นายโขน The Masked Hearts 6/10
สำหรับเรื่อง นายโขน The Masked Hearts เป็นซีรีส์ Boys’ Love ที่หยิบเอา “โขน” ซึ่งเป็นศิลปะการแสดงชั้นสูงของไทยมาเป็นแกนหลักของเรื่องได้อย่างน่าสนใจโขนในเรื่องถูกนำเสนอทั้งในแง่ของวัฒนธรรม ดนตรี และรูปแบบการแสดงที่ผู้แสดงต้องสวมหน้ากาก ทำให้ซีรีส์มีเอกลักษณ์และแตกต่างจากเรื่องอื่นอย่างชัดเจน
สิ่งที่ผมชอบคือการเล่าเรื่องที่สลับระหว่างอดีตกับปัจจุบัน ทำให้เห็นมุมมองของสังคมที่เปลี่ยนไป จากอดีตที่ยึดถือขนบธรรมเนียมอย่างเคร่งครัด เช่น ผู้ชายต้องแต่งงานกับผู้หญิงเพื่อสืบสกุล
แต่พอมาในปัจจุบัน ซีรีส์ก็สะท้อนให้เห็นว่า “ความรักก็คือความรัก” ไม่ว่าจะเป็นชาย-ชาย หญิง-หญิง หรือชาย-หญิง ทุกคนก็สามารถรักกันได้
ซึ่งมันก็เชื่อมโยงกับ “โขน” เองเหมือนกัน ในอดีตที่มีกรอบ มีระเบียบที่ชัดเจนมาก แต่ในยุคปัจจุบัน ถ้าไม่ปรับตัวให้เข้ากับยุคสมัย ก็อาจทำให้ความสนใจลดลงไป การปรับเปลี่ยนในบางจุดจึงกลายเป็นอีกวิธีหนึ่งของการอนุรักษ์
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Rushed, no emotional connection with story
The production is of high quality, but the storyline is rushed and difficult to connect with. The plot begins moving too quickly in the first episode, with the main couple being introduced almost immediately, there’s no time to build tension or a connection with the audience. GL productions thrive on tension and buildup, BOL lacks this entirely. Faye is typically a captivating actress, but this is not her best performance so far.Esta resenha foi útil para você?
What’s not to like about this drama
Took me a while to find it but I did so on UK’s YouTube channel ‘kk cdrama’.The story follows four icons of the student body at MingDu University and international champions of the bridge card game, who call themselves collectively F4. A bookish, slightly autistic and very talented musician (Hua Ze Lei), a playboy with a hidden past who loves tea (Zi Men Yan), a fun and flirty boy with cute looks and a penchant for older women (Feng Mai Zuo) and the most drooled over of them all, a bad boy who is very protective of those he cares about with a monster for a mother (Dao Ming Si). Life is an easy one for these guys - all over 6 foot tall, with brains, big hearts and even bigger bank balances - until they cross paths with a female pint sized whirlwind (Dong Shan Cai) and her motley crew. She’s not impressed by their fan base or their aloof attitude and turns the world of at least one of these young men on its head.
There are twists and turns, high and lows, laugh out loud moments and tears aplenty in a story of how a pairing of complete opposites go from absolute haters to a couple so deeply in love that they are prepared to sacrifice themselves for each other.
The story takes us from the uber rich elite lifestyle of Shanghai to the impoverished one-step-above-the-breadline daily grind of musicians in London, from the lower working class areas of Shanghai to a sleepy little fishing village in rural China and the beauty of the best of London landmarks. (However the London pad of the Daoming dynasty was probably shot in rural Surrey but let’s not let the facts get the way of a good story).
The production values are first class, the songs beautiful and appropriate to the scenes and the actors utterly brilliant though I do think that the scriptwriter could have given sister Yu more of a backbone and thus a more interesting part to play in the drama.
Would I watch it again? Absolutely as the chemistry between the characters and the ‘will they, won’t they’ plots of the main characters and their love interests was so well written.
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A xianxia drama that is quite good!
I often dropped yangyang in his modern series but I persisted in watching this drama. It's so obvious I love watching xianxia( mythological dramas). It is more apt for him to play cultivator roles, imo.Cultivation is part of Chinese daoist mythology. In xianxia, they are everywhere. There is a long process in attaining immortality. Lowest in the rungs is having innate qi, then establishing your foundation, then forming your core and finally becoming divine-like. Benefits are longevity( one can go living to hundreds of years young), superpowers and becoming immortal( as long as you were not struck dead by another immortal)
Cultivators are like priests or monks in the ancient times. They have to renounce any worldly desires except for the pursuit of attaining immortality.
Hanli got into cultivation because it might bring money and food to his family. He got to see his younger sister married off and i presumed his parents died out because they were never mentioned after being accepted as an " intern-cultivator". He thought he had an innate talent because his shifu said so, not knowing that the latter wanted to use hanli's inner qi to regain his younger body. Shifu was only 36years young but looked like twice his actual age. Shifu was killed instead by hanli so he continued his journey to join any cultivation sect.
As a viewer it was quite a disappointment to see that hanli in fact has no " qi root" in his body. In short, he is like any mortal. (If he is an ordinary mortal, it will take him very long years just to level up. Then why could he fast track his cultivation skills if he possessed no "qi root"? I find this to be the one of the 2 flaws in the story.
I love watching the drama because it is a story with no love interest ( so far in season 1. There is another season 2 coming up. Dunno if they will inject a love interest to it).
We can see that 4 ladies were smitten with him. They are The daughter of his shifu( mo), 2 sect-sisters and 1 core cultivation master by the name of nangong wan. 2 were subtle with their feelings while the other 2 had openly declared their love towards him But he is unmoved because of his desire to reach the top in cultivation, besides being free spirited. He is not a person without feelings. He has a strong brotherhood feeling towards his neighbor friend who went with him to practise cultivation. He is kind to his sect mates and respectful towards his masters. But he did not allow " worldly love" into his life yet so he won't be distracted with his meditation, his herb gathering to make elixir and power pills and he can attain becoming a "core practitioner" faster. What i also admire hanli about is his flexibility not to go into a difficult situation if he knows he can't win it. Like he won't risk his life joining the battle if his opponent is a "core cultivator". He deals with anyone of the same level skills he has or lower than his.
Also in
daoism, not all things are in absolute black or white. Black and white are together just like evil and good. One does jot exist without the other, so we see in some dramas that good immortals can be devious and some bad immortals can be kind too. Since mythology is pure fiction, authors of mythology novels write their characters like they have human attributes( not far from Greek mythology,isn't it?)
This drama is packed with long minutes of " xianxia battles" taking up almost a whole episode. Lol. The cgi effect is ok( I am easily pleased). What i don't like is their sword-riding ( Cgi effect isn't that great for this). in chinese mythology, sword riding is part of a cultivator skill and it is NOT a borrowed concept from Harry Potter at all. The most powerful cultivators have their mythical beasts as carriages, FYI!
I love also 2 songs of this series, namely " a moment" and " Mayfly aspiration. It somehow,imo, likens hanli to a Mayfly ,a lowly insect and has a very short life span who wants to fly "higher"( attaining an almost impossible task?)
The 2nd flaw i found is ... where he got his skills when at the last episode his powers were ABSORBED by nangong wan. Maybe the manhua mustn't have touched on this topic but was not delved too much on the screen?( It was hinted that he should lose his powers 3x before he could reach the more powerful " core power").
So far this drama is quite entertaining. It has a good rewatch value.
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GIVE ME MORE!!!!!!! Gunwoo and Woojin's relationship growing stronger. I like how they do not cut off to scenes quickly. Let the scene build up and marinate. My first time seeing Rain's project so this will be his first and only impression i'll ever give him. Gangmu and Gangyong's friendship build up! I'm sad they weren't in the last episode when they finally beat Baekjeong. The way i forgot about Do yeong's character but the reunion was so heartwarming you know they've come a long way. Not the ending i expected. I know there will be season 3 WOOOOO LFG
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Quiet Village Life to Bloody Battles
This drama is a visual masterpiece. The cinematography is stunning, and I really enjoyed the quiet village life episodes. The camaraderie of the pig slayers and the bond between the sisters felt so grounded and real. I also loved having such a strong female lead—it made the story engaging to see her navigate her world with strength.The Characters:
The relationships really carried the show for me. The supportive dynamic between the Marquis and Fan Changyu was a highlight. And of course, I have to mention the cast—the men in this show were total face cards that it was hard to hate the villains!
The Challenges:
The main reason this isn't a 10 for me was the sudden shift in tone.
Tone Whiplash: The show starts as a character-driven story about family and community but suddenly pivots into bloody battles and heavy politics.
Plot Confusion: The storyline became a bit muddled and hard to follow for me in the final stretch. It felt like a completely different show than the one I started. I think I just wasn’t focusing enough on what was happening, and I guess the face cards and chemistry distracted me, ha!
Final Thoughts:
Even though the ending felt a bit chaotic and the shift to violence was jarring, I enjoyed the journey. I just had to "adjust my lens" to get through the finale. If you enjoy stories about sisterhood, strong women, politics, and a cast full of beautiful leading men, there are so many great moments here. It’s a solid watch as long as you’re prepared for the change in pace!
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Miles needs a better agent
I picked this up for an easy vacation watch, primarily because I like Miles Wei as an actor. I have a high tolerance for guilty pleasure tropes. I even watch those kidnapping the bride micro dramas, so I wasn’t looking for anything complex, but this was still a letdown.The main couple has cute chemistry and there are some genuinely funny scenes, but the storyline itself is just not entertaining.
It got so boring that I honestly have no clue what happened between episodes 24 and 30. I had to skip almost everything just to get to the end.
The Career Loop:
Miles is a great actor being wasted by a bad agent. He’s been stuck in the CEO drama loop for way too long. It makes no sense that he’s taking a supporting role in Love Beyond the Grave with Arthur as a lead ...when he’s clearly lead material, but perhaps these repetitive CEO roles are all he’s being offered.
Overall, this was a boring drama. Miles is carrying these projects on his back, and I’m ready to see him move on. I truly hope he finds a successful, challenging role soon that actually does his talent justice and breaks him out of this cycle.
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Amazing pairing of WYL and CFY ❤✨
This is the first drama of the FL (Wang Yinglu), and dare I say, she is one of the most underrated actresses ever. Her acting exceeded my expectations, and I later watched both 12 Letters and Yummy x3 (both great shows). As usual, from Arthur Chen, he nailed his character here! Looking forward to more collabs with them.P.S already rewatched this show 5x times!!!
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Lovely Writer 10/10
สำหรับเรื่อง Lovely Writer (นับสิบจะจูบ) บอกตรง ๆ เลยว่าเป็นอีกเรื่องที่ผมรู้สึกว่าครบมาก ทั้งเนื้อเรื่อง ตัวละคร และโปรดักชัน ส่วนตัวผมให้ 10/10 เลยครับตัวเรื่องดำเนินค่อนข้างช้า แต่เป็นความช้าที่เล่าเป็นลำดับ เข้าใจง่าย และไม่ได้น่าเบื่อเลย เพราะแต่ละตอนจะมีทั้งความสนุก คอมเมดี้ และความโรแมนติกแทรกอยู่ตลอด ทำให้ดูเพลินมาก
อีกอย่างที่ผมชอบคือพล็อตมันดูแปลกใหม่ดี เป็นความรักระหว่าง “นักเขียน” กับ “นักแสดง” แล้วก็มีการเล่าย้อนตั้งแต่วัยเด็กจนโต ทำให้เห็นพัฒนาการของความสัมพันธ์ชัดขึ้น
ในเรื่องยังมีประเด็นครอบครัว โดยเฉพาะเรื่องการยอมรับลูกที่เป็น LGBTQ+ ซึ่งผมรู้สึกว่าทำออกมาได้ดีมาก โดยเฉพาะซีนที่ “จีน” คุยกับพ่อ อันนั้นบอกเลยว่าผมน้ำตาแตกจริง ๆ มันอินมาก
นักแสดงทุกคนก็เล่นดี เข้าถึงอารมณ์ ทำให้คนดูอย่างผมอินตามได้ง่าย
โปรดักชันโดยรวมถือว่าคุณภาพเลยครับ ภาพสวย มุมกล้องดี เพลงประกอบก็เพราะ โดยเฉพาะ Original Score ของเรื่องที่ผมชอบมาก
สรุปแล้วเป็นซีรีส์ที่ผมอยากแนะนำให้ลองดูจริง ๆ ใครที่ชอบแนวโรแมนติกผสมดราม่านิด ๆ เรื่องนี้ตอบโจทย์เลย ดูได้ทาง WeTV และ YouTube ครับ
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You're not missing anything if you skip this
Well... not bad but not good either. Definitely not slow burn as the comments say. They literally are about to make out the 2nd time they meet and make out the 3rd time. It's more like shallow. I know its a short drama but I've seen better.The entire plot is quiet Yun Oh who has trouble with people falls for bright Tae In who comes to their house to deliver something. They fall in love instantly then Yun Oh ghosts him cz he dk what to say they make up and the end.
I feel they could have casted someone much brighter and with youthful vibes for Tae in cz this guy just wasn't giving that vibes. Hes a good actor just that this role is not for him.
Overall it was meh kinda boring
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What if??
I liked this for a special episode, it something new. What if Don and Pond made another choise?It had stunning visuals and beautiful music.
I loved Pond and Don the most in the series, so i am so glad this special episode is mostly about them. For me it would have been een beter without the other couple, because they didn't add something special to this episode. Their behavior was even a bit ridiculous for a married couple...
We were given an altarnative ending for Don and Pond, the happy ending we needed.
I really hope we will see more drama's with Bee and Year, because their dynamics and chemistry are amazing! I want a drama where they are the mains.
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What did I just watch…?
Honestly after watching TSS, idk what I even watched like the ending was rushed and they didn’t properly end things… I think TSS left no impact and I’m prob never gonna rewatch this anyways bc idk how to explain this but it was mediocre and it just wasted my time I think… Their acting was really good tho and the cgi was also really good, it looked so real and the visuals were perfectEsta resenha foi útil para você?
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Recommendable
I love the cast and everything. Chanyu being despised from being a jinx fighting foe her destiny. The way she butcher pigs fiercely..fighting some men ànd her kind heart of helping others. When she was so down looking for her husband and her sisterr had been kidnapped..When she saved the army bu stopping the fire signal.Her first day in court she faced ministers fearless and answered them back despite being illiterate she never gave a damn. Saving xie zhang after being framedEsta resenha foi útil para você?
It's good
I liked the first approximately 20 ish episodes and it was genuinely pretty good! I liked the storyline and the dynamics with everyone. It was warm, encouraging and motivating actually.But since it's like 36 eps, after some point, it was the same plot all over again and it felt really dragged. I lost interest and started skipping it after and barely managed to complete it. The ending felt a little rushed but it might just be me.
Overall a decent watch, might not re-watch though. Zhou ye and Xiaowen are incredible actors and I love their acting a lot. Xiaowen has grown as an actor and it shows!
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A Haunting Drama That Lingers
I really enjoyed this drama. The ambience of the always rainy, overcast town fit the tone perfectly and reflected the emotional states of the characters. The cast delivered grounded, authentic performances that gave the story a haunting and often poignant quality. At its core, the drama revolves around a 20-year-old case that turns out to be far more layered than it first appears. As those layers are peeled back, we learn how the case shaped the characters’ lives, robbed them of happiness, and kept them from finding peace. I felt the story lost some of its momentum in the final two episodes, and the ending was a bit muddled. But overall, this is a strong watch for anyone who enjoys investigative dramas that offer more than a straightforward true-crime narrative. It delves into the psychology of its characters, draws us into their lives, and builds heartfelt arcs that interweave into a compelling and emotionally resonant whole.Esta resenha foi útil para você?
