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I didn't like it.

"Don't bother" with what? You barged in here, and demanded to be spoonfed information instead of using a basic skill like Googling. Then you get offended like a petulant little child because I told you to do yourself a favour and open up Google. Also, check your own spelling and grammar, you need it on top of Googling.

No, I'm not looking for any romance specifically. I do not like the main pairing in the first place. But yes, the romance is shoddy writing. That did not mean the entire drama is shoddy. I criticised the decision the writers made for writing their romance the way they did.

This is fiction. Unlike real life, in fiction, there's a main guy and a main girl for a reason. A main girl who has had her screentime already diminished and then relegated to the second love interest of the main guy is shoddy writing. Don't use the reason that "this drama is about real life" to excuse shoddy writing.

you don't have to be grammatical on GOOGLE SEARCH, buddy. you just have to string some words together for it to pick up keywords. WTF. google has been around for over 20 years and you still don't know how to use it?! damn. i have no patience for stupidity, if you want people to be polite to your stupid ass then go back to kindergarten and be a 5-year old.

I don't know why so many people keep using the reason of the main actress' quarantine to justify her character in the drama. It's fine if the writers had to improvise the writing to accommodate the change in frequency of her appearance, I get it - but what has that got to do with making the main male character fall in love with the second female lead for half the show?! The romance did not have to be that way at all, male character falling in love with another girl is completely unrelated with the main actress' "quarantine" period. There were so many things they could've improvised with her diminished screentime because of circumstances beyond her control. Writing the romance this way simply tells me, the watcher, that the main female is the guy's "second choice". It's not respecting the main female character at all. Other than her character, I'm not even feeling the main actress in her role at all. She's not one of my fave actresses, and this kind of shoddy writing is not doing her any favours.

dude just do a google search with vague keywords like "korean celeb druggies" or "korean stars druggies" it's not that hard. it's 2023 do yourself a favour and learn how to google, even though google is becoming such a shit company

i've been snoring each time the FL comes onscreen since ep 1, her character is easily the weakest in the whole series. Despite being the main girl she's going to be the ML's second option in the end? =_=

my friend saw him collecting a take-out order at a restaurant once. he looks a lot better IRL than this crap photo. actually, there are other better pictures out there. smh

He got fat...

dammit another 10-15 mins drama, i wasn't expecting it
edit: it was pretty good, although the drama lost some momentum halfway.

i also watched a Q&A session with the male and female leads and damn, lmfao the female actress was like she couldn't wait for the session to end. there was no chemistry and no sense of rapport between them. it's like she couldn't stand his face, so many times she refused to look at him directly even when he was talking to her. her eyes kept darting back and forth when she was answering questions. he's the same way, too btw, he kept looking at his feet and kept fidgeting when answering questions. i can't believe these are the same people who acted in the drama. the vibes are totally different. the male lead's real voice is also a lot deeper than the one they dubbed him with on screen. it shocked me lmfao

lmao there are so many confirmed ex-druggies. i won't mention their names because of their insane fans but you can easily find out who they are.

well funnily enough, the "gay" pictures for one of the cases were censored in the chinese version while HBO kept that.

I don't know if that's "normal" but I've seen many others getting a higher frequency of projects.

1. People should destroy their rose-tinted glasses and quit believing that their TV faves are pure, ideal men who "let them down". They didn't let you down. You just didn't know them. Acting is just a job. They're not saints.
2. There are truly bad men who were arrested, charged, banned by networks, and are still getting acting jobs after 10 years have passed. Not many netizens care about "cancelling" these bad men for whatever reason.
3. There are netizens who still gush over ex-druggies who were arrested, and then banned by networks, and then returned to act. Some netizens are more forgiving because these ex-druggies "look so good". You do you.
4. There are truly bad men with shocking cases, but Kim Seon Ho's controversy is not one of them. You're free to hate him, but since worse people (examples above) are still getting jobs, he won't suffer as much.

Yeah. Well, Her parents allowed it, so who am I to comment? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Fact is, he picked her out of so many girls. Mfer. Had she not been Kimura's daughter he wouldn't have done so.

did he name himself "daddi" on purpose 😂

wow... uncle shi liang is full of talents!

I don't understand your stance here. You're agreeing they have bad subs. So I don't know why you sound like you're defending them at the same time. Bad subs are bad subs. And? What's your point? I was saying that they have bad subs, which is the general consensus in this thread. Also, why are you bringing up other languages? English is the most used medium for internationally licensed series. Unless they're licensing to specific regions. You need to carefully reread what I have written in the previous comment.

What I was saying is, if they licensed this internationally, which means they accepted money so this can be broadcast internationally, then they shouldn't have used software translation in the first place. Everyone knows that machine translation is unreliable. But, I don't know if they do license this internationally. If they don't, then it makes sense they DGAF about the bad subs.

I used to care about literal translations when I was still in school and learning Chinese, but these days I'm not as pedantic. "Going with something easy" in translated works is mostly acceptable to me, as long as the main point is communicated, the dialogue flows smoothly, since the watcher won't even remember the details a day later. But extremely bad subs stay with the watcher for a long time. Which is true for this drama.

The subs are atrocious. It's clear they used an auto-translation software. It's comprehensible I think 60% of the time but I don't imagine the subs will help as the episodes delve deeper into the cases as time goes on. The low quality of the subs is glaring from the start. ML's name is Lu Feng Ping, sometimes it was translated correctly but sometimes it was directly translated word-by-word into "Land Wind Level". He has people who verbally call him, "Feng Ping" which is his first name, but it's translated into "Wind Level". I keep seeing "Wind LEvel! Wind Level!" each time someone calls him and it's just anti-climactic, you know? They would be in a tense scene and then it's just "WIND LEVEL!" And then "Luo Dui" should be "Chief Luo" but that was translated into "Luo Team". And this is just the small stuff. I can't imagine what will happen to the translation when more complicated issues arise in later episodes. I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks bad subs are distracting and dampens the mood even if you understand the language.