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Record of Youth esp. the fashion show & runway scenes.

Loads of charisma. He stood out in Record of Youth, which was somewhat mediocre otherwise. Great in 20th Century Girl.

It seems that people seriously want to ban sad endings? In all movies and dramas?

Getting the feels (laughter, tears) from a drama is good. It's very good. It's a blessing. When people say they get depression from sad endings, it's worrisome. Many people say they were harmed. Is that a joke or just a way of speaking? I don't think so. In any case, producers and writer are getting so much s*** thrown at them for the ending. Are we just going to get happy endings in the future? That would really be a nightmare & a massive mistake. What I see is a lot of people who are afraid of breaking like glass from sadness or sad endings. That can't be. It's not how we should think. I encourage you to really put some thought to what I'm trying to say here.

Going to drop this at ep 4. The plotholes and illogicalities are getting too much for me. I had the same problem with Sisyphus, W and the King the Eternal Monarch. But I started watching hoping this would be something like Circle, or Search, which are both excellent. Whodunnit genre is too old and not me even with 2 worlds involved.

I find that people somehow believe they are made of glass. I don't believe that's good for them. A movie or drama cannot cause trauma, depression, or heartbreak. Only real life problems and challenges can. If you think you're made of glass and not able to bear sadness, how will you cope with real life.

Plenty to watch, plenty to read. I watch Chinese movies from classics to contemporary. You can't mandate people should watch what you consider worthy.

I warmly recommend this drama for all those who love well written witty dialogue and interesting down-to-earth characters. This is unlike any other k-drama, it's fresh and quirky in a good way. The writers did a really great job, all actors are (maybe) in the best roles of their life. Especially the 3 female leads are outstanding. The side characters are all delicious. Son Seok Koo has little screentime but is particularly delightful. The last episode foregrounds the meta aspect a little too much for my liking (lowered my grading from 9 to 8.5.) And warning for those not fond of k-pop: the shampoo song (ost main theme) is absolutely unbearable.

the worst thing you can do to yourself is to imagine you'll be "broken" by a sad ending because believe me you don't get better by believing you're made of glass. This discussion is crazy and harmful. People will experience difficulties in RL and be must focus on those. Imagining that getting sad from a drama is somehow harmful is just not sane.

very true. whatever is going on with the talk about being "destroyed" by a drama, it's inexcusable. People suffer in the real world.

People you just can't get depression from a sad ending. It is a work of fiction. Have to be able to make that distinction between fiction and reality. If you get "damaged" by fiction, you need to be whisked off into a war zone asap, or observe domestic violence, or interview victims of human trafficking. If there's a cloud somewhere where people live without any real world problems, I still wouldn't want to be there. A movie and a drama that gives you the feels, laugh or cry, is a blessing.

Finished the drama a couple of weeks ago. Difficult to say anything else than that this is without any doubt one of the best dramas ever made. Maybe even the best. I'm rarely at a loss for words, but it's such a strong experience. The last ten episodes are so intense it felt like a ton weighing on my chest. But all that happened is completely in line with history (that I studied later). Also universally, power and politics, private lives and loyalties, cannot always be matched. What was unexpected (and wonderful) was how Mu Hyul turned out to be such a key character. All I can say, this drama has everything that I could have hoped for and more, it's stunning. Everything, the music, cinematography, acting, pacing, directing and of course and especially, the writing. I discovered that these writers have written another huge fave of mine, Arthdal Chronicles, which sadly didn't get the full run of 50 episodes that it was meant to have. But I'm waiting to recover a little and then I'll be watching Tree With Deep Roots.

Zero interest in c-dramas (costumes...who cares?). To recommend something for us AoS fans suffering from withdrawals, I would recommend Six Flying Dragons. It's for me perhaps the best k-drama ever made.

Enjoyed this a lot. Classic vibes (things like the train station scene), well paced, fantastic acting. More like a drama special than a movie, but really sweet.

She's supposed to be an intelligent woman lol. The writing doesn't make her so.

It doesn't matter since there's a growing mass of raters, luckily the ratings almost always settle to be fairly accurate

Now we're finally at the set of the reality show and it's getting so much better!

I want to unsee all the scenes with PMY exercising aka showing off her body. It's somehow so cringey/off. Her body being shown/paraded would be fine if it's for men watching the drama. But I don't think many men watch the drama. My point being that the screentime could have been spent on some meaningful dialogue. Or Sang Eun's deeper thoughts about her life and future. The writing is somewhat chunky and immature and director could have chosen better.

I just watch the performances from YT, over and over again. The rest is not interesting to me at all (why the scripted drama has to be made... beats me. That made SFW unwatchable). Mega Crew Challenges are so high quality. Creative. Art.

I couldn't watch this one. It felt amateurish, too. There's fluff and cringey fluff and for me this went clearly to the latter category. Got into watching Melo is My Nature, instead, and am happy having found a much better choice.