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Wasted Potential - Oh-Aew Deserves the World

To start, this series stressed me out so bad. The first two episodes were great but stopped being good once Teh stopped COMMUNICATING, making things worse for everyone else. The drama just *dragged* because of him and I am gone.

Teh literally created his own issues. He sat there being like, "I'm too scared to talk about my feelings! I'll just give Oh-Aew everything I worked for because I feel bad for him... and ruin my life because of it!"

Now, I understand he was dealing with a lot. But he should've just talked to Oh-Aew and his family about everything, and I'm sure he'd have been fine (even amongst family/social pressures). That would have been a lot more compelling to see how family/social pressures affected him *after* coming out, not just... staying in the middle of it and leaving everyone confused.

The last episode addressed some of these issues, but ultimately Teh never apologized for his actions and continued down the path of keeping his thoughts to himself when it mattered most.

To conclude, this was a frustrating watch, but the acting and chemistry of the actors was excellent. 6.5/10.

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Seojun x Su Ho for THE WIN!!! (I'm not okay, I promise.)

I really like the concept/premise of this story and the characters, but good lord. The second half of this was so bad. It started playing it too safe, by dragging the romance all over, not letting Jugyeoung accept herself, etc... but isn't the entire point of the show to combat social problems and critique it? But okay, "True Beauty". Also Seojun and Su Ho would've genuinely been better in a relationship then as enemies. I also just dislike the love triangle trope in general. Jugyeoung was cool though; I felt bad for her, but also rooted for her despite everything.

Also this was so much better than the original manhwa. Like, it fixed majority of the issues (apart from the second half of the show taking a nosedive). Despite the issues, I still really enjoyed watching this.

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