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My Secret Romance meets Extraordinary You
This little spin off is definitely cute and ads a little spice to the original, giving us the viewers more of these two in a lovely display of cliches and things I have seen before... Which I assume is intentional.An easy watch, short to the point rom com CEO webtoon parody, at ist most neutral. There to compensate us viewers who made it though No Gain No Love wishing these other two where the leads.
I am however not truly satisfied and wish they would have gotten their own series to begin with instead of being stuk as side kicks to the first drama.
But since it is to late for that I guess this will do....
Fun fact: My Secret Romance is a drama that I once started re watching by mistake...one that took me 2 episodes to realise that I had seen it before... So pretty much as forgettable as No Gain No Love...
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Time and superpowers can be confusing
This is an easy watch, I do not know how much a typical it is and I do have some issues with some parts of it and they do start of with a lot of fatshaming... But I do kind of appreciate the dark and depressing.As the episodes flew by the fatshaming subsided and I do believe they may even have made up for it... but my beautiful depressing darkness also got all bright witch was kind of meeh... The twists felt pretty predictable and there where some moments of cringe that just made me go... oh come on...
With all that said I did enjoy it, so I figured it gets an 8 for the characters, the found family, the friendship and the at times okay message. But what really kept me from lowering the score was this one scene where the female lead pretty much saied flat out (not exact quote) .
Yes I was saved, but I am not (or was not) grateful, I just learned I had to use my misfortune for my benefit and in a way I was pissed of at the guy who saved me so using him and that story was my revenge...
And with that I will say, yes there are plot holes and yes there is cringe, and problematic stuff but between it all there are som rare gems and a high entertainment value making it worth a watch.
P.S. I may have seen to many dramas to not be able to predict stuff but if you are new to dramaland, I am sure you will love some of the twists.
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A great mix of uncontrollable emotions
is drama is pretty much why people or at least I fell in love with K-dramas filled with wrist-grabs, lies, corruption, banter, fun leads at times annoying side characters that still work, way to much yelling, muscles, gazes, kisses, impossible love and pain... A lot of pain!So after rewatching this drama I actually upped the score from a 9,5 to a 10 as it may not pe perfect and indeed has some pretty messed up lines, side plots and skippable scenes it pretty much reminded me of why I fell in love with K-dramas and even though I knew what I was in for I still kept wanting to press that button to watch the next episode.
To be clear I was annoyed at the yelling, and some of the lines as well as parts of the portrayals of the terminally ill did make my blood boil. But the good part make up for the bad. Giving em every single emotion known, showing great contrast between happiness and pain. Offering us the viewers some of dramalands most powerful scenes. Not to mention great chemistry and awful, just awful parents willing to latterly throw their kid under a truck to get ahead in life.
Ad some beautiful scheneery and and an amazing OST and such great lines as:
"My head was about to burst because of a certain girl. I thought this party would distract me. But.. I was wrong"
And you are in for an enjoyable binge, a painful binge, but my och my do I love this type of pain...
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Odd, very odd
This is one of those dramas that is a little bit hard to rate the story is odd, really odd, the overall messge seems to be good something about world peace and stuff... the directing is a bit over the top and to quirky fro my taste leaving with just a little bit to much second hand embarrassment and the need to fast forward...That said there where a lot of fun K-drama jokes, a decent cast and pretty things to look at.
It is also a drama that may change the way you look at chicken (any type of chicken) for all eternity, or until you have seen enough other dramas to overwrite the damage this drama made.
As for if it will have you longing to eat chicken or never want to eat chicken again will be left unsaid by me.
So basically this is a true k-drama mix of everything odd, prepare yourselves for some quirk and over the top odd stuff and I am sure this can be an okay watch. While it did have a bit to much over the top for my taste I can appreciate the oddness and individuality of this so if you are fine with that stuff and looking for something different this is actually a pretty decent place to find it.
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Frustrating
This drama has some sweet characters, lovely friendships, hardships and ships that Id say are pretty predictable yet so frustrating that I am glad I kept some hair on my head....Slow, frustrating, going no where low selfasteam... so much so that it managed to kill one of my favourite tropes the contract relationship.
So while I did find elements in here entertaining and did like the characters I spent most of this drama borde or frustrated... Still I do fel that I need to give it some points for the imaginative characters and ways to prolong the frustration.
Also they do have a lot of interesting point in their discussions and show the frustration from several interesting angles.
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1,2,3, ambush
This is one of those movies that is so bad you are pretty sure it was intentionally made to be bad.. it could be funny if you shared that type of humour... unfortunately I do not. Some of the short dialog is actually pretty good... mimicking the good old days of the 30s... or maybe 60s cinema. Consciously ignoring any progress made since then...Watching this movie you will be subjected to som sort of short dialog (if any )blind guy gets amused, ambushers die,... repeat... Short dialog with women in trouble... women get ambushed, blind guy shows up... ambushers die... Repeat or mix the two...
An example of short dialog could go something like this:
Bad guy: Oh look I got this sward, lts test it out on the next beggar who passes by....
Bad guy ambushes the first beggar he sees pass by...
Beggar/our blind guy cuts of the dudes sward...
Showing yet again how how those on top (or on the way to the top) view those at the bottom. So yes the little dialog we get s not that bad.
Most of the men in this are bald, and some run around with spears, others with swards,The women seem to be pretty smart and there is a transgirl in here that gets misgendered a lot.
I have a lot of issues with both our so called blind guy as well as the way they talk about gender but I do appreciate some of the other parts leaving me confused and with a bit to many issues to level the score of this so bad it could be entertaining if you are in to that stuf... also so bad it is viewed as a masterpiece in some circles making me wonder what am I not getting... or it could just not be my type of sward...
Rewatch value high because you may need ot watch it a few times to get it
Also while I can not really recommend it as a whole, do watch a few scenes they are indeed kind of funny... the first time around... once you get to the tenth ambush the charm kind of subsides...
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Wind can be oddly entertaining
This drama taught my the Thai word for wind and that a windmill ca not spin without wind.. ok to be honest I kind of knew that windmills need wind but hat it failed to convey is that to much wind can break a windmill and that the wind can do perfectly fine without the windmill... Ok this is a lot of wind, and while the story does have a storm or two there is actually a lot more rain than wind in this drama.The story itself is the typical boys over flowers type of story rich kids bully the poor, fall in love and turn the bullying in to bickering protective joy with the added bonus of one lovely granny, some gangsters, sports and injuries... making you wonder are these really teens? And will they survive in this dangerous world where the romance seems to be the only safe thing out there...
The boys are cute, the girls to, the friends are lovely, the bullies have wonderful character development almost making us forget they are bullies... All put together you get, I get we get a pretty entertaining drama... A bit to cringey at times but over all highly entertaining and not so much more...
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Life and Death at its Fluffiest...
First this dram taught me how to say Cat in Japanese! Which is an achievement on its own.Second this drama had me laughing, crying, then laughing and crying at the same time which is a huge achievement and I love it for it.
Third this drama managed to convey people with illnesses, that are dying as actual human beings.. They then almost ruined that by talking about leaning stuff from the dead and having to live on for them.. but they also talked about moving on for one self so I forgive them...
Forth they actually let a person who was dying have a pretty normal romance...
Fifth fluffy cats.. and an occasional dog
Sixth UMBRELLAS used to perfection! ok not perfection it was a bit to gender coded.. and not yellow... but almost to perfection.
So basically this was actually a really good story... Painful, Powerful, strangely relatable... With vey lovable characters, living life to their fullest while facing death in a more human less judgey more realistic kind of way... Showing a person with a terminal illness wishing for other things than just a cure. As she truly is shown as a human being with both feelings and fears... and so on and so on. There is a lot of fun dialog in this drama, bed jokes (in a good way) and just life.. and death... and life....
Unfortunately there were some aspects of the male leads mimics/acting that did not really work for me in several of the episodes... as if he felt just a little bit to child like at times... which is one of the reasons this is not scored higher... that and a few unrealistic portrayals here and there + the whole use peoples death as motivation to do stuff...
Defiantly a drama I recommend, it is also highly bingable just make sure to have a sleeve and prepare to cry, not ugly cry but foggy eyes at the least... I actually shed a bunch of real tears.
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Secret Recording, Playful Puppy
The start of Off Gun is worth watching and is therefore about 90% of the reason I did not score this lower.The story itself is mostly sweet, boys do all in their power except for honesty (but who needs that in a drama) to save the club that saves the stray animals... Yes a lot of saving here....
Girl saviour (the only one who can save the club) is terrified of dog, but gets stalked of a fluffy puppy to the point of giving in... Girls best friend falls in love with fluffy puppies best friend and well that is pretty much it.
There are a lot of sweet scenes and playfulness thru out however the intrigues are predictable and not very well executed, the story lacks depth and very little of the drama makes any sense what so ever/ is under developed and rushed as the female lead has serous trust issues and the male lead is only good at stalking and pretty much nothing else.
But then we have Gun, oh my dear sweet Gun who makes this show worth while... He is fun, has good lines and is just his usual self. His dynamics with off are very familiar too... Though Off is not as much as a **** as he is in some of their other dramas...
Fluff: 9
Intrigues 2
Bingabilaty: 10
Acting:varies, some good some bad
So if you like fluffy animals, this will fill your need but twill not be enough to keep you, if you are a fan of any of the cast and love animals this is definitely a show worth watching... As for me I am off to watch season 2... or maybe not right away...
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Just stick to your smartphone...
It started off as a beautifully friendship... the type that goes beyond time and space... you know that type of friendship that may just change the future type of deal, bringing people back from the dead and all... Cute, sweet and all fluffy... with gummy bears, pastels as far as the eye can see .beautiful scenery and a dysfunctional family or two... if you overlook the locking people up and performing an exorcism or three...Had it not been a horror movie one would almost think it was as cute as cute can be... However this is a Thriller, Mystery, Horror, Schi fi... and boy does it live up to its name with gore. blood, suspense teaching us all never ever to take a call from the past... heck just stay away from all forms of old communication.
Things that did bother me: the killer portrayed as mentally ill... other then that it was really well made and had a decent plot. And though there may not be an appa as far as the eyes can see this movie proves once and for all that you can enjoy Korean content without them.
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Sweet, odd, very, very quiet...
A movie revolving around the hearing impaired without actually including hearing impaired leads.This was a pretty sweet rom-com about a hard working boy who falls in love with a heard working girl , and chases her only using sign language and his adorable charm.
The movie has a slightly odd angle to the subject of love beyond sound and about 95% of the dialog is shown using sign language even thought the main characters have pretty good hearing and can both use spoken words and sound, The two start off using sign language and do not really seem to need sound to fall in love. A pretty decent message as a whole, and I guess showing that hearing or non hearing should not matter is easier when there is a possibility of actually hearing and does give this movie a certain uniqueness.
What i liked about the movie was the way they showed the sibling relationship as well as both perks and troubles of being a sibling to a person with a disability. I also liked that the movie did not ignore prejudice and problems both mede by society and by the disability it self that can affect a persons day to day life without letting it take over the story or be the only side of it. I also liked that they did shoe that it is possible for the hearing to learn sign language and that it is possible to make a whole move using it instead of spoken language too.
But I was a bit bothered by the abele bodied being in focus for the story of the disabled. Even if the stories message as a whole is people with disabilities are human, they can be independent and competent human beings... something just does not really sit right.
All in all an okay movie, nothing wow but definitely different and the leads are sweethearts indeed.
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Annoying male lead otherwise great
This movie is really cute, it has a lot of good lines, a pretty good message and amazing acting from a very young Park Bo Young.The kid is just adorable but the male lead was a self centered annoying #"#"¤"¤"4 that got on my nerves more than necessary for the story to be good.
But oh what an adorable kid as a lead and kids in the kindergarten, spreading sunshine and smiles on the screen...
Park Bo Young shows great range here, she is a cool, outspoken, funny and delivers everything one could ask for, considering she was only 18 when this was released that is pretty cool, talking about pretty sensitive subjects as if it was the most natural thing in the world.
All in all a decent watch, and do stay for the credits, to see a nice finishing touch... and just so you know: "Single mothers have dreams too"
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Sweet, light but kind of a tease
You can almost feel the smell of coffee when you watch this easy to watch easy to binge C-drama with little drama and more fluff. About two people who bring out the best in each other and are would fit in the enciclopedia under the You complete me.... kind of thing yet border o co-dependent... The side couples and side stories are also sweet, but actually have more drama than the main couple however they an asset to the drama instead of an annoyance that many other side couples often are.The drama itself deals with some jealousy and how easy it is to start a rumor, yet hard to take it back as well as the consequences rumors can have on peoples lives. It has a fight back , friendships rock and together we can do anything kind of spirit to it that I liked. I also liked the woodwork and scenery shown in the drama.
However this drama probably holds some kind of record in almost kisses, and kisses being interrupted and not taken up in years of dating making me seriously wonder about these peoples will power to hold back, lack of hormones or just the generall message of kissing is shameful... I ave seen other dramas where they hide the kiss behind a parade and those where they never kiss and found it odd but fine, but this constant teasing was a tad frustrating to watch so I must warn you about that. Also the way they talk about mental illness is a bit iffy too, yet still try to show that we are all different but mental illness is used as a slur so be were
But other than that definitely worth watching.
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Sweet and funny
This is a sweet, not much new but perfect to binge drama if you like the whole idol + enemies in to lovers theme that I LOVE!I have been struggling s bit with my bingable self choosing short series or movies lately but this one was very easy to binge,
Most of the characters here are just so sweet, complex and loveable with some really fun friendships and snarky remarks (just my kind of humor). There was not one single character that was made in a way that annoyed me. Though they did bring out some of my inner anger and I do believe that one of the males toxicity was not properly addressed over all this drama let both leas and second leads where complex human being capable of feeling a range of emotions as well as making some bad decisions. The dynamics between the couples and their friends are great, so are the female leads parents. Oh how I love the female leads mom she is just cool, funny and lovable in every single way.
There where however a few invigorating choices towards the end that just felt unnecessary and brought down the total score for this otherwise really fun drama.
So all in all if you like watching dramas about enemies to lovers that deal with the harsh life of being a star this is definitely worth a watch.
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Depressing yet brilliant but really, really boring
This movie is a really feel bad, loose hope for society kind of movie. Yet is extremely depressing not only is the subject depressing but also the atmosphere the colors, the plot everything is just so very very sad and will actually make you mad.This movie shows several aspects to breaking down individuals with mental illness through lack of help, lack of understanding and having to deal with some pretty strong prejudges facing society and loved ones. It is truly painful to watch yet has some dark humor that made me laugh between the oooh so depressing scenes. Showing both the the lack of support from institutions, difficulties in finding work and being pointed out as a psycho who is dangerous by more or less everyone around him. Having people afraid of him warning their children to stay away from him. In all this the voice of reason comes from a kid who thinks we should change the surroundings instead of the person, I truly loved that kid.
The entertainment value of this drama is probably worth one star or two at most since it is truly boring 90% of the time, But the dark humor, the message, the acting the lack of sugarcoating and the way this is done is worth 10 stars so I settled on 8. But be were you are in for some truly boring scenens and probably this years (ok 2017s) feel bad movie of the year with a dash of madness... Its a mad world and damn that world will make you mad.
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