littleberry09

Even with a discount it's only worth it if you use most the year round, but I don't. I got the monthly subscription for a bit but I rarely tend to use IQIYI. Only a few dramas are out on IQIYI only

The Kdrama The East Palace? Yes all 8 episodes dropped at once on Netflix.

I'm way behind so not even going to bother 😂. Going to wait for this whole drama to release though and then binge it all in one go!

I'm glad it's atleast on Viki, I hate going to IQIYI as a last resort 😭

It has to be loosely inspired off him, the ML's mother was even part of the elderly victims who died. Not the only drama to do so. Through The Darkness (2022) also features this case heavily and dramatised some of the real events that happened in this case. It's one of the more famous serial murders out of Korea

I wish they elaborated on some things just a little bit more, like what happened to Ju Ran at the end? I think we were supposed to assume she just went into shock, kneeled over and died. But I wish they showed more of her going insane and dying to make it more satisfying. After all she had just killed Ho Ran who was her only family left.

Also I didn't fully get what was wrong with the Wunderkinder's? Pal Ho, Ju Ran and Ho Ran were said to be "imperfect" in some way and they wanted to be saved by the mad scientist they called Father. They also said at one point that ML was defective in some way. The whole thing with Pal Ho's arm slowly killing him, etc... I think maybe I missed something important but I didn't know what. Did the experiments they went through as kids mess them up somehow? But notice apart from Pal Ho, the 2 ladies and ML seemed perfectly fine and healthy.

I also wished they made it clear if ML really reunited with his Mother, because that scene at the end felt more like a dream sequence.

But apart from little nitpicky things this was a really good drama. It's not even my usual preferred genre but I thoroughly enjoyed this once past the first episode. A lot of excellent parts between Ep 6-8, that scene when ML froze all the bullets coming at him, turned them around and shot them back at the villains was SO COOL. Cha Eun Woo did so great here, Park Eun Bin was also amazing. The whole cast was amazing 🙌

I didn't expect to like this so much! It was just good in the first few episodes, but becomes excellent from Ep 5 onwards. Those last 3 episodes were such a wild ride! Kept me so invested. Honestly liked this more than some other popular dramas I've seen this year. Great 9/10 drama

Rang Rang has been the best tbf. I think the more intense stories tend to have male leads with more obsessive compulsions

It's not a triology series, they are set in the same universe but they can be watched individually of each other. You can still watch this one for example without having watched HL or TFF.

Poor HMH also looked so shocked and awkward, he did not deserve this.

I wouldn't say that long. In the First Frost he was already living with her very early on in the drama, by around Ep 3-4. He was clearly into her and soon enough so was she. He really doesn't fault her for the past eventhough she left him heartbroken and he felt abandoned. This is what I mean by Cdrama yearning, and it's usually always the ML.
In Sniper Butterfly too he acts tough against the FL when seeing her years later, but quickly moves to live opposite her and pursues her Loll.
Not that I'm complaining, I still had a good time watching those dramas.

Dropping it after Ep 5, the plot outside of the leads just doesn't interest me 😬. Even their comedy cannot save this drama IMO. I think you know quite quickly if you will like this drama or not. The concept is good but execution failed. Giving it a rating of 6.

This seems to be a growing trope in Cdramas where the leads reunite years later after a difficult past relationship. The ML is still obsessed with her years later and still just as in love with her. Seen it in The First Frost, and kind of similarly in Daniel Zhou's other drama Sniper Butterfly. They don't even have another girlfriend in that time, always yearning for FL despite not knowing if they will even ever see her again to make up with her.

I think if you don't like it by Ep 29, which is nearly the end of the drama, then you won't like the rest of it either. The last 2 or so episodes have a climax but most the drama stays pretty much the same tone and pace. I just finished it and unexpectedly really liked majority of it, very little complaint.

Ahh 18 months after it's release I finally got to watching this drama and really liked it, really enjoyed it 😍. It's NOT fully perfect, but it's one of the rare historical/costume dramas that I've found so easy to binge. Almost felt comforting in some way? I like how the romance plot felt like the main storyline and everything else seemed to surround it, not the other way round. 9️⃣ / 🔟 drama

Liking someone from afar doesn't have anything to do with how that translates to an ACTUAL relationship once you start living, eating, sleeping with them. Again, no one knows the dynamics they had with each other behind closed doors.

Why does this reek of blaming one side, particularly a woman who loves her career? You don't know what dynamics they had in their relationship, quit assuming she was the busy working one and he was always the 'worshipping' one.

You're totally right about everything here in that fighting violence with only more violence isn't right. Also the fact that it was adults beating up high schoolers, doesn't really send the right message across. In this respect Study Group where it's kids fighting other kids felt more fitting. But I still took Teach You a Lesson as just being a drama and they didn't mean anything serious with it.

Re. The victim blaming and that they made each of the victims ask for help also felt really weird to me. But I didn't verbalise it until you mentioned it. IMO that was more weird than the above things 😕

I enjoyed the first half more than the second half. Episodes 7, 8, 9 felt like a drag to me, and not as interesting as most of the first half. And then it picked up again with the end of Ep 9 when the evil kid pushes someone off the building. That's the kind of almost-thriller feeling that was missing for I would say a quite a big chunk of the drama.

I also wasn't into the love angle they were pushing between Im Han Rim and Bong Geun Dae. I love a side romance, but this just felt so unnecessary, awkward and forced into the plot, and it really would have made no difference to the story if it wasn't included at all. Im Han Rim also felt like such wasted character potential here, she had an actual role in Ep 3 and then after that just felt like a side kick to Na Hwa Jin.

4 episodes in...love the acting and bond between them, but I think the pacing or tone is just not enthralling enough. I'm glad it's only 12 episodes as that should be more than enough