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Amarina
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12 days ago
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Overall 7.5
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 6.0
Rewatch Value 6.0

The Most Entertaining Headache You'll Ever Have

Never has a show more made me stop and go: "I have absolutely NO idea what's happening right now, but I am INVESTED."

Things that will put some people off regardless of anything else...
1. Some of the costumes and set pieces look like they came from Wish. I personally don't care as much about these things and even I noticed how low budget they looked.
2. The camera shakes in some scenes and may cause motion sickness or headaches.
3. CGI is standard very low budget effects.

This said, the show has an interesting premise of having the FL needing to face off against her past self, this time in the body of the "good" sister. There ends up being a LOT more to the story than just this initial set-up and for the most part everything is rather detailed without any dropped threads... but where it becomes a test of comprehension skills is that there are a LOT of flashbacks. Indeed, some flashbacks look so much like the current scene and last for so long it becomes easy to forget if you're watching something in the past or present.

Another issue becomes the storyline of the ML and his love for the sister and the FL in the past. With overlapping time lines there were multiple instances when I wished they would have made past it's own portion and THEN moved the show into the present instead of doing all the flashbacks.

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