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These are a hit or miss for me. Some in this list I have really liked and even re-watched while others bored me to death or just felt pretty average (Love Song in Winter being the most recent case of it). A Dream within a Dream seems like it will be my cup of tea, cannot wait for it to air.

There were already so few Chinese dramas for me to watch at the end of the year and something like this is what we get. There is nothing noteworthy about this one. The plot is not interesting and is full of clichés and I can’t say the characters were likable either. I felt no chemistry between the leads, they might as well have been just friends. Tagging this as a thriller/mistery is almost a crime. There was nothing thrilling about this much less any mistery surrounding it since it was pretty obvious from the start who the bad guy was.

Idk, maybe if this was a 2010 drama it would be acceptable, but in 2024/2025 this one brought nothing to the table. Overall it is an average drama that you can watch if you have nothing else to watch.

No, she said she was on her period and it was not convenient but told him to rest in the room, so he probably just passed out drunk and slept there. They did not even kiss, much less have sex.

As expected this season was a joke. I knew it would be draggy since they had a 3rd season yet to come but it was worse than I expected. This was basically an introduction to season 3. If I knew it would end like that I wouldn’t have watched it.

I don’t mind this being "old" (2018 was not that long ago lol) or having not so good cgi like some people are saying. Honestly, I have seen worse and still enjoyed those dramas because the plot was interesting.

But here the plot is just bad. I tried to watch for as long as I could but my only two thoughts were "boring" and "ridiculous". Like something written by a kid with a great imagination.

Maybe this was too out there for my taste but I really cannot understand why anyone would enjoy this sort of plot, specially when it has 40 episodes. I skipped to the last episode when I could not take it anymore and the way it ended did not help. ^^'

P.S. - This is just my opinion, maybe it is a matter of personal taste.

Bad ending

For a short drama this was pretty good if you go in with the right expectations.

The plot is nothing new, it is very cliché, but if you want a sweet romance with a happy ending to have a break from all the heavier dramas and if you enjoy dramas like The Eternal Love, you will probably like this one. The actresses playing the FLs in these 2 dramas even look alike and play characters with similar personalities.

So if you liked The Eternal Love you will probably enjoy this short drama for what it is. Remember, there is nothing new here, it is just a feel good drama with lots of sweet romantic scenes. The production was also pretty good for a short drama.

it was so satisfying to watch, kinda want a second season but at the same time I'm scared they will ruin it ^^'

My biggest problem with his method is that by constantly letting him go he put other people at risk causing more people do die, get hurt and traumatised. He should have locked him up somewhere and tortured him for a long time. He could have released him, letting him think he got away, and then lock him up again.

At the end I felt like the killer was right - he won. No matter what the main lead did, the pain he inflicted was not even close to the pain and destruction the kiler brought him, his victims and their families. I think that is probably why the ML cried like that at the end, it was mix of relief that he was finally done with his revenge mixed with the realization that nothing he did would take the pain away or bring back what he lost, be it the people he cared about or himself.

I do like Chinese historical dramas, I think when it comes to that genre they do them the best, while Korean dramas have the best thrillers, crime, action, used to have good historical dramas too but in recent years they were not great...
But wuxia, mostly xianxia, the ones full of fantasy stuff, are not my cup of tea either.

Btw, is your profile pic a gif from Judge from Hell? That was one of the few 2024 kdramas I liked.

She might be talking about kdramas only. I also think 2024 was a weak year for kdramas, I only liked 3 or 4 too. Good thing I also watch Chinese, Japanese and Thai dramas. ^^'

True, forgot that one, too many tragic deaths this year alone to remember them all. And yes, hopefully Blossom will have a happy ending. I am waiting for all episodes to be out to binge-watch.

Mostly people who watch historical cdramas. When I first started I was traumatised by how many ended in tragedy but the past few years it got better, more happy endings.

This year they decided to mess with us again: Lost You Forever, Love of Nirvana, Kill Me Love Me, Snowy Night Timeless Love, The Story of Pearl Girl, and these are just the ones I remember off the top of my head.

If we go into short dramas, specially the ones happening in the republican era, then the list just gets bigger.

Yeah, I also think the start was the best part and I liked it for a little more than episode 20 because we got to see some sweet moments between the main leads. It felt like we were prisoners on death row having our last meal without knowing it l because right after those moments it went downhill. ^^'

Sometimes it almost feels like 2 different people wrote the script. So many dramas with potential get ruined by bad screenwriting.

And it was not only him they killed. The last episode was disappointing. Chinese dramas this year seem to really enjoy killing off characters for no reason. Sigh

Overall I was really enjoying this one but the last 10 episodes or so considerably lowered my enjoyment while watching it. What happened was no surprise since it says in the synopsis that the FL would be taken away, but starting around that point the plot became annoying. With 40 episodes they waited until the last episode to resolve most things and deal with the villains that were bothering us the entire time. There were also some unnecessary deaths that seemed to happen just because this is a historical c-drama so some people must die near the end.

By the end of it, I mostly forgot all I liked about this drama in the first place, which is a shame. The last 5 episodes were watched just so I could get it done with and not with the antecipation I had when watching all the other episodes. I don’t know what happened this year but a lot of Chinese dramas either had plots that went downhill near the end (like this one) or had at least one of the main leads dying in the last episode, some had both. Sigh

I started this thinking I would just skim through it and watch it in a few hours. I was wrong. For Thai standards, this was pretty well produced.

I was invested in the story and the acting was great. Of course, I wanted a happy ending but the way it ended was a lot more realistic.

This kind of production although hard to watch is very important to remind us that there is a lot of messed up stuff going on around us that we do not notice in our daily lives.

So true, it all comes down to our taste. The Last Immortal was not my cup of tea, ended up dropping it which is very rare for me to do to one of her dramas’. But this one was right up my alley, aside from the ending and a few things here and there that I felt were missing I really liked this one. The actors did a great job, there were a lot of characters I cared about and the main leads had great chemistry. It is always nice to see strong, intelligent and independent women as main characters. I am sure next year she will keep doing a great job.

No problem, I only remember the drama because I recently re-watched it with my mother and yes, it is quite slow at times and there were a few things I did not like, I am also a quite picky viewer. ^^'

I just thought your rating was even lower than the ones I give, but seeing how you give 1/10 to the ones you really don’t like, your 4.5 is probably similar to my 6.5 or 7. Anyway, we agree the highest point was the acting, the actors did a great job.