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A sweet first love story in less then 20 minutes

This is actually pretty impressive how much information, chemistry and cuteness these two can portray in less than 20 minutes. This very, very, very short series? has all you need to know to understand the bond between these two have as well as lets us in to their little heart fluttering first love story, or more of a friends to lovers story, without the pre angst drama.

I could not help but wonder if the army actually served as a matchmaker this time, while most cases the army will serv ad a divider, here it gave them the opportunity to confront their feelings, with slightly less risk of loosing the friendship letting time in th earmy take care of that... But that could just be me over thinkinking. However it was nice to see the army not act as a cause for break up for once...

So if you want a couple of candy sweet episodes to watch between the angst and have about 20 minutes to spare, just go for it!

This is one I actually may visit whenever I need just that...

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Great main couple and highly bingable

I had almost given up on c-historicals when Lakshmi s fanguide to Ren Jia Lun (Alen Ren) combined with it being the longest drama on my ptw for the watch challenge gave me the push to give them another try and oh what a great try it was!

The story itself is not really anything amazing but it flows on well and has quite a few entertaining, nail biting parts but also some boring bits in between that are highly skippable. There is one very persistent third wheel that tends to get on ones nerves and the story it self gives way to a whole range of emotions from "Come on WTF, not that trope" , to oooooh they are so cute I just want to hug them all and well everything in between,

The leads are AMAZING; yes I amy be bias when it comes to Seven Tan, but still she is this bursting bubble of energy that can show a whole range of emotions and is just an appifanny of talent that is definitely not wasted in this drama. Her chemistry with the ever evolving Alen Ren is great, he made this role really well going from a cold cruel icicle to a caring icicle... he is really good as an icicle and both are a feast for the eye...

The production speared no cost on blood packets, I hope they opted for some good tasting ones because people where spitting blood left and right, but it was not only blood from the mouth but also from other parts that looked more like cranberry juice than blood, but hey considering the amount of blood they had to produce I guess cranberry juice is not a bad choice...

The highlight of this production was the use of umbrellas, and the adorable cat, that even though the cat only had few scenes, it was so well used that no one could forget it, so hats of to the cat!


All in all a highly ningable fun c.historical, it may not be very realistic and convincingly made but the cat, umbrellas, chemistry and entertainment value make up for it!

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Sweet n' easy with lots and lots of fluffely fluff

I started watching this becaus I heard this drama actually lets you see a persons real scar without covering it up, sound like as good a reason as any I know! But well Once I started waching something just because I saw a sweet picture of a cat on feeds. And this drama had both the scar, beutiful, real and even has that all imprtant extra scar for where the thick draining tube used to be during athe oporation thatgave the person the big scar to begin with. But anway, the scar is only a small part of the drama, it also has a cat, a fluffy adorable cat that has a personality and is deffenetly worth a spot in the credits. So it incorparates two things that can get me to start watching.

Then it has this adorable icile lead, with all the fixed ideas, complete lack of comuication skills whol seems to live by why talk when you can set up rules and use your body to get what you want. Mr Icicle is of course in love with mister dimples.
Mr dimpels is the sweetest character ever, loving, cares about his friends and all rownd sweetheart. That just happens to live in a house that mr Icicle just happens to own.... Mr icicle is ofcourse also mr Dimples boss but even so Mr dimples doesis not the least bit threatend by Mr Icicle. So it is a very sweet and easy watch.

The isde characters are just the sweetest most accepting people ever to be seen on screen or maybe not the best but pretty close.

The mother is the nicest mother I have seen in a long time, and did not once bring out my less pacefistic side, she made me rather ok with being part of the grown up community.

The secound couple have amazing chemestry, and share a kiss I would gladly analize from a consent point of view,

The firiends ara adorable, and the slightest following is called out as stalking, yet they actually mention the word stalking and has r consequences!

The secound male lead stands for some pretty good drama and lovoely twists done right. The olnly slightly annoyng character here are some girls in the cafe that seem to only be there to annoy. other then that this drama gave me the idea for my next solo article, but I won´t tell you what it is ha ha.

All in all deffenetly a drama worth watching for all romcom lovers out there.

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So very sad but also so very touching, beautiful and even kind of sweet.

This movie is really powerful, to be honest it is a bit grey and slightly depressing in the cinematography and did start off a bit slow, but the pace picks up as the story uniwines it will keep you on your toes and have you feel a whole range of emotions from anger to being touched, to wanting to fight some one and just utter despair... but you will also feel allot of love and want to just give the kid and his dad a big hug.

The characters in the movie are really well written and well played, the acting is spot on conveying emotions with both dialog and mimics as well as grey and depressing coloring, alongside some beautiful scenery. However the OST is barely present but the few music bits that are included may not be masterpieces but are extremely well fitted. To be completely honest the entertainment value is not very high but the depth, the issues and the story make up for it, life is not always about being entertained.

This movie deals with very deep and hard to handle issues, and has a bunch of potential triggers as well as some sexual content and though it did not make me cry I was pretty damn close to tears so do have some tissues or a good sleeve ready when you watch this.

All in all definitely a movie worth watching when you feel like seeing something sad...

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Powerful statement

I am writing this review because nobody else has, this is a short but powerful drama about the power of ignorance combined with miss representation in media for fueling prejudice among children as well as how easy it is to plant negative ideas and fear in a child about himself.

The movie has one child that stands ous as the voice of reason and education without being to obvious about it, acting as the small shred of hope in an otherwise pretty awful environment.

The movie it self is actually nothing new, maybe not talked or shown enough, but colored children in a white environment are subjected to a whole lot of obstacles. It reminded me of the time I worked with kids in the country side when I got the question when the child was adopted when we got a child from an ethnic minority as well as well as the three year old child I worked with who once counted the white people on the tram and then said she wished she was white. So the way this child thought about himself as well as related to his surroundings was no surprise to me.

The way it is filmed is pretty powerful and it does make a strong statement, without sugarcoating the least bit this kid is thrown out in to the world to fight his own battle. I wish he would not have to fight his own battle, seeing it is a battle the grown ups and our society should be in charge of but I guess knowing how the world works the kid will be forced to do this and it should infuriate us all.

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Mr Icicle meets Mr Hot cup of milk

This drama is sweet but also makes me go what... The story is sweet we have the emotionally closed off icicle in desperate need of some one to though his col, cold heart and Mr heart or more fitting Mr Hot cup of milk who is a tad obsessive and in desperate need of a lesson in consent and finding his self worth.... Unlike other obsessive male leads this guy shows persistence without any aggression witch makes it hard to dislike him, This movie (also as a series) shows us the importance of equal footing in a relationship with the added bonus of sweet loan sharks.

All in all an okay watch.

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Snow white and the 6 mobsters

This has a some sweet, some over the top annoying, some adorable, some good and some meeh... But Id say all in all a pretty good balance between them all making it a highly bingable drama for all of those who love their cold meets hot, rich meats poor type pf dramas.

The gagsters gone good are adorable between the moments f over the top annoying, but mostly adorable. The friendships are top, top, top. And they even managed to sneak in some depth and character development between the silly.

Things that really are not my thing was the female leads voice and job, it made great contrast towrds the bigtough mobstes and sure who doesn't like seeng beefy men singing while wearing cute animal suits but other than that there was just to many high notes and. squeakiness for me. But the over all childishness felt really wrong. It could have stayed at playful byt was mostly not really my kind of cute? Seriously why would grown human beings without children watch content ment for small children?

What balanced this up was:

1. Former criminals/mobster in animal clothing (yes I may be contradicting myself here, but there is a fine line between cute/fun/playful/sweet show of caring and the korean Mickey Mouse Club).


2. The male leads extremely sexy voice and overall appearance. dude was a bit to posesive and did have a red flag or two but who cares about that... When he shows up with those muskels and says something in his 5 packs of cigerrate gngster hoarse voice...

3. Found family

4. The second couple

5. Cuteness overkill in the side characters: played by: Park Jae Chan, Moon Ji In, Song Seo Rin, Kim Hyun Jin, Lee Yoo Joon.

6. The female leads characters forwardness and overall coolness (between the annoying that is)

So all in a all a fun binge just mind the silly... and it should be fine

P.S. I will add a comment about the second male lead as comment marked spoiler.

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Some people are just to good for this show...

Never have I ever completed a drama where the acting was this bad without the drama beeing so bad it was hilarious... as this drama was just bad... Though it did have som exceptions that I will get to in a moment but:

The acting 11/14 -Bad
The fighting scenes - Bad
The Blood Splatter- Bad
The Friendships- 4/5 Awkwerd (not in a good way)
The styling- 11/14 bad
The filming- bad
The characters- 11/14 Bad
The lines- 1 good line in 8 episodes the rest cinge, meeh, bad...
The secound couple- unintersting, cringe wtf...
The villain- Annoying awfully stayled and just why?

The lighting- ok

Thg Gangster Male Lead Meen- Adorable, good looking, sweet, but why the hell did he fall for the geeky guy?
The Gangsters lackey- Adorable!
The Biker Gamer Nitta- Way to good for this show, in every way possible! Give this woman a leading role and a good script, stat!

The kisses and kinship where actually pretty ok..

And while there may not have been much substance to this show our gangster was pretty to look at, unfortunalty the pros did not get near to cover for all the flaws...

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Love the umbrellas (at least ) 7 times

This is one of those dramas that is just impossible to rate, the story is ok predictable at times, interesting at times, meeh at times...

It has pretty much everything and more but I feel like it would be enough for them to love each other twice or maybe three times but seven just feels like pushing it... that said the umbrellas in this drama are top, the less predictable twists (few as they may be) are really good to.

The leads are both lovely, taking turns with being smart, and less smart, bickerish push and pull and incorparating most of the tropes of dramaland, they did after all have to fall in love seven times + there where a bunch of side characters that also had to fall in love.

The main villain is as selfish and evil as it gets, the other villains have interesting character development and seem to have a bunch of dimensions. And again the umbrellas in this come in different colors, used for a bunch of different stuff and show up in the most amazing slow mo settings.

An okay watch... But could have been better if it had less episodes and if they focused on the loving instead of the quontaty of times.

Also I love the pig, tiger and cat! Those are lovely too!

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The Scared and The Stallkey...

This is a not so cautionary tale, not really warning people to not tie other peoples shoe laces or else they may, just may end up getting more or less stalked by a polar bear. The polar bear is of course the sweetest guy ever, kind, loving, caring... And has luscious lips ,dripping of gloss and with the sweet, sweet taste of soju...

The story seams to be there to tell us that the way to heal a broken heart is by constantly attacking it with fluff, persistency, and following the person both online and IRL... some would call that borderline stalking but in this drama they make sure to show us that this is indeed necessary when love at first knot meets fright at first stare.

Our lipgloss polar bear male lead is very lovable, sweet, romantic, kind, funny, helpful, patient... sometimes the guy is even respectful towards others boundaries (rare but it does happen).

Our scared male lead is also pretty decent, he does seem to have some issues and may need to seek help with his need to control everything around him. He does not come off as bubbley and lovable as mr. lipgloss but there is something about him that I do find myself appreciating. I just can not really put my finger on it.

The pacing in this is pretty odd... and it could have used a few more episodes in the middle to really work with the story.

The chemistry between the leads is decent, the gazes, kisses etc. range from dead fish to somekind flambéed fish.

The acting ranges between bad, really bad, ok and could be better, especially with the side characters.

There are not a lot of conflicts in this, the overall feel to it is fluff and stalking a guy out of his shell.... So the few added twists and spice don't really add much to the story but do not take away much either. So its really an easy binge for those moments you just need fluff (as long as you do not dig in to the whole boundaries issue ).

P.S. There are a lot of shots by a pool and those are just gorgeous, I do not really know their purpose but I love em and would like to encourage more dramas to incorporate pool side shots.

Also: There are those who actually do not seek couple/romantic love without beeing scared of it.

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An Empty Can of Coffee in an Empty Coffee Shop...

This is the story about the girl who wanted to learn how to make great coffee... or more like got a crush on a barista so she used the oldest trick in the book "learning" to get close to her.

The girls are kind of sweet, and the chemistry is fine there is not a lot of plot, but there is som smooching and fluff. I gave it an extra 0.5 points for the fluff, but I guess it did not really touch me.

If you do watch it I would recommend you watch an episode a day without a big gap, as I thought it had 4 episodes but it turnd out to have 7 so I started it to early and got a big gap between the first 4 and the last 3 which I binged.

So as long as you prepare yourself for some fluff, cliche talk and not so much substance and all should be fine.

P.S There is nothing wrong with watching something that lacks substance.

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Moonlight mess... Life is hard...

To be perfectly honest this should be a 6 but I just could not give it less than an 8... Why you may ask these two very different ratings?

It is all about the + and - Story and Pacing is probably more of a 6 or maybe a 6,5 it is just not that captivating or interesting... It has a lot of interesting moments and some good lines here and there but most of the drama feels like it has a bunch of ways to make the stories fit together instead of focusing on 4 good stories.

I love all the actors in the cast of this drama, however both Earth and First where miscasted here, I assume they where there as part of their assigned duo... I do not know if it is a either take the whole band (duo) or I am out type of deal , but even though there was nothing lacking in their acting they where just not right for their parts... As Earth did not give almost 40 vibes at all (trust me I am soon to be 40 myself), the age difference between Mix and Earth is 5 years and well it is noticeable which makes the whole old man plot line just ridiculous... That said the very few physical scenes between Mix and Earth where as lovely as always.

The best part of this show was without a doubt Gemini and Fourth they where as playful as ever had great chemistry and just left me wanting even more... I am not going to say that their story line was perfect but they did manage to show some of the issues that deaf people have to deal with in a decent way... And though some of the dialog there felt forced there were a whole lot of good lines in there as well.

There are also a bunch of good portrayals of found family, friendship, poverty sucks, break ups can be hard... and life in general is complicated.

Part of the show felt like it was a mixtape of GMMTVs most popular performers... There to fill the void of those who miss their Ships... Which gave me mixed feeling, I love em all and enjoyed a bunch of their scenes, reminding me of past dramas I loved watching and just generally putting a smile on my face... I can not help but wonder if those who have not seen these pairings before would feel about watching this. And while it did give me some enjoyment for those particular scenes I am pretty sure this casting affected the over all execution of the show in a bad way...

I am not exactly sure where I am going with this but I guess I want to say that if you have previously enjoyed the actors of this show you will probably enjoy this show in a different way than if these pairings are completely new to you. I am not sure in what way...

So what can I say it is a slightly messy slice of lie that could have been a lot better, but is good enough to watch... and gets extra points for the parts that made me smile.

Also, make sure to pay attention at the color coordination of clothes and set... Sometimes it is more obvious than others.

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A whole lot of feels...

What started with a build up of tears by the side of the eye... went over to wet sleeve and ended with ugly snot crying. This is a unique romance, it is sweet, not always so innocent and at times a whole lot of fun with some oddly dark humour.

As we meet the boy who was run over by The White Truck of Doom and turned in to a living corps as the male lead kept saying: He is NOT DEAD, he is a Living corps... in this story about love, lust, loss a whole lot of denial. This story is different than anything I have ever seen. So it even had me debating if it was worth a 10 star rating but though it made me cry A LOT it did not captivate me enough for a 10. But it is a strong 9,5. On the one hand such a sweet youthful story, on the other the living dead and a whole lot of pain... tragedy, romcom, supernatural all in one.

The male leads are both cold one in his personality the other literally as his body started getting cold after he died. The boys interactions are a true cold meets war, introvert extrovert opposites attract story with all it has to offer, though we only get to see a few glimpses in to their story the chemistry and playfulness is there. Adding a time limit, fear and need to hold on adds that extra spice and emotion to the story that hit me like an arrow straight though my still beating heart.

This is definitely a drama I recommend to pretty much any one who can handle it and is in need of a good cry. It truly is perfect for those days when you need to laugh, cry and fall in love... all at once.

P.S the intro with it´s OST is one of the most fitting intros I can remember ever seeing, I usually skip the intro but chose to watch it in this one. And there is a nice shot of an Axolotl in it too.

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