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Fourever in my heart!

I loved this series so much. It was almost perfect. The pacing and editing was a bit hard to take at times, especially if you had the wrong expectations going into it. I watched it from day one and at times it was torture. Johan and North were really the shinning light of the series. I loved Hill and East too, but Jo and North were something else. I've been waiting for a good show that Bas was in and this was definitely it. Maxky came out of nowhere for me. I had never remembered him in anything I'd seen before, so he was new to me. It was a crazy experience, but I loved every minute of it. I hope Maxky and Bas continue to work together, if they want to. The BL powers that be would be crazy to let that ship go to waste. Truly lightning in a bottle.

I wish it was more consistent throughout and the dialog was almost there, but they reused a lot of lines. Those were some missed opportunities imo. However, it was only a handful of times I ever remember a couple outright saying how attracted they were to their partner. In most series it feels like they shy away from that for some reason. North even tells his mom was a handsome bf he's got lol. I love North's character so much.
I really hope they make a second season and include JohanNorth and HillTer. The whole cast is really great.

It's a drama about love lost and love reignited mixed together with the present and the past. It's only about 2 of the 4 novels. Hopefully we will be seeing the other 2 couples in season 2.

Honestly, this drama is probably an 8 or 9, but it made me feel like a 10. What a fun trip and well worth watching. See y'all for the next one.

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Didn't stick the landing, but for the first time in history...

The premise was good, the first half of it was super good and promising. Then it took a funky turn the last 3 episodes.

I'm easy though, I forgave everything because for the first time in kdrama history they lifted someones bangs to place a wet towel on someones fevered forehead when they were sick. AND, and, they didn't try and fix his hair after they took it off and his hair was a bit wild. We are living through history y'all. So, while I took points away for the messy ending episodes, I gave a full point for forehead realness 😂. It really made me that happy to see it.

It was messy, it was somehow rushed, it was jumbled the last 3 episodes, and there was way too much back and forth at the end, BUT if you can accept the ride, I'd say it's definitely worth a watch. The fire between them is no joke in the first half. They had some cute moments. I'm a sucker for dominant romances.

Idk, it wasn't horrible. I liked it well enough. We have plently of BLs to see in the future. Not the end of the world. Give it a try, maybe you'll like it, even just a little bit. On to the next BL!!

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One of the best dramas, BL or not

Oh Daon, my sweet fella. You finally got what you deserve. This series was just really great. I feel like this set a new standard for South Korean dramas, especially KBLs. It's hands down one of the best dramas I've seen. I might have taken off a half point for the rushed ending, but I couldn't because it was seriously too good to give it any less than a 10.
The story really kept you engaged and kept you guessing. I'm not going to go into all the details of why it was amazing because I'd end up spoiling everything, but if you like suspense and plot-twists, I highly suggest giving this a watch. There are some nice kisses in it too.

Thank you to all the cast and crew who worked so hard on this drama! It was a wonderful experience. Good luck to you all in the future.

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Good Premise

Super cute story when they are together. I loved the cast and the story idea is pretty great. I also love Domundi. They almost always fall a tad bit short. Idk what it is. It's something that if they'd change just a tad, they would be unstoppable/dominating all others in the industry.
I would say they play it too careful, but they don't.
Maybe it's how some of the charaters act too childish? Idk

I think it has a lot to do with how they are directed to act. They don't feel like real people. It feels like they start to over think how they are acting. If that makes sense. It kind of takes you out of the series.

Well at least we can see more of Yim's acting skills than him always doing roles that are timid, or whatever you want to call it.

It would be interesting to see if it was YimTutor instead of TutorYim. I wonder how the dynamics would change.

I really enjoyed Tutor and Yim's acting when they are their fantasy selves. I wish they could do more roles like that. I don't really think any of them are bad actors, they are all kind of stiff and too careful when they act.

Again, they showed us with the fantasy scene that they can act in a different way, so I really hope they can do more of that. Fantasy or not.

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A Winter Sun that woke the Wind in Spring

This series had nearly everything you could possibly want in it. Power struggles, scandals, bts in the entertainment industry, a touch of political influence, ex-lovers, rivals, new lovers, death, but to me, this was a true love story. An unbreakable love that, when tested, will always survive.

All of those chess pieces were trying to take down Changyang and Qinglang's love and everytime, they failed.

It starts off hopeful and dives straight into falling in love, in spring, in the mountains.

Then life crashes in and keeps crushing the main characters down, trying to force them apart. Even though force breaks their hands from each other, they still come back and hold each other's hands once more.

They both supported each other's dreams, knowing when they were ready, they would come back to each other. 5 years! It's sad that society made those choices more difficult for them, but their love was top priority for them. And I whole-heartily agree. To love and be loved is the greatest thing you will ever know.

Does it have a good ending? Yes
Is it happy? For the main characters, yes
Do people die? A lot

Thank you to everyone who made this drama. It's so special and will never be forgotten.

As the sun comes up and wakes the new day, I feel lighter and full having watched this seires.

Kuma and LJY 🐻🐳 ❤️

Day -0 of missing them 🐻 🐳

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Blew my mind

I am still struggling to wrap my head around this show. The plottwist(s), were mind blowing/bending.

I thought I knew the plottwist going into it, but I had 0 idea. I wish the ending was longer and exained more. This could have easily gone another 12 episodes. It didn't drag at all.

They chemistry between Ollie and Shu Yuan is outstanding. The director really knew what he wanted and how to make it happen. I'm still so flabbergasted by this series and like any good series, I wish there was more!

Congratulations to the cast and crew. You did a fantastic job 👏. It was amazing from the opening until the very end.

Definitely deserving of day -1 of missing them 🩺🎬

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What the what?!?

Friends to lovers. It's always nice to see it play out and I'm always curious how they will cross that friend line. I wish they'd take more chances and give us more to hold onto. Nothing was really different from any other drama. I thought the premise was friends to lovers, but the ending seemed like it was trying to say something else?

It kind of felt a bit choppy throughout and that ending was interesting. Idk I feel like Eun Ho has decided to make more of his life now, but no matter what, it still includes Do Hyeon. It might have been better to have a few more episodes to show how he changed his life going forward because now I don't really get why it was all a dream and from what part was it a dream? I guess it was before Do Hyeon's bday so he already liked him... idk. It was choppy.

The dream to me was fine, but wtf was the "we are always in this summer". Like a time loop? It was unclear. Idk if there is a novel about this show or not, but I'm a big believe in not having to read the book to understand the live adaptations. A lot was unclear.

Worth a watch, better luck next time. ✌️

Update: umm so apparently that dream wasn't what most people thought. This is what I'm talking about. This show is kind of confusing if you haven't read the story its based on. Literally 30 seconds more of him snapping back to his older swlf would have been helpful 😅

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Hold On, Sui Senpai

I'm not really sure why it's called, 'Hold On, Harutora-Kun'. They both had their struggles, but it felt like Sui was really struggling. He was outed by his first roomate and relentless teased/bullied by his classmates. He was also almost taken advantage of a couple times for being gay.

It had a lot of serious issues that they dealt with, but there were cute moments.

I'd like to see a 2nd season of them going to college together. That'd be nice. Their NC scenes weren't amazing, but it felt kind of like how it is when your figuring out what to do and how to do certain things. It had clumsy spots that felt more realistic. It felt more like a LGBTQ story than BL imo.

Give it a try, its worth a watch at least once.

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Oh so close, but not close enough

*sigh* Japan tricked me again. I have literally only found like 3 Jdramas that are swoon worthy. Everything else is just bittersweet with an emphasis on the bitter. This was one of them, until the last 2 episodes. While there are many types of love, I will NEVER believe you can truly be in love with someone and they be in love with you but they still separate because "love can't overcome everything". Yes love can overcome everything. It's not easy, but its not the love part thats not easy, its the choices you make, the sacrifices you make for love. I'm not talking about maybe being in love, I'm talking about your soulmate love. This had a lot of that but, they switched it at the end to "lets become better people first". I can understand that to an extent, but not the way this drama did it with a contract at the end.

I totally agree having a relationship with a minor is bad and a big no no. I do not think she was at fault for swaying him at all. Meaning, they didn't show or suggest she did in any way. He was very aggressive towards her in the beginning and running hot later as well. Yes, he was 15, so its somewhat understandable. But, also, so what? Are we not holding teenagers responsible for their emotional actions at all just because they are young? That's ridiculous to me.

If you want to talk about power dynamics, lets talk about it. The teacher is pretty small and not strong. Physically, he can over take her. Her power as a teach/adult was full on challenged from episode 1. Yes, she should have reported the slap he gave her in the hallway. But what would they have done? Nothing. They would have asked that she let it go. Which was what they did when that other kid spread harmful rumors about her on the website. It impacted her job and life. She was told to let it slide by the head of the school.

Being a pedophile means you like children in an inappropriate way. She did and does not! The way they wrote it was "right soulmate at the wrong time". She did not act on anything and tried to stay clear of him. Again, he was the aggressor in all of these situations. You couldn't even tell she had any feelings for him until she slightly admitted it half way through the seires.
Yes, it is wrong.

Now that's out of the way.

I really wish she would have stuck to her decision to be with him and not sign that stupid contract. To me, that was stupid. They ended up together anyway. It would have been a whole lot better if they just talked it through and said they were going to become better people and to "wait for me" kind of deal. Instead, they literally said "bye bye" to each other like they would never see each other again. Stupid.

When are they going to make a drama that really does stick to "to hell with everyone else, I'm not giving up my soulmate."? Thats what I was really hoping for in this. That is what they kept acting like. But instead we get a lot of promises of them both saying and acting like they will be together no matter what, to then throw it out the window, and then at the very last 15 seconds get back together. *sigh*

The mother of the teen was insufferable. I didn't empathize with the teacher he was in love with, I was fully feeling the teen when I watched this because I have also felt that way in those years. My mother did a similar thing to me and I think it's crazy. Rather than getting angry and dismissing your teens feelings, you should try and reach out more and understand. Telling someone not to feel or that they are wrong about how they feel won't change a persons feelings, it will only make them hide them. And when he was 18, ugh, her getting the police involved at that point was dumb and controlling. If she really had an issue with it, she should have called them when he was 15 to report it.
She said many times that he was acting crazy before that teacher even showed up.
That teacher literally gave him a goal and purpose when he had no direction in the beginning.

Love can overcome anything with the right person and no one can ever tell me any different.

The only reason I'm giving it 7 is because they got together at the end. If they didn't get together, I would have given it a 1. There were some good and endearing parts that really touched me, but mostly skippable moments when they weren't together, which was a lot of it.

Just my opinion. Not judging anyone else. If you are looking for a great romance drama, this isn't it. Still, I'd say try it. See if you like it. Maybe you will.

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Depth of Field - Hishakai Shindo

It felt like a coming of age story. I had no real knowledge of it before watching it, and I'm kind of glad I didn't. I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I might.

The characters seemed fresh and new to me. I wish there was more backstory developed for Konno Ryohei. It was kind of hard to connect with him until later, but Hirano Koshu really surprised me in those last episodes. I felt like I could feel his longing and angst.
The plot didn't seem to know what it wanted to do sometimes. Felt a bit choppy while moving forward.

The one thing I always wish with these series is for a proper ending. They always feel super rushed. All and all I thought it was good.

Give it a try. It's a short watch.

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I absolutely loved it!

The way this story made me feel was 100/100. 🥰💯. It was probably like a 8.5/10, but because how it made me feel I can't give it less than a 10.

My 17 year old cat passed away about a month before this started. He loved to watch all the dramas with me. He would either tuck himself snug by my stomach or he would be standing up straight by the corner of my bed while watching the show. He genuinely liked to watch my dramas with me. This was one of the first dramas I started watching again after... I felt everything deeper when I watched this. I wish he could have watched it with me and listened to the songs too. ❤️

I wish the epsiodes were longer and the story was written a bit better and more full. It got kind of messy at some points. They glossed over some things. Some things they didn't let permeate fully.
At times they went in a direction that didn't make sense, but overall, at the heart of it, the story is really great.
Dealing with many traumas. Losing someone close and having to deal with the after effects ontop of actue stage fright is almost impossible.

To me the theme is love is so powerful, it can help you move forward. I relate to this alot. I've had it happen to me before. Love is so powerful and healing.

The songs were amazing. If the story was developed a little bit more and they added more songs omg... perfect. I didn't expect the chemistry between the two main leads. I had my doubts, but again, it was amazing. Those two were really something. So much so, I wish they'd do more bls together. ❤️

I have a bit of a rant about something I've been seeing a lot more now that we are getting series with 2 or more languages in the same seires...
I personally love when they have multiple languages. Again, something I've personally experience so its not strange or unreal to me. It actually makes me excited. And its not like it doesn't make sense. They literally told us Orca was an exchange student. It was super cool to see Neil befriend him and bring him into his circle. It shows Neil's charater trait of being kind and friendly.
People can't interact with each other if they don't speak the same language? They explained what it was and they even still showed the difficulties of the language barrier. To me that is very realistic from personal experience.
I'm not sure why people hate on it so much. It's translated anyways. For most of us, it's not like you're not watching a show that you can understand without subtitles anyway. Adding another language is fine. It makes it more real, like they are interacting with other people other than in their comfort zone. It helps bridge us together globally. It surprises me that people who hate on multiple languages in a series are the same ones who looks for different languages to watch than their own.
End of rant.

Overall, it was an amazing experience and kept me counting down the hours to watch it. I really hope Charles and Michael work together again ❤️.

Thank you to everyone who worked hard on this series. The actors, the behind the scenes crew, the writers, and director. 👏 👏 👏

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An experience like very few others

Suggestion:

If you watch the series, don't read comments and spoilers, don't even read the synopsis lol, just go watch it. There are plot twists. I sadly knew some of the major ones and while I'm kind of glad I knew what going to happen, I would have felt everything much deeper and I would have wailed my eyes out a lot more if I hadn't seen anything.

I'm not trying to over sell it. This drama could have been more polished. I'm not saying it's the "best drama ever", but the way it made me feel was undeniable. That is what makes it one of the best dramas to me.

Review: **Spoilers**

Oh man, this series made me feel a certain way. I will truly miss it. A big thank you to the actors, director, screen writer, cast, and crew for this beautiful series. You all did a fantastic job creating something different.

I like the premise of it. I think it would be cool to see another BL that kept with the theme of a different story line for each episode because they are soul mates finding each other again. Like the synopsis, but what this was, was interesting too.

Each episode was pretty good. Especially, with the time contraints. Trying to show us a complete story in less than an hour for some of the episodes was ambitious, but I feel like they did it well. The seires was just over all different.
The tears were real, the emotions were raw, it was just a beautiful experience and I'm glad I was apart of it.

I feel like Top and Mick shot up to the top of "need to watch actors". I know Top has another project coming up with a different pairing, but I think Top and Mick's chemistry is insanely good. Too good to waste. I really hope they work together again.

If they can find their way back to doing more projects together in the future, it feels like they could really hone their craft better and work extremely well with each other.
While I don't really "ship" people (I'm more of a "shipper lite". As in, I like to see people with good chemistry together, but if they don't they don't and if they do they do.), they could be one of the top ships in the industry, if they wanted to.
It's hard being an actor, but it's freaking hard being a BL actor imo. If you can master it, that in itself deserves accolades.
But it might not be their goals. They both definitely have more potential to show us and I can't wait.

The OST was basically 1 song, "Every Tears" by Sin. But that 1 song had a deep impact on me and added to this experience. I've had it on repeat and it brings me back to the series when I listen to it. I wish I could find an English lyric version of it on yt, but so far the only translation of the lyrics I've seen are when they translate it on the show. 10/10 beautiful.

The last episode was a little rushed and messy, but considering the series is only 8 episodes and they didn't get to "their story" until the last epsiodes, I think the actors both did a fantastic job.

Overall it was a 10/10 for me.

❤️❤️❤️❤️Every You, Every Me❤️❤️❤️❤️

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The Knot Came Undone ?

Sooooo disappointing. The trailer was so hot, thrilling, and dark. This show was NOTHING like the trailer. I understand they need to make a trailer/plot to get investors, but where the f*ck is the heat? It turned into a tepid bath with no bubbles, no lights, no music, and got colder and colder by the second. They literally managed to make it fluffy when its supposed to be serious and dark, and the fluff was not even a good fluff.

They repeated scenes, using the same dialog over and over and over, and it was so boring! I swear one episode 6 of them were in a room together, 3 had lines and it was like them talking for 5 mins, then awkward pauses, then the other 3 actors would almost reiterate the same lines again for another 5 mins. It was uninteresting and boring. It breaks my heart to say that, but I never made it through the rest of the series without saying how boring it was in every episode.

Honestly, the "story" wasn't the problem, it was the writing and directing. Probably, mostly, the writing. They had a good premise, but it felt undeveloped and poorly executed.

I did like that they used the Omegaverse terms, but I feel like they did it in an overly dramatic way, like explaining Omega and Alpha to each other repeatedly. Idk it was, I seriously struggled to get through this, even with 2x speed and/or skipping scenes altogether.

⚠️ SPOILER ALERT ⚠️

Phatsa gets pregnant, but then the show literally ends. We don't get to see the pregnancy, the baby, or anything. They showed more in 'ABO Desire'. 🙄 They might have a special episode, but they had 12 hour+ long episodes to show the baby and family. I'll probably skim through it tbh.

I loved that Nakhun took on Phatsa's pregnancy symptoms.

I guess part of it was my fault for expecting too much. I excepted the storyline to be slightly better from 'My Stubborn', more coherent, and it was in some areas, but it was so much worse in every other way. The only reason I gave it a 5 stars was because I love BoatOat.

2 good things in this drama were BoatOat and Boat's pretty song that plays sometimes, which is why I gave the music such a high score. That opening song is so bad imo.

The trailer version never being made into a full drama will always be a crime. I guess it's still a good step for the Omegaverse and for the whole cast. It's not even the worst show I've seen and I usually tell people they should give shows a chance, but I don't even want to for this one. 😕

Boat and Oats NC scenes are good, so there's that. Idk maybe you'll like it, lots of other people seemed to like it. Cheers to you if you watch it. Susu!

Better luck next time ✌️

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Falling into Another Midtrap

The story had a lot of good plots. The cats are cute, the guys and girls are cute. There are a lot of sweet moment, kisses, etc.

The thing I could not stand was the lead actress. She was so stiff the whole time. Super annoying to me. I tried to look at her from different ways, but I very much disliked whatever personality she was trying to play. I've never seen her in anything else so I'm not sure how she is as an actress in general.

I really struggled to get through it. No hate to anyone who likes it. I watched it not knowing what to expect, but it was not for me at all. I didn't drop it mostly to find out how it ended.

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