Comfort show but there's no comfort
Let me just start this review off with the fact that Shut Up: Flower Boy Band has managed to make its way to my top 3 dramas of all time and every few months I have to watch at least some episodes to feel complete again.
With that said,
Every single episode felt like a punch in the face and then a hug right after and then I got punched again. These guys never catch a break. They get hit with things that feel way too heavy and I watched these characters get dragged through everything possible. One step forward three steps back - constantly. I get annoyed when stories do that just to keep the drama going. Not Flower Boy Band, they're different.
There’s something about the way this show handles struggle that doesn’t feel forced. The main character especially, he’s got this constant push and pull between wanting to hold things together and watching them fall apart anyway. He’s not perfect, he screws things up, but I never stopped rooting for him.
And the people around him, his friends, they’re not just side characters or plot devices. They matter. Their relationships feel lived in. Messy. Sometimes quiet, sometimes explosive, but always with weight behind them. You believe in their bond even when they’re pushing each other away. And that’s part of what makes it hurt because the pain doesn’t come out of nowhere. You see how much they mean to each other. You see how hard they’re trying, even when they don’t know how to say it out loud.
That’s probably why the show hit me the way it did. I’m obsessed with shows that actually take the time to show how complicated people are. How they react to pain, how they deal with guilt, how they try to protect things that feel like home even when it’s slipping out of their hands. This show sits in all of that. It drowns in it really and rooting for these characters made me feel like I was rooting for the underdogs from my neighbourhood that are trying to make it big or something.
I'd recommend this drama to anybody. I know, it's full of tragedies, but it taught me to embrace and sit with the pain no matter how big the discomfort instead of running away the moment things get bad.
Eye Candy, you will always be famous in my eyes. Shut Up: Flower Boy Band, my diamond in the rough.
With that said,
Every single episode felt like a punch in the face and then a hug right after and then I got punched again. These guys never catch a break. They get hit with things that feel way too heavy and I watched these characters get dragged through everything possible. One step forward three steps back - constantly. I get annoyed when stories do that just to keep the drama going. Not Flower Boy Band, they're different.
There’s something about the way this show handles struggle that doesn’t feel forced. The main character especially, he’s got this constant push and pull between wanting to hold things together and watching them fall apart anyway. He’s not perfect, he screws things up, but I never stopped rooting for him.
And the people around him, his friends, they’re not just side characters or plot devices. They matter. Their relationships feel lived in. Messy. Sometimes quiet, sometimes explosive, but always with weight behind them. You believe in their bond even when they’re pushing each other away. And that’s part of what makes it hurt because the pain doesn’t come out of nowhere. You see how much they mean to each other. You see how hard they’re trying, even when they don’t know how to say it out loud.
That’s probably why the show hit me the way it did. I’m obsessed with shows that actually take the time to show how complicated people are. How they react to pain, how they deal with guilt, how they try to protect things that feel like home even when it’s slipping out of their hands. This show sits in all of that. It drowns in it really and rooting for these characters made me feel like I was rooting for the underdogs from my neighbourhood that are trying to make it big or something.
I'd recommend this drama to anybody. I know, it's full of tragedies, but it taught me to embrace and sit with the pain no matter how big the discomfort instead of running away the moment things get bad.
Eye Candy, you will always be famous in my eyes. Shut Up: Flower Boy Band, my diamond in the rough.
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