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Super famous but didn't convinced me...
Watched this drama about a year ago because it was literally everywhere,and seemed like a must-have if you like K-Drama like me! So i said to myself:"Why not give it a try!?". It turned out to be a pretty basic K-Drama. Music's and places were gorgeous,and the story in itself had a strong basement for a really wonderful and well made show but sadly turned out to be the classic dramawith a good add of romance. Also I've founded it really confusing since they didn't closed al lot of questions, like the one about the headstones and the relationship with the place in Canada. Plus they added A LOT of repeated scenes nearly the end of the show, especially the one pf him walking in the snow tempest. Sadly I'm notgonna give this show a rewatch was reallyhard and boringto follow in many pieces...Was this review helpful to you?
But anyway, I think this drama definitely deserves all of the attention it's been garnering. With a storyline as unique as this one, it's no wonder people find it so refreshing. Plus, the cinematography is just beyond amazing, making me especially envious of the fact that I don't get to live in their so-called reality. The villain, however, was introduced a little too late in my opinion. I would've loved to see him earlier on in the series.
On the other hand, the chemistry on this set was absolutely incredible. I'm super thankful because it was for this reason that these actors were able to grace us with so many fantastic ad-libs to look back on in the first place. All of the actors/actresses had their fair share of memorable moments but ultimately, I don't think anything will ever compare to the bromance between the Goblin and the Grim Reaper.
Even though the original soundtracks did a fine job at capturing its overall theme, there are only a few that I could actually see myself listening to outside of this drama. That isn't to say that the music was bad. It just didn't fall under my preferences. The soft ballads, however, felt like whispers of the heart: soft yet powerful. And for those, I loved every second of it.
Overall, I had an interesting time being taken on this emotional rollercoaster. Unfortunately, I wasn't nearly as satisfied with the ending as I was with the rest of this drama. At first, it seemed like a happy ending but the more I seemed to think about it, the sadder it truly was. It's sort of like the feeling you get when you receive a delicious-looking cookie, but the taste just doesn't turn out as good as it looks. As far as recommendations go, I would still encourage people to give this drama a try. And although I wish I was given a better ending, it's not bad enough to the point where I wouldn't rewatch it.
With that said,
Llama out.
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Astonishing visuals, hollow story
First few episodes were kinda cute. Characters were well written, great chemistry between main characters with smart humour with surprisingly good bromance. But after few episodes you gonna ask yourself: Hey, how come these episodes are THAT long (almost 90 mintues each) and we are in the middle of the show and nothing actually important happens? Well thats the main issue with this show. Im used to slow paced story in korean TV shows and im ok with it but this is just over the top. The thing is that screentwriters didnt come up with a strong story in the first place so as with many other korean dramas, they make up some lazy plot twists in the middle of the show without giving you any clue whatsoever. I dont really like that cause it makes the show cheap. The story feels extremely slow, the main twist is very sudden without any deep reason and the last few episodes are just straight up slow torture cause at that point nothing makes sense. If the show had like 8 episodes 1 hour long, it would be much better.Neverthless the show was very well shot with strong soundtrack, great interiers, design and everything and thats probably the reason why so many people really like this show. Also i really enjoyed realationship build of main couple
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Beautiful and thrilling series
It has everything you could ever want, romance, supernatural, great story and cast. This was my first K drama and it was fantastic 😊😊😊😊I would do anything to experience watching it for the first time again.
Lee dong wook really outshone himself. What a great actor I will take a look at his other work as well as the other actors of this show.
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One of the best
This drama is one of the best out there for story, acting, music, and production value. If you haven't watched it yet you should! The acting was absolutely amazing. All of the characters had chemistry and you could tell they enjoyed what they were doing. The bromance between the Goblin and the Reaper even became famous, but this time it actually seems like the actors truly became friends. The story was great, it pulled at your heartstrings. I laughed, and cried, and was scared (there are some spooky parts and I was watching this alone in the dark at night, so don't judge me -_-). The ending was sad, yet wonderful. The especial effects are actually really good. The music is great. All in all a well made drama, and I highly recommend it.Was this review helpful to you?
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As a Gong Yoo fan, I was gobsmacked.
Okay. Let me tell you this, I am a big Gong Yoo fan. I'm part of the older generation where I get to watch kdramas VCD days. And I've watched all Gong Yoo movies and dramas and knew that he will always be that movie and TV star A-lister.So I watched this while it was still airing and I am already utterly disappointed within a couple of episodes. I already knew what's gonna happen. The pain they're trying to go through for the Tokkaebi to find someone who will actually and finally can kill him. His bride. Nice premise, but you won't get surprised where it took you because it was set up right at the beginning. Even with the characters. The moment Kim Min Jae's character went into the screen, I knew who he is in the present. Because who else would it be? Everything was just so obvious.
What really made me held on was of course, Gong Yoo, and the adorbs KGE, although I'm not really in love with the ajusshi thingy.
So yes, to give it a chance before going here for ratings, I watched it again, and feelings remained the same, if not even lower. I am so sorry.
The cinematography was top-notch.
The music was also so so so so good. The scoring. The OST. Main OST was an earworm,
But that didn't actually save the drama for me.
Will I watch it again?
Maybe not.
I guess I was really not a fan of writer. Maybe the last drama that I liked from her was Secret Garden, which actually took me three years to finish. I dropped it two times in two years, until I picked it up.
But this, I'm not sure why I held on and was disappointed still.
This is my opinion.
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Emotional ? Rollercoaster
The only reason I gave this drama a chance was because of Gong Yoo. I've been his fan since Coffee Prince and haven't seen him in many K drama since. Although the story starts off a little slow, it quickly picks up and draws you into the main characters lives and issues. With this drama I laughed, I cried (and I mean ugly cried) along with the characters. I would highly recommend this drama to most people if for no other reason than the OST, however this drama (in my opinion) had everything. Two thumbs up!??Was this review helpful to you?
Way overrated
Honestly this was 1/10 for me, the ending was a bit rushed IMO but the last 2eps gave off lots of good feels. I liked the leads relationship so because of that, I will give this 5/10 even though I think it should be less because it was dragging and boring for most of the 16eps. After watching the whole series, I couldn’t see what the hype/rave reviews was all about except the fact that most of the viewers seem unhealthily obsessed with the two MLs especially with Lee Dong-Wook hence the inflated ratings. This is nowhere near a 8.0 rating much less 8.8 rating, IMO.
I swear to God the delusional castle that most K & C Drama fans have built does host a lot of idiotic individuals. People were literally wailing and crying in the VIKI comment section. How the fuck are you wailing and crying in the comment section about Kim Shin putting his hands on the Grim Reaper in Ep13 (let someone kill your whole fucking family and let’s see how well you react when you are face to face with the person, I’m sure you will hug them because OMG *insert sarcasm* they are so handsome and you even got to be friends with them before knowing). This is a fucking tv series you morons. He was not actually trying to kill ya”alls precious Lee Dong-Wook. Like WTF.
K & C Drama fans will be all up in their feelings when their so called popular and handsome actors are MLs. They will stay bashing the FLs of these actors (deluding themselves with the rhetoric that she can’t act, she’s whiny/clingy or because they feel that she’s not good enough to costar with their precious Male actors) but the MLs are always beyond perfect and above reproach and can apparently do no wrong. These male actors don’t even need to do much or have any sort of great personality, they just need to be “handsome & hot” and viola they are all perfect in all their ways. As a lady I love me some handsome actors and I can appreciate the good looking ones but some “fans” I don’t even call them that, I call them delusional people who take it way too far, little wonder the poor actors/actresses and idols in China and Korea can’t publicize their relationships because of the unstable people that claim to be their fans….
FYI to the above delusional obsessive morons, all your revered male actors won’t read your comments, even if they somehow miraculously do, they won’t care for your trifling thoughts and opinions of them and their FLs, especially when most of them are actual friends with said FLs. So keep wasting your useless time bashing all their FLs in the VIKI comment section, VIKI, Youku, IQIYI etc review sections, here on mydramalist and any other tv series review sites, you will end up just being the one dying of anger and frustration while both FL and ML smile to the bank.
People were bashing this shows FL that she was childish and immature, I’m like she’s literally 19yrs old in the show and the MLs were 939yrs and 300yrs and were both acting childish with each other but surprise surprise nobody was bashing them, instead they will praising them, saying how they had such chemistry and people were shipping them (pure insanity). This level of obsessive delusions and inability to have rational/logical thinking because a guy is so “handsome”, lemme tell you, it’s borderline mental. Very unstable behavior.
And what makes it worse is that, It’s mostly females that you see bashing this FLs. It’s really horrible what women do to each other just because they want to praise and idolize a “handsome” guy that doesn’t even know they exist. Very very sad indeed
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Second Couple saves the show
Don’t get me wrong, the story was quite unique, sad yet beautiful. The characters were intriguing and the music was hauntingly beautiful.Still, there were some things I didn’t like about this drama so that’s why it is not a full 10/10 rating.
1. The obvious age gap and the controversy of grooming being romanticized was too much for me to handle sometimes. I tried to overlook it at the beginning by telling myself that she just wanted to have a person to love after loosing her parents at a young age and being stuck with an evil aunt and cousins. She was craving for love and a family basically after being so lonely and unloved for years. It really broke my heart so I could somewhat understand her desire to marry someone and become the Goblin’s bride. And when we found out towards the end that she would have to pull the sword out and kill the evil ghost, I was relieved: At least, we didnt see a marriage between people with an almost 20-year age gap. He can die in peace and she will forget everything and live a happy life. That scene was incredible tho! The filming, the acting, the atmosphere!!!! Kim Go Eun carried that scene!!!! I absolutely believed her!!! What an incredible actress!!!! Her as an actress alone gained this drama a lot of bonus points. So yes, I cried a lot in this scene and here comes reason no.2 as well…
2. I didnt understand why they had to bring him back just to make her die at the end again… it was literally zig-zagging back and forth, I got tired of it… And in the end, just by coincidence they all die or leave and he is all alone… Also wtf happened to Deok-Hwa at the end??? We didn’t see that!!! That was quite disappointing.
If they were gonna be reborn anyway, they should have just skipped the marriage part and made everyone come back after dying at some point… like idk it was unnecessary for me…
3. It was also Very slow and a bit boring at times. It took me almost 2 months to finish.
Luckily there were many good points too. My faves were DEFINITELY the Grim Reaper and Sunnie!!!! In my opinion they stole the show!!! I was quite happy how they both turned out to be actors and police officers 😂😂😂perfect match!!!
I loved it when they mentioned BTS too 😂😂😂
In general the drama dealt very intensively with grief and death which is always so well done in K-Dramas and especially in this one.
All in all it was a good drama. I kinda get the hype. However I would not watch it again.
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goblin starts out with a fantasy story that is really damn good, first episodes takes a while so u scroll down to find goblin's episodes r actually 90 minutes long, okay so thats a fancy sneaky way to advertise a 24 episode show being 16 longish episodes,
acting is great , nearly every actor/actress feels perfect for the role except for the little important main lead actress Kim Go-Eun, she feels so wrong casted on so many levels, something just feels off from first time u see her on the screen, 12 years difference between her and gong yoo just adds oil to the chemistry on fire already.., every other single relationship between the characters is perfect, the chemistry is just amazing inbetween the rest of the cast
execution: this drama was amazingly executed but it suffers horribly from the most common trend korea does, IT DRAGS THE HECK OUT, if u thought 90 minutes can be tolerable at first 5 episodes w8 till u reach some filler episodes around 12~ holly molly how can there be literally Many filler scenes in such a drama?
overall: this drama is well written, it drags Alot,if u can get over that and Kim Go-Eun, its enjoyable
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I felt somethings needed a little more time at the end
but other than that loved it :)
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