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Right You, but is it the Right Time?

This miniseries is like a lullaby in the best possible way, might lull you to sleep accidentally but genuinely warm and comforting.

The series is about the leads, just the two of them. Phat is heartbroken and staying with his friend and her younger brother Mhok. There is an instant connection between Mhok and Phat because they have a backstory but it is also incredibly obvious that Phat is not ready to date yet. His friend decides that a series of rituals and methods to help Phat forget his ex is the way to go, and when these don't work, the gang turns to copious amounts of alcohol that leads to serious conversations between Mhok and Phat, and moments that help them both heal from the past love they each carry.

This story was deeper than I expected, albeit a little slow because of the abundance of scenes that lent nothing to the story like the rituals, but for 2 episodes, they manage to keep your attention by instigating the feeling of "will they, won't they?" A good series weighed down by some unnecessary elements.

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The Moment : Since is the continuation of The Moment I Need You, and it seems nice. A nice little look into the lives of the leads since the first series, these five episodes seem to be just that, but that’s all. Just a tiny window into their lives. Was it really necessary, no, but is it still enjoyable? The question seems to be just that. The quality, top notch. The series itself? A pleasant suprise, but it is it anything more and if it is,is it worth a watch? The answer seems to be yes.

THE STORY:
The story follows Mok and Bay on vacation, but Bay’s boss and the boss’ best friend are also vacationing at the same resort. That’s pretty much the story. What was the point of the story, I have no clue. It’s filled with these cute moments between the leads, but I still don’t know what this series is about. Is it leading somewhere? I honestly don’t think so. And yet I’m hooked. There’s just something about this series that I can’t really explain, but it got me to watch all of it and I think that’s what matters.

THE ACTING:
The acting is good. The chemistry is there, but not in a way that it slaps you across the face, it’s more of a gentle caress. I will say that while some scenes do feel stiff and akward, the acting has remained consistent with the first season.

THE PRODUCTION:
This is one of the aspects greatly improved upon. The first series was dark to reflect the mindset of Mok, but this one is light and fluffy, showing just how much Mok’s state has improved. A few details like these are highly appreciated and add an extra dimension to an already good story. The problem here is with the number of episodes. How they will manage to weave an entire story into five episodes of fifteen minutes each is my concern. Hopefully they pull through and give us an actual story.

THE OST:
It’s light and sweet and makes you feel the love. What more can I say?

THE NEGATIVE:
Nothing quite so negative about this series. It’s a beautiful love story and maybe we need that kind of giddy optimism of sunshine and rainbows in our lives.

THE ENDING:
So guess what! Mok was paying Kim from 2moons ( I know his name is Copter, but calling him Kim is just fun! ) to take pictures of Mok and Bay to create a pendrive of moments. That mystery is solved. It was a happy ending overall and after the crapfest that was the Shipper’s ending, I really needed this.

When we watch television some us wish to escape reality, some want real stories, but what everyone really wants is a good way to spend their free time. I’m still on the fence about this series. It’s good, but not in a “ Oh my God, you need to watch this right now.” way, but rather in a “ If you have free time it’s a good watch” kind. While there may be no rhyme or reason to why this series was produced, I will say that this is not a waste of time. Give it a try when you have time . Thank You!

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The second instalment of the Girl Next Room series is a sure hit. It’s funny, heartbreaking and heartfelt. This instalment is about Mimi, a girl who has several phobias and a radio DJ who begin talking at three in the morning due to Mimi’s fear of ghosts. They begin talking every night and slowly begin falling love, but what Mimi doesn’t know is DJ Titan is actually Than, her classmate with whom she has a mutual hate.

THE STORY:
The story is very well written. The parts about Than, Peemai and Dausou were extremely heartfelt. Mimi begins to talk to Titan, and begins to fall in love with him, but when she discovers that Than is Titan, she is shocked. When asked who she likes, Than or Titan, she is unable to choose. Only after hearing Than’s past does she realise she loves Than, the one behind the mic, despite his persona.

THE ACTING:
The actors were amazing. Every single one of them. You rarely find series’ with such actors so it is a must watch. Special shoutout to Gun , because he seems to be in every GMM production and always manages to play his character perfectly, however different they may be.

THE PRODUCTION:
Production was perfection! All the storylines were handled very well, especially the Bi/Pansexual storyline of Mimi’s best friend. That is the representation we deserve!

THE OST:
I didn’t pay much attention to the OST, as it was quite forgettable.

THE NEGATIVE:
The only negative was seeing how Mimi treated Than, saying that she loved DJ Titan and not Than, despite them being the same person. At times Mimi got too annoying for me, but despite this a very enjoyable story.

THE ENDING:
Quite a satisfying ending. Despite the fact that Mimi and Than got together, the more satisfying story was Than and Peemai becoming friends again. No hate, but it was obvious that Mimi and Than would get together from the beginning, but seeing Than and Peemai put together their differences after the trauma they experienced really broke me.

I hope this review was helpful to those contemplating on this series. It certainly is a must watch and will not disappoint you. Thank You!

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I wish there was another path in the game

I probably shouldn't be laying into a mini-séries like I'm about to because I don't think it was ever intended to be a classical masterpiece, but it's kind of hilarious how quickly this fell into so many tropes without really needing to


➖ An MC who does not stand up for himself, has the personality of zero but has three men interested in him romantically at one point or another - check.
➖ A tsundere ML who's sole expression is displeased and also has the disposition of a moody piece of cardboard - check.
➖ A slimy ex who does nothing but complain and yell - check.
➖ An evil female character who only works to plot the downfall of the MC - check.

Off of the plot alone - where an electrocution caused by a computer lands one of the leads in an RPG type of situation - this had incredible potential but they messed up at the first instance by having the ML end up as the "player" instead of the MC.

Imagine, Yeong Won, our MC is a game developer in charge of writing the script for a new game his company is producing. He gets electrocuted accidentally and when he wakes up, he finds that he can see all the elements of the game in real life - including the dialogues he wrote. And his mission? Make sure his boss doesn't absolutely hate him like he does at the moment, before the game goes to market.

But instead, we got Tae In, our ML, being the one who was electrocuted, and the "player" - his mission? Make Yeong Won like him, and later fall in love with him.

I cannot explain the amount of HR violations either of these scenarios would entail, but we do love a good office romance.

But I'm going to continue to dwell on the way this could've actually been amazing - because it could! In my imagination, Yeong Won would've been the "player", which would've given him the chance to have a personality besides pretty. A comedy of errors would've worked so well here, even if it may be basic, Yeong Won trying so hard to make Tae In like him, but it's not the tricks that work, it's the genuine moments between them.
This way, Tae In also gets to have a personality while still being as stoic as the writers clearly wanted him to be. It's not new but it's fresh and funny and light hearted, everything I want it to be.

Instead we got a melodrama.
In trying to reverse the roles, the plot fell into so many traps it laid out for itself. The writers seemingly forgot that this started out with Tae In needing Yeong Won to like him, and the only way to do that is by saving him from his ex and himself. Obviously.
The ex and his new girlfriend were the worst additions to this series, I can forgive two leads who don't move their faces an inch in 59 episodes, but introducing trash to get them together - I cannot forgive.

Yeong Won is always sad and getting slapped, Tae In is a secret chaebol, there is an unnecessary amount of slow running shots, what more could you expect from a kdrama, really?

My imaginary plot and it's resolution can end with Yeong Won telling Tae In about the mission, or Tae In telling Yeong Won he also had a mission (it's not really fleshed out), but the actual ending sucked. Not because it's not what I wanted, because it made no sense. Like some last minute resolution for the sake of it.

This would not be the first mini-séries I would recommend, there are other better options but if you are looking for a short background watch, it's not the worst option.

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A spinoff I need a spinoff of

This was a really sweet spinoff and now I kinda want to see Sakuma and Yamase have their own series as themselves, not characters from the series. Well the fictional series. No wait. We get my point.

Hiru no Yume follows Teppei and Yamato, and their love story after the events of Daytime Dream, the drama that was filmed in S1 of At 25 in Akasaka.

It was obviously very short, kind of like an actual special you would get of a side couple that had five seconds of screentime in the main series, and of course I would have loved an actual full fledged story here.

But again, this was very cute, we got what I imagine was part of the special they filmed within the series, we got to see all the leads again and the chemistry between Takuma and Shoma is actually amazing, would love to see them in a spinoff of Akasaka or in a different series.

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I mean.. it's a special..

It's a special episode that once again followed the story of the original special almost to a tee - just two episodes instead of one and both of them combined ran for a shorter amount of time than the original did.

And again, it was panaromic beach views, romance and NC scenes and it felt more like a part of the series than an actual special, so that's something.

There's not much else to say here, chemistry was the same as the series, almost good. I wasn't bored, so that's something.

And I'll take it yeah.
It was weirdly sweet, kind of fun and both objectively and comparatively not bad.

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Umm.. uhh..

I always find it interesting how weirdly fun (albeit equally unhinged) mini vertical series could be if they were full length shows. They're weirdly fun as is as well, but this one was.. oh.. this one was..

It started kind of fun. Your usual amount of incredibly improbable plotline with a combination of very over the top and no facial movement acting. It kept going at that pace.. and then it got strange and bad?

Because it's a mini series, the plot can literally be explained in three sentences - Pat and Leon meet when both of them are in rather unfortunate situations, that somehow ends up with them in a pretend relationship. So Pat takes on the job of Leon's manager to keep up the ruse and because he's taking care of his younger brother and needs money coming in. But of course there's a bunch of problems that crop up, with each of them lasting around five minutes.

I don't know how to rate this - it was okay until it wasn't and over before it began, so, it was kind of bad? I don't know, just like their last series, if you want to aimlessly scroll but still watch something, it's perfect, because that's what I did.

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That was strangely entertaining

That was so much fun and it was so funny. Not in the "I had a great time because it's quality work" kind of way, but the "it's so bad, it's good" kind of feeling.

The story was actually bonkers. I've seen plenty of revenge plot where their ideas are also completely over the top and dramatic, and this was just the same, but it was actually bonkers in the way they executed it. Badly, of course, each episode had a new plotline almost, and some of them didn't even bother being a continuation, it jumped to a whole new, unrelated plot. But it was so insanely executed that it was funny.
The guy basically has a one night stand with his professor, boss and aunt's fiancé (it's the same dude, he just has a lot of designations) and decides to keep seeing him because he wants to get revenge on his aunt for ruining his life.

And honestly? This, expanded upon, written well and given the same amount of dramatic vibes? I would absolutely watch it.
This plot, executed properly as a BL, I would eat it up. Just for the drama of it all, because they did have some genuinely feasible (and maybe even good) storylines and moments.

The acting was atrocious though. Pretty sure one of the supporting actors actually read off his cue card in a scene. Not good, sometimes all around terrible.
The leads kind of had some chemistry though, which was nice because they spent a lot of time focusing on their relationship and almost made me root for them as a couple (if not for the bad acting, I would have!)

The characters are all human trash. Except for one character, I hated every single other. But once again props to them for somehow making me almost root for two morally grey characters, yeah, they almost did!

And if you're wondering why the music has such a high score - it's because they used OSTs from Bad Buddy, I Told Sunset About You and I Promised You The Moon! The rest of the music was terrible and even the OSTs made no sense for the plot, but I just had to because I love the songs.

If you're looking for something to watch in the background, maybe not this one! I was somehow sucked into paying attention, even though it was terrible, and I actually enjoyed it lol.

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The best one yet

This is by far, the best entry into the franchise and it's surprising that it took so long for them to use the plotlines they did in this movie!

Pee Nak 4 follows First, Balloon, Min Jun and Nott from the previous movies as they both vacation and attempt to repair an old chapel that belongs to Min Jun's family. The repairs have stopped for some reason and when the four of them find themselves haunted by yet another Pee Nak, they need to find the spirit's identity and figure out what their connection to the chapel is.

This was the first movie that properly utilized the mystery aspect of horror movies, in the previous three, the huge reveals weren't as surprising as they were meant to be, and though this one didn't have that shocker of a reveal either, they did manage to create a ton of mystery while also using their tried and true Naga mythology story aspect. And the legend they used in this one was amazing as well, definitely my favorite of the four.

The horror was actually good! There were jump scares? I was surprised watching it and surprised myself again after I realized I watched a jump scare in a Pee Nak movie.

And the comedy was back. I genuinely enjoyed the comedy in this one, absurd, dark, and self - aware comedy? Yes please!

The thing they did best though - creating an emotional connection, I'm surprised it hasn't been done before. It's a tried and true way to get the audience invested and this one was executed beautifully. I genuinely teared up a bit, without giving away too many spoilers, the backstory in this was absolutely amazing and you could truly feel the emotions.

I would definitely recommend watching this one - as well as watching the others for continuity purposes, but if you had to pick one? This is my first pick. The plot was set up in movie three, but even without watching it, you won't be that lost. This was so very good and they did set up another sequel, which, considering the fact that I've pretty much binged the franchise, I hope is just as good.

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With You Always

That weirdly conveyed more emotions in eight minutes than I have seen full length series do..

The story is pretty straightforward, it switches narrative between the present and the past and finally back to the present, all in a span of eight minutes. We see the wedding of the leads, Siam and Nawanruk, and a majority of the film is just their first dance. They talk to each other about their love for each other, their marriage and what it means for them going forward while they dance, and the film aptly concludes on what happened after.

It was all quite emotional, I'm not going to spoil anything, but it was emotional. The acting, the way it was filmed, the music, all complemented that feeling of despair and sadness the movie itself portrayed very well, and by the end, I was actually moved to tears.

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Unfinished Sequel - Unfulfilled Potential

Was this almost unnecessary?
Absolutely
Did I still watch because continuity and Wi Ha Joon?
Absolutely

The set up was right there after season 1 for sure, but there was also no real need to have another season, let alone two. But I still watched it because despite my progress with not torturing myself by watching things I don't want to in the name of continuity, I thought this would be good. I liked the first season, why not this one

The seven episodes started out incredibly serious in episodes 1-2, started getting this comedic undertone in episodes 3-5, and by the time it got to 6-7, it was a joke. The tone was serious, but the plot was a joke.

The initial set up of wanting to take down the game from within the game is a pretty bad one by the way, Gi Hun was the winner last time and knows the game inside and out. For someone who knows how it works, he sure made a lot of decisions based on the humane nature of the participants. And for someone who knows that the people controlling the games can see literally everything and manipulate it as they wish.. he really didn't think anything through.

That's the problem with this season, the core concept just feels all wrong and what it relies on instead is the bread and butter of season 1 - getting you emotionally invested in the characters. The new cast is awesome, so many wonderful and endearing characters (amongst the usual jerks because I guess there always needs to be characters as the opposition within the contestants, because meta I guess) and they are one of the few reasons I'm looking forward to season 3.

The returning characters as well, written pretty well. Gi Hun is battered and scarred from the last games and it shows, his only intent the entire time is to make sure the games end and to protect as many people as he can. This kind of backfires (see: section that talks about the bad writing), and we're left on a cliffhanger.
Jun Ho is used very sparingly despite being a lead and that choice is very paradoxical because the way they've written the series makes sure that his character can't do much. He could've if they'd changed the plot accordingly at certain points, which I hope they do in the sequel.
In Ho aka The Front Man had the best development this season, at least for me. Not in terms of character or anything, in terms of playing a role in the plot and I'm definitely curious how they'll take that forward.

There isn't really much to say until season 3 is out because I hope the plot can recover from the kind of dive it took in the last couple of episodes. I don't know how they're going to do it, but I hope for our sakes and theirs that they actually find a way to end the game because even with Wi Ha Joon, this doesn't need a fourth season.

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The horror!

Wasn't actually that scary now that I think about it, sure it had it's fair share of jump scares but overall, am I much impressed? Let's find out!

Episode 1 - Our Little Sister
Story factor - 8.0
Scare factor - 1.0
Standout performance - Aye (Cherprang)
This was a fairly good story with a solid plot twist, it was a bit creepy and a bit sad and was quite the start to the series, the best one to start with as well I would say, they made a great decision to have this be the first of the anthology.
Final score - 7.0

Episode 2 - Wedding Dress
Story factor - 5.0
Scare factor - 3.0
Standout performance - Milk (Care)
This is one of the stories I thought would have benefited from a longer runtime, a full length movie perhaps, because while it was sad and scary, it didn't really create the impact it could have. Nevertheless, a solid entry, not the best
Final score - 5.5

Episode 3 - Ode to My Family
Story factor - 8.5
Scare factor - 1.5
Standout performance - Chawin (Poon)
This was my favorite episode and even without my obvious biased opinion, this is one of the best episodes in the series. Good suspense, psychological horror as opposed to just gore and a plot twist I genuinely did not see coming. The only one I didn't see coming by the way, other episodes did have plot twists that were predictable to an extent but this one I didn't anticipate.
Final score - 9.0

Episode 4 - The Vow
Story factor - 7.0
Scare factor - 1.5
Standout performance - Nat (Gee)
This was one of the episodes that was good, but compared to others, just felt a like bit of a letdown. Nothing wrong with the episode itself to be honest, just not my personal favorite. It was psychological horror and I believe the only one that was inspired by an urban legend, so props to that.
Final score - 7.0

Episode 5 - Spectral Class
Story factor - 1.0
Scare factor - 2.0
Standout performance - Nik (Prince)
This.. what on earth did I witness with this episode? I hated it. I'm sorry but I absolutely hated it. I know that horror stories don't necessarily have to make sense but come on! This was nonsense. Unnecessarily violent and gruesome nonsense. Just.. ugh.
Final score - 1.0

Episode 6 - Girl Next Door
Story factor - 8.0
Scare factor - 3.0
Standout performance - Bird (Nat)
This was the saddest episode of them all, I was actually tearing up toward the end of the episode. The set up was sad, the twist ending was sad, everything about this was quite emotional and what I thought would be one of my least favorites when I started the episode turned into something that impressed me
Final score - 7.5

Episode 7 - Dear Granny
Story factor - 5.0
Scare factor - 5.5
Standout performance - Nulek (Sydney)
This was definitely the scariest episode and a close runner up for the position of episode I hated most. No, not because it was scary. It was again, just not very believable or coherent. The twist ending was not explained very well, even if it had to be ambiguous, there are definitely ways to clear stuff up for the audience and this was not it. Again, pointless gore with a hint of a story.. not a fan
Final score - 4.0

Episode 8 - Viral Curse
Story factor - 6.0
Scare factor - 5.0
Standout performance - Ple (Nina)
This had both a decent story and some good scares, but unfortunately I was kind of over it by the time I got to this episode and my interest just plummeted. It was a very meta and well executed plot but much like the second episode, needed more time to develop. It wasn't bad, but I was just not into it.
Final score - 6.5

The acting in almost all the parts really impressed me, they did have some standout performances I liked but I did think the acting was solid all around.
The direction and writing.. definitely could have used some work.

Adding all the scores and finding the average.. came out to a score of around 5.9.. let's round up to a 6..
So did it impress me? Almost? Some of them absolutely did, others disappointed, and a rare one actually made me want to chuck something out of a window.

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Watch me reap the consequences of my own actions

I always say that I can look past bad acting, cinematography or editing, the one thing I can't look past is bad writing. On the off chance, I can look past those two plotholes or insane storylines in scripts that are mostly airtight, but when they are gaping enough for you to fall through, that's where I draw the line.

Let me clarify, the writing isn't abysmal here, there were a few amazing twists but the story either needed to be way crisper or way more fleshed out than it was. I still don't have answers to some of the biggest mysteries they introduced and it just felt sloppy at points. I won't fault it for starting off slow and then picking up the pace, some of my favourite dramas are that way. What I will say though is that the change in pace was so abrupt, it took me a second, because after pretty much nothing happening, there was way too much going on.

The character writing.. was a little better. I couldn't really root for any of them except for Do Hyun, because really, he was the only character who didn't do something absolutely deranged, horrifying or hypocritical. You can obviously root for imperfect characters but they either need to be immediately likeable or have some character development. The development also came much too late for my liking, so there goes that.

The acting was what impressed me the most. While I did not understand the reasoning behind writing the characters to be the way they were, I genuinely felt like all the actors carried out the brief to the tee, maybe even better.
I did want a bit more of the development on interpersonal relationships between the characters, they did drive the family theme hard on this one, so I see no reason why they couldn't have done that.

Psychological thrillers aren't my favourite, sure, but I do enjoy them once in a while. Unfortunately, the thrill never really arrived for me and the psychological aspect was much too mild to make anyone uncomfortable like I usually see people say they expect. It was a decent watch with it's moments, but personally, nothing really clicked enough for me to be completely invested.

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How do I even rate this?

Let me preface by saying I love a good pun.
A Perfect Match 🎾
A Perfect Match 🧑‍🤝‍🧑
Huh?
My bad pun is probably better than this series was.

I imagine they shot this based on a scene breakdown instead of an actual script. Indications of what the scene would be without any real dialogue.
Or perhaps this is the cut version of an uncut version that doesn't exist, they just edited the cut version and then lost the hard drive which had the full, makes sense version.

The story had every single drama trope I can think of, even if they didn't show it on screen. Nothing made sense, absolutely nothing. There was a vague outline of a story that got lost in the hundreds of clichés seen and unseen and it was a hot mess.

The acting was pretty bad, the characters were pretty horrible. I guess the chemistry was decent, but overall this was around 100 minutes of literal nothingness.

And for a series about tennis, there were four scenes where they played tennis. FOUR

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The multiverse.. is real

Nevermind that this episode didn't answer any of my doubts from the original series, it left me with even more questions. This was not a special episode, this was a set up for another half written and executed season because a special episode would've provided answers to the several questions that went unanswered in the series, not introduced another storyline that felt like a pilot episode.

The new storyline reminded me a bit of Secret Crush On Your and a lot of The Boy Next World itself, but because it was more or less a pilot episode and a continuation of the original series we got a lot of mindless fun moments and fluff.
The characters felt different but familiar, the story felt half written and I cannot emphasize this enough, currently I have more questions than I do answers.

But yes, it was a cute episode, I found myself laughing and chuckling at how cute it was during some moments, plus there was a lot more of the second couple in this than I've seen in any other special episode. So yes, not a bad one, but also not something that tied up loose ends like I wanted it to.

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