scenes to reach a wider audience.
- Note that if you're a religious person you may find the events more believable, which may make it more intense/realistic for you.
Honestly for me it's distracting. This distraction becomes a bit annoying sometimes (when it breaks immersion and I start thinking about the lisp instead of focusing on the story).
But it is what it is. It's nobody's fault.
As you say some people even find it cute, so good for you guys😊
P.S. I know. I don't find it cute so I should've stayed quiet. Sorry.
It's the right mixture of adventure, comedy and romance for me 🙂
I liked the story more from the point (around episode 3/4) where the drama focused on the game between the main protagonist and the main antagonist. From this point the episodes were very well written and produced. I also liked the performance from most of the cast.
After the main conflict was settled I lost my interest for a while, but then we got the right amount of time spent on the ending. Overall i liked the pacing in this drama very much. The only moments that were a bit boring for me were in episode 9.
This drama has an important message to spread and I hope it will give me and you some courage to not be a bystander in unfair situations.
Anyway this one is definately worth watching 👍
Watch out for the red button! ☢
Oh wait.. it's not this Korea... 🤷♂️