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Trigger
17 people found this review helpful
Aug 4, 2025
10 of 10 episodes seen
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Overall 7.0
Story 7.5
Acting/Cast 10
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 1.5
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Starts good then turns disappointing

The drama until the middle is pretty good with a nice build up of the story. The presentation of the ML and other characters is well made. Many of them are endearing and it makes you curious to know how they will solve their problems. Some cases are predictable. Some are not. Many are nicely violent and bloody. The mystery about the guns and how they are distributed is also well handled.

The problem is that once all the parties involved are recognized, the story turns into a cops chasing guns/bad guys and it is not so good. ML becomes a super cop with super shooting skills to get rid of dumb gangsters. There is a lot of pathos in the lecturing and the explanation of the choices made or to make. At some point, it wants so much to look sad, it is ridiculous and unrealistic. The logic behind the guns distribution is weak with a silly ending. There are some plot holes as some endearing characters just vanished. Finally, the ML survives but the bad guys too. So there is no real satisfaction.

Overall, I enjoyed the drama until it just went downhill. 7/10

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Under the Queen's Umbrella
2 people found this review helpful
Dec 7, 2022
16 of 16 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 9.0
Story 9.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 9.0
Rewatch Value 9.0
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A surprisingly good historical kdrama with a great Queen

1/ STORY : A Queen Lioness has to defend her cubs against an evil who hates her and her sons just because she needs to constrain and manipulate people to feel happy. A Drama with standard plot of palace struggle for power between a faction led by high ranking royals + officials against the Queen and the great princes using the rest of the harem and their princes. But a drama with a modern tone.

2/CHARACTERS:
- The Queen: She is a modern woman in Choseon era and a benevolent Queen. A caring mother with a strong personality and an ability to scheme and counter scheme to defend her sons and her people. Loved that character.
- Grand Prince Seong Nam + Chung Ha : I liked the two characters from hot headed GP to taking his brother's role and becoming a father and from rogue daughter to CPrincess and becoming a mother. A Cute little romance.
- Most of the princes are good kids who love and support each other despite their different moms instigating some against others. Fav: Prince Bogum, Prince Muan, Prince Hodong.

- Main villain: Awful person who causes deaths and tragedy just for the sake of manipulating people and having them in control.
- Second main villain: The guy looked funny and most of the time he was in a crossfire.
- Third villain : Kind of pitied her despite all her schemes she looked miserable.
- Son of villains : Annoying guy and cold blood murderer and conspirator
- The doctor : Sorry mate but you did bad.

2/ WHAT I LIKED:

- The pace : The drama has 16 eps but it is fast paced with a good development of the main story and sub plots that are funny and emotional especially between the Queen and her sons.
- The story has a lot of characters involved and their relations or connections are intricated. At some point it looks messy but the ending twists clarify the situation and unveil an unexpected but entertaining story.
- The drama tackling modern questions: gender identity, teenage pregnancy...

3/ WHAT I DID NOT LIKE:
- The demise of the bad guys is not really satisfactory. The death of the big villain is too lenient. After all the murders, attempt murders, conspiracy to murder... Her ending is still on her own terms.
- The cold blood murderer and conspirator got away with his bad deeds and crimes. Shame.
- The character GP Seong Nam takes a nose dive towards end. Probably the writer did not want him to overshadow the Queen and they gave him less screentime and less importance.

4/OST: A good sageuk one.

5/REWATCH VALUE: Valuable. But probably I won't rewatch it.

6/OVERALL: I binged watched this drama after it ended airing and enjoyed it. It is a good drama with a few flaws. An unclear plot at some point because of characterization, the lack of sense of danger as the good guys would always prevail, some repetitive elements, and the closure brought to the characters not always satisfactory for me.

Still this drama is one of the most entertaining historical Krama I watched since a while thanks to many good characters and their rivalry or their cute and kind, heartwarming interactions. I totally recommend it. 9/10

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The Sound of Magic
2 people found this review helpful
May 9, 2022
6 of 6 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 8.5
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 10
Music 9.0
Rewatch Value 7.0
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Not perfect but still enjoyable with a good last part.

1 / GOOD
- Magician: Very interesting and intriguing character. A magician who is protective and charming but also dark and scary and weird at times. His backstory and the events around him towards the end is the best part.
- Female lead: She is endearing even if she is struggling. I liked her evolution from ugly and persecuted and struggling to understanding the world around and finding her own path.
- Final plot twist. Good. I did not see that coming even if it was an easy one.

2/ NOT SO GOOD
- SML ; I could not believe in his character. He had too few interactions and knew too little about the magician to change his path the way he did. I was never convinced by his new passion.
- SFL: She was annoying. Her actions lacked of clear motivations. So it looked also unrealistic at times.
- They tried to provide too many messages about life, choice, happiness... and some were messy and redundant.

3/ OVERALL
The drama almost lost me until the plot thickened with the thriller part. It is enjoyable. 8.5/10

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So Wayree
2 people found this review helpful
Sep 15, 2020
15 of 15 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 7.5
Story 7.5
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 7.5
Rewatch Value 6.0
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Addictive but not really entertaining

WHAT I LIKED:
- The chemistry between the two leads is good. The actors Kem and Mookda did great.
- Prin : He is a very human character with his flaws and qualities. The story starts with him doing something terrible to Mitra that should send him to jail but he gets away with it. The good thing about him is that it is possible to understand him without excusing his wrongdoings. After making several mistakes he really put his heart into redeeming himself and try to win back the woman he loves and their children. And for that he is selfless, super charming and has a lot of patience dealing with Mitra. He is the best part of the drama.
- Chen and Kaweena : they are the fun and fresh touch.
- Gun : Not a popular opinion but I had sympathy for him. I could understand his choice to try to win Mitra but also how and why he rekindled his friendship with Prin. Too bad he kind of just disappeared in the last eps.
- Pam: typical evil woman in Lakorn but the actress was successful in making her look a crazy lunatic with wtf schemes just because she is jealous.
- Than Thawee's wife: she has little screen time but she is savage.

WHAT I DID NOT LIKE:
- Mitra: She made wrong choices since the beginning because she is spoiled and stubborn. I could excuse her first mistakes because she was too young but after she decided to reconcile with Prin and he wasted the chance she just went sulking and taking weird decisions which just brought problems for everyone. For me she was not a great person and sometimes she was too extreme. I could not have sympathy for her.
- The arc of narration with the Dr Traitor and his lover is weak. They did all this just because one wanted money and the other wanted to please him.
- The final vilain was there just for the revelations about the kids and Prin's origins. He was so not challenging I was disappointed and even laughed during the final showdown between him and Prin's father.

OVERALL:
The drama is nothing special and full of clichés and tropes but at least it manages to make the viewer curious of what will happen next for our two main leads and how they will get together. Finally it is nice to see how it ended well for the good ones but there is not a lot of fun in this. There are a lot of misunderstanding to solve and secrets to unveil but not enough intensity. The truth about the kids was unveiled in such a funny way. It is an OK drama but not an unforgettable one.

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Blossoms in Adversity
1 people found this review helpful
Nov 11, 2024
40 of 40 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 8.5
Story 9.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 5.0
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Enjoyable historical slice of life chinese drama

GOOD:
- Lead couple: great chemistry, nice romance with smooth development. They are a cute pair of lovers supporting each other in adversity. Break up not too angsty and happy ending for them.
- Slice of life: it is about the life of the members of the Hua family and what happens to their household members while facing the hardships they meet and rebuilding themselves relentlessly
- Many likeable characters with good developments
- Good comedy with some hilarious moments.
- Some WTF twists that are very sad and emotional.
- Schemes are not too outrageous
- Good action when it happens with good swordplay and bloody brutal killings at times.

LESS GOOD:
- The drama is centered around female characters who sometime have useless chit-chats that bring nothing to the plot.
- Investigation plot goes from one villain to another villain then another villain with no real sense of danger for the lead couple and for ML as the leader of the Bureau of Security.
- The emperor has seen too much to be outsmarted but he is also a bully, manipulative and annoying at times.
- Ending final boss is kind of a joke.

OVERALL: I enjoyed it. Recommended

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Move to Heaven
1 people found this review helpful
Aug 18, 2024
10 of 10 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 9.0
Story 9.5
Acting/Cast 10
Music 9.0
Rewatch Value 6.0

Emotional but some good action too

Just catched up with this drama. I avoided it at first because I thought it would be a tearjerker only. Well it was at times but it also has some good sub plots with some good action. Despite the know it all side of the ML (Yes Han Geu Roo is the ML) which is annoying at times, he is still genuine and his abilities help a lot. SML Cho Sang Gu is a loser but he has a proper character development and his story is interesting. Yoon Na Mu is not only the fifth wheel of the carriage. She was funny and useful at times.

Binged watched the whole serie within a week-end. Quite an emotional and well crafted serie which denounces fairly some bad aspects of SK's society/history.

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The Good Bad Mother
1 people found this review helpful
Jun 8, 2023
14 of 14 episodes seen
Completed 1
Overall 10
Story 10
Acting/Cast 10
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 8.0
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Emotional and fun drama and a story of a mother's love and of her flaws.

1/ STORY:

I liked the story. It was very emotional as it dealt with mother and son relationship. It tells how sad events, and a life of hardships shape the mentality of a mother who loves her child but gives him a strict tight upbringing which impairs their relationship and create a gap between them. She will have to do the job of taking care of her son again, but her methods do not change, and she does things right but also wrong again.

There is also a subplot where the misery brought on them, mother and son, is not because of coincidence. The son will decide to find out the truth of what happened. This will deepen the ditch between him and his original place. That part of the story was interesting but not the focus. It helped to give depth to the leading characters, and it triggered some thrilling moments and funny action.

Romance: not a typical romance told in an unusual way. It is like a puzzle. Put the pieces do take their right place and unveil a cute romance that ends happily despite the misunderstandings and the time passed.

2/ CHARACTER/CAST:

- The mom: Loving but also authoritarian mother who uses strict and extreme methods thinking it is for the best. She is awful at times but also human as she does not know better and that was the best she could do as a mother. At the end of the journey, she will be able to turn back to see the road made and despite the many mistakes say it is a good journey. The actress Ra Mi Ran did a great job portraying that character.

- The son: Despite adversities, he grows up to be a nice intelligent loving young man, but he takes a decision that will cause his life to totally change. The road back to himself will be long and painful. Lee Do Hyun impeccable.

- Mi Joo: I liked her personality. A young woman who seemingly falls out of love and struggles to provide for her family. But she remains positive to keep it up and earn her happiness. The actress bluffed me.

- Sam Sik: The guy is useless during almost all the drama until he is given some action. He fails to be funny most of the time.

- First bad guy Assemblyman Oh: terrible human being portrayed by the usual Jung Woong In and his best sneering face.

- Second bad guy Chairman Song: murderer who became a grotesque gang boss behind an honorable façade. Underused character.

- The ex-fiancée: Spoiled rich girl got totally manipulated until she decides to save herself.

- The villagers: A collection of farcical characters who are mostly fun to watch.

- The twins: They are not very realistic but absolutely cute to watch.

3/ OST: Nothing special but good enough

4/ REWATCH VALUE: A lot of emotional scenes. A lot of funny scenes too. But it is quite heavy at times. Rewatchable.

5/OVERALL: It is a good and entertaining drama more focused on the people and the relationships between them. The mom and son’s relationship is full of difficulties but in the end it is a beautiful story. I enjoyed watching this drama week in week out. The thriller part was ultimately a bit lacking for my taste. It was resolved in a rushed way using info dropping, clues dropping, Tchekov’s gun, with a final surprise twist. But the most important part was not there. I will still give it a 10/10 as it had me glued at every the ep.

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Gaus Electronics
1 people found this review helpful
Nov 13, 2022
12 of 12 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 9.0
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 8.0
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A peculiar but fun kdrama about office romances and office relationships.

1/STORY:
There is no real story here. It is rather the chronicles or the daily life of Gaus Electronics' Marketing team 3 with each member of the team being a weirdo like the ones that you can meet in an company or who are already in your own department: the overbearing perfectionist harsh female superior, the geek manager, the aged team leader, the colleague who belongs to a very rich family, the cold female coworker, the junior who tries to do his best but can't achieve anything and so on... And all these people try to make the team successful.

2/ WHAT I LIKED:
- The humour: mostly burlesque, physical, silly, goofy but rarely mean to people as persons and humans.
- The different type of love relationhips: weird ones, unexpected ones, unsuccessful ones…
- The SML: His family background, ambition, haircut, dedication, journey in the real world, lovelife... They could make a spin off with him.

3/ WHAT WAS LESS OK FOR ME:
- The story. The drama is not very memorable because of the lack of development of the characters apart from Aziz. I think they should have added a time jump for the lead couples. To explain that despite all the silliness, they still ended happy together.
- Some jokes were a bit complicated to understand for me. My bad for not knowing korean language but I did wish it was less “specific” at times.

4/ OST: It was fun

5/ REWATCHABLE VALUE: A lot of fun scenes but I would not rewatch. It is like comedy sketches that you enjoy in the moment then that’s it.

6/ OVERALL: A quite peculiar but very funny drama with its humour made of burlesque, physical and bodily humour, satire about office situations, parody of some dramas… Each episode brings its good laugh but also gently expose the human condition at work and the different relationships and attitudes between colleagues. It is not really memorable as the characters are not too developed but I do recommend it as each episode really made me smile and laugh. 9/10.

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One the Woman
1 people found this review helpful
Nov 7, 2021
16 of 16 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 8.0
Story 8.5
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 8.5
Rewatch Value 6.0
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Great start but lost its momentum and ended flat.

1/ STORY:
A young rogue not so upright prosecutor is taken for a young heiress and ends living her life while trying to sort out her real identity and the secrets of her new family. The synopsis is a chance for a lot of fun and an interesting story. The fun was there but the story was rather tasteless after the mysteries are set up and things are explained one after the other. Because of the way the events are presented. Too much chit chatting and telling to each other the facts from the past just defuse the suspense. Also towards the end, all these flash backs 14 years agos or a few hours ago did not help. Same with all these USB flash drive arriving as if by chance... The romance was so so. It is credible enough for people their age and status but it is nothing great. Less sparkling than the story of their younger counterparts which is not even a romance.

2/ CHARACTERS:
- The drama is based on the FL and everything depended on the quality of her character. She was fun and endearing with a weird crazy but funny personality. But sometime it was kind of always the same thing and it made her look a bit "not realistic".
- ML is fun in the beginning but he soon becomes a bland sidekick. I kind of found him boring.
- Other key character: the main villain. Very smart and scheming in the beginning, the character turns reckless and grotesque always taunting people by running its mouth but doing mistakes after mistakes. The way the character is taken down is too easy and predictable.
- Some characters do not have a proper development: coward husband, younger sister, kid of the daughter in law.
- Other characters have an unexpected and convoluted development for me: the young prosecutor, Bad uncle CEO of Hanju, Ms Kim, Main villain's sidekick, real Kang Mi Na.

3/ OST: Good enough

4/ REWATCH VALUE:
Some fun scenes of the early episodes are good for rewatch but the way the story unfold after the set up of the plot spoiled the quality to the point it is not rewatchable for me.

5/OVERAL: 8/10. Not a bad drama but not a memorable one either. The romance is lacklustre and the main plot is bland because of wrong development of the characters. Not enough snappy writting for the story to be really entertaining.

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In House Marriage Honey
1 people found this review helpful
Sep 14, 2021
7 of 7 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 9.0
Story 10
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 9.0
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Short drama but enjoyable jdrama

WHAT I LIKED:
- The two leads: I liked Miura Manatsu who has the look of an Alpha male but he is also a kind and caring person. Haruta Ami is a girl desperate and insecure but she gets lucky and makes the best of the situation.
- The chemistry between the two leads: There is a great game of seduction between them. Made of funny situations, nice dialogues, little misunderstandings, cunning plans, sexy situations... It showed a real alchemy between them.
- The setting of their situation and the reasons they have to be together are usual tropes of drama. But the development of their situation is different from what I have seen so far. There is no "I don't like you but I am going to fall for you because we live under the same roof".
- Skin ship and intimate scenes: A lot of them. These two obviously have a good harmony on this aspect. They really found each other well.
- The Fast paced and episodes are short.
- The Cute small twist in the end.

WHAT I DID NOT LIKE:
- Nothing that I really disliked and worth mentioning.

OST:
- It was ok.

REWATCH:
- It is a short drama and the fast pace, nice plotline, cute fluffy atmosphere and some kinky moments make it enjoyable and a good drama to rewatch.

OVERALL: 9.0 /10. A good and short drama to enjoy if your watch list is empty or you are stuck between two dramas.

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My Forever Sunshine
1 people found this review helpful
Dec 18, 2020
19 of 19 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 8.0
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 6.5
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A good Lakorn thanks to it's two leads.

WHAT I LIKED:

- The story has two arcs of narration:

First, The chronicle of Arthit and Paeng and the variations of their relationship. There is a lot of highs and lows with many bickering, cute moments, funny moments, crazy moments too. Overall the trajectory is credible and if they looked stiff together for a long time, the end is nice and they become a natural couple.

Second arc is the search of the truth about what happened to Paeng's parents. It is well made thanks to a great despicable insane villain.

- The Male Lead: Arthit is a good guy with a good heart and caring for people but when he wants to play jerk, he is the biggest jerk of them all. He can really take care of Paeng or put her into the most miserable situation. And he doesn't stop because she would beg him... I liked his personality despite him being too harsh to Paeng. Also he stays respectful of his mother even if she is over the top sometimes. Mark is impeccable in the drama. His great acting skills and the little details of his expressions do everything.

- Paeng: I really had issues with her at the beginning. She is a real brat. But she manages to become a smart and patient young woman. I liked the fact that she found herself the solution to her own problem. I liked Kao's portrayal of a tomboyish but also cute and determined Paeng.

- Arthit dad: a good dad for Arthit, A good uncle for Paeng, a good husband for his wife. A great boss of his own household. I liked his patience, composure and his efforts to find a solution acceptable for everyone. He also had his flaws like everyone.

- Mark not Prin: Very charming but also a complete psycho. I really disliked him but he looked impressive as a bad guy getting into their way for a reason... lol The guy is also a perverted sicko.

WHAT I DID NOT LIKE:

- Lots of characters are sacrificed: The story of the second couple is reduced to the bare bones . Some ideas are just left as loose ends. Kot is a simple comic relief, Nang is just annoying, They do not have a real story for themselves.
- Arthit Mom: Although I can understand her as a mother trying to protect her son, she sometimes does too much when playing roadblock. Lucky she has an understanding husband.

MUSIC: Good OST.

REWATCH VALUE: I enjoyed it but it is not memorable enough for me to rewatch.

OVERALL: A good Lakorn focused on the two main leads but it is fun, cute, with some angst and action. It is enjoyable. The two lead actors basically carry the drama on their shoulders as there is little time for other characters' development. 8/10.

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Love Is Sweet
1 people found this review helpful
Oct 28, 2020
36 of 36 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 8.5
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 8.5
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 8.0
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Some very good things. Some not so good things. Overall it is enjoyable for the leads

WHAT I LIKED:

- The chemistry between the two main leads Jiang Jun and Yuan Shuai. The pairing was physically very good-looking together (Bai Lu's facial features totally matches Leo Luo's small face). Their interactions were savory all along the drama.

- The love story : a nice little story born from a misunderstanding from his part which causes her to suffer and them to go separate ways. The reunion in a professional context helps them to get closer, rediscover their relationship and find their true feelings. Very simple, cute, heartwarming and very funny at times also. Their love is not really challenged. It's nice romantic cute moments almost all the way.

- Looking for the truth: The story about the death of Jiang Jun's dad caused by MH was interesting too. It did not take a huge part. Just enough to entertain between our two lovers' cuddling time. It was consistent enough with no huge farfetched element. It was revealed slowly and resolved in a nice fast way: tense when the villains were here and very funny when the good guys took action against them.

WHAT I DID NOT LIKE:

- Secondary couple is pretty useless as their romance has no sparkle and the two characters have no background. Hard to have sympathy for them. Sadly it takes a huge part of the drama.

- The last part : After JJ father's name is cleared, there is a time jump of 2 years. Good idea to reshuffle things and put the characters into new perspectives and challenges. The issue is that some parts are good and some are not . The good part: our main couple always. These two are now business rivals, a couple of three years bickering about work and how their couple evolves now. The not so good part: what happens to the others: Du lei, the secondary couple, Qiao Na...

More details hereafter (/HUGE SPOILER)

o - Du Lei evolution is a little bit surprising after he sided with the main couple to fight the evil ones. But he does not keep going on that direction. Instead he does crappy schemes to succeed and pry on Jiang Jung as he is obsessed by her. He goes on tilt and does illegal and unacceptable things as he can't accept defeat. He is spared in an illegal way: JJ and YS cover for him in exchange of him stopping his bad deeds. So illegal and wrong.

o - Secondary couple keeps being boring in the last part while trying to have a baby and doubting each other.

o - Qiao Nao becomes a little girl with a romantic heart which flutters when a 17yo kid in track suit comes to sing a song for her in her office. What a joke. Writers had nothing better in stock for her? /


ACTORS/CHARACTERS:

- Bai Lu is a fav. She was very convincing as a strong modern woman chasing her dreams and following her heart to find her love.
- Leo Luo had a very strong performance compared to his previous works I watched. He should do more of these roles as he is charming and has a good sense of comedy.
- Du Lei: Good performance from the actor. A complete freak in the clothes of a friend / ally
- Riley Wang: watched/tried his three last dramas. Never rated him. This drama will not help his case for me. But also his character was pretty badly written. Same for Xu Li.
- Qiao Na: loved her in Sword Dynasty. Here her character is challenging then supportive and then completely messed up.
- Linda : despicable but at least she ends in jail and redeems herself.
- Others fun characters: Su Chang, JJ's mom.

MUSIC:
Some songs were very nice to listen. Overall I thought the OST was well adapted to the drama.

REWATCH VALUE:
Weirdly I would not rewatch it. Because it is mainly about these two lovebirds in love and cute. I can watch it and be happy with them and be afraid for them when challenges come their way. But when you already know these challenges and how they are resolved, it is only about watching them being so in love that it will make me feel jealous.
There are some funny scenes anyway (DL and YS rivalry in the Aquarium, YS, how and after he got laid, The meeting with JJ's mother...) I would gladly rewatch these for the fun.

OVERALL: An enjoyable drama mainly for its main couple which account for 80% of the good things here.

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Maiden Holmes
1 people found this review helpful
Oct 3, 2020
32 of 32 episodes seen
Completed 1
Overall 8.0
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 6.0
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A drama to watch when the watch list is empty and it is enjoyable

WHAT I LIKED:
- The main couple: I thought the two of them were both goodlooking and cute together. It was nice that there was no rival and they both quickly fell for each other. No angst because of misunderstanding and they basically spend the drama discovering each other's story, sharing cute and romantic moments and supporting and helping and saving each other.
- The story: I thought the story was clear and well developped between the different investigations. Some investigations were linked to the main plot some were not but overall the pace and writing was good enough to make sub plots and plot interesting without being gripping. You don't end each episode with a cliffhanger and dying to see what is going to happen but most episodes were enjoyable.

WHAT I DID NOT LIKE:
- The secondary couple: They were both cute and nice persons and helpful but I felt that they had no other meaning but to be sidekicks. The SML was a bit simple minded and he lacked depth until the last eps were his character took a bigger dimension. The SFL had absolutely no character development and her background was very unclear so beside her poisons she looked very bland. Their love story really suffered from the comparison with the main couple's one.
- The villain: He was a little bit too wordy and did not get his hand dirty while his lackeys were eliminated one after another so he looked not so mighty but rather annoying.
- The drama lacked of punch as most of the time the leads did not look really endangered or challenged.

OVERALL:
It is a drama which does what it has to do: entertain with a consistent story and some sub stories to develop and support the characters. There is a good dose of romance and cute moments too. An OK drama to watch when you are bored. A very decent cdrama with a nice ending I appreciated after watching the Heiress.

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My True Friend
1 people found this review helpful
Sep 13, 2020
48 of 48 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 7.0
Story 7.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 8.5
Rewatch Value 5.0
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Missed the essential : The romance part

WHAT I LIKED:
- The chemistry between the two leads; Granted Angelababy is not a great actress but in this drama, she had a really good chemistry with Deng Lun. I found they were physically very compatible i.e. they looked very cute together, I thought their interactions were very natual and sincere. It created a genuine relationship of love feelings hidden behind a solid friendship and professional camaraderie.

- Shao Peng Cheng: I liked Deng Lun in this role. The character starts a useless brat punished by his father to go work as a simple employee and he meets someone he falls in love with but he must restrain himself and keep his feelings hidden and at the same time, develop himself and change into a good coworker, a good son and a great professional in his fieldwork. I thought his sincerity towards everyone even his rival in love was touching and he was also fun and honest despite his misery. I was so sorry for him and his dramatic one sided love.

- The secondary romances: To compensate the lack of romance between the leads, the drama developped love stories between secondary leads. I thought these were well presented and the characters were endearing. It helped me keep following the drama.

- The adventures they lived: As fellow coworkers, they live together a series of adventures that are sometime funny, sometime emotional, sometime scary... it was like watching a fun serie.

WHAT I DID NOT LIKE;
- The main issue in this drama is that the writer spent too much time on the love that Cheng Zhen Zhen has for the architect. It is clear from the beginning that it is a love born from admiration. Zhen Zhen and Peng Cheg had a great first encounter but she became a couple with the architect. Almost for the whole drama, it is about when she will come to her senses and see that they are not made for each other. The drama spins this for so long with the biggest clichés like the mother who absolutely wants Zhen Zhen as her daughter in Law or Peng Cheng who knows so much about her when the architect can't understand her at all. The situation becomes frustrating and annoying to the point it is prejudiciable to the drama. Until ep 44 there is no romance between Peng Cheng and Zhen Zhen and then everything accelerate and rushed within 4 episodes. What a waste.

MUSIC: The song "I know You know" from Aarif Rahman is one of my favourite Drama OST from last year.

REWATCH VALUE: To rewatch the drama is to go throught the frustration again. I would not inflict this to myself. But I have to say I watched again the cute scenes of the last eps between Zhen Zhen and Peng Cheng on the bridge or the bed scene which was so cute and funny.

OVERALL; The drama had a great cast with good and handsome actors and a cute actress who was pretty decent here. Anyway, it failed to be really good and entertaining because of too many frustrations as they spinned the wrong relationship and the slow burn friendship turning into love for way too long. I physically felt pain for poor Peng Cheng until he wins the race, fetches the cup and kisses the girl. Because of this I would not recommend to watch this drama unless you are a Deng Lun fan like me.

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Another Miss Oh
1 people found this review helpful
Jul 23, 2020
18 of 18 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 10
Story 9.5
Acting/Cast 10
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 10
This review may contain spoilers

A delightful show

STORY:
- In the main plot, two idiot friends try to take revenge on a girl who dumped one of them on the wedding day and it leads into a total unexpected situation for a lot of characters. The main story takes some unexpected turns until the end and it is very fun. But the most interesting here are the charaters because around this main story they evolve and we finally are able to really understand them as persons and how they accepts reality, and how they take decisions for their life.

CHARACTERS/CAST:
- I loved the main FL lead. Many people said she was annoying and childish. But I found she was a cute imperfect person often victim of this name she shares with a "perfect person". Her character evolves but she does not become perfect. She learns to accept herself, find solution to the confusion, find a man who undestand her and really loves her... So many scenes I love with her: when she leaves her house to "marry", when she jumps into his arms in the street, when they kiss on the sofa... She was very human and fun to watch when interracting with her parents.
- Do Kyung was also a great character. I liked his job like I liked of they explained it in this drama. Very interesting and useful to the story at the same time. I liked how his life filled by his job is changed by our main girl. He looked lost, sick, vengeful, waiting for someone to save him. I liked when he talked to his best friend that he needed to man up regarding Hae Young and take responsibility.
- I liked the second Ho Hae young too. As the story evolves we understand her better and what she did. She was reallly not perfect like she looked.
- Isadora and Jin Sang were great. Two very weird people who are drawn together. Their dialogue are among the funniest of the drama especially the ones in French.
- Tae Jin: the bf. At first I thought he was just some idiot muscle man in the end I even had sympathy for him as he was the target of many people unknowingly but he still was able to stand up and take proper decisions.
- I loved Oh Hae Young parents.
All these characters and their evolution and interconnections make the richness and cuteness of this drama.

MUSIC:
The music was cute but nothing really to remmeber.

REWATCH: Totally even if I have not rewatched for a while. Too many drama to discover. Anyway I have my favourites scenes I enjoy watching just to have a good laugh.

OVERALL: One of my fav korean drama. Highly reommended.

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