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Started off with Fun and Sexy Flirting but ended with a predictable plot and cringe lines.
Subjective Gut Rating: 8.25
The drama was going so well in the college-day timeline, but then lost its sparks a little in the last couple episodes. “Safe Skies, Archer” started off with some of the sexiest flirting I’ve seen in an Asian drama. There’s a lot of curse words and sex talk (but nothing too sexually explicit), so beware.
Krissha Viaje is such a beautiful and sexy actress, and is perfectly casted as Yanna. If I’m a guy, I would be attracted to her, too. Jerome Ponce might not be my kinda handsome, and he looks way too old to be a college student. And what is up with his sweater-on-shoulder preppy look. But he has good chemistry with Krissha and played a kind and caring, yet just as flirty Hiro. Her straightforward and a little overdramatic flirting is perfectly matched with his more subtle but just as shameless flirting. Most of the drama focuses on their university days and how they started as FUBUs (Fuck Buddies) and ended up falling in love.
However, I was somewhat disappointed in how they parted ways. I wish the novelist/scriptwriter would have found a more original and less cliche way for them to break up. When they met again after the time slip, those last 2.5 episodes are dominated by the storyline on the reason they parted. I miss their early episodes’ fun chemistry and sexy flirting. Unfortunately, as my friend @Shiro wrote in her review, the last 2 episodes were cringe. I would say the last episode is the worst with lines coming straight out of a textbook of the most popular cringe lines ever. Maybe this is the style of Filipino rom-coms that I am not quite used to yet.
The plot is predictable but enjoyable for the most part. There are some things that I question the logic behind the action, but nothing too outrageous. The characters really didn’t do much aside from drinking, partying, and flirting. All our leads did was eating, drinking, flirting, sex and traveling to have more sex. They do have some nice conversations and show a more vulnerable side of Yanna, and the green-flag personality of Hiro. The girlfriend circle is fine and none of the girls is annoying. I did not watch the first series, “The Rain in Espana” and the drama didn’t confuse me at all. I had a glimpse of Luna and Kalix here and I am not interested in their personalities and acting to watch “The Rain in Espana”. Now, I do want to follow Sam’s story in “Avenues of the Diamond”.
Even though the last 3 episodes are not as enjoyable as the first 7, I did have a good time watching “Safe Skies, Archer”. The flirting is just too much fun. It’s an easy binge for a romance fix. I might have found some lines cringey, but you might eat it all up.
Completed: 5/23/2025 - Review #579
The drama was going so well in the college-day timeline, but then lost its sparks a little in the last couple episodes. “Safe Skies, Archer” started off with some of the sexiest flirting I’ve seen in an Asian drama. There’s a lot of curse words and sex talk (but nothing too sexually explicit), so beware.
Krissha Viaje is such a beautiful and sexy actress, and is perfectly casted as Yanna. If I’m a guy, I would be attracted to her, too. Jerome Ponce might not be my kinda handsome, and he looks way too old to be a college student. And what is up with his sweater-on-shoulder preppy look. But he has good chemistry with Krissha and played a kind and caring, yet just as flirty Hiro. Her straightforward and a little overdramatic flirting is perfectly matched with his more subtle but just as shameless flirting. Most of the drama focuses on their university days and how they started as FUBUs (Fuck Buddies) and ended up falling in love.
However, I was somewhat disappointed in how they parted ways. I wish the novelist/scriptwriter would have found a more original and less cliche way for them to break up. When they met again after the time slip, those last 2.5 episodes are dominated by the storyline on the reason they parted. I miss their early episodes’ fun chemistry and sexy flirting. Unfortunately, as my friend @Shiro wrote in her review, the last 2 episodes were cringe. I would say the last episode is the worst with lines coming straight out of a textbook of the most popular cringe lines ever. Maybe this is the style of Filipino rom-coms that I am not quite used to yet.
The plot is predictable but enjoyable for the most part. There are some things that I question the logic behind the action, but nothing too outrageous. The characters really didn’t do much aside from drinking, partying, and flirting. All our leads did was eating, drinking, flirting, sex and traveling to have more sex. They do have some nice conversations and show a more vulnerable side of Yanna, and the green-flag personality of Hiro. The girlfriend circle is fine and none of the girls is annoying. I did not watch the first series, “The Rain in Espana” and the drama didn’t confuse me at all. I had a glimpse of Luna and Kalix here and I am not interested in their personalities and acting to watch “The Rain in Espana”. Now, I do want to follow Sam’s story in “Avenues of the Diamond”.
Even though the last 3 episodes are not as enjoyable as the first 7, I did have a good time watching “Safe Skies, Archer”. The flirting is just too much fun. It’s an easy binge for a romance fix. I might have found some lines cringey, but you might eat it all up.
Completed: 5/23/2025 - Review #579
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