Lábios Adoráveis (2022)

I Don't Even Know What to Title This As.

I really have to revamp my whole rating list when it comes to shorter dramas, because this one was good and bad at the same time. Good? The premise was good. The cast was good. All the emotions were conveyed well.
The story? Oh dear, the story. It seems that the writers even directed this one specifically for that *horns and balloons* ending.
For a story to have emotional depth, the run time matters. Here, we dive head first into something, watch the leads' relationship grow, then get thrown into something else. And I still have no idea what the significance of that character was. He existed for the angst. Minus him from the story and there is still no change to the overall plot.
I would recommend this to anyone who is trying to finish their 52 Week Watch Challenge, but are short on free time. As for others... if you are expecting some mind blowing storytelling, this ain't it. But, it does have good emotional performances by the cast that is unfortunately stunted by the limited runtime.

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Faltou desenvolvimento, mas foi uma boa história.

O final não me surpreendeu, já que eu estava evitando assisti-lo por semanas justamente por saber o que me esperava. De qualquer forma, decidi arriscar assistir agora e, na verdade, não foi ruim.
O que me chateou foi o pouco tempo que eles tiveram para desenvolver a relação do personagem e, sendo justo, isso é culpa da duração dos episódios. Com um pouco de tempo a mais, esse poderia ser um dos melhores BLs coreanos já lançados. Com o tempo de tivemos, é apenas algo que pode ser assistido.
Não considero tão ruim quanto tentam pintar, mas poderia ser bem melhor.

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Better than I expected!

I wasn't sure how this was gonna go with how short it is, but I was pleasantly surprised! They didn't try to do too much with the vampire lore and didn't try to overcomplicate things. Junho is a vampire who is going to die and needs to drink pure human blood (still not sure what this means but oh well) to turn into a human. To do so, he needs to make Minhyun, who has pure blood, fall in love with him. But of course, Junho falls in love too and isn't willing to risk Minhyun's life for his own.

Most realistic part is Minhyun learning Junho is a vampire and immediately telling him to drink his blood. Honestly he's so real for that.

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Would love more supernatural/fantasy bl dramas... just not this one

Summary: A huge letdown, and a genuinely confusing experience for me. There's very little entertainment value either way, it's not even a "so bad it's funny" type, it's just baffling and frustrating because of how much potential it could have had with its premise.


I was quite baffled by how many reviews on Viki were praising this drama for the chemistry and story and sad ending, when all of those points were huge negatives to me.

Fantasy/supernatural concepts, let alone vampires are super underutilized in BL dramas, so I definitely hope more get made... it's just that this one was a massive failure to spearhead that movement.
I'd usually chalk it up to the classic "low budget and definitely not enough episodes", but I don't even know if more episodes would save this one.

Effectively, this is an 80 minute long drama, give or take as some episodes are vastly shorter than others. 80 minutes isn't long of course, but 80 minutes is still a good 80 minutes, and yet this drama fails to tell a compelling story.
It feels like either scenes are to end, or scenes are lingering far too long for anything substantial to happen in them.

World-building simply does not happen, which is a HUGE letdown for a fantasy drama, especially one dealing with something as wrought with potential as vampires. But instead, nothing is ever explained or expanded on.
What it means to be pureblood, why our lead is a pureblood, how society sees vampires if they are well-known enough that the lead's brother knows of them but not our lead, etc. etc.
Again, I'd chalk this one up to not having enough runtime to be able to expand, but I also believe that just one single episode dedicated to even SLIGHTLY expanding on the vampires at all could have done at least SOMETHING for this paper-thin plot.

Side characters are tossed to the side, giving basically all of them absolutely zero agency in the story.
Multiple characters are never addressed by name until the last second, or not at all, so I didn't retain any of them.
Characters come to serve their role, and then just disappear. The lead's brother is there solely to point out to him that the vampire is a vampire, and then promptly disappears for the rest of the show despite being established to be breathing down his brother's neck in the first 2 episodes.
The vampire's... mother? guide? it is literally never explained who she is to him aside from just someone he goes to occasionally and knows that he's a vampire (or I suppose if it WAS explained, I did not retain that information) also promptly disappears as fast as the vampire's friend, despite how desperate she seemed to keep the vampire alive.
The vampire friend is supposed to be seen as antagonistic and maybe even a threat and yet he never actually DOES anything to warrant that, just wanders to and fro between the lead and the vampire lead.

The chemistry that I keep seeing people praising elsewhere between the leads is basically nonexistent to me. They meet, begin to work on a project together, and suddenly are soulmates. The timeline is seriously twisted, because it feels like it all happens over the course of a week or so; So how did we go from the leads' meeting for the first time for their project to one of the leads putting a ring on the other's finger?
I think the chemistry is good in a vacuum in the final few episodes, but in the context of the drama, completely falls apart because of the sheer /lack/ of chemistry in any of the earlier episodes.

To give the drama credit where credit is due, we get a very GOOD kiss scene, which are often hard to come by in BLs, and even potentially the insinuation of a sex scene, which is even harder to come by in BLs.
The actors play their roles as much as they can, but the dialogue is so cheesy at times and the scenes are directed so strangely that a lot of the time, I find it hard to take seriously. Emotion is either very stiff or overacted, but I'd say the acting is the least bad part of this drama.

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i have some spoilers

okay so i did like it
spoilerssss
though the ending was not really good.....like yk the guy just dies at the end because he didn't want to drink choi's blood for the fear of hurting him...but mannnn Choi coul have used something to make a tiny cut on his finger then he could have offered his blood to junho this way junho wouldn't actually harm him right...but no Choi didn't do that i mean if it were me i would have at least tried something....but still I didn't like the ending but it's not like it was not suitable...I'm giving this a 9 but not because of the ending but because I think that everything was a little fast paced....like it it was not so fast paced i definitely would've given it a 10..

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Flojo, pero entretenido

Incluso para una historia corta como lo es este formato recurrente de 8 episodios de 10 minutos cada uno, este es un fast paced romance con todas las letras; es decir, va a las prisas y se nota. Hay otros BLs que duran lo mismo y no se siente apurado nada de lo que sucede, por lo que simplemente es el estilo de esta historia. No es mi preferencia, pero no me molesta. La química entre los dos actores es buena y, si conocen a los coreanos, saben que hay que aplaudir cuando en un kdrama tienen buenas escenas románticas. Las actuaciones no serán las mejores, pero le ponen ganas, sobre todo en esos momentos románticos.

La historia es un poco confusa porque hay cosas que ni te explican, como el hecho de que Jun Ho pueda estar a la luz del día a pesar de ser un vampiro (ni siquiera lo cuestionan) ni tampoco qué significa que alguien sea pura sangre. Por otro lado, Min Hyun cuenta que en su infancia le sucedió un evento traumático que no se retoma (no hacía falta, pero todo apuntaba a que iban a revelar quién había intentado hacerle daño en su niñez). El second lead, como suele suceder en estas historias, queda algo salido de la nada pero su personaje me gustó bastante.

Más allá de estas críticas, es una serie súper entretenida, totalmente maratoneable y en lo personal la disfruté. No conecté emocionalmente al punto que los momentos dramáticos, los conflictos o el final me importasen realmente, pero creo que fue por lo acelerado de la historia. No obstante, esto como dije no me molestó; muy recomendable si quieren ver un BL sencillito y corto. No esperen mucho más que eso, que sea entretenido y ya, pero está bien.

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Storia bella ma troppo corta.

Bl leggero e molto carino.Un po diverso da quelli visti finora,un fantasy con vampiri ma niente di spaventoso tutt'altro il vampiro protagonista e un gran bel ragazzo e per di più e anche un vampiro buono.Un vampiro con sensi di colpa per aver ucciso un umano ora che sta per morire dopo più di 500 anni incontra un ragazzo bello e giovane che è il purosangue che potrebbe farlo diventare umano,ma si innamorano e le cose non sono più così scontate.
Purtroppo non mi è piaciuto il finale,triste avrei voluto un lieto fine.
Comunque nel complesso un bel drama bl.

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