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Definitely going to watch it. I just like watching from official channels whenever possible. I want to support the artists however I can so if my view can count, I'd prefer that

no, that's why my assumption was it wasn't official lol. I just searched in YT Love design and found it

So dumb and annoying really. It always aired on Ch3 first, then became available on YT after. I don't know why they felt the need to wait a week for the last episode

TLDR, No it's not a masterpiece, but it's way better than most of the GLs that came out this year.

I don't think this was "The greatest show ever" but compared to a lot of other GLs I've watched this year, it was really well done imo. I'll use your 4 points.

1 Acting... Yes, the acting was a little lacking, but it's actually the very first credit of 2 of the mains, the only one with prior experience is the one you didn't have a problem with. Shelly and Pundao were good enough to be believable, and have the talent to become great with experience.

2 Chemistry... ShellyPundao chemistry is OUTSTANDING. They have some of the best chemistry out of all the love teams. There's more famous couples that have less chemistry together than them. Even with Neko, Shelly has good sister chemistry with her and Pundao has good chemistry with her. I could easily see Pundao and Neko being a love team if Shelly wasn't in the picture.

3 Storytelling.... I really like this story and didn't notice any major discrepancies. I didn't read the novel, but haven't seen any "This isn't like the novel!!!" posts, so I'm assuming it was pretty true to the source material. The story was pretty consistent pacing and plot wise all throughout, so I don't see how there is an issue here. Someone can not like the story, but it doesn't mean they didn't do a good job with the storytelling.

4 Production... The production was well above average for the GLs that I've seen this year. It absolutely wasn't perfect, and yeah there were a lot of slomo scenes, but there was way less than some other shows. There also weren't any glaring continuity errors or ridiculously extreme edits, lighting, etc that I could see.

And I dont give a shit about any awards shows. I've never seen or even looked at the winners of Thai ones, but in America, it's not just the People's Choice awards that are popularity contests. Grammys, Oscars, Emmys, all of them are popularity contests and mean nothing, the only difference between them is who it's popular with. There's movies that only 1 in 10 people have seen, and that one person usually thinks it was meh at best but it wins a ridiculous amount of awards because it checks all the boxes for the judges of that award show. I don't think awards mean as much to the general populace as they used to. Real life audience ratings and reviews are held to a higher standard than critics anymore

I see that ep 1 is on YT, but id doesn't look like the official channel? Is it officially on YT or no?

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I'm watching something else on it right now, so it's up

I love it when people like Mai's attitude and promiscuity come back to bite them. It's the first step in them actually changing and tbh, she deserves to be hurt by Fon at least a little bit after all the times she hurt Fon. I think once they become serious though, they are gonna be cute af together. I see them being just as clingy as Rey and Print, but with a more mature and serious vibe surrounding their clinginess.

And my God can Linn wear a suit. She looks hot as hell in that suit

"Usually, people vote at the end of the drama." --@scarfie

Exactly this. I never rate anything until I either finish or drop a show. Either way, it's rated when I'm done with the show. And I'm sure I'm not alone in this, I know a lot of people that do the same thing.

The rating is literally just an average of all the ratings given to the show, so when you saw the 7.7 rating, there was probably only 100-200 ratings and you saw it at a time where the haters of one (or more) of the mains came and rating bombed. Now that there's over 1000 ratings and has been airing for a while, it is going to start to flatline into a more realistic rating. Realistically most shows, especially ones with major names like Lusi, only 50-60% of the reviews are real. There's always going to be the haters that give anything she does a 1 even if it's a masterpiece, and the diehards that will give anything she does a 10, even if it's utter trash. There's usually 20-25% on each side of the spectrum.

That doesn't apply only to MDL, or even dramas, that's just ratings in a nutshell

I think the reason it gets overlooked is because while it's true that they had to play both personalities, Arhoung has only played Rey and Pam Print for like 5-10 minutes each and a lot of that was time where their personalities weren't really playing out all that much. They both did amazing as both personalities, but is was such a short amount of the screen time that it's easy to overlook.

I'm more interested, and think it will become a more talked about topic, when they switch back and we have have them in their own bodies for a longer amount of screen time

I was also super confused in the first couple episodes. It was jumping to different timelines a lot and none of the timelines really had a stopping point imo before it moved onto another one. I think it started to even out a bit more in ep 4 though, it was at least noticeable and a point was completed before each jump

Watching episode 4 rn and a few things.....

1) Zhao Lusi honestly looks like a high schooler in the HS scenes, it's actually kind of shocking how young they were able to make her look.

2) Grandma looks like she's the same age as Yan's parents. It's kind of hard for me to believe that she is either of their mother

3) Parents like hers are absolutely disgusting. It's sad and horrible that there's actually people in the world that have/had to be raised in that type of environment where the only thing that keeps you going is the hope for just a crumb of affection or even acknowledgement from your parents. I really can't wrap my head around being that indifferent to your own child

4) The way her parents are in the present, acting like she's the problem because she doesn't come around and is "unfilial." How can you possibly expect anything from your grown kid if you tried your hardest to ignore their existence while they were growing up? That scene where he literally forgot she existed and only took Lin out of the gas, then both parents fawning over Lin at the hospital while all she could do was watch was literally heartbreaking

Yeah, that was definitely someone just googling "Chinese restaurant near Berkley" lol

I think it will be his kid. That's becoming a lot more common then it used to be in dramas. There's still definitely a lot of "it's actually my niece" at the 2/3 or beyond point, but off the top of my head I can think of 3 recent-ish dramas that had a single father and it was his bio kid.

I'm actually happy they are making that more common

I just started this, but did they honestly try and act like PF Changs is authentic Chinese? Lmao. It's a decent restaurant, but there's no way it's actually authentic, it's as Americanized as a Chinese restaurant can get

I think it's possible, but not likely. Assuming her character is the same age as her, she would have been about 20 when her mom died.

I won't rule out that she killed her mom, but I think if she was going to, she would have done it before she got married just to make it easier and have less potential problems, like the chairman surviving.

assisted suicide like euthanasia and mercy killings is super illegal in SK too. One of the cases in BTB was about where the husband was in legal trouble because he helped his wife die in Switzerland and the courts in SK still recognized it in SK even though it didn't happen there

I agree, but it does go both ways. There's the people that complain that a show with a Romance tag has romance in it, then there's the people that complain a show without the Romance tag doesn't have a romance in it. If it's labelled as one of the genres, it's going to be in the show. If it's not labelled as a genre, don't expect it. In either of these situations, you're only going to upset yourself. Look at the genres they announce and assume those are the only types of plots you're going to see in the show

I really hope not. The lawyer seems very loyal so i cant see it being him and Joo Hyun Young is always the lovable goofy sidekick of the FL so I hope she stays that way. If anyone does switch though, i think it'll be her over the lawyer

I don't think so. She doesn't seem to have any ambition like that. My guess is it's going to be something like what happened in Perfect Marriage Revenge. She will be the majority shareholder, but either she or the lawyer will hire a management specialist to run and control the company. She'll still have a say obviously, but won't have any part of the day to day other than collecting dividends