monstersnroses

He Yu, Ling He, An Yu, Jesse Ren, Zi Xian, Yun Xi, Yu Ning are my faves

Help! I'm on ep 14, and there is almost nothing I dislike more than a liar FL. Not only is this FL continuing to lie and gaslight the ML at every turn, she doesn't really love the ML at this point, and her actions and expressions are childish. Does this start to turn around? Around what episodes does she start to have genuine feelings for him? Around what episode does she finally stop lying to him about everything?

That was a really hi-tech safe

Lesson In Love - Taiwanese full length drama, stiff dose of angst and overloaded with spice.

The Crush with Richard Li - short length SPICY, well acted, but the dubbing is BAD BAD BAD so i'd recc this one on mute with some good music of your choosing instead. Do that, and it's good.

Lost Romance - Taiwanese full length

My Name is Zhao Wudi - chinese short length

Love is Phantom - Japanese short-length

Kakafukaka - short length j-drama

Que Sera Sera - full length K-drama with one of the hottest kiss scenes i've ever seen but the drama is long winded and draggy in spots and is just so-so

Koi to Dangan - short length j-drama, cheesy as hell, nicely spicy

The Rose - old classic taiwanese drama, full length, good only if yr into taboo and cheese

My Lethal Man - short length c-drama, cult classic of cheese and spice

Love in the Edge of Divorce - chinese short length, cheesy, spicy, fun

Nevertheless (the k-version is sufficiently spicy, the j-drama not so much)

Coffee and Vanilla - short lengt j-drama is pretty vapid, but also kinda spicy

When Destiny Brings The Demon - full length c-drama, drama has some fair spice content, and web novel has wayyy more, so that's fun.

Taking Love As Contract - short length c-drama with one rather awesome and spicy kiss, and a few other good scenes, drama itself is avg


French Kisses:

Embrace in the Dark Night
My Fated Boy (last ep, plus the drama is awesome, great script and acting)
Legend of the Blue Sea (but the drama is dumb and draggy after the halfway mark or so)

I thought it was because she's trying to uncover her memories so she wants to stay with so-called familiar people and surroundings. But maybe i'm wrong idk

I think the fact that she hasn't asked for a divorce is a good move, because she'd get everything when he dies, and he is a prime candidate for a Darwin Award, he could unalive himself out of sheer stupidity at any moment.

I don't understand how she keeps getting in distress when just a few eps ago, he said he needed to stay by her 24/7 or somethin. Every time he disappears, somebody tries to kill her or frame her for murder, and yet he still keeps leaving her to do things on her own like walk down the street to the board meeting. Does china have ubers? what even is she doing?

I also like in the board meeting when she slams her hands dramatically on the conference table.

i thought it was a nice touch that the mistress loses the baby due to "unstable genetics" lollll yeah that whooooole family lookin mighty recessive.

"Why yes, I always carry gauze, don't you?"

> I thought he was going to a handkerchief
lolll ikr....

Ep 7:

This was apparently the day the actor who was supposed to play the doctor got the flu, and the assistant lighting technician had to fill in for him at the last minute

Ep 6: Is that a roll of gauze in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

YASSS that's exactly what I wanted to hear, so stoked!

My sentiments exactly. I'm on ep 37, and when THAT happened to 2ml and 2fl, I'm like ok I'm done. For what reason would I finish this without them. I don't even care about the last episode.

oh crap, i saw on mdl home page that LYX was in a new drama... come here and find out it's not a romance. bummed!

Every time he's in a scene, it's hard for me to think about anyone else because he's so charismatic and such a good actor. I hope his career takes off like crazy, he deserves it. <3

I found it only mildly pleasant. Sometimes what I don't understand is the jacked up ratings for SK shows. My Demon is sitting at an 8.3, that's completely preposterous. It was absolutely terrible.

My personal rating system is 0-5 for shows that actively make me mad that I watched it and I want my time back. 5-6 for stinkers. 6-7 for average shows that are not bad, but somehow not totally satisfying. 7-7.5 for shows that are good, but not ever going to be a rewatch for me. 8-9 for things that are not perfect, but so good they are potentially rewatchable. 9-10 for things I would (or do) actively rewatch and liked a lot.

So I gave this a 7.5 because I thought it was decent, thoughtful, and not-bad. But I would not ever rewatch this one, so I can't give it an 8 or above. I wouldn't rewatch it because I don't vibe with A) An enigmatic ML in pointy high heel shoes and frilly clothes B) An FL who worries about stuff and second guesses herself a lot and C) Interpretive modern art, cool/neutral color palates, modern architecture, avant garde fashion. Overall the drama didn't fully engage my interest.

But to give it credit, the original didn't fully engage my interest either, and I gave the original a 7.5 as well. But just for different reasons. In the original, I didn't like the ending, and I thought the FL was hard to get behind. idk if it was because she was miscast, or just that the character as written is not very sympathetic to me.

But if I HAD to watch one of them again, it would be the Korean one, because to me it's more believable and less 'artsy for the sake of being artsy'. It gets right to the heart of the plot and the characters, instead of being coy and indirect and vague.

I try to always do a review that doesnt give a synopsis, so that people who want to go into their shows blind can still do so after reading the review. I like luo zjeng, and i say so up front so of course its biased, i make no apology for it.

Catholics and christians have been insulting eachother's religions since 1520. Shiites and sunnis have been insulting eachother's religions since 600. Russian Orthodox and catholics have been insulting eachother since 1050. Buddhists and Hindus have been insulting eachother since 500 BC. This concept is nothing new.

....so it's good, if you watch the whole thing on 2x.

I saw the thumbnail pic for this on kisskh, and got all excited thinking it was Jang Ki Yong playing the ML.

Shit.

I liked k-dramas a lot better before disney and netflix and other big money players got involved in the k-drama industry. Some of the best k-dramas are older ones. Newer k-dramas feel like they've had the soul sucked out of them. Sometimes a k-drama is still good, but you have to wade through more crap these days to find one good drama, imo. Too much production value, not enough emphasis on good scriptwriting.

One of the reasons I switched from watching mainly k-dramas to mainly c-dramas is because I love dark romances and "dark" k-romances never go dark enough. They insert cuteness and humor where it's not needed and/or de-fang dark ML's by halfway through the show.