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The Boy Next World thai drama review
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The Boy Next World
3 people found this review helpful
by youhadmeatzb1
Mar 10, 2025
10 of 10 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 7.0
Story 6.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 7.0
Rewatch Value 6.0

Boyyyyyy What?????

I'll surmise this review by simply pleading with the gods to free BossNoeul from Mame.

I'm actually starting to believe that Love in The Air was a fluke, because every other release with her at the helm has disappointed me so much.

Pros:
- Boss' acting is so so lovely to watch. Loved seeing the expanded emotions from him that we didn't get to see in LITA.
- The NC scenes are always on fire, as expected from BN.
- Loved Wim & Jin.

Cons:
- Noeul's acting really seemed to be... I don't want to say bad, but I guess it doesn't keep speed with Boss'. Overall, I think maybe I need Noeul to step away from these kinds of overtly innocent / cute characters. Even his crying scenes bothered me and I tried to look beyond it but couldn't.
- This storyline needed so much more time to flesh out and make it WORTH the time to watch. It was trying to tell this huge massive story, but somehow it ended up falling flat with a lot of leftover questions about what everything means.
- Shouldn't need to read the book to understand the show.

Overall this series left me feeling really disappointed as a whole. We waited so so so so long to get our BN back on screen and it makes it all feel a little worse that it didn't seem to deliver. Again, I think them being under the reigns of MMY and Mame are to blame honestly.
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