InspectorMegre

A real gem, amazing star actors, great plot, fanstastically matching music

This is so fun
The star studded cast, amazing rich detailed creative fun acting, amazing plot, acting, and music. So great.
There is comedy and there is depth
it is realistic, it is paradoxical,...
the acting is sooooo detailed masterful

One of my fav actors is the ex N Korean spy and then an amnesiac meekling in this drama lnao just watching him act his role in so much detail is worth watching the drama

I can't help it but laugh bc I cannot remember Bulgae name and so I keep grabbing for similar words, and I keep calling him BULGOGI lmao bc that is the word that comes to my mind first that sounds the closest lmao

The music is totally hilariously matching the scenes

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I love how the smooth handsome charismatic socially suave and popular Han is the main villain, cruel and 100% evil well camouflaged sociopath/psychopath liar swindler murderer thief

An EVIL MONSTER, a well camouflaged polite suave handsome EVIL MONSTER

yet LOOKING so acceptable and dignified, and commanding respect from the public. LOOKING like a perfect leader

That role is one of the major contributions of this drama, bc it debunks sociopaths, gaslighters, chronic liars and swindlers and thieves

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Many women in this drama are amazing. The home-brewn neighborhood team is so synced up and so effective, and led by an old man and women - and then finally that super cool female prosecutor
while the "professionals" are fighting like cats and dogs, so full of pride lmao

I love how the motley team of "professionals" are not together then sleezing up together and coming off as a team lmao
and the insistence on old life by the thugs is understandable and realistic and it is super fun to see how it is challenged and melting - and to wonder IF it is really going to melt?

And I love how the small neighborhood team is so together and synced up and women-led

Also, I like the balance in portraying women - policewoman, persecutor, wife, are very smart and capable women and they take no sh.t from their husbands but also do not make stupid decisions. Then we have the Kim politician's wife who is super dumb esp during a political campaign and she harassed her husband to give in to her - and caused major falling

I love how the music totally perfectly matches the scenes in this drama lmao

I love all the paradoxes and twists in this drama lmao
Like the nephew - bc he was so off the cuff, he accepted the washed out stranger as an uncle - but then - he is still like that at the age of 20 and basically a criminal
The uncle has a loving caring side and he instantly took to .. well ... how to explain it in one word.... dedicated admiration and care - clearly he is smitten too - caring for the prosecutor, yet he is the ex-spy from N Korea. I totally love the acting of that actor, it is masterful, small details that are just wow very rich creative acting.
The prosecutor is so smart and tough fighting woman but she fell for the ex-spy almost instantly bc of his caring for her.... And ON THE OTHER hand, she was never fooled by him, she carefully investigated him. Same for policewoman and older thug.
The NIS agent's wife has interrogation skills worthy of NIS lmao

So all pairs/relationships are perfectly matched

All our fighters fell for women, and women reeled them into "ordinary proper life"
I am soooo waiting to see what will reel in Ma Bok into proper life bc he is such a die hard thug out of conviction lmao :( It is comical and also tragic that he is so delusional

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This is so fun
The star studded cast, amazing plot, acting, and music. So great.

The hilarious part is that the older thug and policewoman chasing that gang fell in love, and the N Korean ex-spy and the prosecutor investigating him fall in love lmao and the wife of NIS agent is already of a caliber of NIS agent lmao and their kid is already wired for that kind of family :)

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Imo the young thug actor is so cute, because he EXPRESSES - his face, his body, he smiles, he moves, and he has piercing clear eyes, he has a personality, interests, he is active, and he has energy. It is so cute to see someone VIBRANTLY ALIVE AND ENERGETIC AND ACTIVE and yeah a guy who looks like he has been eating

In this role, he is young, immature, impatient and just bouncing around and yapping like a little doggie lmao but he is super cute :) Still that role is the kind of guy "look, dont touch" but the ACTOR is so fun to watch in that role

The recent trend is some super skinny and super tired lifeless male and female actors with poker faces who look and behave as if they are half dead and just about to collapse if they move away from the couch where they just sit all day long. Women's legs look like chopsticks in a mini skirt, like clunking bones on a skeleton. And guys have muscles but they are so .... thin, clearly just for a show, that kind of dude would die if they had to move a sofa or something.
Those fashion-models impersonating actors, i.e. FAKE actors, are B O R I N G to death, it is like watching the modeling agency list of photographs, faces frozen in time. When those act, they have personality of cardboard. I would just quickly get rid of them all asap, and I would FEED all actors and make them act like real life, moving, expressing, smiling. LIKE KDRAMA ACTORS USED TO BE. Watching an older drama is so much more fun bc actors are so much more alive and energetic and expressive and so much more fun.

That Kim politician is NOT suitable for a leader when he gives up major issues just so that his wife will not nag him around the dinner table ...

and his wife is 1000% unsuitable for a leader's wife when she does such stupid things and won't listen even when she is clearly explained how dangerous her actions are... THEN she acts even more stupid and goes to kill herself

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So fun! I love this drama! And yeah there is the thriller creepy....

Really nice and really fun LOL when the small town entered into the picture, that's when I started LOVING this drama, it is HILARIOUS and it is very heartwarming

The thriller part is there and it is really scary

I like FL and ML characters they are really great people and also match as a couple
I love the makjang of the Principal, even the village bully rapping his lawsuit LOL

I love the little kiddo, he is the cutest ever

There are sooo many scenes that are filmed in a very cool way... like... the swimming pool scene - water, then high heels in red, then black male shoes... That was cool ...

FL and ML getting together at the end of ep 6 was really cool and very different ..... very ... powerful

FL actress is amazing!!! so skilled!!!

ML actor was not such a great actor in early episodes..., very often it is obvious that he is pretending instead of BEING the character
and, I have a desire to shorten his bangs, I want to see his eyes
After ep 5 or 6 he is acting better and is starting to be convincing

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deep, real, unconditional love. Amazing comedy and ML actor ; bad FL actress

I am watching this in april 2026 and HAVING A BLAST, THIS IS SO FUN!!!!! The first 2 episodes that is :) It is less fun / more serious later. But it was more warm and sometimes ... send me off my chair, laughing... Like... ep 5 hairdos LMAO all scenes from the hairdresser and on... LMAO LMAO LMAO the detective meeting them... colleagues commenting... LMAO

ML actor is so good at acting this role!!! so fun! charming, playful, creative, lively, alive, energetic, moving a lot, expressive, goofball, AMAZING comedian. My new fav actor! Scenes with him in glasses giving the hairy bag to FL, or him answering to SML's parents as if a gay lover, and so many other scenes, are total total comedy.
Seems like he was one of early idols or fashion models who got a screen role, adn then after that, so many fashion models started acting and most of them are CEMENT cannot act at all.
How this ML actor is acting is soooo off the rails, so crazy creative, so rich!!!! I need to watch the drama without subtitles or some super huge subtitles so that I can see all of acial expressions, body movements and his goof offs :) He is a super creative goofball, and his main strength is not his face but his lively warm goofy flirty CHARM. He is a true Monkey sign.
He is not good at acting fake soapy scenes LOL like whn he gave $2K to scammers and sat in the park... He is not acting well scenes with sad or remorseful feelings.... And he is not good at smiling :) he is good at acting charming with his lips closed or slightly smiling... he is some kind of fashion model, seems like.

The detective who was helping with scamming is GREAT at smiling. Wow that was 2015/2016 when actors with slanted eyes were considered hadsomone. Good old days before stupid plastic surgery and trying to look caucasian. That is really really stupid racism. I wish Asians to look themselves, they are pretty in their own way, WHY imitate someone else. Yeah sure, to sell the dramas more in the West since West has most money - I see why - but is it really needed????

The plot makes Louis autistic and also FL is rather .. dumb too - naive - they dont seem to learn fast to be careful

**** FL actress is terrible, cannot act! ***** I saw her in To My Beloved Thief this year and she acts THE SAME THE EXACT SAME faces, voice, etc THE SAME. omg that chick has zero skills. It is annoying to see her pretending instead of acting.

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I had FUN with the first few episodes, and by ep 7, I was about done watching it... so just in case, watched 9 full episodes, then ff through 10, 11 and then watched most of 16.
It got tiresome by the end to watch Louis and BS who did not change much. Their behaviors just didnt fit with the adults they were supposed to be by then. It's ok - it was a love between two fools :)

Had fun with the side characters, Ma Ri was fun :) the acting of that actress and also the script was hilarious - stiching before going to bed, ha? lmao

So bye bye Lous and Bok Sil story, it was lovely, and we are all sure you are living happily ever after. What an epic love story.
AND THEN LOUIS AND BOK SIL, THE TWO FOOLS, LOVED EACH OTHER MORE THAN ALL LEARNED AND SMART PEOPLE IN THE WORLD.

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But bc of ML, I am totally determined to watch older dramas. THis is so fun!!! By chance, I watched Hello Monster before watching this drama and then recognized the ML. Hello Monster also had ML from Idol I, in excellently done support role, it was clear a great actor was being born.

I loved old dramas bc there are sooo many great actors in there, and the plots and the filming is a LOT more creative and dynamic.

FIRST OF ALL, PPL LOOK NORMAL, they are physically fit, they move, they express, it is so dynamic!!! their faces are normal, they got meat on them, their skin glows, their hair glows, ppl are ENERGETIC and look more healthy and happy.

2015/2016 is a LOT sexier than 2026!!!! 2026 is skeleton actors, so super skinny, looking tired, lifeless, serious, just BORIING, no movement, so slooow... Gosh!!! SICKLY, weak, dull....
I am thinking the ML in Practical Guide to Love, he is like a stray cat, and sooo slow in every way. Even the 2ML that the women in the audience liked so much, is pretty much a stationary slow boy too...

WOW WHAT HAPPENED IN 10 YEARS THAT ACTORS GOT REDUCED TO THIS GHOST-LIKE EERIE MALNOURISHED LOOK AND VERY STATIONARY SLOW "SERIOUS BS" ROLES?????

IT IS LIKE THE WHOLE WORLD BECAME SO DULL, WITHOUT CHARM, WITHOUT CREATIVITY, WITHOUT MOVEMENT, WITHOUT EXUBERANCE AND FUN

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This drama is so refreshing testimony of true unconditional love between "two fools" - there is nothing between them that is not love

If the audience cannot see it, then I will remind the audience of the famous line from a famous story....where it is clearly spelled out what you just witnessed, so that there is no wrong guesses by the audience....

It totally reminds me of the famous Jewish story about two fools in love, usually titled "Shlemiel and Cippa" or sometimes "Schlemiel the First," written by the Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer. THE STORY ENDS WITH ESSENTIALLY THIS SENTENCE:

: AND THAT IS HOW THE TWO SUPPOSED FOOLS LOVED EACH OTHER MORE THAN ALL THE SMART/LEARNED PEOPLE IN THE WORLD
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Ok I am watching Shopaholic Louis 2015 kdrama in 2026 and I now understand how kdramas got to be so awful since 2015.

Shopaholic Louis kdrama shows compassion, the love, the connection, the message of deep belief in goodness, in unconditional love in spite of everything.
There are greater stories of great loves, involving spiritual loves, but as far as human love goes, ML and FL here are examples of how deeply humans can love. If you cannot see it - then... ??? I would recommend you read recap of this drama on Dramabeans, the best summary is the Commentary to the 16th episode: https://dramabeans.com/2016/11/shopping-king-louis-episode-16-final/

So after seeing comments of the audience how this drama was boring, SML was too old, etc etc - even ppl who "liked" the drama complaining about silly stuff, clearly not really liking it - I can see the thinking of the Western and other non-korean audience.

THIS DRAMA IS INCREDIBLY CREATIVE AND INCREDIBLY DEEP, and if your heart is closed / jaded / callous, you miss it. And anyone who watches hwood or cdramas is trained to be a callous person.... . Kdramas also train in certain forms of being rotten, such as sexism against women, portraying women as dumb, kind, losers OR villains.

Most ppl on this site are international audience, polluted by junk from Hwood and now cdramas, very bombastic sensationalistic dramatic soapy plots, very shallow, fast whizzing flashy images, etc. Hwood too, with s.x and violence instead of content. Cdramas and hwood are like alcohol, you watch them to stop thinking about the reality. So they do NOT have any transformations and character growth, and are very HEAVY, they lack lightness and humor.

kdramas DO have meanings, teachings, transformations, character growth, heavy topics treated with compassion, lightness, warmth and humor, and hope, always seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. and always moving towards it, putting effort to move towards it.

A true, real, good story has 3 parts: PART 1: FLAWS AND SUFERING FROM IT, PART 2: EFFORTS AND SUFFERING AND FIGHTS IN OVERCOMING, and PART 3: WIN AND TRANSFORMATION
Hwood and cdramas have only part 1, and all real kdramas have all 3 parts.

Hwood-style is similar to Chistians focusing only on the story of Jesus on the cross, and totall failing to put attention on his RESURRECTION. But the resurection is the critical part of that one story, and the whole point of the story :)

SO MOST INTERNATIONAL AUDIENCE WILL FIND KDRAMAS BORING AND WILL MISS THE MEANING, BC THEY JUST CANNOT SEE ANYTHING DEEPER
but they have money. So Koreans started dumbing down their dramas, and by year 2026, there are so many new kdramas in Hwood style.

And that is truly sad
and Koreans too are losing their "special feel" and becoming numbed and dumbed down.

So that part is a true tragedy - that S Korea does not produce this kind of quality often anymore,
and a true tragedy would be that kdramas go extinct.

2015/2016 has great, creative kdramas,
and by year 2026, many new kdramas are a total cesspool filmed in Western style
ALSO, the actors and actresses are all super skinny now, cannot move, lack energy and liveninss, and new dramas are o sedentary, static, serious, gloomy, with really bad characters who never experience growth and transformation. It is ... sad to see kdramas die.

What is truly Korean is left in dailies and weekenders and VERY RARE "16 episodes" dramas - which usually get lower rating.

PS - If you cannot see the very deep unconditional love and kindness in this drama adn the eforts of ML and FL to maintain it, then something went off with your own inner compass and lack of light in your mind and your heart.... And you need an emergency remedy such as watching or helping with some kittens / puppies / babies , so that you GET TO FEEL THE AWE IN YOUR HEART, THAT AMAZING FEELING OF FEELING THE LIGHT UNDERNEATH ALL DARKNESS. That sense of AWE of God's creation / karma in the life on Earth. THAT Is what kdramas are so good at, to evoke that feeling and to prompt you into your own inner transformation towards the Light.
If you are unable and/or unwilling, then ... you already live in Hell on Earth. Human life is meaningful only when we see the Light that is the Foundation for Everything, no matter how dark it looks on the surface, and when we consistently and patiently keep moving through the muck to arrive to the Light at the end of tunnel, oblivious to all discouragements, we just keep putting one foot in front of the other.
IF YOU CAN DO THAT, YOU ARE TRULY A HUMAN BEING, that is the purpose and essence of what is called "enlightment" - knowing very deeply that the laws of karma are operating even if you cannot see the results at the moment.
The Christians and communists simply have no concept of that, and that is reflected in hwood and cdramas.
Most kdramas have it - these days less and less - and most othern-than-kdramas do NOT have it

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Ah I get it..
A true, real, good story has 3 parts:
PART 1: FLAWS AND SUFERING FROM IT,
PART 2: EFFORTS AND SUFFERING AND FIGHTS IN OVERCOMING, and
PART 3: WIN AND TRANSFORMATION or to be precise WIN BY TRANSFORAMATION, the transformation itself is a win, but by paradox, there are often tangible wins too in daily life
Hwood and cdramas have only part 1, and all real kdramas have all 3 parts.

Hwood-style is similar to Chistians focusing only on the story of Jesus on the cross, and totall failing to put attention on his RESURRECTION. But the resurrection is the critical part of that one story, and the whole point of the story

I would dare even say: the resurrection is the whole point of the story even existing :) It is the meaning of the Creation :) the story of the prodigal son, of us having a free will and VOLUNTARILY aligning it with the Divine Will.


What is the Divine? for all practical purposes, it is the Law of Karma :)

in practical terms, it is us humans making decisions based on EITHER love OR fear :) there is no middle way :) it is either-or - either you do somethiing based on love or based on fear. "doing something" can be choosing to think certain thoughts and feel certain emotions. Thouths and emotions come and go totally without our control, so it is a lost game to stop them, but we DO have a choince to hang onto them or not. That is the essence of applied meditation and being enlightened, really.

And that step is missing in organized christianity, which demands that we do not have such thoughts and feelings, which is impossible, and also we are not given any tools to deal with it, and so we feel lost, hopeless, abandoned and guilty and we "try harder" but it is totally .... hit or miss bc WE WERE NEVER GIVEN ANY USEFUL INSTRUCTIONS

I think Buddhists explain it the best, and esp Tibetans have cook-book recipes for "how to"

and kdramas illustrate the efforts through fun stories. There is more to it that you dont see in a tv series ... !, but a good kdrama certainly sends people in the right direction.

I think Buddhists explain it the best, and esp Tibetans have cook-book recipes for "how to"

So yeah what we see in kdramas reflects those Universal Laws in a microcosm applied to some human lives
but it is essentially what Gurdjieff talks about as C-level influences, indirect contacts with Something Higher, and all humans crave that, so that is why we have fairy tales, etc - so that this Contact can be couched in funny entertaining stories that capture our mind and imagination and focus it on higher-level thinkinig, engaging Higher levels of the brain/mind whatever, I am not going to nitpick here on terminology - something that invokes your Heart Brain and puts you into alpha state and higher - would be my "technical" explanation

and yeah the main reason why kdramas are being targeted for extinction. They are too useful for improving one's life :)

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I think an older excentric SML was a perfect match that fits the script - an older, grumpy, spinster bachelor who finally finds some sweet spring chicken, and abuses his power position.
A younger male would never be a boss of such and important department and with the power to just hire FL without asking anyone; a younger boss would never be close to Gold family; a younger boss would never go for FL bc she was too old fashioned conservative; AND also a younger male boss would have 100000000 women chasing him and would forget this simpleton one in 2 seconds. Also, a younger boss would be closer to ML's age and FL could get tempted to consider him....

So - the boss HAD TO BE older and rather prickly and a lot less attractive than the ML. The boss was meant as a little bit of disturbance and also to help FL.... NOT for a love triangle :)

This drama is NOT about 2 young males chasing one doe and she picks between the two. FL was never supposed to even feel a flutter for this "uncle".
BUT the boss would have been an ok as a romantic partner for her, IF they had matched as personalities and the drama had planned to take a totally different route.

hey guys be realistic, there are couples out there with an older guy and a younger woman, by full consent. In fact, an older guy willing to kiss as@ and treat a younger woman like a princess is gonna win over some fickle moody proud young stud who will run after other women. So let them be

So it is irritating when ppl start spewing opinions without having considered what is going on. One solution does not fit all situations.

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Has potential but misses to show character growth

I am interested in Love Me bc it starts with a very fascinating situation - a lulled family that maintains the illusion of 2 "good parents" trying to act as superhumans.. which creates 2 spoiled brat kids - but on the surface, they are a great "nice family" ..... Until mother and daughter's toxicity creates an accident and results in them hating and blaming each other for 7 years.. and dad and brother exposed in their toxicity too... So this setup had a lot of potential. Like american movie Ordinary People...

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WRITTEN AFTER EP 4:

But Love Me does not work out the issues... MAGICALLY as soon as the mother dies, all these characters become open and fluid.. literally almost overnight... Hello... ! They are lucky they find more open and loving lovers, but still... there is no showing of their own inner growth.... They grow so fast and effortlessly, and it just does NOT compute...

The drama is filmed in the darkness, they need to use more light so that we can see actors' faces and facial expressions

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Masterpiece - about sh.t you are eating

This movie is a masterpiece about the politics of the food and what you are eating right now. And about human stupidity as most of the audience canNOT see it - in the movie itself .... as well as in real life. Commentary and review of this movie are ... well... tragic, actually. People love eating meat and will not ask how it ended up on their plate.

This is not a cute fantasy, it is a realistic animal rights and big agg movie, about the meat we PEOPLE eat and where it comes from. IT IS GENETICALLY ENGINEERED. That stuff is no joke bc what you eat will also "genetically engineer" you the eater....

Anything you eat will change you as it becomes your own flesh.

I suggest reading reports on what happens when mice eat genetically modified food.

The movie, comments and the reviews show how obviously nobody cares.

THE COMMENTS/REVIEWS OF THE AUDIENCE ARE THE MOST TERRIFYING PART OF THIS MOVE. PRACTICALLY NOBODY GETS IT.

The movie is realistic and shows the realism - so many ppl continuing to support the big agg industry and everything that comes with it - bc ppl love to eat meat....
and a very small group of ppl are called "idealistic" and they fight to stop the big agg farms and genetically modified/engineered foods.
And the audience in real life!!!! the big agg has the money so there are articles how the movie was booed at Cannes Festival - but what was booed was Netflix logo and some technical problems, not the movie....

AND NOBODY REALLY GETTING THIS MOVIE OR DOING ANYTHING IN REAL LIFE ABOUT THESE ISSUES

PEOPLE LOVE MEAT! so much that they dont care how much animals are tortured so that their meat ends up on the plate

PEOPLE STILL EAT TONS OF MEAT

I suggest going to youtube and other places to see what big animal farms actually look like and how animals are really raised and killed... Some of the most gross stuff is drilling a hole in a cow's side and then the vet puts his hand into it and puts stuff...

or cows and pigs kept in tiny "cages" and their necks are in like a yoke and they cannot move, they are "fixed" in the eating position....

And lakes of feces and urine, sprayed into air...

So anyways, the movie is so realistic...
and the message is clear, ppl are too stupid and this mass evil keeps happening, and only a few ones who put in the effort will escape..

and yeah that is what life is like :)

I am amazed that Americans made this movie :) this is one of the rare smart movies in the USA .... all smart movies in the USA became extinct in like ... 2006 or so.... ....

and yeah NYC lmao the smartest town in the USA
and also containing the most vile corporate evil masterminds :)

The movie is 100% realistic. I was cracked up by Miranda family, esp Nancy as a cold blooded scrooge - she gave us a super great business lesson - and Lucy as this new age corporate "cover it up rosey, ppl will consent to anything if you put a sweet bs to it." SO true!!!! ppl really behave like that.

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Will teach you to avoid drugs / clubs. Artistically, zero, American movie with Korean actors.

The movie itself is just an american-style movie with Korean actors, lots of "action" and gory violence without much if any character development. The movie is useful AS A DOCUMENTARY, and SOCIAL COMMENTARY of what we created as a society... what happens with the poor, what it means to use drugs or go to clubs. It was filmed in 2010, so the situation is WORSE today.

**** THE MOVIE SHOULD SCARE EVERY CHILD TEENAGER ADULT AND PARENT TO STAY AWAY FROM DRUGS, CLUBS, BAD NEIGHBORHOODS, AND/OR POVERTY ***
bc if you dont , then you get sucked into this kind of world, which exists bc of the rotten and selfish nature of our societies.

The story is so simple - a broken, silent, isolated, lone, poker faced man changes enough to somewhat befriend a child, and changes just enough to step outside of his pawnshop to go on a killing rampage to save the child. ML has just a few seconds of real acting at the very end scene, the rest is a fake poker face. The little girl has some meaningful lines. So artistically as a story, this movie is near ZERO.

Although it is true that the child had to be saved asap and there was not too many options since the police is ... ineffective at best.... still.... the killing rampage was a gory bloody violence for almost the entire movie. It promotes using violence to solve violence. A very corny idea.

Well ... this movie is supposedly a super good movie but ... it is ... trashy FLASHY shocking. It is just shocking the audience instead of teaching anything.
The main actor is behind all that hair and basically does NOT act... for second half, he cuts his hair but always - he is more or less poker faced... and his acting is fake so many times while poker faced... it is clear he knows he is faking it.... The only real acting scene was the very last one when he says bye to the little girl - he can SMILE for real, and that is natural to him... and then the emotion and crying - that was real acting ..... and the rest of the movie was almost all fake.

And we never see him work out stuff emotionally inside him, it is about revenge and finding his friend... ok but ... that's not it. That is what american movies do.

But he looks like a skinny fashion model... And ... plastic surgery lips? Is this the start of that ugly trend....??? at least back then he was not pale. Now actors look like white ghosts.

In this drama, the star actor is the little girl.

Well - the movie does teach something - avoid clubs, drugs, etc :)
The message is good, that a man would do anything to save someone
but the plot etc is just ... all "special effects" without real content. Like an american movie, lots of fights and gangs and low life, shocking the audience with what really happens in the crime world.
But in terms of PLOT as CONTENT as character growth etc
and in terms of what kdramas are really for - good instructions for daily life for ordinary ppl -
well... this fails.
It is just a SHOCKER
an american movie made in Korea, with a super skinny actor, everything a copy of american style, really . Even the music was in English and western style.

so why is this actor so famous and why is this movie one of the best... is still unknown. Is it bc he kinda popularized western style... ?

I wasted 2 hrs to watch this, plus 2 hrs to come back from puking after watching all the violence, bc I wanted to see WHY it is so popular and really .... I wasted the time watching scenes from hell. The movie has no content, only fights and blood baths, and yeah a tiny bit of love between ppl. But 98% of this movie is just GORY VIOLENCE.

It was grueling to watch this drama bc it is just a blood bath and torture. And I already knew what all that stuff happens and I did not really want to SEE HOW EXACTLY IT HAPPENS,
however, the time is not entirely wasted, at least the movie deepened my knowledge, like the grandma who sets ppl up to be kidnapped, using kids for eyes, using kids to deliver drugs, make drugs, cash credit cards, etc So now I am armed with more knowledge to WARN PPL to stay away from what is shown in this movie. And a lot more protective of children. It is terrifying what happens if a child goes missing. Also, if their parent is incapable and/or missing.

Via this drama we people from the brighter side of the life got to see what happens in bad neighborhoods, in poverty, and in night life, and the message is clear - STAY AWAY FROM THAT.

But the message is even deeper - this is a SOCIAL COMMENTARY OF WHAT WE CREATED AS A SOCIETY.

The value of this movie is a social commentary of what happens with the poor, and what it means to use drugs and to go to clubs.... .
THE MOVIE SHOULD SCARE EVERY CHILD TEENAGER ADULT AND PARENT TO STAY AWAY FROM DRUGS AND CLUBS AND POVERTY AND BAD NEIGHBORHOODS
bc if you dont , then you get sucked into this kind of world, which exists bc of the rotten and selfish nature of our societies.

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A universal true love story, very funny true rom com - great script and even well done acting

Super cute, realistic, and very funny story of true love. A true rom-com.
>>>> I recommend this drama to anyone - straight or not, young or old, first timers or married for 100 yrs. <<<<<

The drama shows what true love looks like, acts like and thinks like...... It is true love between two very kind nice people.

It is filmed in a really fun and creative way too. The music is fantastic. Camera is so creative. That scene when the water bottle drops from Kurosawa's hand, outside of the restaurant...
SUCH REAL DETAILS, filmed and acted so well, it is so endearing and so funny too

This is a rare jdrama that has good acting :)
The script is great. This is a story of true love as it is in real life, to normal nice people. It is sexy in good taste, it is caring without soapy, it is very very very GENUINE and realistic and HEALTHY. It does not have false prudishness like most straight kdramas have, and it does not have overdone lewdness and twisted sexuality - esp. associating s.x with violence and games - like so many BL dramas have.

This drama is a super cute story of true love. So different than most BL dramas which honestly are too lewd or playing games. This drama too has a very common plot of a convinced gay male who runs into a closeted gay male and kinda shocks him and cajoles him into it, however, it lacks the sexualization and predatory feeling that so many BL dramas have.

This drama is UNIVERSAL, you could play it with straight or any other ppl too.
Kurosaw is so sensitive, caring, attentive, honest, and gentle yet sexy, he is a true love that anyone - straight or gay - could only dream about, as ppl like this are very rare.
The same for Achi, he is so honest, self aware, brave in stating his feelings, and extremely caring and kind too. The two have found each other, the cats of the same kind :) kind honest ppl.

Also, I was thinking, the only way to produce such a great Japanese male lover, so sophisticated, sensitive, caring, considerate, gentle, hot like Kurosawa was to make him gay. If Kurosawa was into women, he might have not been this caring all the time bc it is just not how you treat women in a sexist society.... most likely, it would have been a lot harder to keep the equality between the lovers. Sad but true :)
Also, I was thinking, the only way to produce such a brave shy person like Achi in Japan was to make him gay. If he were a woman, he would probably suffer from inferiority and self repression to some degree. He is free to be brave and to express bc he is male, that is my educated guess.

But - the love between them is portrayed in UNIVERSAL way - love between two PEOPLE. Straight relationships could benefit from this story so much.

The plot is actually a mimic on the common straight plot from kdramas - a popular charmer suave guy falls in love with a clumzy insecure not-popular shy loser chick who is KIND good person. In the straight context, this plot is super sexist. The female is the dumb one and the male is the smart one who runs her life bc she is so incompetent she cannot survive on her own. Such dramas glorify the man as the "higher" one.

In this gay drama, the main protagonist is an insecrure clumzy unpopular shy target of love.
But this drama is a twist on that, and how it is done is so ... well done. The drama does not put anyone down, nor does it make the "more suave" person more "interesting" or "higher" in status. The suave guy who is pursuing him is popular yet genuinely kind, decent, honest person. And the shy guy is not dumb or ignorantly unaware... The shy guy is smart, observant, self reflective, and proactive.
Truely they are equals.

As for acting, Kurosawa is perfect. That actor might be gay or bi in real life. Achi actor is .. hm.. sometimes it is obvious he is pretending. Is the actor a straight person in real life? he was acting scenes with a woman a lot more naturally.

I would encourage everyone to read the review that is on the top o MDL reviews, by TangYang. It says it all :) I just filled in some holes.

This drama reminds me of BL kdrama Heesu from Class 2 which talks about two gay male high schoolers in love and one of them getting out of the closet. Heesu drama also has positive female models and female friends and straight friends and does not portray life as "planet inhabited by gay males" as most BL dramas do. Hessu drama is balanced, just like this drama.

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A story of true love for EVERYONE, straight or gay; great script - and voila! well acted too

Super cute, realistic, and very funny story of true love. A true rom-com.

A rare jdrama that has good acting.
The script is great. This is a story of true love as it is in real life, to normal nice people. It is sexy in good taste, it is caring without soapy, it is very very very GENUINE and realistic and HEALTHY. It does not have false prudishness like most straight kdramas have, and it does not have overdone lewdness and twisted sexuality - esp. associating s.x with violence and games - like so many BL dramas have.

>>>> I recommend this drama to anyone - straight or not, young or old, first timers or married for 100 yrs. <<<<<

The drama shows what true love looks like, acts like and thinks like......

A super cute story of true love. So different than most BL dramas which honestly are too lewd and/or playing games. This drama too has a very common plot of a convinced gay male who runs into a closeted gay male and kinda shocks him and cajoles him into it, however, it lacks the sexualization and predatory feeling that so many BL dramas have. This drama is UNIVERSAL, you could play it with straight ppl too.

The plot is actually a mimic on the common straight plot from kdramas - a popular charmer suave guy falls in love with a clumzy insecure not-popular shy loser chick who is KIND good person. In the straight context, this plot is super sexist. The female is the dumb one and the male is the smart one who runs her life bc she is so incompetent she cannot survive on her own. Such dramas glorify the man as the "higher" one.

In this gay drama, the main protagonist is an insecrure clumzy unpopular shy target of love.
But how it is done is so ... well done. It does not put anyone down, nor does it make the "more suave" person more "interesting" or "higher" in status

I would encourage everyone to read the review that is on the top of MDL reviews, by TsangYang. It says it all :) I just filled in some holes.

This drama reminds me of BL kdrama Heesu from Class 2 which talks about two gay male high schoolers in love and one of them getting out of the closet. Heesu drama also has positive female models and does not portray life as "planet inhabited by gay males" as most BL dramas do. Hessu drama is balanced, just like this drama.

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Amazing fun rather realistic portrayal of "good guys" who are "ordinary" guys, not idols

Wow this is an amazing and so realistic drama with amazing acting and a great plot, very funny yet very serious and realistic.

Yes drama is male oriented and indirectly glorifies men - but it picked some good guys who deserve to be praised. The leads are very capable real life "ordinary" men who DO deserve praise. These are handsome, capable, althetic, strong, healthy,, energetic, RADIANT "ORDINARY" good guys, who work for good causes, who are good husbands, dads, neighbors, friends, who are *giving* to others. THEY ARE OF SERVICE beyond just idolizing their pretty pictures....

These men are not decorative items but live, active, "worker bees", they are lively and active contributors to society.... Also they are healthy, they spend time outdoors and in physical activity, they have male friends, they are great at their jobs and a good neighbors who do CHORES to make sure that everything runs smoothly. These guys make sure everything works well.
And, this drama involves running, physical prowess, outdoors, and the guys are also friendly, charming, fun, and go-getters.

Which of the modern "idols" have ANY of these traits???

The last fight between JDD and Sullivan was the metaphor for this - the rich pretty idol-looking guy was a selfish snowflake...

SO HOW DID WE WENT FROM THE BUNCH OF HEALTHY "HEROES NEXT DOOR" - to this??

----->>> WHY ARE WE GLORIFYING MALE IDOLS WITH THEIR GIRLY FACES AND MAKEUP AND FLYING AROUND IN CHIFFON ROBES GAZING AT EACH OTHERS" EYES??? Those ghosts do not have families nor community, they are isolated in their pretty bubble and USED JUST AS DECORATIVE OBJECTS, fantasy items, essentially dollss for fans.

In modern dramas, it is either these idols or guys who look real, like th ML in Climax, but are totally morally questionable and just elbowing their way forward by any means.
The ultimate is the skinny chabol who went to gym and dieted to give that 10% BMI look, and who grants his chick her every whim and every wish

WTH HAPPENED????? How did we end up with super skinny frail actors who are clearly some couch potatoes and totally lack energy and liveliness?? Who are serious, cannot smile, have no charm, their personality is like cardboard. And are into elbowing their way in the world instead of being helpful...

HOW DID WE END UP WITH FRAIL GIRLY MEN WHO LOOK AND BEHAVE LIKE STILL PICTURE DECORATIVE ITEMS????? The modern idols really look like photographs... and are only good for that... They have personality of cardboard and no impact to real life, like ... taking trash out or taking care of kids. They are androgynous looking and very "off the ground" in the sky pie... I cannot see them fixing your car, carrying your groceries, or for that matter, spending the night in hot pursuit, I think they will collapse from exaustion - and also - that interferes with their beauty sleep and wearing facial masks and skincare...

How did we end up with worshipping pretty male faces - pretty as in "pretty girl" bc their faces are so ... girlish.. androgynous ..... and so skinny... How did we end up witih kdramas that show very despicable self serving characters from start to end - as the leads... ????

I am watching Heroes Next Door in April 2026 and totally enjoying it. It is a great comedy. And, even if you are going to watch some good looking great guys, this is a lot better drama than watching some trash like Pursuit in Jade or Perfect Crown, which are straight forward disgusting, as they portray greedy arrogant peopl in pursuit of more greed and arrogance, without any trace of character growth. Totally totally not kdrama concept.

Ah, but they are rich? The idol guys are rich, that's what it is? A porcelan doll that can take you to the shopping mall and buy you stuff... ? thats what this is all about?

And ..

I am dumbfounded. IS THE MESSAGE THAT ONLY SECRET AGENTS AND SPECIAL FORCES ARE ALTHLETIC, STRONG, CAPABLE *AUTHENTIC* MEN?
and the "popular" men are all into plastic surgery, dieting and makup AND SERVE FOR DECORATIVE PURPOSES ONLY? while thy elbow their way up the social ladder...

HOW DID THIS KIND OF DECORATIVE GIRLY MAN-CHILD DECORATIVE OBJECT become THE standard of popularity for men???? WTH????

First of all, what is wrong with women, to like guys like that??? Why are adult women behaving like little girls who like playing with porcelain dolls???
Yeah these new popular guys ar all like porcelain dolls. Exactly like porcelain dolls, since their faces are so pale, they never outdoors. There is absolutely nothing sexy about them, they look like they will fall down and flip over and faint with exhastion any time.
And when they move, they are not moving to do something good for others, but to advance THEMSELVES.
As usual, women are guilty for creating and upholding awful men, bc they admire stupid awful things. I am DUMBFOUNDED. Those porcelain dolls girly decorative items guys could not exist without 100000 chicks supporting that.

Now to be clear: this drama too is a bait for women :) There are guys in here for every taste :) and the drama is a bait for kids and society in general :)
All the guys listen to their wives :) actually the wives patronize them, JDD's wife called him her eldest son... and acts ah so prude.... the wives behave like their mothers.... :( the typical kdrama bs...
and the guys are great with kids and housework...

They are superheroes, they never got hurt - although the drama is realistic and shows that all heros (except the NIS guy...) have limitations, aches, pains and consequences from fighting and being beaten....
The drama makes the characters quite angelic, their character flaws are not elaborated - but some flaws of some characters are shown and TALKED ABOUT - so we are aware the characters have flaws, but the tone is kept light.... .
And the drama kinda glorifies certain things, eg it is an advertisement for NIS, etc. Yeah NIS and military are gonna go down if they get the idol boys whose stamina exercise is waving a hand at the camera at the photoshoot....
So ... there is never a free lunch :) but at least this is decent enough, there is some content, positive actions, and comedy, and the people are NORMAL people, not skeleton porcelain dolls.

And I am glad that the MiYong's soldier friend, who was ML is utterly violent hopeless meaningless One High School Heroes - I am pretty sure that is him - well I am glad that kiddo got a real man role with some amazing adult male actors and hopefully learned something.
Actors who did the JDD guy and the Hardware Store guys are *amazing actors. JDD Guy actor was sooooo smooth and natural... and such a complex personality... wow.
The Hardware Guy actor was such a personality... It was amazing to see th acting you can do with the attention in the eyes.
I really enjoyed watching the hardware guy, that was some amazing acting with eyes and face, a great comedian. I looked up other dramas and realized I did not recognize him - he was Shoe Park in Typhoon Family... ah another cameleon actor, i.e. a great actor, diferent in every role!

Lady actors didnt get to shine too much bc their roles were too simple, to let the men whine. That was not cool

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