Cupido amore mio (2023)

drama carino... ma...

La storia ha una bella trama, ci sono tutti i presupposti per un drama di successo (trama avvincente, plot twist. triangolo amoroso, personaggi pucciosi e personaggi odiosi).
L'idea è anche innovativa: non credo, e chiedo scusa qualora sbagliassi, che ci sia mai stato un drama su CUPIDO.
Vorrei dire che è tutto splendido, ma in realtà delle pecche ce la ha:
1. La protagonista femminile è vuota, priva di personalità, o forse ha delle personalità un "po' troppo confuse". L'eccesso non sempre è un bene.
2. La figura della protagonista è a tratti inutile.
3. La protagonista ha uno sviluppo del personaggio pessimo: inizia con la scampagnata e poi...? potevano farla camminare un altro po' a questo punto, era meglio.
4. TROPPI personaggi per nulla e per niente approfonditi. A partire dagli amici cupidi di cupido, all'assassino.
5. Una serie di eventi di cui si può fare felicemente a meno sono stati sparsi lungo la serie.
6. Il second lead è qualcuno che mai ci saremmo sognate e va bene, apprezzo la scelta dell'attore, ma dategli almeno una scena degna dell'intelletto umano. Mi dispiace per la second lead che praticamente si è vista pochissimo e che meritava un degno spazio nella serie.
7. La protagonista non è in grado di difendersi. Per sviluppare questo triangolo amoroso sembrerebbe che abbiano deciso che la protagonista aveva sempre bisogno di due possenti uomini a proteggerla.
8. In un certo senso, non ho apprezzato il fatto che la protagonista dimostrasse un attaccamento quasi morboso al protagonista, con scenate di gelosia che potevano essere risparmiate.
9. La parte thriller non è preponderante e va bene tenendo presente il genere, ma appare un po' raffazzonata.


La storia è interessante però.
Dove stanno le ost???

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solides Drama

sorry my english is awful.... I tried in german....

Keine Ahnung warum das Drama eine schlechtere Durchschnittswertung als andere hat. Es ist ein solides Drama was durchaus mit anderen seiner Art mithalten kann. Ich hab mich leider auch ein wenig von den Meinungen beeinflussen lassen. Vonwegen fehlende Chemie zwischen den Schauspielern. Man sollte die Serie bis zum Ende schauen, bevor man derartige Meinungen raus haut. Die Chemie stimmt ab dem Moment, wo sich die Protagonisten näher kommen.
Diese Serie hat alles was man für ein gutes Drama braucht...eine (unvorhersehbare) spannende Story, sympathische Charaktere, eine Dreiecks Geschichte und Herzschmerz.
Bei einer Wertung unter 8, hätte ich ja jetzt dann wenigstens mit nem schlechten Ende gerechnet...aber auch das ist nicht.
Ich hab schon echt viel Müll gesehen, aber das hier gehört einfach nicht dazu.

Google Traslator:

No idea why this drama has a worse average rating than others. It's a solid drama that can definitely compete with others of its kind. Unfortunately, I also let myself be influenced a little by the opinions. Because of this there is a lack of chemistry between the actors. You should watch the series to the end before throwing out such opinions. The chemistry is right from the moment the protagonists get closer to each other.
This series has everything you need for a good drama... an (unpredictable) exciting story, likeable characters, a love triangle and heartbreak.
With a rating below 8, I would have at least expected a bad ending... but that's not the case either.
I've seen a lot of trash, but this just isn't one of them.

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(Mild spoiler) Cute but with a pretty heavy dose of trauma and some plot holes/weirdness

Executive Summary
Watch it. It’s really pretty good and has a very nice ending. I don’t agree with the very low ratings, although it is not a “great” series. Fantasy is not my thing, but I did enjoy this series.

There is a mystery running throughout the series and they don’t reveal what is really up until near the end, and it was a bit of a surprise. So they did a good job.

The cast is great, especially the main couple (Nana and Jang Dong-Yoon) and the FL’s roommate (Gong Min-Jung). The main couple is pretty dour most of the time, because of their sad past. And that may be why some folks think the main couple lacks chemistry. But what makes the series work, for me, is that the lighter moments are really cute. When the FL is happy she lights up the room and steals the show! I would love to see her in more of a RomCom role where there is more happy and less sad. I think she would absolutely knock it out of the park in such a role. I’ll cross my fingers :-)

(Spoiler Alert)
And super extra points to the writers for giving us quite a few minutes of happiness at the end, and glimpse into the future of the couple after they are able to reunite. We need more of these types of upbeat and more complete endings. Yay!

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Not Good Enough

Korean Drama '' My Man is Cupid '' is a fantasy romantic comedy.

The concept of the story, though unique, was quite idiotic overall. It wasn't well executed, though the group of fairies offered many funny moments and their chemistry was spot on. A chemistry that, unfortunately, the main couple didn't have. Therefore, their romantic moments were awkward, which was aided by the absorbed behavior of the main female lead who often acted out so strangely towards the main male lead that more often than not baffled him and the audience as well.

Other than that, the mystery case was pretty intense and interesting.

The performances were okay as well.

So, overall, three out of ten.

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Pathetic FL and Selfish ML

I'm trying to like this show but my interest in started dropping by Ep 4 and it took me a while to pick it back up again Ep5.

The FL becomes annoying as she comes off not only as desperate but almost obsessed and pathetic towards the ML. Of course, it's easy to see that she gets mixed msgs from the ML but even though he rejects her, she doesn't give up.

Then we have to watch this cruel deity and a foolish "fairy", the ML, just basically hash it out for what? Because the ML accidentally shot himself with his own arrow and fell in love with the wrong woman? Makes no sense that the deity wouldn't be able to lift the spell of the cupid's arrow. Whatevs. Why is that deity, (God of Fate),such an a-hole anyways?

Then about the ML...You would think that after living 500 years in punishment and also cruelly subjecting his friends to the same punishment, that the ML would learn a lesson. Even after the fact that two women that he opened his heart to not only died, but one was viciously murdered. But did he learn his lesson? Nope. Apparently not. His selfishness stirs up more trouble. Not only he is selfish in regards to his friends who are suffering from the same punishment but his selfishness towards the lives of women who have died or who are in danger because he opened his heart to them. After the murder of one of the women, you'd think he would self-sacrifice his feelings to prevent any future tragedies and murders, but it's apparent that it isn't heading that way. It also makes no sense that his friends don't seem to concerned that he might fall back in love.

The perilla leaf scene and the FL getting jealous of her friend being helped is the stupidest, childish writing. I don't get how she's supposed to be a grown, career woman but she acts like a highschooler in love with her crush. Her character is so immature and childish. The ML specifically tells the FL not to go out and of course, she goes out. Why are they making these women so dumb? I'm also so over this FL being drunk all the time. It's too much. Alcoholism isn't attractive. I'm losing count how many times she been piggybacked home. It's such a writer's cop out and an excuse to add unnecessary kissing scenes. Why not just be sober and courageous at the same time? This is just lazy writing to me.

Worst of all, the storylines and genres of this drama goes all over the place. One minute we see the past Joseon era, then there's present time and the recent murder, then it goes back to that past of the other murders, then there's the love triangle, in the Joseon past and present time, then there's the FL and ML rom-com antics that seems so out of place. Their characters are so immature at most points all the while there's a serial killer on the loose. And then we go back to past lives and back and forth all over the place. Then the deity shows outta nowhere. Then there's the ML's useless friends and what's the point of the dog turning back to a human sometimes? After 500 years, you'd think that all these guys would be very wise, mature and serious. But apparently their lives just seem to be spent being lazy and good for nothing but basically shooting love arrows. Even that whole storyline gets randomly put in. We stopped hearing about the punishment being over soon, then it's back on topic. So when exactly will the metamorphosis happen? Also, the ML being a cupid, sometimes they want you to think he's powerful but you can't take him seriously because he looks so young and his actions are often immature.

It feels like mutiple different writers wrote different versions of this drama and they mashed all the ideas together awkwardly and while it lies in a messy pile, they randomly pull out scripts.

I'll update my post at the end if I can make it that far without dropping it. Finished ep6 atm.

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Low expectations at first - impressed by the end

I was never into phantasy romance dramas since I enjoy watching dramas which are closer to reality. I gave this one a try and damn… it’s just so good.

I think I might watch even more phantasy dramas just because this one hit my expectations so hard I might love watching others too ^^

I would recommend since it’s really heartwarming and at the same time crime and mystery.

I think there is enough for everyone and I think this drama is in my top 10 dramas for now.

I really enjoyed watching it and finished in about a week or less. I didn’t feel the time passing while watching it. It’s 16 episodes but definitely worth trying.

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why?

Why would a writer, with a fascinating story to tell, proceed to write it in such a ridiculous way that nothing about it makes any sense. It was frustrating, infuriating, even nonsensical at times. The makings for an excellent drama that would make even the most hard-hearted person turn emotional, and yet instead it was nothing but a mess.

Annoyingly every time there was a scene that should be suspenseful I instead was stuck thinking that the writer wished us to believe that every victim was just an idiot, all the police were bumbling fools, and that no one was even trying to solve the crimes at all.

The acting was superb, the cast did their best to make lemonade out of this lemon of a script.

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Only the leads characters are good

1/ STORY:
A fairy Cupid lives a forbidden love with a human. It is the depiction of this forbidden love. How it happened and what were the consequences. Will they manage to break the curse and be together?

2/ WHAT I LIKED
- The two lead characters, their personalities, how they got together, how they discovered the truth about their common past...

3/WHAT I DID NOT LIKE
- The thriller plot. It was convoluted and messy and repetitive.
- The romance throughout time. Hard to follow as we are spoon-fed by flashbacks. Gods's actions and discourses hardly understandable or logic.
- Second couple is a joke and finally not a couple.
- No endearing character apart from the lead couple. BFF is uninteresting. Fairies are useless. One of them is a liability occupying too much screentime for nothing.

4/ ACTORS:
- Good acting from the lead actors but good actors can't save a bad script.

5/OST: Good enough

6/ REWATCH VALUE: None

7/ OVERALL: Only the cute romance between the present version of the lead couple kept me following this. Their version in the past were in overly complicated convoluted situation. This drama was a mixture of many genres historical fantasy serial killer comedy ... that made it hardly digestible. Honestly, it is a disappointment, and I cannot recommend this drama. 7.5/10.

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