What is this, 'Secretary Kim China'? "A high-ranking executive with a severe case of OCD that prevents him from interacting with women meets 18-year-old art student and he feels completely at ease around her." I checked the cast. He is 22 (the high-ranking executive), she is 24 (the 18yr student). Plus it's c-drama = all dubbed by the generic voice actors. THIRTY episodes instead of sixteen of Secretary Kim, which was boring after five. LONG live c-drama, LOL
If the marriage is sexless, why the deal is only 3rd thursday of every month, only for the husband? That's not enough sex for both of them/one of them:-D
I kinda like people who do not try (so hard) to socialize. I deff dislike people who do not respect privacy (of others/their own). That being said, listening to that boss saying to the employee, that "socializing with your COLLEAGUES is of UTMOST priority", I was like: Really? At WORK? Should I spend all my worktime exchanging nailpolish & gossip with them to become employee of the month?
That way, I no longer wonder why japanese need to stay at work till it's dark. Then they go to a MANDATORY drinking party where the company tries to patch up their deals with the other party (also drunk) they do bussiness with, else it would all fall apart. Nice. As long as it works for them, LOL
Just one more adaptation of a manga... Where they do show us the manga. It's a mistake, the manga looks better than the drama no need to point that out LOL
Okay, 2nd episode, she literally runs after him (this really needs 'Female Chases Male First' Tag added) while under a huge banner saying WISDOM . BEAUTY . and he asks her whether it's her hobby to follow people around. He's got the typical haircut where you don't know whether to laugh or cry... HE could laugh at the girl's behavior, but he seems to have quite serious problems at home, he should be morelike annoyed by super silly FL... Btw, I noticed the tune she played on the piano. It sounded like from 'Angelique' movies, lol The other unfortunate thing is since childhood, nothing bores me more than cards. Episodes are twenty minutes, yet I don't do them at one sitting. Usually I have enough sooner;-)
"A romance tailored for a lifetime" LOL. GagaOOLala tries very much:-D If anything, they should have better name this 'Love Tailored Suit' or smth, than 'The Tuxedo' (just try to translate สูทรักนักออกแบบ, even google does better job:-) I don't think any of the (ill fitting) suits featured in this series had satin lapels, satin buttons, and were accompanied by a bow tie: https://www.hockerty.com/en/blog/tuxedo-vs-suit Good to see Chap Suppacheep finally in something other than 1-minute funny shorts, but question is whether this is enough to be his only proper leading role.......
So, she is a heiress to a fortune. Her parents won't let her go to uni as they say that she'll become a housewife anyways, so why not speed it: they want her to get married right after graduating high school. That too, to a perfect stranger, through traditional arranged marriage. The girl does not wish this, both because she's bored at home and would prefer going to college, and because she wants to experience love. So, she asks her bodyguard, assigned to her since she was 10 years old, to marry her instead in a name only, with the agreement that they're both perfectly free to have affairs. That way, she'll finally will be able to have some kind of love life freely, which is kinda ironic that she becomes a married woman to do that but I guess affairs are very common in japan if one is to believe to how many romance j-dramas feature infidelity. She's also in touch with her friend who did get into university, and lets her tag along to all the students parties and gatherings, so that she still can be part of that lifestyle and possibly find her "infidelity partner". The bodyguard agrees to this, either because he is a good friend to her knowing her since 10 years old girlie, or because she is rich heiress. This happens in the first 5 minutes of the drama. The character's motivations are pretty much viewer's guess, like how the parents agreed to marrying her bodyguard instead of the arranged marriage partner who was probably a better prospect, it's all quickly done, they're married, she's counting minutes each day to leave the household and enter college life through her friend. I guess the only big surprise in store is that the bodyguard is actually interested in the girl romantically? If you find something like that romantic. There is 8 years gap between the actors, assuming she was 10 then he was 18 when they first met. Unless the character is supposed to be older which makes not a better sense, either.
I don't know. Somehow I don't find it believable that star of such calibre, who hears left & right how hot he is, no matter if it is true (he IS from the Ugly Haircut Country), would be pining over some staff: even in a drama, LOL. Yet, in between shooting dramas and commercials, he spends each waking moment checking, whether SHE was paying attention to him that moment. Or, he is listening to his super ugly assistant, who looks like they cut his hair around a pot which had holes, and who claims that he got a girlfriend already (in which he surpassed our "star") and that she was curious about him a lot. Was she curious which detention camp did they forcibly cut his hair in? Else I don't know. I don't get most of the things in this drama........
Now, the 1st episode was totally insane. The whole time, it looked like KiSub, the cute little cockroach, which was his own self-description (and that was just one of the 1000 tiny little WTF moments in 1st episode) deserved to be kicked in the butt all the way to the Moon from JinWoo's house he forcibly entered. Except! He actually entered because he knew that JinWoo likes him. JinWoo's own voiceover confirms this. I was like: Whaaat?
Then, after considering KiSub this show's weirdo, JinWoo actually starts to compete in that with him. Just take a good look at his home, LOL. He's got the automatic lights telling him when to go to sleep. He's got a door to a "room" which is in the open area. He's got NOTICE BOARD at home... Even eccentric like Jung Ki Sub looks suprised at many things. Never mind the viewer. But maybe it's oddly good that Jin Woo is so meticulous about everything, and keeps writing everything down. That way Ki Sub can read instruction manual to everything with him. He is good at following instructions, isn't he? LOL at him reading on his notice board what age he wants to start drinking & dating.
THE CHECKLISTS
This show is all running aroud two checklists of JinWoo's. One is the most heartbreaking checklist in the world: Things To Do To Meet Dad. Yes, JinWoo believes for years that his dad does not care about him and that the work is more important. Apparently the overly busy dad discovered this checklist too late, else just the name of it should put him in perspective. The other list is My Perfect Date Type checklist, which KiSub unfortunatelly discovers early in the story, and starts wearing weird clothes & hairdo making him look like island firsherman's wife, getting a silly tattoo and many other stupid things, all the while forgetting that JinWoo liked him BEFORE the checklist.
Now, this series has short run-time. So, one should hope this time the writers would quit bullying us with making the characters move/threatening that the characters will move to America, having one character suffer serious illness, preventing two people LIVING TOGETHER to sucessfully meet (the other couple who manages to fix a date, at least each of them arrives on the date to a different cinema), going to great lenghts to outwardly fix things which would be fixed by one honest conversation, and other similar stuff I am not just jokingly mentioning, but we actually watch, here. So good the twenty-something minute episodes did not have their runtime wasted, LOL.
Both couples are extremely cute, NOT boring, and have more than just one depth. Which is admirable and what keeps you going with this far from perfect series. As a viewer you wanted to get way more than you got from this, which indicates failure on one hand, success on the other because you are not fed up with them. The ending is kinda sweet albeit being cut short. 8 out of 10.
Yeah but I still like Kentaro better. He looks this good WITHOUT the super white base & pink lipstick they use in korea to make-up men (after they obviously stole both from WOMEN's makeup department).
Such an amazingly outstanding actor. He just lit up the screen the first time I saw him on heroine disqualified.…
Yeah but I still like Kentaro better. He looks this good WITHOUT the super white base & pink lipstick they use in korea to make-up men (after they obviously stole both from WOMEN's makeup department).
EPISODE 1 The money plot is about as believable as guy with looks and charm of Sakaguchi Kentaro (omg, the voice) still being single & available. No matter his obsession with his brother's wife, he'd have a few women on the side, it's like a sci-fi watching him desperately looking for someone, getting rejected and water splashed into his face, LOL. But, being quite impossible to live with, even such a bland and average looker on a verge or marriable age as FL is, I would not marry him: either he stays a pr*ck, then she'll have to kill him in his sleep, or he'll be a bit nicer, then she WILL fall for him. And to be in love with your husband of convenience, who doesn't want you, is pathetic. No money is worth that.........
"Not to mention the random and vaguely stereotypical comments about China that were peppered in the show ... ummmm ...."
Yeah. Basically, FL gets slapped arround, harrased around by her boss, mostly silently accepting it as she obviously feels some guilt about her as her ex gf, and does not wish to make herself more important than the task done. Every time she at least tries to protest, when given yet more bizarre work instructions, her boss says "but that's a custom in China". And because the project is ordered by chinese, they are the boss. It's always China this, China that... Not that I would really have a moral issue with it, China deserves it, LOL. But it's clearly just used to excuse any nonsense going on. It really is like a child has written the script.
I haven't completed this drama yet, I might drop it, but it's very short and the only japanese GL I recently found so I'll try to finish it, out of bizarre curiosity;-)
Is the Korean version exactly like this with the plot a scenes?
Not sure. I came back to this drama's site after a year, and saw that I dropped this version. I had to look to see after how many episodes I dropped it. It says after 2 episodes. This is why I have MDL I can't remember everything LOL
Okay, I dropped the drama after 5 minutes of episode 3. I'm getting lost in this, first the leading lady wished to turn her life around and she succeeded and I'm no longer excited about it (perhaps it would be better to make a movie about her getting in that school and then leave it), and now she lives around half generation younger people who are single ready to mingle and I expect whom will she have her romance line with, while I don't really wish it to be the boyo wearing twice more lip gloss he is shown with someone else then epi 3 he says he is not really with her and I'm not sure I care I'm 5 minutes in with overall nothing to keep me going.
I hate it when the synopsis are so misleading. She did not repeatedly fail her entrance exams. She had an accident…
To be honest I never read synopsis of the yet unwatched dramas. These are things I wish to learn gradually while watching, not before. On the other hand, I always read Tags. TAGS tell me everything I need to know BEFORE I devote my time and THEY decide whether I will watch!
Okay, the reason for a young guy to move in with a couple of years older woman as her "wife" (no sex included, just the housework) is non-existent, though the show repeatedly atttempted to somehow "logically" explain it. Plus, it's a bit weird to see the Pornographer in a kind of role in which he tries to be funny (and he is not, btw). Both adds to quite a strange watch.
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"A high-ranking executive with a severe case of OCD that prevents him from interacting with women meets 18-year-old art student and he feels completely at ease around her."
I checked the cast. He is 22 (the high-ranking executive), she is 24 (the 18yr student).
Plus it's c-drama = all dubbed by the generic voice actors.
THIRTY episodes instead of sixteen of Secretary Kim, which was boring after five.
LONG live c-drama, LOL
I deff dislike people who do not respect privacy (of others/their own).
That being said, listening to that boss saying to the employee, that "socializing with your COLLEAGUES is of UTMOST priority", I was like: Really? At WORK? Should I spend all my worktime exchanging nailpolish & gossip with them to become employee of the month?
That way, I no longer wonder why japanese need to stay at work till it's dark. Then they go to a MANDATORY drinking party where the company tries to patch up their deals with the other party (also drunk) they do bussiness with, else it would all fall apart. Nice. As long as it works for them, LOL
The other unfortunate thing is since childhood, nothing bores me more than cards. Episodes are twenty minutes, yet I don't do them at one sitting. Usually I have enough sooner;-)
LOL. GagaOOLala tries very much:-D
If anything, they should have better name this 'Love Tailored Suit' or smth, than 'The Tuxedo' (just try to translate สูทรักนักออกแบบ, even google does better job:-) I don't think any of the (ill fitting) suits featured in this series had satin lapels, satin buttons, and were accompanied by a bow tie:
https://www.hockerty.com/en/blog/tuxedo-vs-suit
Good to see Chap Suppacheep finally in something other than 1-minute funny shorts, but question is whether this is enough to be his only proper leading role.......
Then, after considering KiSub this show's weirdo, JinWoo actually starts to compete in that with him. Just take a good look at his home, LOL. He's got the automatic lights telling him when to go to sleep. He's got a door to a "room" which is in the open area. He's got NOTICE BOARD at home... Even eccentric like Jung Ki Sub looks suprised at many things. Never mind the viewer. But maybe it's oddly good that Jin Woo is so meticulous about everything, and keeps writing everything down. That way Ki Sub can read instruction manual to everything with him. He is good at following instructions, isn't he? LOL at him reading on his notice board what age he wants to start drinking & dating.
THE CHECKLISTS
This show is all running aroud two checklists of JinWoo's. One is the most heartbreaking checklist in the world: Things To Do To Meet Dad. Yes, JinWoo believes for years that his dad does not care about him and that the work is more important. Apparently the overly busy dad discovered this checklist too late, else just the name of it should put him in perspective. The other list is My Perfect Date Type checklist, which KiSub unfortunatelly discovers early in the story, and starts wearing weird clothes & hairdo making him look like island firsherman's wife, getting a silly tattoo and many other stupid things, all the while forgetting that JinWoo liked him BEFORE the checklist.
Now, this series has short run-time. So, one should hope this time the writers would quit bullying us with making the characters move/threatening that the characters will move to America, having one character suffer serious illness, preventing two people LIVING TOGETHER to sucessfully meet (the other couple who manages to fix a date, at least each of them arrives on the date to a different cinema), going to great lenghts to outwardly fix things which would be fixed by one honest conversation, and other similar stuff I am not just jokingly mentioning, but we actually watch, here. So good the twenty-something minute episodes did not have their runtime wasted, LOL.
Both couples are extremely cute, NOT boring, and have more than just one depth. Which is admirable and what keeps you going with this far from perfect series. As a viewer you wanted to get way more than you got from this, which indicates failure on one hand, success on the other because you are not fed up with them. The ending is kinda sweet albeit being cut short. 8 out of 10.
He looks this good WITHOUT the super white base & pink lipstick they use in korea to make-up men (after they obviously stole both from WOMEN's makeup department).
He looks this good WITHOUT the super white base & pink lipstick they use in korea to make-up men (after they obviously stole both from WOMEN's makeup department).
CAN'T be better then, LOL
Yeah. Basically, FL gets slapped arround, harrased around by her boss, mostly silently accepting it as she obviously feels some guilt about her as her ex gf, and does not wish to make herself more important than the task done. Every time she at least tries to protest, when given yet more bizarre work instructions, her boss says "but that's a custom in China". And because the project is ordered by chinese, they are the boss. It's always China this, China that... Not that I would really have a moral issue with it, China deserves it, LOL. But it's clearly just used to excuse any nonsense going on. It really is like a child has written the script.
I haven't completed this drama yet, I might drop it, but it's very short and the only japanese GL I recently found so I'll try to finish it, out of bizarre curiosity;-)
I had to look to see after how many episodes I dropped it. It says after 2 episodes. This is why I have MDL I can't remember everything LOL
I'm getting lost in this, first the leading lady wished to turn her life around and she succeeded and I'm no longer excited about it (perhaps it would be better to make a movie about her getting in that school and then leave it), and now she lives around half generation younger people who are single ready to mingle and I expect whom will she have her romance line with, while I don't really wish it to be the boyo wearing twice more lip gloss he is shown with someone else then epi 3 he says he is not really with her and I'm not sure I care I'm 5 minutes in with overall nothing to keep me going.
Plus, it's a bit weird to see the Pornographer in a kind of role in which he tries to be funny (and he is not, btw).
Both adds to quite a strange watch.