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I wanted to love it more...
Unfortunately that drama was a miss for me. I wanted to love it and on paper, it had a lot for itself to get me entertained.
A real life idol T-pop boy group (LYKN formed through a survival show that I now want to watch) are portraying on screen members of a T-pop group that are on the threshold of collapse and breaking up. All of that in the midst of romantic entanglement of their leader with the new guy running a documentary on them ?!!! I was ready for it !
It is a wonder of why the magic did not work on me. The series is beloved by many but I had trouble to finish it. I think the biggest culprit for me was the script : both on the romance side but also on the group aspect, it did not hold up. I had maybe too much expectations but I was hoping for something more gripping in terms of idol life reality. It felt very "teen Disney shows" to me : the colorful vibe but also the easy conflict resolution. Some of the issues faced by the characters felt also sometimes self-inflicted which annoyed me.
Overall, I really liked the casting. I think William and Est have a good chemistry, but I must admit I think their chemistry is better in the two other shows I saw them in, as leads in "You Maniac" and as secondary characters in "Me and Thee"/"Peach and Me". It is obvious that they made great progress in their most recent shows compared to ThamePo which is the beginning of their partnership. Having said that, I think it is more the writing that their acting that bear the bulk of my disappointment.
The other members of LYKN who played the remaining member of the fictional group on the brink of rupture were also good. I am curious to see if they were "just" playing themselves and have a similar "real life" idol persona, or if some thoughts and acting choice went into it. Their on screen relationship felt believable either way. Similarly, the OST also mainly featuring LYKN made me want to discover the group further, it was pretty varied even if I wish I would have seen even more of the choreography and so on.
I would not necessarily recommend this to people because of how I did not manage to get invested into it despite thematically being a series that should have made me passionate. Given the success of the series, the way I think William and Est are selling convincing chemistry, I still think it is worth a shot to see if you can connect to it more than I did.
A real life idol T-pop boy group (LYKN formed through a survival show that I now want to watch) are portraying on screen members of a T-pop group that are on the threshold of collapse and breaking up. All of that in the midst of romantic entanglement of their leader with the new guy running a documentary on them ?!!! I was ready for it !
It is a wonder of why the magic did not work on me. The series is beloved by many but I had trouble to finish it. I think the biggest culprit for me was the script : both on the romance side but also on the group aspect, it did not hold up. I had maybe too much expectations but I was hoping for something more gripping in terms of idol life reality. It felt very "teen Disney shows" to me : the colorful vibe but also the easy conflict resolution. Some of the issues faced by the characters felt also sometimes self-inflicted which annoyed me.
Overall, I really liked the casting. I think William and Est have a good chemistry, but I must admit I think their chemistry is better in the two other shows I saw them in, as leads in "You Maniac" and as secondary characters in "Me and Thee"/"Peach and Me". It is obvious that they made great progress in their most recent shows compared to ThamePo which is the beginning of their partnership. Having said that, I think it is more the writing that their acting that bear the bulk of my disappointment.
The other members of LYKN who played the remaining member of the fictional group on the brink of rupture were also good. I am curious to see if they were "just" playing themselves and have a similar "real life" idol persona, or if some thoughts and acting choice went into it. Their on screen relationship felt believable either way. Similarly, the OST also mainly featuring LYKN made me want to discover the group further, it was pretty varied even if I wish I would have seen even more of the choreography and so on.
I would not necessarily recommend this to people because of how I did not manage to get invested into it despite thematically being a series that should have made me passionate. Given the success of the series, the way I think William and Est are selling convincing chemistry, I still think it is worth a shot to see if you can connect to it more than I did.
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