My take on the FLOWER BOY
The concept of the story feels like something I’ve heard or seen somewhere before, but I think what made this series stand out was the way it was given its own color and style. That really redeemed my interest in the series and kept me invested.I just wish the budget had been more extravagant because I feel like the story had so much potential for more chaos, action, and bigger moments. The actors did a good job, and I enjoyed their performances. I was just hoping for more action and intensity overall.
Still, I think the series had an interesting concept and its own charm. I just wish they had gone bigger with it because it could’ve been even more exciting.
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I Came for a Crime Thriller. I Left Devastated.
I don't even know how to begin this review.I'm usually the kind of person who stops watching the moment the credits start rolling. I don't sit through credits. The story is over, so I'm gone. But when The Worst of Evil ended, I found myself sitting in front of my laptop for a good five minutes, just watching the credits roll.
I was genuinely dazed.
The latter half of this drama completely wrecked me because of what it did with its characters.
Watching Park Jun-mo's transformation was devastating as you watch him slowly become someone almost unrecognisable from the man we met at the beginning.
And the frightening part is that the transformation doesn't feel sudden. You watch it happen.
What makes The Worst of Evil particularly tragic is the relationship that develops between Jun-mo and Jung Ki-cheul. They begin on completely opposite sides of the law, yet their relationship becomes something far more complicated as the story progresses. What started as an undercover operation becomes something far more complicated when the emotions and loyalties involved stop being an act.
By the end, I wasn't even sure what I was feeling.
The final scenes were especially powerful. There is a particular moment near the end that completely broke me. There is no dramatic speech, no explanation, no dialogue telling you what the character is feeling. And somehow, that silence said everything.
It was one of those moments where the absence of words made the scene louder.
The Worst of Evil is dark, brutal, emotionally heavy and, at times, genuinely painful to watch. But beneath all of that is an incredibly well-executed story about identity, loyalty, ambition, sacrifice and what happens when you spend too long pretending to be someone else.
I came into this expecting a crime thriller.
I left feeling like I had witnessed a tragedy.
This has officially earned a place among the most deranged and emotionally devastating dramas I've watched — alongside The Penthouse, Escape of the Seven, Mouse and Flower of Evil.
I don't think I have the words to properly explain what this drama did to me.
But wow.
Just... wow.
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Great resolution
The fight scene is very amazing. I also like how they solved the problem at the end. I like the idea. It's fun to watch gay teen shows with more complex story, not just about love and sex. My favorite part of this show is the resolution. Although someone could guess it, but I still think that it is intelligent to end the show this way. Masterpiece! This is the first show with this genre I watched. It motivated me to seek for more BL shows from Thailand.Was this review helpful to you?
Excellent Setting
I like the setting of this show. It's systematic and rational. I also like how they added the feel-good scenes into every episode for people to feel the characters in our own unique way. Moreover, I also like how these young people fight the villainous dude. I think it is fair when the male characters fight other male characters. It's cool and fun.In Chinese dramas, I watched, the big bosses are mostly the old women, like the empress or queen mother. I do not like the mentioned trope, because it is like the witch hunting or the old-women-phobia.
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Not for everyone, but for those it will be epic.
MR.KILL - ReviewMr. Kill with Dew and Tee as main protagonists featuring Off and Neo, this was a bromance murder mystery series. So, no BL here, despite being made by GMMTV. So keep this in mind.
Mr. Kill was a dark, emotional rollercoaster, asking uncomfortable questions about life and the world we life in. It was deep, unsettling and excellently played by all involved. Warning: it does contain gruesome imagery so it is not for a faint of heart (though I have seen worse), and you may say, eh bromance? Nah.
Still, I must admit I felt greatly entertained despite the story being entirely in a gray area, where good and evil quickly blur and simple answers vanish. Still I felt it was something we all feel, even if we keep it just at the brink of our thoughts. I had a bit a "V for Vendetta" vibe just "we live in it and it is smoother, so we can easy delude ourselves." Which is a powerful message and a challange to the viewer, keeping you thinking.
Knowing what I would get and getting way more, all excellenlty made I have nothing bad to say to this masterpiece of its kind.
10/10
Not for everyone, but for those it will be epic.
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I LOVED This… But We Need to Talk About The Ending.
This drama hit me HARD. The highs were REALLY high, the lows were REALLY low, and the songs made every emotion hit harder. My favorite scenes were whenever the magician showed up to save the day. They were SO satisfying to watch.That said… I really wished for a better ending.
The concept of the magician as a role model was genuinely beautiful. He really was a wonderful role model… right up until the last episode. That’s where I felt the drama ultimately portrayed him as an unsuccessful/upset person—or at least, that’s how I interpreted him. And I’m not entirely sure that was the message I wanted to take away from his character.
I would have MUCH rather had a twin appear and reveal that he was actually the one who committed all the criminal actions we were shown him committing. Instead, we got the magician somehow surviving a deadly suicide attempt in the past, followed by the whole “he went crazy” storyline… and finally he just disappeared. A big NO, honestly. 😭
And what about the choking scene with Baek Ha Na? They never explained why he did that—is it because of his mental illness? So disappointing.
I also would have loved to see the "successful" adult version of Na Il Deung, just like Yun A I.
Still, despite my issues with the ending, this drama left a strong emotional impact on me, and that’s something I really appreciate.
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Machiavellianistic FL?
I do not know what this show tried to teach their viewers. The point-of-view character is the female protagonist. She lied hundred times to reach her goal. Every time that the empress caught her lying, she always forgave her. The empress was the one with positive personality, while the female protagonist was machiavellianistic. In my opinion, I think the one with Machiavellianism should be antagonist, not the protagonist. This is the big mistake of this show.I watched this show for Jeremy Xu actually, but his role is not important until the final episode. He did a great job in the fight scene of the final episode, while I did not feel anything worth-to-watch in all other eps.
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When admiration turns into something more
This was such a fun surprise. As someone who's a fan myself, I think I connected with this drama even more. I loved how it explored the relationship between a fan and their bias, capturing all the excitement, admiration, and respect that come with supporting someone you look up to. Watching that connection slowly turn into something more was both hilarious and incredibly sweet.The leads had great chemistry, and their romance felt natural without ever forgetting where it all began. The supporting characters also added a lot of charm, making every episode an easy and enjoyable watch. It's funny, heartwarming, and left me smiling until the very end. And honestly... sometimes your bias really should stay just your bias.
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A Really Fun Watch
I actually quite enjoyed this drama. I didn't find any of the plot holes that others seem to see. It actually made a lot of sense from the direction it was going. I think the way someone gets confused is if they're not paying attention to when they're ghosts or humans.I actually felt lots of sympathy for all the ghosts, even the evil ones but I never forgave Yeomhwa. She wasn't worth all the care, love & forgiveness she got. She was evil all the way to the end for me.
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Campy fun.
Better than some. Worse than others... but I just love the stupid way they talk to each other. I hate to say I laughed... but I did.My overall score is always higher than the piece parts. I give extra points for keeping my attention and finishing it in binge fashion. If I struggle, it'd be different.
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Actors Too Old for Their Parts
Guan Xiao Tong, Gao Lu & Li Yun Rui are just really great actors. Their heartwarming way of interacting is what kept me in this SLOWWWWWW burn romance drama.But despite this fact, let me lay out the reality:
No group of late 20s to mid-30s group will ever feel like true TEENAGERS at 17/18, PERIOD! Not even if you give the handsomest among them a bad dye job and razor his hair like rats ate his ends and made it porcupine spiky short like every other Chinese high school drama bad student haircut. And a woman 13 years older than you will never feel like she's old enough to be your mother.
In the end, the second half devolved into repetitive sob stories, play acting and a vast amount of repeated flashbacks that felt like 4 episodes of pure filler. By the time you got to the REWARD of romance...it felt more like taking a pin to a balloon--deflating. Don't get me wrong. They showed tacit acting understanding and portrayed yearning love extremely well. Their kisses were on point and there was no question about their acting showing all this... it was still too little to late.
I really, REALLY wanted to give this a better rating, but I just can't justify it.
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The messy hair
I watch the series in iQiyi and most of them says the FL's hair is messy all throughout. I somewhat agreed because there are scenes where her hair is messy but then in real life it makes sense. Working in a medical field or in any place where you spend hours of working plus doing thesis, if hers is messy then my hair is worse 🤣 She have thick hair so I think that that's why.Anyways, I started this because I've been into police/miliary this past few days. So, I was a little bit disappointed because most of the police case revolve around ML's and FL's. Their problem got dragged on.
The plot twist though, I never thought ML's mother (stepmom) is Weng Peng's mom.
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1What Do You Carry Across a Desert?
Three hundred thousand taels of missing gold, a massacred family and far too many people who seem to know something about both.That is more or less where Remnants of Gold begins. Zhang Luyao is looking for the truth about what happened to her family, Pu Ying is following an investigation of his own, and somewhere between them sits a much older story involving soldiers, old loyalties and a fortune nobody seems to have actually enjoyed.
It sounds like a mystery about missing gold. For a while, it is.
But the further the story goes, the less interesting the gold becomes.
Part of that is because of the people gathering around it. Zhang Luyao is intelligent, guarded and formidable, but thankfully not written as someone whose intelligence prevents her from making bad decisions. Xin Zhilei gives her a wonderful stillness; she can look exhausted by the world and still be the most dangerous person in the room.
Yu Hou is much messier. Chen Kun makes him selfish, charming, cowardly, lost and loyal without making any of it feel contradictory. He wants money because money means freedom, or at least he thinks it does. The problem is that he keeps forming attachments that make walking away considerably harder than he planned.
Pu Ying is quieter. Yin Fang gives him an appealing steadiness, although the writing never opens him up quite as much. And then there is Ban Cha, who appears with his wine and salt and the general air of a man who has wandered into everyone else's emergency by accident.
By then, the gold has collected an increasingly strange jianghu around it. Ha Bingzhong, Tie Futu, Xiaofang, Pingping, Seventeen, Tang Zheng, the Qin Demons... almost everyone arrives with an old debt, a private motive or some piece of history nobody thought worth mentioning earlier.
I liked that. A strange habit, an old grievance, a few lines of dialogue, and someone who appeared ten minutes ago can feel as though they have been wandering around this world for years.
Sometimes, though, there really isn't much more than the suggestion.
Thirteen episodes keep the story lean, but they also leave several characters somewhere between memorable minor figure and plot mechanism. Xiaofang and Pingping matter, yet their fates very conveniently push other characters where the story needs them to go. Tang Zheng arrives carrying enough history for another drama, while the Qin Demons are wonderfully strange and also suspiciously useful when needed.
Despite finding these people interesting, I never became deeply attached to most of them. The drama keeps us at a certain distance, letting people reveal themselves through what they do, what they remember and what they refuse to explain. I suspect some of that is intentional. Sometimes it works. At other times, especially when characters start dying, I understood why something mattered before I necessarily felt that it mattered.
Xu Bing's direction can be similarly uneven. He likes taking his time, and often I liked taking it with him. People sit and drink, conversations circle around what nobody wants to say, and silences are allowed to last.
But sometimes a scene continues after it has already made its point, while something much more important is treated so elliptically that I wondered whether I had missed a scene somewhere. This becomes particularly noticeable toward the end, when thirty years of grudges, loyalties and unfinished business suddenly have to come together in very little time. Some deaths feel inevitable. Others feel rather more like somebody needed to die so somebody else could finally make a decision.
The desert location work is one of the drama's strengths. It looks dry, empty and unpleasant to cross. The fights have weight, people get dirty and exhausted, and there is a roughness to the whole thing that suits this world. Some of the sets are much less convincing, especially beside those landscapes.
I liked the sense that these people had lives before we met them. They are selfish, loyal, petty, stubborn, occasionally foolish and not always easy to place neatly on one side of anything. Even when the writing didn't give me quite enough of them, it usually left me wanting to know more.
And somewhere along the way, I stopped wondering who would end up with the 300,000 taels of gold, or whether there was ever any gold to find. After enough time in this desert, even the gold begins to feel like a story someone once told.
I wanted to know what would happen to the people still looking for it.
There is quite a bit here that bothered me, but I can already see myself watching it again someday. So despite all my complaints, I'm giving it an 8.5.
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Sad there's no sequel
This series was so good, this was my second time watching and i loved it as much as i did the first time!I liked it more than Addicted, because this story was more complete. But just like addicted this had a open ending and that really is a shame. I really liked the story and the visuals were good, the music was ok, but i didn't like the main song with the singing child.
I loved the smart little sister, who often teaches her big brothers.
It had only a few little hints that they were actually in a romantic relationship. A few very small kisses, i really loved the kiss in the dark classroom. And i laughed very hard when the father found the lubricant and didn't realize what it was.
The mains had amazing dynamics and chemistry.
If you can handle a open ending, i highly recommend watching this amazing drama.
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right so lets start with the positive thing, i really liked the first song that appeared cus they danced lmfao, i did expect it to continue that way but the next time they danced was the outro lmfao!i think the acting was nice and the story was amazing. we all need to believe in magic, especially in a world like this where everything is gloomy and basically draining
one thing that made me drop the rating from a 9 to a 6,5 is the last episode, and specifically how they called a mentally impaired man a 'crazy man'. not just once btw. multiple times he's being referred to as 'crazy' or for example 'is he really crazy' / 'i didn't know he was crazy' ????????????? im sorry what?
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