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I thought she showed remarkable maturity for a girl in her early teens who went through all that (up to and including watching her father shot and killed right before her eyes). Resentful with good reason, but no over the top hysterics or bratty acting out.

I loved the ending. It had a very fitting conclusion to each character arc, which meant a mostly gray ending for very gray characters. I'm really glad they didn't try to tack on an artificial happy fairy tale ending that would not have fit this story.

This is purely subjective, but so far I would rate it below Head Over Heels, about on par with Melo Movie and Love Next Door, and above Nemesis and Love Scout.

I agree. This was good, but Reset was much better. Part of that was that Reset had a female lead who could not only actually act, but was given a complex interesting personality, to the point where she pretty much carried the show. I also think it helped that the plot was a lot tighter and more straight forward.

I think Mobius is a great show that more than deserves that 8.6 average rating (or higher). But the one really weak part is the minor romantic subplot, which is poorly developed, unconvincing, with little chemistry between the couple, and most of all, completely unnecessary. They should have just left it out. But since they didn't, my guess is that romance fans here on MDL voted the show down.

You need to check out her other stuff. She was really great in a supporting role in the recent Netflix series Glass Heart, but my favorite role of hers was as the lead and narrator in Falling High School Girl and Irresponsible Teacher (available on Viki).

I'm truly stunned at the low rating this movie has recieved here on MDL. While I guess it isn't for everyone, I thought it had an almost perfect genre bending combination of martial arts action, humor, and a certain grounded earnestness. Kensuke Sonomura is really making a name for himself as director of action flicks and lead actress Takaishi Akari only confirms the great impression I had of her from Glass Heart, Falling High School Girl, and the Baby Assassin movies and TV series. She's rapidly become one of my favorite current Japanese actresses. In general, this film well deserves the 96% critics score it has on Rotten Tomatoes.

Meanwhile, the rating on IMDb is a ridiculously high 9.2, though its bound to come down eventually. Wouldn't be the first time with a non-romantic kdrama that the ratings start low on MDL and high on IMDb, before meeting somewhere in the middle by the end of the series. Where you start worrying is when viewers ratings are really low everywhere (unless there are political reasons for this, like in the case of "Tempest" - where pissed off Iraquis and Chinese downvoted the show accross all boards, including even Rotten Tomatoes).

It's on Viki in my region

I used to be a big fan of hospital shows, going all the way back to American shows like ER. But you get tired of watching the same storylines over and over again, whatever language the show is in, and only finally watched this one because everyone was raving about it. Though Trauma Code is well made, the only somewhat unique thing about it is that the hero is not only a top surgeon but can also pilot helicopters, rappel down cliffs, handle a motorcyle like a motorcross professional, and is completely impervious to bombs and bullets, all the while smirking his superiority over everyone around him. I can understand why a lot of people liked the show, but it was a bit much for me.

This particular story was not left incomplete. Season 1 had a satisfactory ending with no real cliffhangers.

I thought the first two episodes were very very good. The first really pleasant surprise of the fall. I hope they keep this up for the rest of the season.

I'm intriguied. The critics are all raving about this movie (100% on Rotten Tomatoes) with many calling it the highlight of this year's TIFF. Lee Byung-Hun, Son Ye Jin, and Yeom Hye Ran are all getting high priase for giving Oscar worthy performances.

We definitely have different tastes. Nine of my Top 15 all time favorite k-dramas have been released since S1 of Squid Game. And while this does include series that premiered internationally on Viki (Twinkling Watermelon, My Dearest, Youth of May, and Lovely Runner), my list also includes recent Netflix and Disney+ originals (Moving, When Life Gives You Tangerines, My Name).

As for this year. So far I've watched several kdramas that I thought were quite good in addition to When Life Gives You Tangerines. These include: Our Unwritten Seoul, Our Movie, Study Group, Head Over Heels, Nine Puzzles, and Friendly Rivalry (in roughly that order). I have just started Bon Appetit, Your Majesty and so far so good.

My top Chinese shows for the year so far have been First Frost, Twelve Letters, and Reborn. None of this crop of Chinese historical shows have impressed me (with the highly touted Prisoner of Beauty particularly disappointing). I've ended up dropping most of them. I may give When Destiny Brings the Demon a chance just because I was so blown away by Wang Ying Lu's performance in Twelve Letters and wonder how she does in a historical drama.

Your arguement makes sense from your persepective. I just happend to disagree with two of your key assumptions. First, I think k-dramas produced from 2017-2018 onwards are on average superior to those produced in prior years. Almost all my top favorite all time k-dramas were released from 2018 onwards, including many 12 episode dramas and several that came out over the past 3 years. The other assumption is that Chinese dramas are better because they keep your attention for the equivalent of 30 or more hours of viewing. I've dropped far more Chinese series for becoming repetitive and dragging than I have Korean series. Furthermore, most of my favorite Chinese series were far shorter than 30 hours (Reset, Hidden Love, the First Frost, Twelve Letters, etc.). These are all proof that the Chinese are capable of producing shorter tightly written series that provide plenty of character development without storylines that meander all over the place. Too bad they don't do it more often.

Who Are You: School 2015 features female twins. I still think it was the best of the school series.

I hope so. To me its very simple. I've watched far more 16 episode (or more) kdramas that went downhill because they tried to tretch things out too long than 12 episode kdramas that felt rushed.

I watched it on a Philippines Airlines flight. It was one of the movies they had available. It was entertaining enough and probably deserves a higher rating.

This movie is currently available on United Airlines domestic and international flights. I thought it well worth watching even though its not really my favorite genre. I guess its a feminist movie of sorts, but it doesn't demonize the male characters. Relationship problems are shown to originate from both sides and are quite relatable even for non-Chinese viewers. It always helps when you have belivable well drawn interesting characters.

Personally, I thought the second season was significantly worse for every single one of those shows you list. This ranged from slighty worse (Taxi Driver, Yumi's Cells) to awful trainwreck worse (Sweet Home). The only non-medical k-drama that occurs to me in which the second season was significantly better was Missing: The Other Side