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story that keeps you wanting more.

You Maniac isn’t a typical romance with perfectly written characters and an ideal relationship. Dean and Moth are flawed, and give emotions that aren’t always easy to understand.

What makes the story interesting is that it allows them to be imperfect instead of forcing them into the usual “green flag” mould. Their relationship develops through messy emotions, tension, and things that are still left unexplained.

William and Est’s chemistry also adds a lot to the story, making their emotional scenes feel more natural and convincing.

if you enjoy emotional tension, and stories that slowly reveal more of what’s underneath, You Maniac is worth giving a chance.

I’m definitely staying to see what else there is to uncover.

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I cannot return back to my youth...

This is my second time watching this K-drama, and I am in shambles once again...!

The way this series beautifully captures youth, life, family, friendships, and so much more is intricate and deeply woven. It touches my heart and has left me awestruck, which no other series has had that lasting effect. Maybe I'm just a sucker for dramas about life and family, but Reply 1988 really, really, really perfects it. You fall in love with every character on the screen, and after each episode, you keep wanting to watch more and more until you inevitably reach the end. Personally, I'm not an avid rewatcher of K-dramas, but this definitely takes the stick. Deok-Seon did such a phenomenal job with her role, and this is by far her best drama she has performed in. I wasn't introduced to her until "Friendly Rivalry," but her acting in this is top-notch and out of this world. And you certainly can't forget about Park Bo Gum. He is such an amazing character on and off screen, and he portrayed the timid and clumsy Taek perfectly. I also just love the whole cast in general, and the directors did such an outstanding job choosing the actors and actresses precisely.

Everyone should watch this drama at least once in their lives. Yes, it goes through everyday lives that may seem boring to some people, but trust me, this will make you sob and feel nostalgia you have never experienced before. I'm a senior in high school, and I already feel my youth slowly becoming out of reach from me. Reply 1988 taught me to savor my youth while I can and not try to grow up; I still have so much ahead of me and should make lasting memories while I still can. Go out with friends, spend more time with my parents---whatever it is, I shouldn't be wasting my youth away. Time will slowly catch up to you, so it is up to you to learn how to appreciate your youth and really take it all in before it's too late.

I could go on and on about how Reply 1988 is a masterpiece and how much it means to me. But I will save that for another day. Any kind of age can and should watch this, but I know this will hit hard and deep for adults, parents, or anyone who is constantly looking back at their olden days and reminiscing about the good times.

PLEASE, EVERYONE, GO WATCH IT!! THERE IS A REASON WHY IT IS RATED A 9/10 !!!

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You were almost the greatest

It's a film that I'd passionately give a 10/10 if it weren't for the stupid AI generated shots. Just bloody get stock footage like the old days, you assholes.
Trust me when I say this, the initial description will NOT give you an accurate read on this movie, but that's also a very good highlight. Going in completely oblivious about the events and characters involved, other than knowing Beethoven was a really good musician, will enhance the experience tenfold, and you get to see an absolutely wonderful character piece that just keeps on adding layers. It's an exceptional wild ride to experience.
It's also a passionate meta commentary, and it's god damn brilliant at it. Shots, directing, all of it (most of the time) are fantastic, and I seriously cannot recommend this enough. You can look past some bad green-screening when you're sucked into the moment. However, I can't say I endorse all of it, as the AI generation was just so sloppy and annoying. Seriously, they couldn't spare a couple hundred to get rights to just get stock footage or 3D models?
I highly recommend watching this, it's just that good, but I would recommend getting a copy from a friend or going about it by ""other means"". Paying money to watch would be giving them the idea that AI generation in film is okay. It's not.

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What I liked:
- From the very start, the friendship between the ml and his friends was just amazing. The way they stuck together and helped one another was really heartwarming to see and I love that they stayed that way till the end.
- A perfect match, honestly. The leads just have so much chemistry in my eyes. It felt natural. And I love that they could depend on each other while also being confident and strong on their own too. It really felt like a healthy relationship towards the end.
- It’s my second time watching the female lead after lighter and princess. But this felt like such an upgrade. She was also really good in l&p but wow, she really plays the mature woman really well too! Her outfits - stunning! Visuals - stunning! She’s so good at playing a strong character while also showing a sweet, loving side to her.
- This is my first time watching this male lead and I am impressed. It all felt natural and he did well.
- The nostalgic feel to this drama is really nice.
- I quite liked some of the ost too! Some of the instrumentals played in like the awkward or quiet moments were cute and playful. It felt intentional and well thought out.

What I didn’t like:
- The death of the policeman’s wife. Every time if came up, especially at the end, I just cried. I just felt to sad to not have been able to see them married, happy and alongside the leads. They deserve so much better 😭😭 she was so sweet that at the start it felt too good to be true and I thought she was a villain😭
- The auditing side was a little confusing. Since I’m not in the profession there were quite a few things I didn’t understand and it sometimes felt like too much but I think I got the gist.
- Why couldn’t the ML’s other friend also get together with someone :(. He seems like a sweet guy and it would’ve been interesting but I do get it. It probably would’ve seemed irrelevant to the plot.

Overall, it was good. I don’t tend to watch modern dramas but I did enjoy this. I love romance mixed with some mystery and action. It was a good watch. It’s not necessarily a drama I would watch again, it is fairly memorable and I don’t think I could go though their pain once again😭

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Horrendous premise to start with

I should read the novel, because I can't believe it was intended for us to see how low humankind can stoop to save their own unworthy asses, destroying everything else in the process. I can't believe no one didn't think how horrendous that idea was, notwithstanding the sheer scientific nonsense and utterly unlikable characters. The world we saw with the choices they made in the movie deserved to be disintegrated.
P.S. Independence Day was likewise stupid in the scientific sense and visually stunning too. But its heroics were carrying the movie and made my heart rooting for all of them despite of the silliness of the whole enterprise. Here whatever they did annoyed the hell out of me.
P.S.S. With all that technological advancement, why didn't they opt for spaceships instead? Much simpler and less hassle. Well. As I said, I should read the book, I refuse to believe the story is that unconvincingly stupid too.

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"Their love survived the bitter winter & finally welcomed the Early Spring"

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This was such a well portrayed drama, the character were as real as can be.
The pacing was also not bad, I was wondering how they would portray the 6/7 year relationship then breakup and reunion in 24 episodes but they managed to do it and I think it's perfect that way because there no wasted episodes and personally I don't like long modern dramas, there was a bit of confusion though on which year we were in as there weren't timecards to let us know which year it was, I would sometime hear them mention that its been thus many years and I'd be shocked coz the whole time I thought it was still within the same year, I think this would have cleared the confusion other people had about Luke being rich but having such an old phone.

I loved how Flora and Luke as characters and their relationship was painted in a way that was somewhat realistic, it showed a relationship a lot of us have been in when we were young. It was messy with sweet moments in-between. It didn't paint the female lead as a completely innocent person as well, she had her own flaws just as much as Luke had his own. I think it showed that relationships are work and not some magical event that works itself out somehow, we see this in how things fell apart between them when they didn't communicate and then there would be clarity and harmony when they did communicate and clear misunderstandings and when Luke chose to stop being proud and actually be vulnerable and kind to Flora.
Would I recommend that a friend or younger sister date Luke? Hell no. Not because he's a horrible person, actually he has a good heart and he's teachable and willing to listen when he's being corrected, the issue was his pride and his poisonous mouth that made him a horrible boyfriend sometimes.
Flora had to do some growing up as well, she called him her boyfriend but kept him at arms length, constantly lying to him straight up or by omission, what I loved about her was that she was true to herself and had courage to ask for what she wants even though she didn't look like it in the earlier years, she had way more self-control than I would because the way Luke was constantly coaxing, I'm embarrassed to say would have folded immediately.
One thing I loved about this drama unlike any romantic drama, is that Luke wasn't the perfect white knight and Flora the damsel in distress, they were both each others' savour when needed and I think Luke also points to that symbolism in the end when he reminds her of them rescuing each other during the mudslide.
I thoroughly enjoyed this drama. I enjoyed the frustrating, the sad and heart-wrenching, funny, swoonworthy, heart fluttering moments were all worth the watch.
I enjoyed the friendships that Flora had with Sun Yu and Sun Yuanzhu, Lumi and the rest of her colleagues. I enjoyed the friendship Luke had with his friends especially his mentor and bestie Tan Mian.
I even love that they showed Luke family background and his mentor/bestie gave him advise and didn't make any excuses for his behaviour, it did help us to understand why he was the way he was (nature vs nuture).
I think that they made the characters feel real and bot just there to add to the world of the male and female leads, especially with the heartbreaking story line of Sun Yuanzhu, they showed a young man who carried the burdens of his family's financial needs, witnessing the mum's abuse and not being able to help her or convince her to leave, the gambling dad, the expensive city they were in and the pressure to make it so he can afford all this, he put others above himself and barely took care of himself, he was too young to be carrying all that and while he might have been on meds I'm guessing he was already too tired by then and had given. His story is one I know too well for it to just be a plot to drive Flora to break up with Luke.

On a lighter note, Luke jnr really loves his dad Luke, that cute boy refused to leave his dad and the moment when Luke and Flora were arguing because Luke wanted to see Luke jnr was so funny, it's like they were a divorced couple fighting over custody of their child.
When it comes to character development, I saw that more with Flora throughout, with Luke it was once in awhile and then we see some serious change in the final episodes.
The ending with Luke jnr and the balloon was so cute 🥰
Overall this was an amazing drama, great story telling and the chemistry between the leads was astrononical 🫣.
The OSTs for this drama were the cherry on top, this is the first drama where I don't skip the intro after episode 1 (Liu Yuning did a big one with "Her"), lol I even knew what it means once "You should know" comes on

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Interesting character-focused story with complex characters

I really enjoyed You Maniac so far, because it puts so much focus on the characters. What kept me watching wasn’t just the plot, but getting to know everyone and seeing the different sides of their personalities come out as the story goes on.

I like that the characters aren’t perfect or easy to figure out. They all have their own flaws, insecurities and reasons for acting the way they do. I found myself trying to understand them rather than just deciding who was right or wrong, which made their relationships much more interesting to watch.

Some of the characters actually stayed on my mind after an episode ended, which I think says a lot about how well they’re written. I also really like that the series doesn’t rush their development and gives their personalities and relationships time to unfold naturally.

Overall, You Maniac has a really interesting way of telling a story through its characters. Their complexity and emotional journeys are what kept me invested, and I’m really curious to see where they go from here.

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REALITY

I know most of you were so lost after reading the plot of this drama. But this is what happening in real life nothing is like one person one love. Obviously im not supporting but i would rather say understand the stuff that is happening in our real life. People who love these dramas could be the one who like cheating \ betrayal \affairs not only these categories but the people who really wanted to be forgiven for a mistake they did it. Sometimes people need a second chance not everyone is perfect but the real passion of saving your relationship will include forgiveness as well.
Okay!!! So if you ask me if my partner would do the same and cheat on me with other person, I will happily send him to heaven. May he rest in peace..

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number one show for weeks my ass !

thor could not come down and save this catastrophe. i should have dropped this and i was <> close.

i noticed that the critiques for this drama are some of the same sort of criticisms i have written on other BL reviews. in other words, there is a hate bandwagon going on for this title. be that as it may, this sh't is rightfully declared TRASSSSSSSSSSH. i am not going to waste my time with an in-depth review so this will be spoiler-free.

this is my first omegaverse anything and they straight butchered something that could have written itself ! holy sh't. i am shook at how terrible of a production this was. the execution was an absolute failure. i waited weeks, literally since its release, for this to complete to watch. this was almost as bad as bittersweet love. their only saving grace were the unnecessarily long intimate scenes between nakhun & phatsa. i even skipped through their last NSFW scene; i cannot say i have ever done that. those scenes make BL what it is and theirs were so inconsistent that they were apart of the disorder that was this chaotic nonsense.

my biggest gripe is something i have not seen a single person mention yet, the translations / subtitles. this BL has, more-or-less, confirmed to me that the industry is using AI to translate from thai to english. the english translations were almost illegible, in many scenes. they were either entirely illogical or partly nonsensical. if by some miracle AI is not being used then whichever companies / contractors are hired to translate the last several thai BL i have seen need to be blacklisted. transcriptioning is a serious profession that requires competency. it is unacceptable that users pay for streaming services and are provided with half-arsed or AI-sourced translations. this entire title was almost incomprehensible, to me. this issue is a scam on consumers.

they had an opportunity to go well into the universe, the significance of the terms, and the decisions made between alphas and omegas. they completely faltered and wasted resources on this nothing-burger ass story with empty babble, superficial relationships, inexcusable corruption, and unexplained omegaverse dynamics. the production was a comedy show. the entire thing was a cringefest ! the scenes were cut up noticeably. every scene was basically a timeskip [kill me]. phatsa called his friend by his bodyguard's name, how did that make it into final production? the breakaway scenes were out of place. the microphone[s] used were of inconsistent output quality notably. the viewers were robbed of the one thing talked about the most ! there are four good actors in this entire work and none of them are boat & oat. these observations are not even all of the things i noted. i am truly in disbelief that a show with this premise could be the worst thai BL i have seen to date.

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