Reviews

IT'S BL, NOT bromance

....Hints are all over the place that this is purely BL! So, if you still think this drama is only "bromance," you are lost!
This got to be the best BL adaptation of 2023 and also one of the best bl I have watched!
All the actors and actresses 100% match their character in the story so much! Zhang Jiong played his character, Su yu, so well. He nailed it! 👏 Even better than Timmy who played Su yu/Bai Lou Yin in the 2016 version.
Zhang Jiong was able to capture every personality of his character!
I LOVED ML and MC's bickering! The chemistry was awsome! We got to see a lot more scenes from the novel making the drama more interesting and heart warming! Hopefully for season 2 with our two lovely Zhang Jiong and Xu Bin returning!🙏❤️

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Heart warming, beautiful and peaceful. Definitely worth watching

I knew that all the episodes are going to be full of good feelings and it really was. I really enjoyed watching it and the best part of this drama was the acting, especially wu lei's. His character is absolutely beautiful and the chemistry between the two leads is amazing. I was really impressed with wu lei's acting skills and I will definitely keep appreciating his character and he himself.
OSTs are so much beautiful and I really enjoyed listening to them. Honestly, the love depicted in the series is a rare thing, does such love exist in the real world? In any case, this series will make you look at the whole thing with a big smile
And also the sports part gives you a very good feeling.
The three main male characters have a such a beautiful and deep friendship and I loved them a lot :(
What I wanted to be talked about more was Lin Lin and Meng Xiao Dong relationship and actually i have to say that i fall in love with wang xiang yue badly again. I hope to see him in more dramas also as main role

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"Eat, drink, man, woman, food and sex-basic human desires"

Eat Drink Man Woman is a film by Ang Lee that I’ve watched before and wanted to revisit. I liked it even better this time than I did the first, maybe it is an acquired taste. Food, family, love, loss, and secrets made for a tasty feast to sit down to.

Mr. Chu is a widowed chef who has lost his sense of taste. He has three daughters who live with him. Each lives their lives separately except for when they sit down to the elaborate Sunday meals he prepares. One by one they face challenges, and find new love or new paths to take.

The food preparation was sumptuous. Chicken, pork, fish, a variety of seafood, hot pot, all made not only to taste with the mouth but with the eyes as well. No one would have to cook for a week with the Sunday dinners the father served. The daughters didn’t eat that much and there were enormous quantities of food leftover. Much of the food was also shared with the eldest daughter’s divorced friend and child. Mr. Chu would also pack culinary delights for the child to take to school for her lunches making her very popular with her classmates. The middle daughter loved to cook like her father, but had been banished from the restaurant kitchen so that she would find a proper job. While she excelled at her position with an airline, her passion was making the dishes she’d seen her father so thoughtfully prepare.

Everyone cared about the other yet had lost the capacity to communicate freely. Only when things began to be shaken up and the status quo was flipped over and scattered did father and daughters begin to reach out again. Sometimes a pot can be simmering quietly on the stove and is only noticed when it boils over. The dish isn’t ruined if someone attends to it lovingly. Everyone in the Chu family had to discover what made them happy, what helped them be who they wanted to be. Sometimes that exploration led to loss before it led to gain. If you enjoy watching elaborate meals being prepared as well as father-daughter, and sisterly relationships being explored, this quirky family drama is seasoned to near perfection.

21 February 2024

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Cooking Crush didn’t crush it

Except for ‘Not Me’, Off in ‘The Jungle’, and cameos, I don’t have much experience with OffGun’s acting but I know their history and have seen their chemistry in Safe House 3 and how cute they are off-cam. However, if I were to watch this as a first-timer, I would think Gun either doesn’t like or care about acting. When in reality, he’s one of GMM’s most seasonal, highest-demand, and paid actors. I just couldn’t feel his passion in here.

- Pros:
- The cast could act, for the most part.
- The cast, OffGun, Neo, Dome, Victor, and Tum, man is talented and natural!
- Samsi. He’s the only character I cared for from start to end.
- The friendship group for both Doc and Chef. I love healthy friendships and Cooking Crush did a well and natural job in this area.

- Cons:
- The cooking & food. Despite this being a show about cooking and food, I never once looked at any of the dishes and thought “OHHH THAT LOOKS YUMMY”. Oh wait, I stand corrected. Chef’s pepper looked pretty tasty in EP 11.
- Borderline boring. It felt like no one cared. The romance between Doc and Chef and Fire and Dynamite were both fast-paced with little to no chemistry. DocChef weren’t characters, they were OffGun in costumes. I can’t even remember their characters’ names even if someone were to hold a gun to my head.
- The university plot became an afterthought early on and didn’t come back until the very end.
- The 3B or 3 BULLIES gang is overutilized in a university setting. I feel like this show was trying to check off every old stereotype you can find in series in the early 2000s to late 2016s i.e. bullies in universities, closed-mouth kisses, the camera spinning around closed-mouth kissing, running onto filming sets with no security whatsoever, older characters attending college is frowned upon, an abundant of flashbacks, and the list goes on.
- The poor camera work and music killed this series for me. Most of the time, the background music/sound is NOT supporting the scene. Funny scenes are dryer than deserts and it’s because no one cared to add an upbeat soundtrack to go with it. This wouldn’t be a problem if most of the time the series was a heartfelt, serious series but it wasn’t, and was trying to go for comedy a lot of the time. It’s like the show is trying and they’re self-aware to a point but they’re also doing all the wrong things because they know the actors’ popularity will overshadow the lackluster effort.
- The heavy time skips only to use flashbacks to explain what happened. I despise series that use flashbacks for shock value. DocChef suddenly kissing and then having almost one entire episode showing ‘what happened earlier’ was simply boring. I don’t understand the abuse of flashbacks in this series.
- A lot happened and there was a lot of predictable drama but most of them were uneventful. The show should have cut out most of them. The whole separation to improve Doctor’s grades made me lose brain cells and it was such a brainless decision on the characters and production part. We never saw the result of it other than Doc himself saying his grades improved in the last episode. You could have just said that without the whole separating thing. The separation was so short-lived too, it wasn’t even funny. To be fair though, if Doc’s dad had just been upfront from the get-go, we probably wouldn’t have to see Doc acting like a teenager always throwing a hissy fit around daddy and new step-mommy. I wouldn’t have minded Doc’s immaturity if he was at least responsible and independent for a medical student in his third year but he has no part-time job, acts like a clown for the most part, relies on his dad for financial support, and still dares to get mad when he overpaid Chef for cooking courses he no longer needed and daddy found out. ‘Doctor’ was not the profession they should have given Off’s character. I’m not even going to talk about that horrible subplot of Doc meeting another Doc who looks identical to his mom and when he took her to the hospital and saved her life, he was no longer traumatized by his inability to save his mom back then. What. The. Heck. And for him to say ‘we’re not busy today’? I feel that’s something every medical student just knows.
- Gun’s acting. As I said before, it felt like he didn’t want to be a part of the show but did it for Papi. His energy was so low I found myself dozing off whenever he was on screen. For a character who likes to see other people happy, I thought he should start with himself…
- Changma's out-of-the-blue crush on Chef was a big ‘HUH’? Stop it, GMM!
- The whole social media shenanigans were a waste of screen and viewers’ time. For Doc. to apologize ON HIS KNEES and then still act possessive right after was so dumb. It was so middle-school behavior.
- The storyline I hated most is that the staff openly admitted to passing Chef’s group into the second round because they were lame and the show needed that for views...like wtf? I was so glad when Chef opted to withdraw but then he was so easily talked back into it, it was so lame. The fact that his team didn’t end up dropping out when it was an entertainment show and not a cooking show, made me question if it was their cooking skills they wanted recognized in the first place.
- Dynamite was so cute but he did a 180 towards the middle of the show. I liked that he respected Fire and Jane getting back together but since then, he seemed like a different character. We also never know what’s become of his place after his neighbor was murdered.

Overall Cooking Crush gets a 5 from me, in terms of OffGun’s series.

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Its just okay.

This series is just okay, it's not the best show nor is it the worst show but it has tons of flaws and some good parts...

I think the only good thing about this series, is the spicy scenes with Nine and Daonuea.

Now the not-so-good,

Tee and Daoneua's relationship was awkward, they had no chemistry on screen or in real life, and Dao and Nine had much more chemistry. I wish Tee would've gone off with candy and let Nine have Dao, to be honest.

The whole series was 12 eps long but it definitely felt longer, even though I skipped all of Praew and Candy's parts, They honestly didn't need to drag out the whole Nine trying to get Daonuea and Daonuea treating him like crap, and then being confused. There was no solid plot, it was just a game of chase and it could've been 6 or even 8 episodes.

Also the fact that no one was getting Praew any help, like she was crying out for someone to help her but Candy nor Nine did anything for her except hurt her more. She tried to SA Nine when he was drunk, full on mental breakdown while trying to strip hers and Nine's clothes off and no one thought to maybe get her some help, it was bizarre to me. Though I'm glad in the end she was okay with their relationship.

Overall, it was okay, probably not one I'll rewatch but I'm glad I have seen it.

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For Him, not For Me

12 episodes of For Him could've been easily condensed down to 8. Sometimes an episode was 45 mins, and sometimes it was barely 30 with 20 mins of BTS footage thrown in. The story is all over the place and loses itself many times. Lots of inconsistencies with the plot and even just the filming of it. The hair colors are all over the place, at different grow out periods for both of the main actors. Sometimes Nail was fully orange, sometimes not, sometimes it changed multiple times in an episode. Same thing for Him and his gray hair. This continued throughout and even in the last episode with Nail's painted nails, there was no consistency. And this overwhelming misstep really takes a few stars off for me.

Also, NC scenes are great and wonderful, but I felt like the NC scenes somehow were more of a priority than the overall plot of this show. And let me be clear, the NC scenes were mostly all enjoyable, but they are definitely not a replacement for actual story and depth. That missing element was definitely felt multiple times.

Overall Positives:
- Thor was a redeeming factor for me. His acting felt real and he fully allowed himself to be absorbed in Nail's world (and also Blue's).
- Side pairing Chao / Pie was also cute. I really loved their dynamics.

Overall Negatives:
- Dew's acting bothered me a lot, because it felt like acting (if that makes sense)
- Pacing and inconsistencies of the episodes and storylines.
- Didn't enjoy the BTS scenes added into episodes, that was super annoying.
- Also didn't like the intro, was wayyyy too long and seemed cheaply made.

I think the actors definitely deserved a better script. They did the best with what they were given. Hope to see them in something more substantial and solid in the future.

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O melhor?!

Vingança, amor, comédia, raiva e suspense? É isso que eu falo sobre Marry My Husband. Um drama que mostra a jornada de vingança da Kang Ji Won, quando é morta por seu esposo e melhor amiga depois de descobrir uma traição.

O webtoon com certeza é mais completo, porém consigo dizer que a produção do drama não decepcionou em nada. Todos os pontos importantes da história foram muito bem trazidos para adaptação, o que me fez bem feliz de ver.

Os personagens conseguiram trazer seus sentimentos de uma forma que passava da tela para a pessoa e acredito que esse foi o motivo de sucesso do drama. Sem contar que a química dos quatro principais fez tudo ser possível.

Kang Ji Won, é a nossa protagonista que fez a vingança perfeita e soube aproveitar sua segunda chance como ninguém, dando totalmente uma volta no destino sujo que teria.

Yoo Ji Hyuk, o apaixonante protagonista que ajuda a "mocinha" na sua vingança. É um homem apaixonante, que também recebe uma segunda chance mais dessa vez ele consegue tudo, ou será que não?

Park Min Hwan, o marido da nossa protagonista. O homem duas caras, que infiel, o salafrário. Maldoso, violento e safado, não sei como elas brigaram por ele.

Jung So Min, a melhor amiga e traidora da nossa protagonista. Duas caras também, invejosa, impetuosa, venenosa e sonsa. Não tem palavras para descrever o ódio de todos os telespectadores sentiram com toda as vezes que ela se coloca como vítima em certas situações, ninguém mais aguentava.

Park Min Young, Na In Woo, Lee Yi Kyung e Song Ha Yoon fizeram um incrível trabalho com duas atuações, transmitindo todos os sentimentos de uma forma incrivelmente bem, tanto que vi várias pessoas com ódio do nosso Gwancheana durante os episódios (risos), mas todos elogiando suas performances.

A Cinematografia estava impecável, roteiro nota dez e o desenvolvimento do enredo também.

Um drama que eu super assistiria pela primeira vez de novo só para sentir todas as emoções que senti a primeira vez. Super recomendo pois nesse drama temos de tudo: Romance, suspense, assassinato, comédia, vingança, bullying, assédio e etc, todos abordados de uma forma interessante de se assistir.

Terminado: 20/03/2024.

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Choro, choro e mais choro.

A forma como esse drama aborda a questão do suicídio de uma forma respeitosa e bonita (em forma de esperança), me fez terminar esse drama que eu estava enrolando em um dia.

Saber que alguns dos casos abordados aqui, como as mulheres de conforto na Invasão Japonesa, assim a crítica em como o governo negligenciou e ainda negligencia seus veteranos de guerra e idosos, me fez ter um sentimento tão mal, tão forte em relação a isso.

E saber que atualmente, na época que assisti esse drama, o Japão não reconheceu o genocídio que cometeu durante as suas invasões me faz me sentir tão mal por todos esses povos.
E a questão de aposentadoria ser algo tão difícil para os idosos coreanos, principalmente aqueles que viveram o período de guerra, é de quebrar o coração.

A forma que o drama abordou o suicídio de uma forma delicada e respeitosa, foi divino. Até por que esse assunto, saúde mental, é considerado um tabu na Coreia e saber que esse é o quarto países no ranking de suicídio... Me fez pensar.

Sobre esse drama eu só tenho pontos positivos, principalmente:

- Elenco.
- Cinematografia.
- Enredo.
- Músicas.
- História.

O único ponto que eu posso talvez me atrever a reclamar é como eu queria mais desenvolvimento do relacionamento dos nossos queridos ceifadores, entendo que o fio deles foi cortado, mais imagina o quão lindo seria a história deles juntos assim, agora como ceifadores? Até por que eles não irão reencarnar.


Enfim, é um drama muito bom, digo também, uma obra magnifica que aborda assuntos pesados com respeito e delicadeza, o que deixa toda a situação mais leve de se ver. Esse drama são para pessoas que buscam algo profundo, sério mais delicado, com um certo alívio cômico entre as cenas.

Acredito que super vale a pena esse drama.
Terminado: 21/02/2024.

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Wait....what?

OK, so. I'm not a rocket surgeon or anything but I'm pretty intelligent, and I had to watch it twice to figure out that no, I didn't miss anything. Let me assist so you don't have to waste time figuring it out (maybe this is a spoiler, but trust me, it will help you) : it was three separate stories with the ML and FL playing each character, and the three stories smashed together.. Oops, that's not right -- within one of those stories there is a time travel element (oops, spoiler), with two sets of ML and FL -- played by the same characters. So, in all four sets of FL and ML, and they all look identical. Look for a change in hair styles and dress to tell which characters you're looking at.

Storyline? Pay a kid down the street to make up a story. it will be better than this convoluted mess. The story just sucks. The ML tells these two stories to the FL. I am reminded maybe of tales of the Arabian Nights (where a virgin bride tells the king a story every night and successfully distracts him from executing her the next day after the wedding. Sounds awesome, right? Go read that. Cuz this isn't anything like that.) At first, I thought the point of the first stories was linked with the main couple. Maybe a reason for his curse and his dying everyday at 2pm or his bracelet? Maybe the stories are his earlier lives? Reincarnation? But no? I think it's not related at all? Or maybe it is. Maybe the talking cats know. (No, I'm not joking.) But they aren't telling. If you figure it out, PLEASE let me know!

Cute FL? check. as always. I've begrudgingly come to adore the actress playing the FL
because she's in three Luo Zheng movies. She grew on me. I know she does C-movies (as opposed to B and A, not C meaning "Chinese"), but this low budget mess is more of a D movie. she's adorable, and acted her part well, as she always does.

ML? Meh. Considering what the actor had to work with I will make no judgments on him.

Romance? Hmmm. let me think. They hug at the end. If you're looking for romance, skip it.

Fantasy? Fantasy buffs should run from this story.

Disclaimer: This isn't the worst story I've ever seen. Taken separately, the short stories that he tells are kind of sweet, but the main one -- with the curses, cats, glowy-wrist things, is all pretty dumb. In comparison with the reviews that I gave "1s" to -- that I detested with every fiber of my being -- this one isn't offensive or horrifying.... so that's something. It's just not good.

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Nothing prepared me for this drama. I went in with no expectations, and I came out with a new understanding of how people can take different paths in life, and still succeed as long as they put their heart in it. Not to say that they haven't produced dramas with inspiring messages of how to live your life to the fullest before. But this sports-oriented show delivers that message without being preachy.

The drama kicks off with Zhou Yu Tong as an efficient personal assistant who is quick on her feet, excels at handling multiple tasks, and successfully resolves many issues for her demanding boss. Liang You An crosses paths with an athlete trying to make ends meet by joining a competition sponsored by You An’s company.

Song San Chuan becomes smitten with You An at first sight, and his loyalty is endearing and his smile adorable all throughout the drama whenever You An is around. He latches on to You An as his saving grace when he finds himself in limbo and could not get past his trauma playing professional badminton, as it reminds him of his mother, who abandoned him during one of his important matches. You An saw San Chuan’s potential and suggested that he switch sport.

New to tennis, San Chuan struggles to find his footing with his unambitious teammates and a new coach with peculiar training methods. But his tenacity and You An’s faith in him made San Chuan shine in a sport that had shunned him at the beginning. Through this journey, San Chuan understands he can rely on his family and friends for support, and that he didn’t have to bear all the burden. I also liked the fact that You An developed a backbone and learned how to say no to her ex-boss or to others who thought they could easily manipulate her.

I enjoyed this drama a lot, and there were no secondary or tertiary characters that made me pull my hair. All the characters were well-rounded, even the seemingly devious ones. “Nothing But You” tells us that everyone can achieve their dreams: if you don’t give up, have faith in yourself, and have supportive people surrounding you.

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Utterly destroyed

I actually died with them. Yes, I did. I am utterly destroyed and can only feel agony, my head hurts. This was absolutely amazing. I liked how this show gave us different angles on how each character questions their own identity and nationality, where they belong to or not. I loved how Ae Sin represented Korea, and how Hui Seong, Eugene and Dong Mae stood for the different relationships they have with their country. The cinematography, OST, acting – it was all so splendid and rich, an absolute delight to watch this show. The simple, quiet things between Eugene and Ae Sin, how their actions spoke louder than words. Their relationship was always at its best when it was just the two, enjoying mundane things. Sometimes, the show could be a little slow, and I also didn’t quite understand Kudo Hina as a character to be honest. But overall, this was amazing. But I still have a headache…

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Warto dać temu szansę

Przy pierwszym podejściu poddałam się po około 3 odcinkach, ponieważ jakoś Kuea nie przypadł mi do gustu swoim charakterem. Jednak jakiś czas później postanowiłam ponownie zabrać się za te tajską dramę i w sumie nie było tak źle jak na początku. Podczas przerwy od oglądania dowiedziałam się sporo na temat głównych bohaterów i bardzo ich polubiłam - głównie dzięki instagramowi, co na pewno później pomogło mi w oglądaniu.
Mimo, że fabuła nie jest jakaś mega ciekawa, a niektóre sceny są lekko za długie przez co czasem nudne to cieszę się, że dałam temu drugą szansę.
Cutie Pie jest bardzo przyjemne w oglądaniu, a postacie zarówno główne, jak i te drugoplanowe są bardzo dobrze dobrane (np. Nuer i Syn). Uważam, że jeśli ktoś miał z początku tak jak ja lub podobnie to warto się przełamać i to obejrzeć :)

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Laughed, Cried, Loved: A Feel-Good Ride Through Love and Loss

The start was solid, with the male lead grappling with the loss of his wife and the female lead, a doctor, facing a trial due to a misdiagnosis.
She needs the male lead to sue the patient's husband for her advantage.
However, he won't cooperate, having experienced the pain of losing a loved one. This already set up a funny situation that got me curious about what would happen next.😁

She tries seduction, then intimidation, and it always ends in a humorous way. Despite knowing he's married and mourning, she persists, going all out, never giving up on seducing him. She keeps pestering him until she obviously falls for him too.

Their personalities and constant bickering were adorable. I couldn't get enough of their dynamic. The story made me smile, laugh, and even shed a tear.
It was genuinely good, and the ending was wonderfully sweet. Loved the overall vibe.

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