A Strong Start That Got Me Hooked
I didn’t expect much when I started Reborn Rookie, but the first two episodes really pulled me in.The story is fast, fun, and easy to enjoy. The body-swap idea may sound familiar, but the execution feels fresh because the drama knows how to balance comedy, business tension, and revenge.
Lee Jun Young is doing a great job so far. His confidence, expressions, and screen presence make the character really entertaining to watch.
Overall, this is a very strong start. I’m fully here for the hype, and I just hope the writers keep the same energy until the end.
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Dance Psychotherapy
Office work is very stressful, and employees need some form of refreshment so they don’t carry their work issues back home. The main character in this movie is the office leader, Guk-hee. I heard her name as “Cookie” :) She seems very strong and confident, but she is bursting at the seams, both personally and professionally. Eventually, she discovers flamenco dance and things start to change.The movie tries to portray a social drama, but it felt overly complicated. It was hard to keep up with all the office issues. Since I’m not an office worker, I had a hard time relating to the characters. On top of the drama, the movie also tries to be a comedy, mostly through weird and childish bodily humor. The main actress often stretches her face in exaggerated ways, probably to make us laugh, but for me it was sometimes uncomfortable to watch rather than being funny. I don’t think the actors did anything wrong — it just didn’t suit my personal taste. Hopefully the movie will be more successful with other viewers.
What I appreciated is that the movie presents dance as a remedy to help people find balance and emotional relief from the stress of daily life. We all need a way to break free from our problems — not to run away from them, but to face them in a healthier way.
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LOVED THIS DRAMA!!!!!!
I know some viewers have concerns about the romance angle between a student and a teacher, but honestly I felt the drama set clear boundaries between them throughout. Yes, you can definitely feel the chemistry, but the storyline makes everything understandable and justified.I really, really enjoyed this drama and it was definitely something fresh and different from the usual comedy k-dramas I've been getting lately.
Deep down, I really want a Season 2... I would love to see the characters grow even more, and I would love to see Yeo EuiJu become a famous BL novelist!
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This show really didn't know what it wanted to be
In the beginning it was some magical show where our characters tried to find missing artifacts, then it was about a cult then some past story/life, multiverse, some horsemen and eventually just descended to madness.The first half of the show with all the guest stars and finding the artifact that they stole was fun. But after that it went downhill. Its like the team ran out of actors to hire so they added some backstories in the last minute.
Literally who is Dome? He came into someone's body and then Kantha tried to keep him around cause he is an incarnation of Chan but then how does he have all this power? Who tf is 'the one'???
So much God and devil convo in the last few episodes and sometimes they will thrown in some christian reference and then say something unrelated. Just some vague lines in the end about choices and what not. They even tried to make the whole museum gang appear like a family but we barely knew shit about them so I couldn't care less about them.
I will the one to say it but it feels like Gun is always playing the same type of character in all his series. He is the damsel in distress, never aware of anything and doesn't know anything and has to follow someone around. Its getting boring atp. His acting is fine but its just the same material over and over.
The vague ass ending seems to be speciality of gmmtv. So far all the non-romance shows I have seen from them has this out of character ending which seems to be a setup for season 2 but they never make one.
The one star is for all the cameos and the half star is for my girl tu
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Acting: horror, as if 5-year-old children are in the roles. Psychiatrist: according to the Hippocratic Oath, he should do his job, not be friends with the patient's brother and carry out his wishes. The psychiatrist BTW looks like he's 16. The brother is sick, he needs a psychiatrist rather than Sao Tor. All in all, terrible acting, terrible script, never happened again!
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Good at Giving Advice Not so Good at Following her Own Advice
My Rating: 9.5/10If you like good solid romances that start with two characters who don’t necessarily like each other but move from enemies to frenemies, to friends to lovers, this is a great pick. The Female Lead (Yeon Bo-ra) and Male Lead (Lee Soo-hyuk) have excellent chemistry that makes their slow-burn progression feel natural and satisfying.
It also hits the spot if you’re interested in break-up tropes, self-help type characters or dating counselors who have to face their own messy love lives. The show handles a lot of it with real levity and funny moments, which keeps things from getting too heavy. I would absolutely recommend True to Love, I’d watch it again, and it’s earned a permanent spot in my library of must-watch romances.
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Watching the Female Lead (Yeon Bo-ra) belittle herself with her ex was cringe to the next level. The begging him to take her back and saying she would just ignore his cheating felt second-hand embarrassing. My daughter, my 30-something drama-watching buddy, especially had a hard time with those parts and it almost made her quit watching. Her personal style is that she doesn’t grovel on anything. I’m more the hopeless romantic who has made an idiot out of myself over some guys, so we had very different responses. It was a bit much though, even for me, given her background as a dating coach. Still, I know we often give the best advice to others that we never take ourselves, and that theme really landed for me.
The ex of the Male Lead (Lee Soo-hyuk) was just mean. Yes, he was a little emotionally distant, but that didn’t excuse her starting a relationship with someone else and saying every vile thing she could think of when she broke up with him. And given some of the things she said about Bo-ra, she just wasn’t a very nice person. I was actually glad she went through with her marriage and left because she felt toxic to me.
And man, some of Bo-ra’s friends. I’m like girl, you need to re-think who you befriend. The girl at the wedding where she was told to think of the champagne glass as a prop? Why would you even associate with someone so mean-spirited? Her really good friend/bestie (Lee Yoo-jeong) had her moments too. She sided with the Male Lead (Lee Soo-hyuk) one time and threw Bo-ra under the bus, which frustrated me.
Then that event Bo-ra hosted where she went off on her fans — peak cringe. I know people lose it like that, but letting it ruin your job? That was a lot.
I also wasn’t a fan of the age-gap romance between the CEO (Male Lead’s friend) and the young employee. The gap felt way too big for me — she seemed very young with this idealized, almost fairy-tale view of romance, while he was clearly in a much later stage of life with different priorities and perspectives. I just couldn’t picture the two of them together at all. It came off like the classic “wealthy older guy dating a much younger woman because he can,” even though the show tried to make it feel deeper and not about that. They didn’t seem to have much in common, which made the pairing feel forced and unconvincing to me.
A lot of other viewers seem to have felt the same way about these parts — the groveling scenes, the toxic ex dynamics, the age-gap romance subplot, and some of the frustrating friend moments. Many people noted how realistic (if painful) it was to watch a dating coach struggle so badly in her own love life, and quite a few mentioned the second-hand embarrassment during Bo-ra’s lowest points. It made the growth later feel more earned for me, even if those middle sections tested my patience a bit.
Overall, the strengths of the central romance and the show’s honest look at relationships far outweighed the cringier moments for me. That’s why it still lands at a strong 9.5/10 in my book.
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if you liked "Bad and Crazy" you'll love this one!!!
All my "Bad and Crazy" baddies rise, because this drama was giving such a similar feeling! I looooved the drama, it wasn't all serious, it had it's funny moments. I liked the mix of the comedy and law genre, it wasn't suffocating and I wasn't bawling my eyes out all of the time.Phantom Lawyer was such a relief from everyday life, I enjoyed it and would watch it again (also, if I could've I would've rated it even higher than 10).
The main actors were nice, I'm glad they didn't explore the romance between two leads more than they already did, because that left us more time with the ghosts and other cases.
Anyways, enough glazing, GOOO WATCH THE DRAMAA!!!
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If you liked "The 8th show" or "The night has come" you will like this kdrama!!
This masterpiece of a show was insanely executed, from the videography point of view to the storytelling. The cast was exactly as you'd expect from this kind of a show - highschoolers who are mostly selfish, but also care quite a lot about their friends. Actors did such a good job conveying the feelings and emotions. The story behind how the app was made and why the app was cursed was a cherry on top.// this is a vague spoiler//
I was kind of sad that some of the characters died and that they didn't get to come back alive though, but I understand, because the story wouldn't have made any sense if they did come back to life.
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Underrated only cz it's not a popular BL pair
The drama is an absolute gem. Probably one of my favorites among the ones currently airing. The plot although is a popular troupe is well written and executed. The NC is just right not too much to make it seem like porn. The acting is spot on. I absolutely love all 3 couples and the pacing is perfect. Given 8 episodes they've made sure they focus more on the main couple and give us just enough of the 2nd and 3rd couple. Another thing special about this drama is that it keeps u curious and wanting more like rn I am curious about saitharn's past and the white shirt guy, the beef between sila and mueng (it doesn't seem that simple), how the deal is gonna go etc and eventhough there are soo many points they need to cover the drama doesn't feel rushed nor am i scared they won't cover them well cz this is probably one of the best executed bl I've watched other than restart, top form and kinnporcheI absolutely love this drama. Although we might not see this pair again cz this drama is not a hit. I think i will be rewatching this drama. I really hate it when people just rate a drama low cz the pair is not a popular pair but then rate a below average drama high by spamming it with 10s just cz the pair is popular. Currently there are dramas that are from gmmtv and dmd that are not up to the par but are rated above 8 just cz the pair is popular but this one has pretty much got hate for being cringe when it is actually not.
I saw someone complaining about the gl pair getting more screentime. When they literally were introduced in that episode (ep 3) and barely had like 5 min screentime that episode🙄. That's how unreasonable the hate is towards this drama.
I absolutely love all the characters in this drama including our "villian" gap, our hottie fluke and cutie neau. I hope to see them together in more projects❤️
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Nice Start and Heartwarming ending
At first, I didn't expect too much from an office romance like this, but it turned out to be much better than I expected. Gong Myung's acting was above my expectations. I've seen him in several dramas before, but this is his best performance so far. Shin Hye Sun also delivered a great performance, as usual.The story is actually pretty well written. I loved the love-hate relationship between the leads, and the plot was quite interesting at the beginning. It became a bit flat in the middle, but it ended on a strong ending. I laughed a lot during the ending and was very satisfied with both the story and the performances.
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Try harder next time…
After watching Mysterious Lotus Casebook, I found The Zhan Zhao Adventures felt like a weaker imitation of the same formula.It seemed to borrow many of the elements that made Mysterious Lotus Casebook successful but without achieving the same emotional depth or quality of storytelling.
Have been waiting for this drama - sadly, disappointing for me.
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Not your typical saeguk
Let me get this out of the way up front - she never met the groom, he supposedly died on their wedding day and she's expected to live as a widow, yet it takes til the end of the show for them to figure out a loophole so she doesn't have to live with the stigma of divorce since they weren't ever actually married?!?!?That being said, it was so good to see a strong FL, that was nice. Normally, strong FL's need to be a B. Since the FL is actually a martial artist, the fight scenes were well-choreographed and believable.
There was more humor than expected, which I enjoyed. Beautiful costuming.
As for romance/chemistry - I could feel it from the ML, but not the FL. He had very expressive eyes. Not one single kiss. I loved the 2ML and his immediate attraction to 2FL.
There were a couple of rap songs that felt completely out of place, but some of the music was good.
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Good start but boring to the ending
It has very good start with the hook, comedy and nice story but in the middle season everything became so slow, boring and story feels like stopped just for something unnecessary, but I like how this drama relates to nowadays people that hardworking and less sleeping. The story was actually mid everything predictable, just chemistry for main couple that carrying the whole season. Nice start but boring endingWas this review helpful to you?
