Meru

The most boring action-drama I have ever watched!!!

I had really high expectations for this drama but it was a HUGE disappointment… The trailer was promising and the cast looked phenomenal! Lacked in story-writing and character development especially, but there were more flaws as well.

Reasons why I didn’t like it:

1. A lot of things didn’t make sense or were hard to follow. For example, why did his father have to give him the superpower??? Like what would happen if he died without giving it to his son??? It was so unclear! The explanations in general were so sloppy and the motives behind the characters were not properlt explained. Also, what’s the deal with Jo Anna and Nathan? Why do they want these superpowers??? Whats their reason or motive to be so strong??? Did sth happen to them in their childhood??? Like for example Strong Girl Namsoon had an amazing villain (played by Byeon Woo Seok) who had a crazy, traumatic childhood. So the motive of his actions of trying to get that superpower is clear. But WHATTTT is the reason for the villains of this drama???? Why do they want that superpower so badly???? I just couldn’t understand and was sooo annoyed!!!!

2. Explosions, explosions, explosions! This drama thought it could be make up for the lacking storytelling by blowing up stuff constantly. It was literally trying to be like one of those American superhero movies. It definitely felt like one! We need Netflix to stop ruining K-Drama by trying to Americanize them…

3. Flat characters! Although I liked Sung-Un and Bun-mi (and the fire girl too), I just couldn’t properly connect to any of the characters. We barely got to know them on a deeper level and there was basically no character development either. Everything just stayed the same with the exceptions of a few explosions here and there…

Other things that didn’t make sense or bothered me:

- Episode 2 when there are the explosions inside the wedding hall and ML saves his girlfriend and then they just stand there and talk and he gets scolded by her for wasting money again 🙄🙄🙄 LIKE WTF ARE YOU DOING???? Get out there! All I could do is roll my eyes!!! I was SOOO ANNOYED!!!!

- In episode 4 or 5 when Sang-un is trying to get into Beomha ranch and then the two othet friends, Bun-mi and the attorney are trying to stop him… I just didnt understand the whole sideplot thing with the selling your superpowers. Did the alcoholic attorney try to deceive them??? Was it on purpose the note he wrote on the documents? What exactly happened? Why were Bun-mi and Sang-un mad at him and What made them forgive him???? I did not understand anything at all! Not understanding these made me feel so frustrated!!!!

- When Sang-un and Attorney are running away from the lab and ML drops the bag and it get stuck under the sliding wall and instead of focusing on the bag he ANSWERS HIS FCKING PHONEEEE!!!!! 😩😩😩😩 Uggghhhh!!!! I was sooo annoyeddddd at him and Min-Suk!!!! I also didn’t like her at all!!!! She was SO ANNOYING!!!!! 😫😫😫

- When they find out the police officer’s superpower is timetravel and when Min-Suk goes to the police station to ask him to turn back time and save ML, and the police officer just HANDS HER his watch???!?!??!!! IS THAT EVEN A SUPERPOWER????? It’s literally Hermione’s Timeturner!!! And it’s not HIM who has the superpowet but HIS WATCH which in that case it is a magical object that ANYONE can use???? Omg I was faceslapping myself!!! This was so bad!!!! Who tf wrote this???? I swear I could have done a better job!!!

-And then the last scene! Nathan turned into a supervillain and killed the labgirl and all the lab workers. Hmmm? I wonder who is gonna insert Sang-un’s superpowers into him??? 🤔🤔🤔 Again a very nonsensical, annoying scene with actions that made absolutely no sense to the plot moving on.

-The last fighting scene was so cliche too!!! Everyone throwing theit money for him… Awww! I am sooo touched!!!! Omg seriously! I neithet laughed nor cried while watching this drama! I was also not on the edge of my seat… it was just annoying and ridiculous!!!

Other than the amazing cast of actors there was nothing positive to say about this drama… Just don’t watch it!!!

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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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Deliciously Dangerous

This drama was so much better than I had imagined!!!!

I had only ever seen Yoon A in King the Land which was a very cringey show for me and I didn’t enjoy watching it at all, so before starting this drama I was doubting Yoon A’s performance but she was amazing! Hilarious in funny scenes and cute in some as well. Lee Chae Min was a new actor for me but I think his acting was phenomenal. My highlight in terms of acting was Kang Han Na as Mokju!!! Her acting was top-notch!!!

So far for the plot, I liked it. The end felt a bit rushed. Although I did enjoy the cooking battle, they could have shortened the scenes there a bit and added one more episode in the end, when the main leads meet again in the modern times.
I had the same questions as everyone else for the end about how he managed to get to modern times (I assume it was the one page that fell on him), and did he have money? (Maybe he sold his sword 😂). I would have loved to see his journey. I am sure it would have been very entertaining to watch 😂😂😂

I guess my theories for the end came true! I rather thought they would go back together instead of seperately and then meeting by surprise. But eventually he came as himself and not as a descendant like all the other characters 😍☺️☺️

Now I want a season 2 showing their lifes in modern day Seoul

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One of the best Underdog stories in K-Dramas

I seriously loved everything about this drama from beginning to end!!! It kinda reminded me a little bit of Itaewon Class with the revenge story, the dads being involved and the ML’s dad actually dying from the beginning, the unconventional beauty of the female lead, the group of people they’re working together with and building a found family with them… just sooo many similarities, there was absolutely NO WAY I wouldn’t love this drama! 😍😍😍

First of all, it starts off with Tae-poong leading this carefree life, always wearing the hottest clothes, dancing in Apgujeong Clubs like an idol (that he is in real life 😂), and getting into fights with his arch enemy Hyun-Jin 😂😂😂
His look in this first half of the drama was among the hottest looks I have seen in a K-Drama actor! I was seriously obsessed with his blond highlights, silver bracelets and leather jackets, it still lives rentfree in my head 😂😂😂

Then the next part of the drama, basically the majority happens after his father dies. That part I would divide it into 0 + 4 parts, based on the products they sell and with each product they earn another one of their former colleagues to join them again.

Part 0: Everyone is still together and they still have the fabrics that they had ordered before the father died I think. This was also before Tae-poong lost his home. Basically, this story arc shows how everything slowly crumbles: the work, and his home.

Part 1: Now it is only Kang Tae-Poong And Mi-seon and they decide to sell the work shoes they found in Busan and how they are getting involved with the Busan Gang members and save the life of the man who invented the shoes. This was one of my favorite parts of the drama. I still wonder if the shoes arrived at their destination and what happened to the guy 😂 They didn’t really show him at the end anymore. Also the video they made was phenomenal 😂😂😂super 90s coded!!!

Part 2: This part was my favorite part!!! the helmets that they sell in Thailand!!! 🇹🇭 😂😂
Go Majin joins them and lands in prison 😂😂😂 I was sooo annoyed with him in these episodes tho!!! He was being a misogynistic idiot and he treated Mi-Seon so rudely I was actually happy when he landed in prison 😂😂😂 And the measures they took to get him out with the pictures and all and then Mi-Seon DROPPPPPPING it all into the rivvverrr!!!! I was SOOOO MADDDD!!! I was screaming at her actually 😂😂😂
AND THEN OMG!!! Junho singing at that party!!!! omggg!!! And ofc their kisssss!!!! GYAAAAHHHH!!!! I was swooooooninnggggg sooooo hardddd!!!!! 😍😍😍 What a smooth talker!!! and the way he said “how lucky you are to have a guy like me crushing on you” omgggg i would have melted and then slapped him for saying that and then melted again 😂😂😂 we need more men like that in our lives!!! Thailand arc was just superior!!

Part 3: The glovessss!!!! In this part So many things happened. Mr Bae went to Indonesia, there were a lot of scenes at the government office, Tae-poong and Mi-Seon were in a church trying to get one of the former workers to come back. A lot was happening in this arc. The promissory note with Mrs. Cha spying on them was also happening here. And on top of that the fire broke out!!! It was CRAZY!!! a crazy arc!!! But I enjoyed every second of it.

Part 4: The last part was shorter compared to the others and it led to the finale. They got involved with Mr. Bae’s father and tried to sell security cameras. In this arc they also found the promissory note and before that Hyun-Jin started acting like a REAL asshole! The actor did such a good job at playing one of the worst villains in K-Dramaland. Also, it was funny how Hyun-Jin’s English was so much better than that foreigner Alex’ English 😂😂😂 I didn’t understand ANYTHING he said in English 😂😂😂

The end was a bit different than what I had imagined. I didn’t expect Tae-poong to save Mr. Pyo. And then for Mr. Pyo to go and lock up his own son!!! Wow! Crazy but I can understand since Hyun-Jin was a danger to so many people around him. Definitely an unexpected ending!

I loved seeing all the office workers together at the end walking down the road! it warmed my heart! A perfect ending to a great drama!!!

Other things I liked were:

1. Mi-ho and Nam-mo’s cute little relationship! 🥰 Mi-ho legit looked like a supermodel from the 90s!!! And their wedding at the end was so cuteee!!!

2. Tae-poong’s mom 🥹🥹🥹 Such a sweet woman!!!

3. Mi-Seon’s family 🥹🥹🥹 The grandma was soooo funnyyy!!! sometimes she was so senile, mixing people from the past up with people from the present 😂 but then sometimes she would say the wisest things hahahah 😂😂😂 Like when Mi-Ho was crying over Nam-mo and the halmoni was like “Why would you cry over a man?” or sth 😂😂😂 That was one of my favorite scenes!!! And Beom in his Taekwondo suit 😂😂😂He was the CUTESTTTTT!!! CHUBBIESTTTT!!! SWEEEEETEST KDRAMA BOY EVVVERRRRR 🥹🥹🥹I swear he looked like he could be Sunwoo’s little brotther from Reply 1988 😂😂😂 The way he always grinned melted my heart I wanted to cryyyy!!!! 😭😭😭

Things I didn’t like:
Nam-mo’s mom PISSED me off when she suddenly was against Mi-ho dating her son!!! I seriously didn’t get her point! Did she thing her son was a chaebol or a prince??? and she the Queen? Like she acted like they were soooo rich!!! In reality they had no money either!!! Mi-ho’s family lived in a bigger house than they probably did… I was so fed up with her 😖

All in all, I loved this drama and would recommend it to everyone!

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Started off amazing, ended a bit awkwardly, but still cute

I loved this drama a lot!!! Especially the first episode and the first half of the drama were amazing!!! 😍😍😍

Basically, this drama started off like Cinderella and ended like Sleeping Beauty 😂😂😂

Things I liked:
1. The cast: The main leads were amazing!!! both actors are rather new on my radar but I have been loving their performances in various dramas I have seen recently even if the drama itself was not amazing.

2. The dreamy fairytale vibes: From episode 1 everyone got hooked!!! The makeover, the party scenes, the swoony moments 😍😍😍Jang Kiyoung is so good and his voice os amazing 😍😍😍

3. The humor in the first few episodes when ML thinks FL is married amd cheated on his husband 😂😂😂 And all the inner conflicts he keeps having 😂😂😂 Him scolding his team members was really funny too 😂😂😂

4. Jun and Ha-yeong’s heart-warming relationship 🥹🥹🥹 She was sooooo sweet to this little boy!!! I literally cried in every scene!!! 😭😭😭 SFL was actually my favoritr chatacter 🥰🥰🥰

5. The OST: It was so fun!!! the songs really give a different vibe to the drama!

6. The kiss scenes: Let’s be honest, we all continued watching because we wanted to see another scene like in ep. 1 and 2 😂😂😂

Things I didn’t like:
1. The ML was sometimes a bit too aggressive and toxic at the beginning especially when he threw the documents into the pool etc. I didn’t like that behaviour at all. I would have been sooo turned off by him…

2. Seonu: This man was annoying af!!!! Why did he have a crush on his best friend??? And why was it so hard for him to fall for Ha-yeong??? Dude, even I fell in love with her!!! How can he not??? He does not deserve her!!! He annoyed me so much!!!

3. Darim and her serial accidents and how she constantly had to be saved in the middle of the drama. I was like “AGAIN?” every time it happened… it was a bit too much…

4. The memory-loss at the end was a bit too much imo but they made up for it by kinda justifying it: He basically had to gain them back by another dynamite kiss at the same location where they first met… 😂😂😂

All in all, the positives definitely outweighed the negatives. A fun little watch! I recommend!

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The drama with the most tripping tropes ever

In general, this drama was a fun watch. I especially liked the university setting and the friend group as well as the portrayal of student life in Korea. There were a lot of hilarious scenes that made me laugh out loud for example the way that Dam always ate so much food 😂😂😂and in general her facial expressions etc! It was definitely very relatable.
Also it was almost ridiculous how OFTEN the female characters all tripped and fell 😂😂😂 I think every female character except for Hye-su tripped and fell or was caught by a male 😂😂😂

I also really liked the two Gumiho actors. I have recently noticed these two actors more and more and I love their acting skills so much! I definitely wanna see more of them in the future 😍😍😍 I really wanna see Kang Hana in a main lead role! I absolutely love her!!!! 😍😍😍

All in all it is a nice drama. Nothing too deep but also not confusing or annoying either.

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The Hospital Playlist cameos were the best!!!

First of all, I watched this drama just because I liked Hospital Playlist. I usually don’t like hospital dramas because of all the surgery scenes. I can’t handle the gore and sadly, towards the end of the drama they showed a lot of surgeries which they didn’t at the beginning of the show (I guess on purpose, the show was advancing according to the progress of the residents).
Like I didn’t understand why they had to show the frigging bloody scene at the beginning of episode 10!!! I was trying to eat my breakfast but I had to turn it off because I was starting to loose my appetite.
Another thing I didn’t like were all the annoying professors and teachers being mean, toxic and screaming at everyone. I don’t remembet seeing so many annoying characters in Hospital Playlist!!! And tbh even the MFL was not someone I could identify with at all. At the beginning I didn’t really like her that much. Jae-il was the only character I liked at the beginning and then also Pyo Nam-kyung. I started liking her the most among the female characters as well as Professor Seo. I also liked it how the 1st-year resident had a crush on her. I wish they had brought him into the story faster instead of wasting so much time on her being an obsessive girlfriend…
Also I am not so sure about Sa-bi and Jae-il pairing up… And the main female lead and Do-won dating is quite weird too… They are in-laws… That’s SO WEIRD!!!! I definitely did not like it and would have liked it better if she had gotten together with the anesthesiologist hottie 😍😍😍

Well there were some good parts to the drama too. In general it definitely captured the Hospital Playlist atmosphere quite well. I did wish the main characters would also engage in some kind of collective hobby like in Hospital Playlist but I guess as residents they must be so overwhelmed that they can’t even think of a hobby.
I also liked that this one focused on the OB-GYN more and it definitely had much fewer devastating storylines and in general had less scenes involving death.

All in all a lot of heart-warming and inspiring scenes, seeing how the residents grow into better doctors and people all together.

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Better than expected!!!

I watched this drama because it was gonna be taken down from netflix and also because I heard good things about it and it’s been on my list for too long.

This drama was AMAZING!!!! Here are a few reasons why I loved it and why everyone should watch it:

Reason no.1: The quotes in this drama were some of my favorites!!! I literally wanna take them all and write it down somewhere! Such beautiful quotes!!!
Also the fact that this drama is centered around writing was already a big bonus point!

Reason no.2: The characters!
I loved both Ji-Ho and Se-hee as well as both their friends!!! One of the few dramas which has such amazing friendships and friend groups! I loved how the drama didn’t only focus on the Main leads’ stories but also on the stories of their friends. It made this drama so much more relatable because in real life, not everything is always just about us. We meet friends amd share their joys and sorrows in life as well! This was actually one of my favorite points about this drama! I feel like every secondary couple got as much screen time as the main couple!!!! I have never seen this in any other drama before!!!! Soooo good!!!!

Reason no.3:
The comedic relief!!! Se-hee’s character and reactions were HILARIOUS!!!! I laughed everytime he came up with a rational explanation for everything or whenever he was confronted with the irrational behaviours of crazy humans (like his colleagues or Ji-ho’s family) 😂😂😂 The misunderstandings were funny too and CEO Ma always killed me with his flashy behaviour 😂😂😂 Especially that scene when he walks out of his office and kisses one of his nerdy colleagues on the forehead 😂😂😂I literally diedddd!!!!

Reason no.4: The CAT!!!! Omg! This must be the most beautiful K-Drama pet I have ever seen!!!!

Reason no.5: The soundtrack!!!!! IT WAS SOOOO BEAUTIFUL!!!! Definitely one of my favorite soundtracks ever!

Reason 6: The messages of following your dreams, womanhood and feminism, the question of marriage or love etc, were so deep and meaningful and often got me thinking about life while watching this drama…

The things I disliked were few which I won’t mention here now because it might have spoilers.

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A fun and heartwarming story

I absolutely LOVED this drama!!!! It started off lightheartedly and funny, almost even silly with her hiding her real identity and her Private life from everyone. Towards the end it actually got deeper and sadder. One of the dramas I cried the most!!! It broke my heart sooooo much!!!! Seeing the final picture that was missing with the boy aka Yun Jae on it, Duk-Mi’s story of loosing her brother and her memory at the same time and just how they were all connected since their childhood. Of course, very unrealistic like what are the odds of that happening? But that’s such a popular K-Drama trope and tbh it’s one of my favorites 😂😂😂

The side characters were also all super cool especially her bestie and Eun-Gi. I was annoyed a bit at him for a while especially when he was trying to break the main couple apart but I quickly went back to liking him! However, his romantic feelings towards Duk-Mi were not neccessary. I wish they would have kept him as her fake brother and given him another second female love interest (which I hope is NOT Hyo-jin 😰😰😰)
I was definitely rooting all for Ryan Gold 😍😍😍 I was whipped for him the second I saw him at the auction!!! omg!!! Yes I want it!!! 😂 Kim Jae-Wook is so hot and his acting is superb!!! his dreamy eyes and the voice omg!!!

Some critique point was the amount of accidents used as a cause for tragedy in both sides: Yun-Jae’s mom getting into an accident and not making it to pick up her son and then Duk-Mi and her brother getting into an accident and Duk-Su dying… That was a bit too many accidents for my taste…

But all in all really amazing drama with beautiful quotes, music and characters!!!

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Only a KDrama can spark my interest in Rugby ?

I really NEVER expected to like this drama that much!!! From the characters, to the setting, it was quite well done. I liked how all the Rugby boys had such very different and unique characters. Also, unlike Racket Boys, it was not all just Badminton but for example the girls were in the shooting team. So I learned a little bit about shooting as well and wow it does look like a very cool sport.
I also really likes the othet adult characters. The intrigues school politics and all the unfair things going on really fired me up even more and made it harder to stop and take a break.
I just really love a good underdog story! And KDramas about sports usually don’t disappoint.

The only downside and critique about this drama I have is how powerless everyone was, including the president of the school. It was a bit too much for me seeing those two annoying men do whatever they wanted and acting like they owned that place. Tbh it seemed a bit unrealistic to me. Also, Bae I-ji was so mad at Garam at the beginning but where was that anger towards that disgusting Shooting Coach? He was way more terrible to her than Garam ever was… That was another thing that pissed me off.

Everything else, including the amazing Soundtrack, was really a good watch! Finished it in less than a week 😂

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It will make you hungry!

After watching Culinary Class Wars I have been interested in food-related shows. So this drama came intrigued me from the get go.

The beginning of the drama was tbh a bit slow. It started to get interesting when they had the food festival competition. After that a lot of interesting things happened that kept me wanting to watch the next episode. I liked the Sapporo episodes too although the fight in the hospital scenes were a bit too much!!!! But after the recipes got stolen I was a bit disappointed and mad. I imagined it to turn out totally different. I had wished Beom-Woo would have told the Diamant judges that the recipes were stolen and created a showdown. Instead he just started to sulk. He couldn’t even properly tell Yoon-Joo that it wasn’t him who stole the recipes!!!! IT WAS FCKING YU-JIN!!!!! Like just the fact that this whole Yu-Jin mess was not clarified, also with Choon-Seung and how he got locked up, made me feel really mad and frustrated.

And then they had a cook-off in the end which was rather underwhelming…
The mother was really annoying too. Even the cold-hearted brother Sun-Woo changed into being good in the end but the mother was still being a heartless sucess monger.

So to sum up, The beginning was slow, the middle was fast-paced and exciting, the end was a let down.

My favorite scene was when the actor from Lovely Jogger enters the restaurant (played by Park Ji-Hoon aka the main lead of Weak Hero Class) And Choon-Seung goes like “Wait a minute, which high-school did you go to? 😂😂😂😂 It was SUCH an obvious reference to Weak Hero Class I was cracking upppp!!!! Best scene in the drama for sure!

I think it’s a nice little watch with only 10 episodes.

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An ode to female solidarity

This movie has actually surprised me quite a but ngl! It had a lot of nudity and sex which I have never seen so much of in KDramas so far 😂 and shockingly, it was set in the 80s??? I feel like people were wilder back then than they are today it seems.

In general I really liked the setting of the 80s in the drama. Since watching Reply 1988 this era has interested me a lot about Korea and its history.

The main theme of the drama is misogyny and the exploitation and objectification of women especially in the entertainment society. I am sure that the traumatic things we saw that happened to the young women in this movie are definitely not something that only happened in the 80s in Korea (the P.Diddy case for example is still very recent).
I loved so much how the two female actresses turned from enemies to besties in this movie.
Also, because this drama is all about female solidarity we had no attractive male leads that played the love interest of the women, obviously since the women were just so sick of all the men objectifying them and treating them badly that they just gave up on falling in love with them.
I did hope that there would be more of a romantic connection betweenJu-Ae and her friend who looked like a guy (tbh I still think they were in love with each other and was wishing for them to kiss at the end when she runs after her car).

And then, the scene where Ju-Ae rescues Hee-Ran on her horse was EPIC!!!! (sadly the traffic cgi was kinda lame 😅).

I definitely liked this drama a lot and totally fell in love with the main actress who played Hee-Ran omg who is that woman? I definitely gotta watch more of her dramas!

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So much better than expected!!!

I loved this drama!!!! I love how it portrays difficult family dynamics and how the certain behaviour of people comes from deep pain, sorrow, grief, or trauma.
In general I love how things got resolved in the end, not in a fairytale, unrealistic way but it showed how you have to put in some effort in order to succeed. Things won’t change for the better just because you want to.

I want to go through each character that I liked or had certain thoughts of:

1. The twins Miji and Mirae:
I definitely liked Miji more and also could relate to her much more. She was bubbly, energetic and loud. She took care of her grandma and did all kinds of jobs and her dark past made me sad and I could also relate to her a bit.
Tbh Mirae seemed like a very pale character next to Miji, almost boring. Throughout the majority of the drama I really disliked her. When the harrassment happened at work, I tried to feel sorry for her but I was annoyed again!!! like WHYYYY did she suggest to forget about what he tried to do???? Idk but that was soooo strange and kinda unrealistic!!! as a woman, if my colleague starts to harrass me I would cancel every contact with that person, even consider leaving the company!!!! And she just wanted to move on like nothing happened??? I got SO mad at her!!!! The only thing I liked about Mirae was her relationship with Han Sejin, the strawberry farmer 😂

Which brings me to the next character!

2. Han Sejin aka the strawberry farmer:
I loved this guy!!! I already saw him in Lovestruck in the City where he plays an author and I already liked him a lot in that drama! He was actually one of my favorites 😂 And hos character in this drama was amazing too!!! Definitely one of my faves!!!

3. Lee Hosu:
I know he is the Male Lead but somehow I liked the Second Male Lead much more, again 😂 Le Hosu was just ok. I felt sorry for him at some parts especially when he was younger. I didn’t like how he treated his mom, so there were some scenes when I got really annoyed with him because I really liked his mom! She was my favorite character! So I was happy when I watched the scene when his mom comes to Seoul and hits him and then they hug and cry and I cried so much in that scene too!!!! 😭😭😭

which brings me to my next character:

4. Bon - Hong aka Hosu’a mom:
I LOVED this woman so much!!!! Everything she said and did was so touching and sweet and I loved her fighting with Ok-hui 😂😂😂 idk if I am biased or not because she is a Reply 1988 actress but I genuinely loved Bonhong so much!!! Her quotes were my favorite 😂

5. Ok-hui aka the twins’ mom:
At the beginning and throughout the whole drama I was SO annoyed with her!! Her talking aggressively ALL THE TIME put me so much on edge!!!! She is mean to everyone literally! To Bon-hong, Miji, her mother, just everyone!!! I got so fed up with her until the scene she cried on the floor with the real Miji and then cried at the hospital in her mother’s lap. Her story was maybe one of the most heartbreaking and although I still dislike her aggressive side, I got to like her in the end…

7. Kim Rosa aka Sangwol:
Her story was one of the most impressive! I cried so much! The way she protected her friend gave me goosebumps!!! When women love and help each other they can move mountains!!! Her story was such a story! I was so happy she got a happy end so quickly! 🥰 It was so heartwarming!

8. Tae-i and his sister:
I cant really say much about his sister, but I really loved Tae-i!!! As a very minor character he was very well done! I would have liked to see more of him!

9. The grandma:
Once again, a drama with a grandma plot can never disappoint!!! One of my favorite Korean words is the one for Grandma, (halmeoni) because some of my favoritr dramas are the ones that have a kind grandma starting (e.g. Start-up).

I would say this is it for the main characters!
I just love this drama and lowkey want a season 2 just to see Mirae get together with Sejin. Also I feel like the twins are both the main characters but it felt more focused on Miji. So I wonder whether there shouldn’t be a part 2 which focuses more on Mirae 😍

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The first and only hospital drama I’ve watched

I am usually not a fan of medical / hospital dramas or should I say, they never sparked my interest enough. However, I have heard really good things about this drama and since the writers are from my favorite drama ever (1988) I decided to give it a try! And I didn’t regret it!!!

Of course, it doesn’t even come close to the greatness of reply 1988! Still, it is a very nice and heartwarming drama. Seeing the daily lives of doctors was very interesting, and I also learned a lot of things about surgeries, sicknesses and the systems and hierarchies of hospitals and medical workers.

The best thing about this drama however are the characters! Not only the main characters but also the side characters, like the residents, interns and assistant doctors. It’s funny how relatable each character is! That’s definitely the strength of this drama!

And of course the point that makes this drama different and unique from other medical dramas is the fact that the main 5 characters who have been friends for decades, also play in a band and the music they play is just AMAZING!!!! Every track was a banger and soooo beautiful!!!

Sadly, there were some things I didn’t quite like. The main reason was the fact that they explicitly showed the surgeries!!! It was seriously too graphic for my taste!

And in general, some scenes were too sad and heartbreaking for me that it was hard to handle it.

But in general it is definitely a well-made drama!

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A drama with an identity crisis

Finished this tonight and it was definitely one of the weirdest dramas I have ever watched! It was not terrible. There were some scenes and episodes that were fine and actually the side characters literally saved this show (old and young grandma, and the bestie Minji). There was also some hugeeeee character development towards the end. Especially Suzy crying in the dessert was pretty sad and showed topnotch acting. As well as the genie from the past when he was holding her dead body. Also very heartbreaking. The very end was a bit strange tho. Also the unnecessary violence felt a bit off and added to the identity crisis this drama had been having since the beginning: is it Fantasy? Comedy? Drama? Romance? Action? Historical? Crime thriller? It was trying to be all of that at once!!! It was too much!

Some messages of the drama were really nice tho: being greedy is sth that will come and bite you back, being helpful and kind but not to put other before yourself was kind of the message to live by that this drama was trying to convey.
I liked the different themes of mental illness and lgbtq+ visibility. It was very refreshing and sth that is rarely shown openly in KDrama like this.

For me the drama was a bit of a rollercoaster.
The first episode was quite messy. I didn’t know what to think of the main leads at the beginning. Genie’s hair freaked me out a bit as well 😅 Also, the grandma slicing up Ka-young’s hand to teach her a lesson was a bit too much imo. Luckily their relationship has improved over the years and Ka-young has grown into a good person.
After the first episode it gradually got better. Some things that happened on the way towards the end were a bit too much like the unnecessary use of violence and gory got me questioning whether that was needed for the style and genre this drama was going for 🤔
The old guy reflected in the mirror in khalid’s body also creeped me out a lot!!! Again, what is this drama trying to be???

One of the highlights was Song Hye Kyo as Jinniya 😍😍😍How frigging gorgeous can someone be??? She is my absolute favorite actress!!!

All in all I can recommend this drama only if you dont mind messy concepts and are in for sth on the lighter side that is easy to watch.

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