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Friendly Rivalry korean drama review
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Friendly Rivalry
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by koo
Apr 26, 2025
16 of 16 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 8.0
Story 9.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 2.5
Rewatch Value 5.0
This review may contain spoilers

Get ready to be hardcore queerbaited

This was originally promoted as a GL which is primarily why I was excited about starting this show in the first place. I mean I wasn’t surprised when I found out that they ended up censoring out most of the plot but it still felt so incredibly unfair that they hinted at a very clear queer relationship but then just abandoned it because of said censorship lol.

Korea, please stop taking GLs and turning them into straight passing shows.

Korea has been getting a lot more confident about making BLs but not GLs? Just straight up annoying and frustrating.

However, that aside, it was a really cool premise. Good plot and character development, I wish episodes were longer or if they kept the same duration of episodes but added more eps i would also be happy about that. Nevertheless, the actors did well and showed a lot of chemistry between each other but I can’t help but go back on my point about how queerbaiting this entire show was.

Atleast we got a kiss scene, but even that isn’t something to be happy about since it’s apparently a dream lol…but I guess i’ll take what i can get. Hopefully gls only progress from here on out.
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