Reviews

If I'm being completely honest I was bored when I started watching it. I found the plot slow-paced and boring. I expected romance throughout it. I stopped watching the drama for a while and went back again because I didn't have anything else to watch. I didn't expect to be hooked. I started to understand the meaning of the drama and enjoyed it. It was incredibly emotional. It centered around a hospice and you grew to love characters. It was upsetting to see people's lives coming to an end and how it affected everyone. It had an impact on the way I thought about life and death. The romance aspect was good and realistic. When Cha-Young realized that she needed time alone I felt happy for her. I thought it was brave of her to be alone and I think that she needed the time alone. It showed a different side to romance. It showed that they don't have to depend on each other. It was refreshing. I also liked seeing character development. I think that many characters grew but seeing Kang's views and opinions change was particularly nice.

The acting was great and I think that the characters were portrayed well. I also loved the soundtrack as it was fitting. I listen to the soundtrack a lot. Personally, I think I'd struggle to rewatch it but I would be able to. The only thing stopping me is the first impression I had.

Overall, I recommend this drama to anyone that's looking for something a little different, refreshing, and emotional. However, if you're looking for something lighthearted and bubbly this isn't it.

Leia Mais

I think that Meteor Garden was a great drama. However, I haven't read or watched other adaptations or the original. The Chinese adaptation simply caught my eye on Netflix. I was quickly engrossed in the show. I couldn't wait for more episodes to be released. The actors were all incredible and the soundtrack was great. The rewatch value is a little lower because it is very lengthy and sometimes repetitive, but that may just be how I view it. The story rating is only 8.5 because I was disappointed with the ending. I was very confused and I felt like it could've been explained a lot better. I thought it could've just been me but my mum watched it and was also disappointed with the lack of explanation during the final episode. Overall, I think it's worth watching. It has a few funny moments, many heartwarming moments, and sad moments. It definitely makes you feel a range of emotions.

Leia Mais

Story
Original and meaningful at the same time, this drama could be divided into 4 parts.
Part 1 - Training camp and teamwork: how to create a team with 2 groups of people who apparently don't share any similarity.
Part 2 - Marriage or not marriage?: A very great part as heartwrenching as heartwarming
Part 3 - Club M & betrayal: The drama goes dark & more political, like really. This is by far the cruelest villains I've seen.
Part 4 - Resolution?: It gets a bit draggy there with events that should have never happened. (Baby Boring Guy forever)

Acting/cast
Lee Seung Gi is incredible. He starts arrogant and snob as many of his other roles but becomes so mature and strong from ep.8. He fits the role perfectly and I can't imagine anyone else as Lee Jae Ha.
Ha Ji Won is queen. She learnt the North Korean dialect and intonation. She's cute, naive but also strong and badass.
Jo Jung Suk is soooo underrated, loved him from the minute he appeared. Eun Shi Kyung is the perfect blend of innocence and responsibility. The perfect friend: LOVED HIM.
Lee Yoon Ji is also perfect, I wished they could focus a bit more on Jae Shin & Shi Kyung relationship.

Overall, the characters seem strong and impenetrable but show so many weaknesses and fragility. It's a good insight in the life of royal personalities whose image must be strong for people to feel safe but in the end, they are only humans too.

Music
I liked it but won't be remembered.

Rewatch value
Definitely yes.

Leia Mais

This is one of best drama I've watched. The characters are so cute. The chemistry between Sul Oh Sung and Pyo Ha Eum is best. Jin Kyung is cherry on top of their chemistry.
TO be honest i never write review for dramas but this one made my heart moved. I am so touched by it. Their cartoony act, teasing funny poses and much more. I highly recommend people to watch it.

This is for the people who love bl . If not then ignore.
I love the chemistry between the boys so much that I wrote a bl. it is a fanfic. I maintained everything same in the novel as it is in the drama but just added a bit of bl story of those boys in between. if you want to read it you can on Wattpad.
seriously I don't gain any profit from it and neither am i advertising my novel here I am just telling for the people who love their chemistry and bl and this drama

Leia Mais

Vengo a hablarles un poquito del drama que he terminado hoy. Se llama Amor y matrimonio (the greatest marriage). Yo lo vi en Netflix. Me gustó pero por una parte me puso un poco de mal humor. SOBRE TODO LA INTRO DEL DRAMA (EL VIDEO) PERO LITERALMENTE EL DRAMA NO TIENE OSTS, NUNCA PONIAN MUSICA SOLO AL FINAL.
El personaje de Jo (el otro presentador de tv) fue el mejor de todos y me reí mucho con él sobre todo con sus lios con las "feminazis" xDD y como intentaba fingir ser aliado. Y el personaje del padre biológico era un cabronnn total no le importa una mierda su hijo y estaba todo el dia lloriqueando por chingarse a la prota. El único personaje villano de la serie que tenía un poco de sentido era la Mingu (o como se llame, la esposa del padre biológico), al final demostró no ser tan mala y todo lo que hizo fue por el bien de sus padres... OTRA COSA QUE ME INDIGNÓ FUE QUE LA AHJUMMA SE CASARÁ CON SU OPPA 20 años menor pero que él admitiera que solo quería su dinero y tampoco quería a su hijo (se repitió un poco la historia). ESTE DRAMA ES MUY RARO EL GINECÓLOGO INFIEL Y SU MUJER SE VUELVEN A ENAMORAR DESPUÉS DE QUE SUS 2 AMANTES QUISIERAN DEMANDARLES POR ADULTERIO WTF. Y MEJOR NO HABLAR DEL FINAL QUE LA PROTA Y SU HIJO TENDRÁ 2 PAPIS PERO NINGUNO DE LOS 2 LE QUIERE JAJA, que wea pasó con eso de ser madre soltera???

Leia Mais

This is by far my favourite drama, so overwhelming and meaningful.

Story
This is basically the story of broken people who try to heal each other. The trauma they had in their childhood still have vivid consequences in their adult life. It's not only a romance, it's not only a medical drama, it's both and so much more. The dialogues are so well-written and life-changing (and I don't even exaggerate).

Acting/Cast
The relationships between the characters are perfectly led. Mother-daughter/mother-sons/brothers/lovers/friends/colleagues every relationship is relevant and show the importance of social interaction on the way to overcome a trauma.
Heads down for the whole cast. Gong Hyo Jin & Jo In Sung are incredible but let's not forget the other actors who give a great dimension to their characters. Everyone is endearing and you just want more of them.

Music
Meaningful -- the songs fit the story and you will probably tear up listening to it later.

Rewatch value
I watched this drama in 2014 when it was released and again last month, it never gets old. I liked it even more this time because despite knowing all the plot twists, I still get surprised. I am 6 years older and mental health is much more meaningful today for me than it was back then.

Give it a try !!

Leia Mais

There's indeed nothing all that special about TOSSARA, but the story is fine and the delivery is acceptable.

Gun has been in love with Bar for several years, but he has never dared to confess to Bar until Bar loses his engineering gear. (Yes, there are several nods to SOTUS, which unfortunately invites comparison with a classic BL).

A lot of people are unhappy with casting Win as Gun because he doesn't look the part of the handsome, muscular guy whom lots of girls in his university go crazy over. I can understand this, and I partly blame it on the make-up department who could have at least given him a nicer hairstyle and image. But I find that he is pleasant looking (he looks better in an interview than in the series) and has played his role well enough. I originally thought that the element about Gun being a very handsome and popular guy was unnecessary for the story and should have been modified after Win was chosen to play Gun. However, it does become quite important for the story, particularly in the freshy competitions scene in which Gun publicly expresses his love for Bar and asks Bar to be his boyfriend.

Win actually plays the part of an infatuated Gun rather well even though it is a bit of a stretch to imagine him as this handsome, muscular popular guy. After a while, he does look fairly compatible with Folk who plays Bar. Folk, on the other hand, is cute but his acting is inconsistent. He doesn't seem able to convey Bar's underlying affection for Gun when Bar is putting up a tough front.

Bar's change from being reluctant to let Gun hit on him to feeling affection for Gun also seems rather sudden. We see that he has fallen for Gun but we don't see why or how this happened. In fact, Gun merely flirts with him for a week and suddenly he seems to be in love with Gun.

The series is not an example of a great BL series, but the couple is rather likable. Both Gun and Bar may get unnecessarily jealous, but the ultimately have rather human concerns and genuine affection for each other. Not a bad watch if you have run out of BLs to watch.

One thing that could certainly be better is a stronger exposition of the characters that would be the main characters in Love Mechanics. I watched Love Mechanics first, but watching TOSSARA hardly makes me understand Love Mechanics better.

Leia Mais

Started off by watching it since I had it in my watchlist since it was announced, but at the same time the plot didn't inspire me so much 'cause these kinds of dramas tend to be pretty much all the same (prosopagnosia and boos-secretary love) and I didn't want to watch another drama like ''what's wrong with secretary Kim''.
I can say that i really liked the chemistry between the leads but I really couldn't go on after the 10th episode, yeah, a good plot in general but everything was soooo slow that bored me in really no time.
Is a good drama to watch when there's nothing else or when you want something really light but absolutely not my cup of tea...

Leia Mais

This drama would be great and much more enjoyable if it weren’t for the female main character. I have never seen such an unlikeable and annoying main female lead in all the dramas I can remember, so much so that I created an account just to vent my frustration. I have seen many dramas with spoilt rich main leads but they all had some sort of redeeming and enjoyable qualities about them. I do not understand why the writer had to ruin the series like that. The romance was just so forced in this drama. I wish these writers understood that not all series require romance. The female main character is spoilt but not cute, an annoying bully and does not think she is wrong, manipulative and has a ridiculously “everyone has to listen to me” kind of attitude. The writers were probably going for a spoilt but good vibe but it was just poorly done. And the scenes between female and male main characters were supposed to be funny but it was just awkward. The crime solving and two male leads were the only thing that kept me watching. The crime solving scenes and the way it plays out also become repetitive but I could still carry on, it is the female lead that made me want to throw my laptop!

Leia Mais

I actually watched the first 9 episodes of this drama a few months ago, but since i was watching a few more better dramas at the same time, i dropped it for a while and eventually forgot about it. But i was glad that i picked it up again from where i left off and finished the drama at last.
It actually has a good storyline. It has quite an interesting plot and a unique setting as it was a story within the airport premises. As we know, there's quite a very few kdrama with this kind of work setting. It doesn't focus on the pilot nor the flight attendants, but more on the ground personnel of the airport, how they go about with their daily work routine, the different problems they encounter with passengers and flight conditions, etc. I can also sense some kind of promoting tourism for korea, which is, i think, a very good way of promoting one's country. What better way than in a globally popular kdrama world. And what makes this drama praiseworthy is their approach in every episode to educate the public in a much clearer way on the do's and dont's inside the airport. And a much noticeable way of how proud they (korean) are on how well Incheon airport personnel handle each problem or circumstances. This drama is all fiction but, having been at Incheon airport and South Korea myself, this is what, more or less, the reality out there. They really have good working habits.
As to the actors. Lee Jae Hoon, eversince i saw him in Tomorrow With You, he exudes this mysterious aura in him, that not many actors have. He may not be a "flowerboy" handsome like many actors but there's something in his face aura that will make you feel attracted to him (of course, im talking about my personal opinion). I really liked him in TWY and i love him even more here. And i think, he and Chae Soo Bin have one of the best love chemistry. I get fluttered when they hold hands, when they kiss, when he looks intensely in her eyes, and when they cry together. I can feel every emotions from them. Soo Bin, for me, is not the best korean actress but she is way way better than most actresses today. She can pull it off with any one she pairs with. When i saw her in I Am Not A Robot, i thought that she and Yoo Seung Ho have the best chemistry ever. But when i saw her in A Piece of your Mind, i thought, oh, she and Jung Hae In are much better pair. But now, i just finished with this drama, i thought again, oh, she and lee jae hoon is a pair to envy with. I think Chae Soo Bin, because of her cute aura, she can easily pull off a fluttering romance with any actors she is paired with. The OST are also very nice to hear. It will make your heart flutter more.

But inspite all that i mentioned above, i just gave this drama a score of 8, its because there were a lot of unanswered questions in my mind. Too many characters that has no ending and was left hanging. And the ending, the biggest question in my mind until now....

BIG SPOILER AHEAD.. (please dont read below if you dont want to know the end)


Although it has a happy ending, the big question is, why was Lee Jae Hoon's face was not seen on the last scene. It was only his back, but they never exposed his face. Why? I dont like endings like that. It makes me want to ask for one more episode.

Overall, i think its a very good drama to watch.

Leia Mais

Really liked this light drama, I've literally devoured it in like three hours or less!
I love the school ambient, but in this one, I LOVED the growth of each character, usually, short dramas tend to be dispersive due to short episodes and really contracted stories that fall into really dumb ones. Luckily that wasn't the case for this drama, really really enjoyed it, 99% gonna rewatch in the future!

Leia Mais

[Contains spoilers for this drama and a tiny bit for Tell Me What You Saw, although I will not reveal names, I will just leave implications. But that still counts so proceed with caution.]

So I watched this series under the recommendation of a friend, and so I did. It's not that I don't like it, per se. It's just.. I don't know what the hell is going on! I made episode recaps on a notebook where I jotted down every information necessary so I could try to predict the plot of the story, but that didn't work, because I couldn't predict anything.

I gave up writing the notes after episodes 11-12 (Episode 6 on the 12 episodes format) because it was pointless to try to predict this drama anymore, and that's a good thing! Unpredictability should be a sign of good writing, and the writer of this drama should be praised for their hard work.

Even after the culprit was arrested, they keep putting plot twists on our face, and you'd think I'd be tired of it. But no. I wasn't. And that's genuinely surprising because I can't even count how many plot twists happened throughout me watching this entire drama. 12 episodes filled to the brim with plot twists and tense moments.

However, I would like to criticize the reveal of the culprit. It was lame. There was no motive or grounds on why they committed the murders, simply put, "I killed because you're all going to die anyway, so I figured it was my destiny to kill you all off"
I'm not especially fond of thrillers where the killer have no motive at all and are just doing it because they're aroused by dead people, and they don't even give us backstory on them, they just killed because they felt like it.

Tell Me What You Saw did better with the psycho killer, as they fleshed their backstory a lot. So for me the true culprit for Tell Me What You Saw was more believable than this one.

Acting wise, nothing to criticize. Everyone did well and it looks like I have more favorite actors now! Character wise, the bonds between male lead and his team in the police was lacking. As they barely show them interacting together or bonding besides the usual teasing, jokes, or during any lighthearted moments this drama has.

Male lead and female lead has good synergy though, I'll have to say. And I can forgive the lack of better interactions between male lead and his team because this drama only has 12 episodes so they won't have any time for those types of moments.

Final verdict? I enjoyed it. Don't rewatch unless you're trying to see what you miss, plot twists don't really work if you already know what happened.

Leia Mais

TWICE: Seize the Light (2020) shows the life of Twice members and their hardships on a day to day basis. The narration specifically shows everything that happened and what they experienced during their TWICELIGHTS World Tour in the year 2019. Each member gives their insights on their own dispositions as Twice members and how they come together to conquer any difficulties they've faced and will face in the future. This is a good film to watch if you're a "ONCE" so you could share all the emotions they've conveyed in this series and learn a bit more about them behind the scenes. This is also a good film to watch if you're interested in them but don't know much about them; it would be a nice introduction to becoming a fellow "ONCE".

Leia Mais

Cute Korean drama, but that's it

When I started watching Meow I fell in love with the general pace and story of this drama but the half-end was kinda disappointing...
I really enjoyed the first half of this series, it had everything: cats, romance, handsome main leads, adorable female lead... I also loved Ji Eun's character the most, I found her so funny and cute, I could relate her introverted cutesy kind of personality since most of my friends are like this including me. She's the best!!!
As I read somewhere, this drama had that old kdrama feel to it at the beginning, still I wasn't that much satisfied and I had to skip lots of scenes because I was bored. The main couple was cute but I liked the other couple more, probably because I consider their acting was much better than the main leads. Still everything felt a bit too rushed, even the secondary couple story.

I would recommend the drama just to kill time if you're bored or you want a fresh splash of cute romance in-between more heavy dramas!

Leia Mais

I wasn't planning on reviewing this till I see the last part too. But they had a little special at the end of Love Mechanics and I actually enjoyed their connection in, well, sorta, real life too. Can't help but compare it to TOSSARA. Sadly that one was...I don't know...both actors are fine i guess, just don't put them together?!? (I'm not trying to be mean. It's my objective opinion. I hope many people have a different opinion and love it.) Love Mechanics was a bit more complex and they did a pretty good job at showing the emotions that came with the story. I was less straightforward than the first part. They actually had to deal with misunderstandings and overcome fears as a result. Vee didn't give up and Mark let go of his heart. It was nice.
Am super excited about the next part. The special was promising. They seem to match. :)

Leia Mais