Reviews

A Dedicated Sweet Love Story

This series is really cute and sweet. The music scenes were quite a few and could have been less, but I understand writers trying to drive the point of a very successful singer having to navigate dating and loving someone who is not in the entertainment world. The ML was very good in showing a strong presence and being tender within the same frame. The tension and chemistry between the leads was a slow burn but felt right once landed. The surrounding cast were a bit too immature even for college students. Their behaviors became more distracting than comical. The love interests' conflict between outsiders and parents were handled maturely. (Much appreciated). All in all, it is worth the watch.

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The OG couple of BL is this

Back in a time when BL series showcased the discovery of love between two boys, "Together with Me" stands out as a perfect example, thanks to MaxTul's unmatched chemistry and great acting, making them true OGs of BL.

The series started off with a powerful bang. While some fans believe newer BL series like KinnPorsche and Love in the Air brought sexiness, it's the older BL fans who appreciate the essence of pure love and smexiness in this series.

The show includes familiar tropes like female characters and toxic relationships, but it also introduces positive elements like Yahweh's character. One of my favorite tropes, "friends to lovers," adds depth to the story. However, there are some disturbingly inappropriate relationships in the series. And the weirdly homophobic sister. Despite that, the series addresses various issues much better than the glossed-over nonsensical BLs we often see today.

If you seek a meaningful BL series without fluffy nonsense, this is the one to watch. There's also a semi-prequel called "Bad Romance" and a sequel titled "Together With Me: The Next Chapter," which delve into their adult lives after graduation. It's a more realistic portrayal of boys love compared to "What Our Skyy 2: My School President," which failed to capture the essence of true BL.

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wish Lom had a different "plan"

Overall: if Lom had just been honest at the beginning (ep 1 or 2), then I could have enjoyed their cute moments. This is based on a book written by MAME which I haven't read and I will review the series on its own merits. MAME also wrote the screenplays for Don't Say No, Love By Chance 2 and TharnType specials. 7 episodes 45 minutes each aired uncut on iQIYI (had steamy scenes starting at the end of ep 4) and cut on YouTube (the steamy parts cut out/shortened). There will be a special episode.

Content Warnings: non con kissing/touching, manhandling, body shaming, manipulation, slaps, homophobia

What I Liked
- cameos/characters from Love In The Air characters (episode 3 of part 4 was great)
- m/m steamy scenes are done well (need the uncut version to see them)
- MAME cameo/reference of signing the guestbook
- the line of "you look perfect now, don't listen to others" (though he's the one who brought Nuea to the gym so...)
- GL couple (but strange that an established couple avoided kissing in the beginning)
- Nuea's family/friends
- Nuea stood up for himself with that farm dude
- production value (especially the color/light)

Room For Improvement:
- Sailom had a terrible "plan", if he had been honest in the beginning then I would have rated this series significantly higher, but all I saw was Sailom lying and hurting Nuea and he knew he was hurting Nuea, it would have been a 2 minute conversation or a text message but Sailom couldn't find the time??? other characters even told Sailom his plan/method was bad
- Yiwa and Sailom had a bad plan as well, how would that work in the long term, what a disservice to their significant others
- Yiwa had to take all the blame and Sailom got everyone's sympathy and lied to his mom, this really rubbed me the wrong way
- the non con kiss
- too many "comedy" sound effects including the gulp noise
- why make them speak English during the wedding vows when they didn't speak English in their series, also the English subtitles were wrong
- unnecessary long water skiing scenes (2 in the first 3 episodes)
- not a good kiss for an established f/f couple
- fictional drunk character who is so drunk he needs help walking but then a few minutes later is an active participant during sex
- nonsense things: Sailom was a sound sleeper, wasn't the wedding supposed to have a huge guest list, looked like 50 guests
- the moms yelling/fighting

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My Home

Words are not enough to describe my gratefulness for this show, every time I watched an episode I could feel my energy restored. I felt comfortable and had peace whenever I just sat and take my time to watch the Hospital playlist. I would recommend this K-drama if you're looking for a place where you can find yourself content and happy, then stop reading and watch Hospital Playlist now.

The hospital playlist did go all out with the genres, I love it.

We have a Medical genre that amazed me, they portrayed different types of surgeons and doctors in this K-drama which I find very knowledgeable and it surely kept me going. I love how they make things realistic about the medical genre. This drama would be beneficial for those who want to have a career in medicine and also haven't decided what type of doctor they want to be.

We have the Friendship/Family genre, I especially got attached to this part. I'm obsessed with how the writers, directors, and actors pulled it off. I really felt their bond, like I genuinely think that this whole drama is just a documentary of real people and not just an act. I love the friendship between our Mc's, small things to big things you would notice would make you melt, and I evaporated. One of the Mc's family made me wish that maybe in my second life, I could be reborn and be one of them.

We have a Comedy genre that's always in every episode. Their comedy is my remedy, insert heart wave. You would never get bored at any episode because this show is really funny in its own way. Every character had their personality and slayed it.

We have the Music genre which took me off guard at the first episode, but it was honestly why I fell in love with the Hospital playlist at the very beginning. I love how they really are good at singing and playing instruments. LIKE HELLO, they're already doctors and they know how to play an instrument and sing???! yes, their multi-talented king and Queen. The editors slayed very very much because they know where to insert the right music in the right scene, I literally became a fan.

We have the Romance genre, I love it. I screamed, squealed, smiled, cried, and laugh, in short, the romance genre was better than I expected. I literally live for them, especially Jung-won and Gyeo Wool. OH, I ALSO LOVE MIN HA AND SUK HYUNG, ANDDD-- YK WHAT, EVERYTHING.

I want to talk about them more in dept but my lazy ass can't let me, maybe someday they can let people voice record their reviews--OMG that's a good idea.

In summary, don't waste your time and just watch your future comfort drama, Hospital Playlist.
100000000000000000/10

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I love this show :-)

The plot is simple and that is one of the reasons why I find the show to be beautiful. I love the show, because of what Van represents. Protection, patience, and sacrifice, but also the pain that comes with those three things. Van is half human and half demon, but has always kept his humanity. Mi-Ho looks at Van, sees the human in him, because that is what he projects. The human in him. The way he looks at her, is the most beautiful thing I have witnessed in a show. What that marble represents inside of her, and how he has to return the piece to Mi-Ho is very profound. That part broke me, because since the moment he became half-demon he waited for the day he was not. He knew that was unatanninable, so the only way evil would disappear was if him and Gungtan were to not exist in this world anymore. He had to disappear. It broke me, because I have found a character in a show I liked more. The way Kim Nam Gil portrays Van is both heartbreaking and hauntingly beautiful in my opinion. His eyes are very expressive, and because of that he does not have to speak. You know what he is thinking. I could say more, but I don't think I need to. This is just a really good show in my opinion. :-)

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forecast looks cloudy

if you are expecting depth, a nuanced storyline, or even chemistry, this is not it.

the attempt to break the soulmate trope was a swing and a miss. this could’ve been introduced differently, but I also saw the potential in their idea, it was just bad writing like usual.

the storyline suffered a lot when the (valid) dramatic reaction to seeing patt kissing his ex just ended up being them confessing again. I also was not a fan of the overtly violent reaction patt had since he literally hit his boyfriend too. that was a game ender for me personally.

I didn’t see any chemistry here, at least not the type that fit the storyline. it’s a shame since I really wanted to like this series.

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The first time I watched this, I adored it... But I found issues with it after a few years...

The first time I watched this show I found it to be beautiful. The meaning of it, which it is. The love a mother has for her child, sacrificial and enduring... There was other symbolism and meaning I found to be beautiful, and actually most likely had saved my life. The story of the woman who committed suicide, and the moment she had she wished she had not. She watched her mother suffer for years because of a selfish and implusive decision. I have read countless stories of suicide survivors who right before they almost died, had regreted their decison. This was the case for her, but instead she was not able to come back. All of the characters realized the sacredness of life in the end. Like how Yuri protected her child from death, the son watched his family die before his eyes, the little boy who searched for his mother contiously after death, the man whose life was taken by a hand he thought he could trust, and the one who had purpously ended her life... Their deaths are all different, accident, suicide, and murder. Their are three pivotal moments in our lives, our conception, our birth, and our death. Not only to us, but also to those whose cherish us. Yuri had found the meaning in all three events. The show stands for her child saying hello and goodbye, but also Yuri saying hello and goodbye to her mother. The two sentiments in the show, Petals Fall, But the Flower Endures, and that not everything will be okay in life. In our afterlife it is, but in our life suffering persits and unexplainable events occur. These are profound, but throughout the years I found qualms I had with the show. I only watched it once, and I will never rewatch it ever again. First, it told of a story that love does not last forever. I think it is easy to believe so, because in the end their is death, and sometimes we outlive the people whom we cherish. But I don't believe that because we cannot phsyically love them in this life, we can't love them as ghosts or the memories of them. I watched a story, a near death experience, of a woman who had learned through her experience that her son would die in the coming years. The day had eventually come, and his death she had a premonition of. Her closing statement was extremely beautiful of her testament of love for her son, that her love became stronger for him because she was not able to be with him in this life. But she had hope for the next. Even though I took that belief with me when I had watched this show, I knew that in reality some stories are different. The most upsetting part about it, was that Kang-Hwa did not speak of Yuri after her death, their daughter did not know who her biological mother was (not that the viewer knows of until the end). I believe that their wedding picture stays hidden from view, and Yuri's family has yet to come around. To me, I found this extremely depressing. Although I cannot blame any man who has lost his wife, I think Kang-Hwa should have spoke of Yuri. Told of his devotion and love for her. But that wasn't the case. He kept it hidden in a box years after her death. Maybe, maybe that was how strong his love for her was. I am not sure. There was other qualms I had with the show, but I can't remember all of them, because it has been three years since I watched this. In the end, I was barely able to watch it anymore. I just couldn't phsyically watch it anymore. When Yuri tells her daughter that they will meet in her next life, and the last moment, when Yuri says goodbye to herself and walks away and disappears from this world. At that moment, I just could not stomach it. To me, there wasn't hope in the end. I don't know why, that was just how I saw it. I couldn't watch a show like this again, every day I question if I really wanted to watch it or not. It made me depressed for weeks after I finished it. Besides these, my biggest problem wasn't these, but actually that they casted a little boy to play the part of a little girl. Their claim was that they couldn't find an actress for the part, and that he had no problem wearing female clothing. They got a lot of controversy over it, and I didn't like it either. They should have changed the character to be a boy, but instead they found a little boy to play a little girl. That I truly have problems with, and I won't rewatch the show because of this reason.

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Binge watched in 2 days. Gripping, romance could've been a little better

And it only took 2 days because I had work in between XD

This was such an addictive show! Of course, there are some areas for improvement, like the romance, background info/backstories and better character development, and even how some episodes sometimes felt repetitive. Even the pacing could have been improved, because the first few episodes moved slowly, then everything kind of all happened at once for the last 2 episodes.

What is it with k-dramas and their wonky pacing? Will they ever get it right? Even a series like Celebrity that wasn't aired weekly but dropped all at once still suffered from this.

BUT!
All in all, I love shows like this where romance is secondary (just that...this could have used more screen time it, especially when the leads had pretty good chemistry). We don't get any lovey-dovey scenes, I often questioned if they were even dating, and what is the reason for them liking each other...? Besides....attraction? Because...they don't have any scene where they really sit down and connect////it's more like, enemies/i find you alluring but am playing hard to get/am too prideful to admit it kinda thing.

But I don't hate it. I don't regret staying up to watch this either. I actually don't mind the twists it took, nor the ending—just wished the ending had another 20 mins of run time or so.

I'd make some comment on the social commentary it makes on influencers, (or the fact that this 'Gabin society' was out here wilding with the top member having only 300k followers?? LIKE ? talk abt reality check ur acting like this w only 100-300K?)

BUT, I believe other reviewers have done a fine job at expressing this in words better than I can. I just especially love the final ending, and the choice Ah-ri made at the end. And it sends a message for those in the real world too (or at least, what u shud probably do).

Overall, I recommend!


(But please....wish there had been more romance scenes....oh well!)

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ITS A LOT CONFUSIONAL

Btw i never did a serious review like this one so please no hate .
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Personally i found the story interesting but got bored on some parts, specially for those few scenes when i didnt understand a shi- + i didnt understand anything about the second lead couple and found it too much boring so i skipped a lot.
One thing that made me hate this was when the friends put some shit in bombs drink, like wtf were they trying to do, that was crazy, like how is that even a good thing? They could and kinda did damege the relationship. I think that was the worst part of all the serie.
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The acting is a 10/10 just for the fact that this was really contagious, i could feel the saddness in Jin's eyes when he started to cry and i literally started to cry with him. I'm not an actor or studied some shi- like that so idk anything abt it but sure they knew how to make me feel like i was there.
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About the music... i dont personally like thai music (not valid for msp one) tbh i didnt hear anything cuz i watched it this night and my homophobic parents were sleeping. : )
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I never rewatch any serie bc i think they are to long (it depends from serie to serie) but this one is a green pass (the friends are red flags tho)
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U might wonder why i put 9.5 as overall, ik it looks too much but Jin is the reason i put + 1.5 points at the first 8 i thought at the start. I just find him too cute. Sorry not sorry yall, but i have to be unfair when we talk about cutie patooties. (Yes my fav actor was Jin i think everyone noticed that, repeating that just in case yall say "9.5 is too much"

I would love to hear other people opinions and what they think about the serie and if sm1 disagrees with what i said <3 (im from albania and i live in italy so im sorry if my english isnt really good)

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Silly mini-show with intersting storyline

This is a funny mini-show as always with this couple. The storyline is quite interesting but the execution comes out a bit silly. Not unusual for this couple.
Character wise:
FL is a jinx that causes her husbands to die on the wedding day.
ML is a poisoned young Lord who actually needs a jinx in order to wake up from his coma.
Acting wise this is hard to rate since the production is aiming at silliness. I’ve seen other productions with this couple and know that they are actually not bad actors.
So, if you want something funny and sweet to pass the time - and don’t mind the silliness - this is a nice watch.

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Comedy, action, with a lot of wholesomeness

I have had this series on my to watch list for ages but never got around to watching it. With the season 2 coming around the corner I decided now was better than ever to give it a try and I am so glad that I did. I did not expect it to take me only four days to complete as I am a terrible binge watcher, but as soon as I started, I could not stop. I could not help but fall in love with all of the characters throughout the show, laugh at the jokes, and cried at one point.

I loved the evil spirits aspect of the show, I hope season 2 is packed with fighting evil spirits, but I feel as if that was not shown as much due to the underlying police drama/crime show going on alongside everything. Nevertheless, I had a great time watching the show.

Favorite character of the series was Shin Hyukwoo played by Jung Wonchang. He was a character that you hated but also could sympathize with. I genuinely enjoyed seeing his character growth throughout the series.

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Not a Mafia Series But a High School BL

If you were expecting a mafia series from the trailer, you might be disappointed with this one. It's primarily a boys love series, centered around Nuengdiao and Palm, high school students with no connection to crime or the mafia. The series revolves around a bad uncle's desire to take over the family business, which sets the story in motion.

For true BL fans, this series is a delight you won't easily forget. Pond and Phuwin's chemistry is remarkable, reminiscent of MaxTul. Some may criticize their acting, but it's worth noting that this is only Pond's second series. While Phuwin might be a child actor, he has not had any challenging roles until this. People need to understand actors need room to grow and explore different roles. Especially, BL fans who love My School President, I can’t take your critique seriously. You want good acting but make leeway for bad acting when it suits you.

While the series isn't perfect, it's still much more enjoyable than many other BLs released by GMMTV and other Thai production companies. Pond and Phuwin's onscreen chemistry is simply magical, making them one of the best BL couples today. If you watched any of their deleted scenes, you know that the plot holes are the directors choice to make it fluffy instead of dark as many wanted.

This is why Director Jojo is overrated, mainly because of his acclaimed series '3 Will Be Free.' He claimed that he was inspired to make 'Never Let Me Go' 90's Hong Kong crime movies feel about an interclass romance Thai larkorn, but the final result deviated significantly from these concepts. The deleted scenes, in contrast, showcased elements that adhered closely to the original concept of the series. However, being a production under GMMTV, the series ended up diluted, much to the disappointment of many viewers who were eagerly anticipating the well-acted and conceptually-rich trailer. Even the second trailer was misleadingly edited to suggest a more dramatic and substantial BL series, leading to dissatisfaction with the eventual watered-down version. It is regrettable that Pond and Phuwin bore the brunt of the blame as the face of the series, while Jojo's editing choices went largely unquestioned and unaccounted for.

On a side note, I must admit that Chimon isn't the most exceptional actor, but Perth shines in his role. Some scenes, like the one outside the hospital room, rub me the wrong way, especially with Ben's smirking while the cousins were crying. I don’t see the great acting Chimon fans were raving about.

Lastly, I'd like to add that people who criticize the portrayal of bodyguards might be influenced by Hollywood clichés and may not have firsthand experience with wealthy individuals who have bodyguards.

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Ultimate Comfort Drama

This entire show was beginning to end so sugary sweet it's amazing that the viewing audience isn't given immediate diabetes. This story follows the main leads as well as their friend group from their first year of high school through university, entering the work force and ultimately marriage and having a child by the last episode. It made for an experience where each and every episode my lips were unconsciously smiling or even giggling.

As for the relationships, you could not go wrong with either RangRang OR Gu Ran as your life partner. Both showed complete devotion and I just wish we'd also been shown Gu Ran proposing but we just have to be content knowing it was literally only a simple matter of finding a "proper" time.

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