monstersnroses

I felt SO dramatic when I was writing it lol. I was like WHAT. AM. I. WATCHING. RN.

Thanks eh!

Im into red flag ML romances mainly. But I'll watch anything that's actually really GOOD. But it has to be romance. So, do you have anything Brazilian you can recc me to watch, like a good place to start getting into them.

I did a Turkish drama thing last year because another MDL buddy just begged me to like "you'll love them i swear" and I watched like 6 turkish dramas and could not continue. One, there is usually an ML beard/moustache problem for me. Namely, I hate them. And they happen in Turkish dramas with great frequency. Two, and more importantly. EVERY FREAKIN TIME the ML has a monogamy challenge. He either is in a relationship when he meets the FL, or cheats on the FL and then grovels, or SOMEthin. And I tried to tolerate it, but discovered that nothing turns me off in an ML quite like that does lol.

ty! <3

tysm my goal is generally to accurately describe the experience of watching a drama without giving anything away for people who like to go into their shows blind. I knocked points off on the rewatch factor because it ramped down in the last quarter of the drama and got dumb and just basically switched gears (ironically exactly the same way S&L did) and idk.... my rewatches tend to be for ones that the ending makes you want to stand up with your power fists to the sky and go "YAAASSSS". Whereas this one has an ending that makes you fold your arms and go "oh." So I knocked a point off.

Yesh

omg it took me 8 episodes to recognize snakey lol

im trying to watch as slow as possible

Yes but id say get as immersed as possible while watching. Not a 2x drama or when ur attention is divided

Anyone who chooses this industry to make a living knows that theyre capitalizing off their visuals. So they willingly subject themselves to objectification, TO A DEGREE. But obsession from fans comes from parasocial relationships taking the place of rl relationships and isnt healthy... but the industry encourages it with variety shows, bts's, meet and greets etc to show the PERSON behind the actor, and to me thats not healthy... john malkovich and keanu reeves dont do this, and theyre widely loved and respected as actors. Some objectification is normal but too much is weird and creepy so its about degree and gray area here too.

I HAVE BEEN ABSOLUTELY RAVING abt the costumes, they are so gorgeous omgggg

i will leave as magnificent a review as possible, and hopefully the momentum keeps up on this show, because i'm loving it, and Im loving that I didn't think I'd love it at all and then i DID lol

evernight = i gave it a 6, and i barely remember watching it, and when i go back and refresh my memory on it's page, I realize that the FL was a dealbreaker for me, no can do with that one

I think there's two things that make this drama magical... one, Arthur Chen has finally hit his stride. He has confidence, he has experience, he's taking the right roles for him. And two.... he clearly crushes on Dilraba in rl at least somewhat. So some of what makes this performance absolutely crush it is that there's an element of him *not actually acting*.

Which is what shocked me about the psycho bloodlust scene in ep 3, is there was a part of the REAL Arthur Chen in it, he made himself vulnerable to the camera in a way I just didn't know he could. That MFer is a LOT spicier of a personality than he lets on. He usually plays it cool and goofy and sweet and aloof and wise, and here he just went full crazy and it looked GORGEOUS.

Well here's how it works. An evil elite class of luciferian reptiles has taken over the planet, and they strive every day to deprive our lives of joy. This includes marring beauty. Natural beauty, civic and architectural beauty, and the beauty of art. So now you get a beach with a gas station sign parked way out on the pier to ruin any photo ops or nice sunsets, you get buildings being built that look like cold ugly monoliths, replacing older buildings that were built with grand intricate beautifications, you get post modern impressionism instead of rennaissance sensibilities about what art gets vaunted by society, so ugly sculptures etc

c-dramas is an oasis of beauty in an ugly world. the most beautiful will be the most celebrated.

> 8.3 mdl score
> 10k watchers
> who even are these actors
> who even is this director
113K COMMENTS

compare w TTETOM which to this day has about 133k comments

am I supposed to believe that VoS comment count is organic?

whats vos?

Who freaking knew that Arthur Chen had this side to him?????? I mean MY GOD. He just turned--- like with this ONE scene ---- he just turned into one of my favorite actors on the planet. I mean srsly.... I LOVE LING HE. Or rather, I love XIE WEI. But this acting is like LING HE HOLD MY BEER my god. How do I move on from this scene, it's so delicious and crazy and fine and amazing waaaaaaaaa.......

YOU GUYS!

I hate it when people say "you guys" and I try to never do it, but srsly. You guys.

I skipped around and speed-watched the first 5 eps, and didn't like the vibe, and didn't like Dilraba, and didn't like the story, and I dropped it and rated it like crap.

And I took a week to try to focus on watching something else for a little while, and I dug and dug and watched two lo-budget stinkers (that were pretty good for stinkers actually) and binged Love Designer.

As I did this, in the background of my mind I KNEW this drama IS the best thing going right now, and I wouldn't be able to concentrate on anything else. So I started trying to just.... get my mind around the plot. She's 400 years old and has no senses and he's like 18 or some shit. And that's that. And it's gonna be DILRABA, and that's that. So just get over it.

So I got over it, and I got in a good mental place where I was like "okay, I know what it feels like to feel old and jaded and tired of everything and i've seen it all and done it all, and be like i don't care. And I know what it feels like when someone way younger than you thinks your superfine and starts courting you aggressively." So I just imagined I was in that place, and went in to this drama for a second time, but this time trying to be FULLY immersed.

YOU GUYS.

I'm on ep 3. Where the birds rain fire down on errybody, and ML starts going bloodlust psycho.

YOU GUYS.

I have never seen Arthur Chen channel this kind of energy, and it is SO EFFING HOT, I can't even move on yet. I keep pausing, doing other things for several hours, and then going back to the beginning of the scene and watching again.

What even are those expressions he's making?!?!? This is some of the best acting I've ever seen. Just... by anyone at all.

And it's not just that.... that scene where he first stares at FL and falls for her kind of on sight right off the bat.... you can f*cking FEEL it coming off him.

THIS IS INSANE.

I need to change that crappy rating I gave it jesus. I am watching this SO SLOW rn holy crap.

I just want to thank you so much for the lovely compliment! Portuguese, my great grandmother was portuguese. She was known in the family for having the best fashion sense, she always looked faaaabulous. Even when there was no money in the bank. She taught us that style and money are NOT the same thing!

And I didn't know anything about Portugal really, but then I stumbled on a youtube vid of people speaking Portuguese and daymmmm that is a sexy sounding language. If they made good dramas so I could get some immersion going, I'd definitely try to learn it.

xie wei SOKP
tantai jin TTEOTM
jesse ren EITDN
yan xi jian Love And Bid Farewell
Joe chen The Rose
pan zi jian I Love My President Although He Is A Psycho
in seo guk The Smile Has Left Your Eyes
zo in sung That Winter The Wind Blows
qin tian yu (2ML) in Fated Hearts
deng kai as qi min in POJ

and not asian, but jonathan rhys meyers in Dracula and francois arnaud in The Borgias were both really good

I fired 6 doctors before I found one who could actually help me lol