Reviews

Why is this not a series?????

A short story that you’d wish to be a series…

It’s only 14 minutes but it felt like 3 hours long~ in a short period of time, it made me love their characters and their story already.

There are no kissing or intimate scenes, but the way they look at each other, and treat each other, the place, setting, and music — makes it SO ROMANTIC. This is such a perfect example that not having those kind of stereotype scenes could still make a drama beautiful.

I’d love to see the both of them work in another project again one day. Be it a sequel for this, or a totally new drama series this time.

They got big potential to top the dramas we have to this date. There’s really something about their chemistry.

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The true meaning of what's more than blue

If you knew life was going to end this way, would you choose to start it?

As long as K & Cream could find each other, they would. A love can be so deep that you would sacrifice your happiness for theirs behind a smile. I now understand the meaning behind the title. K & Cream's story is already sad, but if it wasn't told to the world, that would be even sadder.

And this is where the series starts.

The story revolves around our main leads K & Cream, but it's accompanied by 2 subplots that seamlessly and beautifully connect together. Two heartbroken lovers, a photographer and a dentist, and a music director and his assistant. The subplots don't tell much as I describe them now, but throughout the story they expressed their share of love in their own way.

The two broken souls find each other and become each other's family, filling in the empty holes of their lives. To Cream, K became many figures to her: a friend, a brother, a father, a mother, and a lover. The story was so raw with emotions that I felt myself loving and fearing and crying with them.

I previously watched the movie before this, an all-time favorite I remember crying so hard in. I wasn't disappointed at all at how the writers filled in the many gaps to make a series. The series has true storytelling--we're watching the scenes that took place in the past. Specifically, the story is told in the words of our main lead K, but viewed in the eyes of everyone else. We get a feeling that we know how it ends, but that doesn't take away from the story. Watching this series became a journey of how K & Cream came to love so deeply and why their ending turned to be that way.

I knew how it was going to end, yet it still hit me in my heart and I cried more than I expected. I always thought "More than Blue" had a second meaning besides a story sadder than sad. Perhaps beyond this sadness, there was still a happy ending behind it--one filled with no regrets and a heart finally at ease. I want to praise the actors who did an amazing job portraying those emotions so well. And I love how the OSTs captured both their sadness and love, they're really beyond beautiful.

What makes this story so special no matter how many times it's told is that it hits close to our hearts. It reminds and teaches the listeners not to take time for granted.

Even if you knew how things would end, choose to love.

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Pretty good drama, but suffers from having too many protagonists

Watched up to episode 22 so thought I would share my thoughts. This is one of those ICAC kinda dramas, and it has the Youku signature gritty gray dark style we’ve come to expect from their dramas these days. It is pretty good and starts with the collapse of a building during an ICAC investigation that has 5 childhood friends get caught up in a lot of trauma and injury. Fast forward to present time and they have all grown up and have their own paths that all deal back together due to the collapsed building of the past. It is all written pretty well and starts off slow, but once the bad guys start doing their stuff a few episodes in is where it starts to get really good. The only thing holding this drama back are that there are too many protagonists in it and they do not bounce off each other effectively as foils for the other characters, instead we have Vincent Wong, Bosco Wong and Ron Ng all acting very serious and all shown to have contemplative moments, but they are very samey. There isn’t an upbeat member of their crew at all, so it just gets very depressing, especially when they are onscreen at the same time with Nancy Wu and Mandy Wong. Sisley Choi is the only upbeat person in the drama but she is not part of the main crew, and it seems Sisley has been typecast into these roles so you can see it coming a mile away. The true pull of the drama comes from the bad guys played by Ben Wong, and Derek Kwok, two complete and utter bastards that would do shady things for money. If it weren’t for them, this drama would be a 5 or 6, they pull it up to a 7

Update: I just completed watching the entire series and holy moley, I have to pull the score down to a 5 because the ending was so abrupt and ridiculous it gave me whiplash 3 times. We spend most of it watching Nancy Wu’s character trying to take down Ben Wong but it all fails, so literally in one episode near the end she basically goes “f*** it” and kidnaps Ben’s wife and kid and forces him to a confrontation and admit his crimes to a secret livestream. Like all the plans failed, but a last ditch unplanned attempt in one episode out of 27 suddenly works? That is some lazy writing and it annoyed me to no end.

And to top it off, I forgot to mention in my earlier post that that many of the scenes are dubbed over, with the native cantonese speakers having to dub over their lines again. This is quite typical with many Youku productions, but the problem here is that the dub does not provide good lip syncing at all is it looks very out of place. Just get a better boom mic, please!

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First off, I'm proud of Miyeon's acting debut, it's an okay start for her. I hope she receives more offer and take it as an opportunity to improve her acting. I'd love to see her in more dramas. For the plot, it was nothing special and I also did not expect anything grand because this isn't a full drama. It was just full of cute, cheesy, fluffy, and all these sweet stuffs you usually see in cliché dramas. It was quite bearable for me because it wasn't over the top but I also could not overlook how it fell short to me at times. Although the leads were cute individually, I felt like their chemistry was nowhere to be found most of the time, maybe because this is a first for Miyeon. As for the other casts, they played their role equally well. I didn't feel any SLS at all and I find Lee Jihoon's character boring at times. But overall, the gang was fun to watch. I just had minor issues with some characters and also the main's chemistry. For the OSTs, they were the most fun part of the drama. I really like them!

To wrap up, this drama is perfect to relax and not think of anything deep, also if you can bear even the slightest of cheesiness it offers. It was an okay watch for me. (PS: I started this drama because I am a fan of (G)I-dle, cheering for Cho Miyeon's acting career!)

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It's a love-hate relationship with this drama.

Love:
I loved the first 10 episodes — it was beautifully shot and absolutely adore Hyun Soo and Jung Sun's interactions. Their short-lived meet-cute moments were enjoyable and they were really connecting with each other. I love the acting performances from Seo Hyun Jin and Yang Se Jong in the first 10 too.

In the earlier episodes, it was understandable of Hyun Soo's choice—that she's too overwhelmed with everything bad that suddenly happened to her that she gave up on love. I felt the heartbreak for Jung Sun, but I thought that it was a necessary break-up since both aren't ready and were too young.

... it's what happened after 5 years later that ruin the love I had for this show...

Hate:
After episode 10+, I started to realise I can't understand all these characters' behaviour and actions anymore. It was much easier to understand Jung Sun's because he's the only one remain unchanged, but everyone else were out of character. I even tried to reason with myself that in real life, no woman would not be moved by Jung Woo, but then I thought there's really no need for us viewers to watch the woman hurt the man's heart the second time in a 20 episodes drama. And then there's the case of the writer contradicting herself by first telling us viewers Hyun Soo had always loved Jung Sun only to later have her confessed she does have some feelings for Jung Woo (confirmed in the published script). The last few episodes were particularly frustrating to watch because of Hyun Soo's treatment and confusing behaviour towards Jung Sun and Jung Woo.

It was hard to like Hyun Soo in the later episodes. She further disappoints the viewers when the story showed us a big contrast of how Jung Sun was selflessly happy for her success, but when he finally earned his, she couldn't be happy for him because she was too busy wallowing in what she can't get from Jung Sun in their (less than 3 months) relationship. She also selfishly (or naively) being ignorant that she's the main reason the two boys had a fall out and Jung Woo went rogue on Jung Sun.

I really don't want to get into Hong Ah and Jung Woo, but just let it be known that these two characters' behaviours are also beyond incomprehensible.

Conclusion:
Is it worth watching? Each to our own. This is a show that could swing either way — one will have to watch it to find out. Personally, I enjoy the instrumental OST and the casts' performance, but story wise I hope in the future no actor/actress I like would work with Writer Ha Myung Hee; she's a character assassin.

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Maybe I Need Romance Too...

So another review has already mentioned that the story/plot is nothing new.
And to be honest there was nothing amazing about the characters or acting.
But there is something about New's dazzling smile and the cute little side stories that made me really enjoy this drama.
Rewatch value high-ish only to see all those cute New scenes again hahahahahaha
It's been a while since I watched something so quickly (I ended up finishing it in like 9 hours because I skipped a lot of P'Kan moments whoops), and it's also been a while since I had so many "awwww" reactions and moments.

I have to say, I really appreciated that even the "antagonist" characters had human elements and you could often empathise with their choices- that was a really nice touch, because it makes you critical about how you feel about the FL's choices (and other more "positive" characters!), too.

If you're a softie for cute lil romance, or in doubt whether your heart has frozen over like Najai's: then this is just what you need!

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Blandly acted, poorly written

I went in with some expectations. In reviews I read people mentioned picturesque backdrop, cute ML and FL, awkwardly nice chemistry, decent supporting characters.

The acting was bland and the writing even more so. There was no chemistry between the lead characters and it felt like they were acting to pay their rent for the month and didn't have their heart in it because they knew how bad the story was. Their effort to act well would have been a waste of energy. There were so many opportunities for the drama to redeem itself within minutes but everytime the writers went "why would I do that when I can make this even worse than it is now"

"Loud village people" cliché done VERY VERY WRONG. For comparison, Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha had great "loud village people" characters.

The drama is 12 episodes long and until episode 7 we have our main lead cement himself as "I, as a person, have these characteristics" and in episode 8 we see him make a U-turn. It annoyed me to no end and I couldn't even finish the episode.

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This was a great drama! The plotline was very unique, i've seen quite a few of dramas involving geniuses that help solve murder cases but this was the first drama I have come across that involved a weather genius. All of the cases were entertaining and never lost my interest. As for the cast, I thought that they were brilliant in portraying their characters, the female lead was excellent at portraying the emotionless genius and the male lead was absolutely adorable, I fell in love with his character immediately. The length of this drama was perfect so it avoided dragging on like some dramas do. I also really enjoyed the air of mystery and suspense that shrouded some of the main characters, it really kept you watching the drama. The music was okay, nothing particularly thrilling or catchy. The only fault I can really find was that I wish there had been more romance. I wasn't too fond with the way this drama ended either. Other than that, I thought this drama was fantastic.

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A cruel and deep story about school violence victims

(no plot spoilers) This drama will be reminded as a masterpiece of its kind. It's shocking and insane. It will make you emotional and anxious for most of the time. You will watch it without knowing how it will end up... it's an unforgettable ride.
Bullying... is something we saw frequently, and something that many of us sadly went through. I did too, and I still have emotional scars that I try to forget, but I can't. You can't help somehow to cheer for the main guy, even if it's wrong. You end up to think at what they had to go throught, about what is wrong and what right. About how society and school fail so many times to protect innocents. And what if you lose yourself- It's so scary to even think about it.
The theme of the self and the others is something present for the whole drama. Are you a pig or a dog?
Are you a victim or a perpetrator? Are you someone ready to fight for justice or to survive in exchange of your own conscience?
The main characters of this drama are victims of a system that didn't protect them and ruined their life forever.
The acting is really stellar, I couldn't ask for better actors. From the kids to the adults versions.. everything felt so perfect.
Violent and cruel, I don't think it's something for everyone, but I can't help myself from suggest it. You, have to watch it.

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Cute, but Short

To My Star was a precious BL that knocked off the few hours I had left in my day. I have the same argument here that I do the other Korean BL's; how come this is so short?

Let's Dive In.

One key problem with this drama is that it's way too short. While it had a decent story and good acting, it still just not enough time to tell this story in full throttle. I wanted to learn more about Kang Seo Joon and Han Ji Woo. How come Han Jo Woo is so brooding like he is? What about him made Kang Seo Joon fall in love? Lot's of unanswered questions that definitely needed an ending.

The main leads had great chemistry. The only problem I had was the fact that Kang Seo Joon randomly kissed Han Jo Woo out of the blue. Even if he asked, Han Jo still never consented, and it led to a huge scandal that could've easily been avoided.

Overall, this was a cute watch. It's not long at all, it literally took me a few hours to finish. I do recommend this for a watch, especially if someone wants something mostly cute and quick to watch.

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A beautiful and realistic drama

This series show what a person deals with who is part of the lgbtq community. This is what you call an lgbt series and not really a bl. Since this show is not only lovely dovey sweet and all things goes well. It tackle in real life problems that many marriage faces. I loved the realism that this drama bought. The characters also are so well written. They are not flawless, they make mistakes and they learn from it and they reconcile. The actor that was recasted did an amazing job. I feared that he may not live up to it since the previous Jerry's actor already was so great but he did so well. All the actors really did a splendid job. Except maybe for Jimmy. His characters come off as really unnatural. His english is really not smooth and his acting is really mediocre but it is a kid actor so it is excused. This was a really wonderful series. A rare case that the sequel does better than the prequel.

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Don't bother

Was disappointed with this series mainly because after so many drama series together I expected OffGun to have more chemistry, but unfortunately not. Gave this show a chance just because they were acting in it. The script was kindda lame too. The many times they asked each other how to calm their nerves, which was just used as an excuse to kiss each other, was super duper cringe. The kisses were also cringe and unbelievable (newsflash: people don't kiss irl without moving their lips). Unfortunately for me, OffGun were the weakest actors in the cast. I was surprised by Aungpao though, a new actor, who provided comedic relief without being slapstick. His pairing with Neo who is always good in his roles, was fun to watch. Dome was excellent as well but Tum was kindda over the top. This show doesn't really have much in terms of plot. Storyline is shallow, unrealistic and slapstick. A waste of time.

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"put out my eyes but i still can see you..."

I just finished this movie and I already know that, this movie is going to have a special place in my heart for the rest of my life!

The music and sound were so good that it was as if I was listening to a precious piece of music in addition to the movie. In terms of the quality and aesthetic of filming, it was very eye-catching and beautiful, and you could feel the love between the main characters~

I don't think I need to talk about the acting talent of the actors because they are both the best; Although the actress had no dialogue at all, she showed her emotions so well that I felt familiar with her more than many other characters with a lot of dialogue.

And in the end, it was one of the few movies that made me cry because of happiness, sadness and stress...

If you, like me, have doubts whether to start this movie or not, I assure you to start faster because you are going to see one of the best movies of your life!!

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Messy

In theory this had a lot going for it — but execution was super messy. It felt like characters were introduced haphazardly and it was hard to link all the subplots and backstories together. A lot of things just made no sense and I hated that the rules of the Abyss kept changing. It just felt too convenient and really made for a lot of plotholes. The same really goes for the ending, which is my biggest issue because a lot of the resolution just makes no sense.

A plus is that the main leads are really cute together, even though there's some parts of their relationship that is just really confusing.

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There are two ways of making a good remake: make it better or make it different.

Cube failed at both. It was not interesting, not innovative and the special effects were laughable - apparently people there have no internal organs.

Being perfectly honest, the only good thing was the acting. I am amazed how the actors were able to deliver a solid performance, when most characters had ridiculous arcs and out of the blue quick last minute changes of heart.

I think the worst crime of this movie was the fact it was simply boring. There were hardly any deaths nor traps shown. The ones we got were as basic as they can get.

There is nothing Cube 2021 can offer that Cube 1997 did not already deliver, so why bother watching?

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