Preaw played a much more convincing nang'rai here than I've ever seen her do a nang'ek. Too bad the character itself was mostly not really needed.
They stuck her around for far too long, hoping to build up angst on the last half. Now, anyone familiar with CH7 fare will just laugh seeing it -- so much for angst.
Judiciously use your skip button. This is OK if you do.
Awful dubbing by Netflix, anyone watching this in English (and likely other dubbed languages) probably did themselves a major disservice.
This is basically a feel good TV show, heavily disconnected from reality. Turning brain off is recommended, otherwise you'll mostly be 🤨throughout it all.
Park Eun-bin did great, must've been a challenge to pull it off so convincingly. But the puppy love storyline really wasn't needed, it distracts from everything else in the show.
It's also got the lazy writing trope where everything is connected to a singular incident / person. This is very weird in a episodic show like this (not quite meant for binging, too obvious if you do). Well known to have plagued Korean TV for nearly two decades (or more), here's hoping they break out of it sometime in the near future.
This is quite bad, I don't mind re-watching the same tried and true tropes. However, this was a much worse version of those same tropes devoid of any real chemistry whatsoever.
ML deserves a callout for being particularly stiff and uninteresting, terribly written.
ML is pretty much a certified loser and needed to be written better. LQ Wang's character is pointlessly clingy and exhibiting serious boundary issues too -_-'
This would be OK a decade back, but thankfully we're used to better these days.
Honestly, if you're looking for shenanigans, no one does it as well as Yui. Ignoring the snoozefest on the last few eps, this was actually quite alright.
The math savant nonsense is a bit too pretentious, and very eye-roll-y. If you take that out, you're left with a very lackluster depiction of the dumpster fire that is the Korean education system.
I'd say the current MDL rating of 7.8 is generous. This is probably a 6 on the best days.
They only really had enough material for about 10 episodes. That got stretched to 33.
The pointless Thailand and Bulgaria (?, can't tell. Was skipping hard at that point) arcs should've been entirely cut, the director and scriptwriter was clearly out of their depth for both.
About 20 episodes too long, needed to have ended by E24 or thereabouts. SFL/SML's arc could be completely cut and we'd probably not have missed much of anything.
OK watch in the absence of nothing else (combined with gratuitous fast forwarding, that is), but nothing to really write home about.
They stuck her around for far too long, hoping to build up angst on the last half. Now, anyone familiar with CH7 fare will just laugh seeing it -- so much for angst.
Judiciously use your skip button. This is OK if you do.
This is basically a feel good TV show, heavily disconnected from reality. Turning brain off is recommended, otherwise you'll mostly be 🤨throughout it all.
Park Eun-bin did great, must've been a challenge to pull it off so convincingly. But the puppy love storyline really wasn't needed, it distracts from everything else in the show.
It's also got the lazy writing trope where everything is connected to a singular incident / person. This is very weird in a episodic show like this (not quite meant for binging, too obvious if you do). Well known to have plagued Korean TV for nearly two decades (or more), here's hoping they break out of it sometime in the near future.
Overall, perhaps a solid 6.5.
Recommended!
ML deserves a callout for being particularly stiff and uninteresting, terribly written.
The murder mystery bit was very poorly done, mostly due to lack of time it appears. Still a very decent watch though, recommended.
This would be OK a decade back, but thankfully we're used to better these days.
Easily a 6, or a 7.
I'd say the current MDL rating of 7.8 is generous. This is probably a 6 on the best days.
The pointless Thailand and Bulgaria (?, can't tell. Was skipping hard at that point) arcs should've been entirely cut, the director and scriptwriter was clearly out of their depth for both.
But yeah, not good.
Cut this to 16 eps and it'll probably make sense.
OK watch in the absence of nothing else (combined with gratuitous fast forwarding, that is), but nothing to really write home about.
That being said though -- stunning visuals supremely let down by shoddy, nonsensical writing might be a rather succinct way to sum up this show.
Cotton > Box Spirit, that is all.