Reviews

Fuckass Finale

July 3, 2026

What the fuck is that ending?

I am genuinely so appalled cause I really look forward to watching and finishing this series. Honestly, I will take ep 11 as the main ending cause I refuse to accept that ending. It's open ended and it feels so out of place. Rushed, incoherently done. I don't even know how to explain how confused I was as I watched the last episode. Are they trying to imply that they both will die because of the meteor or it's one of those last moments before the final doom. I feel like at this point they should have just given us a sad ending than whatever ending they came up with.

Regardless, I loved watching the progression of our main characters, they had the strongest chemistry ever. I truly loved it. Ep 1 to 11, you will be missed thoroughly.

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Don't be fooled by the Trailer!

Was waiting for a time where I could sit down and watch this drama, and it genuinely delivered beyond my expectations. The trailer got me hooked and with ChengLei being the lead, I was expecting comedy and a new side of Him. But beyond this, I wasn't expecting for this drama to be packed with such depth to the point I cried at some scenes in the later episodes. The acting was phenomenal and damn the OST always gets me.

No other words to be said, but this was one of the fastest Cdramas that I have finished because of the great pacing and it overall just grabs you.

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Watched in a single sitting

I thought a show about a fan meeting their bias would be cringy, but this was kind of cute. I found myself smiling for no real reason quite a few times. Some moments made me cringe, like when I think about how I would act this way meeting my bias, and when the fans cross the line, like when the girl asks to see Choi Siyeol's abs & the one asking insensitive questions on the radio show. Fans like this actually exist, and I feel bad for anyone who has to deal with them.

Na Aejoon is the definition of "my bias can do no wrong." This man is literally defending Choi Siyeol when he's still mad and heartbroken. Honestly, I can't say I wouldn't be the same if I was in this position with literally anyone from Stray Kids or BTS.

The plot wasn't the strongest. I'm not talking about it being almost every fan's delusional dream to meet their celebrity crush and said crush show a romantic interest in them; they do make it more believable by making Na Aejoon's cousin Choi Siyeol's manager. So there is a connection. The weak parts are:

1. We don't get enough of the side couple. We have, in my opinion, a really good scene at the end of Yeon Ju Ha confronting Ji Kyuseong, but we never get to see how they make up; they are just suddenly together again. It also would have been nice to see more of their confrontation with the reporter since he was apparently the cause of their breakup.

2. The other group members are not part of the story at all. They may as well not have existed. It's completely unrealistic because even if they are all doing their own thing, they would still be a part of each other's lives. They would be doing dance practice together, recording songs, interviews, etc. We get none of that, and when they are on screen, they don't say a word.

3. There are a couple of moments where the idols have to deal with rude fans, but otherwise we don't see much of what they actually have to deal with as idols.

4. The show they are creating in the show really doesn't seem interesting at all. Would anyone actually watch this? Regardless, too much screen time was given to it when we could have been doing more with the main or side couple.

On to the actors! First off, I love the size difference between both couples. Na Aejoon in Choi Siyeol's clothes is so cute! The acting itself was solid, no complaints, and the chemistry was decent even though the kisses (what little we got) were more like pecks than anything. Ji getting crewed out by Yeon Ju Ha was so funny. Incredible acting from Shin (Yeon Ju Ha). This was easily one of my favorite parts. Yeon Ju Ha and Na Aejoon exchanging pictures of their boyfriends was honestly adorable. We only get to see a little of their friendship, but I loved it.

As Korean BLs go, this was actually really good. Not that the bar is set very high, but I was surprised by the production value, that the actors were good and had decent chemistry, and most of all, the world didn't feel like an empty void inhabited by only the main characters & a couple of supporting ones.

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"Hope is the beginning of calamity"

The King of Pigs is another drama focusing on South Korea’s national trauma---school bullying. It is hard to peruse very far when looking for a Kdrama or Kfilm to watch that doesn’t touch on bullying—in school, the work place, or in politics. “Know your place” is a well-worn phrase straight out of the Joseon Era. The King of Pigs showed how the emotional damage to two young boys was internalized and then realized in a complex gory and deadly revenge plot played out on both sides of the law.

Lt. Kang Jin Ah is called to a possible suicide scene when a message is found scrawled on the window mentioning another officer she has worked with-Jung Jong Suk. She calls Jung in to help her and it’s not long before Jung’s ties to the killer are revealed. After a gruesome discovery, Jung becomes as much suspect as witness, complicating the case further.

The vicious revenge plot played out well. These types of dramas and films throw me into my own existential and spiritual crisis as I find myself rooting for the killer. Adults who as children had been subjected to what amounted to torture developing psychological breakdowns was not much of a surprise. What was surprising was the calm, methodological manner Hwang Kyung Min planned his vengeance even while hallucinating. For Jung Jong Suk, as the memories flooded in, his mental stability flooded out, causing him to act less rationally as he struggled to deal with the past. Both had basically been POWs, trapped in a cell with their tormentors with no escape and no help coming. For the tormentors it was all fun and games.

The class divide raised its ugly head inside and outside of the classroom. Teachers bowed to money and power and turned a blind eye to the bullying. The homeroom teacher lamented not being able to physically abuse the young men in his class. One wealthy father felt perfectly comfortable beating a student and striking a woman in a public place with no repercussions. The vulnerable had no one to turn to and no one seemed to care about their suffering. The bullies were too cowardly to act on their own but hunted in packs like wolves. Yet if the classmates who did nothing had banded together with the victims, they would have outnumbered the bullies. Instead of pigs, which can be dangerous, they acted more like sheep.

Kim Sung Kyu gave a strong performance as the slowly unraveling Jung. Kim Dong Wook endowed Hwang with a powerful determination to accomplish the tasks set out before him. The flashback scenes worked particularly well because the drama actually utilized teenage actors instead of trying to paste on more makeup and make the audience pretend thirty-five-year-olds were playing middle school students. All of the teens played their roles well. My biggest problem was with Chae Jung An as Lt. Kang. If the writers were going for a loner who liked to work alone and who didn’t always play by the rules, then she better make a difference and better be charismatic. Unfortunately, neither happened. The character vacillated too much, didn’t accomplish anything meaningful, and came across as petty and bland. And dear goodness, she had a bad habit of holding her gun pointed at her own head-gun safety people!

The King of Pigs traveled at a break neck pace, never letting off the pedal of death and mayhem. While the investigation aspect of the drama had weaknesses, the psychological thriller delivered an onslaught of emotional punches. One more drama warning people that extreme bullying can break people down, break them so badly that a glimmer of hope could lead to calamity.

“Dogs are loved for their very existence. But pigs could only have their worth acknowledged when they are torn to bits to become food for the humans.”

3 July 2026

Trigger warnings: SUICIDES, abuse, sexual abuse, smoking, drug use, gory torture, animal cruelty

Traffic notes: Another drama where car chases took place on empty four lane highways. People were constantly laying down in the street. Have they never heard of The White Truck of Doom???

Homeroom Note: Why are teachers never in the classrooms, especially with bullying being an issue?

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Hello? People? There are almost 2 billion of you in this world. One quarter of the world, so I don't understand how you don't know how to act, the production is too poor, the story has a point but there is no one to present it to the audience. Thin. Not even for 1! It's sickening to watch the disjointed shots, the ramblings of the supposed drunken lead actor, and many more illogicalities and bad performances. Do you have a Faculty of Acting or a Faculty of Fine Arts, whatever?

I'm not going to write by episode, there's no point, production and post-production generally don't exist, the acting is like that of a 5-year-old child, the camera is zero, the director is zero... I'd better stop...

Soporific, non-dynamic, no action, slow, forced conversations.

Why the narrator??? It's like we're watching a drama from the 1950s... and we're not crazy to not understand what we're seeing!

Where does he suddenly live in a dorm? Did the director not give us a consistent script or is he jumping around without a script?

DROPPED!!!!!!!!!!!!

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i am very bias when it comes to so ji sub's actorism

i just watched this because so ji sub is the mc and yes, it's still ongoing but i just couldn't help but type this. it's fantastic. yes, i know this is an overused plot and they just keep dragging it but the mc is so ji sub for god's sake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he doesn't make it cringe (at least, for me). i love looking at his sad eyes, the guy is not only a fighter but he could portray sadness well too! u can see it in his expressions, instead of just fighting the goonies. I REALLY REALLY LOVE THIS. I LOVE MERCY FOR NONE TOO.

and this just inspired me not to have any social media presence or be this biggie something. i am someone who thinks if i dont have any social media presence or if i don't act friendly to others, i'll die. but watching this just made me think "oh nothing's really gonna happen, u'll just live" so it really help!!!!!! helped me build this alter ego of being mysterious and all of that shenanigans.

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Sold off by his own family, poor, bullied country boy finds an unlikely benefactor in a rich family

Damn!! The amount of manipulation, harm and abuse that the protagonist takes in is unprecedented...its infuriating!!! I'm watching this show now to just somehow finally see some justice happen!

A slow paced story set in the 90s, borders on dark, with toxic elements and is increasingly becoming a strong tale....go past the first few episodes and you will start to be invested, or rather let me say, you'll hate it enough to want to see how it all ends.....

Be warned that it has a lot of bullying, extreme emotional manipulation, and some scenes borders on SA

BL-needle Score: 6. Low BL-ness so far

Xiao Fan, a country bumpkin with no education, zero self esteem, mostly bullied and uncared for, gets literally sold off by his family to a rich family who were looking for a 'groom' to shield their bratty daughter from social shame of being pregnant out of wedlock....the daughter who seems perpetually angry, rude and borderline narcissist, insults and bullies her fake husband every opportunity she gets as he lands in their palatial city home to act as her husband....her brother, the quiet and intelligent Bei Lu, however develops a soft corner for the poor chap...buys him clothes, tutors him and tries introducing him to the ways of the world...as the story progresses, we see this tender bond developing between these unlikely pair, the extremely lopsided power equation notwithstanding....

While Xiao Fan struggles with the education and becomes a butt of jokes with Bei Lu's friends, he seems to be good at cooking...the chief housemaid Aunt Lin takes a liking to him and teaches him to help around the kitchen and cooking...soon he starts serving soups to Bei Lu, as his way of thanking that one person who he hangs on to for some shred of kindness and hope....

With Bei's help Fan manages to get into college for vocational course, but gets bullied there too....his family continues to pester him for more favours from the Bei family every now and then and the spineless, self-loathing Xiao Fan keeps failing to say no and turns to Bei Lu every time...so much so that your blood start to boil at the shamelessness of the mother and family and the never-ending cowering of Fan...Bei Lu however seems to have genuinely fallen for the pitiful boy

Will the perpetually apologetic, servile and self-loathing Xiao Fan ever be able to find the courage to stand up for himself...where will this unusual pair head to? I'm intrigued now

Verdict: Watch, but be prepared for the triggers

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Looks good in costume

This was a cute drama, again mainly watched it for the ML!

however, i did like the story line and the characters. I did like the fact for the first time, we had a majesty that was involved in the wanting to do stand for good and not being harsh King. I also like how the majesty and his highness interactions they were absolutely 💯 not just being biased etc.

The FL was well played and thank goodness she came around when she discovered the truth of her father, i was so ready to drop the series when she started believing everyone but him.

I liked this drama and it flowed through well

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Their kisses felt SO forced bro

Well, I didn’t like their kisses, Im sorry but imo they were not giving it 🫩every time they kissed it felt very forced.
Xiyang was always getting on my nerves, she was really annoying most part of the show but at the end I kinda liked her. One thing I couldn’t take was the romanticization in the “relationship” that she had with the emperor. That was pure toxicity idc what anyone says.
But overall the drama was great and entertaining, the thing that I loved the most was my girlie yixiao, even if she felt like a secondary character in the last episodes🫩. Also liked the story between the mc, their dynamic was interesting and the chemistry was good (except for the kisses😭)

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everything about this show is just so beautiful!!

as someone who completely disliked the recently released CBLs, i seriously cannot get enough of this series!! i keep on rewatching every episode while waiting for fridays! the one thing (out of many) that sets it apart from other CBLs is the ORIGINAL audio, which captures all the raw emotion and makes the acting feel totally authentic (just like in JBLs). i absolutely hate the heavy dubbing in most CBLs (even though i enjoyed Revenged Love and Sammy’s Children’s Day, the dubbed audio still drove me crazy).
​this show is just on another level. the cinematography is just so good !! the lush tea mountains and wooden houses gives it this grounded, cinematic, and heart-healing beauty that feels so different from typical artificial studio setups, the direction (zelia you deserve every award for giving us this beautiful work of art ) , the acting (liu how are you so good at acting the age of 21 when you're just out of college with no experience??) , the chemistry (no words- ), and music (addictive as hell), everything is just so gooodd, not to mention that the whole cast is just so pretty! on every rewatch, you notice so many micro-gestures from the main lead toward the main character that just scream pure love and tender care, which is so rare to see in series these days.
​i’m honestly not sure what’s going on with the second cp (not really interested in them, also they remind me of shi yuhao & qinglang so i avoid them), but i can already feel the third cp is going to be really good. at the end of the day, people who don't enjoy the slice-of-life genre and are only into toxic or solely nc-driven series probably won't appreciate this masterpiece. (like a certain someone who rated this series 1 and stubborn 10/10 lol) but for anyone looking for authentic character depth, natural pacing, symbolism, deeper meanings and realism, it completely stands out from the rest. so far (ep 7) i would rate this show 11/10

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when chemistry isn’t enough

Since watching High School Frenemy, I became a fan of SkyNani. After all, they broke away from GMMTV’s familiar formula by making a bromance instead of a BL. Similar to The Untamed, the pair built a loyal following through their chemistry alone.

But unlike The Untamed, I think a bromance can only sustain its appeal for so long. This is one reason I appreciate that other Asian countries don’t always follow the Thai BL formula. Sometimes pairings become forced, and actors end up playing roles that don’t truly suit them. Yes, they can cry on cue or exchange intense gazes, but chemistry alone isn’t enough.

If I’m being completely honest, I think Sky and Nani are stronger as individual actors than as a permanent screen pairing. I’m also glad they don’t participate in the song-and-dance fan events that many BL couples do. In my opinion, that preserves their value as actors rather than turning them into fan-service personalities.

As for Wu, it started with tremendous promise but quickly lost its momentum. The opening episodes were compelling, yet the story soon became predictable and, at times, overly sentimental. More disappointing was the lack of meaningful character development. Nearly every major character occupied a pivotal role in the narrative, yet few were given the depth they deserved. The supporting cast, rather than enriching the story, often felt underutilized.

The biggest indication that the series wasn’t working for me was that I found myself rooting for the antagonists. When the villains become more compelling than the protagonists, it’s usually a sign that the emotional investment has shifted.

I also think the series suffered from its length. Recently, many Thai BL dramas have shortened their episode counts, perhaps following the trend of Japanese dramas. But what works in Japan doesn’t necessarily translate elsewhere. Japanese storytellers have mastered the art of concise, tightly constructed narratives. Simply making a series shorter doesn’t guarantee better pacing. In Wu, I felt there was enough material for a longer series that could have explored its characters and themes with greater depth.

I’m sure many fans will disagree with my assessment, and that’s perfectly fine. I’ve long accepted that we don’t all see stories the same way. It would be a rather dull world if we did.

In today’s BL landscape, where dozens of new titles are released every year, audiences have more choices than ever before. Ironically, while the quantity has increased, I can’t help but feel that the overall quality has gradually declined.

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