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This is the sleeper hit of the year for me!
This show is so endearing & speaks to my personal experiences dealing with working out and relationships.The FL’s story comes full circle, from waiting for men to ending up with a guy who waits for her. Not a single female character is portrayed with clichés or vilified in any way. There are times when the show hints at usual K-drama tropes (like jealous coworker or competing ex), but they all turn out to be strong, empowering women in my view. Even the side characters' stories are layered with positive outcomes.
And the ML’s new gym is a product of his hard work for a year, the show doesn’t give him an easy way to make money to open it. He’s the definition of a Himbo, like Jason from The Good Place: funny, puppy-like, and a little airheaded.
The show displays a healthy, mature advocacy for wellness and physical self-love. Watching it actually motivated me to start going to the gym and see exercise as fun rather than just to lose weight, which I believe was the main message. It totally worked for me.
The humor is silly (exactly my type), but I get why some might call it cringe: maybe because it’s written for and acted by people in (or reaching) their 30s. But since I’m exactly in that demographic, I loved the dad jokes. Even the FL’s boss cracked me up every episode. 🤣
Finally, Jung Eun-ji and Lee Jun-young are two of the hardest-working people in K-biz, yet they’re not as popular as their peers. You can tell everyone had fun making this show, and with bigger names, it would’ve been a huge hit.
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Insanely breathtaking in more ways than one!
Just finished it all in one sitting and I have to leave a review immediately.Many shows can be 10/10 but not many shows will leave me reeling from how beautifully perfect it was. This show gives me the same feeling I have after finishing My Liberation Notes but a thousand times more breathtaking.
I didn't know much about ethnic minorities in China before this but the show was extremely educational about the customs and traditions of the Kazakhs in Northeast China. But not in a "tribal" kind of ways that western shows sometimes portray minorities. Every characters had depths and are so relatable that we could see the parallel of their lives to ours even though their language, cultures and costumes are different. And this was an INSANE thing to achieve in just 8 episodes less than 40 minutes!!!
The acting is *chef kiss*, somehow everyone are so authentic and real. But I really have to give it to Ma Yili as Zhang Fengxia, she is a complicated, colourful, compassionate and everytime she is on screen i am completely speechless.
Don't even get me started on the landscape! OMG!!! Imagine falling in love, dancing, singing and just spend days with your love ones in such beautiful greenery🤯
Finally, the show is again reminding me of the connection native people have to their land. We see the impact of capitalism in expropriating the resources and also how these actions could damage the environment for the animals and natives.
The show is absolutely perfect for me, great cinematography, beautiful everything and all wrapped in respectful potrayals of their main subjects ❤️. A definitive must watch again and again
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