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Catching theme broken by bad production
OK so I was very hyped to watch this show, mainly because of FirstKhao and the premise itself looked quite fun and interesting. I feel like all the signs were there midway that the show just wasn’t going to get progressively better. I’m trying my best not to sound like a hater, I was eagerly waiting each week for a new episode and it was very fun to watch but at some point my adrenaline ran out and I kind of started seeing the boring parts of the show. This review is on the harsher side just because I wanted to outline some negatives I found in the show. Idk what to write for positives like…”that was quite nice” moving on😭😭😭
I was rlly excited in the first half of the show, but for the other half I just sort of had this constant zoning out feeling when watching (I’m sorry I don’t know how else to explain it 😭). The show is turning off my braincells idk what’s happening anymore.
Ending: I was honestly so confused in the last few eps….I literally lost the plot HAHAHAHA.
Ok so one more thing, this is completely my own opinion but I do not think that the comedy of the show mixed well with the supposedly suspenseful theme. Ok so let me unpack that. The comedy I don’t mind, I think it adds a nice touch to the show and if you want to turn your brain off completely and just enjoy the for the laughs then don’t finish reading this section :D. Especially in the later episodes I saw more serious themes trying to be presented but I couldn’t properly feel that darker vibe because the aloof comedy outshined it (mainly in the joongdunk scenes but I could feel it in the rest of the show too). So overall the times sort of clashed, so again im not saying there should be no comedy but rather I don’t like how the serious themes were presented amidst the comedy.
Ok so the most debated topic for this drama for very well known reasons. It’s like I’m waiting two entirely different categories under one umbrella. So as we all might have noticed, Dunk is very much “disliked” by some for his acting. I have to just say bluntly that I’m not a JoongDunk fan, in the sense that I have never watched any of their shows nor really searched them up for any other reason. They just sort of weren’t there in my mind, so going into this series I fr did not know what to expect (so I didn’t lol). The first few episodes I was just interested in the plot and comedy to really start analysing everyone’s acting, but at a certain point I started seeing many comments about Dunk and yes off I noticed that his acting is not the best per se. Thankfully in this case it wasn’t really a disaster in my case cause his character was aloof and carefree so I did not even notice anything with him in the first few eps. As the theme got a bit darker and more serious he did start standing out more but yea I have not seen any of his other shows so I have nothing to compare to other than the rest of the cast but many do say that his acting has improved so I will trust y’all on that. I just don’t rlly like how he dealt with the more serious scenes.
Guys I am not shitting on any JoongDunk lovers we can all love the ships that we want to, I won’t object. Just for me personally they aren’t the brightest cookies for my liking, so my view of them in THK was a bit, how do I say this…I did not think much of them. Yes they were funny but nothing spiked me as wow. Pls no one come for me Joong is rlly hot I don’t hate either of them.
Ok so moving onto FirstKhao…yea well I just wasn’t worried for their acting because I knew they were going to do an amazing job they pretty much always do. I rlly love them and I think many came into this series for those two (I did too haha). I only want to say one thing, I rlly don’t think it was them cause it looked more like a filming and production thing but there were just a few scenes which felt a few seconds too dragged on where First and Khao were kinda just staring at each other awkwardly. Idk if anyone else noticed this tbh idk why I did but it stood out to me, I was kinda just sitting there there like 👁️👄👁️ “uum ok…” And overall FirstKhao’s acting sort of outshined the intensity of the scene (I’ll get to that in the production section that I added of the purpose of this review).
OK I can shit on other things as much as I want but the soundtrack was done AMAZINGLY. I’ve seen a pattern of really good music being presented in the latest BL series. The first show that made me really wow at the score was Not Me, I gotta say after the music in that show I was simply not the same being. Yea so music means a lot to me as a person so a good soundtrack drop me to my feet and make me ascend. And well this show had a good selection I must say. A lot of songs added to m Spotify after the last few months HAHAHA. But sadly for me this wasn’t enough
Overall: Production quality:
Sighhh… welp. I’m not very happy. Not mad or anything just kind of indifferent. I think that the plot had much more potential than what the end result came out to be. My thoughts on this might overlap a bit with what I wrote about the plot but yes, the events and scenes did start getting a bit repetitive that I sort sort of felt like I was watching the same episodes but in different fonts. I suck at putting my feelings onto paper so the best I can explain it is that the start was quite impactful
Maybe the problem partially lies in building...bob the builder rlly has is work cut out for him but jokes aside going back to there being potential comment; the story, characters and world building was not done extremely well in my opinion. I couldn’t fully sympathise with any of the characters well enough because there just wasn’t enough backstory to them. There was just a lack of depth on many things, I would have liked the story to be more coherent.
I mean idk if I would rewatch it tbh, the show wasn’t that memorable for me but It was funny and lighthearted at times so I could see why people would come back to it.
I don’t think I’m ready to be giving this lower than an 8 so I will leave it at that rating. Also guys I’m not very good with words and have only written a few reviews so my apologies if something doesn’t make sense. Anyway this was still very fun to watch a lovely day cuties <3
I was rlly excited in the first half of the show, but for the other half I just sort of had this constant zoning out feeling when watching (I’m sorry I don’t know how else to explain it 😭). The show is turning off my braincells idk what’s happening anymore.
Ending: I was honestly so confused in the last few eps….I literally lost the plot HAHAHAHA.
Ok so one more thing, this is completely my own opinion but I do not think that the comedy of the show mixed well with the supposedly suspenseful theme. Ok so let me unpack that. The comedy I don’t mind, I think it adds a nice touch to the show and if you want to turn your brain off completely and just enjoy the for the laughs then don’t finish reading this section :D. Especially in the later episodes I saw more serious themes trying to be presented but I couldn’t properly feel that darker vibe because the aloof comedy outshined it (mainly in the joongdunk scenes but I could feel it in the rest of the show too). So overall the times sort of clashed, so again im not saying there should be no comedy but rather I don’t like how the serious themes were presented amidst the comedy.
Ok so the most debated topic for this drama for very well known reasons. It’s like I’m waiting two entirely different categories under one umbrella. So as we all might have noticed, Dunk is very much “disliked” by some for his acting. I have to just say bluntly that I’m not a JoongDunk fan, in the sense that I have never watched any of their shows nor really searched them up for any other reason. They just sort of weren’t there in my mind, so going into this series I fr did not know what to expect (so I didn’t lol). The first few episodes I was just interested in the plot and comedy to really start analysing everyone’s acting, but at a certain point I started seeing many comments about Dunk and yes off I noticed that his acting is not the best per se. Thankfully in this case it wasn’t really a disaster in my case cause his character was aloof and carefree so I did not even notice anything with him in the first few eps. As the theme got a bit darker and more serious he did start standing out more but yea I have not seen any of his other shows so I have nothing to compare to other than the rest of the cast but many do say that his acting has improved so I will trust y’all on that. I just don’t rlly like how he dealt with the more serious scenes.
Guys I am not shitting on any JoongDunk lovers we can all love the ships that we want to, I won’t object. Just for me personally they aren’t the brightest cookies for my liking, so my view of them in THK was a bit, how do I say this…I did not think much of them. Yes they were funny but nothing spiked me as wow. Pls no one come for me Joong is rlly hot I don’t hate either of them.
Ok so moving onto FirstKhao…yea well I just wasn’t worried for their acting because I knew they were going to do an amazing job they pretty much always do. I rlly love them and I think many came into this series for those two (I did too haha). I only want to say one thing, I rlly don’t think it was them cause it looked more like a filming and production thing but there were just a few scenes which felt a few seconds too dragged on where First and Khao were kinda just staring at each other awkwardly. Idk if anyone else noticed this tbh idk why I did but it stood out to me, I was kinda just sitting there there like 👁️👄👁️ “uum ok…” And overall FirstKhao’s acting sort of outshined the intensity of the scene (I’ll get to that in the production section that I added of the purpose of this review).
OK I can shit on other things as much as I want but the soundtrack was done AMAZINGLY. I’ve seen a pattern of really good music being presented in the latest BL series. The first show that made me really wow at the score was Not Me, I gotta say after the music in that show I was simply not the same being. Yea so music means a lot to me as a person so a good soundtrack drop me to my feet and make me ascend. And well this show had a good selection I must say. A lot of songs added to m Spotify after the last few months HAHAHA. But sadly for me this wasn’t enough
Overall: Production quality:
Sighhh… welp. I’m not very happy. Not mad or anything just kind of indifferent. I think that the plot had much more potential than what the end result came out to be. My thoughts on this might overlap a bit with what I wrote about the plot but yes, the events and scenes did start getting a bit repetitive that I sort sort of felt like I was watching the same episodes but in different fonts. I suck at putting my feelings onto paper so the best I can explain it is that the start was quite impactful
Maybe the problem partially lies in building...bob the builder rlly has is work cut out for him but jokes aside going back to there being potential comment; the story, characters and world building was not done extremely well in my opinion. I couldn’t fully sympathise with any of the characters well enough because there just wasn’t enough backstory to them. There was just a lack of depth on many things, I would have liked the story to be more coherent.
I mean idk if I would rewatch it tbh, the show wasn’t that memorable for me but It was funny and lighthearted at times so I could see why people would come back to it.
I don’t think I’m ready to be giving this lower than an 8 so I will leave it at that rating. Also guys I’m not very good with words and have only written a few reviews so my apologies if something doesn’t make sense. Anyway this was still very fun to watch a lovely day cuties <3
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