I feel like, for my taste, I'd have preferred a more "38 task force" approach, the "con artists coning rich people for the greater good".. it did have some of that, but it was still too focused on the election/assemblyman thing.. it's kinda like the fiery priest and chief kim, it has great comedy with a cute (uncle?) bromance but the overall "big picture" plot was not my style..
I loved the "villain" here though, she's one of my favorites, she was so fresh (and cute), part of me wanted the 3 of them to work together, but that's just because I love the actors ;p Siwon and Min Jung NEED to do a drama where they are both "1st" leads/a romcom couple ;p

things I liked:
+ siwon
+ siwon's smiles and dimples
+ min jung's adorable facial expressions
+ crazy hulk Mi Young
+ that "jingle"
+ the comedy
+ the overall pace was really great, the weekly dose and the whole journey felt "satisfying"
+ cute couple
things I didn't like:
- the random crush 2nd guy had ;/ I am seriously over brother zoned 2nd leads with a secret crush or (hate in TSLOMS's case)
- my two srs girls (cop girl/con girl) deserved better.. usually if the fl is not the "airheaded sweet type" then they'll add random female characters to fill that part.. but these 2 were different and fresh.
- it needed 40 eps. things were really rushed at the end..
- political plot ;p
- for me the marriage and their issues were "inconsistent"
- needed a better "teamance"

ps: I never rewatch dramas, so it's either a 1 or a 10 ;)

Leia Mais

while watching this I thought this was like Saw mixed with The Liar Games. maybe even a little Matrix and The 100, ooh also The Hunger Games.. now I'm not made for this kind of shows, I'm sensitive and I have a soft heart but I appreciate the change (and I just needed to close my eyes a few times, though I still saw stufffff...)


so the story wasn't that high quality, even some of the game "twists" weren't that shocking. they did pull a little at my emotions, especially the screams in agony, but still storywise it wasn't that great.

I used to be a fan of Saw (ik shocking) but then as I grew up I was like the heck did I watch as a kid, I watched like 7 of them? and I'd always cry too, like they just needed to work together! also recently with The 100, I watched 4 seasons until I thought why am I watching this!
I'm a scaredy cat and I hate violence, so I think they could've lived without all that gore and blood, atleast that burned eyes wasn't necessary...
on the other hand the hunger games was a dystopian future were people naturally lived in a "game of death", so like here what was their story?


it's like, I actually don't remember much from the matrix but what was behind it? a person? an alien? an evil organization? here too, yes we saw that lady at the end, but WHAT'S THE STORY. are they real people? are they a game but don't know it? do they die if they get killed in the game? is the game just a mental game like the matrix? did people from Tokyo go missing or are the people in the game the one's who got "kidnapped" and do the people outside the game know? are they living their lives not knowing anything? do they think the people in the game were just missing cases or deaths no one cared to investigate? come on, there was no answers....

Leia Mais

Should’ve left the writing to the professionals, the webtoon writers

It’s about time drama writers stop trying to modify webtoons. There’s a reason the creative community chose the wentoon, they released a story, a style of writing and it was embraced and accepted
Some things do need to be modified for the entertainment value of moving picture but the process, the development and the moral of the story should’ve been kept the same




I read a bit about how the ending was executed in the webtoon and it made more sense

Here their biggest downfall in both seasons was lack of coherent development
Everything conveniently went downhill, they just happen to run in different directions, they just happened to have missed the signs
But I was fine until they went berserk with the changes and many things changed
Again the changes from the 1st half made sense for the impact but the development lost all their handwork

I get the exam guy going nuts, kids are emotionally unstable
He was bullied, looked down on, didn’t have the luxury of a steady home that he carried the burden of the future, he was alone and snapped

The way he snapped wasn’t done well, I thought he killed the cool kid, tbh that should’ve been his breaking point
And maybe he’d have seen the kids seeing the video at their final destination and so he lost his shit , sure when he went back he thought old looking girl was telling them everything and yes the one he 1st killed was his bully…
That’s what it goes back to, the bullies became cool, dependable and charming. Even bora. Soon they all bonded. Especially the way they were forgiven for lying
But for nerd guy, he was just alone alone alone

Now, the pre bully murder tbh was too disgusting and pointless. Sure he was upset old girl looked down on him but he didn’t have to assault her. This way, he wasn’t bullied into breaking point, he is not the victim, but everyone was right about him and he was a creep
10years in and he wouldn’t have become a dr or any type of office worker. He’d have become one of those creepy coworkers who’d end up in jail cuz he kept making moves on the female employees and ends up assaulting her….


In the other hand they made aesol kill him as a way of “she was the real type of outsa” and he was just a creep that was outcasted





Anyway what hurt the most was realizing the teacher, the team leader and some of the earliest kids(?) didn’t die, I’m not sure about the ending tho I did read it went with less casualties
So basically the old sacrifices went down the drain, and many died in the name of “a few weeks later they discovered a better weapon” so the kids didn’t have to become soldiers, they weren’t supposed to be sacrificed by the adults to just gain time.. and the adults + others just lived happily ever after? Well all wars are like that I guess….

But I feel like the enemy should’ve been the adults, the higher ranked soldiers and wobin for leaving the kids unattended, that guy deserved to die, team leader sacrificed for the kids and he just went back to base??
Basically they went Mist on us, it “didn’t have to go that way, if only they waited” I hate that as much as I hate the “it was all a dream”
Anyway I thought geek guy led the aliens to the kids, so the shock was ok but again the steps, the results… I cried more when they were all putting on makeup and laughing, kids should be pure, bullying is the main source of the trauma….

Leia Mais

this reminds me of a US show lovelife(?), both basically follow the love life of the main lead and the lessons/events revolving around a normal person's choices.

the 1st guy was kinda the "dream" guy, they met by chance/fate, he was sweet and simple but for young aya he was too grounding and unfit for her luxuries life dreams. (and at the end she regrets it, but on the other hand he really did want the simple lifestyle, which was only her dream after people pressured her, so if they stayed together they'd have probably fought alot and hated each other)
the 2nd guy was exactly what she wanted but HE was too "ambitious" for HER, so he left her
the 3rd guy was the guy she needed to fulfill her luxury living lifestyle until it felt empty
the 4th guy was the result of people's expectations and their definition of a woman's happiness "of a 30+ year old woman to get married and have kids" and it was too much of a burden
the 5th guy was a boost for her ego, a 40 year old divorcee was still "wanted" by someone but he was too young and free spirited so he left her for money
and the 6th guy was her "the one" who actually turned out to be her long time friend! (I'm sorry I'm bad with faces) but he was really a great not unexpected match for her. he was intuitive and since he had a lot of platonic girl friends he was the ideal modern guy for the independent 21st century career woman, he understood their worries and goals ;D

sadly this was too short, and it took me a while to get used to the characters talking to the camera, and (a shallow part of me shall say) the guys were unattractive, but it was a really sweet underrated unexpected gem❤

I never rewatch stuff but I want another drama like this ;(

Leia Mais

it was just a love diamond + a million subplots

I'll start with the good points;
+ Xie Xiang was a great female lead, one of the best, she was smart, cool, caring, independent and strong

+ Gu Yan Zhen was playful and a playboy but a total sweetheart, I mean he literally fell for her in the first few eps

+ the cross dressing was done well

+ Xie Xiang and Xiao Jun's sismance was adorable

+ Man Ting and Yan Zhen also had great friendship

+ the friendship between Huang Song and both Yan Zhen and Xie Xiang was sweet, the whole gang were a great team

+ the outfits and filmography was beautiful

+ those 2eps Xie Xiang saved herself/others (plus the ending)

+ the chemistry between Xie Xiang and Yan Zhen was off the charts~



now the things I hated
- the million of subplots! every other ep had a new unrelated story, I was losing my mind

- in the early eps Xie Xiang always had to be saved (though granted they were being realistic since she was physically weak and tiny)

- they literally wasted the romance ;/ I would've gotten it if they didn't want romance to be the focus, but they literally spent 40eps developing a main lead x 2nd lead love line ;/

- they ruined Man Ting and Yan Zhen's pure sibling like relationship when they added a sad pathetic 1 sided love..

- they made me really angry when even Huang Song fell for "the sister" and she literally went out with him as a girl and never tried to turn him down (and I wished she'd told him everything from the start and stayed as pure friends)

- the 2nd lead was slightly obsessive. he changed Xie Xiang's room without asking and he'd tell her "I won't take no for an answer" as if he owned her ;/

- they spent more time on the side characters than on the main, heck the evil girl had more screentime

- the evil girl felt unrealistic, she was young and weak, there's no way the bad guys would've given her that much authority

- Huang Song's death was unnecessary. he should've died with a bullet to the head or they shouldn't have left him to get shot 5 times

- the forgetful girl. agh I hated her the most..

- there was no consistency, it felt like the writer had 1 plot move "girl cross dresses and goes to a military school" and then she just added whatever that came to her.

- the romance took 40eps and 2seconds for them to confess and then it ended with them "walking" along towards the sunset... that was it. after such a long chase and misunderstandings, that was it......

- I was ready to give this a 10, but I didn't know it'd be that messy and draggy. I'll never watch another cdrama,

- the ahahahahahah ost drove me crazy!

I wish someone just made a cut of the 2 main leads, especially when they were together, that'd have saved me 30eps ;D

Leia Mais

there are few dramas I rewatch, and even fewer dramas, but this is a beautiful story that gets better with every rewatch. I could watch 1 ep per day, 1 ep a week, or just watch this drama all day long, it's just so beautiful..

if I had to choose 3 dramas that can kinda reflect on my drama preferences, then this drama would be num1. it has everything I look enjoy in any type of show;
1- strong independent smart yet soft and awkward female lead
2- clean cut cold dark traumatized male lead that is naive and clueless
3- a beautiful elegant smart fashionable business woman
4- a brutal messy killer with a sad life/story
5- a ragged disheveled playboy that loves "beauty" and hates hard work
and many many more layered and interesting side characters all intertwined in a beautiful story about protecting a country.
if I were to describe the guys' reaction to Ae Sin's life choices I'd say;
Hui Seong wanted to be a shadow Ae Sin could hide in
Dong Mae wanted to tie her down/stop her from doing anything that put her in harms way
and Eugene wanted to walk by her side.


I'm currently rewatching it so I'll fix this review later ;p

Leia Mais

now I'll miss this ;)
the good:
+ the teammance (this is what I always want, a big unique team)
+++ Kim Nam Gil
++ the comedy sense
+ Park Kyung Sun (I'd have preferred it if she joined the team faster, but I like the freshness of her, she's like a girl vr of siwon?)
+ hip hop girl and her normal non obsessive crush (I kinda shipped her with Ssongsag)
+ the action scenes
+ the costumes xD

things I didn't like:
- the story
- the small plots
- the pace (things started really moving by the 2nd half, especially after ep14)
- the bad guys (I really couldn't careless about them they were slightly too weak)
- the bad guys screentime was a waste of time ;)

ps. my rewatch value is either a 1 or a 10

Leia Mais

honestly, you'd think with so many dramas repeating the same cliches, people would stop making them over and over again, but here we are...

this is yet another "fake dating", "misunderstanding", "lying", "woman hurt by cheating ex", "guy that can't forget his cold obsessive selfish ex", "cold germophobic perfectionist falling in love with the sloppy innocent crybaby woman he never would've otherwise", "dramatic turning/saving a woman", "open eye fish kiss" if not just "awkward kisses" and well the most recent "using an app to find love/the perfect match"...

honestly, I can stand somin on running man, but I'll never watch her acting if it weren't for song jae rim xD she literally keeps repeating her roles.. and it's of course the self pitying naive type which I hate.. I mean, if a woman grabs the hands of the guy you were just on a date with, you should just say "you cheating b*******" and you should totally not play along with the obviously crazy woman with her crazy eyes, and like honestly, the guy should just say, "that woman is crazy" like there's no reason for misunderstanding or dragging it out...
and like if your crazy cheating ex comes back, threaten to call the cops on him and do what hani did in xx. you don't need the main guy to be the one that has the last word in...
basically boring drama, boring plot, and song jae rim deserves better...

Leia Mais

this might be one of those rare "dark" dramas... like psychological dark, and not scary dark? ^^;
I kinda got attached to this and the characters... the plot was badly executed, mainly eps 7-11 were useless... and the last 3 eps still had their draggy parts, but I liked that dark twist?
and it had a fitting ending, almost perfect for the story.. though I'd have done some things differently, but I liked that ending scene, it pulled at my heartstrings.. mostly the "evil" soul should've been a dark characterless thing? because non of the possessed people acted like the originals ;)

ps, I don't usually rewatch dramas, so my rewatch values are either 1 or 10 ;)

Leia Mais

Passed trash and went to garbage... besides the age, each ep revealed yet another crazy ridiculous plot line and each step there were more messy connections

But worse of all was the last ep.. the 1st part it was the rushed out final step of the revenge scheme with horrible jumping edits, the 2nd part was the boring romance/ sad ever after, then came the 3rd part with more crazy wrap ups but again it even got worse in the 4th part and the sudden focus on mls revenge

2fl didn't kill that guy but it was the 3rd bullied... the husband murdered 2ml.... yeah I like revenge but I don't support everyone being a psychopath and ending the drama with cheesy I love yous🤡


The worst part for me was ml knowing everything... like yeah we have this smart fl scheming revenge but nope ml knew everything and led her to believe she was in charge and he always wanted to support her... thanks for making another guy saves the day🤡

Leia Mais

A character driven story that was overpowered by the plot

I haven’t written a review in a while so bear with me
As a kid I played this Pride & Prejudice game, a multi choice story board with different endings
For example if Lizzy chose to dance with Mr Darcy the first time they met, or if she accept his first proposal, things would be different
How so? In the second scenario he never went back to their mansion, he thought she was a simple win, maybe even after his money so he didn’t love her as dearly

And well getting back to the review, this is what happened here, the setting was simple, a flirtatious girl meets the heartbreaker
And then we started getting constant sidetracking plotlines

For me eps4&5 then 8&9 were the best simply because it was about gilchae, our sweet naive girl’s journey and growth
For her, shoes and boys were her pastime activities , she had no worries, no threats
Her love was a product of that fantasy and “only” future plan for girls, to get married
Anyway as janghyun shook her world and the war broke her world, we get a simultaneous narrative of two different prospectives

To me all men looked at gilchae like she was gullible. They never accepted her feelings and never thought it was anything more than a youthful vigor. And that is the curse of age gaps, men think they’re more mature and have a deeper acknowledgment of the world

The fantasy dream of janghyun shows how he never understood or got to see the gilchae that had to mature, from the island but more so when all the male figures in her life weren’t there to “save and protect” them, the women who were raised to stay home and take cover while the men did everything.
So she had to get up, work, make men listen and try hard to show results to gain money to survive while also getting respect as a figure able to plan and plot

I am glad, eventho it was messy, I’m glad they had finally both talked it all out, that was three or more years of two incredibly frustrating people that didn’t show their vulnerability
Every time they had to actually admit their feelings they would switch it up with bickering and teasing that did become burdensome and increased misunderstandings

But anyway if she had gone with him, she’d always feel guilty about her family and he’d think she hated him for it so the best choice was to stay
Just like how janghyun said if he had “went to her faster” he worried she’d get over him and that was basically why he played hard to get, which also led to frustration and made gilchae trust him less

Now they also need ten more eps, so they had to end on heartache but either the husband lets her go, idk how their separation works. Or he dies and she can be free
By then I hope janghyun sees her as a mature person rather than a fancy object in forms of a love interest

Leia Mais

Repetitive storyline but heartwarming results

Everyone needs love, family, and happiness but not everyone is blessed with it. What makes a family? It's the bond, the understanding and the purity of the heart

This was beautiful and exactly my style, It's a simple linear story, but I could easily give up romance dramas just to get stories like this T_T
Beautiful unexpected friendship that lead to famimance is my FAVORITE
I smiled, I teared up and I CRIED at the end TT_TT
The roommate program should be a real thing, ppl that are left behind by their families and ppl that are abandoned by their families untie to find pure love and bonding is the most beautiful form of loveT_T
ML was such a precious pure baby I'd actually love a romance based on his character, I feel like he was the 2nd lead of his own crush xD
Halmae and her ending were so sweet and sad, she put a wall on her heart but she never threw rocks at ppl. I mean like she only put a distance for her own protection but it didn't stop her from being kind ;(

Leia Mais

the movie starts in a random small village, they don't have any roads connecting them to the next town or souel and only had a railroad that reached them through a bridge
it then starts showing us the life of a lazy highschooler that starts taking private lessons from the prettiest girl in class, and I thought it'd be an old school type of, school romance like 2521 so it was a bit boring (the movie not 2521)

but then the real twist happens. I was a bit confused mainly cuz of Park Jung Min, the 35 year old failing to look 18, he's a good actor, but to cast him after showing the tiny Kim Kang Hoon, who can easily be his son, made it hard to understand for a minute xD then after noticing the sister that didn't age I thought this was a scam movie.. then after the kid vr was brought back, as flashbacks, I started wondering if they were 2 different people with 2 similar looking sisters

now I do admit I didn't pay much attention in the 1st half for those reasons. it felt messy and cheap


until the twist happened... and they showed the both vrs pictures. with a missing SISTER! and it hit me. she died and that was when the waterfalls started till the last minute of the movie T_T
the events of the past. the acting of Lee Sung Min, the reasons and action of those actors, it was all so devastating..
the 2nd half was honestly pure emotinal gold. it was shocking, yet full of hope, redemption, bonding, understanding and heartwarming sweetness

I thought Tae Yoon was a tough love type of dad, but he was so vulnerable, so fragile, so soft.. again casting the 35 year old one thinks he left his son for years but it was around 10 years, tho again a bit much, but he held on to so much self loath he couldn't look at his son again
the moment he got angry at the paper cuz he didn't want his son to be hurt. the moment he forced him to go to souel, their trip, his pure joy over his results (my favorite scene T_T), Jung Jun Kyung confessing that he went to the beach to stop his dad from suicide, junkyung and Bo Kyung "hugging" their dad T_T, their farewell, and in the end the most hilarious ending that just made this little movie even more preciousT_T

Leia Mais

This started out as a 10, so an 8 is the most I can give out now
it was just misunderstanding, miscommunication, mistreating the kids, horrible adults that raised them wrong, blamed them and hurt them then hid it
the mystery was meh, the resolution was meh, the way everyone was involved was meh, the way they brought back the stalker again was meh

it started out great, new meeting, dark comedy, the link taking away the awkward "can I talk to that person" stage every drama hates, so instead of enemies to lovers which is the easy answer to keep 2 ppl remeeting, their link made them get to know each other slowly

I was still on board with the past connection and healing, I was ok with the mystery not even being a focus, I was not ok when they reopened their 2nd case, I was over it when they started the sob story of "should we breakup" and I was done by ep15 when they finally went to solve their big mystery. and ep16 was the worst in dragging it out even more

tho I liked two scenes of the ending, the mom and grandma bus scene, and the 2 cops with the cop car xD I also liked the ost with the kid's voice, tho I hated the overly over happy ending

jingoo is as always amazing, the mom and grandma were the highlight, the hot cops were a new discovery

Leia Mais