K-Drama 
Maxky + Jeng: Best part of the show.
I love Maxky’s comedy. His comedic timing is probably one of the few things that consistently worked in this show. And honestly, Maxky and Jeng carried this...almost disaster. Their friendship felt effortless, and their personalities complemented each other so well.The secondary couple, I only have three words: "What was that" because besides that I either have no words or a 3-page essay.
The main romance, though… yeah, this is where it lost me. It felt way too forced, especially considering how much chemistry and tension had already been established between them in their previous show. I kept waiting for that same spark to come back, but it just wasn’t there. At times, the romance was cute, but even that came down to Maxky’s comedic timing and his and Bas’s ability to sell a moment through the smallest micro-expressions. The writing genuinely did them dirty.
I spent half the time waiting for the plot to arrive and the other half watching Maxky and Jeng make the show more entertaining than the actual storyline.
And for a series supposedly centered around professional esports players, they barely practiced "professionally". Like… at all. Occasionally they would play on their phone, but where was the actual training? with actual equipment? the dedicated practice time?....
The frustrating part is that there was clearly potential here. The cast could deliver it. The characters could have been interesting. The premise could have worked. But the writing, direction and production just… didn’t give them enough to work with.
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Khobfa is a green forest and deserved better
I started watching because the whole curse/luck concept was genuinely fun and had me curious about where the story would go. That part got lost very early in show, and then relationship writing is where I started losing interest.The biggest problem for me is the side couple. They get so much importance despite their conflict feeling extremely forced. They’re written as ridiculously hostile toward Rin and Khobfa, but the story never gives them a convincing reason to be THIS angry. Eventually their forced hatred started irritating me so much that I didn’t even want to see them on screen. There have been plenty of hostile or unlikeable characters in shows that audiences still enjoy watching because there’s something solid behind their behavior like selfishness, jealousy, revenge, whatever; and they actually add something to the story. Here, it just feels like the production did these characters so dirty by making their hostility the source of conflict without giving it enough substance.
Rin and Khobfa also needed more time to actually develop. Rin didn’t seem romantically interested in Khobfa until episode 5. Before that, he mostly treated him as a friend and someone he accidentally cursed, so his attachment felt more like guilt and responsibility than love. I actually think that could’ve made for an interesting slow-burn if the show had explored it properly.
Instead, Rin rejects Khobfa and then, basically in the SAME episode, suddenly decides they should date 😭 Like bro, can you process ONE feeling before making another life decision? The switch feels so abrupt that the romance doesn’t feel earned, and Rin ends up coming across as pretty self-centered to me.
I still like the curse premise and think there’s a cute story here, but the forced drama really dragged it down for me.
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