Reviews

Not a fan of the young murderer who is necessarily insane and also dresses up as a woman. Surely we can stop with that after a while, can't we ?
And IQ is classist nonsense (invented to keep poor people out of higher education) and racist, to boot. (The famous world map of IQs that fascists love.) Right, let's stop with this crap, shall we ? Come on, let's do it.

I watched this series solely because of Kim Hye-soo, and she really carries it. Unstoppable, funny and poignant.
The irresistible Jung Sung-il is so funny as a jaded character with a keen sense of justice. These two form a dynamic duo that makes this story, full of twists and turns, very engaging. You think it's going to be a comedy with seasoned reporters, but the real theme is the rich's stranglehold on the media. Rich people who made their fortunes under Japanese occupation, no less.
Park Seo-yeon, I wondered where I had seen her before, and it was in a similar series (a mix of investigation and humour) called ‘From Now On, Showtime !’.
The whole team of crazy journalists is endearing. We want a second season. Oh yes, we do !

Eat the rich. Save investigative journalism.

PS: Kang Ho employs the well-known ‘YouTuber strategy'. Namely, behaving like a selfish little shit and pretending to be a victim at the first sign of trouble. All that was missing was for him to equate criticism with harassment, and we'd be all set.

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This GL is very underrated and deserves so much, REAL HIDDEN GEM

I'm annoyed that I postponed this drama, but the good thing is that I FINALLY got to watch it and here's my opinion.
I'm gonna be honest, I mostly love all GL's (try to) but this GL, made me feel something that NOT all GL's make me feel.
Tension, curiosity, excitement, anger, sadness, happiness. All at once. Each episode was more intense (one more than other, clearly) and I was always excited for the next one. I loved the chemistry between the actresses and was so happy when I saw that they were apparently going to have more series together. I loved the acting of the other actors too; some acted so well in their villainous roles that I genuinely hated them (only in their roles, nothing outside of that). I also feel a strong connection to this series because it contains police drama and crime, which added even more points to it. Mixing police drama with romance, its always a HELL YEAH for me.

I'm glad I found this GL and I recommend it a thousand times over. I feel that it still doesn't have the popularity it deserves, so I hope that Tungpang Jessie, in their next project, will get that 100% deserved recognition so that Heart Code can finally become popular.

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Insufferable FL

Things I liked

1 I loved high school and college dramas so that had great ratings and I thought it'd be perfect like Our Secret. I was mistaken.

2 The actors and characters other than the FL and the 2FL. They were sympathetic enough and wanted them to be happy.

Things I disliked

1 The chemistry between the leads. There was none. Truly none.

2 The ML actor. I don't think he's very talented although I don't remember him any other dramas to compare, but here he wasn't as good as I expected.

Things I hated

1 The FL. Awful actress and awful character. I rarely say this because usually I find every character has something to like, but here she was so unpleasant I couldn't take it anymore. I watched the last episode and she was even worse than before. Why would anyone fall in love with her is beyond my understanding. The ending was ridiculous and didn't make me change my mind.

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The story is lacking compared to the anime series

April is coming to the end. This year I finally decided to watch the live action movie of my favorite anime series.

I think it should have been produced as a drama instead of a movie. A lot of important scenes from the anime was cut off from this live action movie, which made the story very confusing and less emotionally connecting.

Overall, the music performances were nice, the movie has beautiful cinematography and visuals. Hirose Suzu and Yamazaki Kento looked great together, and the cast’s acting was also good. However, the story was very lacking. I didn’t deeply connect with the characters as how I felt when watching the anime. It didn’t really touch my heart.

I think I would probably enjoy it more if I haven’t watched the anime before. I couldn’t refrain myself from comparing it to the anime a bit.

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The show is kind of boring at times, but the chemistry between the characters is not bad—just not that great either. I think it’s still watchable, especially since the episodes aren’t too long. However, I feel like it’s rated higher than it deserves.

One thing I noticed is the difference between Ji Hyun and Jae Won. Ji Hyun has good, supportive friends, but Jae Won doesn’t. Even though Jae Won is always sitting with his friend Tae Hyun, he doesn’t treat him well. Tae Hyun comes across as rude and jealous, and he often hurts him. I think friendships like that are unhealthy and shouldn’t be part of our lives.

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A Really Good Coming of Age Romance

Contrast is a really good yet delicate coming of age romance drama, It's a pity FOD decided to drop all episodes in one go in Japan which honestly killed the hype for the domestic audience and also did not give time for the production nor actors to promote and market the drama. I feel it would've gain more domestic popularity if it was aired normally.

I watched the drama without knowing the original source but the youth vibe of the story is captured beautifully. The two MC are likeable yet complex in their own ways. I thought the way the drama handle the grooming situation with Akira is done so realistically well that we, as the audience knows, Akira is never going to realize the damages Kanda had done to him. Akira was at a sensitive age when he feels like by simply existing hurts after being bullied by the boy he liked for being gay. He's young and depressed, and finally, he confides to his tutor Kanda who gives the awful advice of how he, a gay man himself, finds "balance" in life by sleeping with other men. They somehow gets into a secret relationship for years, and we can see how his so called "balance" only further destroy Akira's self esteem when he meets Kanata. He pushes him away despite their attraction because he feels like he's not strong nor pure. He's afraid he can't go through another painful rejection from a boy he likes again.

Kanata and Akira's relationship is full of angst and charms. One is fragile and other is doing all he can to show him love. This is one of those dynamics that is forever loved. The only thing I dislike is the drama giving us all this angst and a few minutes of them being together at the end only. It's probably the one thing JBL has been doing that everyone complains about, and I get that it's how a lot of romance manga are written but sometimes as a drama, it feels like the ending is not rewarding for after all the angst.

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The film’s visuals are intense and immersive, making the battle scenes feel realistic and gripping

Chen Hui’s performance in Eight Hundred left a deep impression on me and I know I will carry it with me for a long time.
From the moment he appeared on screen I could see how much thought and care he put into this role. He didn’t just act he became the character. He showed us a man who was afraid, but still chose to be brave but never gave up.
What I loved most was how real he felt. In the middle of all the chaos and noise. He brought a sense of humanity to the story.
Thank you Chen hui for telling this story with so much honesty and soul. You tough our hearts.

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I wishes it could have been better.

What I disliked:
Few participant: The show tries taking a turn from the normal high school drama, but the turn wasn't good in the aspecct of leaving 5 students playing the game, for how few the numbers of the game player was, it created less thrill to me, the death was once and all, the last death happened because she was a big villain that deserved death, not because you were innocent, the death was created to get your attention into the show for those who love horror and suspense tag.
With how few the student participating actually is and only the main characters made a wish, the story wouldn't definitely want to leave half of the main characters dead.
The concept was nice, but wasn't a strong pulling force: Expected something more, like the students forced inot the app or entered accidentally, not expecting you having a choice to make a wish and coincidentally with most of the main characters playing the game they all made a wish which was lame and dumb.
A student actually writes down their birthday and everything and tells the app to grant their wisha and you say they thought it was a joke 'I find it a joke", when your birth calendar has been written purposely, and you then wish for the death of your friend in the so-called phone and you don't believe in the app, it sucks. They could have just made them real villains
Talking about some ridiculous concept, it was already reluctantly okay with the the premise, but then the wish could actually stop, at some incidence I mean does the writer actually wants to save the children.
Pacing Inconsistencies: The minor problem that I actually found heart wrenching the pacing was bad the writers were wrong they jumped from a real suspense moment of searching the house of an occultist into flashbacks on one of the leads and it continued through the end I mean are you actually playing me down in seeing my etching suspense.
Pick up one: Stop playing some rom-com in my suspense-horror, we didn't come for those hectic romance, you could have stopped in EPS one since the horrors haven't yet come by then and not stretched out to the romance to the end, they can play the real rom-com at the end of their struggles.

What I Loved:
The actors performance: As young as the actor they were the light of this show, the performance carried out by each of them was noteworthy and I was overwhelmed by distinctive villain and saving roles.

The suspense was a real hook, the horror was okay and the lighting gave in a lot for those horror.

Overall If wishes could kill is a drama I can't rewatch (I don't basically rewatch dramas) it had some horrors in to that, it gave me some flinching jumpscares, with plot holes that kills me and I find it had not to get tired but I basically enjoyed it.

P.s Netflix better stop their greedy nature the series have come to a close, their is no need to foreshadow that their is gonna be S2. The ending was really okay.

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Creepy, winding, esoteric… and incomplete

I was unimpressed in the beginning. It felt like If Wishes Could Kill was trying to reheat Night Has Come’s nachos, which didn’t sound particularly appealing considering I didn’t care for those nachos fresh.
But then it took a step back from shock-value gore and leaned more heavily into eldritch suspense, and it started to grow on me. It knew when to slow down and linger, when to pan away, when to lighten the mood and let the viewer breathe, and when to trust the viewer to read between the spoken lines.
For a minute there, it felt like I was in good hands. I could just sit back and enjoy the ride while the rollercoaster took us up, up, up the track to the misty summit, where the carriage crested, the mist cleared, and we plummeted…
10 feet.
After all that anticipatory climbing, the ride proceeded to slow to an anticlimactic stop not even a third of the way down, dump us, and reverse.

Is that it? Is the ride over, or is it still under construction? Why would they let us on an unfinished ride? Why build it so high if they didn’t have the materials to bring us the same distance back down?

Yeah.
That’s the feeling, and it’s a shame because I think this cast had a lot to juggle and, for the most part, managed to pull it off (shout out to Mina—I haven’t really kept up with her since IOI and she did a fab job portraying a completely incomprehensible character). And what did they get for their hard work?
A non-ending positively swimming in unanswered questions.

• What happened to Si Won’s dad?
• What did Si Won do to provoke whatever it was her mom died trying to protect her from?
• Why was Hye Ryung so easily convinced to just… leave her friend’s mom to die???
• Why did Hye Ryung immediately jump to SACRIFICING HERSELF IN THE MOST GRUESOME MANNER IMAGINABLE TO CURSE HER EX-BFF & FORMER CRUSH when she was bullied for the first time?? I feel like that is a plan z course of action???
• Why did Si Won wish for the curse to continue? The only people she might want dead are ALREADY dead?? What was the thought process here, because attributing it to revenge is just not cutting it for me
• How did Hyeong Wook’s death get settled so quietly??
• Why introduce the mechanic of subsequent wishes stopping the timer on previous wishes if Si Won is still gonna hunt all wishers down, regardless?
• Why did no one even consider wishing to end the cycle?
• Why was Se A given such Chosen One treatment if there wasn’t gonna be any payoff? No dormant shamanistic aptitude? No family secrets? No “I almost died in the accident that killed my parents and have a stronger connection to the afterlife” reveal? NOTHING???
• Ha Yeong. What’s with the snake? How did she go from Regular Joe to Vessel of Divine Power? Was the power acquired? Awakened? How did she link up with Bang Ul? Ffs.
• If Ha Yeong can weaken Si Won’s influence, why didn’t anyone suggest rounding up all the wishers and bringing them to the shrine, if only to contain some of the chaos while Se A and Bang Ul set out to fight the final boss?? Hello?? Risk & liability avoidance anyone?
• Why was Na Ri so fixated on her crush??? Girl, you were just STABBED, and you’re more mad that your crush got with your friend??? Be so fr

I could go on but I don’t feel like it
You get the idea
This drama is a tease

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This series will forever hold a special place in my heart!

it's not perfect, but I just love it so much. saying pit babe is the best series is a bit difficult since it just lacks in so many ways. but it's always like this with comfort shows. you know it's kinda bad, but you can't help rewatching a million times.

pit babe has always been that series i've been wanting to see. a decent bl that goes beyond romantic love story and the usual everyday lives of two men falling in love. I felt so much while watching pit babe 2. we got the exciting plot, the angst, the love story, and the cute chemistry.

i love how they gave northsonic the happy ending they deserved (unlike the novel) and I'm so happy for them! although it's a bit disappointing for me that kimkenta and peteway didn't end up together officially, but at least they didn't end things in bad terms.

I've been obsessing over this series for the longest time. Rewatched it millions of times and will rewatch it another million and one times! I'm actually on my way to rewatch the series as i write this.

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series so good i'd do anything to watch it for the first time again

Call me biased but this series was the absolute best for me in 2025! I know they lacked in some ways, but i really really loved how it turns out. I was obsessed with singsa latai since the very first episode.

I'm actually glad they decided to change darin's character to a man because it adds more chemistry to the story (or maybe i'm just down bad for seydarin lol). Michaeltopten's chemistry is just over the roof I can't get over them. Especially that hospital scene when darin wakes up finding sey sleeping beside him. and that bathtub scene too!

I'd also like to applaud poohs' acting this time. I just fell for thup since the first episode. He was so lost and innocent, i get why singha ends up adopting this puppy. The small details like thup pinching singha's shirt drove me mad. That's just so crazy. I can feel pooh's improvement after pit babe. He did way better here.

almost forgot to mention their addictive OST too. I just listened to pray and loop on loop the whole time the series aired.
overall i'm just so obsessed over singsa latai, i am never moving on. I will rewatch until the end of time. or until we get that michaeltopten series we've been waiting too long for.

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Something is off with the romance part between the FL and ML lead

I watched this drama as it was said to be the sequel to "The Interpreter" but other than Yang Mi starring, there is absolutely no connection between them. The storyline does use some of the same cliches with Yang Mi' cold, frozen face expressions and being heartless to those loving her. Yang Mi is one of my favorite actresses but I don't think this role was her best performance. I am not sure if anyone else noticed, but it was apparent that throughout the whole series, she has been dodging physical contact, especially kissing with the ML. I have never seen so many forehead kisses, hair patting and hugging in a romantic scene that was supposed to be the lovers' hot/intimate interaction. It was obvious that Yang Mi was barely able to carry on with the romantic scenes, maybe because of the age difference between the FL & ML and she found it awkward to play lovers with a much younger actor. So, the whole "loving couple" vibe was more like a brother and big sister vibe. Thank God for Huang Ze Tao's great acting skills to have saved the romance/romantic parts of the movie.
I really liked the full cast of the very talented young actors:; and the storyline itself wasn't all that bad, except for the plot holes here and there and some things that just simply didn't add up or made any sense i.e. the FL accidentally was forced onto an International flight from China to Hawaii and she didn't know where she was being "taken" to? Seriously? With all the security and check ins at every airport, especially International airports, she just wondered onto the plane??? Or.. how does it make any sense that her friend Shan Shan being pregnant and have fallen so the FL told her to wait for her to fly back from NY to Shanghai. That's a pretty long wait!! How ridiculous. Then she blames herself and the ML for not getting there on time.? Honestly, which script writer had a brain freeze at this point.
And what was with the English dubbing? It sounded very cheap and ridiculous.
Overall, it's a watchable series that provides some entertainment but for me, I will not put this on my rewatch list. Thanks for the Crew for their hard work.

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Gay romance with jealous colleague, possessive ex-lover and confusing systems plot device

I am a big fan of Chinese vertical dramas. I have seen a handful of Korean verticals but only 1 that I truly enjoyed. Thought I should give this a go since it is available on iQIYI and to my surprise, I liked it.

What I liked:
1. Plot - Refreshing as I had not seen office rivalry story done this way.
2. Acting - I really like Kim Ye Chan's performance. His character was a sensitive soul & I could sense his sadness. The actress who played the antagonist gave a good performance because I hated her character.
3. ML characterisation - Yun Yeong Won was my favourite character as he was the most fleshed out. He yearned to love & be loved. Nice guy who was also a sensitive soul.
4. Styling - I liked the contrasting style between the two MLs as they reflected their personalities - uptight vs youthful. It's cute seeing adult wearing shorts to work.
5. Protectiveness - I liked the first scene in which we saw ML having confrontation with his ex boyfriend. Director ML was right about workplace bullying & sexual harassment.
6. Supporting characters - I liked that guy who was friends with the female antagonist. He only had few scenes but his appearances were interesting.

What I disliked:
1. Antagonists - Wow, that jealous colleague turned ML's ex boyfriend's wife was psychotic & malicious bitch. The type who is envious of a happy couple and would destroy their happiness. ML's ex boyfriend was a manipulative arsehole.
2. Systems - I don't quite understand this plot device. Why was the director ML given systems arc?
3. Romance - I felt they could have longer romance arc especially after the awful wedding.

Favourite scene
When both MLs had heart-to-heart conversation

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10/10 Xianxia/Xianhuan Masterpiece

It’s been a long time since I felt this impressed by a xianxia drama. Love Beyond the Grave is exceptionally well-made, with a beautiful story that flows seamlessly between the human and spirit realms. There are no absurd rules or hypocritical gods. Both leads are clever and scheming, but they only use their wits against their enemies. With each other, they are honest, deeply understanding, and feel like a match made in heaven. The villains also have real depth, and the core message of the drama is strong and meaningful.

The storytelling is excellent. It gradually reveals the characters’ personalities while cleverly using flashbacks to build emotional connection between the leads. There are exciting twists, no unnecessary dragged scenes, and plenty of moments that let you appreciate the actors’ skills. The soundtrack is beautiful and deeply touching, the battle sequences are thrilling, and one particular scene about exchanging the five senses beautifully highlights the value of being human and finding joy in simple things.

Visually, the drama is stunning with fresh and gorgeous CGI. Simu costumes are magnificent and look perfect on Dilraba — this role was clearly made for her. Chen Feiyu shines brilliantly in both action and romantic scenes. He’s one of the most talented young actors of his generation, and his chemistry with Dilraba is fantastic. I really hope they work together again soon. The drama offers two endings; I personally loved the happy one as it resolves the story nicely. Overall, this is a near-perfect drama in every aspect. A well-deserved 10/10.

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