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Heart fluttering, cute, nc scenes, emotional growth.

Heart fluttering, cute, nc scenes, emotional growth. It is on the lighter side (little to no angst) and good.

Initially I thought Tuo is a bit forceful and manipulative with JunXi. I really didn't like all the running off and A-Tao kinda pushing Junxi into things, but looking back now, I'm starting to understand their characters a little bit more. With A- Tao's fear of abandonment and Junxi's desire to make him happy, I can see how we ended up where we are. You can actually tell that they both love each other and want the best for each other.

But it's very lighthearted and an easy watch.

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Slightly predictable but still gripping!

I'll start off this review with my least favourite part of the show just to get it out of the way, the sister. Good lord is she stupid, i get that she's young but be prepared to want to throw something at the screen everytime she appears, what an idiot, not the actor, just the character, think my least liked character in recent memory.

On to the series though, it's brilliant, i started watching late as i knew waiting weekly would stress me out and its definitely a really good show to binge watch as i didn't want to stop watching. The story is a little predictable, and you do have to suspend your disbelief at times but i think you have to do this with most crime shows.

The chemistry between the 2 male leads is phenomenal, i can understand people wanting this to be a BL, but it works so well as a bromance as well. Personally i choose to believe its just a very slowburn BL where a future season (or fanfiction) shows their romantic side. Please don't dismiss this show if you are a BL fan wanting pure romance, it has all the elements you could ask for and it is definitely worth giving a try if you like the harsher dramas.

I'd probably put this series in my top 5 that i've watched this year!

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Leads are wasted.

First of all, I like the leads. But I just feel like they didn’t get much chance to show off their skills. Even thought there are 12 episodes. :) With this plot, they should have just made this a movie.
The core plot is good, not heavy, it’s something fun to watch. As a fan of a kpop group, I really enjoy when they portrayed a fan girl’s feeling as "admiration" and not "love in a romantic way". But, they should have added something interesting and creative to stand out not giving just a typical one like idol noticing the fan girl for ages, ex returning back, finding the spy, going abroad and coming back. Come on, this is 2026! Don’t the script writers have any creative idea?
Tbh, I expected a lot for Kang Hoon after Dear Hyeri. But now, I am disappointed. Also, I heard this is first ro-com for FL. She is different in a good way and kinda gives me Park Bo Young vibe. I hope they both do more ro-com with good plots.

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Was trying to give cheating a chance but not for me

I was soo excited to watch this after it was completed cz of all the hype i saw. From what i saw it was basically 2 people cheating cz of their abusive partners... but when i watched ep 1 i am kinda disappointed like Kazu has a really nice gf who trusts him a lot. The only problem is that they don't get intimate. He could have talked to her about it. As for Sei okay his bf is kinda problematic but i didn't see much... cheating... nah i guess this is not for me😅

I dropped deep in for the same reason. Just cz a man cheats on a girl for another man doesn't justify cheating

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Never expected this to be soooo good

I started watching this, because I liked Est in "Me and Thee", and thereby accidentally found one of the most believable and sweetest romances in BL.

It is also a really gripping story about the downsides of the entertainment industry. Lykn slayed their roles like pros, and the dynamics of the group in the series and everything they had to go through would have been worth a watch all on its own already.

The romance between Thame and Po was the cherry on top. It made me fall in love with WilliamEst.
I very rarely rewatch series, but I already know that this is the one I will come back to one day.

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Repetition, repetition, repetition...

This drama was a huge waste of a good story. It runs 12 episodes and if you watch it with any discernment, you'll agree it should have only run 8 episodes.
There is so much replaying of scenes already shown that so often you'll think there must be a mistake. Over and and over you'll ask yourself "why are they showing me THIS scene for the 4th time?" Honest to gosh, it's a joke how idiotically they kept giving us the same flashbacks and pretending that doing so would make the drama more meaningful. And oh okay, now show us thise scene for the fifth time...but in slo-motion. Awesome, thanks!
Huge Spoiler ahead: There's a mopey disturbed loser of a guy who you feel sad for, kinda, but because they show his life in all its depression over and over and over again, - WE GET IT!! - you just lose any sympathy for him.
The director or editor or writer, all of them, screwed this show up bigtime with their poor execution. It pisses me off so much that they dragged everything out to the point of tedium, making me lose my interest all on account of their pretentious displays. Just tell the goddamn story, okay? But they didn't do that. There was only enough content for 8 episodes, and had they been straightforward in their approach...it could have been fantastic. Instead they dragged 8 episodes into 12 and ended up with something far less compelling and extremely boring.

Well it seems I'm not the only genius who knows the people involved screwed up this novel...because someone made an actual 140 minute film of this novel and it's called "Vanishing Point". Chinese as well.
I for one am so freaking happy! I'm sure it'll be far more impactful and engaging at this length. Sadly different actors, 'cause I do think most of them did a great job in the drama. Anyways, I deserve to be critical of the drama overall because I gave it 12 hours of my life...and because the intenedt worlkd exists to give your opinion. So there.
Anyways...I'm off to the see Vanishing Point.
Oh and iQIYI...next time don't use 4 or 8 or 12 different translators!! The last 4 episodes of the drama was like they had been translated by someone newly learning Chinese! The difference in english translation from one episode to the next was so freaking obviously not done by the same person, but probably different people. What the hell? And the worst translator was assigned to do the most important final episodes?? Smart, iQiYi, smart!!

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What an amazing series.

After a long time, I have become so invested in a series. This one literally bring me back from slump.
I always love thriller, mystery storyline. That's why it is from the beginning, pulled me with its plot. All the actors have done exceptional jobs. Dew is phenomenal actor. The expressions shift, the postures, the emotions he has shown throughout the show is insane level good. Tee has done amazing job, even though it is his first time in a main role and also such a complex character of Phat. P'Off should do more negative role, because he ate his character. Singha, Mata, Neo they did amazingly. Even the other villain roles are done greatly by other actors.
Direction, music, cinematography are very crucial part of a series, and there are no doubt everything is beautifully done. Yes, in some places it feels there are some missing scene, specifically in last episode it feels a little rushed. But i understand it is because of the less episodes number. If it had more episodes it will have more space to be more detailed. Last revelation part is a bit predictable, but overall from the first episode you will be hooked. Everyone feels like suspect. You will be confused which is a essence of good thriller.
Chemistry between dew and tee is chef's kiss. Even though it is tagged as a bromance, there is nothing brotherly, trust me. It is just censored bl like untamed, woh, the spirealm. Because kayephat eyes are saying a lot of things. Just because it doesn't has kiss scene or NC scenes, it doesn't matter it is not romantic. I am really excited about Dewtee 's future work together and also their solo works. Because they are amazing actors.

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Surprisingly Good Character Writing

This is a BL series I genuinely enjoyed after a long time. I was sceptical at first since we’ve seen similar stories with poor execution, but I was pleasantly surprised by how well the main characters were handled.

I loved how consistent their personalities stayed. Little Jane says he doesn’t trust people easily, and we see his anxiety and doubts build because he’s scared of getting hurt, while still being honest about his feelings. Big Jane is naturally unsocial and struggles to express himself, so watching him slowly understand his emotions was really interesting, especially as Little Jane was reaching his limit.

I also loved that we understood the characters through their actions rather than constant childhood flashbacks. Their backstories came through their own perspectives, making it feel like we were gradually figuring them out ourselves.

There are some plot gaps, like random fight scenes and awkward side characters, but the leads carried the story well. Overall, it was the characters and their delivery that made it worth watching.

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The Search for the Lost Children

The story opens up to a young woman being abducted after getting lured by a child. Taken to a transit location where she met with other abducted women ready for transfer, they were about to be transported to another location when the police raided the place. Being the last girl in the shed, a kidnapper took her hostage at knife point, demanding for a getaway car only to be subdued by the girl in the end. The girl is Deng Yan, a police officer recently being transfered to Linshan City Police Department. Much to the surprise of the team that arranged the police stakeout at the kidnapper’s transit station, the Anti-Abduction Unit, Deng Yan has been appointed as their Director. Carrying a lifelong mission of searching for her childhood best friend Lin Ran who had been abducted while shopping for birthday gift with her 20years ago, Deng Yan gradually overcomes the scrutiny and scepticism of her team towards her by leading them to crack down recent and cold abduction cases in the city.

In my personal opinion, this story had a really high potential to become exciting and thrilling, but somehow the production managed to tone down every case to be just another usual day of the Anti-Abduction Unit. The dialogues are boring and predictable, especially Deng Yan’s “lets continue investigating” that she utters in every case, the editing is extremely annoying as they almost always skips to another completely different scene when the current one is on its climax, the sense of urgency is lacking despite the team running against time in every single case, and my god they really dragged the plot with excessive Tuanyuan Restaurant situations. I appreciate the scenes in the family’s POV, but i felt that theyre dominating the plot more than the police dept’s which should have been the focal point of the show.

Also you can forget action sequences despite this being a police story, there’s almost none other than Deng Yan’s moves in Episode 1. 🤣 what a total downer. Basically this is more of a sentimental type of story instead of action thriller kind. One thing for sure, there are a lot of crying and lamenting before, during and after each family reunion.

The show also focusses too much on Deng Yan and Aunt Zhang, Lin Ran’s mother, that the screenwriter totally leave out the rest of the characters. There isnt any character development whatsoever, even Deng Yan and Detective Chang Rui who shouldve gotten some of the limelight failed to show any progress whatsoever. They are all flat, it’s like theyre there just to say their lines and get the plot to move forward. I don’t feel much connection with the main characters, much less the other supporting ones.

The screenwriter is very good at downplaying every single climax scenes, the part where the police retrieves abducted children/women, the family reunions, even the final arc where Deng Yan fullfills her lifelong mission which should have been fire, they manage to douse it with ice cold water. Everything felt so flat even the part where it should have been the most exciting chapter of the plot.

I liked Dilraba, i liked the concept of this story, but the execution just made this show to be too forgettable. It could have been more. They missed it.

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One of the best OSTs from a kdrama in a long time

I am seriously not kidding- the OST is the best part of the drama and I feel like gave it that dreamy quality. Other than that it is quite an okay drama. Not exceptional but not something unwatchable.
Best:
1. OST: Beautiful, heart-touching OST that honestly made the drama for me. 100/10
2. The main leads did not have sizzling chemistry but something about them makes you feel like they belong together and has a bond that's unmistakable. I can't tell whether it's because of the acting or their characters but they really CLICKED. Something about their interactions had so much intensity even though they were not saying a word.
3. The color coding of this tv show is seriously beautiful. Exactly how a romantic youth based slice of life drama should be. That and the OST worked together so well to hard carry this drama for real.

Bad:
1. The 2nd male and female leads. I don't really understand what they were trying to do with their characters to be very honest. The 2nd ml was brooding the whole drama being a martyr and the only substantial thing we know about him is that he is an workaholic and has strained relationship with his mother. He never makes a decent attempt to pursue the fl even in the 5 years she was broken up with the ml. Coincidentally, he starts meeting her often AFTER she meets the ml which is just...
The 2nd FL felt like a caricature honestly and runs with the same problem. She does not have any other personality other than being a fan and possible love interest of the ml and that her fame makes her lonely and bored. A beautiful super popular super successful idol girl pursuing a rustic, clumsy, average looking artist is so male fantasy coded that I did not expect it to be present in a romcom but here we are. Both of the 2nd ml and fl seemed quite immature and kinda unnecessary especially the 2nd fl.
2. The romance was interesting but honestly speaking the ml and fl characters needed mental health support in reality given both of them had unresolved traumas which they themselves have triggered within each other. Yes, they have matured and have more life experiences but some deep seated issues cannot be resolved only via love and understanding. The ml has severe abandonment issues, the fl has been traumatized by what she had to go through during her childhood and after due to her financial conditions. These things leave deep scars and although they have both found the person who is willing to go through with it together, it's still not enough to completely heal that the way the drama showed it to be. I know they wanted to make it a beautiful happy-go-lucky romcom but logical progression says they will end up hurting each other even badly, not because they broke up and were separated for 5 years but simply because who they are. Hell, they did not even have a proper conversation about why yeon-su even broke up with choi ung! The viewers understand why she did but a conversation between the leads were necessary to show the progression in their relationship, that yeon su has finally decided to trust choi ung.

I did not have any plans in watching it but it was overall an interesting concept which I feel needed a little bit more edge to it.

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Would I recommend it? Absolutely! ?

Twelve episodes of a sweet, fun and heartfelt office rom-com that were honestly such a lovely watch. 🥹💗

There was definitely a bit of a love triangle throughout the drama, but it never felt like a full-on, typical love triangle to me. And I kind of loved that, because I really liked both male leads and, at some point, I found myself rooting for both of them a little. 😂 So I definitely had mixed feelings about who I wanted her to end up with.

The drama had such a nice mix of heartwarming moments, funny scenes and more serious and emotional ones. It was just a really enjoyable watch that had a little bit of everything without feeling too heavy.

Towards the end, a few additional storylines were introduced that, in my opinion, weren’t really necessary. They didn’t bother me enough to ruin the experience, but I definitely could have lived without them.

What I especially loved was the cast. The chemistry between the actors was SO good, and I genuinely enjoyed watching them. They really brought the characters to life and made the sweet and funny moments even better. 🫶🏻

Overall, My Bias, My Boss was such a cute drama to watch in between heavier shows. It’s probably not going to become one of my all-time favorite K-dramas, but it was definitely a very enjoyable and worthwhile watch.

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One Date Was All It Took

My Bias, My Boss is essentially every fangirl’s dream scenario with one important plot twist: you finally get accepted into your bias’s company, only to discover that your bias is no longer the person running the show.

Nam Da Reum has been a fan of D.N.X for 12 years, with Lee Chan as her longtime bias. Chan co-founded APPELLO with his friend Kang Ha Gi, but by the time Da Reum joins the company, Ha Gi is the sole CEO while Chan is merely a director who only occasionally shows up. To make things even more complicated, Ha Gi initially suspects Da Reum of being a company spy, while she desperately tries to hide the fact that she is secretly Chan’s fangirl. From there, misunderstandings slowly turn into romance.

What got me interested in this drama was actually the opening script. Da Reum says, “It was his song that rescued me from my loneliness. Being a fan gave me friends when I was lonely. Most of all, I felt alive. But to him, I’m just another light among many.” As a fangirl myself, I felt seen. That line understood something that dramas about fandom do not always capture. Being a fan is not simply about liking a celebrity. Sometimes, it gives you a community when you have none, friendships when you feel alone, and something to look forward to when life feels a little dull. My Bias, My Boss understood that energy surprisingly well.

I especially liked that Da Reum started out as a loner but eventually found her best friends through the fan community, and those friendships lasted for years. There were plenty of fangirl moments, y/n moments, and little things that made me go, “Yep, that is so me.” In that sense, the drama felt like a small tribute to the fangirl life, and honestly, that was probably the part I enjoyed the most. That is why I was so curious about how the drama would handle its central dilemma. A fangirl, her bias, and her boss? That sounds like a recipe for delicious chaos. Unfortunately, this is also where the drama starts losing its footing.

The title promises a story about choosing between a bias and a boss, but there is barely any real competition between the two. From the beginning, it is obvious that Ha Gi is going to win. That alone is not a problem. We all know how romcoms usually work. The problem is that the drama gives us almost no reason to wonder what might happen in between.

Chan has very little going for him as a potential boyfriend compared to Ha Gi. Da Reum does give him a chance, but their first date quickly kills whatever romantic possibility there might have been. After that, she goes out with him almost half-heartedly and visibly uncomfortable. Even the fangirl spark seems to disappear. The drama basically cuts the cord between Da Reum and Chan before the love triangle has a chance to become a triangle.

I was hoping for the dilemma, the pursuit, the tension, the “Who will she choose?” moments. Instead, once Chan was out of the picture, the story shifted gears into a fairly standard office romcom. And because the outcome was so obvious and the journey lacked much conflict, things eventually became predictable and, unfortunately, boring.

Another issue for me was the emotional writing. I understood what the characters were supposed to be going through, but I rarely felt what they were feeling. Da Reum is introduced as an outcast, but the drama never really shows us why she became one. Was there something she did? Something she said? Was she simply singled out by the people around her? Being told that someone is lonely is not quite the same as making us understand their loneliness. I wanted to see the events that shaped her rather than simply being handed the label.

Ha Gi has also been abandoned by people around him, including his mother, but the drama often communicates this through absence rather than experience. People leave, we see that they are gone, and the script tells us that it hurt him. But the emotional aftermath is rarely explored deeply enough. As a result, his pain felt strangely bland despite supposedly being one of the foundations of his character.

Chan's struggles were even harder for me to understand. He seems hurt because he believes fans left him and D.N.X, because he has always felt like he loses to Ha Gi, and because he thinks Ha Gi does not treat him honestly as a friend. These could have been compelling emotional conflicts, but the drama never digs deep enough into any of them. His concerns are presented more like bullet points than wounds.

That became my biggest issue with the writing and directing. The drama often feels like it is saying, “So this happened, and then this happened, and then that happened,” without spending enough time on the whys and hows. I knew what was happening, but I did not always understand why it mattered. Even the visual style contributed to that feeling. The bright, low-contrast, dreamy visuals gave the drama a soft daydream quality. Instead of showing how events unfold, it was more like I was watching someone's memory or a brief summary of what happened. It was pretty, but it also created a certain emotional distance.

The casting itself was one of the more pleasant surprises, particularly Kim Hye Jun and Cha Woo Min. Kim Hye Jun playing Da Reum was a refreshing change. She has played fiercer or quirkier characters as a lead before, so seeing her as a slightly awkward, enthusiastic fangirl in a light romcom felt different. And she absolutely understood the fangirl assignment. Her reactions felt familiar enough that I could recognize myself in them. Unfortunately, some of her scenes eventually crossed into cringe territory. For me, that was more a writing problem than an acting problem.

Kang Hoon also did well as Ha Gi. He brought the young CEO energy to the character, and I could see why Da Reum would eventually fall for him. However, some of the more emotional scenes did not land for me. There was one scene where Ha Gi told Da Reum about what happened to his mother, and I found myself more aware of the acting and camera work than the heartbreak he was supposed to be expressing. His gaze stayed on Da Reum for so long that instead of feeling like I was watching someone process pain, I was wondering why he was staring at her nonstop. A few changes in gaze, facial expression, or camera angle could have done a lot more to communicate his heartbreak and the feeling of being genuinely touched by Da Reum's words.

As for Da Reum and Ha Gi, their relationship was... alright. I could tell when and why they started falling for each other, and their relationship was cute without becoming overwhelmingly sugary. But I never really got the butterflies. Most of the time, I felt either indifferent or slightly embarrassed for them. The accidental kiss scene was particularly painful. Romcoms can ask us to suspend disbelief, but even within the wonderfully unrealistic ecosystem of K-dramas, that scene felt too forced. Their other romantic moments were fine, but nothing that made me want to replay them.

Cha Woo Min as Chan, meanwhile, was a fun surprise. I never expected to see him play an idol, although I was not surprised that he could pull off the celebrity aura. He has the soft, smooth, slightly suave presence that works well for a superstar character, and his whispery voice adds to that image. Ironically, though, his idol life mostly exists at the beginning and end of the drama. In between, he spends more time being an actor and celebrity than actually being an idol.

The ending was pretty much what I expected. The drama tried to give its major characters growth and closure, and while it was not painfully rushed, it was definitely quick. Everything wrapped up neatly enough, but there was no real surprise or wow factor. By the time the curtains rolled, I was simply... there.

Overall, I enjoyed My Bias, My Boss most when it was being a drama about being a fan. Unfortunately, the drama eventually lost its grip on the premise that made it interesting in the first place. There was potential for something much more fun hiding underneath all that fluff, but the drama never quite found it. If you're a fangirl, My Bias, My Boss might still be worth checking out for the relatable fan moments and y/n energy. If you're not, it can still work as a light watch, provided you have a decent tolerance for cringe. Just don't expect your bias and your boss to fight very hard for your heart.

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Goodbye (see I can say it once and be done)

Best advice - watch the first two episodes and then stop. That way you’ll have a nice story about young love that makes sense.remember wondering how this could possibly have such a low rating after watching them. Unfortunately for me I continued watching, and after that, , forget having any chance of appreciating this drama. It’s one of the worst shows I have ever watched. I could ignore there being absolutely no chemistry between the leads, or even between the leads and their other partners. I can even ignore that most of the time there was no logic to what was happening on screen. All of the cast was awkward, it felt as if all of them were meeting through the first time through every scene, and even this I could have looked past. What is impossible to ignore, however, is that the story actually never makes any sense. At all. And neither do the subplots. It’s all a hot mess.
At least the music was beautiful, though. It kept me from being entirely miserable watching this nonsense.Some truly beautiful songs. Beautiful cinematography, also. But well-scored and pretty idiocy is still idiotic.
I don’t need a happy ending. But I do prefer not to be overjoyed to be finished watching something. I would really like to have my ten hours back now.

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