Garbage in the Air
Honestly, I hardly have something positive to say. The plot is nonsensical, and the character development is the weirdest I have seen so far. I don't write lots of reviews, but I couldn't pass on this one due to how annoyed I was while watching.One minute Sky is this calm and collected guy throughout Rain's arc, but suddenly, he turns into a pouty child. To even try to explain this away by suggesting he changed because of Papai is ludicrous because his personality took a whole 180 from normal to extremely cringey and child-like. Perhaps they thought no one would be interested to watch if Sky were a normal human being, so they had to dumb him down and give him the personality of a middle schooler.
The acting is terrible, but I am giving this 4 stars, one for every actor, due to their dedication to sucking face in a field where even straight drama resort to lackluster kisses.
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Spoilers ahead. This series was a roller coaster ride for me. I went from being impressed and intrigued to being very annoyed and swearing under my breath. Misty is a masterclass in victimhood and spinelessness.
Our main character, Go Hye Ran, has no problem walking all over anybody as long as it serves her. She lies, cheats, and blackmails, but God forbid someone does it back to her. Her ex-lover, Kevin Lee, is just cartoonishly evil and poorly written. This man supposedly worked his way up, only to have no problems sacrificing it all to harass a woman who used him in present day despite breaking his heart in the past. He had no qualms about being used, got blackmailed by her, then assaulted her to blackmail her back. Truly a match made in heaven.
Though, you see, Go Hye Ran has a husband whom I don't care to mention the name of, and he is perhaps the human embodiment of a Welcome mat. Go Hye Ran can dust her feet all over this doormat with no protests. After all, that's all that he is - a spineless doormat in desperate need of therapy to recognize his own worth. My problem with this character isn't his initial decision to be his wife's lawyer. No, it's his audacious actions of deleting someone else's footage because it included his cheating wife sharing a steamy kiss with her Voldemort ex-lover. And before someone tells me that she was kissing him to manipulate him, that only makes it worse really, not better.
I can say that the only two upsides to this are the gorgeous music and the ending, the latter of which I haven't watched but heard was befitting of the wretched main character with a messed up moral compass. Go Hye Ran isn't a "brat" or a "baddie"; she is a horrible person for reasons unrelated to her ambition or her choice to break up with Kevin Lee in pursuit of a better life.
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Flawed but precious
I would like to preface this by saying that this is the first Thai series to make me cry. Yes, there are Thai GLs and BLs that I absolutely adore and made me stare at a wall after finishing, but this one just hits different. You should have seen me ugly crying through the happy music in the credits of episode 7.Story wise, it's not really original, but the leads' chemistry, as well as that angel of a sister, made it such a fun but a gut wrenching ride. I loved the enemies to lovers arc and the initial stark difference in personalities between the Wa and Four. I couldn't help but kick my feet when they first kissed (even though it could have been done under better circumstances) and found myself looking forward to more interactions between the leads, which doesn't happen very often when I am watching romantic series. Vivi also grew on me a lot in such a short amount of time and was the main reason why I was choking on tears near the end.
My complaint is that there weren't nearly enough kiss scenes in the series, and the final episode felt lackluster. Instead of getting a proper date after all the hell Wa, Four, and Vi went through, or perhaps a group hangout, we had a misplaced scene of Kei and Four. Khun also didn't have to be in the finale at all when the that scene's runtime could have been used to give us a final sneak peak into Wa and Four's relationship after they finally reunited, and possibly a much needed decent kissing scene to end things on a romantic note.
The show overall was too short. I wished we had seen more of Wa and Four as working adults, along with more of Four's family situation since it felt too glossed over, but despite the problems I personally had, it remains my favorite GL to date. This is definitely a step closer to that one GL I will rate 10/10 one day.
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