Conexão: Comer, Amar e Matar (2022)

Não comece a assistir esperando ter todas as respostas no fim.

Love, Eat, Kill em um primeiro momento parece uma história calma e relaxante, mas só nesse primeiro momento. O “Kill” no título não está ali atoa, afinal.
Não vou me alongar muito aqui. Acho que a história desse drama foi sim bem interessante, tanto relacionado ao desaparecimento da irmã do protagonista quanto ao stalker, porém muitas perguntas não respondidas ficam no ar no final. Perguntas essas que, caso respondidas, dariam muito mais clareza para o plot e não deixariam a impressão de que os roteiristas simplesmente não sabiam explicar o motivo principal do conflito.

Todo o elenco e muito bom e os personagens são muito divertidos. Mas a ideia de todos do bairro parecerem extremamente suspeitos por nada, acho que foi um pouco demais (?). Me fez esperar muito mais do plot do que realmente era.

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Vale a pena assistir! Muita sensibilidade ao retratar os traumas e como foram superados!

Eu gostei muito do dorama Link. Achei a atuação maravilhosa, cenários bem construídos, imagens de pratos de dar água na boca. Amei as músicas da OST, mas "Your river in me", e "You I've missed" tiveram um lugar especial. Fiquei muito envolvida e fiz muitas teorias do que poderia estar por vir, então, é inegável que foi uma obra que me cativou profundamente. É um dorama para ser apreciado com atenção e, que fala muito de uma dor profunda, possui um conteúdo emocional bastante denso que te deixa consternado. O romance presente na história, bem como as amizades, ajudam muito a dar uma leveza, aquecer o coração e se apaixonar. A culinária também vem como uma ferramente terapêutica e que trás leveza. E esse conteúdo foi perfeitamente distribuído, fazendo a gente conseguir assistir, sentindo cada emoção mas equilibrando com momentos de leveza. Agora, a história principal sobre o desaparecimento, bem como, a crítica feita à violência contra a mulher deixa você de coração partido, indignado e as vezes desolado. O conteúdo foi exposto de forma impecável. É doloroso ver como é difícil para familiares lidar, superar, apoiar as vítimas e/ou pessoas muito próximas as vitimas. Vale muito a pena assistir, aprender e acompanhar a superação dos traumas em questão. Tem muita crítica válida para a nossa sociedade, eu aprendi e também sofri pelas pessoas que passam por situações parecidas. E as vezes, mesmo buscando ajuda, elas ainda continuam em perigo (isso foi de partir o coração). ...Eu senti falta de algumas respostas, como a motivação do sequestrador e os outros casos do perseguidor, mas tudo bem. E que bom, poder ver um final com uma conclusão que aquece o coração, trás um conforto bem quentinho.

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MUITO BOM! Uma pena esse drama ser pouco explorado. Ele merece uma atenção maior!

Ele é completamente diferente do que achei que iria assistir. Estamos diante de uma baita suspense que gira em torno do desparecimento de uma criança que afetou profundamente uma família. Mas claro que tem nosso querido romance ligado a história.
A trama foca nos protagonistas Eun Gye-hoon (Yeo Jin Goo) e Noh Da-hyun (Moon Ga Young) e a conexão que eles desenvolvem sem ao menos se conhecerem.
Eun Gye-hoon, um famoso chefe de cozinha, e sua irmã gêmea possuíam a habilidade de sentir o que o outro sentia, mesmo que estivessem distantes. Mas esse laço foi cortado após o desaparecimento da irmã quando tinham 10 anos, tendo a certeza de que ela estava morta. Esse desaparecimento destruiu sua família: seu pai continuou procurando pela filha, enquanto a mãe o culpou pela morte.

Dezoito anos depois, ele é tomado por uma surpresa ao começar a sentir as mesmas emoções e sentimentos que tinha com sua irmã. Começa a ter sentimentos inesperados: chora, fica triste, angustiado sem motivo algum. Pensando que esses sentimentos poderiam ser da sua irmã, ele volta para o bairro onde ela desapareceu e abre um restaurante.
Lá, ele se depara com No Da-hyun e sente todas as suas alegrias, tristezas e dores da mesma forma que acontecia com sua irmã, o que o leva a questionar os mistérios que cercam essa conexão. Agora seu objetivo é descobrir se ela é sua irmã desaparecida, o que aconteceu com ela e o motivo dessa conexão.
Claro que no desenrolar da trama vamos descobrindo o motivo desta conexão entre eles existir e como tudo dentro da cidade natal incluindo os moradores se conectam nessa história.
O drama aborda sentimentos complexos como a culpa e traumas de uma forma bem leve e cuidadosa e mostra que ser humano é uma constante lição sobre perdão, inclusive de si mesmo.
Ambos personagens principais entregam um romance lindo e faz com que o espectador torça para que fiquem juntos, apesar de tudo o que parece tentar separá-los. O protagonista é tão bom e tão lindinho que parece que foi desenhado.
Termino esse drama completamente apaixonada, e ao mesmo tempo em pedaços. Casal lindo e apaixonante.

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Todos têm sua maneira de sentir dor

O que é conviver com alguém que simplesmente desaparece da sua vida? Quantas pessoas no mundo convivem com esse drama. A dor é individual, dói de maneira diferente em cada um e não cabe julgar quem sente mais e quem sente menos ou quem deveria ou não sentir. Realmente só coloco minha opinião em conteúdos que falem algo e que valham a pena falar. Perder alguém é uma dor imensurável, ainda mais sem explicação, e uma ferida com a dor que nunca vai sumir, diminuir ou melhorar, ela sempre estará lá, e dependendo do seu grau de sensibilidade sangrará mais ou menos vezes. Deixo aqui meus sinceros sentimentos a todos que perderam de forma trágica seus entes queridos, meu coração se solidariza com o seus e peço, que Deus seja complacente com sua dor. Vale muito a pena ver, principalmente levando em consideração o baixo índice de violência na Coreia do Sul, mas que no Brasil ainda é muito recorrente, o desaparecimento de crianças... :( TT TT TT TT

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Não se culpe

"Ghyeoon, se lembre disso. Realmente não é sua culpa. Então pare de chorar. Me prometa"

Fiquei imaginando como se sentem as pessoas que perderam pessoas que amam e nunca encontraram seus corpos. Esse drama demonstra bem. Assim como o peso da culpa. Ghyeoon carregava o peso da culpa consigo, e isso o destruiu. Foi um longo caminho para ele chegar ao perdão, perdoar a si mesmo.

Fui muito bom acompanhar durante as semanas que ia lançando, criei várias teorias e ansiei pelo próximo episódio.
Eu amei a história, como tudo se desenvolveu e como se finalizou, sem nenhuma ponta solta. E sempre com um plot twist me surpreendendo.
Chorei mas também ri muito. Foi divertido e emocionante.
As atuações, a química, cenários, e a ost, foram todos impecáveis.

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A not-so-cozy mystery/thriller!

More on the light-hearted end but perfect for fans of Beyond Evil, Sell Your Haunted House and He Is Psychometric.

This series is a fabulous blend of romance and mystery. Right from the first episode, you see the actual mystery (and I mean MURDER mystery) unfold in no time! This drama is fast-paced and speculative. The opening scene is indeed very gripping. However, the main characters' encounters seem too cliche, abrupt and convenient—basically, there's too much plot convenience!
But if you are here for the thrill, the guessing game and can pull through a few cliches, STAY! It seems like we have an exciting mystery brewing. The past and the present follow two separate suspicious disappearances, so let's see if they tie together at the end. I like the alternating timelines, the flashbacks add multiple layers to the story. There is an equal degree of suspense surrounding the other people living in the neighbourhood whose past connects them all to each other. With so many characters to account for, the possibilities are endless. You can't help but keep speculating and theorizing.

The actors have such great on-screen chemistry and the acting is like—chef's kiss (get the reference?) Their relationship has the ideal amount of pushing and pulling, ideal amount of pining and ideal amount of jealousy and love.

The music also seems quite promising for this one, so look forward to the OST's!

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The children of Jiwha-dong.

I fell in love within the first few minutes of the first episode of this drama.
The drama follows a man who is looking for his long lost sister, that same man shares same emotional state with a woman he recently met.
Yeo Jingoo’s and Moon Ka-young's performance was so amazing in this drama and their chemistry was flowing so well.
This drama gives it all; the thrill, the fantasy, the romance, the mystery all in one go with exact amount of everything.
As much as this drama is interesting, it also shines light onto serious things that even tend to happen in real life:
Domestic abuse.
Murder.
Bullying.
Stalking.
Attempts of rape.
We get to see so many characters in Link and we get to see their daily life and what they go through. We meet the children of Jiwha-dong.
We also get to see the female lead struggling with a few things that I mentioned up there.
Even though she went through such serious topics, we get to see her heal and become stronger than she was before. Aswell as the male lead. He goes through so many rough things ever since he was little to his adult hood.
He deals with his sister going missing, his mother becoming sick and disassociating from the world, his father barely being there for them when needed.
He turns into this cold, distant character that you want to sympathize with. That you want to hug and put into your pocket and keep him safe.
The drama shows us that tough times never last, but tough people do.
It shows that no matter what we can go through, there is still that tiny speck of light that might drop and shine up your life.
Life can teach people to never trust someone again. Whether it being someone broke your heart, messed with your loyalty, did something bad- life can tend to be unfair but once you get to meet specific people that were made for you, you'll see how much it's worth it.
You will lose people along the way, and like the male lead said;
"It’s because we’ve lost someone. We’ve lost someone precious to us. That’s why we can’t hold on to someone. We’re afraid of losing them again."
However everything is going to be okay, we're all human, afterall.

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Try not to fall asleep

Updated with final thoughts.

What started as a unique concept became tiresome at times. Sometimes shows drag a few episodes but I've become tired at how slow this show has been moving. I've been watching it at 1.25x or 1.5x speed because the show is about to complete and it's dragging. It feels like there wasn't much of a story to begin with so what could have been completed in 10 episodes was stretched out to 16.

The earlier episodes of the show were enjoyable but you slowly start to get fed up and just wish the characters would tell each other what's going on. By the 14th episode, you are just waiting for things to be done already because you've lost hope in anything redeemable in the plot.

As far as acting goes, the male lead has only been able to express concern and sadness and the rest of the time he is straight-faced whereas the actress had to play a clueless bunny who weeps frequently. Not the actors fault for having to portray such characters.

Spoiler:
If they had established that the sister was dead and they just needed to find out what happened to her, I would feel less frustrated with this story. And the chef has not been able to open up his restaurant until the 15th episode which just adds to the madness. I had hoped that the ending might be able to redeem itself but alas, it continued to drag. One final question remains. Why? What was the motive? It is never explained. It seems like no one was interested in finding out if there were more possible victims. Everything else just seems like an attempt at rescuing this show but there's not much they could do at this point.

High expectations. Low return.

I am going to leave the final score at 6 but honestly I would not recommend nor rewatch this show.

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One of the best ongoing dramas of June 2022. The plot is extremely intriguing, and though there are mystery elements and intensity (emotional), the humour is on point too. The pacing of the story, the timing of the humour, the characters — all so well done!

The acting is one of the strongest points of this drama. I don’t see which other two lead actors could have picked it up so well. Yeo Jin Goo is a talent personified and I’m so glad to see him choosing scripts which highlights his emotional acting. Minute emotions are so well portrayed!

It’s a typical who dunnit, a small neighbourhood community where every single person is suspicious. It’s fun to watch while speculating it. I probably wouldn’t have been able to stop myself from binging it entirely if it had been completed.

Edit: This drama falls to the curse of sixteen episodes dramas stretched entirely too long. I had hopes that the writing would stay consistent as you can read from my ongoing review, but unfortunately the last episodes get too dragged out. I did enjoy the characters and the acting immensely but some plot points are just too repetitive.

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Slow and boring

This had the potential to be quite interesting. Two people who are connected by their emotions, with some mystery and crime reaching twenty years back.

It’s slow and boring because it’s repetitive. Maybe it could have been better if it was just 12 episodes? The romance was slow burn, not much sizzling tingling feeling, the mystery kept going back and forth which was rather confusing. The best dynamics I would say are the mother and grandmother. You don’t see this kind of kinship very often, and they are are actually mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

I wouldn’t recommend this, not worth your time. I kept ff quite a lot. And I can’t even remember the ending now... lol.

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Too many unanswered questions

First, let me start by saying that this drama was less from what I expected it to be.
I mean, Jin Goo's past two works were absolutely gold, and in comparison to them, it just fades away.

The story starts with informing that Gye-hoon has some kind of magical ability that makes him feel the emotions of his twin sister, who was kidnapped as a child. As this is a fantasy drama, I'm not going into any logical explanation of the "Wi-Fi" in question.
Next we were introduced to Da-hyun who is a struggling student.
Both live in the same neighbourhood, where Gye-hoon opened his new restaurant, in effort to fin his kidnapped sister.
Next were the usual bickering and romance moments between the leads.
In the end, the identity of the kidnapper (and also killer) was revealed.
The usual 15th episode breakup, danger to life in 16th episode and patch up in the end.

Now, let me tell about "unanswered questions".
1. We never knew why that person kidnapped and killed his sister. No information on whether he was a psychopath, a rapist or a human trafficker. Nothing, nada. All is left at the imagination of the viewers.
2. The neighbours were made to look suspicious since the start. But at the end, none of those neigbours except one was guilty. So all that "suspicion" thing bore nothing.
3. Da-hyun's mother killed a person as an act of self-defence. The murder was covered by the police. Near the end of the series, she went to the police to confess, but was not arrested. Why? Was it statue of limitation or no body was found or anything else. None of the questions unawsered.

So. overall, this was quite a dull drama. The chemistry between the leads was way unnatural. Half-cooked story was another off thing about this drama. I literally completed the last two episodes in mere half hour by fast forwarding and skipping many unnecessary scenes.
Wouldn't recommend this to anyone unless you have too much of spare time or are a fan of Jin-goo or Moon Ga-young.

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Story like an onion

The drama started off strong but after a few episodes, it was getting too boring and long. The attempt at melodrama with excessive use of sad songs and long shots of crying/sad people started to be irritating towards the end.

The plot was too simple for a 16-episode drama. 12 episodes would be sufficient enough. There were episodes that were so unnecessary I can't even remember them. Too many side stories and boring dialogues just to make a 16-episode drama. Like an onion, a simple plot idea wrapped in too many layers to make it into a standard-length drama.

The premise and idea were good but executed poorly in terms of twists and turns. The melodramatic attempt became irritating. The story got boring not even halfway through, a lot of the main characters' decisions didn't make sense (weren't rational) and were made only to prolong the story. However, I did find Gye Hoon's relationship with Da Hyun rather adorable. Both leads did a great job portraying their characters.

Overall, it's an okay drama. The story gets boring around halfway through and it's average but watchable.

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