Born to Die (2025)

Time Filler

Not all mini-dramas are bad but this one is just another one of them. The plot was fine but riddled with holes and 'twists' that were either really sudden and ill-foreshadowed or were really predictable. With such short episodes, it's really hard to write a script concise enough to protray the plot without feeling rushed. Another flaw many mini dramas suffer is the overdramatic acting. Many actors are new or C/D/F list actors that have little practice or fine control of their expression. This drama, unfortunately, also falls victim to this with many of their actors lacking subtlety when protraying emotions.

Fine to watch as a time killer but there are better ones out there.

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This Made Me Feel Dumb

It was quite odd. The show had the premise that I usually go for and sounded quite exciting, but once you start actually WATCHING there is just "something" missing making it boring and just "there". In fact, I'm rather certain that within 3 months I won't remember anything about this Mini at all.

The plot about coming back and restarting was complicated by both actors not communicating with each other, despite the ML KNOWING the FL came back since it was obvious to him...

The actual conspiracy about who was the traitor honestly made very little sense to me and the characters did so many things that made NO sense that I could only stretch my disbelief so far.

Personally, I liked the looks of the ML and his height but that's personal preference and not really something to base watching the show strictly on since this isn't a high skinship mini.

Overall, I'm just left scratching my head about the traitor plot and mostly just nodding my head and pretending I understand what's going on. And then the VERY last scene was thrown out and I gave up.

It's not the worst thing I've seen but parts of it really made me not care about finishing it rather than actively hating it.

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