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In my personal opinion, Doctor Stranger is nothing but an overrated drama. Yes, it does have a great main story but anything else other than that was a "filler". It had lots of potential. It had great actors. But I think they wasted the opportunity.

The drama was off to a good start. It was strong enough to make me watch the next episodes. But when the scenes in South Korea came, the story was starting to slowly depreciate. They started a"competition" to know who will operate on the Prime Minister (later on it was revealed to be the President) but they never performed the heart operation in the end.

I think they the character of Park Hae Jin deserved more. The way he found out who Park Hun really was and the way he revealed his true identity was anti climactic. I think the writers and the director could've gotten more out of his character.

For Lee Jongsuk's character, His acting here wasn't superb but it was okay. I don;t know why but I just got a little annoyed to how careless his character was, he was just purely blinded by love. Yes, it was sweet at first but then it got annoying somewhere. Especially, when he just started shouting at everyone who doesn't agree with him.

However, I think the biggest blackhole of this drama was the female lead. Yes, Jin Seyeon. Throughout the drama, her eyes were literally dead. It was like she was just reading her script all the way. They could've replaced her with a robot and people wouldn't notice the difference. Her character was suppose to be the strongest out of them all, heck she was the one who was conceptualizing the plan and manipulating the people to help execute her plans but all of those were wasted. I wished her acting was more dynamic. I think is also the first time I have wished that the male lead end up with the second female lead. They have better chemistry and they were just more fun to watch.

Lastly, one character in which they could've used better was the chief body guard. Except for Park Hun giving him a lollipop when he was young we don't know anything else on why he's helping Park Hun. It can't merely be a "soft spot", what he did was too big for a mere soft spot for Hun. Wished they could've given him a better backstory.

One thing, I did enjoy here is that even though the head of the hospital doesn't like Park Hun, he never tried to kill any patient for his advantage. He was letting his doctors do their job and just hope for his preferred outcome to happen. He never did outright try to kill anyone just like in other medical dramas.

All in all, I really think this was overrated. Will I watch it again? No. Will I recommend it to anyone? Not really.

PS: We never really did figure out what happened to Mr. Lim? He just vanished with Cha Sujin.

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I found it to have a really slow at the start but then BOOOOOOM

Was looking for a different genre of drama to watch. you know, something like a breather. And SJK and JYB were the main casts so more the reason to watch.

The first few episodes, I was trying to grasp what's the main plot and for me, I found the first few episodes a little bit too slow in terms of phasing. So I started to question whether or not this was worth the 20 episodes. Because you know, even for some dramas, 16 eps is a bit too long if the plot was static.

But then after episode 3 everything started making sense for me. Bit by bit the story gets more and more dynamic and before I knew it I was hooked.

Vincenzo is not really a perfect drama, it has its loopholes. One of which is that, they keep branding the male protagonist as a "psycho" but they kept on portraying him as someone who is capable of emotions, which is really contradicting. But you know what, overall I'm willing to turn a blind eye on those small loopholes because the charms of this drama outweighs them.

The ending was really satisfying. It was literally brutal. But anything else would have been a dishonor to the "mafia" image that they kept on building up since the first episode. It was sad to see Jang Han Seo die but I think if they all lived in the end, it would've been too good to be true.

Anyway, I'm not sure if this drama will get a S2. If it does, I hope Netflix does a fine job on it.

Kudos to everyone!!!!!

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Meh

I actually expected a lot for this drama. Maybe because its main leads were so promising? IDK but I did and maybe it was my own fault why I was disappointed in it. I tried to give it a chance. A lot of it actually. But I just ended up fast forwarding so much.

The beginning and the end was actually bearable. It was kind of cute in its own special way. It was the middle part that made it feel so dragging. I found all the characters here weak, only one who really stood out was Saet Byul. I think she's the only strong character here with a really good foundation. Everyone else was meh.

The ML was so confused in what he wants that I actually prefer Saet Byul together with her puppy. They look so good together. (Really hoping they get cast in a romcom together). There were a lot of plot holes, the acting sometimes got a bit too much comical, things just got a bit too absurd at times.

Anyway, still good job to the team. Looking forward to everyone's next projects. I hope its a lot better than this one.

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This is the type of movie that makes you feel the butterflies!!!

OMG I just finished this movie a while ago and it makes me question my life and all the choices I have made lol

Firstly, I love love love their friendship. Don't get me wrong I love my friends but where the heck can I get a friend that is willing to travel with me in whim. I am the type of girl that really wants to travel a lot and am quite impulsive but (I'm not sure if this is a pro or not) my friends are more on the calculative side hahaha. It has always been my dream to suddenly go somewhere without any plans.

Secondly, if that friend was a HOT YOUNG SINGLE guy omg yes to the 10000%.

I love how they've seen the worst of each other but still remained good friends. I'm actually quite surprised that their bf/gfs along the way didn't find their friendship as a threat to their current relationships. Personally, I'm not sure if I'm okay with my significant other being that super duper close to a girl.

I know this movie is supposed to be a feel good one but wth it made me look back to what have I been doing with my life. This is what I've been imagining my youth will be like (minus the cheating part of course). Travelling with friends, being with my significant other, having the time of my life. hayyyyy

Definitely a great watch!!!

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I just seriously love the overall feels this drama gives.

One thing I like about C-dramas is how realistic they are as compared to most k-dramas. Watching a C-drama makes me feel like I'm getting a glimpse of someone else's life. From their childhood to their adulthood. And this drama made gave me exactly this.

I love watching the three of our leads grow up together and mature. I like how realistic it was in the sense that it's true that sometimes in life we do experience fall backs, we lose contact with people whom we thought we were closest to and unless you do something about it, you will continue losing them gradually and unintentionally.

This drama might have some plotholes (like at the end, what the heck happened to Dongdong, he suddenly went MIA) but I'm willing to over look that because this drama just gave me so much warmth and love. Watching this drama made me wish I had brothers and friends like them. Most importantly, watching this drama made me wish I had Ling Xiao as my boyfriend!!! hahahaha he's just too perfect for me lol.

I'm not sure if it's just the romanticist in me but one thing I felt missing was a bit of a love triangle or something dramatic that might have happened to the FL. But honestly, whatever. I loved the drama as it is already. Hoping to watch something like this soon <3

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After consecutively watching a lot of dramas with heavy emotions and complicated plots, I find this drama very refreshing.

The plot was interesting enough to get you hooked but was not too complicated to make your brain hurt from thinking. I also love how there's no really a "bad guy/villain" here just unfortunate incidents that can happen to anyone.

I really really love the casting of this drama. They all had perfect chemistry with each other, not just the leads. I also love the setting (Seori's House) it's really nice even their office is nice. Love the OST as well!

The only thing why I'm not giving this a perfect score is because of the Aunt of Seori. I just don't understand it completely why she kept the money from selling the house at the bank. Did she know that Seori will wake up again? Because if I were her, I would just use that money to pay for the hospital bills of Seori. She knew Seori didn't have anyone else besides her and her husband. Assuming nobody did pay for her bills throughout the years, do you think Seori would have lived? If she died, who will now use the money instead? I mean this is just me thinking out loud but that's the only think that really bothered me.

Overall, this drama was really interesting and fun to watch! Hope to see everybody in a new drama!

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