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A simple but effective drama: a murder, a suspect, and a solid story. On the other hand, we have a woman with a very special ability she can detect lies (which would be really useful for us in real life too lol).
Overall, I thought the story was well developed: from their first meeting on the bus, to him becoming her neighbor, the discovery of his identity, the moment she finds out he’s been accused of murder, and how lost she feels because of it. Then the way the story unfolds you’re genuinely surprised by who actually caused the tragedy, even if it’s a bit predictable. From the very beginning, without knowing the plot, I suspected her friend was the culprit. Still, the story stays really cool.The acting is good overall. Not surprising coming from the actress she always delivers. I didn’t know the actor before, so he was a pleasant discovery.
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If you loved Squid Game, then you’re going to adore this series!
Where do I even start? The games are incredibly violent, and I honestly love it. The story is really well developed in Season 1. The death of his friends impacts him massively, the meeting with Usagi creates an iconic duo, and then the encounter with the other members of the Beach… Honestly, it’s a really strong Season 1!
The visual effects are wow.
The acting is perfect.
I highly recommend Season 1!
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great cast but a horrible story line
Honestly, the cast is incredible.I really wanted to see these two actresses play together, but the story is an absolute disaster.I watched the movie twice, and I still didn’t understand much. Suddenly someone dies and everyone panics for no clear reason?! There’s almost no backstory on their lives before all of this, so we can’t really understand how or why they ended up in this situation.Han So-hee’s acting is good, and Jeon Jong-seo’s is solid too, but that’s pretty much all I can say. The OST is nice but nothing special. The main villain is well-acted, but unfortunately the story doesn’t highlight him enough despite how good the actor is.
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A SCHOOL THAT’S NOT EVEN A SCHOOL, BUT A KOREAN VERSION OF THE FAVELAS
After giving my review of Season 1, here’s my take on Season 2:A SCHOOL THAT’S NOT EVEN A SCHOOL, BUT A KOREAN VERSION OF THE FAVELAS
After the incident in Season 1, he’s forced to change schools. As usual, he ends up in a school that feels more like the favelas than an actual school… but okay, whatever. Once again, we have 65yrs old looking unemployed guys robbing 15yr old of their phones, food, and money. I’m starting to get really tired of this trope, it’s so stupid. But anyway, that’s just my personal opinion.
The story starts with the big unemployed guy with zero aura trying to intimidate him, but it doesn’t work lol. So he asks the weakest one to do it for him. Then he keeps trying every possible way to cause problems for the main character with other people. This eventually leads our protagonist to meet the basketball team, especially one particular member.
Of course, our national unemployed legend creates problems hoping it will backfire on the main character… but unfortunately for him, it ends up creating future bonds instead of tension. Then conflicts arise between our new group and a rival gang led by a student from another school.
Then comes one of the iconic scenes of Season 2: the bathroom scene, where one of the antagonists takes a photo of him, followed by a completely failed and humiliating fight attempt.
After that, we get tons of intimidation scenes and fights, but the best one is the massive fight scene with extreme violence bats, brass knuckles, knives… everyone’s completely insane!
At the end of the season, the number 1 antagonist disappears, but the second one (who has the most aura for me) remains. I hope he’ll be the main villain in Season 3.
In short, Season 2 is packed with crazy moments and a 65yr old unemployed guy who steals phones from kids at school to pay child support for his 3 children (yes, you guessed it I hate him ).
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An incredible drama. The way they managed to seamlessly blend the scenes with the actress playing two different characters in the same frame, with perfect reactions as if they were really talking to each other, is absolutely mind-blowing. I had never seen a series or movie pull off a single actress playing two roles in the same scene so flawlessly, without any visible cuts or mistakes.Beyond that, the story is deeply touching. It follows a sister who is unemployed and constantly criticized by her mother, while the mom puts all her hopes into her other daughter who is actually suffering from severe depression and is on the verge of suicide because of her job. Then comes the scene where she tries to jump out the window, but in the end both sisters fall… and then they switch lives.
I found it really funny how they jumped into each other’s lives without knowing anything about them. It created a lot of chaos, but it also gave us some amazing scenes the romance moments, the grandmother figuring out they had switched while the mother noticed nothing… and the scene where they finally confess the truth. I loved it so much.
I highly recommend it!
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W DRAMA PLEASE SEASON 2
NETFLIX I BEG YOU MAKE A SEASON 2This review contains spoils!!
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Let’s talk about the actors first. They play their roles superbly well. I didn’t know most of them before, and they were all great discoveries! I laughed so much at their comedic timing, and their acting is truly impressive!
I loved the story right from the beginning: the fake kidnapping, the first death, them discovering their powers, the villains who appear gradually, and then all the revelations later in the series about who she really is and where her powers come from. Up until the end with the impressive fight scenes, the constant deaths, and finally the last scene where she saves everyone. I was scared she had died, but she didn’t!!!!! I absolutely loved the story.
The visual effects are really well done bravo!
The OSTs are amazing!
A very good K-drama that mixes comedy and supernatural elements.
I highly recommend this drama!!!
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Respect ?
I think this was the first Korean film I watched back in 2020. Now we’re in 2026 and I’ve already seen it 3 or 4 times, so here’s my review:-
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The atmosphere is just incredible. I love how well it portrays people grinding through tough, messy lives that’s not easy to pull off. I didn’t know any of the actors beforehand, and I was genuinely blown away by their performances.
The story is really strong and incredibly moving, especially the ending. Massive respect to all those men 🫡.
The soundtrack is solid too.
They built up the disaster perfectly throughout the film, and the special effects hold up really well for 2016 the explosions, injuries, all of it looked convincing.
The main character’s death at the end felt completely logical, even if it was heartbreaking.
I highly recommend this movie!
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PLOTTWIST.EXE
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This is the first time I’m watching a KDRAMA with this many plot twists!
At the beginning, I had suspicions about several people. In the end, I was only wrong about one. The developer I immediately thought, “She’s the one who coded the game!”
For Da Beom, I sensed it right away. I told myself the high school victim has to be the killer no one would suspect him!
And So Mi, I don’t know, as soon as I saw her face I thought “she’s in a couple” lol.
On the other hand, I really believed Kyung Jun was also going to be a killer, but no the character was incredibly well played!
The story is really good, especially once you know the ending. So many plot twists, I love it!
So much people Deaths !
I love this drama!
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Absolute garbage
After watching this gigantic piece of shit, here’s my opinion:Where to even start? Let’s talk about the story:
The film throws us into a war, then a “Godzilla” appears and kills almost everyone except our protagonist. Then comes a sequence where Godzilla wrecks everything, and he kills it. Honestly, the story is absolute garbage. Having watched every Godzilla from the 1998 one to the latest, I’ve never seen a story with zero soul or even any sense. In all those films, I’ve never seen Godzilla attack humans like this just because he’s bored (that’s the impression I get). In the other movies, there’s always a reason — the fish or the Titans (monsters like him). Here, it just makes no sense at all!
Now let’s talk about Godzilla’s design:
What the hell is this shit?!
First, his size. All Godzillas are gigantic. This one barely clears a 5-story building. Did he not get enough soup growing up or what’s the problem?
Let’s talk about the way he moves. Does he have a ballet stuck up his ass? He moves like an NPC???
What’s with that head!? He’s smiling like a mongoloid??
At the end, the sea monster dies because he didn’t do his decompression stages. What the fuck is this nonsense????? The guy is the boss of the seas but if he goes too deep and comes back up, he dies??????????
Now let’s talk about the absurd scenes:
“Godzilla” fires a beam that creates a nuclear explosion and generates a shockwave that sends thousands of pieces of wall flying. The woman gets caught in it, BUT thanks to the power of the magic of friendship, she survives with just a broken arm.
The scene where he kills Godzilla is absolutely sad and grotesque. He kills a sea monster by drowning it.
Why make a film in black and white and then one in color?
Honestly, I love Godzilla. This shitty thing is not Godzilla. It’s a pale copy!
If you’ve got time to waste, then go ahead and watch it!
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NETFLIX WHY???!!
The ending of Season 2 was good.
Sure, in the books there’s a “spin-off” with the Joker.
But I don’t think it was necessary.
Here, we find them a few months/years after the end of Season 2. They’re living their lives together, and then suddenly she starts thinking about her father and his suicide again. She was already thinking about it in Season 1 and 2, but now she meets this other crazy guy in a wheelchair, who manages to convince her to commit suicide so quickly, even though she’s living with Arisu. From that point on, I found it weird. How can one person mess with your head that fast after just one meeting?!
Plus, her following him into the games yes, he manipulates her, but if you look at the story from another perspective, it’s both logical and illogical at the same time.
On Arisu’s side, he learns he’s going to be a father and then commits suicide with Ann’s help (I KNEW SHE WASN’T DEAD AHAHAHAHA). Anyway… Then we get some really good games, I can’t lie I loved the games, the new characters we discover, and the really sad deaths. There are a lot of them in a row. In that aspect, it’s just like Season 1 and 2!
Then comes the first reunion, which is really touching but too short. Then the accident happens (I really thought he was going to die), but then I remembered that no series would kill off a main character in the middle of the season lol.
Then we get the real reunion, which is genuinely very emotional. They see their “future,” realize they’re not holograms, and then comes the famous scene where he punches her really hard I loved it. HE PLAYS HIS CHARACTER SO WELL THAT I HATE HIM. Then comes the scene I call “Squid Game”: the extra player, the baby. Yeah… we all saw that coming!
And then more sad deaths, and even sadder ones!
Then the ending where Arisu “sacrifices” himself even though the guy knows he’s going to be a dad. I didn’t understand that choice at all. How can you make that decision? I mean, there were older players at the end who could have taken his place logically, but no nobody moves. They just watch a young guy “commit suicide” even though he’s about to become a father. Totally incomprehensible!
Then comes the scene where he pulls out a gun but can’t kill her, so when they fall into the water, he decides to hold her so they die together. Honestly, this guy is a massive piece of shit, let’s just say it. He had no balls!
Then the final ending where she’s alive, he’s alive too, they lived happily ever after and had lots of children.
In short: the games are perfect! But the story is incomprehensible!
The acting is very good, and the visual effects are great too.
You can very well stop at Season 2 for a logical ending! But if you want to see an alternative ending, go ahead and watch Season 3.
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MORE HARDCORE
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Here’s my review for Season 2, just like I did for Season 1:
We stay in the same vibe with the iconic group that we all know. First of all, let’s talk about the games — just like in Season 1, I loved them. Brutal, intense, gore… everything I like!
Deaths everywhere! Tatta’s death was really sad but logical for his character.
A great ending where we finally discover what happened and why they all ended up there.
The visual effects are still perfect.
The acting is still incredible, just like in Season 1.
You get hooked on Season 2 very quickly if you liked Season 1. Very well done, bravo!
I also recommend Season 2!!
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I’m not going to talk about spoilers, just my overall thoughts on the series.
From the very beginning, I was laughing a lot. Their relationship makes absolutely no sense, but I found it had a certain charm. It’s a messy, random relationship that somehow manages to create something. However, the overall story didn’t really mark me. If someone asked me for a summary, I wouldn’t really know what to say about the plot. I just spent my time laughing at the awkward and funny moments.
I thought the acting was very good, with great chemistry between them!
The OSTs didn’t particularly stand out to me, but they weren’t bad either.
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Just like Season 1, this is a really excellent Season 2 with a fresh new storyline.
We discover that she didn’t actually die, and that her mother’s “Najin” saved her. Honestly, I think everyone suspected she would be saved this way as soon as we learned there would be a Season 2 and that she was still in the cast. But it works well it’s nicely set up, so I thought it was cool!
On the other hand, Tae Sang has an accident and loses his memory at the beginning. To be honest, I was like “oh no, not another memory loss plot device…” but the way the story unfolded actually convinced me.
Their first “reunion” made me smile: she confronts him in the street, but at that moment he doesn’t recognize her at all. I found that scene really sad, but it made sense in the story.From then on, he becomes more and more present in her life. The scenes where he starts remembering fragments of his past had me hyped! I knew the real reunion wasn’t far away.Then comes the intense scene in the lab where he takes a Najin to save her. From that moment, I thought he was insanely badass. He was completely furious, smashing through all the enemies, and she was fighting alongside him. It was such an intense scene in every way I loved it!After they finish fighting, he stabs a metal bar into the enemy’s shoulder. It was a satisfying and powerful moment, and from there I was super excited!Then we get the real reunion: he runs outside to join her and they share a long, tender kiss. It was very emotional.I found all the moments they spent together after that really touching and sweet. But as usual, new problems arise and we head into the finale. The final battle was intense seriously, bravo, I loved it! At the same time, she starts losing her Najin… The ending is both sad and happy. She struggled so much to restore his memories, and now it’s his turn to do the same for her In short, an incredible story!Just like in Season 1, the acting is flawless nothing to complain about. The cast delivered perfectly.The music is great too.I highly recommend the entire series!
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love, drama, courage, sadness, a perfect mix of everything that makes a true banger!
A really, really great season!It has love, drama, courage, sadness, a perfect mix of everything that makes a true banger!
I loved the story of a father and his daughter searching for their wife/mother.
The creation of the monster is clever: once you find out she’s looking for her mother, it’s pretty easy to connect the dots between the monster and her. Personally, I figured it out right away I was like “that’s her mom, for sure!” and I was right lol.
The little romance between her and Tae Sang was super cute. The reunion scene after he temporarily disappears is hilarious especially the part where she threatens him in the middle of the street. Dude really doesn’t care about being discreet at all!
There are some very emotional moments too, like when she discovers that her mother is the monster, or when her mother tries to protect her. The ending is intense: they manage to destroy the place and escape. The boat scene where the enemies try to stop them, her mother showing up injured and wanting to attack Jang Tae Sang… and then the daughter stepping between them.
That moment is really touching her speech and her “death” hit hard.
Overall, it’s a solid story. I never had a single boring episode.
The acting is excellent big bravo to the whole cast.The music is really cool too.And the monster’s design and execution are very well done. I never once felt like it looked cheap or badly animated.
In short, a very strong Season 1!!!
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A simple but effective romance.
A woman who writes music, a man who takes photos, and a hidden love.It’s the classic recipe for this type of series, but when it’s well executed, it turns out really good.I really liked the relationship between the two main characters.
They’ve known each other for a long time. He’s had feelings for her for years but never told her.
She’s struggling with her life as a songwriter. The moment he moves in with her to help her out gives you the feeling that deep down, he’s been waiting for this his whole life.
The discovery of his “secret,” the temporary separation that makes her realize she might have feelings for him too, and the cute reunion where she runs into him at the flower shop holding a beautiful bouquet… it was really sweet!
It’s a calm, slow-paced story with a predictable but satisfying ending.The acting is solid, and the chemistry between the leads is really good.
When you have all these key elements together, it can only result in a good drama!
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