Honestly, I watched this to the end. It was thrilling, interesting and overall well-made. But it could have been so so so much better, if they had made the cop a more likeable character. There was not a single genuine moment between all of those characters where I felt there was a deep emotional connection. There was no "bromance", nope, there was no love between any of those characters. Only between the cop and his wife, I assume, because I didn't feel that either. But at least that's canon, I think. Imagine a real bromance, imagine the cop falling in love with the drug cartel girl, imagine his wife falling in love with the mafia boss for real - not all of this had to happen. Just make one thing happen. Would spice it up, make it more controversial. But nope. And for those people who wonder why the cop prevented the suicide: The first thing he said on the phone was "He got caught". Because it sounds damn better for him and his promotion, that he caught the guy and not "He came to my house and shot himself in the head". The cop was a despicable human being until the very end. Would have made a great gangster, that's for sure. Love Ji Chang Wook, but hated the character he played.
I dropped this after ... I think ep 4. But today YouTube recommended me the new episode, and since it was episode 7, I clicked on the 4th part, because I KNEW THEY WILL KISS !!! The GMMTV rule: build up in the first episodes, kiss in ep 7, and I guess we now get a beach episode. LMAO. I remember people complaining about Thai BL and GMMTV, and I always said, no, they are creative, they produce different genre, the quality is good yadda yadda yadda. Nope. I'm fed up. This is so tiring, mostly fan service, pretty boys and how they fall sooo dammmmn slooooowly in love, no real plot, no depth, no nothing. But I guess their business model is working. They can always attract new (young) viewers who aren't used to their formula. Even a series like Heart Killers looks just like Only Friends 2.0 + Not Me. Love Mix-Up is MSP 2.0 and also a remake! It's getting worse than Hollywood with those remakes! Everything is so repetitive. Even the actors cannot bring something new to the table and play similar roles. No wonder they constantly have to look for fresh faces.
Kill me heal me and defendant made me jisung fan for life
I discovered him watching the rather strange movie My P.S. partner where he performed a song about women's underwear, lol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDSEsqc0foc Don't know what the purpose of that movie was, but Ji Sung was so charismatic, I had to look his other work up!
Look at all the jabronis here thinking they are the gold standard of morality by standing up for the BL community.…
Since you call it a "fetish" I assume you aren't part of the so called BL community. But even if it's BL, people whine they have to pay 3 bucks for a special episode or a monthly subscription. No joke, they are saying they are too broke, followed by 10 crying emojis. Most likely they enjoyed their coffee at Starbucks in the morning ...
Leads became famous internationally because of this drama, not the other way round. Eventhough they were talented,…
Just stop. Hyun Bin is and was always one of the biggest stars. He even did international films. I swear ten years ago, if you asked me about top 3 Korean stars, I would have named him. This is ridiculous. Everyone felt in love with him back then when he starred in Secret Garden with Haji Won. Next you will tell me, nobody knows Haji Won. And he also starred in Lovely San Soon with Kim Sun Ah, biggest female Kdrama star ever. The guy was HUUUUGE. You're obviously from a younger generation and talk like you know it all.
well... it's good and interesting from episode 1, so Idk what you're talking about, but okay
You think that was a good beginning? We see people fighting, don't even know who is a cop and who not. Action-packed scenes with no explanation, unknown faces everywhere, then suddenly our MC gets promoted. Then the friend appears, everything they talk about is cryptic and makes no sense. The whole scene with the female reporter was thrown at us. Who is she? No idea. The connection to the MC, no idea. Then the drugs. Again, everything is thrown at us. The friend dies? No real reaction to that. MC is busy dealing with withdrawal symptoms. Should we care about what happened? Is it important? What is the plot? Pace is too fast. Nope, sorry, that's not how you do it.
For the people who start watching this, and are bored to death (like me), don't give up. Around ep 3 it gets interesting, and now I'm hooked. Love Ji Sung btw. Such a great actor. It's always enjoyable seeing him on screen.
See, this was my question too. The way people are raging over it makes it seems as if the original story is a…
What is your end goal? That Korea becomes like Netflix? I stopped watching American series, because I'm so damn annoyed, that in the first 10 minutes I have to witness a blow job between two gay people. Just happened recently. Some fantasy series, I wasn't thinking much about it, BAMM! I'm 40 years old, yes, I'm old, and I still remember how I was searching for gay content, back then when BL as a genre didn't even exist. We only got some depressing gay movies from Hong Kong where both guys died at the end. Now there is so so so much BL content out there, that I can't keep up with it. Which doesn't matter, because most of it isn't that great anyway. Back to the series: How much did they even censor it? When Choi Se Kyung told Yi Heon what they did together (sleeping together, he came over, he treated his parents like his own, which was a lie apparently), I came here to look up if this is gay romance, lol. Because I immediately thought "Are those two gay?" They didn't explicitly state it, but they at least hinted towards it. He was also the only one who recognized Yi Heon with the different hair, he recognized the body etc., which made me immediately think: Oh, those two have seen each other closely. So no need to reply to me, because I know what you think. People like you are everywhere. Only happy when gay content is 100% accepted, which will never happen. The only thing that will happen is, that people get annoyed by it, because it gets forced upon them. And then the pendulum bounces back, and the hate against gay people starts again, because the great majority will be fed up from all the gay content pushed down their throat. And then everyone will be surprised, and we have more homophobes to hate. Great. A never ending circle.
Why are people complaining about the censored BL? Who am I supposed to ship here? The two young boys who had some kind of mystery relationship? What does it matter when the chemistry is between the young boy and the older guy (age difference 30 years!!!!). That's the whole problem with those body swap stories, that the writers build chemistry between characters, who won't end up together. I can't ship a 47 years old gangster with a high schooler. So censoring this series was a good choice, unless the two high schoolers had a sexual relationship and that got censored. But does their relationship really matter, when the main characters are the gangster and the high schooler?
On Episode 18 and 19, omgosh that mother of Dong-Seok, and all the people who are trying to make Dong Seok out…
This is not about right or wrong. It's about societal hierarchy, it's about courage. The mother lacked courage, she was beaten down her whole life. Some people are just weak, it's annoying and infuriating, but it is, what it is. She married that guy, because she thought it would be best for her son. It wasn't. She lacked the courage to leave. She just lived her life like a slave. I'm not gonna lie, my mother is a bit similar. She lived a life of servitude, and only recently she sees it's not the only way of living. But what do you do, she once said to me. She had no opportunities, no education, no money. This is not only an Asian thing, I'm European, and supposedly I live in one of the richer countries. Her not apologizing was the last pride she had left. She knew she did wrong. He knew it too. She was not a bad person, the village people liked her. She was a weak woman who couldn't get out of her misery, and was unable to provide for her son. The son, a younger generation and different character, kept going by being angry. It was the fuel in his life. No reason to took that away from him. I'm just confused at this point that he felt in love with a similar woman like his mother: a very weak woman.
Brilliant. The last episode was a bit lacking. Too much fighting, and how everything played out and came to an end wasn't that smart. But everything else was pure art.
Make the same series with other leads, and we are all bored to death. Those two are carrying this show on their very, very strong backs. Chemistry is through the roof, visuals are mind-blowing, charisma is out of this world, acting is very natural. I'm still looking for the plot. I will comment on it, when I find it.
I really hate when they put in the show that one of the leads don't like to kiss. That's really in poor taste…
It's not that he doesn't like it. They do this, because kissing is something so intimate or whatever, and since they are only friends with benefits, they won't kiss. That's the plot. In reality, it's ridiculous and stupid, but mostly it's done to keep the audience entertained and longing for more. I wouldn't be surprised if we have to wait for that kiss for the next five episodes or something.
And for those people who wonder why the cop prevented the suicide: The first thing he said on the phone was "He got caught". Because it sounds damn better for him and his promotion, that he caught the guy and not "He came to my house and shot himself in the head".
The cop was a despicable human being until the very end. Would have made a great gangster, that's for sure.
Love Ji Chang Wook, but hated the character he played.
The GMMTV rule: build up in the first episodes, kiss in ep 7, and I guess we now get a beach episode.
LMAO.
I remember people complaining about Thai BL and GMMTV, and I always said, no, they are creative, they produce different genre, the quality is good yadda yadda yadda.
Nope. I'm fed up. This is so tiring, mostly fan service, pretty boys and how they fall sooo dammmmn slooooowly in love, no real plot, no depth, no nothing.
But I guess their business model is working. They can always attract new (young) viewers who aren't used to their formula.
Even a series like Heart Killers looks just like Only Friends 2.0 + Not Me. Love Mix-Up is MSP 2.0 and also a remake! It's getting worse than Hollywood with those remakes! Everything is so repetitive. Even the actors cannot bring something new to the table and play similar roles. No wonder they constantly have to look for fresh faces.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDSEsqc0foc
Don't know what the purpose of that movie was, but Ji Sung was so charismatic, I had to look his other work up!
Love Ji Sung.
We see people fighting, don't even know who is a cop and who not. Action-packed scenes with no explanation, unknown faces everywhere, then suddenly our MC gets promoted. Then the friend appears, everything they talk about is cryptic and makes no sense. The whole scene with the female reporter was thrown at us. Who is she? No idea. The connection to the MC, no idea. Then the drugs. Again, everything is thrown at us. The friend dies? No real reaction to that. MC is busy dealing with withdrawal symptoms. Should we care about what happened? Is it important? What is the plot? Pace is too fast.
Nope, sorry, that's not how you do it.
Love Ji Sung btw. Such a great actor. It's always enjoyable seeing him on screen.
I'm 40 years old, yes, I'm old, and I still remember how I was searching for gay content, back then when BL as a genre didn't even exist. We only got some depressing gay movies from Hong Kong where both guys died at the end. Now there is so so so much BL content out there, that I can't keep up with it. Which doesn't matter, because most of it isn't that great anyway.
Back to the series:
How much did they even censor it?
When Choi Se Kyung told Yi Heon what they did together (sleeping together, he came over, he treated his parents like his own, which was a lie apparently), I came here to look up if this is gay romance, lol. Because I immediately thought "Are those two gay?" They didn't explicitly state it, but they at least hinted towards it. He was also the only one who recognized Yi Heon with the different hair, he recognized the body etc., which made me immediately think: Oh, those two have seen each other closely.
So no need to reply to me, because I know what you think. People like you are everywhere. Only happy when gay content is 100% accepted, which will never happen. The only thing that will happen is, that people get annoyed by it, because it gets forced upon them. And then the pendulum bounces back, and the hate against gay people starts again, because the great majority will be fed up from all the gay content pushed down their throat. And then everyone will be surprised, and we have more homophobes to hate. Great. A never ending circle.
Who am I supposed to ship here?
The two young boys who had some kind of mystery relationship? What does it matter when the chemistry is between the young boy and the older guy (age difference 30 years!!!!). That's the whole problem with those body swap stories, that the writers build chemistry between characters, who won't end up together. I can't ship a 47 years old gangster with a high schooler.
So censoring this series was a good choice, unless the two high schoolers had a sexual relationship and that got censored. But does their relationship really matter, when the main characters are the gangster and the high schooler?
She married that guy, because she thought it would be best for her son. It wasn't. She lacked the courage to leave. She just lived her life like a slave.
I'm not gonna lie, my mother is a bit similar. She lived a life of servitude, and only recently she sees it's not the only way of living. But what do you do, she once said to me. She had no opportunities, no education, no money.
This is not only an Asian thing, I'm European, and supposedly I live in one of the richer countries.
Her not apologizing was the last pride she had left. She knew she did wrong. He knew it too. She was not a bad person, the village people liked her. She was a weak woman who couldn't get out of her misery, and was unable to provide for her son.
The son, a younger generation and different character, kept going by being angry. It was the fuel in his life. No reason to took that away from him. I'm just confused at this point that he felt in love with a similar woman like his mother: a very weak woman.
I wouldn't be surprised if we have to wait for that kiss for the next five episodes or something.