I liked how the fl had her own LOOK. the dark hair and dark lipstick with the black clothes were great aesthetics
Tho I also disliked her secretary and evil dude's secretary matching a bit in the dark vibes. They had the same lipstick, same hair and same color scheme. It made it seem like a fashion style for ahjummas rather than the fl going dark for coldness and maturity. Since in her normal youth ppl didn't trust her, and insulted her she put on a facade of coldness with her fashion

Secretary was a cool fun aunt style so matching tones ruined the mood. Especially since dark lipsticks have shades, like red, orange, brown, maybe not pink. But the 3 seemed to share the same lipstick besides one ep where fl was red and aung was a bit dark pinkish hue🤣


I'm not a fan of nara but this her best work. Finally allowing her to be her age. Not insulting her age but they force the soft babyface way too much. It's not wrong to act characters her age.. tho idk if she was supposed to be 35? Since her aunt seemed 18, and the kid vr should be younger so maybe 15? Both looked easily in their natural 40s

The ml, he also didn't look 27 if kid vr was 7.. he looked again his age of 32




Anyway plot wise. I like subplots, but I hate childhood connection. Everything was way too connected.. way too dramatic traumatic for it to be solved so easily

Her mom didn't have to die.. they could've searched more.. I'd have understood more if they had the solution that was lost in a fire or something. But for them to be generations of exorcists and not have a solid resolution for egg ghost(?) Only for ml who has no background on the matter to solve it

Their ghosts and evil spirits were also too mellow. The were harmless besides a few hauntings. Even when the murderer and the big villain possessed ML, they only fought a bit and boom they were gone

I also really hated the connection.. his uncle killed. Got his nephew possessed. Ended up making the exorcist die by her daughter. And everything was solved with a few tears. He was a villain..

And that was the main problem. Her needles purified the spirits as if they were forgiven that's why big villain needed to be locked away.. but would that mean the actual evil ones didn't get punishment... most were vengeful spirits cuz they were wronged and murdered, but what about the killers
Also tripping and falling seemed like an easy way to become vengeful. There must've been atleast one in every building 🤣

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I gave s1 a 10 but this was lacking
ma dongsuk is a gem, his fight scenes are refreshing especially after the brutal villains, he comes on like a soda pop and btch slaps everyone into another dimension🤣
but that's about it, this only worked for him. the villains were all so skinny and but they don't die. ma dongsuk had 0 character development and very little screen time, he was there to fight. the villain was way too "Idc I'll kill and I won't die"
the events were meh, tho we were invested in the action and we laughed a bit, more at the ridiculousness than comedy
my favorite part was "let's split it 50/50", "who gets the 50", honestly cheese like that only works for ma dongsuk
and as mom said he was her fav part🤣

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different but annoyingly different

just like sweet home and squid game, this was unlike the "usual" kdramas, well the zombie apocalypse part, the highschool romance angst was actually exactly like any other school kdramas ;)

for a zombie apocalypse, it's not usually from a teens' pov. and usually it doesn't revolve around bullying.. but that was it's charm..
was it believable? lol of course not.. those kids never ate anything for 3 days straight, and they barely slept, yet they had enough strength to run, fight and hold back zombies who are known for their speed and power (like those chombies showcased, there's no way those kids could've survived that long)


Tbh prez should use her strength more, I mean if it was a guy chombie he'd have carried them all out and saved the day by now.. prez only threw bully off the roof once..

that bullied girl eating bullied boy.. that's not revenge, he couldn't protect himself she shouldn't have expected him to save her.. she needed to take revenge on her bully.. she should've stayed in the school then found her bully bullying the kids so she'd save them and have her revenge
her revenge against "the whole school" made no sense cuz as those kids showed most of them didn't know either of the bullies or the bullied..

also with cheong san's mom, he should've shown more disbelief, and also she shouldn't have gone there, also where was his dad?
it's like the mom, the fls dad, the bully, the bullied girl, they were all just steps to get the story somewhere.. but they just mostly needed less eps and less reason to drag it out, like that whole flashbacks sequences..

Cheong San didn't deserve this.. the bully was attacking him and he defended himself.. he did not deserve an eye for an eye


The 2 cops are just adopting any kid they find🤣🤡 I was waiting for them to run away with 1 kid now they have 2🤣🤡🤡

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my byun yo han did such a great job though I couldn't help but wish for more ;(

this was a nice full story, the plot moved in several years smoothly and gradually that it all felt harmonious

tbh I wasn't a fan of the black and white, there were 3 scenes with brief colors and I think it ruined the mood, the story wasn't about paleness of life, making it b&w felt too forced, they severely missed on the playment of the beautiful blue ocean and better the actual washed out colors of "poverty", I felt like most of them wore browns or beige surrounded by sand and that would've gave them the dry vibes more
the subtle human interactions and friendships were really sweet though it feels bitter sweet with no real conclusion unless they wanted to convey "home" is the best place

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I had more fun watching this than watching dramas xD
at some points they wanted designers rather than stylists but kids these days are too into distortion and layering that I sometimes didn't blame the judges
sometimes they were too cruel, those kids all had so much enthusiasm and it was so sad to watch the excitement leave their eyes when the judges nitpiked everything beside the "good" members.
I wanted to see more styling and challenges than getting more bonuses for creating new pieces by cutting and sewing. atleast I hoped they taught the kids better


overall I LOVED this, this was similar to my dream fashion mdl production.
hayoungie was the "fl", Ye Chan was the "ml", Seo Yeon the "2fl" and I didn't ship them I just matched their vibes to drama characters but I did slightly ship yuna and her itaewan partner Ju Seung ;p

I think they tried to balance and add a twist so they didn't always praise the best but as a "drama" they made hayoung the main character so much that she always won the ratings and she might've thought she'd win so that was sad. though I always felt like they actually appreciated yuna the most they didn't want to always back her up so it didn't seem preplanned.


the budget was HIGH, so high it felt weird. the concept was about styling and most of those kids didn't have the artistic mindset and creativity to create a new thing so the judges were too cruel to ask uniqueness of them
I loved the kids ep the best I think that was more close to "style" than designer and I wished for more eps

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I think the story was really limited, the setting was small (as apposed to My First Client for example) and the progress though uneventful, the ending was not what they wanted it to be.
Park Ha Sun and Ha Yoon Kyung did an amazing job though the little kid didn't have enough force (the kids in Pawn and My First Client were so amazing I was mesmerized by their performance) and I couldn't get that invested.


this is a big issue and a current event in korea, idk if laws are different in each country regarding child abuse, but in beyond the truth they said the law can take away your child even if there was a rumor of mistreatment then you need to prove that you're a good parent, which also seems like a horrible law but here in these korean movies even if there are huge sings of abuse they let them keep the kids! and in the end it results in 2 things, they die or they kill. that's why I didn't think the ending had the impact they wanted. at some scenes the kid seems to be exhibiting psychopathic behavior, even bigger than their line "kids who are abused turn around and abuse other's"

so overall even if the message was heartbreaking and the performance was good, it still felt basic. I couldn't feel the emotinal depth of each fl, or the connection with the kid, so I felt like it was slow but rushed

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this series always talks about important issues and this season was the heaviest but their delivery was lacking. for one thing they repeated their "big" plot too much and they kept repeating scenes, then they added another plot before the last but again they left it and went back to repeating their big plot. so the ending was one big cliffhanger

Han Sung Yun was the only great actor among them, she carried the show alone tbh, the 2nd actress was tooo bubbly that it was too much, the "player" guy was trying too much and the other guy was almost like a background character, he had a story that not all men are "manly" but it was less than a flashback.

so I think the directing this time lacked, though it was better than s2 cuz I don't remember that one ;D

the ost was really nice, a full rnb mood I liked it.

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beside the major casting change, and the fact that rock nana was the main one they needed, cute nana not only looked/acted differently but she was HORRIBLE here, it was like she was brain washed by long haired guy, and worse she just lacked logic and looked like a saesang who was happy to have a reason to be forever "connected" with her idol ;/

ironically they didn't change the blond or the long haired one but they still looked/acted differently here xD


she acted as if long hair was the only one who "got her", but blond dude was the one who treated her with respect and care.. long haired guy was crazy, he treated her like an object and then only wanted her when other's told him he can't have her/he had competition ;/
so he goes to her house to tell her he'll have her no matter if the kid was his or not! do things she told him not to, expose her when she's weak, and she thought that was romantic?! while their blond dude just walks away because "he wants her to be happy" like no one TALKED and she chose the creepy control freak ;/ AND he was married in another country? how did ren not know!
basically this lacked logic and I hope the anime was not like that.. plus they end it on a cliffhanger! was it the blond's kid? was it the long haired's? would blond literately give away his "family" because he didn't want to fight?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

on the other hand the real essence of the sismance between the nanas was lost here! cute nana didn't care for rock nana she was just jealous and living in self pity and rock nana "loved" cute nana so much she didn't TALK with her anymore! she didn't talk it out when cute nana acted wrongly by going to long haired guy, she didn't talk to her when she was in her lowest, and she left to stay with ren becasue she was so happy to be with cute nana? nothing made sense!!!!!!!!!!!! and she just let go of cute nana becasue she didn't tell her everything! yet she was the one who didn't listen or ask! and she never tried to find her back! and cute nana stopped caring for rock nana that she didn't even come out of the room when the glasses broke?! honestly forget romance what did they do to the sismance!

I need to know if this season is taken from the anime becasue I just don't to watch it anymore ;(

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the actresses were on point, I think Nakashima Mika really captured rock nana's feels and attitude really well, and cute nana was nice too, though for the mls, non of them met my "expectations"
Ren kinda looked cold composed and stoic, but here he was slightly sleazy looking, he did not look ROCK ;) I hate when equal's change the actors (and 2 mains) but I hope he's better there xD

the sismance between the nana's was adorable, and their characters were solid enough but I hated the focus on cute nana's cheating boyfriend ;/ and his new gf just passed "cute" into creepy clueless territory ;)


it was even way way before I got into anime/dramas that I was on love with nana's art style just from googling it, but I never watched the anime or read the manga xD
I kinda liked the aura/feel of it, and not reading/watching it made it more mysterious and deep? (now I tried to google it and the drawings kinda looks, childish? xD but it brings back memories.. I even loved drawing punk rock fashion, I probably still have my drawings with nana inspired looks..)

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I've personally seen freaky friday several times and I believe I also saw the original 70s vr as well, but I might be wrong xD
overall the concept is cute, kinda also like 18 again, it's like kids and parents are from different generations so they see things with a different eye but with these concepts both can finally look through the same view point and understand each other a little more

for me this is the only project from Jung So Min that I enjoyed, ironically it's when she's acting as a man xD that's why I say black listed actresses are bad becasue of type casting..

the plot was boring but I did laugh alot over the silliness of Yoon Je Moon acting as a girl and somin as the dad xD
I especially loved when she chased him and he ran away calling dad xD also yoon je moon dancing to sistar xD

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comedywise it was fun and I laughed a few times, but plotwise it was too basic and convenient

like honestly the blood/wounds making her old again, and accident of her beloved grandson were too linear, but the way they handled the age gaps, the "romances" and the character developments were nice, probably the best in this genre of fantasy age gaps, I think it'd have been as creepy for this 74 year old to "live happily ever after" with a 30+ as it was for mr black that might've actually ended with the creepy old guy and the fl his son's age got together


tbh this was a rewatch and I thought her daughter in law was the one who got sick and she chose to help xD but the relationship development between them at the end was nice though again way too rushed, why did she suddenly decided to talk back xD

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in some ways this drama was a role playing game like each stage of his life he had 2 options and he needed to choose between them.
if he chose to open a restaurant, he'd have been unsatisfied and might've taken it out on his wife for tying him down.
if he chose to stay in france he'd have married francis(?) they'd have both lived happily enough but he'd have had that same hole from not realizing his dream and when his brother died he'd have lived in guilt

tbh I think he was all in all very selfish and self centered, his family and wife always put his needs 1st, his wife was responsible for 99% of his success but he never realized it until it was way too late
he in the end kinda chose to live for the emperor instead of himself/his family or his dream. he cooked becasue it made him happy, he learned becasue he wanted to prove others wrong, he became the emperor's chef to show the world he made it, but was he happy? did he spend enough time with his family? would he have been happier in a small restaurant? would he have been happier in france? would it have been better if he took Takahama Toshiko to france with him before the angst happened? if he wasn't the emperor's cook maybe he'd have taken better care of his wife and she'd have not died so early.. his sons were in the army but where was his daughter? he was not a good father or husband..
and thought TT was a great wife she was too great that he was able to take his hands off of the family matters and live only focused on himself


the title and the promise made me think he'd live a luxurious lifestyle with his family around the emperor, like he'd have been maturer as time went by but he never changed, his house was modest or "rich" enough as his parents were, did being the emperor's chef really benefit him? did he really "save" the emperor? did the emperor thank him? was he "honored".....

also, the ages were really over the place, like sure the actor was around 26 and he was a believable teen (though they only used his shortness to make him young, and he was just short) to 30 year old but later, especially the last ep he reeeaaallly did not look around 50s? especially around the other actually older actors.

anyway, it was interesting to see that time period, and I actually liked it until he cheated with his boss's wife though they seemed to have an open marriage but he lived with them for like 5 years afterwards I started to dislike him then. he was just lucky, he met the right people, the right mentors that even when he had obstacles and hardships it was not that hard for hard work to get him out, unlike the painter who was alone and never achieved his dream

also I never rewatch stuff

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I don't know if it's the writer or the actresses but the ladies in this show were awesome, unlike the usual fls in these types of dramas Cha Mi Rae was not a pushover, in fact she was an independent confident smart well established career woman that wouldn't let anyone mess with what's hers ;p
and as 2nd fls Hwang Ji Hye was slightly clingy but she was not jealous or obsessive, her clingyness and constant confessions were a result of the ml always casually refusing her because he was "always" in love with the 1st fl.
Sa Rang was as crazy as her mom and Director Hwang is sweet as always~

now, plotwise this was horrible and not just because it's a cliche from 2015 but really nothing made sense and every subplot was there just to move the plot.
the reason for their breakup was worse than a misunderstanding and was pure bs. she didn't have enough "confidence" to tell him so she denied both the father and daughter to be their for each other ever since step1 ;(

Han Yeol was not my favorite type of ml but he was not childish or incapable of taking responsibility and even when the drama started he always seemed to regret not starting a family. and she wasn't even "holding him back" or stop him from "achieving" his goals and dreams related to baseball.
also all throughout the drama they show an accident as if that's the reason they were apart -a stupid accident I might add that happened 2ft away from him, like even if it was poring rain, there's no way one would not notice a freaking truck hitting a person ;/ - she just didn't have confidence!

it's like she had no issues with weirdly forcing him to live as her husband/kid's dad for 3 months as a contract but she couldn't tell him she was pregnant!!! and he couldn't do that math ;/
they only did it to have a plot that says "he chose to be her father even when he didn't know he was her dad". like she was unreasonably selfish for wanting to get him back so she can leave her kid and die in peace and she just kept hurting everyone by wanting to leave over and over and over again it made zero sense.
what's more hurtful? your mom/the love of your life leaving you suddenly because she hates you, or finding out that they are sick and in need of a caregiver?
also what's even worse than both is that after she dumps them and dies they find out that she suffered alone ;/

also the villains were too cartoonish and unreasonable.

and so I HATED the plot, the only thing beside the female characters I liked were some sweet family moments and the fact that the 2nd leads ended up together

the song was nice but they repeated it so much it got on my nerve and I never rewatch stuff :)

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This vs Sweet Home

there's no need for comparison, but I'll do it anyways~
for the plot, this was a flat mess, they had too many characters with zero emotinal attachment...

the main reason I stayed was Kim Ok Bin. I've only seen her before in The Villainess and briefly in Children of a Lesser God. I can't remember her in the 1st one though I briefly remember the plot and I dropped the later cuz of her (and the ML's) high pitched tone, so here I actually really appreciated her beautiful calm voice and persona. as a cop I approve

in sweet home, they had so many characters but each of them felt real, from the sweet church boi to the horrible wife beater, each were a piece in the big puzzle

here, they had the cop, the ex cop, the kid (added for cheap emotinal grab), the teen (added for cheap sad lonely misfit), the teacher (that was connected to the teen for cheap revenge plot), the doctor (for cheap last minute conflict), the shaman and her annoying inferiority complex, the creepy self centered human monsters, another kid, another teacher, a police dude and his pregnant wife, and basically my point was, everyone was a piece of a puzzle cut in a square just to make the picture bigger (ie more ep count) and easy skippable plotlines


this was one of those cases "less ep cuz they knew they couldn't drag it out too much"


the ost is beautiful and I never rewatch stuff

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