Reviews

Zhao Lusi the star you are! ✨

This drama was simply beautiful. The story, the characters, the tension—ugh, it had everything it needed to be a masterpiece. Honestly, this is one of the very few times I’ve watched a C-drama while it was still airing. Usually, they’re tough to keep up with since episodes drop daily, but since I didn’t have too many ongoing dramas at the time, it actually wasn’t that bad. Plus, I was so hooked that staying up to date was no problem at all.

The story starts with the main couple already married, which is pretty unusual since we’re used to seeing the whole “meeting → falling in love → getting together” process. But here, we get a couple that seems perfect on the surface, hiding secrets that could destroy everything. It was so satisfying to watch the female lead prove that she could stand on her own and build her future, while the male lead basically crawled back begging for forgiveness.

Zhao Lusi once again showed how talented she is—she gave us such a different character this time: mature, confident, and completely sure of what she wants. And on the other hand, this was my first drama with William Chan, and wow, I was pleasantly surprised! His character made me feel everything—anger, frustration, excitement—you name it. I’m definitely looking forward to seeing more of his work in the future.

All in all, this drama was so, so good. I loved every episode, and even though there were a few things in the last episodes that didn’t completely convince me, I still enjoyed every moment of watching it. It was an emotional rollercoaster I’d gladly ride again! ♥

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Sun in the day

Sun in the day would have been a more accurate title.

I did like this drama. The story was captivating but the storytelling was dreadful.
The constant back and forth between the past and present could have been done better, this way it feels like we're watching the same scenes over and over again. There isn't anything new to show when you have to watch the same scene, sometimes from various angles or in different lengths. That wasn't good storytelling.

The Kdrama industry could stop adapting webtoons without fundamentally changing them. They're different medias, what works in a webtoon doesn't work in a kdrama. It's not really an adaptation when you don't ADAPT it to the media as well. Webtoons aren't storyboards, or they shouldn't be. This isn't a problem with this drama alone. From a decade watching kdramas, this is my diagnosis. Please, fix it!

It's a very interesting story but I feel like it just scratched the surface.
The characters are interesting but a bit unaware of their circumstances, even when they're entirely known to them and to us. This way, we get a warrior who doesn't face the fact he was a killing machine at the will and profit of his father, only to continue the killing to protect his love, sending that same love over a cliff for that same reason.

I would have loved to watch this story if done with more courage and less loose ends and that's the reason for my high score. It's a story that makes you think about their motivations and decisions. It's too bad the writers didn't make the characters think as much about that as well.

It's also sad that a story about such courageous characters could be so mild in its storytelling. If they filmed all the blood and swords so why didn't they show it? The story lost a lot of strength due to the age restriction. I don't understand why they decided to have such an explicitly violent drama toned down like this. It's not that I like gore but it did reduce the impact of the story and the strength of the characters.

The past and present personas are obviously different. The past characters are more interesting than the present ones. Capitalism has done a number on us, we're viewed as vapid and shallow. The firefighter stereotype is what bothers me the most. Firefighters are some of the most messed up people in the world, you have to be to be able to deal with so much trauma and pain. A delicate flower like FL doesn't seem to have what it takes to be one. She's not as complex as her past self and she keeps on saying phrases from the past that don't have the same meaning in the present. Them falling in love doesn't make much sense under that perspective. Her value for life comes from her profession and not from the connection she has to ML.

A lot of the solutions and clues are all there, everyone can see them. The characters can see them and we can see them. The characters not being able to put 2+2 means that they're daft or that the writers think the audience is daft.
For 1500 and 18 reincarnations the ghost never found it odd that FL died very single time before her 30th birthday? He had to be a good strategist to be such a good warrior, so that also doesn't make sense. In FL's dream, the father explicitly puts a curse on her and she still doesn't realise the source of it all. I would have liked it if they went deeper into what went wrong in their life together and how the father is the source of their misfortune. It's not that he didn't kill the father (though that solved it), it's not that she didn't trust they could have a life together after so much killing, it's not that she didn't love him enough. He lived his whole life for his father and then he lived his life for her. He didn't develop a sense of self and couldn't even do it as a ghost since his reason for existing was to protect her. She lived to die at the hands of a vindictive father that was angry at the person who stopped his plans and his life. Her purpose was to take the place of the ML in the father's sadistic quest. It makes sense that such a self-serving person would hold a grudge about that. To break the cycle, they had to end the source of the curse. It just feels a bit lacking. It could have been more to it.

The ending doesn't make sense. There's too much inconsistency to what happens to ghosts in human bodies. It doesn't make sense that Han Jun Oh came back and the CEO didn't. They had said that his soul had passed and that's why the ghost was able to possess the body and that makes sense. It can also make sense that the ghost has access to a lot of the memories because they are stored in the body. It doesn't make sense that Han Jun Oh comes back and the health problem that didn't have a solution suddenly has one. He wasn't there anymore, we saw that when the ghost's spirit was ejected by that yellow talisman the monk placed on his chest. The ghost was out of the body and there was no pulse, Jun Oh was not there anymore. He shouldn't have come back. It would have been devastating to see the face and shell of the man you loved everywhere, over a lifetime. A constant reminder of the love you couldn't live. I'm glad they could meet in another life. That part was a good ending.

I could talk about all these inconsistencies all night but I'll end it here. It was an interesting story anyway and I enjoyed the time I spent watching most of it.

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Left me feeling broken. /Switch representation / Mature love

I seldom write reviews, but I had to for this series. It was absolutely brilliant in every way, the acting was out of this world. The chemistry was so natural and beautiful between the couples. The story was complex and thrilling.
The last three episodes devastated me and my friends so much though that some of us were crying and all of us agreed we could not watch the series again. It's a testament to how heavy it felt, how much this series managed to make us care about it and it's characters.
(If you watch this, make sure you're in the right mental state to do so!)

I think it's worth pointing out that this series has showed us something that should be commonplace, but isn't in this type of media - a couple that switches positions in bed. This is the reality a big chunk of the queer community practices and it's high time we got to see it in screen.

//Slight spoiler//
I'm also a big fan of the fact that they let a fixed pair like MileApo switch top/bottom positions in this series. Another way in which they broke those tired tropes open.
I'm very thankful they made this series.

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It’s a show about a woman robot, chill…

So many people are looking into this drama way too much, as if it needed to be a reflection of the real world (in a literal way) and not about a high technology robot that looks and talks perfectly like a human…it’s sci-fi, you need to read the premise and start watching this knowing it’s fantasy and it’s from 2017 lol, chill.

Now my review…I overall enjoyed this show, of course it was nonsensical and at moments had super cringy scenes but somehow it fit right in. I really felt for the ML, he was isolated from the world for 15 years and he had to navigate how building relationships with people worked and it was hard, the memories he had of people were based around distrust and treason so he came off at rude and inconsiderate a lot of times, but liked how he at the end was able to accept that he could be loved and appreciated, and he could also love and appreciate others without being hurt.
Both the ML and FL are really good actors, when the heartbreak came they portrayed the emotions so well I cried…the love that she showed him, the patience and just understanding she had of his condition and feelings was beautiful, that really was such a beautiful portrayal of true love.

I wish the sort of political/company storyline was better delevoped at times it really gave nothing to the story and was quite slow. The characters around it felt lousy written, the ML’s first love just had a change of heart one day and we didn’t even see really how her relationship developed with the ML to come to that point, it was just annoying.

The last episodes were really a stretch, they could’ve showed more of their future together instead they showed really slow paced stories that didn’t add much. The last episode was really anticlimactic, like we see everyone getting ready for something (that we assume was like a party for his discharge) but they didn’t show anything, just the FL greeting him like she saw him a couple of hours ago and not like they didn’t see each other for 2 years. Wanted more yearning in that reencounter, their relationship was all about yearning each other when they got together after the reveal but then in this last encounter it lacked all of that.

Overall I liked it, it’s a fluffy heartfelt story and love their love, but wanted more in side characters development and in their future story together. Nevertheless, it’s worth the watch (if you can watch the last episodes at 2x speed lol)

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A Dark, Gripping Masterpiece of Survival and Emotion

Cannot believe I missed this masterpiece five years ago. Alice in Borderland is dark, brutal, emotional, and completely addictive. The story follows Arisu, a young man who suddenly finds himself trapped in a deadly version of Tokyo where survival depends on playing dangerous games. Along the way, he meets Usagi, and together they face impossible challenges that push them to their limits.

What makes this series so incredible is how it balances action, mystery, and emotion. Every episode is fast-paced, filled with tension, and leaves you desperate to know what happens next. The world-building is gripping, the acting phenomenal, and the storytelling powerful.

I do not usually watch many Japanese dramas, but this one completely won me over. Binge-watched season 1 in one weekend, and now I am off to season 2 and 3, I am absolutely hooked.

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I love this

i always believed that second-chance romance would only work if there was an "eye for an eye" (shen haoming finally stepping into the shoes that xu yan once wore)

not out of "revenge" per se, but for him to be able to fully empathise

to me, real grovelling is about feeling the very pain he once caused & the only way remorse becomes transformation

that's why I think the last part of episode 26 was very necessary to move the story for shen haoming's redemption!

many viewers were wondering why xu yan and shen haoming ended up back at square one, following a "mere" call from steve, even though xu yan already had prior knowledge about jinda's three-month evaluation with mr baraikin.

did she really believe that shen haoming hired those paparazzi? or was it just a wake up call to remind her that the knot in their hearts was never truly untangled.

why wasn't she able to believe in haoming's sincerity? from xu yan’s perspective, the first time haoming approached her again was out of corporate interest, for her to help him with acting like a couple for the collaboration with the baraikins. so even when his attitude began to change, even when he helped her sincerely, showed her affection she still interpreted it as yet another performance for him... all in the pursuit of profit

bringing back to her monologue in episode 14, "I feel like I'm now the boy who cried wolf. I've lied too many times, so when I finally speak the truth, nobody believes me"

back then, shen haoming accused xu yan as someone who only acted for personal gain and dismissed her genuine love as manipulation

so the boomerang has returned and shen haoming was now the one being doubted. only through this reversal can he understand the helplessness and despair xu yan felt.

when she once asked him in heartbreak, "so everything you've done for me was fake?"

now, in episode 26, when he asks the same question,
"so everything that happened between us during this period was fake?"
he's also forced to confront the same pain of being doubted when he was finally being sincere.

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if they continued to question the intent behind every gesture, their reconciliation will always be temporary & the crack will deepen with every argument until it becomes irreparable. true reconciliation only begins when both of them stop calculating and start seeing (not just each other but also) themselves clearly.

so when xu yan finally says, "I also want to know what kind of person you are. unfortunately, I've never seen you clearly"

it's her realisation that true affection cannot be built on strategy or intention alone but must be felt, proven & believed.
only when both hearts let go of their defense, only when they stop asking "what's the motive?" and start believing "this is love" can they finally meet in the middle; not as two players in a game of gains but as two people who have truly and finally seen each other

https://x.com/wonwoncity/status/1977227645814497735?s=46

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I must say that I enjoyed it, but I felt a little bit robbed

Disclaimer

What I am writing here are my views and thoughts about this series. Some of you may not like it. That does not give you the right to try to come at me with your opinions on why this series should get a higher or lower score and why it is better/worse than I think it is. You have your own opinions, and I have mine. Kindly respect that.

So this series is the first Chinese BL omega series, and I didn't know what to expect. I must say that I was actually surprised. The way that these actors were able to portray these characters and bring them to life just amazed me. The duality that the actor Huang Xing did with his portrayal of Hua Young was amazing, as his character was first shown to us as an omega. But then his character shows his true colours as an enigma; a whole new personality is introduced to us. Qiu Ding Jie also played the role of Sheng well, as I enjoyed the relationship between Sheng and Hua throughout the series.

The second couple, Guao and Shen, stole the series and my heart. Am I disappointed with how things ended with them? Yes, yes, I am. But I am not mad, as I saw on Twitter that the way they ended it is basically the way that they end the book. This is one case where I wished the screenwriter actually went a different way from the book because Guao at least deserves his happy ending.

There were some scenes that I felt were not necessary. And then there were some scenes that I wished they had included/expanded on, but they didn't. I am grateful that we did get to see their kids, as I found the interaction between Peanut, their son, and Hua cute the way that they were fighting for the attention of Shen.

All in all, I am glad that I gave this a shot, as I did enjoy the series. I felt that the actors played their roles well and were able to bring the characters to life.

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this show is so peak !!!

genuinely I was always looking forward to saturday throughout the week so I could watch this show. does it have it's problems? yes. is it slightly cringe? yes. is it a bit confusing at first? yes. but, honestly it's so gooddddd! it's just so INTRIGUING. this whole premise is something I've never read/watched before and I ate it up every week. I became so invested in both the couples. a crazy psycho obsessive enigma who stalks an s-class alpha he's had a crush on for years, and then pretends to be an omega, the alpha's exact type, all so he can be with him?? sign me TF UP!!

but it was the side couple that eventually stole most of my heart😭. the chemistry, the yearning, the stolen glances, the stares, the angst, the PINING!!! the side couple was so peak y'all don't even understand. I'm still so annoyed by that ending - I demand season 2 just for the second couple!!!

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Wow! Utterly awful yet brilliant at the same time

Wow! What an intense roller coaster of a ride! Not a story for the faint hearted or when you’re feeling down as there are so many utterly heartbreaking and angsty moments.
I hated this story as it was so tragic with lots of character deaths that upset me with their poignancy (OK so the heavenly empress was an absolutely horrible person and all I wanted was for her to just crawl back under her rock and die which finally she did) and sad plot lines. However this was also the reason that I loved this story. There were so many twists and turns that took my breath away.
The acting was incredible and the whole cast was perfect for the role they played. I loved Luo Yunxi’s character, so tragic and compelling. Yang Zi acted incredibly as she grew from completely silly air head (think most of Ester Yu’s sickly sweet characters and you’ll be close) to a woman with the weight of the world on her shoulders who flip flopped between the two brothers. I’d not seen Deng Lun in anything before and it’s so sad that he left the industry due to tax evasion as I loved him in this. His sobbing at the end practically broke me. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
There only seemed to be a couple of songs (but very haunting and definite ear worms) throughout the whole drama which was a bit weird as no expense was spared on the costumes, sets and CGI. The other frustration that I had was the floppy wig they gave Xu Feng as it fell all over his face in such a way as to detract from his beauty and acting.
Would I watch again? Probably not as it was so intense I’m not sure I’m strong enough to watch it twice!

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✨ Genie, Make a Wish — A Mesmerizing Blend of Fantasy, Emotion & Fate

I’ll be honest — I went into Genie, Make a Wish without any prior attachment to the cast. I hadn’t watched a single K-drama of Kim Woo-bin and Bae Suzy before this. But wow… this series turned out to be an absolute gem. It’s that perfect mix of fantasy, emotion, and breathtaking visuals that keeps you glued from the very first episode. The entire concept of wishes, consequences, and celestial balance feels both mythic and deeply human.

Kim Woo-bin as Iblis completely stole the show for me. His performance is magnetic — full of quiet strength, charm, and depth that lingers. Then there’s Bae Suzy as Ka-young, who brings a graceful emotionality to every scene. She feels both ethereal and grounded, and their contrasting energies complement each other perfectly. Even without knowing their previous works, I found myself completely invested in their characters’ journeys.

Sade and Ireum also deserve praise for adding richness and mystery to the world. They give off this aura that makes every scene they’re in feel significant — like they know something the audience doesn’t. The supporting cast elevates every moment, creating a delicate balance of humor, tension, and heart. The world-building feels grand yet intimate, filled with mythic undertones that pull you deeper with each episode.

Everything — from the cinematography and direction to the hauntingly beautiful OST — feels crafted with love. Genie, Make a Wish made me believe in the beauty of fantasy dramas again. It’s emotional, enchanting, and visually stunning. And coming from someone who’s been obsessed with Guardian: The Lonely and Great God (Goblin) for 8 long years now — that’s saying something. This show carries that same spark of wonder, fate, and emotional resonance that stays with you long after it ends. Must watch for Supernatural Korean drama fans.

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