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WHY THE HELL THERE ARE ONLY 30 EPISODES?

Don't know where to start, Guys this drama is probably the best ever c-drama to be released in the year 2024!Don't ever miss this drama or you gonna regret it!
Also this drama is not meant for the ones whom expects more engaging and crisp story or some revenge plot or two guys chasing after the girl or the vice versa or some business plot!
Eventhough it also involves sports plot, but it does not completely revolve around it!Infact it only acts a bridge for the lead pair!
Then, what can u expect from this drama?
1)FIRST AND FOREMOST IS UNDOUBTEDLY.........."HAPPY ENDING"!
2)NO ANNOYING SECOND LEADS CHASING AFTER THE MAIN LEAD COUPLES!
3)NOT JUST THE LEAD COUPLES BUT EVERY CHARACTER IN THIS DRAMA ARE GREEN FLAGS!SAY FOR e.g FL'S brother
4)CHEMISTRY BETWEEN THE LEAD COUPLES IS MIND BOGGLING
5)OFCOURSE CINEMATOGRAPHY AND OST ARE OFF THE CHARTS!
6)AND THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS "NO UNNECESSARY BREAKUP"
7)INFACT IN THE COMPLETE SERIES, THERE IS ONLY ONE MISUNDERSTANDING SCENE!BUT THE BEST PART IS IT IS RESOLVED MORE QUICKLY
Does that means it has no negatives?
1)Eventhough it is a sports related drama, after completing it only thing that strikes to me it is more of a romance genre!Director should have given much more importance to the sports plot!
2)Director should have given much more screenspace for the second lead couple!It doesn't mean the main lead couples are boring, however second lead couples story is yet to be finished!Probably Director may have other plans for the second lead pair!
3)PROBABLY THIS IS THE ONLY MAJOR NEGATIVE THAT MANY OF THE FELLOW REVIEWERS ALSO GONNA AGREE:
"WHY THE HELL THERE ARE ONLY 30 EPISODES? PROBABLY A FEW MORE EPISODES,
1)SO THAT SECOND LEAD COUPLES STORY MIGHT ALSO HAVE A BEAUTIFUL ENDING!
2)ALSO FINISING OFF THE SERIES WITH THE MARRIAGE OF MAIN COUPLES WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH MORE APT THAN THE OFFICIAL SERIES ENDING!
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BETTER GO FOR IT!DEFINITELY YOU GONNA ENJOY IT!

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After months (months? sure) of hearing about how good this drama is I finally decided to watch it.

Admittedly it annoys me sometimes when people are right, especially when they go gushy over something that is playing at the same time that something I prefer is playing and they totally ignore my thing, the jerks. That said, well. People were right. This show was great. I really loved it, and I loved all the ways it tried to challenge ideas surrounding sex, identity, kink, etc. Maybe not always entirely successfully, but the attempt was there and honestly, I loved how it seemed to be pointing out hypocrisy towards women in particular (there are several examples of this, but I am thinking particularly of how Jean was treated after the party vs. how Alex was. I love that the show made a point of explicitly stating how messed up the disparate reactions were, and how unfair. I also liked that despite following Alex as he goes on this journey, the show never attempted to pretend that he was the wronged party in that situation. Neither did Alex himself, which was refreshing). I'm not used to that from my shows, full stop.

I'm also just a sucker for a good time travel trope, and it always amuses me when the mostly decent kid travels and wakes up in this body of a huge jerk and then has to work back how the hell they got there. Watching Alex fumble through figuring out how the hell he landed on the career he chose, let alone wtf happened at that party so long ago, was kind of hilarious. I enjoyed the balance of humor and seriousness a lot. It kept the show from ever feeling too heavy.

One thing I have heard over and over and over again about Jojo is that he gets great performances from the cast, performances that feel authentic and real. I have to say that yeah, I get the praise. You know how with some directors you can see their hand in everything they do? Jojo is like that, I think, but his hand is seen in how little he's present in the overall product. It feels like he hands his cast a script, gives them a general idea, and then lets them do their thing and gives them room to explore their characters in an organic way. I'm sure that there is some management happening, that's his job, but mostly these characters feel lived in in a way that strikes me because so often it isn't there. Maybe it's a mix of his directing style and really good casting.

Speaking of casting, this one was excellent. I really liked everyone, but especially New, Fah, and Jan. New played Alex well - he's a character that I think could easily get annoying, but New managed to make him likeable more oft than not. Even when Alex was doing things I knew were stupid, I was more "oh, honey, no" than I was "you're the worst", so that was nice. Fah as Jean was just all around lovely, she played her so well. You could see the bones of the girl she was before everything went wrong in the woman she became, just a little harder, a little less trusting. But she stayed fighting for people because that's just the core of who she is. Her struggle with her desire to let go of what happened vs. her inability to do so was heart wrenching, and yeah, I guessed the big last secret fairly early on but one thing I liked (that I mentioned above) is that she was never ever once treated like she did something wrong. Oh, in show she got it in the teeth, but the show itself never failed to point out exactly how fucked up that was. Also Fah just did a great job and she's very, very pretty. I could watch her forever honestly. And Jan just continues to be a delight in everything I see her in.

After all this praise, I have to say I did find myself a little bit annoyed by the ending. It felt a bit too pat, especially after everything else was handled with such nuance. It was so weird to have Alex wake up and get to have his Scrooge turnaround because it was still Christmas after all. And some of the ways that he took care of things annoyed me, too. He came across as a little too "I know best for you" towards everyone's problems for a 17 year old kid. Which I get, he had all this knowledge from his messed up future under his belt, but I didn't love it. I did love his determination to be a better brother, though (another thing I loved? The fact that he helped Ice pull his head out of his bum w/r/t Kim's abortion choice in the messed up future. The fact that they had one of the male characters say, in no uncertain terms, that it's actually *her* choice and that being supportive means letting her make it, floored me, as did the fact that Ice actually listened and was fully supportive after his initial selfish freak out (and he admitted it was selfish! I couldn't believe it)).

I also felt like it would have been better to have a less entirely happy ending? Which is weird coming from me, since I love happy endings. But I really liked the message that sometimes there are things that you can't fix, some mistakes you can't take back, and then I felt like the show immediately undercut that idea by...letting Alex go back and make everything right. I think I might have appreciated the ending more had Alex stayed in the future after that last encounter with Jean. Then again I don't think *Jean* deserved having to be stuck that way, so there you go. For her sake, I'm happy it went the other way.

Overall I found this extremely enjoyable, and well, I can't say that I will be sad about Jojo's penchant for happy endings if that means that things go the way I want in other dramas. :D

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Beautiful, wholesome, heartwarming and leaves you with a huge smile.

This is a wonderfully written and perfectly played comedy of a calibre that I haven't seen in a very long time. The plot summary gives you a little hint about what's to come. However, just watch an episode and you can't but be captivated by the wonderful realism in the story and acting, how the characters draw you in and connect at a very deep level, and the warmth and happiness that you'll surely feel.

As the plot summary hints, the story touches upon complicated topics like the consequences of your choices and actions and does this in a beautiful style that delicately balances humour, fantasy and relatability.

The children play their roles with such class, I'd be sitting with a silly grin on my face throughout. When playing adults, the characters share lots of trivia and day-to-day events, and this style works superbly here because it's blended and balanced so well with the underlying threads of the narrative and I now feel that I really "know" the people behind the screen. It's like I have a seat at their table while they're enjoying a lighthearted conversation over tea, and when the scene is over I'm feeling that I was really at tea with old friends - not a very different feeling than when I've met my friends in real life - it feels real, not like acting. Very few movies or dramas have ever managed this.

I'll not spoil it, but stick with it to the end through the plot twists - the ending is just so wholesome and happy. I still feel the joy and warmth long after having finished watching it. I recommend this highly to anyone looking for a story that's deep, meaningful and rewarding to watch.

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Took a while to get into but loved it overall

I am a huge Park Hyung sik fan and I've seen SWDBS probably 100 times, which led me to Hwarang and The Heirs. I loved the American version of Suits and got so excited the PHS would be playing Mike Ross's character.

Acting was top notch! PHS, JDG and the other actors (except for Ji-Na) do not dissapoint. PHS's acting was so different from SWDBS but so fitting and believable. I must admit though that it took me so many tries and dropped it so many times because it was a bit boring at the start. I tried it again since it's now on Netflix, while on lockdown and guess what, I enjoyed it! I call them my officemates. Oh boy I miss going to the office and dressing up in business attire.. but I digress

The story is similar to the American version so the cases are familiar. I also got annoyed at the start at how GYW made all those mistakes but it did tie up towards the end. The changes that the Korean version made were fitting for the story that they were trying to tell.

Don't count on a love story because there was zero chemistry between YW and Jina haha. But that's fine because I came from the bromance and there was definitely chemistry between Atty Choi and YW. Similar to the Harvey Mike tandem that I loved.

Overall, i enjoyed this series. I loved seeing PHS in a suit and all his facial expressions. I cried towards the end and the ending was satisfying. Must watch!

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Do we dance tango or do we accomplish our revenge?

I was positively surprised by this unexpected drama, which became one of the best I have watched this year.
It is also surprising to find so many despective comments in several reviews, mentioning the actors' empathy and performances, the script - sometimes blamed as "undefined"-, the so called "unnecesary" sex scenes, and other similar comments that seem written by haters in social media. I have to confess that this is not the drama I have watched.
Well, it is a story of revenge, with a strong charge of violence, corruption and crime, and such story, to me, is perfectly narrated from the very beginning.
It is also a story of adultery, so I do not forsee how to describe it without introducing sex in the script. By the way, no scene seems to me scandalous or out of the "15 years old" official age rating of the drama.
But what I have seen above all is a story of wounds, physical and psychical, inflicted in the past to several characters: Lee Ra El / Kim Sun Bin, Kang Yoon Gyeom, Jang Moon Hee, and how they interact nowadays with the persons who caused them. By the way, the criminals feel no regret because what they did in the past, neither for their present criminal acts: they are "untouchable" because ther "belong to the elite".
And in the middle of the story, linking the revenge, the adultery and the scares, a great mistake in identifying one of the main characters as a criminal in the past.
The plot is served, sometimes we have seen similar stories in the past, but this is presented with no artifice, just advancing step by step, without making loosing the spectators interest for a story very well developed, and creating in the viewers curiosity in how the revenge will arrive at the end... because it arrives, in a painful way. It is said in another drama of this season about revenge: "if you are seeking revenge, dig to craves, one for your enemy, one for you". Principle applies in some way for this drama.
Regarding the cast, outstanding performance offered by Park Byeung Eun, maybe the best I have seen from this tallented actor with a long experience in dramas and films.
Excellent Yoo Sun as the repressed yet capricious and ruthless housewife; as well as the always effective Lee Sang Yeob.
Mention apart for Seo Yea Ji, who provides to the drama's main character enough attractive, sensuality, anger, versatility, tenderness and credibility, despite her tendence to overact sometimes. And she dances tango as a pro.
In conclusion, all I ask to a drama was in this.

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JUST LOVED IT.....

Don't judge the book by it's cover
And Don't judge the story by reading the negative reviews..
Just go for it.... It's a lovely and wonderful story...And you will surely love it..
Uea and King are so sweet...King is probably the mature one because he understands Uea's problems very well and he comforts Uea as much as he can... Since they are in Friends with Benifits relationship, throughout the story we can see Uea and King love each other from the bottom of their hearts...
There are no major misunderstandings between the couple and they are sorting out all the things very quickly.. Just loved the series..

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bom mas não me apeguei

é sempre interessante acompanhar obras que não seguem um plot convencional de romance pois sempre gera um questionamento nas pessoas que estão assistindo.

sobre a obra em si eu não tenho muito o que falar, comecei a acompanhar os episódios semanalmente mas não me conectei com a história e vim terminar quando todos os episódios já haviam saído. eu reconheço que é uma boa história, que contém bons personagens, uma boa atuação e tem um ritmo bom mas realmente não consegui me apegar a história. apesar de ter algumas ressalvas com o romance que se desenvolve eu acredito que eles fizeram de uma forma que você consegue enxergar a relação que vai além de "irmãos". de um modo geral taiwan sabe muito bem fazer drama e dificilmente vai decepcionar.

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I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The show was fantastic, and I believe it did justice to the tale of an autistic lawyer attempting to deal with the realities of daily life. I am hoping there will be a second season so we can learn more about her experiences becoming a full-time Hanbada lawyer and in her love life. I have noticed something: in the series, Woo Young Woo's mother declared that she did not want to become a mother and have the child from the very beginning of her pregnancy. In accordance with the agreement she and Woo's father made, she gave the child away to the child's father after she gave birth and she never looked back (as he would be the only person responsible for the child's upbringing). I believe it was unfair that she was being attacked by everyone for not looking for or caring for Woo Young Woo; she had previously made it clear that she did not want to become a mother.
I definitely felt a lot of emotions while watching this K-drama. This drama, in my opinion, says a lot about itself because it inspired me to learn more about the autism spectrum and to discover that there are roughly five types.

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2 baddies nct

best show ever i love boys over flowers
Hmm, ah

Two baddies, two baddies, one porsche
Two baddies, two baddies, one porsche
I don’t know what you’re saying
Look at the coolness as it is
Money and manner

Uh, one-of-a-kind influence is me
Look in my eyes, yeah
Inside the giraffe painting, I drew move, yeah
Look outside the window, open the door
Right now, yeah
I gotta go time is gold
We are the next, yeah
We pulling up, and we cutting the line
If it doesn’t shine, it isn’t mine
At the right timing, the sign reveals
Open the keys, open the mind
Too fast ㅠㅠ
Movement is blues clues
Everybody jealous
Try and follow if you can new rules

(oh) stand against the dangerous thoughts (oh)
This time, I’m not gonna be shy (oh)

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Inesperado

Eu não dava nada pra essa série, por ela ser da Mame e low budget, mas acabou me surpreendendo demais. O casal principal é muito fofo, e o desenvolvimento deles foi bem gostosinho de ver. O casal secundário fez TUDO por mim. Elas são muito lindas e gracinha. Os dois relacionamentos são muito saudáveis com muita compreensão mútua e cumplicidade. Eu absolutamente AMEI a união do gays e das lésbicas contra a homofobia.
Tem um tom meio novela mexicana, o que me fez pensar como seria lindo se a gente tivesse novelas lgbt desse jeito, esses produtores estão perdendo muito conteúdo que só lgbt pode oferecer.
Os pontos que eu tirei foi porque o Sailom enrolou demais pra falar pro Nuea o que estava acontecendo pro menino não ficar se sentindo tão mal e não se sentisse culpado. Ele complicou as coisas de graça, e não tem nem explicação pra isso. Acabei passando raiva :P
Achei interessante o contraste disso com as lésbicas, que falam tudo uma pra outra toda hora, e decidiam tudo juntas, conversando sempre.

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