My best CDrama couple

I just read a review where the reviewer was complaining bitterly about the amount of product placement. I totally get it and while I wasn’t as pissed off about the product placement issue like said reviewer was I do understand their frustration.
My frustration was with the second couple. I actually liked Zuo Yulin aka FiveThree and Qin Qing as a stand alone character without their romance. FiveThree was smart, nice and loyal. While Qin Qing was annoying most of the time and took her bestie role way too far sometimes she was supremely loyal to Zhou Fang and I can appreciate that. But they spent so much time on the second leads relationship and drama sometimes, it felt like they were the leads, if they had significantly reduced their screen time I believe this would have had better reviews.
Then why the 10/10 everything, the love I have for Zhou Fang and Song Lin runs very deep. They are my favorite CDrama couple of all time.
That accident rain scene, OMG, it gave me chills and goosebumps. I have watched a lot of CDramas that have good chemistry and whatnot but most of them felt like acting which wasn’t a bad thing because they are indeed acting and most of them acted super well but here it didn’t feel like acting at all between Zhou Fang and Song Lin, it felt so real, the way it felt so real and not acting made me believe that the rumors of Johnny and Dilraba dating might just be true.
Song Lin’s sister Song Luo was my favorite character after my couple. They started her off with the typical annoying teenager troupe (but it was a bit understandable because of what she has gone through) but boy did she become so adorable. I absolutely loved her.
Rewatch value is 10/10 (I have rewatched so many times and will keep rewatching) but every time I rewatch I skip all the parts of Qin Qing and FiveThrees relationship.
The second lead couple dragged down this series so badly but i will still rate it the highest because it’s my go to romance series.
Overall 10/10

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Kang SeoJun has my heart

This is absolutely one of my favorite BL drama of all time. I didn’t know who Son Woo-Hyun before this drama but he has absolutely made me a big fan. The way he was able to emote different feelings was breathtaking, I actually believed he was in love with Kim Kang-Min in real life. When you know an actor did their job right, is when you forget what you are watching is actually scripted and not real life. And also when you absolutely hate/love a character that also shows that the actor/actress did their job perfectly. In this case Son Woo did his job to perfection. I have watched 3times already and will be watching many more times in the future
I loved the way he treated people. I hope he’s like he’s character in real life. Genuine, open and honest.

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I don’t get the rave reviews

Saying that watching this series was such a massive waste of time is such an understatement. If you are considering watching the series and you read this comment I seriously implore you to NOT WATCH this. This is officially the worst bl series I have ever watched. And I have watched a lot. If you are looking for a romantic series that the relationship progresses this is definitely not it. But if you are looking for a series that they stare at each other stupidly like that’s supposed to be hot. It was cute and all the first few episodes but it just became stupid and silly with no progression. Then also one of the main lead tian cries every episode sometimes for silly reasons, if you still want to proceed and watch then by all means go ahead, have at it.
The character Tian had one resting crying face throughout the series and the other one Phu had one smirk/smug resting face too. You are mad at your parents for saving your life and telling you what to do but you are so in love with Phu who also tells you what to do.
Yeah right.
To say I’m so mad that I watched this series in its entirety is once again an understatement.
I fast forwarded 75% of the time from episode 7. That’s how I managed to get through this.
I highly DO NOT RECOMMEND

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Not for me.

Like some people pointed out, this drama looks like it’s target audience are the much younger generation, not to say that no older person will watch it, but this is geared towards the younger demographics and if we were to take a surgery i am quite sure it will reveal that majority of the watchers are indeed of the younger demographic.
It wasn’t bad. It was fluffy but the plot was basically recycled every episode and I agree with someone’s comment it was so boring I had to hype myself and try to convince myself that this was good or going to get better. It just didn’t for me. Seeing how this has good reviews, I have concluded that it’s just not my cup of tea.
This is a drop for me @ ep6

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Ep20 annoyed me

I originally wanted to give this 8/10 but when i got to episode 20, I changed my mind to giving it 2/10. Because that episode was completely ridiculous and unbelievable and made me so pissed off that I started fast forwarding from that episode just to finish the series. That episode destroyed everything good about this show IMO. I ended up giving it 5/10 because of the wedding scene. Those vows were absolutely incredible and one of the best tv wedding scenes I have ever watched, so I guess there’s that for that.
Won’t be rewatching ever. And to be very honest I wouldn’t recommend this show.

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Load of crap

I am so mad @ this series. I’m absolutely infuriated. To say some of the things that has happened before I dropped this crap, is a load of nonsense rubbish garbage is putting it mildly.
Firstly, This turned from a marriage contract to a slave contract.
First it was agreed that she would have her own private room but low and behold that didn’t happen, not only did she not get a room, she is get to choose between a closet or sofa. Two (2) very uncomfortable places to sleep while he gets to sleep on a big soft bed. And she’s mandated to read to him every night. I’m getting madder as I am typing this.
Secondly, they agreed not to meddle in each others lives but he has been meddling in hers constantly. A girl confessed to you that she likes you and said girl has had a run in with you “wife” in your presence and you know it wasn’t pleasant, then what do you proceed to do, you bring said girl to your home. He proceeds to command the wife in an authoritative master/servant relationship to go and get him water to drink and she obediently stands up to go do her master’s bidding but then gets stopped by the woman who was brought to the house, with the announcement that she’s in love with her husband. Said husband proceeds to get angry that the wife is not jealous.
Thirdly and the most infuriating of all. He literally tells her what to do. Come here, sit here, she literally obeys every command of his and walks meekly with him, she is sassy but her sassiness is fleeting, one minute you will think she’s about to stand up to him, next minute she’s apologizing and doing exactly what he wants. He literally threw her iPad in the water and destroyed the hard work she put in just because he was jealous, and surprise surprise she ended up apologizing to him in that scene. Gosh I am so mad. The scenes that broke the camels back for me was when he gave her the Italy materials to learn and was quizzing her on how to pronounce the words, he held a whip, granted he didn’t whip her but the fact that he held that whip was so wrong on all levels and I was not there for that at all, then after making the girl that confessed to him teach his wife etiquette lessons, she got bruises on her feet, then got sent home and told to write something 100times likes she’s a little kid.
None of what this guy did to this girl in this series is remotely acceptable IMO and I’m so disappointed that more people aren’t calling out this load of BS
But wait all this is all ok somehow because wait for it…. He’s falling in love with her hence all this emotional and implied physical abuse is cute.
I am so freaking mad with this BS. I can’t remember the last time I was this mad at anything much less a tv series.
I fucking dropped this piece of shitty crap @ ep10
1/10 because I can’t give it 0/10

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The best of the fire fighter show IMO

I didn’t watch A Date With the Future but I watched Fireworks Of My Heart and I will tell you, IMO this one is much better than FOMH, especially in the acting department, the acting in this is very good, the emotions from the actors especially the ones portraying the fire fighters was really impressive. I really didn’t care much for the 2 young newbie fire fighters, they just didn’t do anything for me.
This series was really good until about ep30 or so, it just veered into the ridiculous, so called paparazzi or media people were constantly following Lin and Nan Chu everywhere that they could hardly see each other but he could suddenly go out with Director Lou in ep35 to eat and drink and not one paparazzi in sight, I guess this plot line didn’t need paparazzi to moves things along, deep sigh

This next part is not really only about this drama but CDramas in general.
It wouldn’t be a CDrama without the breakup trope at close to the end of the drama. Then few episodes to the dramas end, viola the couples will comeback together and everything will be magically alright in CDramaLand and they will live happily ever after, and all the things that supposedly plagued the relationship which caused the breakup are almost never even brought up or acknowledged and hardly ever resolved but it will suddenly not be an issue anymore, would you care to be illuminated on the reason why, get your popcorns ready (although I doubt you will have enough time to take more than a bite as the reason is quite short), the singular reason ladies and gentlemen is that the allotted episodes for the drama has been fulfilled and it’s time to wrap up production, oh how incredulously ridiculous.

Anyways back to the drama, I have 5eps left to finish this, I have read the reviews so I kinda know how this ends so I am mentally preparing myself for it.
Although the last few episodes haven’t been that good a viewing experience for me, overall I have enjoyed this drama, I very much doubt I will be rewatching this but there was no way I wasn’t watching this once as it features one of my fave CDrama actor & actress in Johnny and Zhang Jing Yi, so do I recommend for a one time watch? you betcha I do.
Rewatch Value 6/10
Overall Value 8/10.

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Could have been better

I am struggling with how to fairly rate this drama. It had so many things wrong with it but it had some good moments also.
I totally get the persistent and determined angle they were trying for with Ha Ram in pursing Seo Yi Jin but it came off as too pushy and was tending towards harassment, no should mean no. It seems when beautiful/handsome/rich people display such behaviors they are seen as cute/romantic etc but when people who aren’t attractive/poor do the same thing they get labeled as creepy/stalkerish etc. It’s a very dishonest and selective world we live in.
This series struggled with really bad pacing, they tried to fit too many things without having enough time to flesh them out
The acting, ots and chemistry between our main couple was actually really decent, so IMO it could have been a lot better if the things mentioned above where handled much better.
This isn’t something I would rewatch and I am not really sure if I will say that I do or don’t recommend it. If you are reading this review to decide, then I say I will leave this one as your choice on whether to watch or not.

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Meh and bleh

This could have been really good with another set of writers. I liked the cinematography and the music was pretty good. The leads had good chemistry but that’s all that was good with this.
I have read some reviews about the pacing and I completely agree with them, the pacing was just weird and felt convoluted. It just jumps from one thing to another. It felt like things were just going from 0-100 without any preamble, I have watched a lot of short dramas that managed to be cohesive, so it definitely wasn’t the length of time.
So Kang In Soo has been putting the moves on Yoon Sang Yi, I mean it wasn’t subtle at all, it was full on come get it moves, then Sang Yi kisses him and he bolts, really, make it make sense, all just to add unnecessary unneeded drama.
This had so much potential IMO but turned out to be something that wasn’t worth it at all to me.
Rewatch value 1/10
Overall 5/10 (And I’m being very generous)

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So very good

Even though the romance was lacking a bit as it was not the full focus of the series, the leads chemistry did make up for it alot and the intrigue more than made up for it also. Commander Tan will always have my heart.
I was gobsmacked in such a good way with this after ep3.
I will be very honest. I thought the ML couldn’t act for shit in the first 2 episodes but I continued because there was just a vibe to the series that made me want so see more. I told myself I would stop if I didn’t like it by episode 5. Well thank God for that judgement call as I would have missed out on what is turning into one of my top 5 Cdramas of all time.
The ML has in just 2 episode turned from one of my worse leads to one of my absolute favorite leads. I am completely obsessed with him (in a non creepy way).
IMO, This is the first Cdrama lead after Jiang XiaoYu in handsome siblings, that has not been boggled down with false virtue, fake morality and being a goody two shoes. Our male lead is so cunning and strategic and do you know what the best part of it is, he completely owns it and I’m here for it. Aside from the 1st 2 episodes. He completely shines everytime he’s on screen and steals every scene he’s in. I thought the SML was better after watching the 1st 2 episodes but boy was I so wrong. (Still like the SML even tho he had no balls in regards to standing up to this dad).
Someone talked about his hand/finger gestures. They were indeed a thing of beauty.
I read a review bashing the FL, typical behavior. She was a young lady and she was perfect as far as I am concerned.
Some people will watch a series where the FL is between 17-23 and expect her to be acting like a 30 year old. Like the hateful keyboard warriors were any better behaved at that age. I can bet they are not even matured at their current age but have the guts to criticize every FL for not being perfect enough in their eyes. All FL bashers need to either take several seats at the back or GTFOH with their “misogynistic” or “fellow women hating on fellow women” foolish shit.
I have rewatched already so obviously the rewatch value is 10/10.
Overall rating is obviously 10/10 also.
I highly highly recommend

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Can’t say yet

I tried watching this show few months back and dropped it, I picked it up again to watch after watching The Devil Judge (special shout out to the one and only YoHan aka Ji Sung, you were perfection).
I am yet to make my judgement on the rave reviews about this being the best action series, the reviewers here claim to have seen because I haven’t gotten that far yet.
As much as I want to drop this again, I will give it 2 more eps to see, because this 1st ep is blowing my mind and not in a good way.
Michael called the airport control line and an agent picked up, after the phone call we suddenly have fire and the fire alarm baring at the control center and said agent was murdered. How did the assassin know he was going to call and call at that very moment and who the agent that was going to pick the call in order to set the fire and murder the agent in a very “flawless” manner, I shook my head so bad @ the ridiculousness of it.. The scene was beyond unbelievable and almost too much for me to tolerate but tolerate for 2 more eps I will in hopes that that illogical mess can be somehow redeemed. Fingers crossed

Update @ ep4: Ofcourse they had to make the female lead dumb. She is an NIS agent, a trained paid one at that, as she has stated several times but she has zero spacial awareness, they have tried to kill them several times but girl, go ahead and co-join hands with your friend/colleague in the airport and chat about food and why don’t you ladies skip also while you are at it. While the ML is scanning for any hidden threats. Typical KDrama where the ML is better at everything and smarter also than the FL. Smh
They just arrived in the country and the journalist already knew that. How the hell did the journalist know that they were arriving on that particular day and also knew the restaurant they were going to. They are hiding from the people that are trying to kill them and these people can supposedly scrub crime scenes, tamper with evidence faster than you can say Jack Robinson but yeah stay in a building where all the blinds are wide open that anyone can see them. Damn. So many head scratching plot holes and illogical decisions by supposed intelligence agents.
It’s gotten a lot more interesting I must admit but the plot holes and dumbs decisions are so glaring, it’s wild.

Why does Cha Dal Geon have to scream and shout every time he’s talking. That only makes him sound crazy and silly. Whether he shouts or not is not going to make people believe him or not (it actually does make it less likely people will believe him because they will think he’s coming from a place of grief), they ended up just giving the viewers unnecessary migraine from all those screaming.

Update @ ep6: my patience is seriously wearing thin at this point. She is a trained agent and can’t keep her composure because she shot someone and almost gave the gig up with her hiccuping, really. Smh. I am going to drop this for now because if I don’t and continue, I might just drop it completely with how so over it I feel right now.

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The plot was good overall. Although not a whole lot of stuff happened in the movie it still had a decent story line. The music didn’t really stand out, honestly I couldn’t even tell if there was music or not. To say the intimate scenes were a joke is putting it mildly, they were doing a whole lot of nothing. The camera angles used to fake all the make out scenes was just stupid and they shouldn’t have bothered with it as it was super obvious.
The costume department left something to be desired. While the outfits were pretty decent it felt like they all wore the same outfits for the whole movie.
That red light crosswalk scene where he was on the phone was so damn bad, it was ridiculous. The extras were just walking in all different directions and it didn’t make any sense. I blame the director for that scene.
The acting was pretty decent but it generally wasn’t a solid movie so I won’t be rewatching this.
Overall rating 3.5/10 because I can’t forgive the bait and switch act with all the make out scenes that made it look so fake.
I do not recommend

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