Minji is in Love
Ordinary but cute. A very lovely friend of mine is called Min-ji, and after watching this short high school drama comedy, I now know three more people with the same name. When you share a name with someone else, you need something other than your name to distinguish yourself from others. There are nicknames, and there are also different personalities that help people recognize us.Similar to other episodes of the great "Love: Track" series, this one explores the topic of love, but also of one’s identity. Even more than the story of finding and expressing love, what touched me here is the main character’s search for identity. The valuable lesson is that we develop our identity in relationship with others, and it was refreshing to see a positive depiction of high school life (in comparison to the many heavy topics often shown in Korean cinema). Well worth the watch.
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I am impressive with leads healing power
Okay i watched this because of Wang Nan. Yuan Yuhan's acting is good. Both of leads have great acting skills, delivering excellent micro-expressions and various physical reactions. However, the drama is also incredibly mindless and melodramatic.For the summary, ML and FL were sweet couple but FL is raped by her stepmother's son. Her father stabs the stepmother's son and goes to jail. Then, FL pretends to be with SML and dumps ML and ML got accident.ML has two car accidents, attempted suicide twice, and suffered numerous injuries, yet he survives. FL attempted suicide once by jumping off a building, her father died, she experienced a mental breakdown, recovered, and was able to continue working. FL jumped from the 21st floor and didn't die. Instead, she tormented ML to the point of being heartbroken. Then, FL received a new job offer and went to work. When she was discussing business, she ran into the ML again. This time, there was another car accident and suicide attempt. After that, the two of them finally talked things out.
After that, the two of them finally talked things out. All the hardships they faced were given to them by the other. ML and FL cried their hearts out, their emotions raging, and they finally reached each other's side despite their physical limitations. If you enjoy classic Korean dramas about terminal illnesses or want to vent your emotions and have a good cry, you should definitely check this out. I just watch this drama on my manic era so i just enjoy to see both the leads cried their heart.
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for those interested in crime dramas with an amazing plot
If you enjoy crime thrillers that keep you hooked from start to finish, Tunnel is absolutely one of those dramas you should not miss.What makes this series stand out is how smoothly it mixes a serial-killer investigation with a time-travel twist. The story moves between the past and the present in a way that feels natural and well planned, making the entire plot feel very engaging rather than confusing. From the very beginning, the drama creates a sense of urgency and mystery that keeps you interested in what will happen next.
Another major strength of Tunnel is its characters. The chemistry between the detectives is excellent, and their teamwork brings both intensity and emotional weight to the story. Instead of focusing on romance, the drama builds strong relationships through trust, loyalty, and shared determination to solve the cases.
The pacing is also one of the reasons why the drama works so well. Even though the main serial-killer case is the center of the story, the show introduces several other cases along the way. These smaller investigations add variety and keep the narrative exciting while slowly building toward the larger mystery.
The acting from the entire cast is outstanding. The emotions, tension, and determination of the characters feel genuine, which makes the audience naturally root for them as the investigation unfolds.
Overall, Tunnel is a gripping crime thriller with strong storytelling, memorable characters, and a plot that keeps you invested throughout its run. It’s the kind of drama that pulls you into its world and makes every episode feel worth watching.
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The Controversy and South Korea's Failed Society to Protect the Vulnerable Womens.
I give this show the lowest only because it failed to protect the women from false accusation and from cyberbullying:I watched Kim Riwon’s clarification video, and honestly, it was deeply painful to watch. The vulnerability and desperation in her voice while she talked about the abuse she faced was heartbreaking. No one should have to go through something like that, let alone have it exposed and judged by millions of strangers online.
What’s happening to Kim Riwon feels like a harsh collision between someone’s private struggles and a digital culture that can be incredibly unforgiving. In South Korea especially, several long-standing issues are part of this situation.
First, there’s the double standard around a person’s past, especially when it comes to women. Adult content work carries a heavy stigma in Korean society. Even when someone tries to move forward and rebuild their life, their past is often used against them as a weapon to shame and dehumanize them, no matter the circumstances behind it.
Then there’s the reality of online mob culture. South Korea has seen many cases of extreme cyberbullying, where rumors spread quickly and online communities can turn into digital mobs. In Riwon’s case, being labeled things like a “pimp” or a “murderer” without any proper investigation shows how quickly accusations can replace facts in the court of public opinion.
There’s also the broader issue of gender-based violence. The clips showing abuse from her ex-boyfriend are part of a larger and painful conversation in Korea about dating violence and digital exploitation, especially after incidents like the Nth Room case. Many people feel that victims are still not adequately protected from blackmail, harassment, and public humiliation.
What makes this even more tragic is that someone who already suffered domestic abuse is now facing a massive wave of public character assassination. In the video, Riwon asks a simple but powerful question—why must she be tied to her past forever, even when she’s trying to live a quiet and honest life now?
That question goes beyond this single controversy. It touches on something deeply human: the ability to grow, to change, and to move forward without being permanently defined by one chapter of your life.
The controversy around ToGetHer may be extreme, but it has also started an important conversation—both in Korea and internationally—about where the line lies between public interest and cruelty.
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I loved it, it's definitely an upgrade compared to other lakorns I've seen, of course it follows the same path miscommunications, manhandling, slap/kiss, and of course of the top acting from the evil characters.
I have so many things I didn't like about it but I'll just state why this was different in a good way because what I complain about is the standard for every Thai lakorn and I can't just break the system.
First I love the chemistry between the leads, despite the controversial premise, I believe the ML is a nice guy, with questionable behaviour yes, but still deep down he is nice, the FL is just too stubborn and quite a hypocrite because she doesn't believe the ml nor trust him while she hides a billion secret, manipulate her family and somehow everyone loves her and forgives her because she is a victim, I agree on the latter but that doesn't give her a free pass to do whatever she wants.
That been said I loved their flaws, because that makes them believable, yes insufferable in some scenes but still it's a nice escape from the "perfect leads" that I've been seeing in other shows so I liked that.
Another thing is the pace, yes the story is quite stretched and too many repeated moments but it's not boring and I only skipped the FL friend's scenes cause it's boring and the evil characters scenes because I don't think I can watch them without laughing.
I believe I also liked the flirty ML Vs the angry cat FL in the mid and late episodes, where there is less angst, manhandling, forced back hugs, and more side eyes and throwing things at the cheesy flirty ML playfully.
That been said, I generally liked this show and I'm definitely recommending it for lakorn lovers ~
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Strong Story That Slowly Reveals Its True Depth
A deep and emotionally engaging story with complex characters. The drama maintains strong tension throughout the episodes, supported by fitting music and well-developed personalities. There is also a very unexpected and somewhat confusing moment that might not make much sense at first, but becomes much clearer once the full context is revealed. Overall, it is a powerful story about trauma, healing, and personal growth, even giving a briefly appearing character meaningful development.Was this review helpful to you?
Short but Sweet
A lovely small series with a cozy and comforting atmosphere that makes it easy to watch and enjoy. The story has a simple charm and focuses more on the warm feeling it creates rather than on complex storytelling. While some of the acting occasionally feels a bit lazy and certain parts of the plot seem slightly underdeveloped, these flaws do not take away too much from the overall experience. The series remains pleasant and relaxing to watch, offering a light and enjoyable viewing experience that works well for a short and easy drama.Was this review helpful to you?
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One Episode Too Many
The series starts with strong story building and introduces a side couple that eventually receives significant screen time. The antagonist and their mysterious past with the main character create intrigue, and most of the characters are interesting. However, the story sometimes relies too heavily on clichés and portrays the antagonists as almost excessively evil. Many emotional reactions and decisions feel overly impulsive and unrealistic.The episode before the finale is actually one of the stronger episodes. Unfortunately, the final episode becomes particularly problematic, relying on several clichés while leaving multiple questions unanswered.
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Too bad it's a short
I don't understand why they keep making these shorts, it's so anoying to watch 2 minute episodes. I was lucky to have found a version where they put all those short episodes together as a movie, but there still were moments where you could see it were just short episodes. I understand that in this mobile era they make series to watch vertically on mobile phones, but why the 2 minute episodes? Just make it as a movie... And phones can be turned sideways and it's always better looking on a wide screen, but that's just my opinion.The story was good, but i would have liked it a bit more if they would have taken a bit more time to dive in all three characters and their motivation why they had their trauma's.
The visuals are very dark troughout most of this drama, i don't like that because you can't see much of the facial expressions of the actors. The music was ok.
The acting was very good good, and i liked the chemistry between the mains. Unfortunatly you couldn't see much of te kiss because it was too dark, but as far i could see it was a good kiss.
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Strong Start, Limited Development
A strong start with a lot happening in the first two episodes, including the immediate revelation of the affair to the husband. The series keeps almost no secrets, with characters being very open about their feelings and struggles, which highlights their intense inner conflicts. The story also spends considerable time exploring side characters whose arcs are not always necessary in such detail. As a result, there is relatively little development between the two main characters, and the narrative includes several long and somewhat unpleasant time skips. Overall, the focus is less on romance and more on dealing with social pressure and personal inner conflict.Was this review helpful to you?
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6 Days of Doomsday (/Doomsdom)
So the progress goes:6 days ago:
Do I smell a series that will not give the young audience the standard digestible, forgivable cheating, but the very hurtful deal? I'm in!
3 days ago:
My oh my, I am into ep. 6 and I am fed up with Toh and Jimmy, the characters (fortunately we have the lovable, adorable Fah Teh here). Jimmy is just a greedy baby who will not say no to anything since it is offered to him, while Toh just doesn't know when to stand up and leave. If he did, maybe many more things could be solved.
Jimmy? He is your friend? Well, you have too many friends for my liking.
And Toh? You do realize you have more things in your life than the male organ between your legs, right?
OK. Now go and do something with your lives, because this is horrible.
2 days ago:
EP. 8
Jimmy: "I tried my best."
Me: This is your BEST?! 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀
/then it got worse/
Jimmy: "He was so stubborn."
Me: Victim blaming? 🤔
Jimmy, the f**k, grow up first, please. You are as dumb as a rock and twice as useless. If lying after a cheat-and-lie game is somehow "the best you could do," then you have a loooong way to go to learn how to do things properly.
And a suggestion — try exchanging your flings for some self-development. It would do you a world of good.
The last day of torture:
Why did this get stupider and stupider with each later episode?
I would say that, in the writing, the story itself was written fine — it could stand — but the relationships were written very poorly. It is a very strange mix of quite deep potential for personalities that somehow landed flat, as if someone had written it while thinking about secondary-school relationships.
They were not the worst kind of flat characters at first, but they became flat in the later stages of development — and you can't recognize that from the first episodes.
It somehow culminated with supporting characters in the last episode doing something totally improbable that no normal adult would realistically plan to do. But it strangely sounds like a secondary-schooler fantasy or wish for things to happen that way.
It is not an entirely bad story, and whatever is bad about it does not have anything to do with the budget. It is just that the majority of us seem to be adults, or at least of an adult mindset, and even if shown kindly, these stereotypes from the story do not appear in this format in real life.
So as fantasy it is fine, but you need to have huge objections when comparing it with normal behavior or acceptable paths in these situations.
Note: it was not the acting or the chemistry of the actors — that was good.
There is also a certain level of comfort, cuteness, and security, and that is mostly delivered thanks to the fact that you know how it will happen. You know the Happy Ending in advance. You know you will run into some hurtful stuff, but it is not going to be a fatal transgression. No mortal trespass.
And so it is still a comfortable and, in places, cute watch, which makes it digestible even if most of the actions are not.
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Favorite Thai GL
Roller Coaster is a well-produced drama with strong cinematography, music, and emotionally convincing performances. The series explores complicated relationships and the emotional conflicts that come with them in a thoughtful and engaging way. The chemistry between the main characters works well, and the intimacy scenes feel natural and meaningful rather than exaggerated.The use of artwork throughout the series adds an interesting visual layer that reflects Pure’s character and profession. One of the drama’s greatest strengths lies in its character dynamics. The story takes time to explore both the positive and negative emotional developments within the relationships, portraying complex feelings such as hesitation, guilt, and inner conflict in a believable way.
However, the pacing becomes somewhat uneven toward the end, and certain story developments could have been explained more clearly. While the emotional tension builds effectively throughout the series, the conclusion feels slightly rushed compared to the careful build-up earlier in the story. Some plot points would have benefited from additional dialogue or clearer explanations.
Overall, Roller Coaster is an engaging relationship drama with strong emotional moments, even if the final resolution could have been handled more smoothly.
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BOD
I cannot lie this drama was good. The plot was good, the cast and the story I can tell some of these people writing their reviews have skipped until they saw something that they did not like and that’s okay but you cannot lie that the acting was good and the chemistry between the actors are good too. I’m the kind of person who does not lie about a kdrama, if the kdrama is good I will say it, it’s not I will admit it. So people saying the acting is bad and that the actress should stick to singing is kind of offensive. You can tell her acting is amazing in BOD. You can tell her acting has improved since snowdrop (2021)Was this review helpful to you?
Dare You To Boredom!
The protagonists and many, many of the supporting cast are so handsome that the iceberg that sank the Titanic would have melted into a mere ice cube if these guys were in one location on the top deck of that ship. Their radiant good-looks melted everything bad about this series away which included an absurdly dumb murder mystery and, sorry to say, rather mediocre acting. If one honestly assessed this series with any sense of objectivity and detachment, one would see how wrought this series was. Everything about this series felt lazy to me. The writing and directing was frustratingly inept. The story drones on ad nauseum. One would suffer from neck whiplash the way this series ping-ponged from murder mystery to love story with no understandable transition. From my perspective, it just was not all that good no matter how you looked at it and is essentially forgettable.Was this review helpful to you?
Thorny relationships in a tangled web
Finished this convoluted drama, that will not appeal to everyone because of its themes and unusual format. It is not the usual romance to binge, and fast forwarding will lose the audience, who tread the tight rope line along Bei, Gong and Xiaoxi, where other characters weigh in to trip others up and drag them down into (senti)mental abysses.The cast has many actors:
Liu Yuning (playing the mysterious bag appraiser Bei), in a very special love triangle with
Vengo Gao (as the mercurial comics artist Gong cruelly betrayed by a jealous woman who had hired Xiaoxi), and Wang Ziwen ("relationships appraiser" florist Li Xiaoxi/seductress Jiang Yifan) ;
Jiang Xin (Yu, older woman in a flagging marriage), Jason Gu (musician Xiu, Yu's husband) and Huang Ziqi (actress Luanluan) also in an unholy triangle;
Zhu Jiaqi (red haired photographer Sen) with Vivienne Tien/Chen Jiaying (Mingming, employee long pursued by Sen) and Zhou Dawei (Mingming's former suitor, photographer A Lun), alongside other men and women who distrust feelings, some who play characters who make a living from cheaters like Gong Beibi (the redoubtable Guan Jie madam of the women's club who used Li Xiaoxi to break up couples) or Ming Dao (the psychologist Lin Chen).
The relationship chart on https://wiki.d-addicts.com/images/a/a6/About_Love_Chart.jpg (unfortunately not translated in the MDL photo section copy) is not altogether straightforward.
The opening Douban rating of 6.3 from 19,600 ratings is honorable although we would like to see higher ratings for a Liu Yuning drama. This adult target drama, filmed in August 2023 and postponed while three previously filmed dramas were released before it (filmed in 2021 "Heroes", filmed in 2022 Zichuan" and filmed in 2022 "A Journey To Love") and a number more (2024 released "The Story of Pearl Girl", "2024 "Heroes", 2025 The Prisoner of Beauty", 2025 "Zichuan",and "A Dream Within A Dream") making followers wonder what was wrong and if it would ever see light on screens.
"About Love" was too generic a title : too many C-dramas have a similar one. Why not have kept the initial "Cicada Girls" title? [Edit: It was a literary reference to author Raymond Carver's collection of short stories " What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981), as drama reporter Avenue X brilliantly explained in her video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1avBZFI_IM ] The original Chinese source material was a manhua titled Cicada girl. The "love appraiser" is once likened to a mantis devouring her mate, the character also reminds of a moth drawn to a flame, shown in the opening credits).
The drama did not benefit from much promotion and the choppy editing, mixing animation and theater moments sometimes in a too heavy handed explanatory fashion, sometimes confusing timeline, the themes may have bewildered LYN fans looking it up now. LYN himself was not much satisfied with this drama, the visuals of which (hairstyle...) follow closely the initial source material webtoon. It was an experience, from which he concluded that he much prefers to play costume dramas. Still, it is watchable and has its merits, for the patient audience.
Liu Yuning also (unusually) did not sing here, although the voice of Zhang Lei sounds so close to his that some thought it was him singing "Love is not true".
The OST has nice songs and was compiled on YouTube. I have added in the Discussions section the links and some lyrics to the songs, together with who are the singers and lyricist, composers of those songs. Among the singers, a Sichuan Tibet autonomous Aba-Qiang prefecture born singer called Mamcù, lends her voice to the theme song, sung in English : The Secret of Love (not to be confused with the Circles of Life from the Disney animation, lol!!)
Discover more about and listen to the OST through visiting the Discussions section , or click on the direct link : https://kisskh.at/discussions/754333-chan-nv/148568-about-love-2026-complete-ost-music
Also look at lilili's post in Discussions section to appreciate the beautiful cinematography : : https://kisskh.at/discussions/754333-chan-nv/148952-the-cinematography-of-about-love
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