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Sad, funny and absolutely beautiful
This drama is a bit like the last walk on a gorgeous beach att sunset with the dog you love but have to put to sleep... Its a walk you will remember, the scenery is breathtaking, the waves will tickle you and make you laugh, the dog will look at you with its sweet innocent ayes reminding you of the joy and laughter you have sheered all while you are constantly aware of the end a head. While eating Ice cream (one each, since its the dogs last meal) some bird will scare you and make you angry... but you will also feel comforted by the dog, the taste of the ice cream, the last warming sunbeam and the sound of those amazing waves... or something like that... what I am trying to say is that this is a drama that will simply make you feel allot of emotions while beautifully portraying some of the worlds most important and relatable issues.To be honest I do not really care to much about the message of it never being to late or what not that many seem to appreciate NO, I fell for its humor and its way of portraying both gender issues, ageism and ableisem in a humanizing and humoristic way. Showing that people of all ages and ability can be competent, fragile and have hopes and dreams...
This drama is packed with witty dialog such as:
70 yr old: What about your parants?
23 yr old: My dad lives somewhere else and my mom is dead
70 yr old : I se both my parants passed away
(Yes this mad me laugh, and is just my type of humor)
Confronting gender issues:
23 yr old: When a man announces he is going to do ballet his family's response is similar to that of the five stages of grief
I love also the way it shows different kinds of relationships and the importance of finding at least one person who believes in you and is willing to support you threw hard times, as well as showing the other side of the coin. Conveying the importance of communication and beautifully showing the negative effect lack of support from the people we care most about have on us. No matter how much we try to deny it or look away we get hurt (even injured) and accomplish allot less if the ones we care about do not support us. Oh And we also get to learn a bit about ballet.
There is one side story that feels a bit unnecessary that could bring down the score and I won't say this drama is perfection or even close to it but as a whole this dramas extremely beautiful cinematography, representation, dialog and feel to it makes up for all that and makes it worthy of ten stars and a place among my favorit dramas.
So yes this is definitely a must watch!
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Blue and Beige Fluff...
This is such a treat for all us icicle meets bubbly fans out there.... As the cold male lead in this is probably the ultimate cold male lead... expressionless popular coooool and very straight forward. While the bubbly male lead is bubbly on the outside completely devoured by insecurity and fear on the inside.Together they take us on a journey filled with both respect and jealousy... But without the toxicity we are otherwise used to seeing in a relationship where jealousy resides. On our journey we meet some pretty interesting friendships and very beige and blue scenery. As the sea, the pavement the walls... Yes all seem to match the kids school uniforms. But also kind of boring to look at.
We also get invited in to the boys inner thoughts and shameful dreams (perfectly normal for teens) with added fluff and subtle humour here and there subtle enough to be funny and not annoy me.. We also get to see them show care for each other in very particular ways. I could actually see myself as a teen in the bubbly male lead...
The time line is is all mixed up and the drama is a bit oddly edited, but if you just try to pay attention and have some patience I am sure you will figure out both the time line and what is going on. If not you can always replay some of the scenes (I admit I did that a few times and they were just as lovely the second time as the first).
This drama may not be perfect and is not really ground breaking but I laughed, I awwed and I binged it in more or less one go.
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Icicle humor, icicle plot and sweet, sweet icicle love
Is it better to have loved and lost or to never have loved at all? well this drama attempts to answer that question in the most twisted way.This obviously not a drama for everyone seeing it got allot of negative reviews but I liked it. Could they have gotten more of this cast with a slightly better story sure, but if you enter this with low expectations you will probably be as pleasantly surprised as I was, but if you are reading this then well that may just be ruined for you.
Things I loved: about 90% of the humor it is cold, a tad dark and hits just the right spots with me . Icicle men, Icicle woman, icicle humor... Humanity does make you wish for doom once in a while so it is nice to be able to see something that tells us dude people suck ... I loved the chemistry between more or less everybody. the little brother and ceo did have some annoying parts but they were short and easy to overlook. The male lead in the second couple is cool as an icicle can be and I love him for it! Bo Youn is as funny, sweet and great as always making me smile over and over again. Yes I may have a slight crush on her, and the rest of the cast is highly crushable compensating for the less interesting partes of the drama. .This drama shows great friendship and family bonds and does not really have any one to bring out your inner anger or frustration (I do not know if that is good or bad but it just is). The pace varied from to fast to way to slow to just right... so its a mix. The visuals where great and so was the OST.,. It has some several interesting twists but they are very well defined and easy to follow. Oh and their wardrobe and styling was great except for Dooms black pants that were not well fitted at all (it looked like he had a diaper on).
It does not have much new if you have seen things from this genre before but it is still enjoyable and made my heart flutter once or twice as well as tikel my laughing muskels.
So if you are in it for the fantasy sure you will probably hate it, if you are in it for the humor and fluff you will probably love it.
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Love is not really all you need... but its nice to feel loved
If you are looking for something that will make you feel good, have your heart flutter and I don't know make you just all warm inside then back away... and go watch more or less anything else.This is a drama that you watch for its dialog, its monologs, the subtle slightly dark humour, sound of silence... and so on and so on. Beautifully filmed extremely well casted I am not really sure what story this is here to tell or how lovable the characters are but one thing I do know is that this is a drama packed with humans, the type of humans you can relate to, The type of humans that you may even dislike from the bottom of your heart yet still find yourself rooting for them since they are just so easy to relate too and present the more common not so lovable sides to being human that you, or at least I rather not admit to.
Not a single person here is pure, good or positive all the way, nope not even the motherly figure, every one has their flaws and struggles and I may not love them for it but I love the drama for this beautiful display of lacking and overly honest figures. There are several annoying characters that bring out ones angry side (in a good way), but not a single comic relief with too big gestures type of person.
This is a true slice of life presented in fragments with an unclear timeline, even if there are no mind blowing twists ala I am actually your childhood friend, we where separated at birth, he killed your father, let me harvest your organs type thing...
Having the timeline being presented in fragments not knowing what is past, future or present has a dare I say mind blowing affect of keeping the viewers brains activated and curious throughout out the whole drama.
I love the way this is filmed, the angles, the lighting, the huge amount of shots of peoples reflections in some type of surface... I am sure there is a whole lot of artistic symbolism that I may not fully get... but it is definitely there and I like it...
Bingabilaty: high, it can be hard to follow if there is too much time between episodes.
Interesting: 10
Heart flutter: 7
This is definitely my type of drama, but I am pretty sure this is not for everyone as I said most of the characters are not very lovable, the romance is sloooow, and it does require quite a bit from the audience making it more a turn on than turn off your brain type of drama...
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Sweet and dorky
This drama is kind of sweet, well atleast the main couple is but more or less everybody else with a few exceptions got on my nerves one way or another.The main couple is this really dorky immature, self conscious guy who falls for this super sweet (that is actually super sweet) guy. His best friend mr super popular has however had a huge crush on the dork for the longest time. Mr popular tries hard to get the attention of mr dork but mr dork just will not believe his efforts no matter what he does. But mer popular is VERY persistent borderline stalking him or is it getting him out of his shell... Well what ever it is most of the show revolves around mr populars attempts to get mr dork of his best friend and in to him instead while facing intense shipping and other peoples looks. Mr popular is however extremely sweet and caring and if we can look past the being way to persistens he is actually a model boyfriend and probably one of dramalands sweetest guys (so is his best friend).
The dorks brother is probably one of the most gross and stupid guys in the land of the bls, he had 4 good friends that may or may not be a mix of the guys in boys over flowers and fab five (ok 4) they are kind of sweet and do allot to help the plot move along. But also offensive and use unexeptable punch down, CA humor.
The highlight of this drama is the dorks parents who give us a lovely display of a happy marriage.
All in all sweet but not much more.
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I Feel You Linger in the Air: Uncut Version
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The boy who Lingered a bit to long in the air
This is one of those dramas that had me wondering what is it I am missing here... Why are people rating this with a 10 star rating when literally nothing what so ever makes sense. As I spent half the drama wondering when the leads will get shot with a shot gun and if they have any type of risk assessment skills what so ever... Or I don´t know awareness of the time they lived in, as both leads in 1928 acted as if it was 2028... The acting is 1/2 cringe 1/2 decent. The pacing is off and it feels like they filmed half of the drama in slow motion just so they could stretch the time and get more for their money... making it draggy as ****But if you can look passed that, the romance is decent, the skinship pretty and both boys had indeed worked quite a bit on their upper bodies whom they show us more or less every episode or so...The side stories of the lesbian couple, the house slaves/staff and the second wife are a lot more interesting than the time traveling dude.
There is also a really cute pig in this. Not really a drama I recommend, but it did have it's moments and apparently others call it a masterpiece so if you do not mind the cons I mentioned go for it... I hope you have a better time than I did.
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A Tale Of a Spoiled Little Prince and His Caregiver I mean Lover...
This is the story about Saint Akk and The Spoiled Little Prince Theo... Who Go on an adventure to find Enchanté a mysterious creature who lives inside a book... ok not inside a book but a guy everybody wants to be so they can get close the The Little Spoiled Prince... If they only knew how much of a spoiled little brat he is they may change their mind...The story itself is kind of new and pretty interesting ,the side characters and Enchanté wannabes are mostly skippable, except for Saint Akk´s family who is so sweet, fun, lovable and the icing for this drama . Especially Akk's little sister she is a just so cute, fun and bad ass, unlike her scary cat brother...
Spoiled Little Prince Theo start off pretty ok, but as the story progresses it becomes more and more obvious that we are dealing with a spoiled and insecure little prince in need of a lesson or ten in communication.... (both may need that lesson come to think of it).
The chemistry between the leads is good, there are A LOT of playful fluffy scenes... Akk is truly a fun character to watch 90% cool, fun, the type of guy who all people regardless of gender can dram of as he is both caring and entertaining giving us such lovely scenes as dancing in the shower or caring for the ill... He is also the most forgiving guy on the planet thus named Saint Akk...
In numbers:
Frustration: 9
Bingeabilaty: 10
Cuteness: 9
Annoying elements: 8
Lovable family members: 9
Deffenetly a drama I recommend, but you can probably skip all the scenes with the Enchanté wannabes and focus on the leads and their family.
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Love at first wrist grab...
This drama feels like the fantasy of an old house wife who just found out here husband was a d*** who cheated on her and is now wondering what if she had put herself and her career first... maybe gotten together with a younger guy, with the cold cool musician she once saw...The female lead is supposedly smart, successful, fun etc she has some pretty big trust issues, princess syndrom and well seams pretty stupid at times... there is definitely a lack in communication skills here.
The male lead, is a cold, pretty good looking and has an intense passionate gaze... The guy also lacks all verbal communication skills but is completely fluent in wrist grab as well as sack of potato lifts.
While I do see that both have a lot of tension I never really understood when they fell so passionately for each other? was it in the censured scenes not available for us? or was it a spell? does she have a thing for wrist grabs? Does he have a thing for drunk girls? I am not sure?
But dude does not seem to be able to communicate at all. not in the beginning, not in the middle and not in the end dudes lack of communication skills are constantly there... luckily the girl likes wrist grabs so they seem to work things out anyway... most of the time.
The second couple is an immature pair of on and off... the second housewife fantasy... Both feel like 13 year olds and not like consenting adults, making the paring feel very off...
The second male lead is as manipulative and evil as a second male lead gets, you will probably not get SLS here.. you may ship the FL with one of the girls in the drama as they seem to actually be able to communicate with each other but since the girls do not practice wrist grabs I would advise you to just let that thought go...
There are a bunch of other rivals who show up here and there, unnecessary conflicts and a bunch of business stuff that make 0 sense but cause drama . There are also a bunch of lovely gestures, fantasy stuff that work on screen but do not do it for me... at all.. there is some slow mo stuff, waves, fire works , men who can both clean and cook women who can work but not clean or cook...
So if you are looking for wrist grabs, passionate kisses, gestures and mindless fluff... with a dash of WHAT the... go for this , if not move a long...
P.s the dubbing is also off
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K-ghost meets K-medical with great side characters...
K-ghost meets K-medical with all that it entails... like a mix of Oh my ghost and Dr. Romantic, with good acting, predictable story but not really enough to keep you on your toes or truly make your heart flutter... There is nothing wrong with it, but not much truly amazing either. Actually the side ghosts and their story kind of stole the show, and left me wanting a lot more or them, something that is truly rare for me since many side characters are often written in an annoying way.-Good stuff:
So side characters, great, sweet, fun, interesting!
Not a single truly annoying character!
Amazing acting from the main villain, hats off, I secretly found myself hoping he will jump out of a window...
The female leads, to little screen time but they rocked.
-Mediocre stuff:
The romance, the characters on their own were great but non of the romances felt fully developed and as the romance buff I am it felt meeh... This was probably caused by lack of screen time together.
Bingeabilaty, it did not keep me interested enough to long for the next episode.
-The stuff that made me go, oh come on...
Eternal cringey monologs, and recaps... that just did not seem to end...
Showing the ghost when inside of the person instead of the person... felt cringe in a way...
So what can I say, it was not bad, not great... if you are new to K-drama land you may actually love it! If you have seen these types of stories, you will probably think this is a well made, well casted lighter version of the stuff you have seen before...
But again the ghosts and their friendships stole the show! If they do make a rom-com spin off for the actor and the scholar I'm in!
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Cute, but poor, poor Moo
"I am not a mosquito, no matter how much you shoo me away I won't leave"This is a cute little easy to watch and easy to love drama. While I will admit that some of the actors could use a few acting lessons the over all feel to this is oooh so cute and ohhh poor Moo...
As we meet our bubbly, male lead Moo, a guy in need of a lesson or ten in respecting other peoples boundaries. However he is sweet his intentions are good and it really is hard to dislike the kid. He is also very talented and surrounded by people who underestimate him from start to finish the people around him keep underastamting him over and over again making mee feel bad for poor Moo. He is also the one character (ok, there is one more) who's delivery of, well everything is good (boy can sing, dance and act)
Out other male lead is cold, and warm, bickering fun but boy really needs to improve his mimics and delivery of lines.
There is some second hand embarrassment, and a few kind of meeh very predictable twists that had me lower the score a bit but all in all a fun watch that I do recommend to those who enjoy music, dancing and slightly obsessed boys in love.
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A Cute Guy, Cringe and an annoying Female Lead
This is one of those dramas that is kind of hard to rate... as it is an easy binge with a whole lot of good, humour (or parts to laugh at) and fluff in it but also a whole lot inconsistencies, second hand embarrassment and cringe (and not in a good way), at least in the first and the last few episodes. The middle is however lovely....As we meet the slightly insane (not portrayed in a good way) comic artist, her awesome friends, the emotionally lacking with amnesia, his pet alpaca and a bunch of med students. As these people get to know each other thy seem to eat a lot of food, and create a whole lot of love geometry in the most beautiful fluffy way...
Giving us such great scenes as:
Girl thinks she is invisible whenever she covers her face and turns her body to face the handsome male lead...
People who study together get to play together
And fluffy supposedly evil alpace with odd haircut eats grass, carrots and grapes.
Though our female lead is not the stupidest I have seen in all of dramaland, I found her character hard to love... she has a lot of good friends (one of them would have made a much better female lead), and she has some good moments but overall this gal is selfish, self absorbed, and honestly not that talented... she is not a good friend to her friends.. at all...
Our male lead is just a little bit to innocent and does not seem to have a mean stoke at all, he is school smart, caring, maybe a bit too clingy, but otherwise pretty much a nice male lead and not at all a bad one.. as one may hope for considering the title of the drama.
All in all a decent watch with lots of gif material. You just have to overlook the bad parts.. And should be an ok pick for all those looking for something light and do not mind the female lead and the inconsistencies of the plot.
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Good story, but there aint no glory in splitting it in two
I do not know how much glory there is in here yet, but there is a superwoman who is obsessed with revenge (for good reason), and a whole lot of people who will indeed help you loose all hope in humanity and very few people to restore that faith.The drama offers us a whole bunch of good lines, decent acing a good OST and a whole lot of chemistry... and tension. But do not for a second think this is a romance, nor expect a of of screen time for Lee Do Hyun as it is very clear that the main character of this drama are Moon Dong Eun (Song Hye Kyo) and Park Yeon Jin ( Im Ji Yeol the rest are just there to support them. Some characters were more well written than other but in general this is a good drama with good acting and people who know what they are doing. There is also a lot of attention to detail, and scenes that may put you off frying, bbq... Or basically anything that cooks meat...
Our heroine gives off a calm patient vibe, with great build up making me wonder what she has in store for these people. She is smart, focused and most definitely has a master plan, or so we hope. And would rather share her time with an executioner rather than looking for a prince. And though all she has in her mind is revenge it is hard not to fall for her, as she has a lot of charm to accompany the empty slightly evil calculating look in her eyes.
The drama is also highly binge-able and ands with a cliffhanger, which bothers me quite a bit, as I honestly can not see any reason other than annoy the audience to split this drama in half. As I may only have a few days till next season, but had I watched it at time there would be a risk that I would have forgotten or lost intrest with time, which is a shame since it is a really good drama. It may not offer a lot new to the table but it is still a good drama, just slaughtered to be split in two halves.. But I am not bitter... not at all..
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I Don't Want To Do Anything
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Nicely Balanced Slice of Life Murder -Mystery with a Dash of Romance
This is a story about a girl who got tired of exchanging her time and self respect for money and honestly just needed a break... So she sold pretty much all she owned and decided to take a much needed break acting pro actively before it would have been to late and she would have hit a wall...Having pretty much 0 obligations (ok one annoying older brother), she could basically go wherever her very tight budget let her and ended up in a town by the sea with a library and a mystery to solve... It was of course not her job to solve that mystery but living in a murder house for the sake of being able to live on her budget kind of put her in the middle of things.
On her way to figure out just how little she wanted to have in her life she found a family, friendship a running partner and some slight romance.
So if you are looking for a bubbly, steamy romance you may want to look pretty much anywhere else with the genre romance... as the most intense romance is probably provided but the teens in this show and not by the leads. However if you are looking for some really good friendships, growth and life is neither black or white and definitely not always easy... truths can change, trust is complicated and domestic violence is also complicated. And a slight murder mystery that is highly predictable but will keep you on your toes... This is a good place to find it.
I must warn you thought that there are a bunch of cringey monologs, annoying elements here and there, loud crying and drunken scenes that are just off... There is however also a really cute dog, Im Siwan running, a lot of running as well as him in a wet t-shirt, as well as great umbrella and rain scenes all around it.
There is also a decent message telling viewers that what is good for you may not be good for the next so stop judging people by your own standards... The drama has a pretty good balance between entertainment and quality so it is an easy binge with lots of lovable characters.
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Big Mess (in a good way)
This is one of those dramas that is a bit hard to rate, the story is overall good, the production amazing and the actors are all professionals who know what they are doing. Teaching viewers never ever to drink, well anything while driving, to not trust anyone and that it only takes one moment to make a fatal mistake that will kill you...The story is some kind of combo Mouse, Prison Play Book, Big Boss and Erin Brockovich with a twist... And a couple of plot holes. It started. off trying to portray Big Mouth as a guy who is slightly pathetic, happily married with a great found family in his father in law but kind of a looser, and well though Lee Jong Suk does do a good job trying to portray that guy, I could not really buy it and did not really enjoy seeing him that way... However I assume that was there to make way for the rapid character development that followed. Beside that first episode of pathetic Big Mouth. The rest of the characters and their characterisation was done really well, they were all divers, complex and mysterious enough to make me suspect more or less anyone as Big Mouse during that first part of the drama. All good things that had my head spinning in. a good way.
There are also quite a few great pebels of romance, that truly add that something to this drama, and though it is not in any way a romance, those pebels where a lot better than many scenes in pure romcoms. Me a romance junky would have loved to see more of those... Maybe in a drama special...
The villains in this are as corrupt and evil as it gets, while I would say I have seen quite a few evil rich and corrupt people portrayed in dramaland... I found that the villains here actually managed to beat quite a few of the previous evils I have seen. So I would say the villains here are defiantly among the top villains of dramaland.
There were however a few draggy parts in the middle, some a bit to predictable parts and some stuff that where clearly only there to confuse us. There where also a few social issues mentioned here and there such as domestic abuse, and doctors ethics but they were not really explored...
At some point the drama changed direction, while some may not like this I really enjoyed the shift and found the second part really interesting, and while I did feel that the ending was a bit rushed I was kind of impressed over how they wraped it up.
So people, do not drink anything and drive... heck why not avoid contact with liquids all together... But if you do enjoy watching evil, corruption, eat the rich type of stories and do not mind a few plot holes here and there this may just e a good fit for you.
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A drama that uses weather to make a mess out of the romance...
Relationships should probably not be like the weather, but apparently forecasting love is as hard as forecasting the wether... Or in this case it seems kind of hard to forecast the twist and turns but the experienced drama watcher will probably be able to predict most of it anyway... or well we may not know exactly when it will start raining but at some point or another it will rain and the umbrellas will take over... Or something like that, this may seem like the average noona rom com with well known tropes etc but is more of a slice of life, weather Mello with some steamy romance on the side.As it deals with a lot of relationships, parenthood, fatherhood, marriage, infidelity etc.
The second couple in this drama start off as these lower than lowest, conniving, impulsive, cheaters... Painted as the lowest scum on earth in the firs episodes but then take a turn and get a lot of screen time, as a second couple there to teach us about the struggles of newly weeds. A part of me enjoyed the way these got to be more than evil stereotypes and did actually like the second female lead. However I did find it a bit hard to truly get past the way they were portrayed in the beginning making it really hard to root for them as a couple.
The third couple with the sister involved was highly predictable but kind of sweet at times annoying other times.
The FLs mother is as nosey, needs a bunch of lessons in boundaries and you do not own your kids.... and is annoying as annoying gets, well acted (so no hate to Kim Mi Kyung).
The MLs dad... is one of those you want to send to jail and hope he never comes ear his son... And while I did enjoy watching the dysfunctional parent, I was so annoyed at his character as well as how the writers felt with several situations that it did drag down the score.
The side characters struggle as well as their family situation was interesting and aded flavour to the drama but it did also take away a bit to much focus from the leads.
I was expecting a cold FL, but got a busy lovely Park Min Young, with chemistry and sunshine inter eyes... and not so much cold.
The drama does manage to convey the importance and challenges the wether service has which was at times interesting but it did get to be a bit to much... To be honest there are a little bit too many distracting elements to truly root for this couple. or get invested in the romance, which was a bit of a shame. I was debating if I should give this a 7,5 or an 8 but rounded it up to an 8 because it does show an interesting, yes distracting, but still interesting pallet of relationships and wether + great visuals to give that little extra push towards an 8.
Bingeabilaty: 9
Annoying elements: Medium
An ok drama, but could be better...
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