Lost chance

Great firsts episodes, with good pace, creative shots and enganging acting. The two leads have great charisma and the children actors are stellar especially the flamenco girl, she is super expressive and energizes every scene she is in.
Shame it all came downhill after this firsts impressions. Poor story progression, with excessive flashback scenes, that bring nothing to the characters development.
The storylines start to get submerge by a sentimental tone with repetitive themes. Seems like someone ordered the actors to act cute and childlike on every scene. Two much tone confusion, on the the last episodes, with caracteres fading away with poor resolution. Last 2 episodes fast forward ...

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King of the Void

In the last two years, i have seen my share of kdramas, but nothing as bad as King the Land.

I got hooked to kdramas because of the original and creative premisses (Attorney Woo), strong and consistent storyline (Red Sleeve) or light but funny romcoms (Business Proposal).

Even super light shows like Secretary Kim, so light that i dropped it, feels like a Shakespeare play compared to the void that is KTl.
At least in that drama the secretary character had some agency in the first episodes, she was looking to improve herself and open a new chapter for her, trying to break away from a life serving her narcisistic boss. The KTL FL character is more: Oh, look an hotel, so shiny and pretty. Oh, look, it's the president son, so shiny and pretty. End of story.

I was just stunned by the poor writing and especially by the stale humour, isn't a romCOM supposed to be even slightly funny. I hanged on for several episodes, pressing fast foward on the frequent cringy scenes , and finaly quit in ep10, the worst episode ever of kdrama history for me.

I could not believe that in this day and age, an 1hour tv show would offer absoluting nothing as a story. It´s a compilation of promos for tourism in thailand, glamour pointeless shots of the lead actors and a string of unbearable cute/funny/giddy sequences with the cast, that could be from a B-rated US sitcom from the 70´s.

The humour here is simply appalling and It´s painfull to watch good actors lost in this degrading and meanlingess episode.

What's next, for the second season you don´t even have to pay a writter, the producer only has to mix some glamour stills shots off the lead actors, a PowerPoint presentation with "happy" moments of a random cast of actors who look funny and a promo video from the board of tourism of the country who pays better.

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Body Swaping Inferno

Golden Spoon is one of those dramas that makes my blood boil. The firsts episodes seem intriguing and the premisse had potencial in the hands of a good writter, body swaping within the contex of social mobility.
But, it all came downhill very quickly. I'm gone be generic from this point to avoid controversy. First the acting. I can take one or two fresh face "acting" idols if the story is good enough, but so many at the same time and staring at each other with that blank expressions, like a herd of deer caught in headlights, is a big red flag for me. Even the senior cast, with some very respectable actors and actress, went in overdrive mode and complete "soapy" overacting.
The other red flag for me is the story development wich went full beserk trying to artificially provoke cliffhangers with absurd plot twists. I only remember at some point of the show i didn't even knew anymore who is in what body and didn'teven care, so i dropped it to spare the life of my fast foward button.

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