I always had the feeling that they (or he, 1 person with several profiles) didn't actually even read the book and that he hadn't watched The Dude in Me. LOL.
Dropped after 30 mins of ep 1. Writing quality is varying too much. FL seems rather empty-headed. Maybe that was not the writers' intention though; I get the feeling that they are not fully controlling the tone of the drama, or not reaching where they were aiming at. I couldn't feel any empathy for the FLs. And Jun Eun Jin is not best suited for comedy (she was good in Blood but pls the bangs must go). Choi Jin Hyuk is a comedy genius. I was tempted to watch by skipping only to his parts. He's the kind of an actor who is interesting to watch even when he's just sitting and doing nothing. But I decided that a drama that tempts me to skip already in the 1st ep is a waste of time. I'd be better off rewatching Zombie Detective, although it's not a perfect drama, it is both sad and funny and managed to move my feelings from the start.
Ji Sung's best work yet, imo. Now he's even better than in Devil Judge or Defendant. Jeon Mi Do's best work also. This is getting better and better! Thriller with grey characters, bravo.
High-End Crush is High-End Cringe and those who don't watch BL I'd recommend: - One Day Off - Hope or Dope (S1, S2) - Here's My Plan And KBS drama specials, which are almost always good and oftentimes even better (free form, experimental) than box office hits.
Someone said that western Netflix series and movies have mandatory LGBTQA+ representation. That is really true…
the mandatory gay representation is mostly a stereotyped representation, a comical sidekick. I don't hate (forgodssakes learn to say "don't like" instead of using the hate speech) those representations but Korean dramas are superior. I wasn't telling how I personally feel but about how the world works. I guess the fact that there are people who are actually interested in these things may be a novel idea to you. But you know, if cosmetics brands are marketed by a black model, I would naturally assume the color palettes are for black skin. Just commonsense but the neither the brand or the advertising agency are able to apply commonsense principles and that's why DEI rules are financially not helpful. I don't assume you'd know the Budweiser case.
The web novel is not the original work but the movie The Dude in Me on which the web novel is based. Nobody complained…
Someone said that western Netflix series and movies have mandatory LGBTQA+ representation. That is really true in fact. The DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) rule means that series and movies cannot compete for Golden Globes or Oscars without minority representation. I don't personally watch western dramas or movies anymore. The reason is mainly that k-dramas are superior and for me, but a minor factor also is that mandatory minority representation in every series gets tiresome and has a sidetracking effect. A western drama has a production company which is mostly funded by the major global investment funds and shareholders like Blackrock, and those shareholders are very strict about DEI rules and minority representation. In the end this means that if a European country has a 90 % caucasian population their advertisements will still represent 50 % people of color and minority models (you might call that blackwashing which sounds mean but actually those companies cannot really financially function without obeying the DEI rule). Now you know how the world works today, outside of this minor bubble we're in.
Smells like "High school return of a gangster." 🤣🤣😂😂
Yes, there was a writing competition to turn this movie into a drama. The web novel on which the drama High School Return of a Gangster is based was therefore free of copyright issues. This movie is the original work.
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- One Day Off
- Hope or Dope (S1, S2)
- Here's My Plan
And KBS drama specials, which are almost always good and oftentimes even better (free form, experimental) than box office hits.