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Decent drama with happy endings for all, but marred by music & 3 bad actors
reviewers said: " If you’re looking for romance then look elsewhere."
BUT, I was watching the Korean drama : "Potato Lab" & was ready to bail, so decided to try this & while it WAS better than the Potato lab, [& much more watchable] it didn't completely win me over.
First off:
this is a SLOW burn romance that is so slight you might miss it if you blink for the first 3/4 of the drama, & yet there are romantic undercurrents as well as a happy ending for most all the mains & thier BFFs.
I can't emphasize enough that the Music that's sung in English [& there is ALOT of it] is overused and TERRIBLE !
Plus they show people lip-syncing & their mouths are out of sync with the words! [it's laughably obvious that the voice is not the person you see on the screen !]
The actress who plays the Female villain Elise supposedly speaks many languages but her mouth is almost always out of sync with the words! [I don't even think it's the same language].
The character Blu put on weight as the series progressed & his acting was a C+ at best.
Villain Boris also failed to impress.
Basically the acting of all 3 of them really detracted from the quality of the drama.
This also got reduced points for tired tropes like :
1) Noble sacrifice [that's actually NOT noble but just an indication of inability to trust.]
2) Obsessive , selfish[won't take No for an answer ] love that says :" I will hurt you (physically) if it means that it will make you stay near me & then I will risk your life because I think more of myself than I do you.
3) I will make major life decisions for you/us & am stupid enough to think it's noble & you will thank me later.
4) Ridiculously resolved serious issues-[just go with it, it's a miracle !]
It must be mentioned that after the happy ending, there is a montage of cast & crew members lip-syncing s to a song as they [literally everyone] dances nonsensically around . {happy to be done much ?!]
not horrible, but too much irritating stuff to rate it higher or make it a rewatch.
one last comment: seeing the male lead's jaw go unattractively slack as he tries to emote being stunned, distraught or overwhelmed got old really fast as it was repeated ad nauseum.
BUT, I was watching the Korean drama : "Potato Lab" & was ready to bail, so decided to try this & while it WAS better than the Potato lab, [& much more watchable] it didn't completely win me over.
First off:
this is a SLOW burn romance that is so slight you might miss it if you blink for the first 3/4 of the drama, & yet there are romantic undercurrents as well as a happy ending for most all the mains & thier BFFs.
I can't emphasize enough that the Music that's sung in English [& there is ALOT of it] is overused and TERRIBLE !
Plus they show people lip-syncing & their mouths are out of sync with the words! [it's laughably obvious that the voice is not the person you see on the screen !]
The actress who plays the Female villain Elise supposedly speaks many languages but her mouth is almost always out of sync with the words! [I don't even think it's the same language].
The character Blu put on weight as the series progressed & his acting was a C+ at best.
Villain Boris also failed to impress.
Basically the acting of all 3 of them really detracted from the quality of the drama.
This also got reduced points for tired tropes like :
1) Noble sacrifice [that's actually NOT noble but just an indication of inability to trust.]
2) Obsessive , selfish[won't take No for an answer ] love that says :" I will hurt you (physically) if it means that it will make you stay near me & then I will risk your life because I think more of myself than I do you.
3) I will make major life decisions for you/us & am stupid enough to think it's noble & you will thank me later.
4) Ridiculously resolved serious issues-[just go with it, it's a miracle !]
It must be mentioned that after the happy ending, there is a montage of cast & crew members lip-syncing s to a song as they [literally everyone] dances nonsensically around . {happy to be done much ?!]
not horrible, but too much irritating stuff to rate it higher or make it a rewatch.
one last comment: seeing the male lead's jaw go unattractively slack as he tries to emote being stunned, distraught or overwhelmed got old really fast as it was repeated ad nauseum.
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