Reviews

How I feel after finishing Duang with you

Duang with you is one of the best BL's I have watched.
The soundtrack is addicting, the acting is on point, the story is so touching that it will melt your heart.
I recommend you to watch it and I want to be one of the person who discover it for the first time again. But I guess I can't.
If you're a new BL fan and don't know what to watch. I highly recommend Duang with you.
Duang with you is a novel that has sweet romance and comedy. It has a special place in my heart and everytime I feel low I know that Duang with you will help. Teeteepor really knew how to show their emotions in Duang with you and I can tell you a thing it wasn't easy waiting a whole entire week for a new episode, so i'm jealous of the one that will never have to wait a whole entire week for a new episode.
And everytime you watch an episode you want to rewatch it again.
I highly recommend Duang with you and I give it a 10 out of 10.

Read More

Questionable Storyline

The series actually packed with good casts that can deliver ranges of acting since I've seen most of them in another works.
As for Becky, personally, I think she's doing a good job delivering a new kind of Nanno since this is reset version. Because I never expect her to be the same as previous Nanno and I'm glad throughout the episodes I never compared her to the old Nanno.
Now the main issue for me is the storyline and the direction of the show. While I like the dynamic between Nanno and Sky, I can't say the same with the overall plots. There's no wow factors that can glued me to my seat, the stories were bland and tasteless. I now that there are lessons but I was expecting some twists or something like that.
I hope the next season the stories will be more interesting.

Read More

It was okay

A series far from perfect with writing and execution issues, but with its own charm that manages to keep you interested. I expected it to be just a light-hearted drama, but I was actually surprised to see some heavier themes being addressed. The let down was that they didn't fully commit on exploring them and instead sacrificed the limited length of the eight episodes, by introducing sub-plots, while rushing the existing storylines. For me, it had the potential to be a great bl series, had they stayed loyal to the main plot and developed more the characters and their dynamics.

The acting was good overall and I generally enjoyed the chemistry of each pairing, but I will give a little more credit to Tee for delivering some very difficult emotional scenes.

I recommend the series to people who look for a lighter show with some depth. Despite any flaws, it was still fun and easy to watch.

Read More

offensively bad

there's good dramas with sophisticated plots, there's good dramas with simple plots, and then there's bad dramas that try so hard to be sophisticated that it makes them 10x worse. this is one of them.

this drama is a disgrace against all women, lesbians, and queer people. the women of this drama are put through perpetual abuse, sexual assault, etc., for the sole purpose of dramatisation and/or character development for the male lead. this is a well studied phenomenon known as the 'women in refrigerators' trope, i highly recommend reading up on it.
as for the queer aspect, just because they included a lesbian character doesn't mean we should be applauding the writers for representation. this drama exploits the hardships of sexual minorities for nothing more than shock value. throughout the entire story, sangah is mentally and physically pushed to the limit, but no attempt is made to send any meaningful message with any of this.

towards the end i began to wonder, who are we even supposed to be rooting for here? taeseob is just as manipulative and power hungry as the elites he strived to take down.
they try to frame taeseob and sangah as equally evil and equally sympathetic, which is NOT the case. sangah wasn't responsible for the murder, and even if she was, it would've been justified. she can't be blamed for cheating either as she was coerced with drugs. taeseob on the other hand, as admitted by himself in the first episode, only saw sangah as a means to climb up the social ladder. sure, you could argue he fell in love with her later, and he did try to 'protect' her overall, but he wouldn't have gone to such lengths to protect her image if it wasn't crucial to his own reputation. not to mention him forcing himself onto her after their big fight which is completely irredeemable. mind you he was already irredeemable to me when he did nothing to help jisoo.

the last episode is its own disaster:
- slow motion montages were excessive and anticlimactic, whole episode could've been 40 minutes if they cut those out
- everything played out way too smoothly all of a sudden
- the focus suddenly shifts onto politics and we're expected to keep up with all these names and lore that were only mentioned in passing in previous episodes
- the "cliffhanger" they left to tease a second season felt sooo forced and rushed

overall, a low quality drama that takes itself too seriously, much to its own detriment.

Read More

Great but the ending is rushed

If you’re looking for lots of skin from a BL then this one is not for you. If you’re looking for great chemistry and plot then this is probably right up your street.

The story follows two young neighbours who hold each other in high esteem who get separated by circumstance when Theo is shipped off to live with his grandmother in Paris leaving his best friend Akk behind.

They meet again years later when Theo’s grandmother dies and they immediately strike up a friendship with unrequited undertones of desire and love.

Theo selects a book that he’s read and makes a comment in one of the blank back pages and over time the two investigate who responds to the comment that he wrote. We meet 4 other main support characters who all profess to be Enchante, the person who responded to the comment that he left. We also find out the reasoning behind them lying and telling Theo that they are the person he is looking for.

The ending was a very frustrating as it is very rushed- we don’t really get closure for the 4 pretenders nor is the reason why Theo decides to break Akk’s heart particularly believable either (but they are reunited).

The production values excellent even though the now famous home from Cutie Pie (as well as a couple of other BLs I have watched) appears yet again!

The chemistry between Theo and Akk is so believable and had me smiling like a loon in some of the scenes where they’re rough housing.

The other actors are also very good (and rather pleasing on the eye which is a bonus) and add depth and substance to this drama.

Would I watch again? Probably not but that doesn’t stop this from being a great little drama and one worth a higher rating than given on this platform.

Read More

they're so adorable

if you love fluff with a touch of silliness (and just a tiny bit of tears, if you’re as sensitive as i am), this is the place for you. i once heard someone say, “love should be fun,” and this is kind of like that.

i loved watching Qinn slowly but surely warm up and literally blossom alongside him. when he started smiling, i just melted. he became so tender by the end 🙏🏻

i adore both main characters with all my heart, AND MARS AND JAMIE 💅🏻 i also really love the main characters’ friends—can i have some like that, too? Pae is my kitty

I LOVE THEM SO MUCH, they’re so sweet iaiaiaiaiaia. i’d go on and on about this to my friends every day, and everyone would unfollow me, so i just quietly screamed in my notes.

and the actors 🙏🏻—i really love their performances; i don’t even know how to describe how delighted i am with them.

Read More

Excellent time travel story and great leads chemistry

Much better than the usual short dramas. This is a time-regression story, but with her returning to her own body, which is different within the genre. Regarding the actors, it's always a pleasure to watch Quan Yilun; his good looks and acting ability are excellent. Sebrina Chen is delightful; she's a wonderful actress, beautiful, and she makes the most of the story.

They share one of the best kisses I've ever seen in a short drama—intense, long, realistic, and passionate.
The story concludes well , which is a relief.—spoiler alert: at least in the future .
The cinematography is excellent for a short drama, with very carefully crafted costumes and details. I think you'll enjoy it a lot; it's well worth watching.

Read More

STORY: A short drama to watch without expectations. It features the typical clichés: FL is rich, ML is unlucky with sick family members and financial difficulties, an instant crush that FL calls "destiny," and SML is mean and jealous.
The only thing that's different from the usual is the poker game. Card games bore me to death, luckily it takes up a few minutes in the last episode (skipped).

CAST: Pleasant in appearance with decent acting. I found the romantic aspect forced, not helped by a corny/cheesy script.
The FL tried to make her more enterprising than average but for fear of exaggerating they still inserted cringe moments: don't look at me, I'm blushing... So annoying!
ML who "says he feels inferior to her" but it behaves the opposite way with playboy moments. It felt like I was watching a comic for teenagers.

I found the production to be low budget, the most annoying thing I noticed was in the external shots: they removed the natural background noise when the actors spoke and immediately put it back, so that we hear this continuous difference. Embarrassing.

MUSIC: I don't even remember it.

In conclusion, I would only recommend it to fans of the protagonists, a mediocre show that I would have preferred to avoid.

Read More

GOOD ONE

what I like
comedy
romance
chemistry
the first half really good , there's enough romance
what I don't like
the 2nd couple issue dragged too long , their story is literally nonsense when the main leads did everything to stop divorce and then death they still get divorced?
the one who was behind this was her brother,I realised he is as soon as he mentioned Money and gambling habit
after this ends there's some 10eps left focused on FML death ? both sad crying FML wanting to breakup because she is going to die and he will be alone but don't really breakup just argue
and when her death issue is there suddenly the ml issue pops up him being transferred and the reason he shifted to her house ,they find out who did that and in process of making him confess the ml from 2022 future dies ? i disliked that ? you didn't have to kill him ? still ending is better the 2021 ml falls for her too and they just get together after that happy ending , after the 2nd couple issue ended and the ml issue started I just skipped the eps since they continuously working on finding the person who did that to ml , I skipped last few eps but I still like it , it's rare for CDRAMA to have a couple like this and romance like this

Read More

I thought I would binge it, yet savored it instead

It's been a while since I cried so much watching a drama. For me, it had the perfect balance between heartbreaking and heartwarming. There was such a juxtaposition between ML's life and FL's life, you would think that these two could never make a relationship work. ML is from a loving and happy home, and it seemed like life was just handing him everything he wanted without effort. On the flip side, FL's home life consisted of being foisted off on one relative after another. No one wanted her, and no one loved her. I think this made her emotionally stunted, always trying to protect herself from being abused/left again.

I loved the mix of high school and current times. The writer did a good job of slowly revealing more and more of the ML and FL history. When their high school breakup is initially shown, it didn't make much sense to me, and I thought the FL was unnecessarily cold. However, as the drama went on, we saw how she was trying to protect herself when she had no one else to protect her.

I absolutely loved discovering how he loved her, in the many ways he tried to protect her, and all the efforts he took to just see her in her world, a world that he was not a part of. I thought initially he was being awfully cocky toward her, making it sound like he thought she was chasing him, but I think he thought (and rightly so) that she was very skittish and he didn't want to scare her off by coming on too strong. He always seemed to be looking only at her, yet she had difficulty making eye contact with him. It felt like self-protection.

I thought the writer making her leave him seemed out of place, but again, we saw the difference between her being in the sunlight with him and being in the dark alone.

Her entire family was a complete nightmare. It made sense that her character was emotionally withdrawn. She just wanted to keep her head down, remain unnoticed, and get through life the best way she could. Kudos to the writers for not putting in a redemption arc for her family, that would have made me mad.

I loved their scenes together, as teens and as adults. They made each other better versions of themselves. I thought their chemistry was on point. Some very good kisses.

For me, C-dramas tend to be too long and drawn out. My fast forward button got a complete rest while watching this. A lot of people might find this drama to be unrealistic in the romance department. But for the romantic in me, it ticked all the boxes.

Read More

Dedication of love: Love bonded in sacrifices.

When the main criteria is love.
Love devotion, was the main theme of this spectacular series. It tells you love don't bloom from nothingness or constant glances, It builds on actual substance before it blooms to those valley of flowers.

The main characters tale of love differ from their own building, but each of them were interesting had their serious likes and some dislikes, not all have to like the love between a particular character, because love is what causes you to defy the world.

Many seem no to like their stay in the void, but not for me, their stay in the void was about the building of their love, not really about the demonstration of their fight scenes, when they had their stay in the void, their love was constantly building on hopelessness despair, raising a child, old age, flirtness and more.
The void depicts the main origin of the story where the story gives us a highlight of what happened in the past and is affecting lives in reality, the void was the building essence of the story.

The OST was fantastic, it wasn't underwhelm scenes, it's uplifts all those romantic, fight, emotional scenes.
The fight scenes was an excellent masterpiece of all ages it was raw, well defined, and real

All the characters of the show played a significance, their wasn't one playing an insignificant role.
The guest stars was stunning, Chang Hau Sen as Han Ba was interesting an fun. We also hot Gong Zi Shang form My Journey to you and she literally brought her character of MJTY, to the show.
We also saw Xia Shi Guang as a powerful fox and his portrayal as that love driven character was touching and heartbreaking, but he played it in an amusing stance.

The villain of the story was well written but has flaws, bother he villain and the dragons.
How did the villain and the dragons exist in the thrive by and small mortal world, no reason on why the villain wants the mortal world destroyed, we had an overpowered villain which is interesting but it felt really undying and sophisticated, when the villain falls the scripts actually comes up with something that brings him back to being alive, It was great, cuz our main character has to be that exhausted fighting a villain.

Overall the drama was a well written love story, where love literally occurs with our main characters, side characters and guest roles, and the execution was nothing void of phenomenal. The beautiful fight scenes, OST, romance, supernatural elements, where converging to a common points and it was killing a typical undying villain.

Read More

Very good drama

Love Story in the 70s is pretty good. The main leads are engaging and endearing, the second leads have an intriguing dynamic, but the third leads who had an incredibly irritating arc with wife’s parents and brother are given more screen time than the second leads. Parents of both the female lead and male lead are memorable but it was entertaining to watch the female lead’s father. Everyone has acted very well. The real scene stealer is the textile mills director Xu Hong Qi and that cup of hers that breaks into pieces on the floor. It also is Chen Feiyu’s best performance to date. Like most Asian series, everyone in this drama has a job and they have struggles related to work, ambitions, families and senior colleagues as well as love. In fact, it’s the work life of each individual that moves the story forward. Locations are realistic, as are the events. It is set in a particularly difficult time period in Chinese cultural and educational history and may feel like a propaganda piece in some instances. The only person I felt bad for is Ling Yi, the way her journey was concluded was unfair. You’ll hate Feng Lin, universally disliked individual, and good riddance.

Read More