Absolutely horrible. Horror? Come on, all i saw was funny looking clowns jumping here and there. The plot in written…
Because it's not trying to be horror. The mystery is compelling enough to keep majority of audiences hooked from start to finish.
Ironically, the female lead was the weakest element of the entire show for me. The writing did most of the heavy lifting, while her performance never fully sold the character emotionally.
The writing is solid, and there isn't a single boring episode because every mystery keeps you engaged and wanting to know what happens next.
I'd give it a 9/10. The only thing that held it back for me was the main couple. I just didn't feel the chemistry between them, and the female lead felt a bit too modern for a historical setting. I know romance isn't the main focus, but whenever the drama tried to give them emotional or romantic moments, I found myself cringing a little because she looked so young to me. Throughout the series, I kept thinking how much more those scenes might have worked with a different actress.
As for Saeng Gang, I imagined her as someone much more emotionally restrained, almost expressionless, someone who rarely smiles because of her past, her childhood, and the reason she returned to the palace in the first place. RYS's portrayal felt a little too cheerful for my interpretation of the character. She acted well overall, but I personally pictured Saeng Gang as someone carrying much heavier emotional baggage beneath the surface.
Because of that, when Saeng Gang finally reached her biggest emotional moments, they didn't hit me as hard as they were supposed to. I understood what the scene was trying to convey, but I never really felt the emotional payoff. For me, those moments work best when the character has been quietly carrying all that pain from the beginning, so when the walls finally come down, it feels earned. I just didn't get that emotional buildup here.
it's not full blown horror. it's two world, between spirit world and human world. Not ghost, and the stories has many layers. of course there will be surprise/jump effect, awful looking monster or spirit, but really not considered as horror movie. after a while they are not look much scary.
I've given this a 9 simply cuz i love Xing Yue, Xi Wei & Xu Ning. Everyone's acting was good but I couldn't…
it's not noble idiocy. she confessed too late to her crush. the crush turned out already in relationship. what should she do anyway? but she's smart enough to stay away from her "backstabbing" friend and decided to move on and build new relationship with ML.
Thanks for saving me the trouble. Misunderstandings and noble idocy are most irritating tropes for me.
Lol, there is no noble idiocy here. The FL has to let go of her 5-year crush (not the ML) after finding out he has already been in a relationship with her "best friend" for two years. The "best friend" looks weak at first but actually has always been jealous of her. But this only happens in one episode. After that, the drama is mostly pure comedy between a stiff guy and a lovable, smart girl. There is also no annoying misunderstanding. The ML is very clear about his feelings and intentions from the first time he meets her. The funny part is that the ML treats romance like coding. He developed plan to make FL fall for him. Since he is very logical, he approaches it almost like coding. If one method fails, he just switches to another method. Meanwhile, the FL is busy trying to survive the ML's crazy fans because of the rumor that she is chasing the campus favorite guy, the ML. She never realizes that the ML actually likes her because his plan methods are kind of ridiculous. But once she finally understands her own feelings, she goes all in. She starts fighting for him and competing with the campus queen who also likes him.
The premise doesn't look very strong, and the pairing doesn't seem to work for me. I was actually waiting for the calm and awkward Xiwei, but the story itself doesn't feel interesting enough. Will this be work ?
Couldn't bring myself to watch Korean version, and chose this one instead. K version actor/actress selection turn me off since ML looks young and has no chemistry with PMY. Tbf, pmy has no chemistry with both protagonist and the villains. And I couldn't get rid antagonist male goofy image since I knew his works on tiktok (this is why actor should not active in social media). Overall, solid watch for Japanese, and believable. The acting is good, the pace is perfect, and I love each characters has some background, even for the villains.
Mild spoiler started here.
And I know some people discontent with the ends of the villain and FL. But for me, that slight guilt is important as a way to make FL repent her own "sins" towards her best friend.
I absolutely loved this drama. Can anyone recommend me more dramas like this?
Most old jdrama has vibe like this. Subtle jokes, not exaggerated acting. I yet to find the good feel jdorama these days since most of them are live adaptation of garbage manga. Anyway, on top of my head Long vacation, beach boys, and nobuta wo produce has the same good feeling, subtle jokes, and great writing too. I found at the age of 30 in Netflix, focusing on women issue, also has great realistic writing, but not funny and mostly take more serious issue.
It's on Netflix and I thought I just killed time.with jdrama lately full of exaggerated act, lack of original storyline, poor manga/anime adaption or zero character development, surely 30mntu brought back what 90s jdrama all about, quality! The writer surely knew best how women friendship is, women issues and challenge at work and personal life...clearly this is well written drama, with great acting, multidimensional female character (IstG women in jdrama always written like they can't function well in front of guys), and tackle current issue and struggle of women in 30 dealing with works, marriage, and peer pressure from society. Nothing so dramatic, I am sure women viewer can relate to each character. The only downside is, not important tho, not so much eye candy guys, lol. No hot CEO, no good smile SML, and no swoon worthy male characters. For me it's like watching Because This Is My First Life but focusing on girls journey and minus white knight.
So-min is a very competent comedic actress so it's not surprising you found the comedy parts more enjoyable. She…
I know she is. But Kang ha Neul definitely outshine her in here. I think it's more on written part, they didn't give much her comedic line. Her character more on bitchy side. Remind me of my sassy girl.
I miss the days when humans watch a movie and judge characters fairly and not because someone is hot. like bro…
We can judge fairly in reality. But this is drama, fun fiction supposed to be drama. for me drama is an escape, and of course it's fun to see "bad boy that we can finally change" once for a while in drama. But also, if they don't want villain to steal the show, fix your protagonist characters. For God sake they are boring, and please make FL stop acting like she is 12 years old girl.
I don't really enjoy the romance part in this movie, though i have quite good laugh on the comedic part. Maybe because I don't think the characters are loveable, the kind you used to with kdrama. But it's okay cause the main story focusing on "bad marriage", not romantic story . People who's looking for romcom probably would not enjoy much. The movie is portraying more about reality of marriage and how couple's feeling can be grown separated as they are living together, how men and women think differently. This movie remind me about Ordinary Couple and has same vibe with it, except Love Reset had more comical side. For me it's 7.9/10. Give it a try if you want to watch comedy with slice of reality, but don't hope too much for romance that make your heart flutter.
13- 17 years to be neurosurgeon in Korea. They used the fastest scenario, 13 years since she graduated from high school. Still make sense for kdrama. Plus she was written as genius one.
If they weren't student and teacher, then would be it abnormal for 26-27yo to like/crush over a 18yo? Life is…
Yes, agree..I don't see something inappropriate cause it's not like she was groomed or he acted upon his feeling (since still no plot for romance in early episodea). And she quite interesting character that from her matureness, I can understand why he grew feeling toward her. Beside, he didn't grew up a feeling upon see her (which mean it was not physical thing) but later after they got closer and how he could be seen admiring her (compare to just simple crush).
Ironically, the female lead was the weakest element of the entire show for me. The writing did most of the heavy lifting, while her performance never fully sold the character emotionally.
I'd give it a 9/10. The only thing that held it back for me was the main couple. I just didn't feel the chemistry between them, and the female lead felt a bit too modern for a historical setting. I know romance isn't the main focus, but whenever the drama tried to give them emotional or romantic moments, I found myself cringing a little because she looked so young to me. Throughout the series, I kept thinking how much more those scenes might have worked with a different actress.
As for Saeng Gang, I imagined her as someone much more emotionally restrained, almost expressionless, someone who rarely smiles because of her past, her childhood, and the reason she returned to the palace in the first place. RYS's portrayal felt a little too cheerful for my interpretation of the character. She acted well overall, but I personally pictured Saeng Gang as someone carrying much heavier emotional baggage beneath the surface.
Because of that, when Saeng Gang finally reached her biggest emotional moments, they didn't hit me as hard as they were supposed to. I understood what the scene was trying to convey, but I never really felt the emotional payoff. For me, those moments work best when the character has been quietly carrying all that pain from the beginning, so when the walls finally come down, it feels earned. I just didn't get that emotional buildup here.
Mild spoiler started here.
And I know some people discontent with the ends of the villain and FL. But for me, that slight guilt is important as a way to make FL repent her own "sins" towards her best friend.