Blood (2015)

Let me begin with one thing, this drama isn't the best drama you'll watch, but it's not necessarily the worst one either.

The story is mediocre, with multiple cliches but for some reason, I couldn't personally stop watching it. It does have unexpected twists and turns, and the overall concept of the story is a fresher image to vampirism that I've seen presented in dramas. The acting is minimal, some parts showing amazing acting while others reveal this lack of good acting you'd expect in a way. It's more of a drama where you have to see past the faults of the story, casting, and other variables to enjoy. I mainly continued watching just to finish and end the story that I had begun watching. If you're up to see why this drama is so bad and so good (?) at the same time, I would recommend it. It's an odd thing to enjoy almost, where you know some parts you don't like, such as the acting, yet it's got that drama appeal where you wanna continue watching. Again, Blood isn't the BEST drama I've watched, but I've honestly seen worst.

Side Note: The main female lead will make you want to punch yourself in the face every now and then with her acting, but the eye candy of the main and second male leads will help you overcome the urges to stop watching in my honest opinion.

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Blood (2015) - it really has potential, the concept of the drama being a vampire aspect as a disease is really cool and great. It was really a different take on having a vampire drama, which is quite the theme at that time. I was impressed at the first parts of the dramas, with all of it's effects and the aesthetic. Mystery wise there are questions along the way that got me curious until it just stop being interesting in the next episodes. It got dragging and the main reason of the drama seems lost. I did not really like how the drama progressed and the ending sucks.

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Honestly, I wasn't sure how Blood was going to turn out. It has decent reviews but not the best. I'm glad I decided to watch it anyway. I really enjoyed the show.
I love the fact they took a different approach with vampires. They didn't go with the stereotypical vampire and decided to show a different side to how vampires came to exist. Everything is medical based instead and I think that was a cool idea.
I will say the show did slow down a bit in the middle though. It was really good at first, then it became a little repetitive in the middle, and then back to good at the end. The middle of the series did have some good surprises though so definitely watch through the whole thing.
The ending had me all over the place so get ready for that!
I'd watch this again but I'd probably skip through some of middle episodes.

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I am not a fan (anymore) of all this fantasy and vampire stuff and things like that. However, I had Blood on my "Plan to watch" list for some time already and as I had time on my hands and nothing particular to watch, I decided to give it a go. I didn't have any expectations, which was good because then I would have been even more disapointed.

Story:
Park Ji Sang was born with a virus that lowers his body temperature and makes him crave blood - commonly known a vampire. However, this virus is not known to the world and there are only a few infected people. He works as a doctor and dedicates his life to healing people instead of killing them. At the new hospital he meets Yoo Ri Ta, ab aspiring doctor who is also part of the family that owns the hospital, and also closely connected to Ji Sang's past. Enter Lee Jae Wook, the new director of the hospital, also infected with the vampire virus and connected to Ji Sang in certain ways. For more, watch it yourself.
However, don't expect a love story, or a doctor's drama or a fantasy story. At least, not completely. That's also where I see the huge disadvantage of this drama. It wants to be so much, but is nothing completely in the end. There are some, actually very few, romantic scenes. I had wished for so much more!! There is a whole lot medical storytelling going on, with medical terms being thrown around, like they were talking about what to eat for lunch. Quite annoying and seemingly only there, so there is at least SOMETHING. The storyline that really got me was the one with Jung Hae In's character. I would have loved for the drama to evolve around him and his story instead!

Acting/Cast:
The acting was okay. Nothing overwhelmingly great, but not too bad either. I always find it hard to review the acting and cast when I already don’t like the story much. Let’s just say they acted how they were supposed to, however the roles were just shitty.

Music:
Was there any special music? Don’t think so. It was okay, nothing very annoying.

Rewatch Value:
To say it in my bias’ words: NO! (sry for the reference to Tae xD)

Overall:
So the story was all over the place, the characters weren’t very well developed, and overall the drama was too long! 16 episodes would have been more than enough for this story! Just watch if you have really NOTHING else to do!

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good concept, bad execution

to be honest, this was one of my first kdramas. I liked it at first, but as I gradually grew my kdrama portfolio, I realized how severely lacking this drama was. I liked that the drama portrayed vampirism as a virus that could be cured, but the development between plot lines felt very stagnated and fragmented. I really did not understand the logistics behind everything, and a lot of scenes felt very filler. Our female lead is initially a cold and standoffish person, and so is our male lead. So why...did they end up together? Their chemistry felt non-existent and completely unnatural. This is one of the weakest dramas I've seen, with forgettable OSTs and meh casting and story...do skip this drama, there are so many others you can spend your time on instead.

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no es lo que esperaba

Cuando vi una historia de un vampiro que trabaja como médico dije...va a ser una trama genial. Y además, los protagonistas fueron matrimonio así que pensé...seguro que explotan de química...Bueno ni una cosa ni la otra. La historia comienza bien pero a la mitad se estanca...matan a un personaje innecesariamente y el final...qué porquería. Cómo que el vampiro se muere? como que ella después viaja a kochenia y se encuentra con un nuevo ¿vampiro? que tiene bigotes y eso lo hace acordar a él. Nos quieren demostrar que el vampiro reencarno ? o que ese va a ser su nuevo amor?

Porque la vicedirectora del hospital era tan mala? qué quería conseguir? se consiguió cura para los vampiros? entiendo que no, si en kochenia seguía habiendo. Malísimo

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You'll think that it will be a struggle for a vampire to be a doctor, let alone a sergeant. And yet, in blood, most of the doctors working in the hospital are vampires. Okay, they are not called vampires, but the infected by an uncured various that has similar effects just like a vampire. Even though its twenty episodes long, the plot don't let the drama get boring and keeps the interest high even till the very end. The blood scenes were a little too much, but bearable, though the romance was mild. The hospital politics and that villain doctor and his plots were very entertaining. However, I really didn't like the ending, as it was confusing, because of the very last scene. So, 6 out of 10.

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I love how in this drama the romance starts in the middle. It's the first drama well Korean drama that has used vampires in it. There is a lot comedy and action. I love how the guy answers back to the girl when she asks him questions or when she makes assumptions and when she starts to talk about him and make fun of him. it really pisses her off when he does that. which makes their relashionship even cuter. I just wish they made another season to it. one more thing to this drama. after this dram ended the main actor and the main actress fell in love in real life and got married. so happy for them.

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I watched this drama a while ago, but I stumbled upon its page today and saw that it had an overall rating of 7.4, so I thought I ought to make a review telling everyone not to believe that rating. I'll be honest, I watched this drama because it had Ahn Jae Hyun, dealt with vampirism, and was fairly well rated. It was actually one of the first dramas I ever watched and even then I knew that it was bad. The first seven or so episodes are OK, but after that point, the whole show just goes completely downhill. I feel like I sped through the beginning of this drama because it had genuinely good content, but as the show went on I found myself waiting days between each episode because forcing myself to watch it was miserable and I just couldn't do it. Side-note: don't even get me started on that ending. I mean what the hell was that? In conclusion, this drama is an idea that wasn't well thought out and could have been easily squeezed into ten episodes (or less) and still had the same content without anything lost. Please don't watch this, for your own well-being.

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Eu assisti para que você não assistisse

Está difícil de achar algum Dorama bom com temática de vampiro, sou dorameiro assíduo de temática de fantasia principalmente, e nem isso o drama conseguiu me prender. Eu já tinha deixado isto anos atrás, vi que estáva na Netflix agora e dei mais uma chance. Não dava, assistir até o final só para ter o direito de críticar.
Achei a história muito rasa, ao contrário doque as pessoas falaram, não achei inovador colocar o fator vampiro como condição médica (mesmo na época já tinham outras histórias pondo folclore com justificativas científicas), e ainda assim isso foi pouco expositivo, não víamos muitas limitações, curiosidades de ser um vampiro em cena, além do básico de super força e talvez sede de sangue (que abandonaram isso logo no começo da série).
Atuação muito ruim também, não achei um que se salvasse, o romance do casal principal surgiu do nada (pra vamos você encontrou com seu amigo de infância e automaticamente se apaixonou?), era muito sem graça, não havia cenas cativantes com eles.
O elenco de apoio/coadjuvantes, alguns foram simplesmente jogados em cenas e saiam sem justificativa nenhum, nenhum desenvolvimento, nem mesmo um fim para eles, nunca sabemos no final se os pacientes sobreviveram ou não (o que é outro problema causado pelo final super corrido).
Acho que nem preciso dizer do final sem noção nenhum. Todos reclamaram disto, você já deve ter visto outras resenhas aqui falando sobre. Aliás, não tem nem o que falar porque não faz nenhum sentido.
E bem. Longas caminhadas dentro do hospital, que parecia ser o único principal cenário que eles tinham disponível. Diálogos longos e desinteressantes, mal parecia um dorama que o tema principal era sobre vampiros. E bem, o nome, Blood, não faz jus ao Dorama, você só ver este recurso nas cirurgias ou em pancadas de cabeças, nem procure vem um típico vampiro bebendo algum sangue, você só vai achar dois vampiros médicos tendo longos diálogos chatos e quase sem consequências.

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I really enjoyed watching this series! I get that it's not everyone's cup of tea but i really liked it, there aren't a lot of vampire kdramas or dramas in general out there and this one is definitely one of the better ones! If you like the kind of vampire drama i highly recommend this drama! It's like a normal drama just with vampire added to it. This was one of my first dramas and it made me fell in love with dramas! The plot does is somewhat similar to other dramas, but overall i liked it._________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Not a Keeper forMe

Okay so the hardest thing to say about this drama is, unless it had Ahn Jae-Hyeon and Gu Hye-Sun in it I probably would NOT have watched it past the first 5 episodes. I pretty much think it was completely wasted on their talents and the storyline was lacking. Did I appreciate the fact the writer made the vampires come from a virus instead of mythology - yes it was creative but that’s probably where the creativity stops. To see evil get more evil and people just dropping dead for the sake of it is a wasted story. No creativity in it.
Rewatch value = I wouldn’t waste my 20 hrs of time on it thank you. Once was more than enough.

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