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even if a super star like Lay freaks out about not being "perfect", then so can I -not be perfect I mean, not the freaking out part xD
this show also makes me want to continue "learning" and challenge myself to do things out of my comfort zone.
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I loved how Xiumin just chose to show his private life like that. he showed his 1st new apartment, his 1st housewarming party with the members, and his normal hangouts with his friends, and his adventures with his childhood friends. and that just highlights the type of person he is, sweet and down to earth with a close knitted friendship.
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Worst writer of 2022
This is one of those cases, the writer only has the synopsis and nothing else so they use the forbidden book. Also, enemies to lovers is better for dramaland cuz sweet fl meets sweet ml and they don't play games, so they get together fast, and "breakup" or get thrown in a mess of we can't talk right now...The story of a girl who worked at the funeral home that could see the ghosts in their final moment and grants them 1 wish
She had X amount ppl to deal with, some wanted small revenge, some wanted a message or a gift delivered. Sounds interesting right?
And it was until the writer stopped using that and instead went to the "sht my characters got together too fast, bring in the ex" honestly atleast 3 or 4 eps were wasted on the ex and her nagging.. and her mom...
Then the writer not only had the most basic past trauma, which was the exact copy of love is for suckers, but she made the three leads share the same traumq and worse, made 2nd lead a psycho..
And that took 3 more eps until poof, 2nd lead feels remorse and regrets it..... oh whoops, I didn't help a dying kid cuz I wanted a better life.. and I blamed my brother for it. And I tried to kill fl, omg I never wanted to be like my dad TT
And the last straw that black listed this writer... SHE MURDERED FLS DAD! the sweetest dad in dramaland, the most harmless dude... and how? By reusing another pregnant lady.. like where was her husband? Why kill the security guard/dad... why leave the house if you're not smart enough to not get near a movers truck..
Sure I knew with the countdown someone important had to die, which is another cheap mistake. But a big accident with multiple ppl would've been tragic enough
Maybe the itaewon tragedy made the writer change things but I doubt it. The story was laid out from the start. The writer obv used the "cliche kdrama guide for dummy writers" but things moved as planned
Cuz no drama makes the fls dad meet and like the ml unless what? They wanna murder the dad
Like there were 2 uncles they could've taken.. the fl was already momless.... just a few tears and she moves on for her happiness with the ml...
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What will happen, What will happen, that’s what happened?It’s super cheesy, just another bullying drama with crazy ppl that kill
The highschoolers focus ruined the first two eps, then the teachers ruined ep3-4 and the last two eps just went full on anime
I mean everything would’ve “been the same” even without the glasses/the slines
People find out about adultery, pedos and cheaters, and murder can be the after effect so this “special” vision isn’t that interesting
But to add some substance, cuz yeah you see a cheater what will you do? Leave like a normal person or do you do something crazy crazy
So they kept throwing any crazy connection and psychopathness
is it a twist? the wife is not the wife but the mistress xD
I mean the "real wife" is like 20 years younger than him, but his mistress has a 5 year old kid? while he gives his og wife the gifts and side times.. it doesn't make sense
and the 4th ep was just a rapist, raping a dying man. that's disgusting ;/ again, the lines mean nothing, a psycho is always a pyscho
The kids in ep5, they didn’t know about the lines, so to make that scheme to rape someone without touching them…
And honestly the ml was super mean there, doubting the girl instead of wondering if there were more rapists
And dahee turning into a, what was she, a being of “hate the connection”? Or hate human nature? Cuz I mean non of them reacted like a human
And the glasses did make them act uncharacteristically too, so is it even “human nature” that’s the problem
Tbh, why don’t they recognize the glasses? they're people in the same facility, and two I’d get a person seeing the lines, but the glasses? what are they made out of the pupil of someone who could see the lines? lol the answer was even worse than I expected
Honestly the ending was so disappointing, everything was so nonsensical
They kept adding ridiculous twisted twists and then they added super weird reasoning and then it was over
People made up their own theories, I didn’t read or think of them, because that’s a fun on its own and this didn’t deserve that much thought
It was really a simple “someone random sees the line cuz the goddess of the lines(?) wanted them to and she had to fuel enough energy to make the whole world see it”
Anyways again, the lore of the lines didn’t matter cuz it is a fictional “power”, but the behavior of the people was so over angsty and overblown, the problem wasn’t the lines but the few people that cheated, raped, and killed
I watched this cuz it was short, and cuz of the cast but they didn’t really do anything to reach their potential and if I don’t remember an ost, I consider it a loss rating
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i was kinder to the og butAny shortcoming here is a reflection of the og and Two brothers that aren’t twins grow up to look exactly the same
Basically, one adult stole a teens life
Another asked her to basically disappear and have his love interest back
Sure they wanted to save her life, but would they if they knew her death was the reason they met?
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I personally prefer crime scene and the great escape more as a theme, here it's like a stiff improve acting class and the line between drama and variety shows blurslike the ending credit with their real goofey self was way better but this too was a new sort of theme so I did still like it, though I have to say their villains were the most obvious people xD
I especially like how sehun, sejung and minyoung were in this since they're not the usual faces seen around in varieties and it was really great to see them solve cases and show their smartness
I really want to see minyoung and song jihyo act as villains tbh, I feel like they can pull off the deadly assassin character welll
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the story was slightly more biased on the male lead, it was his story, his family, his survive story, BUT they gave the female lead the screen time and development she deserved.
there were times she'd put his wounds/worries 1st, but then as a realistic person, she'd still feel overwhelmed and slightly selfish. plus Im Yoon Ah's crying face was comedy GOLD! and adorable too! I think I liked her in The King in Love, but this made me love her❤
I didn't like Yong Nam's slight tantrums, but it did add to his character xD
I loved the family in this, the story shows Yong Nam as a jobless "loser", and he felt disconnected from his "perfect" family with their perfect husbands and perfect children but the 1st moment he was in danger the worry and fear from his family was heartwarming..
especially the dad made me tear up ^^ tbh I'm deducting 0.5 from the plot because I wanted more! I wanted them to show an ending scene where Yong Nam and Eui Joo around his family laughing and having fun!
the flow of the story was nice, it had suspense and desperation without losing hope, and tbh there were times I thought they'd die, even though in most movies the heroes don't die..
I also really loved how they used technology in this movie! we are in a digital world, and everyone has a phone, so it was the small touches like the phones ringing in the street as a sign of people looking for their loved ones becasue there are other people effected in this beside the 2 mains. also the drones, the mukbangs, the sns and the whole community behind it was really well represented.
the ost and audio were nice and I never rewatch stuff, but I will recommend this to my friends~
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Jung Yup is unlike the usual "heroes" in a story like this, he was sloppy, he was worried about his own life, at 1st he didn't think about the kids but just his job, so that kinda gave it a nice approach. he wasn't a hotshot smart capable lawyer everyone listened to.he was so sloppy he was the easiest adult the kids could approach ;(
everyone thinks "it's non of my business" or "someone else will interfere" and honestly that's the most heartbreaking part ;(
I thought if child services got involved they'd have the full authority to take the kids away from abusive parents.. if neighbors don't talk, if cops can't arrest abusers, if there's no punishment by law, then who protects those kids!
at the end of the movie they wrote "usually they get off with a warning or a fine", so unless kids DIE, NO ONE helps them!
and honestly only 16 years.. how was that ruled accidental death? it wasn't planned murder, but an adult hitting a 6 year old that severely is a murderer!
if dabinie was younger she'd have died too, her parents were worst than serial killers.. I'm glad they didn't charge Jung Yup with kidnapping ;(
it makes you wonder though, they found evidence, they got lucky, but what if they couldn't prove it? "she's lying", "there's no eyewitnesses", or even worse if the parents were rich or with a psychopathic lawyer, they'd have walked free..
I wish they showed the neighbors stepping in, or anything to say those people were responsible too. sure cops wouldn't do anything, but atleast just call...
what a cruel world we live in.. even if we see parents spanking their kids in public or yell at them we think "it's their kid, we can't do anything"
when I read the synopsis, and saw how her brother was supposedly a "ill-mannered" kid, I thought the sister was going to kill him so the step mom stops getting angry, tbh that'd have been scarier/more heartbreaking.
so even if this was based on a true story, it has been done before but it still made me cry. the directing though felt off.
I wonder what happened though, was she adopted by the lawyer? by his sister? or was she in an orphanage?
oh yeah, Jang Ho was such a charming little boy and a total scene stealer. he looked like any other happy kid but he was really caring, he worried for dabin and he was a big help in everything! such a precious baby!
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this was pure happiness delight~ exo eating, laughing and having fun! I wish they'd do more things like this, even if some of the members are gone to the army..
they could even go on trips in groups of 2, the cc part was a good way to focus on the 2 members..
overall it's like 10 full 1 hour eps so it's easy to rewatch again as well~
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one of the best 2019 drama
I think people (including me) started expecting more of this drama because it was something new and never seen before. The promise of the story itself opened so many options about how the drama was going to unfold, and as I started theorizing, it kinda made me disappointed when they didn't happen. (this also happens to me when I watch crime dramas that hide their main criminal, I start expecting something that's just basically "my version of a story".)Basically that's why I tried to minimize MY writing/interpretation of this drama and I just tried to watch the drama's version of events. that became harder when the drama started it's last chapter, mainly because I'm an overanalyzer and things were too clear that I even fell for the writer's trap at one point xD
IF I wrote this drama I would've done it differently, but that doesn't mean the original writer's version was bad. this also goes for the characters, but seeing the end made me accept that "this" danoh, "this" haru and "this" school were made for "this" story.
I don't want to make this review long, though this might be my longest review to date, and I don't want to add spoilers, so I'll try to summarize the next part ;)
the acting were really perfect for "this" story, I already knew most of these young actors, and I'll keep an eye out for their next projects ;)
for the OST, I have to say I really loved how each character had their own little theme song, I need to find A3's song and make it my ringtone xD
my rewatch values are either a 1 or 10, and now that I've seen the ending I really want to watch the drama with a different view point ;)
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I should've dropped
I thought maybe I'm too old for highschool dramas now, but things like school spirit, pyramid games, or many other new highschool themes were passable and some even fully enjoyablethe overall fighting theme and accidentally getting into fights and being good, everything was just cheesy and too childish
the ml was able to pass cuz his character was a frozen faced spaced out type, but I've seen and dropped a few of his other dramas and he's always like that ;D
i even finished it but now that I'm writing a review after a month, I remember nothing
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the whole drama was built on 7 years of misunderstandings and miscommunication that by the last ep everyone was crying "I'm sorry I didn't say it before" and it was over ;/
their 1st meeting he was walking around with a bag of underwear (becasue he's a ceo in an underwear company) and the fl thought "omg pervert" ;/
what I hated the worse was how dumb they made the fl be like "omg you have a twin that sounds just like you" because the ml wore suits at work and sweats at home ;/
and it got worse when the ml thought that dumb conclusion made the fl "pure" and he liked her more for it ;/
then they added the 2nd guy and his pathetic love line built on -you guessed it- misunderstandings. he didn't hear the girl and he went on a one man pity party until later he found out he was wrong ;/
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That said, it was also best to let it be a drama instead because as a movie it was too linear
But it was exactly what I needed, no angst, no hate, no rivalry, no love triangle, no betrayals, no conflict
Just easy breezy love, love for friends, love for dance, love for family, and a love of youth
Even the teachers were cute
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like they put luxury aquariums for num1 and a flying restaurant for num2 but they were just meh. and so I think the show's weak point is hoping for extreme concepts people would think "that doesn't exist" while it seems many actual businesses keep it calm if not a little overboard
just like the great escape the production companies need to keep and sell their businesses xD like the idea of building something from scratch in a few weeks is not that crazy if they just hire an architectural company and give them enough money so they work fast xD
overall though the dynamics were really fresh, variety shows are rarely female based and yu jae suk is the ideal guy to not only handle their jokes but also help them shine more. that's why yu jae suk is the national mc, he's really sweet and caring. I really hope for s2 with the same cast
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and two, I don't know what they teach to all korean writers but they cannot explain their plot in less than 16 eps and they need 100 side plots to distract people from the main plot, so in this it felt like they had a 16ep plan that got reduced and they just picked random events fit the drama.
I'll cut this into 2 story points too,
one is the main plot around the fl and the ml which was ok, they explained well why she used toys and they even gave her a nice solid base that didn't feel flat. she had a past and she didn't just "start" when the drama began, most stories do that they give us a written back story and the main character starts from point 0 when the drama starts so they are as clueless as the viewers -which might have it's charming points but it's over done.
she had friends and a life around her and I really liked her arc with the friend though again like everything else in the drama it was not used well. also she cried weirdly alot, they literally had her flop down like a 5 year old and cry ;)
on the other hand the ml felt flat, he didn't have much base and he just felt like he suddenly manifestation for the fl's story. he didn't have much characteristics, friends or a life outside the fl..
and the other part is the kids..
I feel like they were the weirdest thing, their stories were weird, their actions were weird that they felt exactly like the jellies, they were floating around with their plot moves as if they too only existed for the fl's arc
my favorite part and character was Mr. Mackenzie, not because I'm biased with yooteo, but his character added conflict, mystery and depth to the story. though I think he just disappeared, I didn't pay too much attention to the last two eps..
for acting I think both mains did a better job than their previews works, Jung Yoo Mi was less awkward than her character in live and Nam Joo Hyuk finally broke away from the teen roles they forced him on, he really felt like a nice grownup.
the music was as weird as the flavor of this drama but it was nice and I never rewatch stuff.
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