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Close to You korean drama review
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Close to You
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by Earth
Mar 31, 2025
8 of 8 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 7.0
Story 7.0
Acting/Cast 7.0
Music 7.0
Rewatch Value 7.0
This review may contain spoilers

Three stories - first story was good, the other two, about okay

This comprises of several stories, each one unlinked form the other. I liked the first story. If you are up for some quick, quirky fluff, you can watch it...won't hurt.

BL-needle score- 8.5. High BL-ness (1 & 3), 6 Low BL-ness - Story 2

Story 1: The first story was quirky, and fluffy, with a tiny time loop thrown in. I was thinking, oh, yet another predictable, super-photoshopped KBL.....and then I saw that each episode is roughly no longer than 10 minutes, which made me binge-watch all 4 episodes and change my mind.....while it still is quite 'photoshppped', it's damn cute, with good production values, and has a time-loop plot to boot...I must admit I was pleasantly surprised...:D

Two uber-cute Korean boys secretly crushing over each other for a long-ass time without confessing...nothing new in that....but their moments were cute .....and then when they grow up and get into that confession time loop, it was super cute and funny....and that background guy , apparently minding his own business, but actually being the audience's voice all through the 6 time loops...lol...that was a clever and quirky insert that I really liked.

Story 2 is sad, and actually could have nice if the treated it better. It had a nice angst in it, with reasonably ok acting by the actors, but I felt that they could develop it too well, and it ended up feeling truncated, instead of giving us the jolt it was expected to, I guess

Story 3 is pretty run-of the mill, two ex-lovers getting back, did not really get the purpose of making a short like that, I mean if a short doesn't have a quirk or a twist, how does it qualify to be a short, right?
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