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Underwhelming
Actors are great at portraying their given characters.Music, setting and shooting are all solid.
Story:
The ML is an angel among men. He puts up with a cold and spoiled FL and spends years chasing her and constantly putting himself forward. He doesn't have a selfish or even self-protective bone in his body. He's all about her and all in. While it's swoon-worthy to watch, it's unrealistic to expect anyone to endure so much for another and remain strong in the face of such opposition from the other party. He deserves so much better than the FL.
The FL was the next thing to awful because it was only to the ML that she was so cold and untolerant. To everyone else, from he colleagues to the ML's parents to became her surrogate parents, she is sweet and understanding. It's only to the ML that she shows the worst parts of herself. She's alternately cold, mean, and selfish. She blames him for things he didn't do wrong and puts him through hell for no good reason. In her own sweet time, all on her own timeline of course, she finally wises up and decides to marry him. Being the angel he is, he of course accepts her back with open arms. The FL experienced a lot of hardship as a child and teen. But that is no excuse to take it out on other people. And as I said, she could play nice with everyone around her despite her trauma, jsut not the ML. I find that to be unacceptable. Why he fell for her and continues to pursue her is beyond me.
The second couple is a mess. They act like a couple of kids playing house with the maturity of high schoolers. I see zero growth from the FL. All she can do is throw tempter tantrums, throw hands and shriek. No clue what the ML gest out of their relationship tbh. But he himself is a child too. The best I can say for him is that he edures her well and always "pulls his punches" during their fights-figuratively, since he'd never lay hands on her. He always apologizes first.
The sweetest couple is the third one. The divorcee whose long ago crush came true. They were sweet.
The lawyer who went nuts ,the mean girl trainee, the friend who was there to cause jealousy...I don't know some it fit and some of it came off as the writers trying to stir up the uneccessary.
Overall, I wouldn't rewatch.
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Sweet
This was a very sweet show.The story revolves around a woman who can hear lies and a man who's running from a painful secret in his past.
She's cute and quirky.
He's the greenest of green flags; a real sweetheart.
I loved watching her slowly open up to the people around her and making friends.
I adored seeing him fall for her, instinctively protecting her and taking care of her.
Their relationship is so wonderful. Sweet and cuddly.
The mystery hurt me bad though. I feel so bad for our male lead. Thank goodness he has the female lead there for him.
He came through it all stronger than ever.
The ending is lovely and perfect. They both deserve their happily ever after, and we get to see it!!
The actors did a fine job. The music was okay. The shooting was great.
Although this show is not short, it is the type of show I'd watch in one sitting with a blanket and hot drink, smiling all the way. The overall impression is sweet and cozy.
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What a disappointment!
I love Bin Bin but omgggggggg!!! What a disaster this was (through no fault of his own, other than accepting this project.)I watched the show on fast speed and skipped some chunks in the middle because I just could not handle it.
Plot:
Ridiculous.
So, we have four main female leads.
A martyr, a shrew, a doormat, and a doctor. Trust me, those are the nicest terms I've found to describe them. At least the doctor had a modicum of common sense to her.
The male leads are their own mess.
One goes from smarmy to devoted in an eye-blink.
Another is kind and sweet up until the minute he decides to become a full-blown psycho in order to "save face".
Then you have a fully grown man-child who happens to be a surgeon, if you'll believe it.
Add in the obligatory artistic "free spirit".
And to round off our circus, a younger brother who's abusive and oblivious to the point where I'd have cheerfully strangled him given half a chance.
The story itself deals with the struggles of relationships, families, money, and health. It's almost a slice-of-life of a group of people in their thirties.
Except the characters and the sceneries they face are improbable and ridiculous.
My gripes:
1) Grown people behaving like children. (Remember, these people are close to or over 30!)
2) Successful professionals risking reputation, businesses and money in the name of "love"
3) Successful professionals being unhinged emotionally, just full on looney-tunes
4) Inconsistencies of the characters. One goes from smarmy to nice. The other goes from nice to psycho. Just...why?
Acting:
Good.
Considering that I wanted to slap and/or scream at the characters 99% of the time, I have to give the actors credit for a job well done. 7/10.
Music/Cinematography:
Forgettable
Re-watch Value:
0
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Beautiful
I loved this show.The story was beautiful, as was the acting, music and setting.
(The below summary contains spoilers--nothing too specific, just a general overview of what will happen throughout the show and what you can expect.)
Plot:
A smart high-school boy meets and falls in love with an older (age gap) rich boy who falls to the gang life due to family neglect.
They are torn apart due a rival gang's attack which sees the student take the fall for the rich boy and accept a 4-year prison sentence.
After four years in prison, the high school boy returns to life with a new plan for his future but one that definitely includes his first and only love.
Meanwhile, the rich boy is torn apart by guilt and is determined to remain apart from the high school boy in order to keep him safe.
The first half of the show focuses on how the two meet and fall in love, on how their childhoods shaped them, and how they are separated.
The second half of the show focuses on how they reunite, overcome their obstacles, and build their happily ever after.
The second couple:
Two boys, close in age, both orphans who grew up together as "brothers" and friends. As young teens they were recruited into gang life. When we meet them they're both mid-level rising gang members. One of them is love with the other; the other is in love with the head boss of their gang. Thus, both are in unrequited love.
The first half of the show deals with the difficulties and dangers they face as gang members, their loyalty to each other, and the pain they each face in love. Due in part to the attack which separated couple #1, this couple is also separated for four years. During their separation, the "other" boy realizes he's loved his friend all along, while the "friend" determines to separate for good from the "brother" who'll never love him in the way he wishes for.
The second part of the show shows us how they reunite, how one works to make the other believe and accept that he truly is in love with him, and how they also reach their happily ever after.
I liked the story itself. There was a nice focus on the gang, on family, on the affects of childhood trauma and how to overcome it.
The chemistry of both couples was insane!! Off the charts hot. It's honestly hard to say which couple I liked more because the truth is, I loved them both. I will say this though: for couple 1, I liked them better during the first half of the show, and for couple 2, I liked them better during the second half. For some reason, the connection between the first couple is shown better prior to their separation while the connection between the second couple is better showcased after their reunion. In that sense, when we're shown both couples' happily ever after, I prefer the second couple's to the first- I can't pinpoint why, but couple 2 feels fully settled and case closed but couple 1 leaves me with a bit of lingering "want more for the closing act".
All of the actors acted terrifically.
The soundtrack was phenomenal.
Overall, this is pretty much a perfect show.
I highly recommend it. <3
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OMG AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!
No words can adequately describe how phenomenal this show is.The plot is simple as simple can be: long-time childhood friends to lovers.
Zero angst, just love, clear communication, and tooooons of warm fuzzies :)
What's incredible is how complete the story feels, despite the show being less than twenty minutes long.
Two episodes, both under ten minutes.
And both episodes make fantastic use of their time so that when the credits rolled at the very end, it truly felt like a complete "happily ever after". (It did leave me wanting more, but only because this couple is so darned adorable that I wanted to see more of them, not because I wasn't 100% satisfied with the ending.)
Basically, this is a short, feel-good, friends-to-lovers mini-series that warms the heart (and has you grinning at your screen like an idiot lol).
The only thing less than ten for me was the music, which was an eight.
Kudos to the actors for doing such an incredible job!!! You can feel the emotions, the connection, the love, the desire they have for each other.
Couldn't have asked for anything better.
Thanks so much to the actors, writers, directors, and everyone else who made this fantastic project come to life.
I highly recommend it <3
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Better than the original
I dropped the Thai version and it's still on my "hold" list.This version pulled me in from the start and kept me hooked. I binged it all in one sitting.
The acting is solid, the story is understandable, the characters are all likable and full-dimensional.
This is a sweet , first-love drama in a college setting.
Not too angsty or deep.
Not too long or draggy.
Just sweet overall.
I smiled a lot watching this.
Tropes/Story:
* No toxic or evil characters
* No second lead syndrome or "other" love interest
*The chemistry was good.
*Some suspended belief is needed but only a teeeny bit. Overall the story is pretty believable and true to life for a college and first love setting.
*The normalization of a m/m couple. Sexuality, coming out, etc., wasn't even a conversation. It was just taken for granted, "Oh you like this person? Cool!"
*I lived for the max/nat cameo lol.
What could have been better:
*Character-wise, they all could use some lessons in communication. But let's be honest, would it be a drama without a bunch of dense, love-sick fools running around without a clue? lol
*The music. It wasn't bad, but wasn't great either.
Enjoy <3
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A light-to-medium romanctic comedy
The only reason I rated this show so highly was because of Bin Bin.He's a terrific actor in each and every show I've seen him in, and this is no exception.
He carried this for me.
Characters:
ML is a very smart and capable IT programmer/designer. His ambition is to help build satellites/satellite navigation systems.
FL is the rich grandchild of a conglomerate owner with no great ambition in life.
Plot:
ML and FL are old high school classmates. She chased him but he seemingly turned her down.
They part on bad terms.
The show opens when they meet again at a subsidiary of Grandpa's conglomerate.
He's the leader of a tech team whose talents have been overlooked in favor of those with better connections.
She joins the company as a deputy team leader after betting with her grandpa that she can build up the failing subsidiary within a year before HQ decides to close it permanently. In exchange for doing so, Grandpa will stop pestering her to get married.
If I had to encapsulate the story in several words: The struggles of succeeding in business and achieving our dreams against a backdrop of workplace politics, financial struggles, and family struggles. And finding the right person, and sticking with them, despite all odds.
The relationship between the ml and fl is not antagonistic exactly, but they do push and pull each other in the directions they each want to other to go. Each somewhat manipulates the other in order to get their desired results.
The ML cares deeply for the FL and works extremely hard to protect her. Aside from one incident when things spun beyond his control, he never does anything throughout the entire show to harm her or hurt her feelings. He's too selfless sometimes. I only wish he'd used his words. Because while actions 'should' or might speak louder than words, in this case, our FL was just too dense to recognize what was happening, and this ended up hurting the ML unnecessarily.
The FL is innately kind. She'll go to bat for those she cares about. And she will not silently swallow or watch injustice. She's a fighter and l love that about her. She's also very witty and sarcastic, the queen of one-liners. She made me LOL multiple times.
My one gripe with her, and this is a big gripe which continues through a large part of the developing story, is how she treats the ML.
While she's kind to everyone, as I said earlier, with him she isn't. Or, at least, not to his face. She blows hot and cold so often and suddenly, that it's impossible for our poor ML to know if he's coming or going. Through no fault of his own, he's forced to put up with her drastically changing moods and her inexplicable temper, all the while being left in suspense about how she truly feels about him. Another thing she's the queen of is mixed messages. That's cruel and childish of her. A grown woman of 26 should behave better.
My favorite part of the show began at approximately episode 20. That's when things really started getting good.
However, the last three episodes introduced a new conflict which the characters handled in a way I didn't like. As always, it was the FL who annoyed me the most with her response. Although for once, the ML wasn't 100% blameless here. Since the two were already a couple at that point, he could've handled things better. I still appreciated his responses though, and admire him for what he did.
Ultimately all conflicts are resolved and we are shown everyone's happily ever after.
The ending was very sweet.
Music and Cinimetogrophy:
Mediocre
Acting:
ML= terrific
FL= fine
Side characters= solid
Rewatch value:
6.5 to 7
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....meh...
The story was good. I liked the plot.Two college classmates. Boy 1 has a crush on Boy 2. Boy 2 has a crush on Boy 1's ex-girlfriend. Boy 2 is a shy, awkward mess. His friends convince him to approach Boy 1 for help in winning over his crush, to whom he can't speak two words without stuttering. Sensing an opening to win his own crush, boy 1 agrees to help boy 2 and does his best to win his affections. In the end he does, and they live happily ever after.
The music was forgettable.
My maine gripe is the acting, which completely ruined this show for me.
Joong was great. Dunk was awful. I'm sorry to be so blunt, but it's the pure truth. His facial expressions were gawd-awful and actively broke scenes and moods for me. The personality of the character was ruined. The entire story was ruined. I'm majorly angry at whoever directed/coached this cast and allowed the show to be released as is. GGMTV has some great works, and I expected better from them. (Tho I will note that the chemistry between Joong and Dunk was good, and they pulled off both emotional and physical intimacy well. But that's limited to touch/chemistry. Not the other part of acting--dialogue, expressions, etc.)
It's a good story if you can get past the acting.
Along with a sweet romance, the show tackles issues of family expectations, the pressure to succeed, and "in the closet" relationships--all very well done.
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....meh.....
For a romance, this was very... lackluster.I'd have loved to give everything a solid five; nothing too good, nothing too bad, nothing to stand out in any way.
But the actors did do a good job, so I decided to be fair and give them their due rating.
The main plot is nothing new:
Girl and boy meet, fall in love, have a misunderstanding, break up.
Meet again, still mad, revenge, blah-blah-blah, reconcile, live happily ever after.
This one added a cute son into the mix, but, again, that's not entirely new either.
I think they didn't do enough with the story.
For me, I love romances, and I'll rewatch the same tired plot again and again, as long as the story is well-written and the characters are engaging. This show flopped on both counts. Story was weak, as were the characters.
You have adults acting like kids, the so-called 'Warren Buffet of China" (the show's words, not mine) behaving like a five-year-old throwing a tantrum, and a strong, smart woman who can't find the words to communicate properly when it matters the most.
A whole entire mess.
I loved the son; he was adorable.
My second favorite character of the show was Cindy, the sister. A total scene stealer IMO.
The chemistry of the main couple was, like everything else, meh. I'd give it a five. No spark, no sizzle. Close friends or a twenty-year married couple. Those were the vibes I was getting.
One good thing was that the "great reveal" happened pretty early in the show, getting us into the meaty part of the story.
But!! In exchange, the first few episodes seemed to repeat the same scenarios over and over again using different dialogue. Just repetitive as hell, taking us nowhere. And the last few episodes? Threw in unnecessary drama just for the heck of it. Maybe to draw out the show a bit longer? Anyway. I had to push myself to finish this. I watched the last eight episodes on fast speed.
Music was okay.
I guess if you have nothing better to do and want something light to take up your time then try it? But I wouldn't recommend this if you have something better on hand, and I won't be rewatching this.
Ending: HEA, for those who want to know. <3
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