Felt like a state sanctioned anti-suicide infomercial

Ok. So I know the rating and review title might be confusing.

This show has some great acting, the quality of production is fantastic. The music was great. Some of the stories were really interesting and it’s for the most part well-written.

HOWEVER, if I hadn’t been watching with someone else I would have dumped the show. It felt like I was being lectured about suicide but in a very strange way. Korea has a very high suicide rate and maybe that plays into it, but some of the message delivery was clunky and anyone with an ounce of common sense can throw the reasoning out of the window. Maybe they hoped to make people think again about giving life a chance, maybe scare them into carrying on. I dunno guys, it just fell flat.

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I’m checking out

This show is not good. Episode 0 had everyone hyped for this series but unfortunately it has been a total let down. I am not opposed to the cheating particularly, especially as the ones being cheated aren’t great people either. It’s just a poor quality show.

I’ll start with good points

1) Chahub. He does not belong in this terrible show. He’s trying really hard to promote it on social media but I honestly think he should give up and hope everyone forgets about it.

2) Boat & Candy. Both cute side characters played by insanely good looking people.

I actually thought I’d have more good points to make but alas…

Bad points


1) Sound quality. I don’t know what is going on, but this series feels like it was shot during the pandemic without someone in charge of sound.

2) Zero chemistry. Nobody has any chemistry with anyone on screen. I feel like some of the actors are trying to create chemistry but failing.

3) Best. He is cute but he cannot act. In the special episode he seemed more believable but this series has proved to me again that he is at best, a side character. I’m sorry.

4) Set/Props. Why are we only seeing such limited filming locations? Why are the advertisements that this totally amazing company are doing so utterly awful?

5) Script/Direction. Unfortunately for Kapper, because of lack of chemistry with actors, you are left with only script etc to judge the show, and unfortunately we are left wanting.

6) The Heimlich scene. This could have been funny ha ha but it was funny weird.

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Started with a bang…ended with a whimper

This was an easy watch, I binge watched it on a Friday night after too many energy drinks. The opening scene with the gun got me hooked straightaway and I wanted to consume everything that led up to that moment! And then we finally got to the moment and…it’s a fake gun. This would have been a 9/10 for me if she had died at the end leaving chaos and trauma behind. But it was a fake gun just to teach them all a lesson (that they 100% didn’t learn).
Other things that bothered me was the sheer amount of rape in the show, I said aloud to myself at one point, “is everyone going to get raped?”
The side characters of the twins and Jamie was boring filler, but this is standard stuff for a drama atp.

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Extra! Extra! People expect too much from short Korean BL

I will say that I am a person that can successfully enjoy and understand a series with a fair amount of skipping and I do so liberally. This is mostly because I have an attention deficit and unless something really grabs hold, I simply skip a bit, sometimes 10/20 seconds, sometimes a few minutes. I did not skip this show once. Why? Because there was always something happening. It might feel like things weren’t fleshed out enough but it was all pretty satisfyingly completed imo.

As for reviews that say “barely a BL” well, I’m sorry, most BL on the market must be extremely boring to you. There was one kiss, and while it wasn’t fizzing with chemistry, it was sweet and intentional. Ro-A clearly liked Ji Woo throughout and didn’t make much of an effort to hide it. Ji Woo clearly started thinking about Ro-A in some kinda way when he saw him shirtless and then we saw that develop for him until he confessed. Ro-A rejected him because he heard/saw the hateful comments and didn’t want Ji Woo to have to face that for the rest of his life when he was happily pursuing Yoo Na prior to them meeting.

There was zero fall-kissing and this made me insanely happy. The only bit where I cringed was when Ro-A stopped the bat with his arm. There was also no outrageous jealousy. Ro-A warned off Yoo-Na but she WAS initially using him because he liked her and made her feel safe, which put him at great risk.

All in all, this is a short series without fall kisses or bruises that disappear the next day after applying lotion and blowing. The lead isn’t caught in a predicament when faced with his female crush confessing, he straight out rejects her and goes all out to confess to the man he feels love for. It’s put me in a pretty good mood for the day.

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