Gendli

Cute

That was actually quite nice, good acting, a lot of cute and funny moments, and no crazy drama. I'd recommend it as a cozy short series to watch when you want to relax.
I'd like to mention things I liked/ disliked in this series.
I liked:
1. Acting. As I previously mentioned, the acting was good, not much to talk about here.
2. Good kissing. Their first kiss is my personal favourite.
3. It was overall fun, enjoyable humour, not too cringy and not too much.

I disliked:
1. The way Han U Jin treated the main character. Touching him without asking for consent and just overall treat him like they've known each other/dated for a while. We will learn in the end why exactly that was the case, but in my opinion even then it does not really justify the way he acted.

In conclusion, I can say it is worth watching, and I'm sure I will be rewatching it as a little comfort series from time to time.

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Great start but the closer it to the end the worse it gets

When I just started watching it I was honestly in love, it was such a great series, but the last few episodes were definitely lacking in a lot of places.
But I do want to start with the things I liked.
I loved the story/plot and the way they executed it as well.
Music was also a good part of the series.
Acting was exceptional, all the emotional moments were shown beautifully, I honestly fell in love with the main characters acting.
Main characters and their differences, I honestly adored them a lot. Actors did a great job showing them to us.
I loved the Fu Li Kung's father, he was like a fresh breath of air after what Cheng's father did. The way he was supporting them was really cute.

Now to the things I didn't enjoy as much.
Fu Li Kung in the last episodes, I don't know what authors were thinking, but they absolutely made him into a full new character. I didn't understand why he would do what he did. A lot of the things he did and said were crazy out of character and felt like I was looking at the different person.
I wasn't the biggest fan of the side couple, for me, they were kinda just there. While the actors did a good job, the characters themselves weren't really a match for me personally, and I didn't felt much chemistry. At the same time, I did like the daughter and the way she was so supportive of her father's relationship.
I think the bartender Nikita storyline was really unnecessary, it was short and had no sense. We didn't get any backstory that would help us understand her and her feelings better, so in the end I was just bored by it and even slightly annoyed.

Overall it was pretty enjoyable to watch and ill definitely will rewatch it in the future!

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Yes but No

I want to start by saying it was absolutely not the worst series I ever watched, but omg was it mid or even bad.
I have a lot of reasons for saying it, but let's start with some things I actually liked about this series.

Actors/acting was good, and I'm not only talking about main characters but side characters as well, there were few people I did enjoy seeing.
I also really liked the story, while I do think there was much more better ways they could've done it the idea was good, and I would love and see someone try to make something similar.
Chemistry between Gulf and Mew was there, it was nice and while I wasn't too much over the moon for it, I still found it enjoyable to watch these two to interact. I do have to say tho in my personal humble opinion Tharn and Type should've not ended up together. Because honestly, I cannot imagine a single good reason why any of them would want to be with another.

Tharn is just a spineless guy with no self-respect or dignity, who also has no concept of consent. He forgave Type multiple times without even him apologising for what he did first. Throughout the whole series I just wanted to grab Tharn by his shoulders, shake him and say “WAKE UP” because the way he would never stand up for himself when it came to Type is diabolical.
Also, the fact that he sexually assaulted Type not once is crazy and often overlooked by TharnType fans, but definitely shouldn't be. It was clearly shown multiple times how he would kiss Type while he is sleeping, gave him hickeys while he was drunk and blacked out, and the shower scene? Like let's not ignore it and instead of calling it cute, hot or sexy let's call it what it is, a sexual assault.

Type is a toxic asshole who doesn't respect a single person around him. While I know that Type has trauma, it absolutely doesn't excuse his behaviour towards people around him, people who care and love him. He disrespected and physically assaulted multiple people who absolutely did not deserved it and wouldn't apologise unless he gets some kind of “punishment” for doing so. And the way everybody around him act like it's normal is insane to me. It's important to acknowledge his traumatic experience, but let's not try to excuse his behaviour just because of something like this.

And while I'm talking about traumatic experience, I want to talk about Tar. I've seen multiple people say how tar was annoying, stupid and stuff like this. I want to start by saying that victim-blaming is a terrible thing, and y'all doing it is just disgusting.
There wasn't a single thing that he did that would make him as bad as y'all trying to paint him to be. Throughout his whole story, I was just feeling so sorry for him, and he absolutely did nothing to deserve what happened to him.
He was so scared, traumatised and broken I cannot imagine blaming him for anything at all, all the “bad” things that he did were just a Lhong's disgusting plan, and he is the only one to blame here.

Now for the Lhong and oh do I have a thing or two to talk about. First off, the fact that he didn't get any jail time or ANY repercussions for that matter is CRAZY to me. He was so disgusting, everything about him made my skin crawl. He is not just a bad guy he is a devil himself, and there are still people trying to defend him saying he was misunderstood, he is so UNDERhated.
Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, could excuse his behaviour, the things he did are literally illegal. Sabotaging all of the Tharns relationship, paying three man to gang-rape a high-schooler (Tar), and then also blackmailing the same boy and pressuring him into doing things he was not comfortable with to break Tharn and Type up.
He is the worst of the worst, he is a terrible human being and all that he deserves is a jail time!!!

Honestly, there is so much more bad people in this series, since most of the characters were kinda good until they did something crazy and made my opinion about them fully change. But there were also characters that I liked, but they are not worth mentioning except for the one character that I liked the most, and it's Techno. Techno would always add this nice and comedic feel to the series when needed the most, as well as being a great supportive friend and trying to help Type with anything he could. There was one thing that made me a bit uncomfortable is when he really would not believe Tar even when he has seen a proof, and tried to tell Type that as well. But other than that, I would say that he is my favourite character.


In conclusion, I am kinda happy that I watched this series, since I wanted to give it a try all the way from 2019. I first tried watching it back then when it was just coming out, but it was too much for me, so I dropped it. But I am happy that I came back, but I am even happier that I finally finished it.
I did enjoy it to some degree, but of course all of the red flags were really hard to close my eyes on and just try to push through.
I do think though that this series is overrated, and it is really toxic, so for anybody to enjoy it at least a little, you need to be able to “ignore” a lot of stuff. Otherwise, it is definitely unenjoyable to watch.

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NO...

This was terrible, nothing shown in here excuses what Lhong did, not even in the slightest!

Oh! He had a sad childhood! Oh! Tharn never looked at him romantically! Oh, poor Lhong…

WOMP! WOMP! WOMP!

How sad…sad that I don't care at all, omg the things he did are literally ILLEGAL, and you're seriously going to sit here and make a sad ass edit of Lhong story being like: “Look!! He is hurting!!!”. SO WHAT??? Is that a reason to pay three men to gang-rape a high-schooler? Is it? Because I don't think so! And is it a reason to sabotage all the Tharn's previous relationship, I also don't think so!

So please excuse me if I misunderstood something, but I don't think that Lhong needed a whole special episode just for his “sad” and tearful story. But what he actually requires is a jail time (!!!) and a weekly if not daily meetings with psychiatrist.
Because something is clearly ain't right, and something should be done about it.

Lhong is one of the worst side characters there is, and honestly, you couldn't pay me to try to feel even a tad bit sorry for him…

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I LOVE IT I LOVE IT I LOVE IT

I would love to start by saying that I had almost no expectations when starting this series, I thought that I won't be a fan of this series. And I was honestly putting it away (even though so much people recommended it) for so long that I feel ashamed now.
But I was so wrong, and I'm happy I was because this series changed something in me, it made me feel something I didn't think I would while watching it.

Everything about it is great, the acting, and chemistry that two leads had been so beautiful, music was fantastic. The story was great, and I loved the way they showed us the reality of what it is like being an idol. What obstacles you have to go through on your way if you want to be in this industry. I learned something new for myself, and it's kinda scary knowing that this is a reality for so much people.

I loved the romance between the main characters. I could feel the tension between them every time they would look at each other, the actors did a very good job with showing us all the feelings that Thame and Po were going through. They both are such a green flags and their romance and the way they were communicating in their relationship should be a standard for everybody.
My favorite moment with Po being the greenest flag ever is when he asked Jun why he interrupted Thame when he was talking. While it is a small thing, I think it's really important that he was paying attention to his loved one and stood up for him when it was needed.
I'm insanely happy that I cave in and gave it a chance because even though at first I didn't understand the hype around it, as soon as I started watching it I fell it love.

Also, while some people found Jun and Po drama unnecessary, I would definitely say that I really liked it. At first, I was really upset with Jun because I thought he was just messing with Po and being jealous towards Thame since they are pretty good friends. But I honestly was really delighted to find that it wasn't like that. I enjoyed that bit of drama, especially since it wasn't annoying and only opened up Jun as a character even more. I would also say that it helped for us to see in depth the friendship between Thame and Jun, and the way Jun stepped back for Thame only shows how much he cherished and cared for their friendship.
The little bits of Dylan and Jun being a bit flirty to each other and Nano shipping them literally made me really happy since after Jun gave up on Po, I was feeling really sad and kinda sorry for him. I would really want to see more of them together, but we can only hope that they actually had something going on afterwards. Since there's no conformation of that, and I'm pretty sure there won't be any second season, but of course I would love to see it though.

If I had to point something that I wasn't a fan of, there is only one little thing that made me give it 9.5 and not 10. And that is the fact that Thame and Po didn't have much time being a couple, and they did not have much romance going on. While I did enjoy that sweet slow burn, and it was definitely worth the wait. I personally would still prefer for them to have more time together before the break-up, and also more romantic moments with just spending time together.
That's said, though, it doesn't take much from the fact that I genuinely fell in love with them. This series is SO worth the hype, and I absolutely will rewatch it again and again, since it's really that good.

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Meh

That was…an experience, from the cringy and weird scenes to the few actually interesting moments and back to cringe.
It's hard to even rate this, truly because of how awful it was from time to time, not the worst thing I have ever seen, but still not good.

There were so many confusing moments where I would honestly not understand what is going on.
I watched it previously really long ago, and so I had a kind of expectations set for this short series, but sadly this was worse than I remembered.

The things I liked:
1. Story. I guess the overall idea for the plot was pretty entertaining.
2. Grim Reaper. Even though I did found them cringy, I would still say they were pretty funny.
3. The music was not bad, but I don't think I paid much attention to it.

And that's about it now, the things I disliked:
1. Female lead. She was pretty annoying, I didn't felt any sadness or pity for her, and honestly she deserved everything. She was homophobic and just overall incredibly selfish and unpleasant person.
2. Male lead. While he was overall one of the best characters in this whole thing, I still disliked him. Specifically for staying in the relationship with his girlfriend even though he knew that he wasn't happy, and he didn't try to do anything to fix his relationship.
3. The cringe. It was too much at times, I had to pause and just let it sink in at times. It is just that bad.

Overall, it wasn't too pleasant of an experience, and I don't think I'll ever try rewatching it again.

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Not too great

I feel like it could've been much better if it was longer, cause then they would have more time to explain everything better.

The things I liked:
1. Wu Zheng. I both liked and hated this character. But I'll start with what I liked about him. He was pretty respectful and understanding of the Yu Shi's situation, even if he didn't have much to go off of. He didn't push him or Noah for more information, and just let him open up about it on his own.
2. Noah. There is not much to say since he didn't have that much screen time, but I did like this character.
3. Great idea. I feel like they didn't do that great of a job with this story but the whole idea for this plot was so interesting, and I really liked it even though it wasn't portrayed the best in here.
4. Good acting from Yu Shi/Noah's actor.

Things I didn't like:
1. I don't understand what was the girl for. This entire series could've perfectly survived without adding her for this unnecessary 2 seconds of “drama”.
2. The way Wu Zheng's friend handled Yu Shi. It was so weird for me that when he was looking for Yu Shi and found him, his first thought after clearly seeing that Yu Shi is not trusting him was to grab him. I didn't like this at all, and I don't understand how he thought that would be a good idea.
3. Wu Zheng. As I said previously, i both liked and hated this character, so now I'm going to explain what I hated about him. And it's the fact that he flirted, kissed and had sex with Yu Shi before even learning about his condition. And all of that after he clearly states in the start of the series that Yu Shi acts like a child. So he fully acknowledged what he was doing. As much as I can understand that, yes Yu Shi is an adult with an adult body, it doesn't take from the fact that in his head he was 5 years old. So yea, I don't think I have to explain what exactly I found disturbing about this whole situation.
4. Side couple. Again the same thing as with the girl, it was so unnecessary, and instead of giving them all this screen time they should've used it to give us more info about other things.
5. Really choppy and rushed. They didn't give us any info on how Yu Shi and Wu Zheng met and why are they living together until almost at the very end. Even then, there were still questions that I never got my answers to. And overall it was so rushed and everything happened so fast, at times I were quite literally confused trying to understand what is going on.
6. Sharing personal information of your patients with anybody as a doctor is illegal, so yea definitely didn't like how this doctor just let his boyfriend go through patients notes. That was really icky and disrespectful to the patient, apart from the fact that it's also illegal.
7. Not a thing I necessarily disliked, but I did kinda expect it to be more melancholic, that is just my personal opinion and I didn't lower my rating because of that.

Overall, it wasn't too bad nor too good, it was just alright.

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Cute but extremely boring

Sadly, it took me dropping it and then taking a break for 4 months to finally comeback and finish it, it was honestly a hard watch. It is just so boring in my opinion.

One of the reasons to why I dropped it is that the main character, while I guess was made to be cute, is kinda feels like too much. Some moments with him were hard to watch because of the way he acts.
This series has some cute moments, but other than that it's really lacking in any significant plot. While it is just a slice of life series, I don't think it means having no plot and just kinda freestyling each episode with a different relationship problems for the main characters to resolve.

The biggest reason to watch this series is Katori, he is a great friend, so supportive and always there to help mc. At times, he acted like their parent, gentle parenting them into the right direction, it was funny and adorable, I loved seeing all of his reactions to the cute couple moments.
While at first I really disliked Tanaka, he really did improve a lot and was shown to us in a better light. And even though, as I said already, at first I wasn't his fan he still at least added some substance to the story.
I have also seen a bit of a chemistry between Katori and Tanaka, so I would love to see a second season or better yet a spinoff with them.

There is not much more to say since it is pretty much the same thing, just going around in circles until the sixth episode. They have some kind of problem with their relationship, they resolve it over time, done, and then in the next episode it's all over again.
Overall, it wasn't too disappointing, but could've been 10 times better if they worked on the plot more.

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Both too much and not enough

Both japanese and thai adaptations had their own goods and bads, but in my personal opinion, thai adaptation was quite underwhelming comparing to the japanese one.
Feels like they tried to do a lot of stuff and instead of doing less but good, they did a lot with much lower quality.

Things I liked:
1. Sweet and wholesome series with a lot of cute moments.
2. Music.
3. Kongthap is a big green flag.
4. Chinzhilla's concert. That was a cute reminder of the My School President.
5. University. I liked the way both couples had discussions about future studying and what their plans for the future are.

Things I disliked:
1. Quite a lot of product commercials. While I understand that it helps a lot GMMTV with producing other series, it's still getting annoying at a certain point.
2. Too many sound effects. I feel like it's an ongoing problem with some of GMMTV projects, and it is pretty irritating.
3. Too much low quality stuff. As I said before, they bit off more than they can chew, tried to do everything and ended up doing nothing.
4. Could've been shorter and wouldn't even lose much of the plot. At some point, this series started feeling too draggy.

Overall, it wasn't too bad, but I had higher expectations for it. Especially since it was GeminiFourth and they had two great projects previously.

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It was

There is so much to say about this series. It was weird but enjoyable in a way, like bad to the point where it's kind of good.
I'm gonna talk about things I liked and disliked more in depth.

Things I liked:

1. Cinematography. A lot of beautiful shots and scenes, made watching it 10 times more enjoyable.
2. Story. Or more of an idea they had for this series, I feel like they didn't execute it in the best way, but it was still interesting and quite original.
3. LGBTQ+ representation. In my opinion, the representation was great and there were few truly important talks about the equality and gay marriage.
4. Acting. It was excellent, all the actors did amazing, I especially loved NuNew's acting, he's a great actor and did a beautiful job in my opinion.
5. Intimacy. The intimacy with all couples was good, the chemistry between actors was incredible, and it was really nice to see them together.
6. TutorYim couple. Totally my favorite couple, they had a lot of sweet and cute moments, great chemistry. And honestly, it was such a palate cleanser and breath of fresh air in between watching other couples interact.
7. Foei. Might be my favorite character, he is such a goofball, the funniest character in this whole series, just seeing him on the screen made me smile.

Things I disliked:

1. MaxNat couple. Really toxic, and I will even go as far as calling it an abusive relationship. Constantly telling a person, that you aren't even officially dating (not that it would be better if they did) to report on where you are, who with, when you are coming home, etc. is borderline insane and pretty much abusive. Even though it's all because of Yi being worried, it is absolutely does not excuse his behavior. There was no talk on whenever Diao is okay with Yi controlling him 24/7, and from what I've seen, I can assume he really isn't. So for me, this whole “relationship” and its dynamic was too toxic. While I can understand dom/sub dynamics in relationship, it is absolutely something that needs to be talked about, and it needs to be mutual, which in my opinion isn't really the case here.
2. Lies and manipulations. The amount of times Lian lied and manipulated Kuea is insane. The way Lian treats Kuea like a child instead of treating him as an equal, as a partner and the person he respects is just diabolical. I hated every part of Lian, to be completely honest, he is just as toxic as Yi just in a bit different way.
3. Toxic masculinity. What I am referring here is a Lian being really weird about the whole proposal thing. He was really against the idea of Kuea being the one proposing, and even almost walked out when Kuea went above and beyond organizing a surprise for him with the proposal in the end. Him being so weird and full on toxic about this whole proposal thing made me grind my teeth with anger. He made up a problem that wasn't even there out of thin air just because “Oh I'm the MAN, so I will be the one proposing”. What kind of logic is that?
4. Weird logic. The whole logic with Kuea having “secrets” that probably the whole world knows about and thinking that for some reason Lian doesn't know anything. This whole thing with these secrets was super weird.
5. Non-con. It wasn't that big, but honestly the whole scene with Lian taking drunk Kuea home made me quite uncomfortable, and I don't think it was a good idea adding that weird non-con kissing.

Overall, it wasn't the worst, but I would probably enjoy it much more if I would just turn off my brain from time to time.

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Not bad

It was not bad at all, I can even say I enjoyed watching to some degree.
I don't get the insane hate around this movie, while the way they went about some stuff could be considered cringy and cliche. It still, in my opinion, doesn't take that much from the fact that the movie was actually not that bad.

I do think it would be much better if it had more horror stuff. I got really excited when I read that this movie is a horror movie, but it was nothing close to what I expected. It was more of just mystery, I guess.
I enjoyed the acting and the story was pretty good, sadly the way they executed it wasn't the best.
I really dislike the fact how they never explained to us why exactly does Rawee had to move in with their family. That felt like a really important piece of information that was never shown to us.

The thing that I disliked the most is the way Rawee was portrayed as pretty much stereotypical “uke” from some dubious bl manga. The way he would always accidentally cut himself on everything and stumble on nothing, and of course his knight in shinning armour was always there to save him. While it could rarely be seen as cute if it happens once throughout the whole movie, the amount of times it had happened here made it genuinely annoying.

I would say that overall this movie is worth watching it, it's just the fact that while watching it don't try too hard to find some logic in it. Because it's definitely lacking in that department. It's a nice movie to watch when you don't really want to think. While I know that this is definitely not the way it was intended, it is the way it turned out to be.

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Smile that melted my heart

This series is extremely sweet, with the main characters being unproblematic cuties for the most part.
I wasn't too surprised by the fact that I liked it, because I learned to know that if it is made by Strongberry, it will be good.
It's a simple, nice story to watch when you just want to relax.

I was however a bit disappointed with the ending. It was a bit confusing and just so unnecessary in my opinion.
I think it would be much better if it just ended when they were just walking to the store or something. Since it would make much more sense than whatever they ended up doing.

I also found the love triangle story to be so out of place, they spend too much time showing us Woo Hyuk. While they could've spent more of that time to show us how exactly developed the main character's feelings without just jumping right into it.

I also would love to say that I actually fell in love with actor Choi Dong Ho smile. It is incredibly cute and deserves a personal recognition in my humble opinion.
But back to the series, I can say that it was quite pleasant experience, and as I said before it is a sweet and easy series to watch when you just want to relax.

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