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LOVE NOT SO FAR FROM REALITY
Loved it how it wasn't exaggerated at all. However I definitely crave for more. In all the discussions I participated where I dissected the characters brutally, to be frank, I don't think I would have made a better choice than theirs. And that's the beauty. It's just so raw, feels like it's happening to my roommate. I'm witnessing it all. Best performance of Sohyun for sure. I wish the director was alive, so we could have more seasons of his masterpiece work. Anyway I adored the time I spent watching it.Was this review helpful to you?
I was not expecting to be disappointed
This was my one of the most anticipated drama, I really loved first few episodes as it was setting the mood and stuffs, and I felt it was really great.The characters are not well done. Especially the Yun Li one, I loved her awkwardness and social anxiety but there is barely any improvement on her side, this same goes for Fu Shize. I really wished the drama focused more on YL and FSZ but they ruined it just like TFF ( even though one of my most fav drama is TFF). Anyway, I feel really bored watching this drama ( I rarely feel bored watching drama ). Cinematography couldn't attract me that much. I am a very casual drama watcher and I don't nitpick, but this time I am breaking so many unspoken rules of mine.The VR thing is also not done well contrary to LYX's recent drama this year LBL. I really dislike comparing dramas but this time I had to do it. I wish they put more details and attention on this drama and make it better.
In the end, after trying several times I decided to drop this drama here.
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Excellent♥️Plot Script, Cinematography, Quality acting of actor with tight budget ♥️
Even though it’s a production by Linmon—which is, by all accounts, a major production house—the actual budget wasn’t that large. The director even mentioned that the budget for filming in China was cut to allow for shooting abroad; only nine crew members went, with each person effectively handling the workload of ten.They opted for the cheapest flight tickets, shared hotel rooms among many people, and Winwin didn’t even bring a manager or assistant along. GOOD JOB TEAM SUNSHINE THROUGHT THE RAIN, bring it on high rating almost 9,1 👏🏻💯🎉❤️
Oh wow, that's even more impressive! So, even though it’s produced by a major production house like LinMon, they still had to maximize their existing budget and resources to pull off filming at international locations. With such a small crew, the workload must have been immense. That's some serious dedication and teamwork! And the final result speaks for itself—8.7 on MDL and still climbing! 👏🏻💯🎉❤️ It’s wild—one person handling ten different tasks! 🫠🫠🫠 Huge appreciation to the entire team behind "Sunshine Through the Rain"! 👏🏻🙌🏻 9 person team going to France and Ceko (Praha) to take video eventhough WinWin didn't go with his manager or stylish 👏🏻🙌🏻💯🎉🎊♥️
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unless you're out of options don't waste your time. watch a bond film instead
Unfortunately, this movie simply doesn’t offer much to recommend. It autoplayed from something I had watched earlier and the title sounded intriguing enough to continue but man do I regret that hour there. The plot is extremely basic, with little to no depth, nothing of interest the further it got into it, and nothing about the story or characters stands out as memorable. This seems like a vertical film of one of the short dramas. So if you're used to that level of depth then I guess you're fine. There’s no emotional impact, and I found myself losing interest. Like after 10 minutes already. Nothing interesting was happening that made me feel like wow this is worth it.All in all, it’s a forgettable film that isn’t worth your time if you have other choices available choose that instead.
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An Absolute Gem! Funny, Fast-Paced, and Pure Perfection!
I just finished watching episode 8, and I am completely blown away by this show! It is incredibly witty, fast-paced, and hilarious, but what truly elevates it to another level is Yim Si Wan’s mind-blowing performance. His acting is absolutely mesmerizing; the way he uses his facial expressions and subtle gestures to convey his confusion and deep emotions is indescribable. His acting is sheer genius.
On top of that, the side characters and secondary couples are just as engaging and well-written. It’s the perfect mix of comedy, romance, and gripping suspense. If you haven't started watching it yet, you are seriously missing out! A well-deserved 10/10!
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miscommunication is exhausting
it's not that i didn't enjoy the series, but the repetitive miscommunication did my head in. if watching this drama has taught me anything, it's don't answer your phone in the middle of a conversion. also, when there's a mild earthquake, rescue your girlfriend first.on the bright side, the second couple were very enjoyable to watch. very genuine and caring with each other. I guess the worst part of their story was that they were so good, it really made the lead relationship look very difficult and cringe.
Also, what's with not talking about having a family for 6 years??
Also, what's with the fake marriage? the writers spent so long trying to be clever with them meeting again and again growing up they just fabricated a chance meeting and marriage of convenience out of nowhere.
honestly, I got bored through the latter episodes
watching them struggle through thirteen out of fourteen episodes doesn't make me happy and it just undercuts the happy ending.
t he a actors wwee both pretty and has good chemistry.
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The story was enjoyable and gave a good view of the life of being a fan and being part of a fandom, showing all the pros and cons of being part of such a community. The show subtly highlighted things that seem wild to someone unfamiliar with the world of K-pop. At the same time, the dynamic between the actors was genuinely interesting. Each one had an interesting story and personality that added so much energy to the story, and each episode was sincerely great to watch.
The chemistry between the female and male lead was so good, and I truly enjoyed their moments together and how they built their relationship from fake dating to really catching feelings.
Overall I would say this is one of those dramas that are positive, bubbly with a great amount of comedy but at the same time with a dash of drama.
Considering this was the very first K-drama from the female actress, I truly enjoyed the storyline but after these...her stories are very much repetitive.
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Virtual will never replace real connection.
The story itself isn't one I thought I'd watch because I didn't enjoy "My Holo Love"; however, I really enjoyed this one. It's fun and not super serious, and the cameos were awesome! Jisoo did a great job in this!Would recommend it if you're looking for something not so serious to watch.
(The main leads are such eye candies too, like URGHHH)
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Female tyrant would be a really actually title for Wei Rao
In my 10 years of watching cdramas. Never once have i seen a FL soo twisted, cunning, dark, yet kind. The way she grows from a night soil woman. The way she thinks. The way she acts. Words can't describe how unique Wei Rao is. As for Jun Dai, the actress really did a good job with the double role. I couldn't wait for the end.Another unique thing about the show was how it was not just the FL who was twisted but the ML too and how he loved the scheming girl as she is. He never forced her to reveal her plans instead he was like, I know she's planning something. I'll look into it if she needs some help.
Every episode of this drama was just unskippable. For the 1st time in my entire life i watched the politics part of the drama without skipping. There were barely any green characters. In my pov only Lu and the 4th prince were green. Everyone else was pretty gray.
Now the reason for deduction 0.5 was I feel it needed 2 more episodes or atleast another. Not i won't say it was a bad ending. It was a happy ending. But after all that politics it would have been better if they showed Rao having family and kids and living peacefully than continuing scheming. Another thing I didn't like was how most of the side character got a sad ending n few who's story were just left open.
- Chao's adopted parents- dead
- Chao's brother - forced labor
- Chao's sister - had to leave the person she loved and marry another
- Sister's crush - spends his life watching his lover with someone else
- Rao's aunts - dead/banished
- Rao's paternal grandmother - ages alone in guilt
- Rao's cousin - dead and another probably married to a low family cz she no longer has a reputation cz of her mom and sister
- Emperor, his concerts, empress, princes - dead
- emperor dowager - ages alone
- Rao's maid - dead
N so on..
Things i would have liked different in the last 2 episodes. The 4th prince lived and had a child with is main wife. Rao's adopted sister was granted divorce and allowed to marry her crush. Rao and Lu had a child and general Qi found a lover. The emperor still alive and watched everyone being happy and a smooth handover to the next reign while the emperor and rao's mom (who i wish was made empress) go into retirement.
Overall it was good but i just wished the ending was happy for not just the 2 leads
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Well written with questionable ending
Immensely enjoyed this drama. A few plot holes here and there, but overall it was good. I got hooked with ML and FL's acting, especially the eldest princess!!! I won't leave spoilers, you have to watch it so you can judge it by yourself.But was the ending necessary??? Felt like the director did not know how to end it. So I researched about how it actually ended in the novel, and made peace with that.
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Gelboys’ second season left me with mixed feelings. I enjoyed parts of it, particularly the new characters, but I was disappointed with the direction of the main storyline. The season raises important questions about toxic fan culture, yet its treatment of Baabin’s obsession feels far too forgiving. Its final explanations also left me with a bitter aftertaste.The story opens twenty years after the events of the first season, introducing Baby and Gelz, the children of the original couples. They are now the same age their parents were in season one. As their relationship develops, Baby tries to discover why his parents separated, and the narrative moves between the two timelines to gradually reveal their history. I liked this premise because it connects the younger characters to the original story while giving them something of their own.
Much of the earlier timeline revolves around 4Mod pursuing his dream of becoming an artist. As his popularity grows, he attracts fans whose expectations interfere with his personal life. Some treat their favorite artists like babies who need constant protection, while others become invested in the fantasy of someday dating them. That attachment crosses a line when fans believe they have the right to dictate whom an artist can date and how he should live.
Baabin, who runs 4Mod’s fan club and helps support his career, participates in maintaining that illusion. He advises 4Mod to hide his relationship with Chian because revealing it could destroy the fans’ romantic fantasies. Meanwhile, Chian becomes increasingly jealous and possessive as 4Mod receives more attention. This creates a potentially interesting conflict about the pressure artists face when their careers depend partly on appearing romantically available.
My biggest issue, however, is how the season handles Baabin’s involvement. Supporting 4Mod becomes his entire purpose. His emotional well-being depends on promotional goals, fan activities, and even whether he can secure a place close to the artist at a concert. His devotion affects the people around him, particularly Bua, his boyfriend, with whom he lives.
When Bua also becomes an artist, this imbalance becomes even more apparent. Baabin finds himself divided between supporting his boyfriend and continuing his work for 4Mod, but repeatedly prioritizes the latter. His former crush on 4Mod adds another layer to that dynamic. The season does not explicitly confirm that he still has romantic feelings for him, but their history left me wondering whether something remained unresolved.
The birthday sequence captures this problem particularly well. Baabin organizes an intimate surprise celebration for Bua, complete with photographs and a carefully decorated space. During the celebration, 4Mod’s relationship with Chian is exposed online. Fans who believed he was single turn against him, and a promotional tuk-tuk event falls apart as attendees cancel. Baabin must choose between staying with his boyfriend on his birthday and going to help 4Mod. He chooses 4Mod.
Helping a friend through a crisis is understandable, but this decision belongs to a larger pattern in which Bua consistently comes second. That pattern becomes even clearer when Baabin secretly takes on extra work as a manicurist to buy tickets for 4Mod’s upcoming fan meeting and distribute them to other fans. He treats the event’s success as his personal responsibility, spending his own time and money while hiding his actions from Bua. Their breakup during this part of the story grows out of that accumulated secrecy, neglect, and imbalance.
Chian’s response to the scandal was another writing choice I found poorly conceived. He publishes a fabricated thread on X, using photographs of himself with 4Mod to portray himself as an obsessive fan who followed him around, rather than his actual boyfriend. The fans believe him, forgive 4Mod, and return to supporting him. I found it frustrating that restoring 4Mod’s reputation involves denying their relationship and presenting Chian as a stalker.
By the end of the season, 4Mod finally posts on Instagram confirming that Chian really is his boyfriend. The fans who genuinely support him stay, while those unwilling to accept his relationship leave the fanbase. I appreciate the principle behind that outcome: an artist should be able to acknowledge his partner and accept that some fans will walk away. However, the resolution felt too neat after everything that preceded it. The elaborate lie and its implications deserved more attention before the story settled into the idea that things were now fine between them.
Bua’s decision to fake a romantic relationship with 4Mod also made the season’s emotional message difficult for me to connect with. When fans become interested in them as a potential couple, Bua sees an opportunity to help revive 4Mod’s career. Eventually, we learn that he did not do this to make Baabin jealous. He did it because he cared about Baabin and wanted him to be happy again.
I understand the intended sentiment, but this is where the season really lost me. Bua has already been hurt by Baabin’s obsession with supporting 4Mod, yet his expression of love becomes another effort to sustain the very thing that damaged their relationship. To me, the narrative starts presenting that obsession as something beautiful: a form of unconditional devotion that the people around Baabin should understand and accommodate.
I do not find that romantic. Being a fan can be meaningful and enjoyable, but there should be limits when it starts consuming someone’s money, emotional energy, relationships, and opportunities to build their own life. Intense fan culture has existed for decades; Beatlemania is an obvious example. I wanted the season to explore how that enthusiasm could develop into something healthier once its consequences became impossible to ignore.
Instead, I felt the series kept making excuses for Baabin. It criticizes fans who believe they can control an artist’s romantic life, but is much less critical of someone whose devotion becomes self-destructive and hurts his partner. The consequences are shown, yet the emotional framing often seems to ask us to admire the behavior behind them. That inconsistency weakened the commentary for me.
The final explanation for Baabin and Bua’s separation in the future timeline was another major disappointment. After spending the season building a mystery around why they were no longer together, the last episode explains that one became jealous because the other was giving their child more attention. That could have opened up a meaningful discussion about parenting, insecurity, and how a relationship changes after having a child. Instead, it is barely explored and largely left at that.
This also means that the conflicts surrounding fandom, which occupy so much of the season, do not provide the full explanation for the separation Baby is investigating. The eventual answer introduces a different issue without giving it enough development to feel convincing. For a mystery that helps structure the entire season, the payoff felt underwritten and emotionally unsatisfying.
Some of the earlier conflicts also felt immature and repetitive. These are young characters, so immaturity is understandable, but I wanted the writing to take those situations somewhere more thoughtful. If the intention was to explore two characters becoming artists and the pressures surrounding fandom, I think there were more compelling ways to develop those themes.
The highlight, for me, was Baby and Gelz. They have great chemistry, and I enjoyed watching their feelings develop before they fully understood them themselves. Their affectionate scenes felt convincing, and their relationship gave me something to look forward to throughout the season.
I do wish their romance had been a little less of a slow burn. The repeated moments of pulling away from a kiss became irritating, and some of those delays felt unnecessary. Even so, I liked their dynamic and thought their growing affection was one of the season’s strongest elements.
Overall, I had some fun watching, but I was not satisfied with where the story went. Its commentary on toxic fandom had potential, yet its forgiving treatment of Baabin’s obsession weakened that discussion. Combined with the rushed explanation for Baabin and Bua’s eventual separation and the overly tidy resolution of 4Mod and Chian’s public relationship, the ending left me with a bitter aftertaste. Baby and Gelz were a welcome highlight, but I finished the season wishing its central conflicts had received the same care as their romance.
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"I am nobody."Honestly, this film made me feel nothing, failing to deliver the psychological aspects it tried to showcase. However, Sung-woo's inability to be emotionally vulnerable with his boyfriend and his mother's profound mental instability and grief were portrayed through such a distinct, minimal range that I found myself wishing for a more unskimmed, deeper insight into them. Furthermore, the father's role—remaining physically and emotionally absent while managing his wife’s condition by repeatedly bringing home new sons—was indeed eccentric and uncanny.
Additionally, Sung-woo's relationship with the 11th brother, Sung Kyu felt rather tacky. In the final scene, when Sung Kyu's expression turns vacant and hollow the moment Sung-woo leaves, the film attempts to highlight how sacrificing his true self just to belong to the family has left him emotionally empty. However, this pivotal moment was barely visible. Perhaps, I would have preferred it if the story had been presented with a bit more precision and depth so that I could have truly been drawn into it.
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Get in touch with your feelings
A short drama that takes you to a long, heartfelt journey. The story is well written and produced, delivered even better by merits of the director, the cast.I bumped into this drama by chance, didnt know it exist, let alone who are in it and the airing date.
Some Say the drama is of the calibre of The Hidden Love, The First Frost, well this one hits me deeper and it keeps me even more glued to the couch. The leads are not loquacious persons in their roles, yet their unspoken words sound like thunders with their eyes, they live with such weight, burden in their young selves with pain yet resilience. I feel for them, I cry , smile and laugh with them. People, go watch it, enjoy the ride, it is truly deserving. I do hope we'll get to see more of the leads in projects of this quality both in scripts and directings. They are powerful professionals.
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This seriously has to be one of the best rom-com. This show had me hooked since the first episode and I couldn’t put it down. The story itself was adorable. The theme of a great marketer with no sexual experience, coming from an extremely traditional family accepting the challenge of a new client who makes and sells sex toys was hilarious. I laughed so hard in some of the scenes I had tears coming out.
The script was very well written and left nothing unresolved. It touched on so many issues. Family misunderstanding, outdated rules, unexpected pregnancies, individual sexual preferences, personal choices and so much more. I loved how the main leads had such different views on love and intimacy and how they eventually understood the other’s perspective. All the side stories had something cute and interesting to offer. Most importantly the main leads had such an amazing chemistry together.
P.S- Again, Kim Jae-Young has to be one of the best kissers in South Korea.
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I stoped watching after ep3
I was expecting a lot from this drama. Everything was really great and it hooked me up and was really expecting future chemistry between the two leads. But in ep 3 or 4 i think, after i found out that ml has a child and moreover female lead becoming the step mother of her own sister daughter. i really cant imagine a good path. Its just that i cant accept. Just only my view only. I kinda dont like this kind of storyline. I guess other shows has spoiled me a lot. I did enjoy till ep 4 though☺️Was this review helpful to you?
