Did not disappoint!
First of all, I would like to mention that I started watching this because of the storyline and I actually really liked it. It would've been nicer if the episodes were a bit more longer. Either way, this has to be one of my favourite web dramas till now!It had good music, good storyline and I overall enjoyed it BUT I think the acting definitely needed some more work. It felt a bit awkward at times but since they all are pretty new to acting and the acting was bearable I didn't mind it much.
This is definitely a must-watch if you would like to watch a short web drama.
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A Web Drama That Leaves You Guessing From Start to Finish
If it's one thing I like about this drama, it's the amount of theories I had when watching this every week. Like literally, you couldn't tell the direction the writers are going. Just when you thought you figure it out, it changes to something different, which is great because being surprise about something is what makes a mystery drama so interesting.The story overall was pretty good from start to finish. It's just that a lot of times, it's presented in a way where you have to think, process, and put the connection together on the events that happen in the past and how it ties to the present time. For me, there are some plot holes here and there, that I wish would've been explained better but what can you do when the episode length is about 20 to 25 mins per episode.
Loved the cast but the acting from the actors & actresses is a working progress. It's not the best but not bad either as their acting is watchable for me. I'm not gonna critique too harshly here on the account of it is a web drama and they got to start somewhere. But I do see potential in these cast members.
Great OST for this drama. Loved every music that was played in this drama.
And most of important of all, with a topic as heavy as this, I'm pretty sure all of us are glad this is a happy ending.
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Waited For This Every Week!
I enjoyed Blue Birthday a lot!!Story- The story starts off as what seems to be a typical time drama plot (someone tries to fix the past but realizes it causes more harm then good. Eventually they learn to accept the present as what it is) but BB is far from that. The plot had twist and turns which was exciting and unexpected and overall was different from anything I've watched. .It's good, especially for a short web drama :)
*There are plot holes but they didn't affect my enjoyment*
Acting/Cast- The acting was ok overall. This is a group of rookie actors I believe so I didn't expect grade A acting from them. They got the story across just fine in my opinion so I'm content. I'm excited to see how much they grow in the future!
Music- It was cool and fit the drama :) the music that played at the end of every episode is stamped in my mind lol
Rewatch Value- I don't rewatch shows but if I did I don't think I would watch this one again. I did really like it but there are other dramas I would pick first.
Overall if you're into time travel dramas and mystery watch this! The acting isn't the best but remember this is a group of rookie actors.
Happy Watching!! :)
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Dissappointing
Did anyone actually watch this series all the way through? It makes no sense. It's like the writers messed up in the middle of the show and decided to change the story. How does this have high reviews?This is what you call a strictly idol drama- the writers knew that
people would watch this show because Yeri was in it, and they
didn't put in any effort. I loved Yeri's acting, she definitely deserved better than this.
Spoiler ahead.......he doesn't even die of suicide.
This show actually has nothing to do with suicide or mental health. I feel like I was deceived by watching this. If you were on the fence and wondering if you should watch this show.....don't. Watching this was a waste of time
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TIME TRAVELS
I literally love this kdrama.Everything was organized and this was one of the best in 2021. The main casts were both from a kpop group (RV & pentagon) which makes it 10x better T - T
The story was very thrilling and exciting and of course romantic at the same time.
It's basically about a girl who have a crush on a boy and that boy died and she tries to fix the present by going back to the past and finding what really happened in the boy's "suicide" because she can't move on.
BIG PLOT TWISTS AHEAD...
there's a lot of twists there that will make you anxious and shocked :))
enjoy watching it.. TOTALLY RECOMMENDED 🤍
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Pleasantly surprised on how the events unfold...
Finally a drama where photography truly shines! As someone who majored in photography, I am pleased to see this.The fact that time travel here can be made through the photographs of that specific analogic camera is a genius move.
Blue Birthday, had the premise we all feared it might end up having.
A tragic event, followed by countless attempts to stop it, possibly resulting in a sad ending.
Still, that could not stop us from wanting to see more of this, and engage into all the time travels both Oh Ha Rin and Ji Seo Joon did so to discover the real culprit and hope that the past could be changed despite the price to pay for doing so.
After all there's always a price to pay for meddling with fate, - it's the law of equal balance - when changing something one must sacrifice something else as well. The characters here learned that several times and the hard way, and yet they persisted.
In the end the true price was time. For a decade of unfortunate events they tried so hard to prevent in order to find happiness.
We can say that this drama has what it takes. From the whole time travel being made into a simple view, it is also quite creative by using photographs and the whole saying of burning time again and again. Since, the person is only able to time travel once it burns the photograph with the date on it. Besides all that, the acting is actually decent and not entirely cringe. It delivers the story well despite the short amount of time each episode does have, and it even has it's cliffhangers here and there.
The OST is pretty good and catchy too. The cinematography is spot on.
I really enjoyed the scenes and both the past (2011) and present (2021) being shown back and forward, so to explain how things in fact changed based on their own actions and choices. They tried to use a bit of angst and thriller here, for the viewer to be able to create theories by the way they did the scenes and also by every single message left by the end of each episode.
I highly recommend it. It's a decent binge watch drama to be seen. It does not drag the plot that much, and it develops decently.
My favorite thing about this drama is that it highlights photography, because it's what unites the main characters together and the sole reason it is possible to go back in time and prevent a disaster. There's also the photography club scenes and the cute little shop that the old man owns, who seem to be connected. We live in a digital Era, but photography's roots are always in the making of chemicals and developing into paper inside a dark lab.
This brings me back good memories and also the yearning to do that once again. Because there's nothing more rewarding and thrilling than to develop a roll and see the pictures you took with that camera appear in that negative, and then being imprinted into paper as the image slowly appears and you put it to dry.
Black and white photos are forever timeless if you ask me.
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best
this show is great. the cast, the drama are great. this show teaches me that when your partner is in danger, do your best to save him/her. I think this show is great in many ways. Like the cast, music, show, etc. I really really enjoyed this show. if u want to rewatch this show, go ahead. I will want to rewatch it someday. the storyline, location are great. but there's one thing missing: we never meet Oh Ha-Rin's parents. I mean the show most of the student's parents except for Ha-Rin's. and also the show is complete. it has student pressure, peer pressure, and also the plot. it's great too.Was this review helpful to you?
new and unique storyline
I actually did not even think I will continue this before starting it but I was surprised due to the great and unique storyline of this drama, not like all other drama it has a fresh storyline with a mix of perfect cast i am just in love with this drama i definitely recommend it to watch one of my fav dramas of 2021!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Was this review helpful to you?
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I don't know how I've managed to finish this....boring
the premise was interesting. I'm not new to this kind of plots. just recently I watched and loved "lovely runner", so watching a drama about traveling in time to save someone is nothing new.the beginning was interesting, there were a few plot twist and the drama was running smoothly but at the very , even with more plot twist the drama was unbearably boring.
I took me a great deal of patience to finish it and I skip a lot..like a lot.
I'm still not sure whose is the target audience.
it looks like a drama catered to young children: clean language, no romantic scenes but then there is murder and blood..so.... I'm confused.
dumb choices in this drama are a must. police officers so dumb to let a murder suspect run away Twice, a boy than cannot overcome his smaller sister just just his physical strenght..so many things.
the romance was completely absent. what I mean by that is that there is a lot of taking and no showing almost.
the acting wasn't that fantastic especially for the main girl which was so boring and lacking in expressions.
at the end of the day is a "light" murder case with a sprinkle of romance and nothing more.
there is better stuff out there.
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Way too overrated
Even though at first I liked the plot of the time travel, mid season the whole idea somehow changed (not the time travel factor but the story). Why on earth out of nowhere change the story so much? I thought it'd be a sad romantic story where the fem lead didn't have the time to save him or express her feelings and relive all this dramatic end. What was that? And isn't like one of the main rules that noone can come back to life? But nevermind everything. Ep 13 was the complete mood killer. Why was everyone so chill with the killer? In which universe is that a normal reaction when you already experienced all these. What kind of story is that! I was about to give it a 7 but after that no. Although the ending was cute (after all they got to get through), i still skipped many parts and felt like the show was never ending.I have no hate over the actors. They did good for the experience they had. But whoever wrote that, I feel like they got stuck and couldn't handle the idea they had on first place. Also the 16 eps are way too many for this plot.
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No.
Particularly and honestly, this is a big no. The biggest problem here was the way the production team tried (and they, indeed, did) to make a long story short. Despite it sounds way too cliche, the plot had a big and strong potential: time travelling and teen years, what else can I ask? But it turned into a bad production and I hate using this word at all.The dialogues are simple and there's no deepening during story/character development. At some point they're just saying whatever is important with no likelihood. It's pure basic and full of those "hero x villain" archetypes that make the drama seemed to be produced by an amateur team. Despite the cast, that was very underrated by their own characters, none really was "good".
I know "they" got few time to show what they wrote, but there was very very very better ways to present what the team had prepared and the main plot. The direction team didn't show enough to be presented as a "good dorama". At all. We see cliche moments, cliche dialogues, cliche characters and again, without deepening on their developments. The main couple, for example, has no chemistry. And I mean: no chemistry. Not even a little bit.
Of course, if you like those cliche romcoms or just wanna something short to watch... You'll probably like it. But, for me, (someone's very critical, I admit it), it's very bad and I wouldn't watch it again nor recommend it for someone who's above 12 years old.
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Amplified by Kim Yerim's performance, Blue Birthday is not your mediocre web drama as it offers an intriguing and nostalgic high school drama with impressive directing and scoring.I felt a rollercoaster of emotion throughout the series specifically from Episode 1 to 15. I was always on the edge of my seat every time an episode ends. I highly recommend this series for binge-watching.
However, the last episode was such a letdown. I kind of wished ML still died at the end and that FL only get to have stolen moments and new memories with ML. It was so absurd how they can time travel and change things on their own accord carelessly. I get that what they did is for everyone's sake and happy ending. It just felt like every turn and twist of the story boiled down to the leads' happy ending.
On the other hand, I didn't expect that Yeri was such a natural actress! The camera obviously loves her but I was amazed by her acting skills. And this series is absolutely a good start for her acting career. I can't wait for more!
Once again, this drama is a breath of fresh air in web dramas! Usually, web dramas are so cringy with lots of cheesy lines and cinematography that do not have that much creativity. Blue Birthday is hands down one of the best short series I have seen!
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