The only small exception I’ll make is for the actors Kim Hyeon Seo and Jung Myeong Cheol. They literally had nothing to work with. I really hope they’re able to pick better projects in the future and get the opportunities they deserve.
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50-Minute Test of Patience, Free Time, and Emotional Endurance
Tide of Love is the kind of show you decide to watch purely out of free will during your free time thinking it will be a light and enjoyable experience. However, once it starts, you quickly realize that you are signing up for a full 50 minutes of emotional resilience training. And you just have to really endure it all trying to make sense out of that shitty storyline.The storytelling tries very hard to be romantic and heartfelt, but instead delivers an impressive amount of awkward moments that make you pause, sigh, and I just find my self laughing because what else to feel?
To its credit, Tide of Love does succeed in one thing: it keeps you watching, not because it is captivating, but because you want to see just how much more awkward it can become. It’s the type of show that works best if you enjoy cringe story with lots of cuts or need background entertainment while questioning your life choices.
Overall, Tide of Love is not something you casually recommend, but rather something you survive. A unique viewing experience, unintentionally funny, mildly exhausting, and strangely memorable.
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Difficult to get through for such a short series
This is the live action version of a M rated PWP fan-fiction, but with a BDSM tag from somewhere maybe just in case someone thought that’s what BDSM looks like?The audio is a little odd for what it is I found and honestly I think the official synopsis I read had more of the plot of the story than the series had.
I wouldn’t mind seeing the actors in a series with a bit more plot though cos at some points they touched on a dynamic that could have been good to explore
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Kinky But Intensely Loving
I loved this gem of a BL that had so many viewers clutching their pearls and being disgusted by its content. That I found odd and a bit disingenuous. For most BL watchers, there are seemingly no issues with quite popular BLs that have blatant sexual abuse, often paired with strong emotional and physical abuse as well. Oh, sometimes it is subtly committed by stunningly handsome characters to make it palpable, or they are produced humorously, or even sweetly displayed, and yet somehow, all of that passes muster. In fact, there is a whole subgenre of Bl literally devoted to abuse with hardly a peep and is called ‘innovative’. Where this series fell is in its production value. The script was generally weak and the editing in place was atrocious. Sound was inconsistent in many places. Although I honestly thought the two actors had good screen chemistry, the direction on what to do and how to do it was graceless and appeared fumbly. If you are going to do a series related to a specific genre like BDSM, then study the subject matter and make it look like these guys like it, or hate it, or one was into or and the other was not, or were uncomfortable – anything that gave us more emotional reaction so we know how they are actually feeling. It seemed quixotic.Was this review helpful to you?
A huge mess!
I have the feeling that a lot of people made a ghost ship with these to actors in Sweetheart service, so the company quickly made something to please all those shipping fans. But they failed miserably, the whole drama looks like they just shooted some random scenes and editted them together to make episodes. Only the last episode looked like it was a real complete episode.There were lots of editting mistakes made, as a example: a shirt is open and the next frame it is closed (ep 4) same in ep. 5
The music was ok, but cut off with a lot of scenes.
Then the kissing sounds, i never understan why bl's need to have extreme kissing sounds, but if you do it, please do it in sync with the kissing...
Best of this whole drama were the visuals..
Jung Myeong Cheol did an ok job acting, Kim Hyeon Seo not so. I don't know what it is, but there is something about his acting i don't like. It just doesn't feel....sincere?
There was some chemistry between them, but that was mostly to thank to Jung Myeong Cheol, he clearly knows how to create chemistry. Some kisses were good, but that was also thanx to him, he kissed great. But most of the time Kim Hyeon Seo didn't really kiss him back, he just kept his lips together and didn't even give a bit of a lips pouting to make it look as if he kissed back.
A big fail! I do not recommend watching, it is a real waste of time.
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An A for the effort of the concept... and that's it
DisclaimerWhat I am writing here are my views and thoughts about this series. Some of you may not like it. That does not give you the right to try to come at me with your opinions on why this series should get a higher or lower score and why it is better/worse than I think it is. You have your own opinions, and I have mine. Kindly respect that.
Now, you see, I'm giving an A for effort because when you read the synopsis, it sounds so interesting, and it draws you in to see how the storyline is going to be handled. And then...we get whatever this is that was given up to us. You hire somebody on a contract to do whatever the heck you want to do to him, and all you are offering him is bread and milk?!! Like, that's the majority of what Kim Hae Jun eats throughout this series. And what kind of art class is that where there are only two students?!!! And there's no teacher to supervise them?!!! And apparently people can enter the classroom all willy-nilly even though they are not students?!!! The sad thing here is that the first episode, when I watched it, was okay, and it did make sense with the storyline. It's just that after that...nope.
And to top it off – TO TOP IT OFF – why was there so much unbuttoning of a shirt in one of the episodes? I saw it buttoned; Han Jae Hun unbuttoned it – but in the next take it's buttoned BACK AGAIN with Han Jae Hun unbuttoning it AGAIN!! I also got annoyed when the first time we were so-called introduced to the arts classroom, we had Kim Hae Jun and the girl student drawing in silence!! Look, this series is already only 10 minutes per episode – we can't also have room for silence here!!
And let's talk about that ending – I'm sorry, but it made no sense to me. I mean, I know where they were trying to go with it, but it just didn't make sense to me, as these characters just weren't portrayed right. I felt like I wasted my time watching this series, and I am glad that it's over and I am done with it.
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Why? To torture myself. Since this is a BDSM themed but has nothing really to do with BDSM I thought someone has to get some pain, you know! Even if it's self inflicted.
Because believe me, the only Sadist here is whoever completed watching this, because there lies the real pain of watching this show.
I won't say anything about the actors, nor the story (or the lack of it) cause there is nothing good to say, and I believe the comments have said it all.
If I to describe it, it's a collection of weird but not entirely terrible nor disgusting pecks/kisses that are one sided, sorry but it's only one actor doing the kisses, the other is just there! If I can even call them kisses, they were on the chewing lips side, I can see the director's instructions clearly lol.
I believe SK has to watch some Japanese BDSM themed movies, just for reference xD some of these sh!t traumatized me for life~
Of course, it's not recommended.
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What the heck was that
I want to start off by saying--I know these two can act, so this has got to be a situation where the direction and script were at fault.I was so excited for this series before it came out--but it was sloppy and super disappointing. The story had promise, but the execution was all over the place and tbh really bad imo. I know both actors know how to do their job, but this was so insanely disappointing. The audio was off at times, the script was embarrassing and because of the direction it almost seemed like it was their first job. Some of the cuts were inconsistent and some episodes were just edited badly.
I can't wait to see them in other series, because they deserved better.
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Characterless, Aimless, and Pretty.
This is a nicely shot sizzle reel for the actors, and very little more. It’s overindulgent in the time it took to tell an incredibly thin story. It could have been done in three of these short episodes, or one full length one. I was skipping forwards more than I ever have watching any K-drama for the first time. I feel like they started filming while the script was incomplete, but the writer pulled out, so they just edited together what they had, and did some VO. There was zero plot, character arc, or depth to either of the protagonists. Two men meet under a business arrangement. They liked each other. They extend the arrangement and end up in love. The motivation for the sub was a sick mother. The dom’s a mystery, and a weird kisser. Watch it if you like naturally lit pot plants, and a bit of incredibly tame BDSM.Was this review helpful to you?
A beautiful train wreck
Ok maybe beautiful is over selling it. If they would of taken another couple of months on the story and either training on editing and audio or just found someone who knew what they were doing this show would have been amazing. I loved the actors in sweat heart service so I know the actor are good but that can only carry a show so far. It was a big old dumpster fire of a mess but I enjoyed watching it burn even though it did get almost unbearable at times. Once in awhile you just need a really badly executed show to remind you how amazing the other ones are. I give them all props for trying but the people who approved this for release should not be given that job ever again.Was this review helpful to you?
It's a bit of a disaster
It could of been good but the production team failed. There's no other way to describe how this show then that.The only redeeming thing about it is the actors Kim Hyeon Seo and Jung Myeong Cheol. It's clear they tried their best but equally clear that there was no direction for what their characters are suppose to be. Kim Hae Jun and Han Jae Hun where given no room to develop and the plot was pushed forward with voiceovers. There where a few scenes where Kim and Jung had actual dialogue to act out which were good but it only magnified the fact that everything else sucked. I honestly think if someone who knows how to actually edit videos where to cut it down, fix all the mistakes and reshuffle the scenes to make sense it could work.
However I did find it captivating in a "can't look away from a sinking ship" sort of way. I read comments that it was bad and had to know myself and while it was as bad as everyone said couldn't stop myself from finishing it. So give it a try and maybe B-BL's will be a thing like B-movies.
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Rewatch Value 0
I made myself finish it. I got to episode seven and I'm like, I have to finish this. I just can't not finish it now. Am I proud that I did it no... At first I was like, okay there's some kind of storyline.Maybe, but then it just kind of went out the window, like I genuinely don't know what happened lol. We went from a contract relationship to I'm obsessed with him, at least thats what I'm guessing that's where we went. Lord, can we talk about the kissing!! I don't think I've ever seen such an uncomfortable and painful looking kissing in my life. I mean, I get that we were going for like I assume a dom submissive relationship, but I didn't like the way they did this. I don't like the way he treated him like a dog, it felt like at times, or a child by making him write his name over and over. it wasn't romantic or sexy by any means. It just was not good, I'm sorry. Then I found out there's a season 2, and I'm like, why?! Will I watch It? I may watch episode one just to see if it's any better but I swear to god. If it's trash again, I'm not gonna force myself to do it again.Was this review helpful to you?
