palmedacocco

I'll start with the PLOT: who gets married without even having met her once or at least having seen a photograph of her? They want a divorce, yes, no... A passage that I particularly remember was her clever idea to sign the contract with the imprint. There I thought they had a good idea.
CAST: no goosebumps, the faces of the protagonists are always the same, not very expressive, no chemistry, cold kisses, then his attitude of taking her rudely against her will I didn't like much his character.
OST: nothing special. Usually when I like it I look for who the singer is and add it to my playlist but it wasn't the case.

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The story itself is nothing special. In short, one could say that out of spite a woman wants to take the company away from its rival and even succeeds. But the best part is the relationship that develops between this director and her assistant. I like how he is attentive to everything that concerns her. A true gentleman and also a sweet father.
Then I was struck by certain shots, such as zooms on the hands which were scenes that speak without words, as well as the good OST, I particularly liked them.
A small note to the make-up artists, they could have dulled the protagonist's face a little, who always seemed sweaty.

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You never know people fully

An ex-prosecutor, mother and lawyer lost her husband in a car accident. Apparently he met his death in a cliff and the police believe that he committed suicide.
She faces debts and many dangerous situations, but the biggest surprise comes when she discovers that her husband is alive and not at all the good guy he seemed to be. Kidnapping, twists, lots of bad news... all ingredients of this series.

Revenge is the key word and I won't say anything else.
The plot was quite well constructed.

Great wife! I admired this tough and intelligent woman. Even she was scared, she faced situations head on.
I also like the character of her prosecutor friend.

The end of 9th episode seems to be the conclusion of the series, in the meantime there are other "troubles".

I found it right that the series was made up of 12 episodes and not 16.

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new generation?

With the exception of a small romantic aside, it's disconcerting to see these experiments, the torture, these people involved in this sect, the murders and blackmail. Unrealistic scenes, starting with all the beatings that would have sent a number of people into a coma, especially the detective.
Not to mention scenes like the one where he gets in the elevator while she gets off, and when he gets up, he presses the button to call the elevator, but he could have simply pressed the button to get off without even exiting?
I especially didn't like the last three episodes: this villain who never dies is really annoying, everyone's going crazy, the protagonist who goes from victim to "leader" who sides with the experimenters, then in the end, when the guards sent to look for her find her and beat her up, but when he arrives, they stop in front of this supreme being. I hated him for going too far and losing sight of what's right and what's wrong.

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The light in your eyes

I don't know if it won any awards, but the woman who plays the "old" protagonist is exceptionally talented. The piano music is beautiful, underscoring the sad moments. It's moving to tears, starting from episode 3.

The male lead's background isn't enviable either. Actor Nam Joo Hyuk plays his part well.

I mean, to save her dad, she retries the scene 1,000 times and gets a poor result. Couldn't she have gone back five minutes earlier and stopped him at the door?
The rescue mission was hilarious but I didn't like the ending. The whole story feels fake.
It's unclear whether the daughter actually existed since she doesn't appear at the end. The reporter was the grandmother's husband, but also her acquaintance/swindler when she got older, and even the grandmother's doctor. Chaos. I don't get it that the friends, at three different points in time, were just as close to the young woman as they were to the "old" one.

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Black Magic

What wouldn't you do to lift a curse?
It all begins when, with the help of black magic, twins are born, and one must be eliminated. Deciding that the baby girl must be sacrificed, they should burn her.
This cursed daughter, however, was spared and hidden in a remote hut.
When she is discovered, several years later, the hunt for the witch begins. A boy will be her talisman and protect her.
Meanwhile, she will try to light these 108 candles to lift her curse and bring peace to the country.

People dying and being reborn, demons taking control of bodies.
Since her superpowers made her fearsome, I wish she'd used them more, especially against this evil sorceress who could have died a thousand times over, yet was always spared.
So, from mid-series onwards, it becomes a little repetitive, including the soundtrack.
I found episode 18 to be the worst ever.
It's exasperating. Add to that the fact that the king is a puppet who changes his mind every 2x3... What an idiot!
Even the ending was disappointing. Waiting 40 years to meet again?
I find that the old version of the character doesn't look like him at all.

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chance to pair up

Twelve people are assisted and transformed for their dates. Four "cupids" act as parents and defense attorneys. At first, they're all proud, but after the first meeting, I got the feeling they wanted to disown them.
The more I watched this show, the more I feared that the initial transformation and preparation would be of little use. If you were awkward, you still are; if you were too talkative, you'll be talkative again; if you had insecurities, they'll be exacerbated here... In short, sooner or later you'll fall back into it! The mistakes they made previously in approaching the opposite sex will recure.
In that sense, this show was a bit of a flop.
It's a shame because I really liked the idea of taking "losers" and giving them the chance to pair up with someone.

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Paternity unknown

The acting was very natural, especially the gestures between the two main characters. She demonstrated a selfless nature and was very correct. He, despite appearing arrogant and hiding his desire for revenge, has a sensitive soul and would kill for her.
Be careful who you trust... nothing is as it seems.
They will protect each other and hurt each other. It's heartbreaking to watch them hurt, lying about their true feelings that drive them to behave this way. He desperately tries to protect her, and then she tries to protect him. He breaking up with her, she saying she's marrying the other...
"Their" father, however, was the worst of all, a real piece of shit!

At one point, I couldn't understand how many fathers were killed, given all these children seeking revenge.

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In short, the father kidnaps his daughter's crush so they can get married. He refuses, and they part ways. Then her entire family is murdered. The sole survivor, while trying to escape her attackers, she falls off a cliff and loses her memory. By chance, her lover finds her and, to protect her, makes her believe they are siblings.
Willing to protect her even at the risk of his own life, he shows his care for her. At the same time, unaware of the feelings she harbored before the accident, she appreciates his closeness and appears at ease.
When a potential suitor presents himself, he finds it difficult to play the brotherly role because jealousy takes over.
Then she regains her memory and not only remembers the family's extermination, but also his rejection of the marriage. At that moment, their relationship change.

From episode 36 onward, I struggled to watch the series and took a break because the woman lead character was getting on my nerves.
In fact, resentful that he had rejected her a year earlier, she pushed him away and denied their love. Then she played detective to find out who was behind the deaths of her family, completely excluding him.
Thinking about how close he had been to her and how much he had done for her over the past year, I found her quite selfish and ungrateful.

In addition to the romantic interlude, there is the thriller part that forms the basis of the entire story.

The ending was a bit tight, but I liked it because all the issues were resolved, everyone received justice, the reforms were implemented, and last but not least, as the enterprising girl she has always been, she makes a symbolic gesture that recalls the past. I won't say more.

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Rather than a short series of 5 episodes of about fifteen minutes each, they could have made a movie out of it directly.

The actors' inexperience and the simple script are immediately apparent. The plot was also pretty bad, especially the last 10 minutes, in the scene where the two bad guys fight and one is shot by the lieutenant, and then he comes running towards the scene? What? Was he present or far away... He shoots once, he can shoot twice, right?
If I had to save one thing, it would be the OST.
However, there are much better out there that I don't recommend wasting your time watching.

P.S.: In the "cast&crew" section of kisskh, I'm sorry to see that the "lieutenant" character wasn't even mentioned. For those who want to know, the actor who played him is Koo Ja Sung.

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I loved the cast, the plot, the OST and even the attire.
She's a very beautiful girl, and he's a charming, protective and skilled boy.
I love the small gesture of protecting her with his body in the cramped space of the elevator, for example. A special forces man with action skills.

Scenes I remember and that made me skip a beat:
- The scene of him with a Sailor Moon-style duvet... legendary;
- she runs in the rain chasing the truck to tell him to come back safe and sound;
- when she says goodbye silently, knowing he's reading her lips, saying, "I'll wait for you at home" (an intimate gesture, even if they probably don't realize it at this time);
- when she stops him from hitting the criminal, and then unexpectedly, she's the one slapping the bad guy, telling him, "Don't touch my man."

Excellent balance between scenes of private life/military training and missions/hospital life, with a bit of mystery serving as a common thread.

The arrival of his cousin was truly a wonderful addition. A strong character like a stray bomb.

I forced myself to pick up the series from episode 34 onwards, after seeing this poor special ops soldier tortured and left to fend for himself. I was so afraid I'd see even more cruel things.

The award goes to the doctor's friend, the journalist, who lets herself be used like an idiot and lies, hiding evidence to cover up for her lover.

Regarding the heart transplant, I would have preferred if the doctor hadn't raised her hand to vote in favor. Even if she hesitated, it was like giving in to the villain who had achieved his goal. Even if the mother was not guilty, perhaps there was someone more deserving of receiving it.

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eternally blackmailed

A strong and intense beginning, then... it all went downhill.
To prevent a war between North and South Korea, a doctor was sent to North Korea to rescue a head of state, so that the United States wouldn't attack and start a war.
His son was kidnapped and forced to stay with his father in North Korea. South Korea denied them repatriation.
As time passed, the son also became a skilled surgeon.
Honestly, I don't know how he survived in this environment. He had a girlfriend who was forcibly taken by the authorities and locked up in a concentration camp. After many years of searching, he finally found her. His father allowed himself to be killed to allow his son to be free to make his own choices, and he, seizing the opportunity, fled with her to Hungary.

When he managed to return to South Korea, he was able to work in the same hospital where his father had worked to avenge him. Challenge after challenge...

There are so many things I can't explain:
- Do the female doctors work in 12-inch heels?
- Is it that easy to watch the surgeries live? It's like turning on the TV and connecting.
- Everything revolves around this fake competition to determine which of the two best doctors will perform the prime minister's heart surgery? Patients used as pawns. Terrible.
- What a shitty plan! To become president, the Prime Minister
is staging this whole charade? He's holding the doctor's mother hostage for decades just to force him to perform heart surgery on the president? Without killing him, but keeping him in a coma?
- This villain who was shot in the head by a professional killer is back? How is that possible?
- The president's behavior isn't what you'd expect.
- In the last episode, the North korean girl gets shot and falls off the bridge? I could understand they wanting to recall the previous time she'd fallen, but here she would have collapsed and not been thrown from the bridge.
-then the end... no comment.

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Resilience, sacrifices to achieve a goal.

Like a drug! I watched all 33 episodes in a flash. (NB 35 only in TV programs).
This boy, a god of pair figure skating, after an unfortunate accident that forced him to switch disciplines, is seen struggling as a singles skater. But with the support of his better half and a lot of commitment, he doesn't let himself get discouraged and achieves his goal.
Meanwhile, she struggles to establish herself on the team and keep her passion a secret from her mother.
Her father, in this regard, will be formidable in keeping her side and acting as a peacemaker between mother and daughter.

A new beginning also for the female coach, who will be able to redeem herself from the shortcomings of the past.

Mixed feelings of admiration and anger toward the male coach, obsessed with helping this narcissistic athlete achieve success and using this innocent girl to do so. I also hated his sister. First she ruins the pair skater's career, then tries to steal him from his beloved with lies. Still not satisfied, she pretends to support him and even steals his spot at the audition with the new Russian coach. Dead cat!

The important thing is that this sweet couple didn't break up and managed to overcome difficult situations TOGETHER. Well done guys!

Sport and love, what a great combination.

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Cinderella and her stepsister!

Fate plays with the lives of the protagonists, transporting them to the future to clarify the mystery of the past. We wonder why these 4 people ended up at this woman's house. Fate took care of it.
I watched the whole series with this weight and this feeling of immense INJUSTICE. A rage for this wicked stepsister who steals everything that belongs to her, always and at all times.
I found myself involved and participating, like I hadn't in a while. I railed against the bad guys, I criticized the protagonist for certain actions (for example writing SMS and then wanting to delete it but then accidentally sending it), I praised certain decisions (leaving home and keeping her cell phone off on certain occasions),...
The desire to see if karma would punish these bad people for their countless sins committed, pushed me to watch the entire series in a few days.
There’s also a twist in the last episode but towards the end (especially episode 17 and 18) for the PLOT I lowered the stars of the feedback.

Some things left me perplexed and others stunned:
- is it possible that the doors are always open and everyone comes and goes as they please? They come in, they turn the house upside down but they put on their slippers?
- is it possible that they are so stupid that even knowing that someone steals, lies, kills, they continue to trust and leave their phone, envelopes,... in plain sight.
- given that past and present are similar, is it possible that they don't add up to 1+1 and take so long to discover that the 2 are sisters?
- why did they never ask the mother who raised them who their biological mother was?
- I don't understand why their biological mother abandoned and didn't raise 2 daughters. The fact that 2 sisters grew up as stepsisters is strange.
- then I find that the 4 from Joseon, that is 300 years before, have settled in too well and quickly (they drive like experts, they know how to use technology, they speak like nowadays...)
- a detail that didn't make sense to me was when the wicked girl returned to him the handkerchief that she shouldn't have even known was lost.

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cit. "What if our efforts didn't change anything?"

All this gratuitous violence inflicted on people who don't deserve it is disgusting! Going to school must be a nightmare for many students! Bully bastards are a really fucking problem of today's society.
The message I can read inside this series is that the winner is the one who hits the hardest and that with kindness you can only get away with it, which is not exactly a good thing.
The fact that this guy and his teacher want to change the situation and rehabilitate the school is a good thing but the plot is poor.
This guy wants only to study and he would fight a lot to succeed.
He seems like a genius and then takes a lot of beatings. One of the scenes that made me furious is when this "hero" is on the roof of a building, finds the door locked and starts slowly analyze the situation while his classmates are brutally beaten (hurry up and get your mates to open the door for you!), unrealistic fight scenes, lines like "let's go study" when he's speaking with an half dead guy after fighting?

I dropped out for several months
Finally I decided to watch the last 2 episodes.

Dreams and hopes against money and contacts. What will win?
Throughout this journey, with no police (just a detective), the bad guys never get hurt while the good guys get slaughtered. It makes me nervous. Especially if you think that with just one shot you could kill or knock a person down. Here they get stabbed before reacting and the next day they are back on the loose. How is it possible?
Then when one of the bad guys shoots his gun in the library, the ammunition seems endless. Fists and blows that go through the walls.
Pure fantasy, when the rest would have been quite real.
Final... The only culprit seems to be the gang leader and all the others not even investigated?

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