A show covered that comes in good quality packaging but the actual product…….sucks.
I was sure I had found a unpopular Netflix gem, that’s my first mistake because Netflix produces more hot trash than good shows.I started this show hoping the pacing will be good and that the supernatural aspect will be used well. However, the first 2 eps builds up this hope and sets this scene for ABSOLUTELY nothing good ahead. At ep6 itself I clocked this was going to be bad but I thought I was being impatient and not letting the story play out completely. But even after I held on….i was right, i want my time back!!
ONE GOOD THIS ABOUT THIS DRAMA: The actors actually act, most are decent/good and the production is actually nice and great enough to keep my attention.
MY RANT ON WHY THIS SHOW SUCKS and no I’m not being dramatic or hateful.
They could’ve def made a decent short show with the scam organization plot but they decided to sabotage everything.
The scenes are misleading the viewer consistently to have it’s own story going on in the back to quote on quote sell a thriller with suspense and twists that NO will see coming .
It felt like this was a project that they tried out to see if it will garner any attention however, I haven’t personally seen any major promotion for this so idk what they were really even aiming for.
The reason I won’t say this plot has holes is because……the plot was actually never truly there. Like of course story like this is interesting and CAN have a lot of twists but this one just has major plot points and scenes that need to be shown but the sequence to those events and flow towards it are all SO not there. It’s like sticking something together but the glue isn’t there or rather it’s so poor in quality that the papers will fall apart eventually.
The story itself about scam centers could have def been a good watch if told well with a compelling story and not just the same old same old messed up things happen, the ‘protagonists’ try to get revenge and have a fight, then some losses happen and they TOTALLY shift their entire goal. THEN, the show ends with a potential sequel.
By the end of the show I stopped trying to figure out what is even happening cause they could quite literally start doing anything at that point. ANYHOW, I wanted to drop this right at the 6ep point because by that time I realized I was, once again, scammed by the drama being good quality visually and acting wise, and watched a complete waste of my time ;D The reason I finished is to shit on it after COMPLETELY finishing it so I can be SURE it sucks. But finishing it made me even more mad and my rating was at least going to be 5.5 but now it’s being dropped down to 3.5 JUST BECAUSE I hate Netflix and their obsession with not being able to tell a good story or ruinning any good source material OR adding 500 seasons to a show that doesn’t even deserve the original one.
Edit: i totally forgot to mention this one point that made me absolutely SO furious and that's the use of the supernatural powers. The whole story is set in a fictional place called 'Benkha' but truly i'm sure everyone can tell where it's TRULY set in so im not going to elaborate. They just used the fictional aspect to avoid any actual portrayal of real events and made it easy to just not care about cultural nuances, the language differences and even the law in that particular place.
From what i can remember, the little boy in ep1 turned to ash because 7days had passed. Which would mean, shih kai would also dissapear in one week time HOWEVER, you can't convince me that everything that happened, happening in a weeks time frame. Like WDYM THEY WERE TRAVELLING BY AIRPLANE BACK AND FOURTH SO MANY TIMES AND IT'S ONLY BEEN A WEEK ???
If the time frame to disappear was actually more than 1 week or based on something else, then that should be clear to viewer but it's not.
That's why it made me even more mad when the supernatural powers are being used only in the end to show that jinjin has a more 'GRAND PLAN' along with the 'Big boss' who we were not previously aware of. The use of magic was only done in the start and only re-appears in the end to sell the viewer on a potential season 2 and i can ALREADY TELLL IT'S GOING TO SUCK AGAIN so yeah,,,,i won't be tuning in and im already mad enough i gave this attention when i could've watched other things tsk tsk.
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A coming of age story done right.
Highschool themed dramas are a rare watch for me these days. So i was pleasantly surprised that a teen led kdrama which is also a webtoon adaptation managed to amaze me this much!!This show's greatest strength is definitely the cast as well as the characters. Not one boring or dull character to watch. Of course not every single one had a complete arc in this show but that may be due to the fact that this is a webtoon adaptation and could possibly have more seasons *wink wink* anyhow the cast for spirit fingers club/group really did well portraying their individual characters well. I rarely find myself wishing for something fictional to be real and in this instance, the spirit fingers club is one of them. It feels so heartwarming to see this found family type of setting that really helped nurture the growth of the FL so much!
I def think the romance in this is so darn cute i couldn't help but squeal !! I love the dynamic between the two leads and their awkward and angsty tension with romance. I have been CONVINCED to read the webtoon asap so i get to see their romantic development for a while as i'm a slow reader and it would be fun to witness their romantic development.
If i have to convince anyone to watch this drama, i'd just say that it's probably one of the best dramas i've seen this year and probably the only school drama i've enjoyed thoroughly in a long time.
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