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high school drama--an enjoyable watch!

The story follows a group of high schoolers trying to navigate their way through love, school, friends--your typical high school drama. It gets kind of angsty in some parts, but I seriously enjoyed watching it (did it all in one sitting). I didn't like the FL at first, but all the characters end up developing throughout the story in some way. By the end, I came to really like a lot of them. (A Ra is so cool!) The actual ending of the show is abrupt and felt like I was missing half of what I should've been getting, so be sure to watch the extra scenes they have on YouTube that were cut from the show!

**spoiler-ish
I'm rewatching this to get as many crumbs of A Ra and Suho as I can because they're so cute lol. i want there to be a s2, but there probably won't be :(

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Masterpiece. One of classic iconic kdramas

This kdrama is creepy and sad for a very long time

and then it takes a U-turn bc the ML is such a good person.

Truely you get a feeling that a major disaster is avoided bc he created majorly good karma

FL is creepy. She is greasy unshowered scared scared street rat.... and yet she reacts to the HONESTY of her target victim, the ML.
She was going to ruin him and then she stops, bc he is good to her and good in general .

THIS DRAMA IS PRAISE TO ALL "SMALL INVISIBLE PEOPLE" who are good people doing good things and whom we take for granted.

The endign is 100% appropriate and realistic .

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An inspiring story of compassion

I was impressed with what Mother did for the abused child.
What they went through while on the run is undescribable. That woman and that kid really stuck together to heal themselves and the child.

her mother was suuuuper creepy ... and it was good she helped

BUT once they got caught and the kid went to an orphanage, the Mother was going to forget her and leave her there!!!!! bc that was easier.

Luckily the kid somehow took the initiative and they reunited. BUT IF THE KID HAD NOT TAKE ACTION, THE MOTHER WOULD HAVE ABANDONED THE KID ***AGAIN*** and ruined her life for good

humans are so frail and fickle and SELFISH, arent we? Scary....

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Creepy Scary study in childhood trauma and mental illness

I am not into creepy but I wanted to watch this kdrama because it is an iconic classic and also because I thought it will help me understand abused children and how they turn calous and heartless and also I wanted to understand a little bit more about psychopaths. I am dealing with organized crime trying to steal my apartment via the corrupt court system in Hawaii. So... I watched this.

This kdrama is TERRIFYING. The concepts are TERRIFYING. It is about killers who enjoy killing, their families, and how their killings impacted their children and families.

The moral of the story is that a child subject to extreme abuse will likely grow to be a very closed off adult. It's Ok not to be OK and this kdrama both have a parent killer who trains a child to be a killer. Also, Quen of Tears is another drama where parent hates the child. The child goes basically insane and becomes heartless.

The interesting part in those dramas is that, if a child receives SOME love from somewhere, or is somehow strong enough, the child will not become a criminal and will have a relatively normal life. HOWEVER, so far we did not see a child who escaped severe mental and emotional damage. Well. bc this is dramas so we need a child with problems LOL but still. Chances of being 100% normal are almost zero.

So these kdramas explain children on drugs, trouble, becoming navy seals, assassins, criminals, etc etc etc Children just get swayed and shut down by their parents and their moral, mental and emotional compass STOPS. The worse the parent, the worse the child, seems like.
And yeah some bad kids already have those tendencies like the serial killer #2 and his family from this kdrama.

This kdrama asks a very fundamental question: if the serial killer #2 did not meet the serial killer #1 when he was a child, WOULD he have gone off the deep end? He already had tendencies... as a child, he killed a dog and then lied about it... so ... he would have had done something bad somewhere along the lines... ? would he? sooner or later.. ? but then he ran into the adult serial killer, who took him and trained him. Finally the kid killed the adult... LOL

I do not need to understand these people. I just need to understand how to keep myself protected and them far away from me.

Lee Gang Ji is masterfully acting as a child of a monster, a father who turned his son into such a hearthless child who then learns to defrost and love because his wife loves him. HE becomes a good parent.

The actor who did the father is now Silla CEO in drama "For eagle brothers" and at first I was shuddering every time I saw him, remembering his role in this drama. He was SCARY. Extremely convincingly SCARY. We never saw him DO anything... but we saw hm stand there as a ghost egging his son to kill... and we saw the cages he built hinting at what he did... and we saw clips of him talking about his "art of killing" - so that dude was SUPER SCARY TERRIFYIING. This drama also shows what he was doing and that was scary too. It is a deep dive into showing what mentally ill people do.

So to meet him again as Silla dad in "For Eagle Brothers" was ... unpleasant LOL he is a villain there too ... but more in the white collar crime arena.

I think the spooky part is the parents of the other serial killer, parents who kept lying on behalf of their son, and son serial killer for enjoyment, who did not kill his father and mother. And we learn his father is essentially a killer himself, just camouflaged as a hospital director...

The woman who loved Lee Gang Ji;s character is also a tricky role bc he came NOT to believe him and bc of it, he lost his memory... good thing so they could start from scratch. I AM NOT SURE WHAT OTHER PLOT OR ENDING IT COULD HAVE BEEN, everything was just too crazy and not easily fixable. I cannot imagine a plot with rosey easy overcoming...

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Hype drama

I watched this bc it was popular but I did NOT enjoy watching it. I wanted to find out WHY it was popular.

Most episodes were just ... frustrating bc the FL was super closed off and also quite mean and very egoistical and mental.... she did not follow her heart much and she did not THINK before she took actions...

So my payoff came late in the drama, when I learned of FL past. and then I connected the dots, how trauma in childhood, esp parental abuse and/or neglect influences people..... It is a miracle that FL was alive and functional... some other kid would have collapsed, like the villain did..

So my payout was watching the villain being caught in that field at the end and realizing how his difficult life and criminal mother shaped him to be a villain - and he didnt escape since he had no resources and supporters to guide him...
and how the FL was so lucky to survive HER mother's abuse and to stay somewhat funcitonal adult because she kept latching onto allies and she kept herself busy in productive ways...

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Creepy, scary, ...

FL has a murderer mother who trains her to be murderer... so she ... does not want to show compassion

The creepy scary moment I remember from this drama is when FL wants to ... stab ML? wth was she doing... ??? But ML stopped her by grabbing for the blade, to convince her that he is her friend and she can trust him.
HE JUDGED THAT IT WAS NECESSARY TO GRAB A BLADE SO THAT SHE WOULD TRUST HIM

I was horrified!!!!!!!!!!!!

I watched this kdrama bc it was "popular" but I did not enjoy it.

The only small fun part was the mentally handicapped brother.

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Rather violent main plot idea. MASTERFUL AMAZING villains

FL is a pushy dame all set on revenge and her character to me is ... bitter and unappealing. I didnt enjoy watching her.

The main villain is female and that is the best bully villain I have ever seen in movies, her line "I did not do anything to you! your life was already destroyed and harmful" - the calousness of a heartless psychopath...

The other villains wernt bad either, and her husband too.

The boyfriend of FL was ... cheesy. Offering to help her revenge ... is ... BAD.
And the ending, two of them going to revenge his stuff.. is also .. bad

I think the idea of killing and destroying the bad guys in revenge is a bad idea.... So I dislike this kdrama. It went to far to make a bombastic shocking drama.

I dont think "true" revenge looks like this kdrama. There are better revenges that dont kill or harm... and dont waste your life to revenge yourself.

I think the best revenge is Jesus Christ style. He did not waste his energy to diss his opponents. He invested all his energy to rise and shine and become a global superstar. The end.

So I think it would have been a better revenge for FL to become HAPPY and perhaps even rich and totally leave the bullies in the dust

but then there is no Netflix drama LOL

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A story about what NOT to do if you want to be happy

This kdrama is a dive deep into egotism...

It starts fluffy, I think 5? handsome half naked princes bathing, all love each other, and then ...

it gets super nasty as they "grow up" and start killing each other.

ML Lee Gang Ji is very memorable bc he is FORCEFUL, powerful, dark, jealous, pushy, and just closed off and insecure and doesnt listen...

and yeah messes it all up.

FL is an idiot. She keeps "helping" and causing trouble without ever ever turning her brain on...

AND THEY NEVER COMMUNCATE

So, for like 20 hours you get to see egoistical immature ppl doing stupid things... and causing trouble.

Some is saved... .. so it is not a total disaster...

but basically this kdrama is a LITANY OF MISTAKES
without offering a solution

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A cute & good old-school romance

PLOT: A century-old curse strikes the heir of a great family: his first wife dies on her wedding night. The heir (the ML) must enter into an arranged marriage with a rich & arrogant woman (FL2), but her mother, knowing the risk, decides to use a doppelganger (the FL),planning to replace the replacement with her daughter later. But a (nice) ghost won't let her repeat what she did 100 years earlier.

+++ Very good actors: Lee Hong Ki and Yang Jin Sung (playing both roles) as CL. The other actors are also very convincing, especially the villains, whom we strongly dislike. Jung Hae In, as a young man, is so cute (•ө•)♡ (•ө•)♡
+++ Pretty lively direction.
+++ Enjoyable OSTs (some are sang by Lee Hong Ki )

### Timeline a little confusing at times
### FL's characters—kind, caring, courageous, and so naive that she's almost stupid, a fact too common in dramas—convey a poor image of feminine ideals.
### "Obligatory" break-up in the format, annoying.

=> Good series, a little outdated, but still of good quality.
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A cute romance in an old-school style

PLOT: Une malédiction centenaire frappe l'héritier d'1 gde famille : sa 1e femme meurt le soir de ses noces. L'héritier (le ML) doit faire 1 mariage arrangé avec 1 peste (FL2), mais sa mère connaissant le risque, décide d'utiliser un sosie (la FL), qu'elle remplacera ensuite par sa fille. Mais un fantôme (sympa) ne la laissera recommencer ce qu'elle a fait 100 ans + tôt.

+++ Très bons acteurs : Lee Hong Ki, & Yang Jin Sung (joue les 2 rôles) en CL. Les autres acteurs sont aussi très convaincants, notamment les Villains que l'on déteste fortement. Jung Hae In tout jeune, est si mignon (•ө•)♡ (•ө•)♡
+++ Réalis° assez vive.
+++ OSTs agréables (avec Lee Hong Ki, notamment)

### Timeline parfois un peu déroutante
### Les personnages de FL, gentille, bienveillante, courageuse, tellement naïve qu'elle en est presque idiote, trop fréquent dans les dramas, donnent une mauvaise image des idéaux féminins.
### Pause / break-up "obligatoire" dans le format, agaçant.

=> Bonne série, un peu datée, mais qui reste de qualité.

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rubbed me the wrong way

I saw so many people hyping this up and it was short so I decided to give it a watch.

Mistake.

There’s not much plot besides the fact that the main couple are raised as brothers? The entire plot felt like very rushed and the relationship felt forced. One of the guys stuck up for the other, ended up falling for him and saying the reason he has been avoiding him for the last 18 years is because he liked him? Of course, the first kiss was after a few drinks and the relationship went from there. Oh wait I forgot the part where he groped him? The way they skipped over that part was very weird to me. They tried making the mom out as the bad guy for being weird about their relationship and other people finding out. (If you raise 2 kids in the same household people are gonna see it as a brotherly bond…?) He makes his boyfriend avoid and cut contact with his mom and she becomes an alcoholic? Weird side plot but okay I guess. The relationship only made progress after the groping incident which felt very manipulative and they move in together after like a month of dating. Not entirely unrealistic. I don’t care about kissing or NC scenes but at least have a little chemistry. If you had told me these actors had never met until today I would have believed you. I had to speed up the last 2 episodes to get through it. Not worth the watch.

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Work of art!

An exceptional work of art. The narrative, characters, settings, emotional depth, and conflicts are remarkable. It's insightful to consider this a reflection of life's complexities. Life presents challenges; when faced with obstacles, frustration is often directed towards parental figures. Experiencing significant hardship at only 22 years of age, I find this drama both inspiring and motivating. The central relationship serves as a relatable and aspirational model. Beyond personal enrichment, this drama fosters perseverance in the face of adversity, reinforcing the belief that brighter times will follow. Collaboration and faith are key. Currently grappling with the consequences of a poor decision, this drama has reignited my motivation and resolve.
Thank you for this outstanding production. This is truly exceptional.
452pm 51925

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Mighty group of future acting stars

I remember this kdrama because of the ML actor, who was so spunky in this kdrama. I saw him before in other kdramas where he was very reserved and quiet

and in this kdrama he acts a prince in love, so his acting in love was very convincing. Walking near his lady and having fun. I remember that.

FL was pathetically bad actress. I saw her again in "Again my Life" where she acts 21st century corporate CEO and the faces she had there and in this kdrama are THE SAME and do not match the Joseon role AT ALL... she cannot act. Sad.

Another young star is 2nd male lead bc he had to act transforming from a very naive boy in love to a very nasty villain ready to do anything to get what he wants, and then backtracking from that.

I AM GLAD I WROTE REVIEWS OF SO MANY KDRAMAS I WATCHED IN THE PAST BC I SEE THE PATTERN, I SEE WHAT I TEND TO REMEMBER - acting with passion and genuine focus and attention, making it "real"

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