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Sometimes simplicity is the formula to a good series
Sometimes you need a drama like this to make you feel like you wrapped in a cozy blanket.This definitely did remind me of a fan favorite BL but the dynamics definitely vary. The plot was simple and yes overused. The old tale of family feud over a silly reason that ruined the friendships of the two neighbour kids yet destiny made them fall in love. Yet they brewed the same story well with great direction, acting and emotions. It started with less substance but eventually carried a lot of depth. It showed how the unmindful acts of elders can cause underlying trauma in kids. A great moral to take away from the story.
The direction was simple and clean. I loved the color grading which gave it a distinct modern Thai drama style. The ost was fun. I was enjoying the tennis scenes at first but sometimes I felt they could have cut down some on that because they were prolonging the main content. I also hoped to see a little more on the tennis training. Nonetheless it was a good work.
Teshow really surprised me. I remembered seeing him Dark Dice and he has not only improved alot but also his versatility showed through this. Ping definitely knows his way through micro expression. The pair has such good on cam chemistry and off cam genuinely looked like they were enjoying filming. Sing and Chimon had so much chemistry even without doing anything. The senior actors were amazing and so were the supporting cast.
A must watch if you are looking for a comfort show.
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The drama’s strongest asset is its stellar performances. Soo Ae delivers a masterclass in acting, brilliantly portraying the stark vulnerability of Ji-sook and the cold elegance of Eun-ha. Her chemistry with Ju Ji-hoon, who plays the paranoid and deeply traumatized Choi Min-woo, is incredibly powerful. Their relationship transitions beautifully from mutual distrust to a deep, healing, slow-burn romance that serves as the emotional core of the show. Meanwhile, Yeon Jung-hoon plays the manipulative villain, Suk-hoon, with chilling perfection, keeping the audience on edge with his complex schemes.
Visually, the drama is stunning, accompanied by a hauntingly beautiful soundtrack that perfectly elevates its dark, high-society atmosphere. However, at 20 episodes, the pacing slows down slightly in the middle, and the antagonist’s constant plotting can feel a bit repetitive towards the end.
Despite these minor pacing issues, Mask elevates standard melodramatic tropes into a sophisticated thriller. It keeps you hooked with sharp cliffhangers and satisfying character growth. It is a captivating exploration of whether money truly brings happiness, and a highly recommended watch for K-drama lovers.
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Nothing new but exciting performance !
Let's talk about it's positive sides first,1. It's a must watch show for TXW fans since she did a exceptional job portraying 2 roles.
2. Great visuals & OST
3. I love the fact that no one of both twins (I think both are twins since there are mystery involved with their mothers) is weak & actually can kill people.
3. Story & acting of side characters are pretty great too.
Now about the negatives,
1. Plot is nothing new, I've watched or heard about 10 mini/vertical dramas with almost same plots. Feels like I'm wasting my time.
2. I'm definitely not here to watch another patriarchal drama where the FL need to prove herself at every step.
3. Also definitely not to watch another drama where FL has no career or goals to chase. It feels suffocating.
4. ML feels very stoic & conventional, no reason to like him specially. His acting is also okay-ish.
5. At first they told it'll consist 24 eps of 45 minutes, when it's actually 33 eps of 50-55 minutes runtime. Too much dragged.
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I read the book so I might be bias but the show botched everything compared to the book
okay I read the book before the show came out and I was all like okay Lena and Miu totally have the acting abilities to pull off these characters this is going to be so good their last series was really good, chemistry was great and I was all like they got this I was excited.Then the first episode dropped and I was all like what the hell am I watching where they pull this from make no sense and after watching the first episode and every episode after that I realized oh they give zero f**** about the book but for some reason I don't see that there's a screenwriter which means they got to be lying cuz there needs to be a screenwriter because somebody realized that there's a whole book that they could have gone based off of but was like nah f*** that s*** I'm going to just write my own f****** story and basically just change all the f****** characters personalities and the storyboard.
If you haven't read the book I feel like maybe the show might actually be really good for you maybe I wouldn't know cuz I can't separate the two even though I really tried and I'm still trying after watching every episode but I just can't do it cuz every time I watch a new episode makes me so mad that I just end up rereading the book.
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Follow your dreams in brilliant fashion
This is definitely one of the most touching, heart warming series I've ever watched. There are so many lessons learned from this drama ... you're never too old to follow your dreams, never take your health for granted, family and friends are so very important. Well, the list could go on and on.I'm familiar with the work of both main actors in this series, but I must say, they really exceeded expectations with their performances. The two of them, In Hwan & Kang Song were just brilliant. The two protagonists made such fantastic chemistry on screen, if you don't cry or get chills a couple of times during this story, there's something wrong with you. There are parts that are so over the top with emotion, it's just fantastic to watch play out.
I didn't read about the main concept of the story before hand, so when episode 7 &8 happen, the pinnacle episodes of the series, it really was a jaw dropping moment. The drama shifts away from ballet in a big way, but then plays a major role in dealing with the medical parts of the story.
The supporting cast works well and blends perfectly together. Even the antagonists in the drama eventually become likable. It was so enjoyable right till the end, finishing up in the only way it could, giving us a satisfying ending with hope that these two close friends will have more of a life together as the scene fades out.
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#ladies learn
Chinese baddies # private lessons # each episode comes with a take way# man is just a puppet play it right
Love the venom 💀💧💀 woow toxicity..... 🤣🤣
Its a 🐍snake party after anaconda blood orchid seeing all these snakes and flowers made me realise. How hard core badass is chinese women.
Bro literally falling for black magic shit🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bro dancing to her music like snake to flute though here snake plays the flute
Go girl....
Bro her acting.......that's S tier
Episode three what i am i even watching... Goodness god.
Witch craft peaked.... Water dance..😝😝😝😝
She is literally performing rituals with hood😆🤣. Those who know knows...
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Very entertaining for the most part, but there are real annoyances here.
I like the enemies to lovers trope & endless bickering in romcoms & so I found this to be a lot of fun most of the time. I reckon these two are not well known actresses, but I would love for them to form one those GL duos & just keep making dramas, they were great in every way that matters in this genre.Ok so what is not to like here?
⌲ Well for starters every scene the Aunt is in can be fastforward buttoned, unfortunately took me a while to realize this, so wasted some time on this awful character.
⌲ The juvenile bully your crush thing went on for way too long. (4 -5 epis was it?) I enjoyed this for a while & made me remember me doing the same to my crush in elementary school, but objectively this is quite sad.
⌲ The dating period is too short, it happens way too late.
⌲ The final episode is not great, sure it's a happy ending, but the first hour of it is awful, stupid & then redemption ark-y & the happy ending itself could've been more satisfying.
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Enjoyed watching the 4 Elements series, except Air. Sure these were all quite juvenile & lacking in depth, but in terms of actually being entertaining -somehow- mostly this is a big success story.
I like the concept of shared universe romcoms where the former main leads show up every once in a while, even if I think this could be done much better in future series. Anyway, I don't think I have ever seen shared universe done like this in the sense that all the actors were available to guest in the later shows, they filmed them all in quick succession etc..
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“i felt like crying when i saw her delight. I, who coldly watched animals die?”
Imagine if Kick-Ass was set in Japan in 2004 with alternative fashion girls who don't kill yet it still packs all the humor and the single best message about female friendships.I know I might be in the minority on this, but I genuinely believe this movie is queer coded just not in the way most people think. I believe Momoko is aromantic, and Ichigo is her soulmate in the most healthy toxic queer way possible. When Ichigo says, “Giving you my coat means my life is in your hands,” you can feel the level of emotional connection on a spiritual plane. That spiritual weight is why I think the Buddha statue motif is used so heavily throughout the fight scene. We get to see all those base layers Momoko uses to protect herself peeled back when she’s literally covered in blood and dropped into water, as if she is being reborn.
This film does an amazing job of capturing what it means to be an alternative woman in the most beautiful way, while remaining completely hilarious. The comedic beats crack you up like when Ichigo is fucking Momoko up, I literally laughed my ass off. I really enjoyed how music and silence are used throughout the scene. We don't get many scenes packed with crowds, which allows the two of them to truly occupy the space as who they are: Ichigo, who defies typical expectations of womanhood, and Momoko, who confines herself to hyper femininity and isolates herself as an outsider. Watching Momoko open her closed off world and genuinely begin to care about someone is so rewarding to see.
I love the juxtaposition of their vibes versus their outward appearances, and how their personalities are so distinct yet fundamentally similar. I love seeing alternative subcultures represented in different ways, and the color grading of this movie is unmatched.
While I wasn't entirely feeling the first few minutes of the film, it sneaks up on you. The scene right after Momoko gives her the cabbage literally looks like she’s running into the light. As the movie continues, the light is always centered on Momoko while everyone else remains in darkness, or she walks into the light alone. By the end, the light shines on her alongside everyone else because she is human just like them.
We constantly see the lighting shift again within the last thirty minutes of the movie, especially when the light is fresh in the morning and she is showing the dress and herself centered in that early morning fog. But when she almost dies, she is being reborn in the darkness of her mother's womb. During the final fight scene, we watch her transform into a new woman as her polished white layers get covered in blood and dirty water.
Key Highlights & Symbolic Themes:
The Craft & Dedication: I love how Momoko claims “labor isn’t suited for me,” yet she works tirelessly to embroider those life changing words onto the jacket. She spends days ensuring every stitch is perfect, completely ignoring her basic needs like eating, sleeping, or school because nothing else matters.
Vulnerability: When Ichigo says “I know I said women shouldn’t cry in public and Momoko says to her "but out here, it’s just us.” We see Ichigo finally let go and be sad when she is with Momoko. These words are something Momoko would have never said before because she truly never cared to get to know Ichigo even when we get Ichigo backstory its all through Momoko summary bc she couldn't be bothered. We see Momoko ask Ichigo whats wrong and actively showing that she is Ichigo friend even before she realized.
Unconditional Loyalty: Momoko risks everything she built for herself for her friend, because Ichigo was the person who helped build her up. She started to truly recognize how much her and Ichigo are connected and know that if Momoko was in danger she would go through hell and earth to find and protect her. Ichigo literally says: "Next to her, you sheep are worth nothing."
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"When you grow up, everything changes." — ShaneAre you seriously telling me that he had sex with him and (but) sees him only as a best friend? Also, why did that girl go and hit on Shane after clearly knowing Jonathan had a crush on him? Just because Jonathan's feelings might not be reciprocated, she could just switch her love route like that. What in the world is this? I thought maybe Shane would gain some freaking sense and love him. Why do you have to do Jonathan dirty like that? All those repressed feelings and unrequited love for years! Jonathan suffered a lot, and the way he always looks at Shane. Damn you, Shane!
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A soul-stirring masterpiece
This ones soo goooood that it does something to you. Extraordinary story telling, amazing piecing of chapters. This drama is so rich and so poignant that it left be happy for a moment and then suddenly heartbroken. Like WOW.What elevated this drama further, is that every charcter dead or alive, has something to say and you'll never forget them throughtout the drama. They all leave an impression on you and somehow you get connect to them.
I think the best thing about this drama is ofcourse the story and the charcters BUT the music gave another level of meaning to this whole novel.
IT'S AN ABSOLUTE MUST- EXPERIANCE.
I'm so glad that i found this drama like this one.
Idkkkk what to sayyyy further. This has just struck something in me that has left me speachless.
And yea,
I really really really love the casting and each and every character that came along.
THEY ARE ALL SUCH BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE.
I'm looking forward to watch more works from the crew of this drama.
10/10 FOR SURE.
SPEACIAL SPEACIAL APPRECIATION FOR,
ZHOU SHEN for singing that amazing OST.
And all the amazing singles who worked for AGAINST THE CURRENT.
~xiaonami
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Couldn't finish this P'orn show
This show came off as haphazardly put together. I couldn't finish it because it felt like the story jumped around with no evident backstory. And having it start off the way it did was a huge turnoff for me. Yikes!With the way the plot summary for the show is written, I expected a completely different intro to the show... big disappointment there. I don't know what's going on with the writers from the company produce this show but they're not doing a good job.
This is the second show I tried watching with Boat Oat and I am sadly unimpressed. They're acting is way too overdramatized and extra movements are unnecessary.
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My all time favorite kdrama
No matter how many kdramas I watch, lovely runner always remains #1 in my list. The acting, ost, characters, chemistry, plot, are all a 10/10 for me. If anyone is doubting whether to watch it or not given some people claiming it’s overrated, don’t listen to them. it was worth every second and it’s my most rewatched dramaLR is a perfect mix of romance, fantasy, comedy and drama, it’ll make you giggle and kick your feet but also cry and destroy you. I keep looking for a drama that can make me feel like watching LR for the first time did but I haven’t found any that come close, it’s just so good, it brings me comfort and it’s so special to me.
one of my favorite parts about this drama has to be the OST, every single track is so good and it is genuinely added to my playlist. not to mention how I feel everytime I listen to “ sudden shower”, simply the best song IMO
the last ep may be my favorite because after so much suffering we finally get to see happy soljae in love
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Came off like a fanfiction written by an amateur
*Shudders*Oh boy.... There's a lot to unpack.
I had really high hopes for this drama after all of the overhyped clips coming from it. I went in optimistically, as I do with any drama, and after all was said and done... the only good part of it was the short animation explaining omegaverse in the beginning.
The rest of it was horrendous. I've never had to force myself to watch a show. I would have called it quits after the first 20 minutes but I hoped it would get better.
It didn't.
The entire show was a flustercluck of poorly written and repetitive lines with no backstory whatsoever - especially when they dropped confusing info that should have had explanations as to why it was in the drama in the first place. The pacing was off. The acting was overdramatizes and unnecessary. All in all, the acting felt very unnatural.
This was the first drama I ever watched with Boat-Oat and I was greatly disappointed despite all of the good things I've heard about them as an acting couple.
The NC content didn't do anything for me. No butterflies. No wanting more. No nothing. It was haphazard and obnoxiously bad.
While watching, I continuously said, and I quote, "this show sucks" over and over again and wondered aloud why I bothered to continue watching it until the end. I wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt but I regret that decision.
I have nothing against any of the actors... but they need to fire their acting coaches. All of them. The company needs to fire their writers. And whoever handled the camera needs to not use whatever lens it was that made all of the actors bodies' look elongated and squished in some scenes and the opposite in others. The angles were off big time. They need to be fired too.
Was there a plot to this show? Because I didn't see it. And I'm not talking about the omegaverse aspect.
Overall, the show made me think of a bad fanfiction written by someone who has never tried writing a story ever and then tried to pass it off as the best thing on the planet.
Now please excuse me while I go rewatch the ONLY good omegaverse drama in existence so far so it can flush whatever Knot the series wasn't from my brain.
*Shudders*
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Korean King Kong
Wangmagwi is an alien creature, not an ape, but the movie itself compares him to King Kong, so let’s keep it at that. There are some other comparisons to be made. This alien monster actually has some similarities to a monkey, and he finds his bride just like King Kong did. But here, nothing really makes sense.It has already been 60 years since this movie was made, and I don’t know if people at that time saw it as anything other than a parody. Did the cinema magic make them believe they were watching a real monster? To me, it is obvious that the monster is just a man in a grotesque costume, the alien ship is just a plate with a light bulb, and the destroyed buildings are made of paper. What also makes me suspect that this isn’t meant as serious monster sci-fi is the plot. The behavior of the people was truly parodic and comical. If anything, I did laugh a little while watching. Also, the cuts between scenes were too abrupt. So I would say that this is a classic trash movie that is worth seeing once for an exploration of movie history, but by today’s standards, it doesn’t pass as a competent or serious film.
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Strong Girl Bong-soon kind one
very similar to Strong Girl Bong-soon (2017) drama ,starting vibes was excellent , it had much potential
but after a point , turned into normal cliche romance drama
Still i ENJOYED it .............................................................................................................................................................
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