Just watch this
The drama is truly a 10 out of 10. The performances were astonishingly good and IU continues to impress me with every role she does. So does Park Bo Gum. Personally I think this drama is one of the most perfect dramas South Korea has ever made. It deserves this rating. I won't spoil anything. Just watch. The creators and actors have understood that once published, art is forever. And when you are watching a show made by those who clearly understand the purpose of art, nothing can go wrong.Was this review helpful to you?
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Twenty Five Twenty One aka the best romance K Drama.
Twenty Five Twenty One deserves all the hype it gets. As far as K Drama as a whole concept is concerned, romance has always been a significant genre. And I believe that to this date, every other romance K Drama that has come before and after Twenty Five, Twenty One seems less important now that I have seen 25 21. This is a result of a masterful production. The rewatch value is only low because the drama felt that real. Otherwise it's a fascinating drama.Was this review helpful to you?
Weak Hero suffers from 'The Back to the Future Syndrome'
Here's the thing: I think the show was good. But when the first is a classic, the second needs to do something similar, and I think they could've done a better job. I am currently reading the webtoon, and I think the webtoon's Suho part was not as entertaining as Weak Hero Class 1. Some changes were made in the first season, and I liked them. But in Netflixifying the show, the show unfortunately lost some of its charm. First things first, Park Ji Hoon gave his best here. Ryeoeun was also good, and I liked Humin. The final battle was also good, and given its runtime, I don't think the show drags at many points. The story was fine to good, with Humin's fights being the best. The right-hand man of Baek Jin was also a good villain. I liked the dynamic of the Eunjang friends, and the final battle looked cooler than I thought. The seventh and fourth episodes were IMO the best episodes.Now, onto the parts that I disliked: Yoon Si-eun's fighting. I cannot stress this enough, I think Si-eun was handled poorly this season. Only the rooftop fight of Si-eun was good, but that too wasn't as good as the first fight in the first season. Sure, the production was good, but the result was not satisfactory personally. He was the communal punching bag in the season. The previous season set the tone for Si-eun. I hoped he'd be a better fighter than he was during the last season. Yeah, I understand that he is mentally drained with Suho's case and thinks he's responsible for everything, but still, Si-eun was beaten by the weakest thug in the school. I don't want the show to follow the webtoon to a T, but they retconned their own story. The set for Eunjang and the design for Baek Jin were wayyy better in Season 1. Also, Si-eun has a serious relationship with his pen. Seriously, the pen thing stayed for way longer than it needed to. This was also a case in the first season, but one could argue it was fresh then. I thought he'd be called Stabby McStab with the amount of stabbing he did in the entire show. By the end, the pen became stale and flavourless to the point where most people predicted it.
But overall, I think the show was good, and that's why I am rating it an eight. But it is not as good as the first season. This season's story was so meaty, so the 30 - 40 minute 8-episode structure doesn't fit here. The friendships weren't explored properly either. The side story they told in the first season was short and to the point, even in the webtoon, so it worked well even with the big changes they made in the first season. That's why that story was better than the webtoon's. But when it comes to season 2, I feel like they could have made this an hour-long, 8 to 12 episode series because this season had so much material to be meaty.
If they:
1. Made Si-eun more solid and scary - less a punching bag, more a calculated fighter
2. Continued the Hyoman fight of the first season with Si-eun pulping the guy like in the webtoon
3. Introduced Baek-Jin with his old design in the previous season at the very end, not as the main villain of this season.
4. Made Wolf this season's main villain.
5. Ditched the pen thing and focused on other everyday objects
This would have become even better than the first season. It's still a good watch though, so I would recommend the show.
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Underwhelming Remake
I think the actress was the best part of the show; the writers have humanized Wang Ja Rim a bit, which I think was a good call. The ML in this is more unhinged than PJH and I'm not sure I like it. The ML comes off as a crazy person, waiting to kill somebody, whereas the Korean one comes off as a silly, corny, cheesy guy. That is a significant difference. I like the way the show was directed; the pace felt swift. But yeah could have been better. If you really like Love Revolution, maybe you'll like this.Was this review helpful to you?
The hardest I've thought about a rating I have made
Contrary to popular consensus, even though I could find faults in this drama, I liked it. So, let me tell you what irritated me so you can decide whether you want to watch it or not.This drama is corny and cringy. I first watched this during exam stress almost 2 years ago, and liked it. Love Revolution was one of the first K-dramas I had watched after a 9-year break from K-dramas, and to me, it was decent, but I couldn't rate this drama. The other dramas I had watched (Twinkling Watermelon, My Demon, A Good Day to Be a Dog), I had no issues rating. Fast forward two years to 2025, a year that's already off to a good start in the K-drama department, and I still feel like this drama is hard to rate. The issue is mainly the cringy corniness. But it's as if I'm somehow immune to it when I watch this. This is objectively Park Ji Hoon's worst performance, but it's still watchable if you watch him in Weak Hero first, because then you understand that Ji Hoon is a capable actor. The story is weak after the initial episodes; the majority of the cast is hard to watch; the comedy is inconsistent but solid in some parts; the male lead is annoying to watch. But goddammit, this is the only K-drama I have completely rewatched from the first episode to the last. Overall, this drama is a bit overhated as well, but I get the frustration. The romance is too cold because they have tried to adapt the scenes in the webtoon without making them realistic to fit the real world, because no guy would date Ja Rim, and no girl would date Ju Yeong if this were realistic. (I'm not saying that every show must be realistic, but they could have easily toned down the characters a bit, but didn't, which resulted in flat, 2-dimensional, colourless characters that feel way over the top)
But hey, you forget most of this stuff after like the 5th episode, but if you want to ditch it, I won't blame it either.
TL;DR - The show is decent; the acting is weak except for Park Ji Hoon's, but he's annoying to watch; they have tried to apply these webtoon characters into the real world without attempting to make them human. But I still liked it - I don't know why. Maybe it's because it's lighthearted.
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Could be the best K Drama ever.
This is simply a marvelous slice-of-life drama. The first 4 episodes are a bit slow, but it gets amazing from the 5th episode onwards. The performances were extremely realistic and awesome. The friendship dynamics between each character is explored extremely well, and the pacing is really good. The comedy felt natural and not forced. The highlight of the drama in my opinion is the brotherhood between Taek and Sun Woo. It's one of those rare series that make the viewer enjoy the setting rather than hate it, which was really well done, considering that its set in the late 1980s; a time most of the viewers aren't familiar with. The ending isn't a 10 out of 10 ending, but still, it fits the series and is really well done.Was this review helpful to you?
