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Good comedy

You might be wondering why I watch this special when I don’t ship them? Well, I guess I was just curious. I mean I watched both seasons, so I guess it wouldn’t kill me to watch one more episode.

I did like the comedy – especially Techno, lmao he’s just the best – in this one again. Without techno, it would sure be boring. Tho Type’s father was also pretty hilarious again. The dad talk was pretty funny ngl ?.

The wedding scene was kinda awkward tho. I get that same-sex marriage isn’t allowed in Thailand but couldn’t they’ve still made it like a traditional marriage? As in, the father bringing one of them to the altar, instead both of them just walking in there. Also, are you even married if you’re not blessed by a priest? ?

Well, nvm, the ending with the behind the scenes and bloopers was really nice tho. ?

-12.11.21

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so bad and I don't mean bad in a good way

Not really sure what to say really UGH!!
For me a lot of what was going on made no sense and the story was well I thought all over the place.
A lot of the acting from most of the characters especially the support/side characters was beyond cringe.
Its like they didn't even bother to test people for the roles they got before giving them their parts.
Almost like they grabbed random people they saw on the street and gave them a part or
because the actors that got roles just happen to be signed with the agency. Sorry but acting or singing or any other talent you either have it or you don't.

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LOVED THE ACTING

Such a wonderful character driven series that I absolutely loved. I have to say the plot was quite mid to be honest but the characters and their growth from repressed to finally being able to do and be who they are was beautiful to watch.

SPOILER

One thing I absolutely hated was how Thua outed Akk and Ayan the way he did. His outburst was needed but the way he went about it was so wrong. I get he wanted to tell the truth but boy was he a hypocrite when he said that.

Publicly outing Akk for the curse and then hiding that he was the one running the Eclipse account? Being so concerned for Kan and giving him time to come to terms with his sexuality but then outing his friends?

And all this while Ayan had been keeping Thua’s secrets to himself and did not say anything even when he knew about it publicly and only addressed it when they were alone.

Anyways, a wonderful series. How Akk and Ayan’s eyes spoke of their love. Their little banters and bickering, Akk coming to realise his sexuality and Ayan giving him the time to come to him but also being assertive and help him understand his feelings. Wonderful depiction of coming to terms to their sexuality.

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Revenge or Love???

I liked this drama and definitely would recommend it for a watch.
For a mini drama it did check quite many boxes although it wasn't a perfect one or a one that would make you want to rewatch it again and again.
The visuals of the main leads were great. Dai Gao Zheng is known for his visuals and again in this show he fell nothing short of a viewer's expectation. Flora Dai also looked great in the show and to me there seemed to be decent amount of chemistry.
What I liked and disliked together were the FL's determination for revenge although honestly it did make the show interesting.
The drama could've been honestly a little longer showing more interactions between the leads towards the end because believe me you'll know looking at the end why I am saying so.
The story was somewhat predictable, but the actors did a great job keeping me hooked on to the drama,
It was overall a good watch, and I would recommend it to people liking revenge dramas.

P.S. Feel free to tag me or message me if you want spoilers as I tend to avoid giving spoilers in my reviews.

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Kim Hye Jin's rise from loser to writer

Even though it has many faults, even if it has its mistakes and excesses, it is a watchable series. It was nice, it was fun. What I don't like is the lame events. Everyone together crushes one person. What is this Korea's national longing? They are not afraid to show it off. They are very proud of other things. I don't like this at all. There are 10 employees. Everyone gives a job to someone. The one who is oppressed, God willing, acts beyond naivety. After this ability, a WRITER springs forth. He is also a UNIVERSITY GRADUATE. So it's not much? Is the person who wrote this so naive, or are those who watch it so naive? These are big mistakes. Or their lifestyle. An adopted move. It's KEEPING it there like a bastard.
For example: The girl from Support Services, she also just got a job. They say do this. I AM FINALING MY NAILS RIGHT NOW. Let the loser do it. He immediately says sir and jumps. THEY ARE CONSTANTLY CLOSED TO HIM. SHE CONTINUES TO DECORATE.
What's this? Fun or Funny? Scraping? Why is our friend so naive? So it's in the middle. Sometimes he says, "Oh, I'm busy, you gave me 10 jobs, at least don't give me the 11th one." He's a university graduate. There is also age. We shouldn't expect such things. SO THESE HAPPENED A LOT IN THIS SERIES.
Hwang Jung Eum portrayed this naive, loser but friendly personality, attached to his past and his family and friends, well. It was the engine of the series. So it was his dynamo. Excellent acting from start to finish. Park Se Joon pales in comparison. He tried to accompany. It was fine. But I think it's overshadowed. Si Won perfectly portrayed the mischievous child, that is, the crazy character that is the exact opposite of our naive character, that is, the naive and clever one. His character is a friend who cheats on a friend, but still proves his loyalty to his friend, and his character is slightly flirtatious, and he shows this in our eyes with the way he dresses, and it suits him. Goo Jon Hee was also pretty good. I like. It was different. Shin Dong Mi. I liked it very much. Experienced actress Hwang Seok Jung performed an act with an extravagance far beyond her own, congratulations. Jung Da Bin. was also successful as a child actor. As he grew up, he played good roles. But he couldn't get over himself. In my opinion, it couldn't make the expected explosion. The actors were good. In my opinion, extremes, over-understanding, and seeing this as normal were the mistakes of the series. It was wrong. Maybe it might work in Korea, I don't know, but I didn't like these. The rest is couple harmony and acting. Shooting and management were good apart from these. It was a good romantic comedy. It could have been much better. Despite all my negative comments, I enjoyed watching it.

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One word: Eschew

This story is profoundly complex, made elementary. Yet, it should not. It presents itself in a superficial manner with a lot of voyeuristic sex scenes to help us with our escapism from its true reality. And its true reality is that it is a very sad story filled with toxic people doing awful things to innocent people. I found the story to be a rather ugly tale peppered with unnecessary eroticism. This series has a lot of diversion in it. Many hot, steamy love scenes, that felt very voyeuristic to me and sometimes laughable. Sure, these guys are sensual, cute, and sexy. To see them romping around in bed making love with their pants on is just plain ludicrous and silly. It was just not the main couple either. How about under the covers with simulation so we can use our imagination? Sometimes imagination is better. To show us making love in bed (or having sex) with pants on seemed extraordinarily contrived and silly. And completely and totally unrealistic. And I might add, insulting to gay people everywhere.

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One powerful episode.

This show thrives off of one powerful episode. The casting was very good, but the writing ranged from why to wow. I finished the show feeling maybe the show will get good on episode 9. It had a lot of promise and I do not feel it lived up to it at any point besides episode 4.

I honestly believe that the high rating is because of how powerful episode 4 was. It made me feel real emotion and gave me great hope in where the show was going. I was willing to forgive episodes 1-3 for feeling incomplete and consider them a lul to help make an impact for episode 4. In episode 5 I kind of got sucked into his feelings for a moment and then I was like why? The show should have been more than this. It could have been great a show to talk about for a long time and maybe bring in a fresh perspective on Korean dramas as a whole.

Instead, we get a show that for what it was trying to say felt incomplete and even worse the ending made me feel like what comes next would be the real show. I guess it fits the narrative of the character Death the end is just the beginning. In a way, I suppose the show can be praised for achieving that.

I truly feel the wasted potential in this drama and it makes me want to revisit it in the future. I doubt I will, do not want to feel this disappointment again. I do not know what other people are thinking, but from my perspective, this shows high ratings are all hinged on one episode. I think that shows how great it could have been, and worth giving it a watch once. I will give this a could have been great rating.

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Age Gap x2

If you’re going to take issue with the age gaps of both couples. The main couple and the secondary couple . This series isn’t for you. Westerners are hog wild about the age gap relationships now because women have finally gain some power and are starting to date younger men. Now the media is all in an uproar about men grooming little girls to be child brides so women shouldn’t do it too. Women can’t date younger men. Even if the women looks significantly younger than her age. The casting is interesting because ML was 46 and FL was 25 while the 2ndML was 30 to the 2ndFL was 45. Proving a 21 age gap when it’s a man to the 15 age gap when it’s a woman. Now that the elephant in the room is talked about. I will say this. Don’t take your western POV into this Asian series because social norms aren’t universal. Spare me your judgmental self if you’re going to watch a series that wasn’t made for westerners.

The story was very different and interesting as you watch along. Since the acting is superb. Even if some aspects of it seems like it’s cliche. It isn’t.

First off He Wan is a very willful young woman who has been shelter by her mom who has a very traumatic life. She was married off to a famous artist to be nothing more than a trophy wife. This man is weak willed so he kills himself after he was diagnosed with leukemia. That husband is a self prick. He only care about his art and seemed to have left his wife to raise a daughter on her own while he focuses on his art. The he just offs himself and leaves his wife to raise his daughter with no afterthought. The fact that this women had to sell all his art to support herself and her daughter shows how resilient she is. Then she builds a successful business by herself by being the brand herself. She fakes a persona of being the organic queen so she binges on fried chicken and booze in private. It just shoes that imposter syndrome is real. She has to be this perfect women to be the face of her company.

The male lead. I don’t understand what is his attraction that the FL is gaga over him. Perhaps it’s because he is a good looking guy nearing 50. Maybe she’s looking for a daddy figure since hers killed himself. Maybe it’s because she sheltered by her mom after she’s diagnosed with leukemia like her dad. Maybe she knows her life is shortened so why not do whatever she wants. The fact that the ML had a slew of women who are after him is something I don’t see other than his looks. I mean he doesn’t seem to be sociable as he is curt with people. He doesn’t seem to have any money or ambition. He takes care of plants and does odd job landscaping. I don’t get the barber shop as he’s never cut anyone else’s hair except the FL in episode 1. Yet he has women chasing after him.

The chemistry and dynamic between the main couple is really good. The FL is the aggressor and a jealous fiend. I love how she told the ex-GF’s sister off with so much gumption.

I fell for the 2ndML. I almost always do. I want this dude so bad. His voice is sexy AF. The way he eats up the 2nd FL in those kisses. ??? Whenever he cries. I feel it in my loins.

The mom being the 2nd FL really has me giggling and doing double takes. Like how I detest her in the beginning. Then she softened me up after she is spotted gouging on the fried chicken and booze. All the while making the 2nd ML fall for her. But when she was there for her daughter during her relapse. I was like. Protect this woman at all cost 2nd ML.

What can I say? I loved this series. I am now back to straight series after gorging on BLs since Covid. BLs have lost their mojo with me this year.

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This is an easy & enjoyable watch.

The cast were okay, there were some inconsistencies in acting but it wasn't too bad.
The leads had good chemistry. the romance was subtle but made me keep wanting to watch their bickering!
FL did a good job in her role, she wasn't dumb & annoying.
The ML was interesting as well, he was serious & smart but wasn't emotionless.
Watching their collaboration along with their teams were nice.
The villain annoyed me a bit though!

The comedy was good and funny, The cases were interesting as well.

The ost was nice and costumes looked decent.

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A drama to discover love

I'm still trying to process everything I felt watching this drama. Despite seeing everyone saying that it was one of the best or the best they had ever seen, all I could think was "It's not possible, it seems so boring", but I was wrong, my friends. I don't think I've ever seen a love story as beautiful as this one, and by love, I don't just mean romantic love, it's love in all its layers, the love of friendship, family, human relationships, all of this in a way so beautiful and sentimental, that it makes anyone watching it have a silly smile on their face.
I wish I could talk specifically about each character, as they all captivated me greatly, but so this review doesn't get too long, I would like to highlight the character of Eun Gyeol, a boy with so much love in him, who did everything to make his parents happy, making their love story even more beautiful, showing such great affection for everyone and consequently captivating the entire audience that watched the drama, and leaving us sighing in their scenes with Choi Se-Kyung, which were very cute.
In addition to them, I want to separate part of this review to talk about the couple Ha Yi-Chan and Yoon Chung-A, simply one of the most beautiful couples I've ever had the pleasure of watching, their entire dynamic was surrounded by small gestures of affection, making love between them grew, but at the moment of the declaration in sign language, that's when my heart fell deeply in love with this couple, who honestly won't leave my thoughts anytime soon.
I would like everyone to have the pleasure of watching this drama and feeling love in its purest form, like all of us who fell in love with "Twinkling Watermelon".

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OK FIRST OF ALL…

this drama made me feel so anxious, like while watching every single episode i was literally panicking about what would happen next!!! i knew from the SPOILERS that it wouldn’t end well but i sure wasn’t expecting this shi##y ending LOL ? OVERALL this drama was great, actors did well too but that damn SHIBAL SEKYA :#### the last guy mafia “DA-BEOM” i jinja hate him sm?? he was no better than bullies who bullied him BECAUSEEEEEE he literally killed people like they were just toyssss ? ok lets end it here.. i enjoyed every episode sm but not the last ?please i need SEASON 2 to recover from this ??. 7/10

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A creatively thrilling ride.

I will keep this review spoiler-free. I saw this in the cinema today and it was not what I would have guessed in any way (nor did it resemble the works some commenters have mentioned).

All the way through this film had me fully engaged. It didn’t rely on any cheap jumpscares or implausible elements that would lead to plotholes or break immersion; if anything, what’s scary is the plausibility. There was some serious attention to detail from the cast and creators, which lead to me well and truly enjoying the experience.

The actors all nailed their parts, the soundtrack was unobtrusive but used perfectly when it had its moment (a hard feeling to describe but that moment was perfect). I was left with two small questions that would likely be answered by being better at Japanese, however I can also say I was left deeply satisfied with what I watched.

A little point of caution is that this film is graphic - the murder cases aren’t glossed over and there’s injury detail.

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