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"One Moment of Impulsiveness, Seven Lives of Unluckiness." 

My actual rating : 8.7/10. Finally completed my fifth xianxia drama in 2023. Took me a week to finish this one. Actually I could finish it earlier but keep delaying the inevitable because I don't want it to end (T.T). This just shows how much I enjoyed this drama. LYST remind me much of drama LBFAD because they had similarities in the hair ornaments, color palette used, the realms settings and the OST style.

◇The plot: 8.5/10
I thoroughly enjoyed the plot. If you're a devoted fan of xianxia like me you will enjoyed it regardless of how many times you see the same plot device was used in the drama (:D). The plot starts when our main leads during a banter accidentally tied the ancient love knots on themselves which the result required them to go through seven lifetimes together to untie each knot. They called it as mortal love tribulations. I enjoyed pig x tiger , childhood friends turned lovers, the prince x the empress lifetimes the most. Lifetimes I enjoyed the least which I think quite boring were the master x his disciple and the bodyguard x the princess lifetimes. My most favourite plot is the demon realm storyline. As usual , the bad guys and the good guys here are not as what it seem like. The mystery aspect here also nicely done. Now about that ending scene urgh not again! -SPOILER BEGIN- They just love to end it that way huh. Same ending as in almost xianxias if you know what I mean (I am looking at you Love Between Fairy and Devil, Back From the Brink, The Longest Promise.... ) This is the cliche I did not enjoyed watching in xianxia. Is it too much to ask them to end it with a romance scene between leads. Not just they finally meet ,stares and smiles then the end . Although this one had little improvement where one of them talked and teased the other with question. But I need them to at least hug each other after all the hardship they went through, both of them deserved that hug..... *sigh* -SPOILER END-

◇The angst: 7/10
Just 7 because I don't think this drama is angsty enough. Just contained only few moments of angst here & there especially in the master x his disciple lifetime. Considering our main couple maintained healthy relationship thoroughout the story and honest to each other hence this had low angst meter.

◇The acting: 9/10
This was my 3rd drama of Ding Yu Xi and I remembered enjoyed his TROTAR which leading me to watch his Intense Love after that. But only after watching his performance in LYST I'm totally now his fan. I was impressed with his acting here as Chu Kong/ Lu Chang Kong . I could see he gave his all in every version of Chu Kong in those 7 lifetimes. Ofcourse my favourite version of Chu Kong was him as a cat demon <3 . Can't get enough of his divine looks! I feel for his character the most. His undying love for Xiang Yun . His pain when they need to separate. His smugness when he achieved what he wants and the way he exhibits his playful nature . He succesfully captured my heart with his acting here. To compared with his co-star Yang Chao Yue's acting, he's definitely x3 better. I've watched YCY in The Journey of Chongzi (dnf) and Fireworks of My Heart before and my opinion of her remained the same. She is pretty especially when she smile. But her acting is just okay to me. She's great at acting cutesy but when the scene required her to act with more depth I ain't see that. I'm not feeling much when she cried d/t heartbroken. Most of the times it just felt superficial. If only she put more depth & detail into those scenes it would be perfect.

◇The romance : 9/10
I have no complaints. Totally enjoyed the romance here. Great chemistry displayed by both leads. I could see they feel comfortable around each other. Like when friends turned lovers. The romance is sweet and not spicy at all.

◇OST: 10/10
Great! Great! Great! I'm so in love with the OST . My most favourite :Till the End of Time by Liu Yuning. (I love almost all ost sung by him . A king of Cdrama OST indeed) . I rarely mention BGM in my review but I'm totally in love with the BGM here especially that Dadadada Melody which often appeared in sexy scenes between leads and that war chant in fight scenes.

◇CGI & Cinematography: 9/10
I have nothing but praise. Beautiful and pleasant CGI & cinematography. My favourite settings : Marriage Pavilion, The Star Platform. Love the pastel colors background. Love everything.

◇ Hairstyle &Costumes : 10/10
Dazzling. Elegant. Mesmerizing. My favourites: Chu Kong in his cat demon attire (gotta love that grey hair, forehead mark, adorable vulpine ears, hand accesories & furry outfit!) & Xiang Yun in her colourful red -yellow -brown outfit. Their make up also perfect ! Yang Chao Yue looks so beautiful & Ding Yu Xi so good looking like he just came straight from a manhwa. I like the fact that they didn't overdid it when applying lipstick on him, all natural looking unlike LYX's lips in TTEOTM. There I said it ,the truth.

In conclusion, I really enjoyed this drama to the fullest. Totally recommended if you're a devoted xianxia fan or a beginner to this genre.

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A short but fulfilling story

What I liked:
- The acting. This was my first time seeing Han So Hee and she was great at acting a complex character like Yoon Ji Woo. It was perfect.
- 8 episodes with 50 minutes each were just nice. Short but fulfilling.
- Compact and concise storyline. The story was interesting from beginning to the end.Not draggy and less filler scenes. Also succesfully keep you on the edge of your seat most of the times.
- Great action/fight scenes.
- Hot and badass looking antagonists. Especially Choi Moo Jin (such a charismatic presence and I loved his deep voice) and Jung Tae Joo (His loyalty to his boss and the organization charmed me). I fell for their characters and rooted for them most of times.


What I disliked:
- I wish the intimate scene in the last minute between the leads never happened. Too sudden and random.

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Firstly,the reason why I watch this drama is solely because of Lee Min Jung alone. I really like her acting *can't deny a great visual she has which also made me as a woman really envious of her :D* and I follow her in most of her drama she was in after Smile,You. That drama is the starting point of my fondness of her. But I'm also thinking twice whether to watch this or not because I don't like the main actor,I've tried to watch him in his two previous drama but..ya knoww,his acting does'nt capture me enough to like him. Enough for the intro,let's get to the real point.

THE STORY: I admit when I was watching the first 6 episode I don't quite understand the reason why heroin did what she did to get revenge on his ex-husband.Can't she just let go of the past? That guy brought pain in her past,and the right thing to do is just don't see him again. No pain gain from doing that, so just move on,girl! -.-" I'm even trying to make my own reasoning for her revenge mission to made myself accepting and feel less awkward with the whole situation.'I need to finish this drama so I must understand what the character's feel first..' that's what I've told myself while watching the episodes.Another thing to say,the title of the drama is quite misleading because she's been cunning only in the early episodes,in later episodes we see a new side, a likeable side of her. That's what I thought about the story.Just a so-so storyline.

ACTING: It's just good. Lee Min Jung was great as always but the main lead..his acting's sometimes put me off especially when he's acting all cute and that fake laughing thingy. It looked sooo unnatural and I can feel the awkward vibe comes to me when he did that. And this is a rare thing to happen to me in dramaland,I fall in love with the second lead's character instead.Seo Kang Jun.This guy's character is made of full of charm that's what I though. There's once/twice that I wish that Lee Min Jung end up with him instead :B

MUSIC : I think the OST is one of the good thing happened in this drama. I especially like Yoo Seung Woo's song What Do I Do the most.

REWATCH VALUE : I just give a fair value in this section because I'm not a rewatcher person. Unless the drama is really2 bad in my opinion,that for sure get a lower score from me.

OVERALL : This drama is just good. Watch this if you want some laugh,a light story to watch when you're in Final Exam mode *like me :P* and a story to brighten up your mood when you're sad :) TQ for reading.

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A draggy journey to find the truth.

This drama indeed took it's own sweet time to reveal the truth. 16 episodes drama often will do that to you. The main leads went back in time to 1987 from 2021. One came intentionally and one came accidentally but later found their purpose on staying there interconnected with each other.

Actually , I never plan to watch this one. I started on this only because I was curious about that 8.6 rating.

So here is my thoughts after finishing this one. To me, MPS was a slow paced mystery , thriller drama. Going further with the story, though the plot building up little by little ,it never once hit the mark for me. I like my mystery thriller drama fast paced and get my adrenaline pumping most of the times but unfortunately MPS was'nt it.

Like most drama with unsolved crime,incompetent cops is a must here. I was curious about the killer but it was not the kind of curiousity that make me unable to sleep at night after finishing an episode. I got my sleep at night just fine. I think if I watch this while it's still airing maybe I would have dropped it at episode 8. So... this was one of those mystery drama that until near the end of the story, makes the viewer as clueless as our both leads were in finding the real killer .There were suspicious people until there were not. And that moment when they finally revealed who it is, I was like "Okay.. Totally not expecting that.." We don't have anything to convince us because remember, lack of hints given earlier . So when they showed us the reason of why he did what he did , it was underwhelming tbh.

The cinematography was amazing though. I liked how colorful 80-an looks here and many beautiful sceneries to sooth your eyes .

So to conclude, if you like your mystery drama slow paced rich of life lessons with a sprinkle of inexplainable fantasy this drama might be for you.

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Full of grandiose schemes that fell flat.

I was one of the people who got excited prior to the airing of BM but when I finally watched this, it was truly a disappointing experience to me. I did not enjoyed 80% of the drama. Because I don't want my precious data used to download full eps go to waste so instead of quitting early I had to force myself to finish this one like I did with Snowdrop, Jirisan.

Going further, my review is full of spoilers so read at your own risk.

I don't feel the plot at all . They tried to do everything heroically but the execution just felt flat and cheap to me. That Big Mouse organization was only powerful in name but not in reality. Thanks to big mouths who overhyping this organization from the start, they made me expected more when I really should not. When the real BM was revealed , I was so disappointed . He had no charisma & no authoritative vibe as a person who supposed to be a leader of such organization.

Miho's death was cruel ,pointless and unnecessary. Can't they atleast wait until CDH got his punishment to kill off her character mercilessly like that? They claimed many got cancer as a side effect of that radiated waste water , most of them took some time before they died on their deathbed like that Tak guy but not with Miho. One day she just dropped and not too long & gone just like that. If they tried to show a lot of time has passed in prior to her death I don't buy it. She deserved better .

We never really see what they really do in that secret lab. What was that NF9 anyway? What was the end product and its use ? And that darn paper that started everything. I was rather surprised that other than Prof Seo no one else in Gucheon even bother to check water sample while this shit been happening for 30 years that made many lost their lives . Where were the victim's family members? I want to see few of them at least tried to oppose that 85 years old grandpa. Sure sure that grandpa was so powerful...

I don't get husband and wife vibe from the main leads. Their relationship was more like two close friends who were supportive of each other.

The ending also was kinda out of place and so sudden. You would think 16 episodes with 1 hour of each episode would have less chance of having a rush ending but you're dead wrong . They just need 10 minutes, just 10 minutes to explain the most important part of the story. Meh. If they want to pull the same vincenzo ending to the bad guy, why bother tried so hard to be the good guy from the start .They should do it earlier so that not many episodes wasted just to get the bad guy behind the jail and BM would end at 12 episodes which would be doing us a lot of favor and save our time maybe I would rate this even higher than a 6. I don't really mind realistic ending because in rl that ending would happen but I don't like the way they did it here.

In conclusion , BM for me was the most disappointing drama of this year. I don't recommend it unless you're a big fan of Lee Jong Suk or Yoona or Kwak Dong Yeon.

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The title should be My Boyfriend Is a Gumiho

Here are my thoughts about this drama :

1) MRIAG is a light-hearted and quite entertaining rom -com drama. It was basically a story of a gumiho 's journey to become a human and find love along the way. Suitable drama to watch if you are in the mood of watching a sweet romance story but not as overdone and as cringeworthy as..*cough cough* ...the romance in What's Wrong with Secretary Kim. The romance has just a perfect amount of sweetness. *chef's kiss*  I cracked up alot watching our 1st and 2nd couple.

2) Actually the first half of this drama was quite boring to me, it made me remember the reasons why I rarely watch rom-com these days. But like someone said to me , the story indeed became more enjoyable for the last half of the drama . Personally I think episode 9 -10 were very good. But episode 11 -12, I started to feel bored again. Thanks god! I had so much fun watching episode 13 till the finale.

3) Excellent a 10/10 for humor scenes , I felt they were genuine, unlike my experience with  ...*cough cough* Vincenzo.

4) 9/10 for the acting of all casts. Dam was a bold ,funny girl and I liked her, alot. Hyeri did an impressive job with her acting here. I noticed that she was great with all her facial expressions . Whether it be an angry face or annoying face or making ugly face or embarassing face, she excelled in all. I could see no other actress can be as perfect as her as Dam. Jang Ki Yong as Shin Woo Yeo , his acting was as expected. He was good in his potrayal of a smart, brooding and taciturn 999 years old male gumiho. A very typical ML character right.... As a couple ,I guess they complement each other .Kang Ha Na also did a very good job as Yang Hye Sun . A quirky, funny and elegant 700 years old ex- female gumiho. She was my favourite. I liked her synergy with Kim Do Wan who potrayed Do Jae Jin. He was a naive and such a crybaby character but so adorable though. He really cried alot I think more than the girls here lol. These two made a very cute and sweet couple to see. I think Park Kyung Hye as Choi Soo Kyung such a waste of a character in this one. She had so much potential to be this hilarious and entertaining character but it was pity that the writers did'nt fully used her to her potential like they did with Hye Sun's and Jae Jin's character. Like her bestfriends, I wish she have her own developing love storyline too . Most of the times, she was just there to be Dam's companion whenever she had relationship problem or became a third wheel in the scenes. I felt sad for her character when that happened.

5) I really enjoyed watching Woo Yeo - Hye Sun frenemy scenes. It was hilarious to see they were always arguing whenever they met.  The mean things they said towards each other... those what keep this drama alive . Apparently , they could not stand the present of each other but could not stay away because the other was their only friend for the past 700 years lol

6) Because I am so used to the present of villain character in most dramas  I have watched , it was like a fresh breath of air to see this drama had no such evil being. Only we had these annoying duo of girls that appeared not so often because they were insignificant. This drama proved that not every drama need to have villain to be entertaining to the fullest.

7) Drama OSTs were okay. I guess they flowed well with the story but nothing outstanding.

Last but not least, watch this drama if rom-com is your forte or like me, if you need a break from all thriller, crime, investigation dramas that you usually see.

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Average plot . Good cinematography . Cute romance with little angst.

This drama left me feeling conflicted at the end 🤧 Took me 6 days to finish this one. Not bad. My actual rating: 8.3/10.

◇The plot: 7.5/10

The plot was just okay and leave much to be desired. I FF many scenes of boring characters that I could care less about ( : Bai sisters & their other halves) .They turned my fav character, Zhi Yuan into this corrupt evil person in the last 2 episodes . Whyyyy him... He was such a green flag walking around so selfless ,kind and understanding for the whole 35 episodes, made him died and wake him up only to make him into this evil -obsessive being that kinda erased all the kindness he did before , I am sad ... :( Also the ending was lacking. That last scene provide more questions than giving us a clear conclusion. I hate it when they ask us to find our own answers with the ending given. Why xianxia's endings are always like this......*sigh*

◇The angst: 7/10

I enjoyed it when my dramas give me lot of heartaches-yes I'm a masochist- it help me feel alive but this one didn't hurt me enough. But I enjoyed the angst present in the last 5 episodes.

◇The acting: 8.5/10

The best acting imo : Xiao Zhan =Alen Fang > Ren Min > Marcus Li. This drama made me a fan of Xiao Zhan & Alen Fang. I will follow their work after this.

◇The romance : 8/10

The romance was cute and.....cute. Considering Ren Min is young I could understand why we only get cute love here like I understand why Wu Lei only hugged Dilreba in TLB. But I need more romance scene between SY & ZY. What we already seen was not enough for me . I need more.. I don't mind the slow burn romance here because they need time to progress from master-disciple relationship to a romantic one but I still think this pair is the slowest leads turned to couple in all romance drama I've seen lol.

◇OST: 8/10

It was not the kind that made me fall in love when I first time hear it . Took me half of the drama to start to enjoy the music. My favourites: Jade Bone Ballad by Hu Xia, Lifetime by Maobuyi & Tell My Inner Emotion -Liu Xijun.

◇Cinematography: 8/10

It was good enough. You need to watch xianxia drama with high resolution video (1080p and above) otherwise all the CGI effect shown will not looking impressive as intended and just look cheap lol. I watched this on VIP -WeTV but I'm not satisfied with the 1080p video quality there. Look more like 720p than 1080p to me.

◇Costumes : 7/10

Just average. Not the best I've seen. I only liked few costumes of Shi Ying and the rest were bland looking. I liked his black attires in the last few episodes the most. I could not remember any Zhu Yan's costume that I like. But I liked Zhi Yuan's costume better. His costumes + hairstyle here made him more good looking. With that expressive eyes too I can hardly take my eyes off him whenever he appeared on screen.

In conclusion, I enjoyed this drama even not to the fullest but it introduced me to the actors that I did not know before. So thats all I wanna say . Just need to record it here before I have amnesia.

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I'm expecting alot from this movie but as a result what I got is a disappointment.I began to took interest on this because thriller-mystery are kinda my things and the poster itself looks great.It did'nt satistfy me however,its not a total let down.Just don't expect too much unless you wanna be like me. If based on the storyline alone I think I'd give this only 6.I remember watching The Devil one year ago which starred by Shi Min Ah who also got this kinda ability and help the main lead who also a detective(played by Uhm Tae Wong)to solve the case.The concept is quite similar except the graffiti part.She did'nt have that talent.So it's lacking in originality. Also not so smooth, uneven & predictable plots and adding to that, I don't feel pretty attached to the characters emotions.You just don't feel that much thrill-tingling sensation when it's supposed to be more.Seem like I give too much criticism when there's alot of good reviews but that's how I feel dude! :/ I just give this movie more point for our main eyecandy,Kim Bum & lots of mind blowing graffiti painting showing in it. What an art!! ^^ And the last thing I want to mention is..I loved that last scene ;)

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Good fantasy romance with electrifying chemistry between leads .

My review will be a comprise of what I liked the most and the least about My Demon:

✅️ As a fantasy enthusiast, I loved the fantasy aspect in this drama. A demon who really use his superpower even it is just for small things like switch on the lamp or help in housekeeping lol.

☑️ I enjoyed most part of the storyline especially in the first half. The first 10 episodes was interesting and addicting enough to me. But things got draggy from episode 11 - 13 I started to skip alot especially side character's story . At this point , I find myself didn't care at all about the secretaries love story & Jin Ga Young plot line. The main couple scenes also became too cheesy for me to digest haha. Thankfully things started to get better when the angst part came again in episode 14 till the end. Those last 3 episodes were a total tearjerker to me .

☑️ Average villain plot line .Nothing you have not seen before in a crime and family feud based drama.

✅️ The chemistry between Kim Yoo Jung -Song Kang was sooo lit! The eye contacts, skinships, how comfortable they acted around each other, all the jokes and teases ... Like they're really in love with each other. I'm not surprise if later we get a dating news of them haha.

✅️ Acting from all cast were good. I've first known Kim Yoo Jung as a child actor in Dong Yi . I liked her acting in that drama then I watched her in Moon Embracing the Sun , May Queen , Angry Mom & Love in the Moonlight. Watching her here made me think my girl has grown up , how fast time flies . Now she's eligible to get her own bedroom scene too lol. Anyway I enjoyed her acting all the same here. I could feel all her agony, sadness and her crying scenes made me cried with her too . Her young age & youthly visual to play a 28 years old Do Do Hee does not bother me much here because her great acting concealed if not all most of it. About Song Kang ,this was my second drama of him after Sweet Home. He didn't impressed me in that drama but I quite enjoyed his acting here. He did a good job in potraying a playful,cheeky and self-absorbed demon but very protective of a girl he likes. His great visual did help compensating what fell short from his acting lol.

✅️ Great OST. My favourites : True -YOARI and Say You Love Me - Sam Kim.

⭕️ My ratings for episode 1 -10 & 14-16 = 9/10 and episode 11 -13 =5/10.My final rating = 8.5/10.

I'll end my review with my favourite quote from the drama , " You humans love to blame fate for everything. But, fate is nothing more than a web woven by a myriad of choices of your making. " - Lady Beggar .

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The power of restrained love.

It was'nt until episode 9 I was completely invested with the storyline. 2 months ago, I started this because of all the hypes sorrounding this drama but at that time I can't moved past episode 6 because of the painfully slow and boring storyline thus put it on-hold. Why I picked this up again? Because I'm currently under Allen Ren's spell after watching him in TBW and have yet to recover. So this was my second drama of him. Don't read further if you have'nt watch this drama yet because my review a.k.a rambling contained many spoilers. Don't say I don't warned you.

I didn't read any spoilers about the storyline or the ending prior to watching OAO so I was able to enjoy this as much as I can . Ignorance is indeed a bliss as they say. Let only suffer when the suffering comes. Here, I was hoping and praying for our main leads to get the ending they deserved especially our beautiful bone man, Zhou Sheng Chen. The ending made me feeling so angry and sad and angry and sad and angry and sad in a never ending loop...Tbh, I was more angry than sad.. I did'nt cried at all watching the last few eps because I was too furious watching bad people easily had their ways. Only my heart's wailing noiselessly just like Shi Yi's wailing in her mute mode . I am really pissed off that bad people (esp this xf**&^! two-faced snake, Liu Zixing) got to live longer though miserable but still longer than our main leads. He got many screentimes till the end. OAO can't help but remind me of drama The Red Sleeve (Korea) and The Crown Princess (Thai) as they had few similarities.

Plotwise, I guess ms writer was happy she achieved all her objectives with this drama. What shown in Drama is real,people. So,suck it up. Life is unfair. Not all love is united in this world. Good people always gone too soon and bad people always get to live longer. I don't want to get into details of reason why I rate what I rate. I just want to express my thought so that one day I can read this 5/7/10 years later and say '' Oh, this was one of the drama that I watched back in 2022 and made me in so much pain mids and post-watching.'' '' Allen Ren was perfect back then as he still is in the present . ''

Allen Ren's acting as Zhou Sheng Chen was perfect. All his expressions were flawless and he delivered perfectly. His chemistry with Bai Lu as Shi Yi was evident and palpable. All the longings, starings and deeds they did for each other knowingly and unknowingly I could felt it deep in my bones. OAO showed us how to make a perfect romance drama without kiss.

To conclude my rambling, I just want to ask and say all these to him. ''Is this life what you really want ZSC? You can't be real. It is a major crime to be as selfless as you, yk. What was the point of all that sacrifices when you still can't prevent war after you 've gone. What you did was pointless. People you loves still dies in agony one after another. You love your country to death but that very country failed you. Why can't you be selfish for once. Atleast ,take Shi Yi and run to South !!! You deserved all the happiness in this world . You deserved better...''

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Intriguing storyline and sizzling romance.

I think this drama was perfectly made for me. What made me start this because this had Yuan Bing Yan as it FL. I really loved her in Love & Redemption. Her acting also not disappointing in this one.

This was my first time seeing Zhen Ye Cheng. At first, I think he was not that good looking but later on I changed my mind when I saw how good his acting was as  Shen Yan. He has his charm and good at all his expressions when delivering his lines.

Tbh, Fl's character was not really my type . Princess Liu Ling was quite annoying at first but later on, it was'nt hard for me to fall in love with her character. You will understand why she became the way she is if you watch the show . I liked that she knows how to stand up for herself and did'nt need ML saving her all the time.

Love at the first sight trope  was my least favourite trope but I liked the way it was done here. So once Liu Ling sets her eyes on Shen Yan, she keep pursuing and seducing him relentlessly. All the force skinships and tricks she tried on him , we can see Shen Yan shows discomfort with her attitude at first haha . He being a typical cold man we often seen in most drama , keep pushing her away but how can one's heart stays still with a beauty like Liu Ling by his side. Day by day, we can see his resolution keep weakening and  one day , it was checkmate. Haha. When he gets to know her personality more , he fell hard for her. What made it better was their off the chart chemistry together. Like we could feel they're in-love for real. This has lot of hugs and passionate kisses too, I just wish  they show it longer each time.

MSP was far from perfect but I thoroughly enjoyed it from beginning to end. The storyline was good enough imo. MSP made up with 30% political stuff, 60% romance and 10% of comedy. This has lot of cliche moments especially in romantic department but lot of unpredictable moments too. I would say this has balance with both. The pacing was quite fast not draggy and with 22 episodes it was just nice.

I enjoyed the side characters story too. Relationship between Xu Jinshi and Shen Yu. Luo fan and Ling Bi. Liu Ling's relationship with Xu Jinshi. Shen Yan's bromance with his brother ,Shen Yu and his subordinates especially Luo Fan.

Other things that I liked in MSP were it's good cinematography and visual . I liked the costumes, it's vibrant and luxurious settings . The OST was great too . I recommend this drama to all historical romance drama lover out there. The story was not too heavy and certainly make you want to fall in love if you have'nt already. Just dont expect too much , you won't be disappointed.

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The Good Detective : An epitome of what is a good detective.

This is my first (and probably the last) drama review of 2020. One review per year : Achieved. Yay.

Here are my thoughts of TGD >>>

A] The storyline and acting :

Honestly speaking, to me Ep 1 - 6 were extremely boring and sleeping induced. The early story felt flat and dull. It got nothing that can captivate my interest at the time. Everything moved at snail pace and seems like a filler story. I think it was more than 10 times I've stopped and resumed watching the show again lol. Maybe the real reasons I still hold onto the show was due to a pinch of trust on TGD and a strong resolution not again to drop another drama moreover I already downloaded full eps of the drama , am not gonna waste all those precious data...(ok honestly the latter is the real reason)

Finally. It was worth every effort when the story picked up around Ep 7,8 onwards. It became more engaging,addicting and the acting also flawless. I found myself laughing at the witty scripts and funny scenes, emphatized with the characters, and the story moved at the pace that I wanted everything suddenly became not boring anymore.

B] The characters:

1) Kang Do Chan: He is the real definition of a good detective which we may rarely seen nowadays. He was fierce but knows to be soft hearted when the times need him to be. A very supportive collegue and humble at heart. His character development was one of the best in the show.

2) Oh Ji Hyuk: Ice cold good looking detective. The way the actor potrayed OJH, captivated me. The one who has a sad story of the past, a loner, independant, hides secret and keep all feelings to himself as he never trust anyone. But, when he fatedly partnered with KDC and his acquintance with Reporter Jin Seo Kyung, it changed him. He smiles more (oh I loved his smiles), learned to open up to people and start depending more on people sorrounding him. Personally and I am sure many who has finished this show will agree with me, his bromance scenes with KDC were the best!

3) The amount of good detectives here surpassed those of bad detectives. Usually when we saw a crime, detective, investigation dramas, there were numerous amount of bad corrupted detective that will make us lost hope in the police but here in TGD worry not. We got more than 5 good detectives ( Boong Shik, Ji Wook, Man Goo, Jae Hong, Dong Wook the 'Maknae' etc) aside KDC and OJH which were always united against the bad detectives/ the bad guys no matter how big their influences are. I enjoyed watching the guys's camaraderie. Very heartwarming and mostly they provide comic relief to the show.

4)This show has few villains with the main one was very annoying than the others. A sociopath because till the end of the show he never feels remorse about his wrongdoings. I was satisfied seeing he got his deserved 'happy ending'. The second villain kind of met his justifiable ends. To me, his greatest mistake was his incitement that led to the death of an innocent man. If only he didnt participate in that case, maybe I could like him abit.

C] The OST

I cant remember any....Not even one song.. But it doesnt matter much to me.

Last but not least, although I am not sure if there is anyone that read this review till this paragraph or even one person start reading this review at all, if you are here and still searching for a valid reason to start this, I hope my review helped you if not much, abit. Watch this if crime, detective, investigation, mystery are your genres, who knows you might like it more than me :)

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11 episodes of an emotional roller coaster.

The plot:
❌️ For the first 20 episodes : Slow and not interesting. Tone of the story feel off like something is missing but you can't guess what (because they give us no hint at all) and the intentional 2 dimensional acting of our main characters made it hard for you to fully immense in the story.
✅️ For the last 11 episodes : The revelation part /important part of the drama which was more interesting, tearjerker, full of misunderstanding and angsty level hit 10/10. I enjoyed this part very much because it made me feel so much. If xianxia is your genre , often we will see misunderstandings were used as plot device and of course our leads will thoroughly suffer and coughing blood in the story. If you don't like these elements in your drama, I suggest avoid FEUD at all cost.
☑️ The ending was too poetic for me to understand so I just take it as it is . Too lazy to be analytical . It was not the usual xianxia's ending so I am okay with that.

Character, Acting:
✅️ What made me persevered the first 20 episodes while hoping the story will get better is Bai Lu. She is my achilles heel :) .FEUD is my 7th drama of her and I will continue watching her work as long as the genre is my cuppa tea. Her perfomance as Hua Ru Yue was perfect for me. I cried when she cried .I think it is safe to say that the amount of her crying scenes here = the amount of how many times I cried while watching the drama lol. This was my 1st completed drama of Joseph Zeng and his potrayal as Bai Jiu Si complements Bai Lu's character well. I have no complaint.
✅️ I liked the fact that our main villain has charisma and actually terrifying and formidable. Our main characters and their supporters need to put huge amount of effort to put him down.
☑️ Romance and chemistry rating: 8/10. I was expecting more but their romance just purely sweet and nothing spicy. Not electric kind of love.
✔️ I don't care much about supporting characters here mostly I skipped or speed through their scenes except when Zhao Yi Qin appeared. His acting and character left much impression to me.

Cinematography, Costumes, OST :
✅️ Costumes : 9/10. I liked that ML has original white hair not the kind that only turned white because of suffering.
✅️ Cinematography : 8.5/10.
☑️ OST : 8/10 . Just okay.

Others :
✖️ Kiss scenes were very poorly shown. Such a pity because Bai Lu's a great kisser :)

My conclusion: FEUD is not the best xianxia ever made , it has flaws but some parts were definitely worth watching. If you are Bai Lu /Joseph Zeng's fan, you eat xianxia for leisure time and you like watching drama full of angst ,FEUD is for you.

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Fast paced & binge-worthy storyline . Perfect for romantasy ethusiasts.

My review will be a comprise of what I liked the most and the least in Love Game in Eastern Fantasy.

What I liked :

✅️ Enemies to lovers.
✅️ ML falls in love first.
✅️ Cold ML X Sunshine FL
✅️ Protective & obsessive ML.
✅️ CGI & cinematography : 10/10. Nothing to complain about.
✅️ Ding Yu Xi as a grey haired demon ❤. Made my wish after LYST come true.
✅️ Fast paced, addicting & binge-worthy storyline . I fully enjoyed the first 30 episodes. Only took 3 days for me to finish all 32 episodes which usually it takes me 5 days to 1 week to finish one 30+++ eps drama.
✅️ The acting. Yu Shu Xin as Ling Miao Miao & Ding Yu Xi as Mu Sheng they both perfect for their roles. Could not think of any other actors that can replace them.
✅️ Costumes,hairstyles : 9.5/10. I liked all Mu Sheng's duo color (black + red/blue) costumes with its metal & ribbon appendages . He looked so fine-looking here ❤. His hairstyle also suits his looking the most. Miao Miao hairstyles also so pretty.
✅️  Humor : 9/10. I laughed alot while watching this drama especially in 2/3rd of the story.
✅️ Romance : 8.5/10. Light , sweet and cute. Chemistry : 9/10. I've watched main leads before in Moonlight though I did not finished that drama for a reason but they definitely have good chemistry with each other. Did not mind if in the future we get to see 3rd collaboration between them.
✅️ OST : 8.5/10. My favorite is Reshape by Do Zhiwen. Gotta love the deep voice and its soulful vibe. I've been listening to this song non-stop after finishing this drama🤧.

What I liked the least:

☑️ Storyline in the last 2 eps , there were parts that was quite confusing. The editing also did not help. When you don't really understand what's happening, it made things less enjoyable. My enjoyment meter went down from 100% to 50% in the last 2 episodes.
✖️ The ending... is annoying. The kind that is typical if you're familiar with c-drama. Maybe they could have done it better if we got 1 or 2 more additional episodes.
❌️ I am totally dumbfounded that our main couple did not have even 1 kiss scene in this drama! When even second couple got 2 kiss scenes..
❌️ Towards the end, I think there were way too many scenes of second couple than the main couple. If only they focus more in main couple story at the end...

Overall, I enjoyed this drama alot. Made it to my top 5 favourite c-drama this year. If you like what I liked don't hesitate . Start watching it now.

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Thailand's version of Twilight .

But instead of vampire as ML here we have tiger as ML . He can moves fast with a strong sense of smell and hearing .

So I am in a drama slump. It's been more than a month I struggled to finish every drama that I've started, ended up dropped lots of them. It was like I was stucked in a loop with no way out. Everything seem uninteresting. Even watching hyped drama did not helped. I used to enjoy watching Thailand drama/lakorn back in the days. But in these last few years, I mainly sticked to Chinese and Korean drama. So one day , I watched episode 1 of Love in Twilight ( without first reading the synopsis) and I was immediately sold! Finished this in just 3 sittings. So this was my first completed Thailand drama after 3 years.

Plot : Supernatural romance is always my cuppa tea. The storyline was quite angsty. If you're familiar with thai drama , every episode is long with 1 hour and 30 minutes. So feeling of dragginess can't be avoid . I skipped a lot of scenes regarding forest rangers, hunters and the bad guys. Their scenes was too much to the point I feel not enough of main couple's screentime.

Acting & character : This was my first Tono Phakin drama and WOW he did delivered! I was charmed by his acting & great visual here. His acting as Dr.Sama & Tiger King was impressive. When Tiger King was about to appear , his animal mannerism was evidence like he was really a tiger inside and out. How he roared, sniffed, did physical gestures like a tiger really embodied in him. It was not easy to act as an animal but he did it. I liked how mature, rational and gentle he was. Most of the times,I feel sad for his character. I could feel his loneliness, self-hatred and inner turmoils. To be something he did not want to be but had no choice in the matter. Fortunately he has Aunt Aung to share his emotional burden all the time. Richy Oranate was also good at acting as Parichart. All the confusion & dilemma she faced, I think if I was her I would be acting the same too. It took her frustratingly some time before she come to a decision. But when she finally did , it was all worth the wait ❤ . Chemistry between them was very good too. Their love to each other was evidence even without passionate kisses. Acting of the supporting characters (Nontha , Kalong, Aunt aung, Lee , Sa) were also good. At first, I was annoyed with both SFL and SML but later when their character matured, I grew to like them . But I understood the reason behind why they acted like that.

Cinematography & CGI: Good . I especially love the tiger effect. Adorable. But some of the CGI was laughable. The scene where Dr. Sama carried Parichart while moving fast through the forest. He wanted to show off his supernatural power to her then but instead of making the scene & he look cool they made the scene looked cartoonish instead lol.

Overall, I enjoyed this drama. Emotionally I would rate this 8.5/10 because this drama made me feel so much. But I settled for 8/10 when I considered all the aspects in the drama. If you like supernatural romance, in a drama slump like me or you enjoy emotional drama with good chemistry between leads try watching this maybe you will enjoy it like I did.

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