Reviews

Great Show

I really enjoyed Payback. It had a great story line and the characters were fun to get to know. Director Arthur's uncle was hilarious as was the manager. I don't doubt that there is flesh peddling in the industry and this was sad to see the lengths that some kids were subjected to in the name of chasing fame.

I liked that the story was mainly an action drama with a sprinkle of romance thrown in. It reminded me of Sammy's Children Day. When Two-Baht and Dummy kissed, you felt it. Episode 8 was well done and not too over the top. I must be vindictive, because I wanted more revenge for the whole crew. I wanted public exposure and humliation, censure, prison time and then some shower payback for the Fat Cat by at least ten big brawling inmates. Sunny's decline and ending was satisfying. He's the best actor after all, he deserved that starring role in that group activity.

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ML and Supporting Cast Shine !While everything else tries to drag it down!

First of all i am a fan of the FL actress so i was really looking forward for this drama. This pairing felt really interesting as the ML actor is really known for his expressions but i was really worried they would do him dirty with a weirdly styled wig * the dreaded side swept bangs* but fortunately for us they got the wig so right this time, his visual and acting is such a delightful surprise that i would tell you to give it a chance just based on that lol. Sadly the FL's acting left much to be desired. It just felt like she was struggling to show the complex personality of the protagonist. It could also be a direction issue. The supporting cast really pulled it through and made the viewing enjoyable.
On to the story now, it started with this eerie vibe with the look of the drama but the story always struggled catching up to it. I am not saying the story is not engaging but just saying its not engaging enough and might I say a little bit rushed. Maybe its the editing too cause the parts of the story are not let to just sit there and are rushed. So for people who like fast paced stories will definately enjoy this one. I really like the type of story telling where they let the viewer decipher the story as it moves but in this one the subtle hints were just messy and while watching , it always felt like being dropped in the middle of the story. I just wished there were more subtle acting and visual cues. Cause the acting from everyone could have pulled it off as even the supporting cast was phenomenal. One such example is SL falling for the FL, yes we can argue it was love at first sight but thats stretching it cause there were no aha this is love at first sight moment! Much of the drama misses this type of visual cues or even if the cue is present then the audience are not given enough time to process it as it is rushed.
The drama is based on historical fictional setting so it is liberal with the traditional etiquettes but since it is still a historical drama the frequent use of modern etiquettes feels zarring and pulls you out of the story when you notice something. Like multiple times the ML just grabs FL infront of her entire family and it just doesnt have the impact the the production is going for instead it just breaks the immersion for audiences of a historical period drama watchers. Its not a requirement to strictly follow the social etiquettes, interpersonal boundaries as many historical dramas do take liberties but in this drama the traditional ones are replaced by modern ones maybe thats why many scenes feel off.
Okay now the part that i really could have done without, what is going on with the constant weird BGM it is getting on my nerve cause its making the scene goofy. The actors are doing good, story is going fine the scene is really beautifully shot and then you hear this grating BGM. Could be just a me problem too and it didnt make me stop watching the show but seriously could have done without it. With the vibe that the acting, directing and even story is going for, the scene could have just dialogues with silence to build tension.
I recommend this show for the ML's and supporting character's acting, and it is beautifully shot also the story doesnot drag(which honestly is not good for this production). But other than that I wont be going out of my way to recommend it or rewatch it. The frustrating part is the story had so much potential and it is such a visually appealing show.

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"Your a red flag,but I'm colorblind"

Rule no:1
Don't be too emotional

Hahahahahahaha the emotions are already there...what a rollercoaster,an addictive rollercoaster coaster.
Big Janes ticks all boxes of mental disturbance and that's really great,it wasn't too Lil or too much just enough to make ur heart boil Nd still fall inluv with him.
Lil Jane is just definition of cute ,the acting,the smiling,the overall is cute ... "applaud People"

I liked how the parents weren't toxic ,they were like real day to day parents...it wasn't over exaggerated including the friends Nd the siblings

Now lastly I think after both janes tasted awesomeness...they got addicted...though Lil Jane just loves awesomeness way more,he fantasized abt such during the ppl , writing an exam....shiiiaaaa

But I'm satisfied and I recommend

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The ”skip +10sec” button will be your friend

To be honest, I didn't start watching this series with high expectations and at first I put it at a 7 star rating JUST because of how IMPRESSED I was was the actors ability to finish this show without having a cringe stroke. Like, it was a very hard watch, but if I were an actor I wouldn't be able to pull this off without dying of laughter at every line. Therefore, this is the only thing that actually deserves a good rating.
Moving on to plot. There is no plot :))))) ( ok, there is SOME try hard to be interesting and dramatic plot, but you don't go into this series for it :))))) ). Although, I give them a big highfive on actually doing extended research on the omegaverse. This could be called a documentary rather than "a series", cause they really explain things a lot :))))
P.S.; can we actually beg the actors to take on shows with LESS "se*ual activity"? It gets to a point in both of their series :))) And I feel like they truly waste their potential.

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Mom Sucking Justified

Sometimes surreal, this story seems to try using an analogy to tell a story about an abusive mother who can't find it in her to love her daughter and so takes out her anger and resentment on the daughter for giving her that flaw. It's really just episode after episode of her mom being abusive, her dad ignoring or justifying it, her sister (initially) feeding into it, and people at school ostracizing her. And she's totally friendless and has 0 self esteem. She also has a crush on a guy that this other girl has a crush on. This girl tries to assert her dominance with the guy like a number of times throughout the show. The guy can't seem to make up his mind between MC and this girl for a while.

While she maintains a good relationship with her dad, he frustratingly has sentience for about 5 seconds per episode. Eventually she has a good relationship with her sister, when her sister notices MC's a good person and a caring sister despite everything. And finally she makes a new friend with a new girl who used to struggle like her and wants to help her through it. Her mom always seems to be on the verge of having sympathy for her, but instead she's just upset that she's the only one who thinks her daughter sucks and that she still can't find it in her to love her. And she gets totally angry and distraught when she sees her daughter slowly learning to love herself and accept love from people around her.

Early on in her life, she tried to kill MC, but then stopped and hugged her for the only time in her whole life. Later this is said to have been because she loved her so much that she didn't want her disgusting existence to be a source of pain for her or the people around her. Insane. When she tells MC in high school, understandably MC runs away from home to stay with her only friend and her mom for a bit. The next day she does things she always wanted to with a mother figure with her friend's mom. And then her friend's mom shared that she once wanted to kill her daughter and herself to save them both the pain, and she finds that this helps her to understand her mother's "love" and she goes home.

A lot of her desire to become better is so the guy she has a crush on can love her back. Sort of annoying but she's just 18 so maybe it's realistic.

Ideally it's a story of liberation and acceptance, and it feels like that's what it could've been at its highest potential. But in the final episode, she finds out that her mom hated her because she reminded her of herself all along. And then she feels horrible for not being more understanding of her mom's abuse and cries over her dead body. And then she marries her crush, has a kid, and thinks about how sad her mom was because she couldn't love her and that she shares the same feeling about her own kid, that she could never love her own kid, but she's not sad because her mom took her sadness away. Insane honestly. Just no words.

And this is a story she's telling said kid for bed (that's the story frame). The kid is at one point crying lol, just enduring hearing "And then the girl's mom called her ugly, and told her she'd never find love, and she wanted to die, and everyone thought she was a curse and she had no friends and the gifts she gave her mom meant nothing to her." I mean it's just like such an insane vibe that she's telling her kid a story of her mom who didn't love her, and then even more insane to be telling it to a kid she herself doesn't love and is just fake loving?

I always hate in Japanese media the flippant attitude towards trauma and depression. So much "just smile." "It's your fault that people don't like you." And towards abuse. So many abusive parents in anime and jdramas, and the attitude is that it's normal. This jdrama is really annoying if you think child abuse should be treated seriously, if you think friends should be more supportive, if you think suicide isn't black and white and deserves sympathy, and if you know that trauma doesn't just go away from smiling. Whatever.

Aesthetically pleasing. Also if my child looked like that iguana, I'd especially want to hug her.

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This was absolutely terrible, I had so much hope in the first episode but as the series went on it went from terrible to awful to worse ! I only kept watching because of JameFolk, just to find out they averaged about 3 minutes in screen time per episode ??? Those AI allegations seemed to have some truth to them because I can’t imagine a human being messing up so much in terms of plot points and continuity. I feel bad for the cast because their time and talents were wasted on this ai slop. Luckily the comments from watchers have kept me sane, this was such a disservice to the ABO genre may this nonsense never occur again.

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Waste of time

I was really looking forward to the series but then I started watching it from episode 1 to 10 and I was really hoping that it would get better but it didn't.

I really wanted to give this series a chance so I watched episode 11 and 12 and I should have stopped at episode 10 if I wanted to watch a bad bl drama.

I should have watched Eye contact which is much better than this and Eye contact was also a bad drama but better than this.

I'm just so disappointed because I watched My Stubborn and I grew to love Oat and Boat, and their acting. This show was supposed to cement their acting skills but it did not. Their skills were overshadowed by the lack of a comprehensive script.

I remember watching the trailer and the pilot and I was so engaged and I was interested in the first two episodes then it just with downhill from there.

I was really looking forward to this drama but I was just so disappointed. I hope the cast members get better scripts in the future.

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How?

How people do you like this? First the bromance is one sided for sure and I can't see how they like each other at all. I didn't see any chemistry. Honesty this could have been left out and just have two friends fighting the world. Overly complicated and boring. I find myself playing on my phone and then looking up and really didn't miss anything. Sad because I've seen quiet a few of these actors in other works that I loved and I guess that is why I can't look away from this train wreck and the fact that it got good reviews so I keep watching and waiting for it to get good. The question Are you dropping this title is Maybe.

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Depressing at times powerful other times

This movie attempt to show the process and hardships of gaining refugee status as well as hints in to the ups and downs of recovering from a drug addiction showin the human behind the dirt in an okay way.

I cant remember ever seeing a movie depicting this situation in such a straight forward dark yet hopeful back to dark again kind of way. There are several elements in this that bothered me. the stereotypes, the gangsters, places that do not match where they are supposed o be (the airport looked a bit more like Brussels train station than its airport) .

And I am conflicted about the romance in some ways it makes our refugee more human in other ways it steels away from the realism and main plot of finding refuge and surviving.

The acting is good, the emotions are definitely there and besides the sets feeling off (for those who have been to Brussels), its is really beautifully made.


Still the movie is dark, depressing and adreses an important issue so Id say watch it not for the romance but for the issues.

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WORTH IT!!

I watched this while it was still airing and finished it just now after a break and I LOVE IT!! Honetly I don´t know how i was able to take a break in the first place, that´s how captivating this is. The story is absolutely amazing, a time-travel drama done right. Casting was spot on and introduced me to many new faces I hope to see again. This was an epic mix of romance, comedy and mystery/detective. If you are considering, you should definitely tune in, I´m positive you won´t regret it. I will definitely be rewatching, though next time I´ll probably binge it in one day lollz :pppp

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Toxic relationship.

Such a toxic relationship... back and forth. I am so bored of this,nothing interesting happening. .. I struggled to watch till 20th episode... 4 more to go... dont understand why people like it so much... maybe just because of their chemistry or ML charm. But the rest of their story is boring, toxic, immature, childish and with so much luck in communication and emotional intelligence... like all the Chinese protagonists they are good at work but so bad at relationships...

for me FL was more of a red flag than ML. she simply hurt him from the beginning with her immaturity. i don't think she loved him. there was an attraction but she didn't love him. yes, maybe he was arrogant and then towards the end jealous, because she didn't communicate and kept him at a distance, she disrespected him as a man and as a lover very often. She didn't want to have an official relationship, he respected her and after all she was unhappy. Yes, he had a colder way of speaking but she was offending him all the time when she was unhappy. for me, she did not respect him as a man. and he was not gentle... she played the victim card many times. sorry, but this is my perspective.

They don't make a conscious effort to resolve their disputes, nor do they work on themselves to grow, heal, and matur, both emotionally and mentally.

Perhaps it is realistic, yes. But that doesn't change the fact that this drama is simply boring, as it merely perpetuates dysfunctional behaviors. It would have been great to see a more complex story, one showing how to resolve issues, communicate, and mature within a relationship to build a partnership that is promising, healthy, and balanced.

It should be a story that inspires you, not just an appealing one with a few sweet or sexy moments and nothing more. Yet, superficiality is rampant, and audiences only want filler stories—just to lose themselves in the narrative, rather than grow along with it.

The only character that I like was Lumi. and the sad surprise moment that was unexpected in 20th episode maybe is the only spark for viewers to contemplate of life... i was so sorry for that.

And with all of this I dont recommend this drama.

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The Edge of Best

I started this one because I simply love period pieces and from the beginning, it captured me. Totally. Completely. And on the strength of the grand acting by all the performers, I became intrinsically immersed. There are simply not enough acolytates to go around for how mesmerizing they all were. Perhaps it was the content of the story or the nature of the theme, but literally everyone seemed to have put their heart-and-soul into this series. We did not just see the characters; we felt them – even those who we may not have agreed with. We understood them. The lines of ‘good’ and ‘evil’ became blurred into different degrees. Even from those who were considered the ‘haves’ from those who were the ‘have-nots’ – not necessarily always so clearly, however. It is the nature of human existence to want more while privilege feels as if it is theirs by nature. This is a love story beautifully woven into a political advancement, with great earnestness and with a sense of inseparability and destiny. I loved everything about this unfolding lakorn and the love story within it. In addition to being beautifully choreographed, it has a sharp, clean, crisp screenplay with surprising cinematography. Its story has just the right weight combination of love, political intrigue, and the Royal sense of folly connected to entitlement. It makes you grasp the moral dilemma of how much should we be grateful to others before we can indeed stop bending the knee to them. This story blends/blurs/answers that concept through love. Without hesitation, this is one of the best series for this year and certainly one the best BLs to come out of Thailand in quite some time. Everything about this series is exceptional and has to be considered for the top spot. A Magnum Opus.

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When a girl misinterprets love

Mild Spoilers begin 2nd paragraph

I came for Song Seong Heon but stayed for the whole story. SSH, Shin Sae Kyeong, and Yeon Woo Jin were excellent portraying Tae Sang, Mi Do, and Jae Hui. The supporting cast were equally great. They all made me stay through the end. Even though it is dated by 2026 standards, this was a well acted drama.

Now to the story -

I will say if people felt that Tae Sang was manipulative, the story itself was actually manipulative. You can’t pull on a viewer’s heartstrings to justify Tae Sang’s overall behavior toward Mi Do. Yes, he had a sensitive side and he truly liked her, but he was also obsessive, controlling, manipulative, and explosive. It was all about him. This is not love. He was immature about so much. He was desperate in trying to fill a void in his life and found that opportunity with Mi Do. While the viewer can maybe understand why he acts the way he does, none of what we learn about him justifies his harshness towards Mi Do. Another reviewer said his actions were nothing short of domestic violence.

While Jae Hui had his own backstory, he presents as an emotionally balanced, well educated young man. Any girl would be attracted to his warmth and kindness, not to mention his good looks.

Mi Do was her true self with him. She literally blossomed when she was with him. Jae Hui’s feelings for her were pure and beautiful. He was fully committed in his love for her. With Tae Sang she was guarded most of the time. Over the duration of their relationship he never really brought out the true Mi Do the way Jae Hui did.

Mi Do and Lee Jae Hui belonged together.

Tae Sang needed serious counseling to confront and overcome his issues before looking for a lady friend…., as did Mi Do. She needed to understand the difference between being loved and being manipulated, even abused

The scriptwriter(s) surgarcoated the domestic manipulation/violence.

Having said all that, I looked at the ending of this story as presented as the beginning of the rest of their lives. If not much changes, where will they be in the next 5 or 10 years. I don’t see them together.

Jae Hui, on the other hand, was the kind of person who could come to grips with the painful loss of Mi Do and eventually find true love again.

That’s my take.

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Regret is bittersweet

This drama proves that sometimes divorce isn't the end of a woman's story—it's where her real story begins.

For more than ten years, Ji Shu devoted herself to Chen Jing Bai, their daughter, and their home. She was loved and pampered, but when Chen Jing Bai cheated, he destroyed something that couldn't simply be repaired with regret. Ji Shu doesn't beg him to choose her or remain trapped in a broken marriage. She walks away.

What I loved most was watching Chen Jing Bai slowly realize exactly what he had lost. He took for granted the woman who had spent years beside him, never imagining she could build an incredible life without him. His regret only grows as Ji Shu becomes successful, wealthy, confident, and admired by millions. Suddenly, the wife he betrayed is the woman countless other men would gladly cherish.

And then there's Fu Zheng Yu. ❤️ While Chen Jing Bai is looking backward wishing he could undo his mistakes, Fu Zheng Yu is looking forward, determined to give Ji Shu the love and attention she deserves.

Ji Shu's greatest revenge isn't another man or her success. It's discovering that losing Chen Jing Bai didn't destroy her—it allowed her to discover herself.

Sometimes a man doesn't realize what he had until another man shows him how she should have been loved all along.

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