strawgal

For me its like watching paint dry, and I want to like it, it has one of my favourite actors in it, so I was saving it so I could give my full attention. So many hours of people trying to be cute, and acting like brainless young teens.
The make up is so whited out, plus the over use of light, their faces shine like car headlights.
I think I will just watch the last two episodes.

I do love this, but I do have to laugh. The writers have basically solved the plot problem with what do your in love characters do next, you just rinse and repeat, and a bit like Every You Every Me. It saves on cast costs, and you do not have the hassle of writing completely new characters, or casting new couple who may or may not work.
Love the OST, but does anyone know where the piano music infill originally comes from, it turns up regularly in most of these drama's, last heard by me in My Stand In.

I just do not get how the ML is so smart in her work, but has no idea how to interpret the world, its not like she has been kept in a box most of her life. When you work in any sort of working unit you soon see a lot of pond life and office politics, she only had to send a couple of emails, and ask questions, like can you send me a some information about yourself?
I also do not get the height ratio supposed cuteness, perhaps because most of my family are tall, my SIL is 2m, and its just a nuisance, hard to get clothes and shoes that fit. I just look at them and think its will be a devil finding finding furniture that fits them both.

This could turn out to be ground breaking. The direction style has that sort of twitchy spy movie feel, where you in the conversation or following someone gaze, so not the normal sort of story telling and takes a bit of getting used, just because the norm is one dimensional story telling and its just unexpected. Not in style but in content it reminds me of Gregorys Girl (1981) where you just follow some lovesick lad trying to catch his crush, so there is no real plot. Which I would recommend because its funny, if you can understand the thick Scottish accent.
The acting is very naturalistic, and depicts the time when time seems to go slowly and you just want something to happen, like now, and you fill your time with distractions. I love that the bands a bit shit, so true.

So sorry to hear this. As an oldie I think there is problem that everyone is looking for a perfect ideal, when its not completely perfect they move along, or think they are making do, when life and love is finding something or someone and working on it together.

If anyone wants to find out in greater detail there is plenty of Youtube content created by Koreans or people who are long term residents in Korea that explain the culture and problems in detail.
They say money is the root of all evil, well it certainly causes a lot of problems, and the Korean government has heavily invested in the entertainment industry,
https://www.forbes.com/sites/shainshapiro/2021/07/06/want-proof-investing-in-music-works-look-at-south-korea/
so there is no incentive to expose bad practice.
The difference between child actors in the West even if they make mistakes there is always a chance to remake your life, Many UK/US actors who have drug and another crime records but still go on to have a career .
I just feel really sad for this young women who obviously had MH issues who thought death was the only way out of her pain.

Well it was pretty good, my favourite part being the road trip and extra characters that seemed rooted in a reality.
The winner in best character for me was Dunk. He got to play against his normal casting, and I could even see him cast as the sly villain, even with the Pink Panther walk. I think the rest got to play their normal stock characters just in a different setting. If you have watched Moonlight Chicken you know First and Khao are capable of much more.
What lost if for me was the last episode, even if they only 5 years in prison, the sentence would normally 15-20 years they would look and be different. The wicked Mother just plot dressing. This is not down to the acting but the same old problem, writers not knowing how to end a plot. So deducting marks 8.5.

I agree but men tend to just move on and not think too much, TBH a lot would not be bothered with looking after their children, I speak from real life experience. I call them cuckoos, they have a child or two with their partners and them leave so the women ends up bringing up on their own, and they move on to the next nest. At least their father has tried to make them a home, with small children even with help that is hard.
The mother is manipulative IMO, if your marriage/ relationship is shaky for what ever reason do not have another child, because its not going to make things better. Then you have to use your child as reason to come back. The crumbs of why suddenly why she wants to see them, lets open a wound and them make it worse, I would imagine their father is thinking just lets get this over with because what ever he says will be misconstrued.
I would imagine Newton is equally as traumatised because he would be a bystander, and retreated in to detachment.
Its an interesting look at grief and loss, and how depending on your age in a family your childhood can be completely different even if you live together. Yotha and Faifa are just desperate for someone to love them unconditionally, which what most mothers do, and that's a heavy load for any relationship.

Old shows are relatively cheap to purchase and people want to watch them, its comfort viewing, and from Netflix point of view it makes sense. I grew up on a diet of old movies, old doesn't not mean bad content and with the demographics the age of the viewer is rising, hence so much nostalgia drama that is newly made.

I have all the major streaming services, and out of all of them is has the most watchable content, and they are prepared to take risks with new production teams, sometimes not star based. Disney has had its fingers burnt, it spent lots of money on Star Wars spin offs that in terms cost v views were a failure. Prime and Disney also use their streaming services for cross marketing and costs.
Baby Reindeer won and Emmys this year, made for a very small budget in Netflix terms, The Crown costs about $10m per ep, but had a lot of views, and its all about views v money.
All Quiet on the Western Front won four Oscars including best foreign language film and cost $20m,
So I hope they let smaller production companies have a go, and the money filters out to help other countries film and TV industries, where film and drama services are underpaid.

Watched as a couple, and if we both thought it was a great watch. Great action sequences, with some style. The plot is pretty to follow, has some sort of basis in reality, and I loved the set up of the family home and town. Be warned there are some very thin cows shown and they will not get any fatter with a handful of hay, that bothered me more than the gore.

I would have enjoyed this more if this was shorter, and had some point to the plot, it didn't need to be a romance just something with a bit of spark. To much law with cases that were a bit bland. and the big reveal why the female lead was there was just not good enough.
The main plus is all characters are based in real life, not to many tropes, and the cast has some of the most experienced actors in modern C drama, and they all know how to deliver a line.

I think Ter/Hill remained two sickly shades of white, which is such a shame as both actors are capable of much more. They could make a very dark project together and that would be interesting.
I agree whole Johan thing was a bit odd, but I sort of worked out it was the only that he could express himself, the back story then explained it. I think they could have played the comedy harder, because they both have natural comic timing.
Its like they had some high performance cars and took them for a meander around country lanes. Pleasant but unexceptional

If it had been funny perhaps it would work better. I love a bit of trash, and I am bored, and the leads acting is pretty wooden, probably how its directed.

Its relying on eye candy to gloss over the same old conventions, ie the women faints and she falls in to his arms.The two back stories, agh. The 2L's who think they are in with a chance, as if you not do not know there is absolutely no UST. There are a lot more, but you get my drift.

I must be the only one that thinks its all the old tropes repackaged but still predictable. I am not saying its terrible but swop the sex of the leads and it would be even more obvious.

I have been thinking, while cleaning, and Wa is also doing the same to Yotha. That club is virtually Yotha's home, his safe space and he keeps showing up there, and everyone wonders why he remains so angry, its like picking at a healing wound. Wa may be Newton's friend but he should think more about his brother and tell Wa you can not come here if Yotha is here, if only to try and stop the trigger. He just sits back and watches the floor show, and shakes his head.
In life you do not practice failure, if something is not working change your approach. The main thing that gives animals and people security IME is routine and predictability, and I think the tie is a metaphor for someone being reliable, Yotha gets upset when that is not there.

The Wa's explanation if still feeling responsible, he may not realise it, but its just a justification for his behavior, and again makes him feel important and valued. He is like a cheap sweet looks nice on the outside, but actually leaves a bad taste.

I love a grey shade plot, its more realistic, life and people are rarely straightforward.

I see Wa as more manipulative. You spend your time in your ex's brothers bar until late without your boyfriend, when you know your likely going see your ex, and your boyfriend will get upset. He likes younger partners that are a needy, so its not like he doesn't know what the result will be. He looks caring because he appears to stopping him from fighting but actually his repeated actions are the start of the problem, because Kloa is unable to control his emotions and he knows this, and makes Kloa look bad. I think Wa likes a feeling of superiority and control, the whole binary numbers thing, a bit smug. I am a better boyfriend because I put up with Kloa.
He actually leaned into that kiss, and then later he shows concern because his boyfriend is injured but doesn't actually physically reassure him and stay with him, and says will feel responsible for his ex until he finds a new partner. What a dick. Do you do that to someone you love?
It all sound very reasonable but it is more like gaslighting, I wonder if he did that to Yotha but he was smart enough to realise what he was doing, and that is why Yotha doesn't like him although he may have loved him, because he was being played.
In real life I am a great believer in judging people by their actions, not what they say.

There is an interesting discussion with Jason Issac's( Harry Potter) about the role of an actor and the script/direction, this may be the right clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2fZbmdwszs
A good actor can only make a script work if they are allowed choices, and sometimes the director, who is in whole charge will limit those choices. Directors like Clint Eastwood just let the actors do their thing with very little direction, so actors want to work with him, usually for not a lot of money, his films are always on budget.
The 'bean counters' want a hit, and that is usually doing the same thing, using the same actors, doing the same sort of roles, an actor can only play the roles offered. This why drama and movies have become so predicable.
I thought LMH did a really good job in Patchinko, he has real screen presence, I am watching Silo and Tim Robbins has the same sort of heft. Some people still want him to play the pretty boy, so there is a market for that and most of us need to earn money to pay bills.
Perhaps like Hugh Grant he will come back in fifteen years as something completely different.

I like the fact that it shows relationships in a more realistic, most of us will have exes for various reasons, and a split is often for a good reason, even if it didn't feel like it at the time.
I also like the fact that Boom gets to play something more than often a passive character, and his character likes a type of partner, Does he like the drama, and plays mind games? Was the kiss a bit of pay back?

Yotha is getting a dose of social exclusion, the is no point in confronting him because he will just become defensive and aggressive. I think Gun is working out what is going on, he is still hurt, and didn't kiss him back, but he is trying to understand, even Yotha says he doesn't know what to do. Its symbolic that Yotha follows Gun, because that it means Gun is actually more in control.