This keeps popping up in the feeds and people are loving it. So I decided to give it a go, but I really do not like the beginning: it is the old fashioned thai slapstick bl complete with exaggerated behaviour and annoying sound effects! Do they eventually tone it down?
After a very slow and weird start, when I almost dropped it, it got better slowly. The relationship between the four men is strange: friendship? love? bromance? It has all the makings of a cooking bl which it is not, according to the tags! Whichever it is, they have more chemistry between them than the two guys in Kinou Nani Tabeta? which was a bl!!! So they brought in a star patissier? His laughter and forced joy is freaking me out, I get goosebumps of fear when he appears!
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No to all your questions. Interesting idea ruined by annoying FL who has a huge chip on her shoulder that she never loses. They have zero chemistry, the disability is dealt with so wrong. The side characters are all better than the main couple! And the ending is weird!
I like the idea of speaking to someone, being connected because of rain. The FL is fun and bubbly while the ML is prickly! A classic setup: opposites attract! Though I find it is moving really fast in the beginning! See how it goes: lakorns are not my thing! But the episodes are mercifully short: only 50min compared to the usual 100min/ep series! I am loving the background score! It sounds like a classical us romcom! Sweet and sweeping! And it rains so much in Thailand! Is there a season of rains sometime in a year? There are so many umbrellas! Nice! Rarin, though, is seriously starting to annoy me and I am only on ep.4. Mai as well for that matter. Those two are doing everything in their power to manipulate poor Tan and when he shows his anger, he is called unprofessional and uncaring! I'm on ep6 and I really cannot stand the annoying FL: she is just so convinced she's always right but she's just stupid and pretty! I do not understand why the ML likes her so much? I wish they had dragged a bit this mysterious whose voice in the rain theme: it was solved halfway through the first episode. We still do not know why, but now I really don't care! For this lakorn especially! Lakorns and I do not mix well! Or rather at all!
And that's it for me: 10min into episode 6 and I want to scream at stupid FL so instead I am dropping this! Cannot stand it any more! Bye, bye another lakorn I am unable to finish!
Nice to see you back with a review! It is such a joy to read this wry humour of yours ! Every time I need a good laugh, I reread your review of Gu Family Book...it is a masterpiece, a review extremely well written. As for this drama, thanks for the heads up!
The malediction of the second season or how to ruin a brilliant drama! JUST A RANT after a disappointing beginning! I am starting this immediately after finishing the first series I simply adored and I can feel the differences in pacing, and in storyline with the introduction of a bunch of annoying characters! Moreover Nanon seems to have forgotten how to button up his shirt and why is Wave wearing his jacket on his shoulders like a soap opera diva , not to mention that Claire's makeup is making me think she's not being played by the same actress(WTF are you thinking Mr. Director !?!) ?And do not start me on PPLs! What mildly irritated me in the first series, it is seriously annoying me here (the first 20 min of the ep. two are just filled with ads!!! At one moment I seriously thought one character was going to discover his potential while eating ramen!) Please tell me they tone it down afterwards because if I have to watch them continuously eating noodles, drinking soft drinks and wash their faces I am going to drop it! 😡😡😡 Episode 5 and they are still taking forever to eat OK ramen.... Basically the theme of this season is DIVIDE & CONQUER implemented by adults manipulating idealistic kids! Nanon's character, Pang, has lost all his nice sides which made him such a lovable dork in the first season! It looks like he lost most of his braincells when he decided to leave his shirt half unbuttonned: he has been behaving like a total clueless idiot! While in the first season, he would think and figure out the most unprobable solutions, here he is such a gullible fool! No wonder, none of his friends do not want to be with him: he keeps trusting the wrong people, something he would never have done a year earlier! So annoying! On to ep.8 and the backstory of the Director Supot (those anthology like episodes in season 1 were my favourite so I am happy we are finally we are getting one here!) which was fascinating. They also talked a lot about the virus but why is all that talk making me think of AIDS? Maybe it is an allegory? So after listening to Supot's story we were made to sympathize with him and believe him to be better than we thought! Wrong! So wrong, he appears to be much, much worse than we thought! (After realizing that young version of Supot is played by Tay Tawan, I can so see him in the older actor! They managed to mimic each other's micro mannerisms to perfection!) These twists are mindblowing! And they keep coming, relentlessly as the ending approaches! But Pang's stupidity at the same time seems to be boundless! What happened to him? Hope he grows a brain before the ending!
Same, I just binge watched 7 eps and it's so good.
I finished the remaining 6 episodes the day after and today I started The Gifted: Graduation! 😂 But I can't binge anymore: I have to go to work!ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜
I noticed that in ordinary K romance dramas there are usually two or three couples: the main couple is virginal, never-been-kissed kind while the support couples are mature, not holding back (Because This Is my first life, Be Melocholic, Search WWW etc etc.) Taiwanese Before We Get Married has some steamy kissing in the opening credits but you need to wait for the last episode to see it! Secret Romance happens on the beach in the first episode and that's it for the drama! There are of course two crime dramas with a touch of romance since the couples are mature: Misty and Mistresses. Great list ! Thanks for compiling these dramas!
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So they brought in a star patissier? His laughter and forced joy is freaking me out, I get goosebumps of fear when he appears!
I have just started watching this but why is the beginning giving me such Dynasty vibes? It looks like your prime time US soap opera, with unbelievably beautiful and scornful rich people walking around as if they own the World? Such cartoonish, OTT characters! Hope it gets better because the first episode is ridiculous!
Fortunately, things seem to be moving in the right direction in ep2. Like in Extraordinary You, the FL realizes she is not the main character of the novel she landed in and her reactions are hilarious!
After a terrible first episode when I almost dropped this, I am on episode 3 now and enjoying the ride immensely! I am loving the way they are making fun of all those "cold CEO & sweet and innocent damsel-in-distress" stories. Moreover, I hope I am wrong, but I am getting those SLS symptoms and that is not a good sigh. The CEO is hot but the girl lost in the novel has such sparkling chemistry with the CSO, CEO's friend!
This is just getting better and better: the FL is funny and quirky and they are so mocking the usual drama tropes. In ep. 6 the book white lotus damsel in distress broke a mirror and cut her finger: the injury is about the size of a needle top but the whole first aid kit is being used while she winces as she's being treated. So funny! I really hope this is going to stay like this! Even the book CEO is starting to show cracks in his armor from FL's constant mocking attacks! SLS I was afraid of seems to have petered out when FL and the book's SML become partners in crime!
I seem to have a love hate relationship with this drama: I absolutely love watching it, but if I stop(for example, in order to sleep!), somehow I do not want to pick it up again! Weird, right?
Now I'm about to start ep 10 and I like book characters more than the cartoonish real life ones! Aren't book characters supposed to be clichés and unrealistic (well, they do have funny names....)? The FL has great chemistry with the CSO while the CEO is starting to realize that the damsel in distress is clumsy and boring. I just hoe they do not intensify the SLS again unless they want them to end up together!
I still wonder why I have trouble picking up this drama after a short break?
SO end of ep 10: CEO fell for FL and sealed it with a dead fish kiss...promising? Maybe! But why make it smooth sailing? Now we add a jealous brother to the mix and the hidden side of damsel in distress white lotus: she is not goody too shoes after all and can show her claws when her plans are disturbed. And the FL completely ruined her plans. Unwittingly though! And why leave the SML behind! Ep.13 and that SLS is kicking in hard!
This drama is mocking the usual drama/novel tropes only to end up using them to further the plot for the FL! It is a shame they did not go all the way denouncing tropes and going aghainst them!
In the real world, the sister is losing her marbles after being poisoned by her brother! Actually, I am starting to feel sorry for her: she needed to be ruthless to make it in the male dominated business world. Another life cliché: when men are tough and ruthless, they are praised! but when women are the same, they are deemed crazy, hysterical, evil and ugly! We need to change so many things in our societies.
I love the drama, it is funny and engaging and still, I keep looking for other things to watch. Weird, didn't I say so already!
On to ep 14 and they are in love, sharing stories. Situ Aoran's childhood memories are at the best confusing, the reasons he gives for him being punished and therefore developing fear of darkness are illogical: he was always a good and kind son, his brother was the one always getting in trouble so for all his efforts Aoran is locked in a dark cupboard while his brother and parents go to live in the USA in order to keep him away from trouble! Strange !
Tha ML's life story is also full of illogical events: his mother died when he was young kid but he had to hide from his mother that he failed an exam and had to work! Do they make 10yr olds work part time jobs in Taiwan?!? I wish the writers thought about how the construct the characters backstories and not say whatever is convenient and contradict themselves!
Now they are finally awake but ML's brother and uncle want him dead. But two bodyguards save the day! When I saw them fighting the bad guys, my first thought was: I can see them both in a nice BL! Frankly, they have crackling chemistry just standing next to each other!
The FL in the real world seems to have lost all her brain cells: she is suffering being apart from ML so she braves the guards to arrive in front of the ML's room and... wait?!? For what? The guards to kick her out?
Luckily, after the initial shock of him not recognizing her, had passed she became her old funny, direct and irreverent self and it has been great watching them trading quips! But I so miss the SML lost in the book world!
BTW, who goes to office wearing a tuxedo? What a strange wardrobe choice!
Is Snuggle a real brand? It is featured heavily in the drama including being part of the plot! They must have payed a fortune for it!
I am loving the background score! It sounds like a classical us romcom! Sweet and sweeping!
And it rains so much in Thailand! Is there a season of rains sometime in a year?
There are so many umbrellas! Nice!
Rarin, though, is seriously starting to annoy me and I am only on ep.4. Mai as well for that matter. Those two are doing everything in their power to manipulate poor Tan and when he shows his anger, he is called unprofessional and uncaring!
I'm on ep6 and I really cannot stand the annoying FL: she is just so convinced she's always right but she's just stupid and pretty! I do not understand why the ML likes her so much?
I wish they had dragged a bit this mysterious whose voice in the rain theme: it was solved halfway through the first episode. We still do not know why, but now I really don't care! For this lakorn especially!
Lakorns and I do not mix well! Or rather at all!
And that's it for me: 10min into episode 6 and I want to scream at stupid FL so instead I am dropping this! Cannot stand it any more! Bye, bye another lakorn I am unable to finish!
JUST A RANT after a disappointing beginning!
I am starting this immediately after finishing the first series I simply adored and I can feel the differences in pacing, and in storyline with the introduction of a bunch of annoying characters! Moreover Nanon seems to have forgotten how to button up his shirt and why is Wave wearing his jacket on his shoulders like a soap opera diva , not to mention that Claire's makeup is making me think she's not being played by the same actress(WTF are you thinking Mr. Director !?!) ?And do not start me on PPLs! What mildly irritated me in the first series, it is seriously annoying me here (the first 20 min of the ep. two are just filled with ads!!! At one moment I seriously thought one character was going to discover his potential while eating ramen!) Please tell me they tone it down afterwards because if I have to watch them continuously eating noodles, drinking soft drinks and wash their faces I am going to drop it! 😡😡😡 Episode 5 and they are still taking forever to eat OK ramen....
Basically the theme of this season is DIVIDE & CONQUER implemented by adults manipulating idealistic kids! Nanon's character, Pang, has lost all his nice sides which made him such a lovable dork in the first season! It looks like he lost most of his braincells when he decided to leave his shirt half unbuttonned: he has been behaving like a total clueless idiot! While in the first season, he would think and figure out the most unprobable solutions, here he is such a gullible fool! No wonder, none of his friends do not want to be with him: he keeps trusting the wrong people, something he would never have done a year earlier! So annoying!
On to ep.8 and the backstory of the Director Supot (those anthology like episodes in season 1 were my favourite so I am happy we are finally we are getting one here!) which was fascinating. They also talked a lot about the virus but why is all that talk making me think of AIDS? Maybe it is an allegory?
So after listening to Supot's story we were made to sympathize with him and believe him to be better than we thought! Wrong! So wrong, he appears to be much, much worse than we thought! (After realizing that young version of Supot is played by Tay Tawan, I can so see him in the older actor! They managed to mimic each other's micro mannerisms to perfection!)
These twists are mindblowing! And they keep coming, relentlessly as the ending approaches! But Pang's stupidity at the same time seems to be boundless! What happened to him? Hope he grows a brain before the ending!
Great list ! Thanks for compiling these dramas!