Reviews

Story: The plot is pretty interesting. I think the beginning is unnecessary. They introduce us to characters who they portray as very important but they never appear later on. The plot development was pretty slow, but once they met Shirley Yang, things really took off. The last couple of episodes had me on the edge of my seat. They were extremely suspenseful. The artifacts and history mentioned in the drama are pretty easy to understand. I do not like the ending because I was left with lots of questions. The explanation that they did give us was very sudden and a bit unrealistic, like Shirley's background.

Acting/Cast: The acting was pretty good, but I think Shirley Yang could have been portrayed better. The male leads and the supporting characters did an amazing job acting. For many of the supporting characters, they were really unnecessary. They honestly did not add much to the drama and often I forgot they even existed. I think they could have developed the students better because their acting is very strong. You will recognize a few of them from dramas like Battle Of Changsha and Nirvana In Fire. Qiao En's acting is a bit stiff but understandable considering her character's cold personality and mysteriousness. What does bug me is her dubbing. It's bad enough that she was dubbed because she is Taiwanese, but even worse, in order to have English with no accent, they added what sounds like a recording for the English parts. If they could have great CGI effects, the baffles me how horrible the dubbing is.

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I like how the movies shows different type of reasons people would visit a sex therapist, however; I was expecting more extreme cases versus the few basic/common reasons why the following men visited her. There are plenty of interesting "Mature" action scenes.

As far as music, there were maybe two audio tracks that sounded like it was ripped from vintage adult movies.

Is it interesting movie? Yes, there were times during the movie where I had was so engaged to what was going to happen next, which was intriguing. 

Even though I couldn't find a version with subtitles at all,  I was still able to comprehend most of the story based on spoken korean and the context of the story.  How accurate my understanding of everything is still unknown, unless I have a another person to watch and then compare what we think.
I have this movie on my re-watch list once my Korean improves a lot more.

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I have watched most of all the adaptations for this drama and here are reasons...I did not like it at all what so ever.

1. I don't like it how the main female was portrayed she wasn't even that dumb or stupid like she was suppose to be at all. Plus, she wasn't even that obsessed with him at all either.

2. Kim Hyun Joong's acting was terrible. he didn't suit playing noaki at all because he wasn't even a little bit that cold to her compared to the other verisons. I don't know if it was because I was to in love with the japanese anime at the time,but he didn't do it justice at all.

3. The girl who was playing Hae Ra was suppose to play either Sahoko or Naoki's fiance,but they for some reason decided it was a great idea to combine both the character and make her play both. Instead of getting another actress to play the other character like the rest of the versions which was to me lazy.

4.The story was too rushed all the scenes was all over the place and it was hard for me to keep up. When some of the scenes didn't happen in their correct order like in the anime,so it left me confused. Also, their was some unnecessary scenes like when Hani got mad at baek seungjoo and left the house,but later admitted her fault and came back home. Waste of time

5.It didn't stay true to the original or at least try. Their was also not enough comedy in it, it was like watching a sad documentary in school where just are not supposes to laugh or get you entertained.

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I had high hopes for this drama because I watched the second season which was pretty good in all for me at least. Then, when I watched the first couple of episode, their was a lot of things that I began to not like after watching it. The characters began to change and not stay true to who they were in the beginning which made me mad like for example... in the beginning Suzy's character was rude and arrogant. Then, Ham Eunjung's character was nice and sweet ,but as the story progressed their characters swapped. I was supporting eunjung's character a lot only to be disappointed. Which I understand that characters are meant to be changed,but I like eunjung as she was going to be a good singer because suzy got everything. Plus, her character was rich, which made her arrogant and rude at the start. However, eunjung was just her shadow and was made to shine. Then, poor kim soo hyun character ended up losing his hearing made me disappointed, I liked him on My love from another star so much it had me in tears OMG!! I couldn't watch it anymore... MY HEART HURTS

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To be honest, I didn't really expect much from this drama as the beginning was kind of boring at first,but then it started to pick up as I started to watch it more. Then, it was pretty funny at times between the lead female and the second lead whom she shared a one sided love for. Moreover, their was more boring and even sad parts but it does have its happy ending in the end. I do recommend this drama for those who are into romance dramas,comedy, and even contract marriage. The story also doesn't just revolve around the main and second lead characters,but also their parents as well as they all struggle with their own issue with cheating/affairs and communication.

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SHORT REVIEW

Avengers Social Clubs is one of those tv shows to watch when you want to see women taking charge of their lives, and valuing their self-respect instead of  the stereotypical catfighting over a no-good man that is not worth the drama. The main themes are friendship (mostly female), justice,  different forms of abuse regardless of generations, corruption and bribery,  family secrets, amongst other things. Many touchy topics were addressed, which I found extremely refreshing and brave.

All the main characters were interesting and well played. My favorite were Jung Hye and Soo Gyum, who were not supposed to get along given the circumstances but actually grew to heart each other. My only regret is the lack of balance of "good" and "bad" people,  there is some sort of gendered greatness. 80% of the good people were female, 20% male. The vast majority of "trashy people" were males. I hope you girls won't dislike me for this, but although I am a woman who 100% support women, these dynamics didn't make the show realistic. However Soo Gyum almost made up for this imbalance, he was a pleasant surprise.

Either way, it was very enjoyable, and the humor was unexpected. I assumed it would be dark from beginning to end, but caught myself laughing out loud a lot of times.  Thank you tVN for yet another good production!

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So ... I just finished it ... I am not gonna lie, I forwarded many scenes (not to say episodes) to get straight to the point, I got bored a bit with their repeated kind of annoying lovey-dovey scenes, we get it you love her and she loves you, now what? lol ... I mean 20 episodes is just too much ... it was a somewhat good drama ... I mean there were too many cringe-worthy extreme situations, you can't help but ask, why did they go to such lengths only to .....lol I mean did they do this for the suspense of it?  why make the prince bleed so much? did they really think we will be astonished to find out he survived afterward? His head is on the poster for Pete's sakes ... it's obvious he's not gonna die after only 4 episodes... Sometimes I wonder who writes those plots? What are they taking us for? lol, there is also a thing that I have noticed in all the dramas I have watched so far ... EAVESDROPPING and brace yourselves, not a discreet eavesdropping but a "SEE ME, I AM WATCHING YOU DISSING MY ASS BRO!" kind of eavesdropping, I mean what the heck?  Are you fucking kidding me right now? lol Spying in broad light lol  
Haaa I am loling so hard right now, even though it was a tragic story, just why? why so dramatic?
The actors did well with a somewhat -forced, awkward- acting lol! I don't blame them though because of the too many weeping scenes lol! god this drama was funny lol
The music was awesome! especially the 4th ost  ... It helped with my grieving for Jonghyun >__<

For all the cringe-worthy scene I am gonna give it a 5/10
and the king .... was hot as hell! they shouldn't have him fully dressed all the time! what a waste >///<  He has a great body! I fell in love! and I shipped her with him, am I twisted?  maybe? lol Ah molla! he's hot!

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First of all, I loved the plot. It wasn't usual plot where both r innocent not knowing that they can love each other blah blah blah. Most I loved about plot was the ending name if I say why it may be a spoiler but whatever. How it ended made you just drop all hopes you had about this show, but that's why it made it so spicy and great.
Most may want bl action and there was, well sometime. It made you quespionage whatever the guy that asked for help in exchange for money did it bcs of his sister or for his own gain. The story progressed nicely having here and there rivals, and side story's that were as interesting as the main one. Acting wasn't as great as I expected but it can slide, since it was a great series. 

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I liked how it wasn't a typical romance, that both parties out of nowhere fall in love when both are straight. What most drew me in was how one fought for the other, whole other just didnt the give a shit. I liked how he resisted wocheck made it whole better. Acting was great for me, music as well. Only thing I hated was how they cut most of scenes, and how the series was canceled on 15 ep. I hope that they continue it , but I highly doubt it. There were a lot of dramatic scenes, which I like and that was a surprise since I don't like too dramatic series. Proves that plots great  and not too spicy nor too sweet.

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I really enjoyed the original version of this drama, and I have to say that I didn't expect that I would come to love this remake.

Do not read further if you hate spoilers. You've been warned. :)

There are quite a number of surprises in this version that only a true romance writer will notice and appreciate. The story is fresh in the sense that it didn't limit itself to what the original version could offer.  It's more gender sensitive--with the Princess's younger brother suffering from an identity crisis about his sexuality. The Prince was not given a chance to cheat with his old flame (or at least, they were not given an intimate-only-us-in-the-room-with-a-gecko-moment)--this part was bestowed upon the Royal Couple! And kudos to the writers for that. I quite "envied" that send-off/goodbye-ex-gf-gift scene in the Korean version (for the Princess, of course). I believe that the scenes here are more... cohesive or to use another (if not a better) phrase, more seamlessly glued.  Like that part where the Prince knelt down to put a shoe on the Princess's foot. They did it in a school play, and what better fairy tale than Cinderella? Yeah, yeah, we all know that modern ladies don't wait for Prince Charming...  Btw, the ex-gf here was an archer. Cool.

The part I liked most was the anointing of the perfume--a scent that the Princess especially mixed for the Prince. This scene matched if not surpassed the original in terms of maturity, reality, and romanticism. Clap, clap . Full marks. So I went back up there and gave the story rating a 10. I wonder if this is a "real" tradition somewhere...

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A great show with a pretty cast. All actors did well acting and i loved how there were always tiny surprises. I really like this show, it just makes me feel very happy. I really hope for a season 2. (BTW if you care about the looks of the cast, they all look really good!)  :)

summary: mini stories of memories of a group of friends.

I also love how the show was ordered, feelings kept on changing and the story was always moving. Things were always explained in the end.
It may be hard to find, you can find it on youtube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvbnI1wqkXM (all episodes together)

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Like most mature films this one has a indie style feel to it.

The storyline is okay, but the transitioning between the story lines through out the movie was confusing.  I wouldn't recommend watching if you are tired/sleepy, because it takes a good amount of attention to understand what happening in the movie. If there was more catch your attention style scenes this movie would have been better.

Both actresses Lee Seo and Lee cheongha, are both hot in this movie.

I feel that the ending could have been better, which still leaves me wondering.

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Signal has always been a series which caused me doubts whether I really like it or not as the summaries I have read about this series did not really catch my eye, so I am glad that I gave it the benefit of the doubt (thanks to you voters!) and I ABSOLUTELY love it! It is pretty safe to say that this series is among my favourites right now.

The story was well-created and told in a way that it would keep your interests throughout the show, in which they mislead you with different plot twists and side stories, which eventually were connected to the main story itself.  By dealing with several crime/rape cases. the producers and directors approached each crime in a different way. For example in one crime, you'll know the culprit immediately, while in others you did not. They did even hire the perfect actors/actresses for specific roles as all three of them exceeded my expectations with their performance, especially Lee Je Hoon's role as Park Hae Young impressed me.

So I definitely recommend you all to watch it if you haven't watched it as of yet. It is totally worth it.

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