Grizzly bear

Pure slowburn. Good but not perfect

I picked this up after Star and Sky and at 1st I liked it although I like Star and Sky much more (back then I wasn't a JD fan) around ep 4 or 5 the plot became extremely boring for me who isn't much into slowburn especially when the drama purely focuses on romance and there is nothing else to keep me interested. I literally dropped it. Tried picking it up a couple of times and failed horribly. But after that 2 episodes of boredom. The series actually does get better😂😂.

So guys if you're watching this there is a point where u wanna give up just skip or watch on 2x and continue. Then I pretty much binge watched it to the end.

I really liked the characters similar to star and sky they were very simple characters, the drama majorly focuses on the emotional struggles of each characters. Now that it's been a year in BL a lot of my fav actors are here like Aou and Boom whom I didn't know when I first watched the show.

I really liked how natural the characters and their flaws felt.. although the final episode kinda messed up. Like ep 11 ends with JokeZo hugging each other and then suddenly ep 12 starts with Zo ignoring Joke and asking him to leave🙄 that was unnecessary in my pov. They could have bought in Joke's family problems a little earlier and also ended Zo's family problems early instead of dragging it. It was a peaceful watch. Not the best of JD dramas but it's not bad.

But I gotta say Zo is probably the prettiest dunk character I've seen. He was dropping beauty the whole series🤭🤭🤭. Yes we have style but he's like sexy and Zo is like drop dead gorgeous angel kinda character

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Somethinv bingewatchable after a long time

I absolutely loved this drama. Although it's not popular I literally binge watched it till ep 8 and then sat sad after i realised it was still on air😭

The story seems simple at first glance but it's really well done and has a lot of depth. I like how well the main characters are written. Like for example, Chia Kai looks like this clumsy, scared, good for nothing kid but is someone who is brave enough to standup for strangers eventhough he is afraid on the other hand we have Da Wei who seems like this cold, capable cop but despite being a strong excellent cop he still fears his dad. Although his dad could no longer hurt him. He was like a fly trapped in a jar which never left the jar even after the lid was opened.

I liked how they handled the thread situation. Showing us that they would still be fine even without it and how complicated both their families were unlike the usual dramas where characters usually stay in 1 layer here the characters were gray and had a lot of layers. Their decisions seemed to be someone anyone would take if they were in that situation.

Overall i really loved it❤️

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A little too wholesome for it's name. LOVED IT!!

You might expect this one to be disgustingly gross cz of it's name. Trust me it isn't. It's soo damn cute and wholesome. Unlike the manga which is also adorable they've toned down on the NC making their much more adorable.

I absolutely love my babies Oji and Ai🥺🥺. I'm totally gonna miss Oji's weirdness and Ai's cuteness. For a 15 min drama, it was on par with full length dramas. I kinda expected this to me like "unexpectedly naughty fukami kun" just like everyone else who watched this on air cz of the poster, title and duration which were quite similar but no this one is much much better.

Guys please don't go with the name🤣🤣 It's just Oji falls in love with Ai at 1st sight and Ai was kinda looking for a top to have a one night stand with. Oji may seem creepy but he is an absolute green flag. He asks for consent and loves Ai a lot. Just watch it. You'll love it.

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Finally!!! CBL with a non-toxic green flag ML!!!

I think Gao from RL is the only green flag ML I have seen in CBLs. This is my 1st time seeing a green flag top as the ML. I watching this drama expecting him to be a red flag but bro turned out to be the chinese version of Prapai from LITA. I absolutely loved Jing An. His acting and his character was perfect. The story was also pretty good with some minor flaws. For me the major issue was with Xing Yao's acting. He nailed the sections where he had to seem numb and expressionless but then failed when it came to expressing his trauma and many other scenes. So both actors were going on 2 absolutely different wavelengths. For instance, XY's past is revealed JAs eyes are filled with fear and tears. He's hugging XY like he doesn't wanna lose him and he's helpless n hurting for him which was done well. But then XY is crying and shivering but then it didn't give trauma it gave faking cold. So yeah, that happened in multiple places.

JA is my fav character. I usually don't mind weak characters but XY and his friend weren't my fav. Ngl i kinda felt XY used his friend and later left him once he had JA to back him up. He didn't try to make up or anything. Especially when the person on the other side is you're bff who protected u and took care of u all your life. The friend wasn't a saint either. I totally get why XY didn't choose him. He did care for him but then he also kept looking down on him instead of helping him cope he kept asking him to give up on music n find a real job... n yeah how the hell can he tell the bullies where he was and what he was doing🙄

Overall it's good not the best but binge watchable

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Drama soo good one wouldn't realise it was shot in 1 house

99% of the drama is literally shot in 1 house. The drama is definitely a budget friendly one but the script and acting didn't make us feel it. I absolutely loved the clumsy cop x killer plot. Each and every actor in the series, including the father were serving looks with amazing acting. They did lack blood supply though🤣 cz when it came to blood splatter scenes which would need large amounts of fake blood they just switch the camera angle and hide it. It was funny to watch them do that over and over again. Overall I really liked the drama it was super interesting. The plot twist was pretty shocking for me although I did guess it to some extent, it was definitely not what I thought was the story.

The reason I gave it a 9 was cz i felt some scenes were just kinda out of context. Like after all the villain die they just makeout infront of the bodies😳 umm what?

Also I felt like in the last 2 episodes I needed more scenes instead of them just hinting everything. I feel if this drama had a good budget with 12 episodes. Even with the same actors and directors it'd have been a masterpiece. Especially if they added the backstory of the leads like how I Do ended up with the mayor's man and how he raised him... and his attachment towards him finally leading to his death..that build up would be amazing. Same in the case of Tae Jeong, if they showed his life with his family and how the father's death affected his life. His wish to avenge his father's death, the betrayal.. if those scenes were given the right time 🤌🤌 .. but it's fine. It is actually really good just as it is.

Special mention to Kim Seung Beom's nose. I just couldn't take my eyes off his nose (in a good way🤣) it's like this absolutely perfect shaped nose and is like the perfect size, shape which makes him slay that side profile❤️ and also the killers... someone definitely had taste🤭🤭 cz all the killers were soo damn handsome

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Yearner final boss

This is probably the only fourever series for which I hadn't read the novel so my review is solely based on the series. I absolutely loved the fluff overload and yearning I got with this one🤭🤭. At first I was like why are we even getting this when we saw their story in season 1 but when I watched it I was like "totally worth it". I really loved all the couples. The mafia brothers kinda reminded me of our Arseni brothers with the downbadism. I really wanted to see more of SinghaBen but i get it for 8 episodes and 3 other couples they did what they could.

The only sad thing for me was that FieldDan didn't get a happy ending. That man liked Dan wayy before Tiger liked Nao so I kinda feel he deserved a happy ending. Anyways enjoyed it and will miss our doc and princess gang

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It's good but needs more depth and also kinda incomplete

I do feel the story could have some depth to it but considering it's 8eps and soo much on the plate I get it. I liked it but i feel it could have been better, a little more redemption, a little more depth. I did cry a little but i feel they could have made me brawl like LITML. There are things that kinda feel incomplete for me rn.
- Like they showed the mom being with gaysorn all that time as a butterfly so does that mean mom bought scent to gaysorn? Which is fine but why scent? Not like she met him as a kid and liked him or something (a back story would hv helped
- mata being able to talk to souls, she said she could do it if it was a muda person and they had a belonging of theirs. Busaba's necklace was with gaysorn the whole time and her soul too. Why didn't she talk
- I feel they could have added something to Mekhin like make him a surprise villian or Tawan's end game cz initially i thought it would be MekhinRay but that doesn't look like it's gonna happen and Mekhin liking gaysorn again that is also being left incomplete cz we hv 1 more episode
- they could have added a stronger intent behind ray helping gaysorn. Probably use his affection towards his mom or else his hatred towards scent... make scent a bit more negative someone who just uses people and used ray too
- a bit more on the part where scent falls for gaysorn instead of that timeskip with flashes of what happened etc.
- bussaba going back after 4 years when phukin told her he'd leave after her..no matter how late he would be 2 years would be max before she assumed he was dead. Especially when he warned her about kusuma
- i am still curious how phukin extracted the scent from busaba. Cz he extracted 3 bottles of it while scent could barely get 1. He obviously didn't torture her.
- the last episode felt rushed with the way it ended. They show scent collapsing but then it's a skip to him owning a land with flowers which was kinda incomplete
- i didn't really see why scent decided to go back to gaysorn when he was soo guilty about the parent's death

I really loved MekhinRay though although their characters would be much better with more depth. Ray was my favorite ❤️❤️❤️

I'd say it's a 7 for me rn I'd give it a 10 if they made this a 12 ep drama with more depth.

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Liked this more than H2H

After H2H i didn't have high expectations from this couple but looks like they do have some good dramas in their basket. I really liked this story. I was expecting it to be more supernatural like SurfJava's story but turns out this one is pretty normal. Just a jid pretending to be a fortune teller cz he can't make friends. This reminded me of My school president in a lot of ways. My heart kinda ached for Mavin other than him being bad with people, people hating him cz he is good at something and doesn't seem to be trying hard just felt unfair and relatable but unfortunately irl people don't regret doing such things like the camp kids did.

Overall i liked it the only thing that bothered me is that we didn't get a timeskip to see if they stayed together after Err returned.. the ending kinda felt complete n incomplete to me

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People hating this gem for no damn reason

It's a really cute, sweet, fluff slowburn BL. The characters start dating in the last episode i am guessing that's the reason people said it's rushed but i disgree i feel the pacing was just right. It was 15 mins per episode and i think they utilized it well. Both actors had great chemistry dispite the lack of NC scenes. We only got like 2 kisses in the entire drama.

I like how there was no major misunderstanding or problems. Just pure unrequited love kinda set up. One thing kinda unique here was that the top was the innocent type 😆😆 bro kept misunderstanding ramen the whole time. He was soo damn adorable when he was trying to do things for Ji Yu and Ji Yu was just clueless about it n cussing him😆😆

I wanna just stuff both of them in pocket🥺🥺 overall it was good i enjoyed it.

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The most complicated characters I've seen in a cdrama

When i started this drama i was kinda expecting the usual cdrama kinda drama where everyone is a green flag but there are a lot of misunderstanding for the 1st 2 eps i nearly didn't wanna watch it but then the more i watched the more interested i was.

Literally there's barely any character like the grandma and the kid that are green flags. Everyone else are kinda red flags. Each character has their own flaws and complex character.

Xu Yan - insecure and lies about her marriage to marry Hao ming
Hao ming - super twisted, fakes love and marries xu yan knowing her truth
Xu yan's parents - trash they didn't deserve forgiveness but whatever
Qiao lin - older sister but always causing problems for her sister and oblivious about it
Lin Tao - looked down on Qiao Lin, blackmailed and stalked her into marriage
Fang Lie - likes her sister's boyfriend/ex and faked dna reports to be with him
Yu Ming - was in love with his girlfriend's ex (not that bad)
Shen's parents - blamed the son for having a son and never got over it, also came from a poor background but judged xu yan for the same

They're all literally the main characters and they all had soo many issues😆😆 well it's interesting give it a go. It was my 1st time watching xiao lu si play such a complex character ive only ever seen her play green flag bubbly girl but this just showed me something new. I also liked how the ML was just not a plain ceo he was soo much more to the point that i hated him😆😆 nah i hated and loved everyone😆😆

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Calming, relaxing, emotional yet realistic

This is one of the most touching and realistic BLs I've watched. The drama has quite some unique features like less emphasis on the leads being gay and more about their life and other problems. How everything is not magically solved.
The story is about 2 boys one who gained some light as he grew up and one who lost it. Hiro brings this light into Kai's life when they were younger but overtime loses his own cz of how messy life is.
Compared to Kai's story i liked Hiro's more. I like how accurately they described corporate life. How companies make you feel unworthy and how you lose yourself unknowingly over time. I liked how hiro didn't confront, fight or do anything instead just quit to get out of the cycle. Unlike other dramas where you see the lead works hard and then things happen the villain gets fired and the office problems are solved. In reality no such things can happen. I like how hiro finished his work and quit. How subtly Kai supported and brought back light into Hiro's life and how they grew during the entire series.

It's just beautiful. I dont understand why its rated 7 but for me it was short and sweet

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A mini series which didn't feel like one

Usually mini series have their own standards they're not as good as the long series this one was 2 hours long in total but i feel that it was just the right amount of everything. I don't want anything more or less.

I really liked both Eddy and Ian❤️ the playful pushpull romance and the way everyone in the office would shut the ceo🤭🤭 it was cute. One unique thing i observed was ian choosing love over carrier which we usually see in dramas. He chose what made him happy instead of success and how that lead him to another path. I like that they showed that instead of just leaving him unemployed or in the same work he was they showed sometimes its fine to pick ur happiness over money

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