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Poison

The plot fascinated me. This prince has expressly chosen as his bride, against everyone's will, the only woman they don't want.
She came from the future and is a fighter and not the submissive girl that the family expects. The prince loves her temperament so different from the others.
I liked how the prince looks at her with heart eyes and pride and trusts her. Their chemistry increases episode after episode. Nice pairing!
Why are all the competitions between princesses and not prince? Women must have so many skills!
A little boring that all the people want to poison her.
40 episodes were perhaps too many and also all these people spitting blood were definitely too many.
I really liked the ending.

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I really liked the character of this charitable, gentle, intelligent and fair prince. Everything he did was for the good of the king and family at the cost of sacrificing his own life .
The character of the doctor's daughter was also great. A strong woman with healthy principles who wants to make up for her father's mistakes.
The flaw of this series... I don't know if many poisons were used frequently in this era but in this series there were daily poisonings and many people, too many, spitting blood from their mouths when they died.
While I particularly appreciated the ending that made me finish with a smile.
Here too the prince carried out his duty as sovereign well, after which he dropped everything and thought about his own happiness. First duty, then pleasure. Good teaching.

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Game and romance

For video game players this is the right series. But there's more. I really liked the romantic side of this story. This couple formed in the game and later also in reality.
I loved his protectiveness and attention towards her. His business acumen despite his young age, they always impeccable in dressing and trusting each other... Very nice.
I smiled every time his friends referred to her as "sister-in-law."
I liked her best friend less, too messy and talkative. I couldn't have tolerated it.
Yang Yang is a really nice guy who I've already seen in the "Fireworks of my Heart" series. Perhaps in this series, compared to the other, he had a little too much of a model demeanor which made him a little less natural.

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Damn greed

I love protective men. This bodyguard (Rain) is so tough and gentle at the same time. I liked the scenes where the protagonist couple acts together.
In the last two episodes I found things that didn't add up to me and I lowered my rating a little. Examples: The "Chinese" bodyguard was stabbed and the next day he shows up at work like nothing? One shot from this men would have been enough for her to be killed or stopped but she always managed to escape. O Wan Su hears the shot and takes 10 minutes to get to the living room? She cries so much over her husband's murder that she doesn't realize the situation. Then the next day as if nothing had happened. The mother-in-law then forgives her illegitimate son for killing the beloved son to whom she wanted to give everything?
But all in all I recommend watching this series.

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Music and love

A famous composer loses his girlfriend in an accident. Full of guilty, he deprives himself of music and he convinces himself that he cannot no more deserve a little happiness.
When he happens to find the needful girlfriend's sister he decided to help her.
In her he sees his beloved again and falls in love with her and her with him.
But the secret of the bond with the deceased sister will be soon discovered and their relationship will be damaged.
A sad atmosphere lingers throughout the series and even more so in the last two episodes.
The touching dog's story is an example.
The end was a bit forced (1 year later... she go away, she come back, she will leave again... and both loves each other?!?)

In this series there are some beautiful scenes and touching moments, a good soundtrack and appreciable acting. I loved the dog, I'm a fan of Kristal (the Heirs, the Players,...) and I discovered Rain the actor.

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A romantic story with an exciting dark note. The transition from young girl to "ajumma" is a pretty good new idea. The jealousy of the workaholic lawyer and the cute idol is funny. Her parents and her friend are also great characters.
I looked at it with interest.
In the end, I wondered why she happened to change her personality and what she did to get back to normal.
Looking back, I missed something, as if all the pieces of the puzzle didn't fall into place. The plot could have been better developed (capture of the culprit, cat, couple formed by the friend and the investigator, after 6 months lawyer in Seoul).
NB The topic of job hunting, I think is a real struggle. In this case the poor girl is very competent in everything and yet she doesn't find a job until she's in her fifties.

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I wondered what people found about this series to rate it so high. After a few episodes, I've become a bit of a fan of this cast. The time travel thing is a bit of an overused plot, but the story remains cute and unique.

Only one person in this family can hear and speak, the brother and parents are deaf. He loves playing the guitar and making music but feels guilty towards his father who wants him to become a doctor. “Ottokee?” Please the father or follow his dream?
He has a flashback to the past and finds himself in 1995, he meets his young parents and wants to avoid an accident to change the future of his family for the better, but he must be very careful, otherwise there could be big problems, such as the possibility of not being born .

I really liked the guy Ha Eun Gyeol (actor Ryeoun), a great guy between Park Bo Gum and Cha Eun Woo.

Interesting to see sign language. I also appreciated all characters and the beautiful songs.
For those who don't know, the singer of Spine9 is a singer of iKon.

PS: I was wondering what the watermelon was in the title and I discovered that it refers to Frida Kahlo's last painting, called "Viva la Vida" which had watermelons as its subject.

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I knew D.O. mainly as a singer, but he is also a good actor.
The plot leads his character, a champion of justice, to act as a "phenomenon" in an exaggerated way.
He and his team are in danger but always work separately?!?
The big bad boss played his cards face up, it would have been simple to touch a button on the phone and record conversations. So they would have had a thousand evidences.
Why are the fair people so stupid?
This point makes me lower my rating.
The last 2 episodes were honestly the worst two, where I got the most anger.
He knows full well the power of the old bastard and how cruel and unrepentant he can be for his actions.
I wondered why he was so naive as to come up with these brilliant plans where he gets beaten up, people close to him get involved and he is blackmailed, he has the evidence and has it stolen and last but not least, he has to ask for help from that "change flag" of a prosecutor.

All's well that ends well. Fortunately in the end he redeems himself and we understand that he wasn't that stupid.

PS: His team's hacker, Lee Si Eon, had the same role as in the "Player" series.

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Friendship & Love

First part so-so, from the 14th episode it became more interesting.
However, the plot isn't exactly the best. What did I like about this series? When the main woman lead breaks up with her boyfriend and manages to make him feel some of the suffering she felt. I also liked Namkoong Min's acting, at the beginning of the 25th episode when he prepares the speech for his father-in-law, it's an amazing moment. I follow this actor because he is a great performer.
Some tears around the 22nd episode.
No word for the cousin and his relationships with women, especially with the poor coach. He too, after being left, became a better man and made amends.

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Singular PLOT

The first day I watched 7 out of 10 episodes! Interesting plot that fascinated me.
This company would produce meat without killing animals and at the same time design organs for transplants. Many people will be against the Blood Free boss and others will want to get all the secrets to live forever. She will need bodyguards to protect her and find out who is behind the blackmail and threats.
Cyber ​​attacks, accidents, deaths, "moles", transplants...
Small negative note, they could have avoided the ambush of the detour. Even a child would have understood that it was a trap.
I appreciated the acting of Ju Ji Hoon (the bodyguard Woo Chae Woon) who I had already seen in "Jirisan" and "Hyena", the revolutionary idea of ​​this project and all the pros and cons of the technological world that helps but can also be very fragile to attacks.
I recommend seeing this series for people who are not sensitive to blood.

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Who can we trust?

The plot is more complicate than a simple kidnapping of a child.
How far a mother can go and what she can do for her son?
Different motivations pushed people to help this mother. Success and popularity to the producer, justice to the policeman, saving lifes for the mother.
This search is too long. Names, events, stalkers, suspects, kidnapping, history of domestic violence, ... I was confused. There are many culprits... it'is frustrating to see but I wanted to see this poor child go back to his mother! By the 9th episode I'm exhausted from waiting.
Finally into 13th episodes you will be able to find out who "the guilty" is.

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Revenge

Vigilantes! A team of victims who search to make justice.
Scary cases that make your skin crawl. I watched only to see the revenge.
Be prepared to see everything and more: beatings, bullying, violence against vulnerable people, exploitation, prostitution, the distribution of pornographic films, illegal organ harvesting, injustice, corruption... They didn't leave anything out.
Creepy, you're heart-heavy in the end. The only glimmer of light, this guy.
From 8th episodes I wanted a mythics revenge for this psyco and there wasn't.
In 9th, Swat and prosecutor are "chicken".
In 14th, I would have something to say! He want to fight towards a team of killers all alone? What a shitty idea!
He take the driver who get an accident where his friend were seriously injured and stay to watch him and let the villain escape and then chase him in a taxi? In the "prison" he beats everyone, there is no one left when he goes out into the square, then all at once they all arrive together nice perky and surround him? He follows the villain to the pier with the prosecutor on his heels but strangely he has time to drift with the car, beat, chase the bad one and only then help arrives. Timing that doesn't add up.

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Trust him or not?

I must confess that I droop this series after 3rd episode but trusting in the high rating I decided to continue watching it.
The plot is aberrant and shocking but also sad and emotional, especially last 2 episodes.
This guy who is the son of a serial killer and married to a police detective, was wanted and followed as a murderer.
She discovers clues about her husband. Who is actually the father of her daughter? She has tough time and must choose a side between law and family.
So many surprises.
The OST was good with also orchestral piece.
I don't think I'll ever see it twice.

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