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This isn’t a good drama by any means. Poor production quality, poor acting, poor writing, poor music, poor costume design…you name it. But if you don’t think about it too much and you’ve got nothing else to watch, it’s okay as a filler.
Each episode is 10 minutes long, but the first minute is the intro, the last two minutes are the outro, and sometimes they repeat the end of the last episode at the beginning of the next, so the actual content is much shorter.
The acting was truly, truly bad. There wasn’t a single place where I felt immersed in the characters. I always felt like I was watching actors. The fake crying was especially bad.
The leads lacked chemistry as well. While the kisses and NC scenes were technically steamier than most, the leads were so unconvincing that that they fell completely flat. It didn’t feel like they were into each other, it didn’t feel passionate, the facial expressions were bad, and maybe it was the camera work, but the stimulated thrusting was so awkward that it would have been better if they just hadn’t bothered. It didn’t help that they kept putting bad porn music over those scenes. And for some reason, they only focused on Narvi’s face and not Sasin’s for most of the scenes — maybe because Sasin’s face was even more stiff and awkward than Narvi’s. I did like that the characters were written to both be active participants in all NC and kissing scenes, though.
At the beginning, there were several boundary violations on Sasin’s part. He touches Narvi in his sleep, appears in the shower when Narvi is unaware, violates the “stay off the bed” rule, cuddles Narvi to help him sleep (invisibly, so Narvi doesn’t know) after Narvi explicitly says he doesn’t want to. He also tries to kiss Narvi, but at least he backs off when Narvi jerks away.
The writing was all over the place. Really cringy in some places, overly cheesy in others, and completely lost the plot in even other places.
There are a bunch of scenes where some “enemy from the past life” is trying to attack and kill Narvi and Sasin protects him. It’s never explained who this is or why they’re after Narvi. They’re never defeated and they never appear again after they serve their purpose of making Narvi trust and fall for Sasin.
There’s a scene where Narvi gets mad at Sasin and tells him to go away. But then he regrets it and tries to get him to come back. We can see that Sasin hears and sees all of Narvi’s attempts, but for whatever reason he doesn’t show himself to Narvi even when he’s begging and crying. He does creepily appear at night and touch his face and kiss his forehead though. What was the reason for that? There was no explanation given.
The ending also made zero sense. Sasin had appeared on Halloween because he made a deal to appear at a certain moon phase, and then disappeared when the moon moved out of that phase. Who did he make that deal with in the first place? And then Sasin appears again the next Halloween…as a human, reincarnated, but fully adult and with all his past life and ghost memories. What? There’s zero explanation given as to how that was possible.
Smaller issues: There was a scene where a character went to the bathroom and they put fart noises as background sounds. Gross. Sasin is a ghost but he can wear human clothes and eat human food and somehow can find winning lottery tickets. There are a bunch of shower scenes and no soap used in a single one.
From a costume design perspective, all the outfits were horrendous. The modern day ones especially were truly awful. They had Sasin change from his historical outfit to a modern day one and I think it would have fit with the whole ghost concept more if he had stuck to the historical one.
The OST also had this rap part that did not at all suit the scenes it was overlayed over, and completely killed the mood. You know it’s bad because I usually don’t even notice OSTs.
Each episode is 10 minutes long, but the first minute is the intro, the last two minutes are the outro, and sometimes they repeat the end of the last episode at the beginning of the next, so the actual content is much shorter.
The acting was truly, truly bad. There wasn’t a single place where I felt immersed in the characters. I always felt like I was watching actors. The fake crying was especially bad.
The leads lacked chemistry as well. While the kisses and NC scenes were technically steamier than most, the leads were so unconvincing that that they fell completely flat. It didn’t feel like they were into each other, it didn’t feel passionate, the facial expressions were bad, and maybe it was the camera work, but the stimulated thrusting was so awkward that it would have been better if they just hadn’t bothered. It didn’t help that they kept putting bad porn music over those scenes. And for some reason, they only focused on Narvi’s face and not Sasin’s for most of the scenes — maybe because Sasin’s face was even more stiff and awkward than Narvi’s. I did like that the characters were written to both be active participants in all NC and kissing scenes, though.
At the beginning, there were several boundary violations on Sasin’s part. He touches Narvi in his sleep, appears in the shower when Narvi is unaware, violates the “stay off the bed” rule, cuddles Narvi to help him sleep (invisibly, so Narvi doesn’t know) after Narvi explicitly says he doesn’t want to. He also tries to kiss Narvi, but at least he backs off when Narvi jerks away.
The writing was all over the place. Really cringy in some places, overly cheesy in others, and completely lost the plot in even other places.
There are a bunch of scenes where some “enemy from the past life” is trying to attack and kill Narvi and Sasin protects him. It’s never explained who this is or why they’re after Narvi. They’re never defeated and they never appear again after they serve their purpose of making Narvi trust and fall for Sasin.
There’s a scene where Narvi gets mad at Sasin and tells him to go away. But then he regrets it and tries to get him to come back. We can see that Sasin hears and sees all of Narvi’s attempts, but for whatever reason he doesn’t show himself to Narvi even when he’s begging and crying. He does creepily appear at night and touch his face and kiss his forehead though. What was the reason for that? There was no explanation given.
The ending also made zero sense. Sasin had appeared on Halloween because he made a deal to appear at a certain moon phase, and then disappeared when the moon moved out of that phase. Who did he make that deal with in the first place? And then Sasin appears again the next Halloween…as a human, reincarnated, but fully adult and with all his past life and ghost memories. What? There’s zero explanation given as to how that was possible.
Smaller issues: There was a scene where a character went to the bathroom and they put fart noises as background sounds. Gross. Sasin is a ghost but he can wear human clothes and eat human food and somehow can find winning lottery tickets. There are a bunch of shower scenes and no soap used in a single one.
From a costume design perspective, all the outfits were horrendous. The modern day ones especially were truly awful. They had Sasin change from his historical outfit to a modern day one and I think it would have fit with the whole ghost concept more if he had stuck to the historical one.
The OST also had this rap part that did not at all suit the scenes it was overlayed over, and completely killed the mood. You know it’s bad because I usually don’t even notice OSTs.
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