The sooner you finish it, the sooner you'll want to start it over again
I had high expectations for this drama and thank God I wasn't disappointed!I won't talk about He Yu and his Jin Zhao because his acting is great and the character is the perfect modern version of Prince Charming without being excessively cheesy. Caring, madly in love, sexy, stubborn, troubled...the perfect mix!
I want to focus more on Mu Mu. Either you love her or you hate her, but even with her flaws she seems to always perfectly fit in the moment. After a few episodes you can predict her every reaction, but this doesn't turn her into a boring character. This because I think that in Chinese dramas' girls are much more than Korean FL for exemple.
In kdrama girls are either crazy bitches or shy and defenseless damsel. In the cdramas I watched, instead, you find iron ladies pretending to be weak, acting like innocent little girls, when in reality they are ironical, mischievous, funny, brave and strong, focused on their goals and faithful to their feelings and selfs.
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Thanks to the reviews...
Lately when I see a new Thai BL coming out I automatically scroll past it because I expect another silly comedy with always the same spicy scenes. I'm not much into this kind of romance products (above all when set in a school/university environment) so I simply move on and forget it.It happened with this drama too, also thanks to the Italian translation of the title that suggested me I would have to endure a hundred cringy lines pretending to be funny about fear and regret towards God and church.
But then I read a review stating that this BL was something different, more mature and telling a relatable story about coming of age and self recogniztion.
I jumped into it straight away and wasn't disappoint a bit.
This is the kind of dramas I like: deep, true and well directed (no sensless scenes cuts or jumping from a scene to the other without any connection).
Moreover, these "serious" dramas let the actors show their real value, how good they can act even just with a glace.
Thank God reviews were invented.
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You will need a huge suspension of disbelief...
...as Coleridge said. Nothing makes sense in this drama, starting from Ever 9.An AI created to treat emotional issues that has more emotional issues than the human he's supposed to help. Please tell me that I missed something or I missunderstood something because this doesn't make any sense.
It's the classical fast-paced BL, so I didn't expect many explanations or a slow-burning story, but the cold-hearted main lead fell in love without much esitation with this robot and it doesn't make any sense to me. May it happened because Ever 9 kissed him straight away without any apparent reason? No sense.
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Fluffy fairy tale with a lesson to teach
A simple, even though a little unlikely, story that will entertain you without much effort. But if you go beyond the surface, there's an important lesson to learn, something that is often lacking in tv series (doesn't matter the country): problems and obstacles can be overcome with honesty and by speaking one's mind. To keep your feelings, thoughts and fears to yourselves can only lead go missunderstandigs and ruin a possible good relationship.Talking about the characters, FL was a little exasperated, over the top. I found her sweet, but bothersome at times.
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The many faces of Yang Yang
The first time I saw Yang Yang was in cdrama "You are my glory". I was blinded by his beauty, entertained by the story, but I found him and his acting a little stiff. It seemed like he had just one or two expressions and kept using them over and over again.Then I started this drama and found a versatile actor, able to portray the different stages and attitudes of a boy growing up, facing hardship and finding his way in the world despite everything.
FL was very good too and I really appreciated her duality: strong and resolute in her job, fragile and insecure in her private life.
Leaving aside action and hospital scene, which weren't so realistic (and the toxic mother which we are unfortunately used to), the relationships portrayed are quite realistic and engaging.
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Why didn't I have it on my watch list before?
When I find a masterpiece like this one I wish I started watching kdramas before.Although I am usually more into funny rom-coms, sometimes I need something more serious and that's when I find the true worth-watching series.
No flaws, no useless content or scenes. All characters follow their path, find their way and development.
The plot is so perfect that I would have been ok even with a sad ending, but the authors gifted us an unexpexted happy ending giving way to pure romance.
If I really want to find a defect, the few kissing scenes were not so passionate, but I could live with that.
Lee Jun Ho astonishing...almost beyond the acting of Seo In Guk in "The smile has left your eyes" (which I found a materpiece as much as this drama, but at times pissed me off a little more).
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Smooth as silk
Apparently nothing really happens in this cdrama, but once you get started you won't get enough of them. A simple love story that will entertain you with complicit glances, irony and a lot of tenderness. If we go beyond the sport storyline, they are an avarage boy falling in love with an avarage girl, living their story in a very realistic way, without silly missunderstings, without useless dramas or traumas.And..please tell me that the two main leads dated in real life because they had such a great chemistry!
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What's wrong with these Asian screenwriters??
I started watching this movie while I was ironing clothes and I didn't have any particular expectation. Halfway through the film I grabbed the iron backwards and burbed my hand so much I was captured by the plot, I was enjoying the funny scenes and the acting..and then it happened again..Ok sending ML away and having him disappear at a certain point, it may happen, I can take it...but why did he have to die???
In Western films and series, the great problem would have been the reaction of the best friend when realizing that the boy she likes fell in love with FL and was reciprocated. Here she acts so mature (as they always do in kdramas) and friendship is saved, so why did it have to end like this???
I think I will watch this film over and over again, but alway stopping at the train station scene. A goodbye is always better than a farewell.
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Just relax and enjoy this funny drama
If you take it for what it is, a light and superficial love story, you'll enjoy watching it. It made me laugh and smile several times. But if you pay a closer attention you will notice that there is no really positive relationship, characters are either selfish and self-centred or childish. Maybe the only mature character is Solo's daughter. Anyway this drama never bored me and I found the male lead really convicing un his alternation of arrogant stubborness and cute naivety. That's the reason for a high rating.Was this review helpful to you?
All we need is love
Romance drama with capital R. The story is a little complicated, time shifts make it sometimes hard to follow, but if you are looking for romance you absolutely cannot miss it!The chemistry between ML and FL is awsome and their acting is sooo good. I could feel every single feeling they were representing.
Also the theme of the outcast is well portrayed and describes in a very realistic way how too many teenagers, but also adults, feel about themselves and the people around them. Maybe this aspect was solved in a too simplistic and rushed way, but this because the focus of the drama was mainly love and predestination I think.
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