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Boring had to drop it

I started this series because I like the FL Zhao Li Ying (Prince Agents) and Luo Jin (Princess Wei Young). While this is a far departure from typical dramas of the city life, the village life is still an intriguing plot/storyline to explore. However this series was painfully boring. Aside from the FL who did a good job, every other character was so annoying and boring to watch. I just could not get into this series at all. Made it to episode 5 (with lots of skipping) to when Luo Jin finally makes an appearance. But even then, his appearance did not make the series more engaging.

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One of the most toxic "fixes" to mental illness I've ever seen.

SUMMARY
This drama glosses over the severity of mental illness by presenting it as something momentary that you can get over in a minute. It overestimates a mentally ill persons abilities to recover from it and it never encourages medical or professional help as it never recognizes suicidal tendencies as part of a severe illness in the first place.

It's unaware of the different diagnosis it's presenting symptoms of which becomes a problem as it treats every case similarly. Insult the person and tell them to become stronger, give them a near death experience, encourage them with words and then the person is cured and will never try to commit suicide again. An extremely damaging and unrealistic approach to encourage people to use on suicidal or suffering individuals. Even if the approach would consist of only positive encouragement, the writers are still not recognizing that this needs medical attention once the person has survived their first suicide attempt.

This drama was created to spread awareness and lower the stigma around mental health issues but instead, what this drama is basically doing is encouraging and validating the toxic out look Korean people have on mental illness and invalidating the suffering and trauma, individuals had to go through to become suicidal.

I also don't understand the writers choice to encourage traumatizing or destroying the "bullies" lives as a punishment for their actions. A study shows that the most likely reason a person becomes a bully is because they have been deprived of a safe space and are suffering from severe trauma or stress. This is a very important detail the show could have brought up. No matter what choices you made in life, if you're suffering from mental illness you should be offered help. Considering that the bully went on to become a public figure, someone who has constant pressure, stress and hate directed at them daily, they're probably in a really bad mental state already and has now, for sure, become more likely to develop suicidal thoughts because of the RM team. Very counter productive for a team that is supposed to lower Koreas suicide rate. This also means that they're spreading a message that you deserve to suffer if I believe you're a bad person even if you too, are a victim of mental illness.


LONG REVIEW
Korea carries one of the worlds highest suicide rates in the world.

Why?

To name only a few reasons; The Korean society was built to perfectly mimic survival of the fittest. Escaping the bottom of the pyramid is nearly impossible and accidentally sliding off the top is a daily risk. People are expected from an early age to become number one at everything but in a country of roughly 52 million people, only one can become number one and everyone else has to fight for the left over money the top 1% hasn't pocketed yet. Being valued at such a surfaced level, the fear, the stress and the pressure is a sure way to cause mental deterioration, so how do people deal with it?

Frankly speaking, they don't.

In Korea, mental illness is not being taken as seriously as it should and a lot of people don't understand what it entails. It's misrepresented in the media too often and constantly associated with insanity, weakness or danger. It's highly stigmatized, looked down upon and going to therapy to get help is still a taboo.

And this drama embodied that toxic mentality perfectly.

The job of the Risk management team is to find suicidal individuals, figure out why they are suicidal and then convince them not to end themselves. And although this drama does a great job with presenting traumatic events, trauma, PTSD and depression it doesn't know that it's doing it and that's a problem. It's a problem because the solution presented to solve the issue at hand minimizes the severity of the situation and enforces the toxic mentality that so many Koreans have when it comes to mental illness. "Just change your attitude and you'll be fine".

Sadly, that's not how it works.

If a person is considering suicide, it's not an impulse thought. In most cases, people have to go through an immense amount of pain and suffering before the thought of not existing enters their mind. And then the thought of not existing becomes comforting. Once it's comforting it usually stays just a thought for most people. "I don't want to exist. I want to die. But I wont." For a person to be pushed beyond this, it takes a lot of additional torment. The comfort of not existing encourages a curiosity in how one could leave this world and then these option make a plan. Lastly, the plan is executed and that's it.

So why does suicide become an option?
It's not because of self pity and it's not because life after death is expectedly better. If a person chooses suicide it's most likely because this person has suffered enough depression that their mental state has been completely reprogrammed into feeling only self loath, misery and loss of importance. Any positive emotion has been unlearned by the brain and any attempted at relearning them will feel fruitless. You're not feeling sorry for yourself but you're feeling sorry for everyone around you that has to put up with your shit. You feel bad because you don't deserve to be here since you're not doing any good for the world anyway and because of your current situation, you're becoming a burden to the ones who once loved you, but don't love you anymore. Of course they don't love you anymore. You don't love you anymore.

Now, with all of this in mind, how good of an idea do you think it is to tell a person standing on the edge of a roof top to "do better", "get over it", "get stronger", "don't be so weak", "You put yourself here"? And how possible would it be that the suicidal person is already thinking it?

How probable do you think it is that putting this person in a near death situation will suddenly change their mind and make them want to live?

How much of an impact do you think making them laugh once (if even possible at all) and then telling them to "smile more" will have on their life?

It would have the same impact as telling a person in a wheel chair to get up and walk it off.

Just like any physical illness, healing takes time. And in severe cases it can take a life time. It takes doctor visits, check ups, diagnosis, medicine, rehabilitation, work, love, support, motivation and all of this might still not be a permanent prevention of having suicidal tendencies. It's a never ending battle between life and death and you need a strong motivator to be willing to put up with such a long lasting fight under such unfavorable circumstances and not be tempted to just give up.

If you've made it this far into my review I want to know if any of these things that I have written about mental illness was communicated to you in any way through this drama.
- Did you realize the severity of the characters mental health issues and what they might be suffering from?
- Where you in anyway informed of how much treatment and work these characters are going to have to go through now that they survived their first suicide attempt?
- Were you presented with what that hard work and struggle might look like?
- Did they ever mention that having a diagnosis is okay?
- Did they ever encourage getting help from professionals?
- Did they ever validate that the people they saved were sick?
- Did you realize that the "bullies" were suffering from mental illness as well?

Personally, nothing I have listed here were things I felt like the drama communicated well.

And the reason I'm asking this is because this drama wasn't made for people suffering from sever mental illness. Those who are still trying to get treated don't want to relive their nightmares through other characters and then be invalidated because they still don't know how to handle things. The people who have gotten treatment don't need to be educated on what to do cause they're already aware of what they need. So the only audience left to influence are the people who either don't suffer from mental illness, or the ones who have untreated mental illness and aren't seeking help for it.

And for those people, I would never recommend watching this drama.

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DISRESPECTFUL AND RACIST DRAMA. TAKE IT DOWN AND APOLOGIZE!

"You look like a Filipino maid" some says that it was mistranslated but it still remains the same. Your Racism towards Filipinos remains the same. You Chinese citizen are mad if people from other country disrespect you. You even forced a 15 year old girl to apologize for holding the flag of her own country wherein she was raised, what an unreasonable monsters. You would even backlash and send all the hates towards that person. but now, you did something very very very wrong that you should apologize for. To be honest, east-asian racism towards South east-asian is so normalized people never talk about it AT ALL. NOW, APOLOGIZE SINCERELY TO FILIPINOS. What that translator did is such a shameful act. Take down your trash drama now. It's not even worth watching. TRASH.

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Over acting Overloaded

everyone is High
over acting level just sky rocketed

Story of childhood creepy girl turn Celeb
Since when ML started to like that annoying girl who caused his first love end,
SML is shown as crazy but he is just playing regular overbearing CEO most of celeb Cinderella's fall for
CEO and A celebrity couple,
but this FL is no Cinderella she earn her living herself so she doesn't act like gold digger Cinderella
she has her own love and her own choice whom she love,
SML might look Wrong but that is normal for CEOs to do, In most of dramas this is how they get there love
But SML.. dude what is point of getting that annoying girl ? you can marry that girl forcefully but she neither respect nor love you
she know how low you stoop to get her, she will use your weakness as tool to control you manipulate you
SML was so pathetic, you should not beg for love
ML was over acting and was show narrow minded about her photo shot,
he is assistant director, this is how he act with his girlfriend but if its someone else that would be fine and he will lecture others about being professional
the way they show her photo shoot it was like all other actress who had nude scenes in movies like Song ji yeo, jeon do yeon and kang han na they all did that under pressure and in need of money not for creating something artistic, this drama insulted there own industry so well,
ML show hypocrisy when he said high praises about actors, who show there beautiful soul to viewers, but now when it come to his girlfriend showing some beauty he act like she sold herself as escort
ML should have chosen a profession that made him so much money, you need to have talent for profession to earn more, it not just choosing what can make you 2million easily
Investment banker, ACTOR, CRYPTO, startup,
ML overacting level can reach moon and beyond that
he is getting drunk by water in the morning that is an amazing talent no other actor poses in at least Korea
and all his love vanishes the moment she told him..... that you are damn poor that you cant even afford to buy a condom so get the hell out of my sight
FL before committing suicide said she did her best, but when did she did her best ? she was living her life selfishly just providing some money to her family recklessly without seeing how they destroying her hard earn money, her free money spoiled her mother to much

WOW shame on you ML,,, other director trusted FL more then him, what a shame love he has for her
ML is one of them who pushed her to her suicide decision, i know you want to blame SML but
TO FL what ML think matter once he refuse to believe her she decide to committed suicide so whole blame is on ML not anyone else
if he had believed her and comforted her she would have lived and problem would have been cleared, but he pushed her to her death so how i am supposed to root for him getting the girl at end he killed once

ML did not believe her when she desperately asked him to do,
but after killing her successfully he want to pretend like he believe her, i find ML more disgusting then creepy SML
first drama ever in which Both ML contributed to downfall of FL they both claim to love and drove her to her death
but she don't die and will come back and merry one of her killer and punish one
GREATEST STORY EVER 1/10 worthy of it....

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I came to watch Goblin because of the blooper and funny moments that I saw on Youtube. I immediately fell in love with the Reaper and Goblin characters without even touching a episode first.
So after seeing those two videos on Youtube I went to watch the first episode.

The story of how Goblin came to be was intriguing and seeing how the Reaper worked had me as well so I became giddy thinking this was going to be an excellent watch.

Man how wrong was I??? The main FL became annoying pretty quick. I was hoping against hope that this wasn't going to be a dimwitted female who will fall in love quickly without having any relationship buildup and there it was....the dimwitted female who quickly falls in love with a guy without having a relationship buildup. It's why I became to hate Korean romance dramas in the first place.
The oozing sappy cliche romances always grate my nerves and I truly steer clear of them. I have, however, watched some Kdramas that had romance in it that was barely tolerable but this one...I felt it was just going to be the same throughout the whole series.

I tried going back to finish the first episode but I just kept pausing and haven't been back since. I can't say anything else about this drama because I barely finished the first episode. From reading other reviews that had the same feelings as me, I don't think I'm missing anything.

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why do they keep making the same story, WITH THE SAME CAST, over and over and over again!!!!!!!! beside the cold, emotionless, self centered, neat freak jerk ML (the only thing missing is face blindness), kdramas either do a childhood connection or a "enemies to lovers" thing, like sometimes bickering is not cute it just makes my blood boil as a viewer and I already wish they don't end up together.
I've suffered through Sunbae Lipsticks horrible repetition with zero plot worth, I won't suffer here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I wanted to watch this for nana but wow that's so boring. like if it was written in 2010s, why won't they even try to modify it to fit 2021?

I mean cliches are fun but if it never went away it's just another boring drama!!!
the ml is SO BAD, beside his monotonal life that doesn't appeal to me whatsoever, this is like the 3rd time Lee Min Ki's been acting as that type of character in a raw, agh I miss his Shut Up: Flower Boy Band role
the fl seems fresh, usually she'd be a crybaby to the jerk, but then it's one of those enemies to lovers thing and they bicker so much it's off putting. which again would be nana's 2nd time as that type of romance
I got curious on the white dude though but the plot doesn't even mention it? anyway this is a drop after the 1st half of ep1

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I wrote a review on this before but I am not sure why mdl keeps deciding to delete my review. We are allowed to write our reviews and this doesn't go against their guidelines. People left similar reviews on longing for you(rightfully so). What was the reason why they decided to add locs??? This show would have been good overall if they hadn't added locs which is a hairstyle that is most definitely not part of their culture. Why is it so hard for people to do their research nowadays? All it takes is a quick Google search to see if it would be offensive or not. If you wanted to put locs, you could have the right person play the character. I am not overreacting and it is a valid issue before anyone comes after me. It's 2023, you would think they would know better but no the same mistakes are being made over and over again and we are supposed to just gloss over it. We need to start holding people accountable for their actions. Not taking the time to do their research and make educated decisions is unacceptable.

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Extremely mediocre with very little plot, the secondary romance though kept me watching for a bit . . .

What else is there to say that hasn't been said already about the primary romance? Male lead takes no action or initiative, Female lead bounces around the edges hoping he will take notice. Doesn't make for great chemistry or interesting watching.

HOWEVER, the secondary romance between Guan Ji and Bi Ruo Shan, is sexy, mature and intriguing. I really liked the intrigue there between two sophisticated people who have dated around. I also bought into the conflict! Two people used to being slick and superficial having trouble being vulnerable makes sense to me. But, in the end, this relationship wasn't given enough screen time to keep me watching . .

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Una simpática serie pero nada más.

Crazy Love, protagonizada por Kim Jae Wook y Krystal Juhn ha sido un descubrimiento interesante pero nada más. La histórica es la típica de cualquier serie romántica coreana que tienen como protagonista a un rico empresario, Noh Go Jin, y una simple trabajadora, Lee Shin A, que vive bajo el terror de su dominante y maleducado jefe.

Puede cambiar a qué se dedica la empresa, es decir, puede ser una empresa farmacéutica, ser un hospital, un conglomerado... lo que te vive en la mente, pero siempre tendrá un presidente muy pagado de si mismo, que no solo es guapo, millonario e inteligente, sino que tiene una personalidad arrolladora que algunos adoran y otros temen. Y siempre habrá una dulce empleada que consigue en amor del presidente siendo ella misma, con su dulzura y sus buenas maneras. Este es el guión típico.

Cuando salió el póster de esta serie parecía que se iba a romper esta tendencia. Teníamos, o eso parecía, una protagonista, Lee Shin A que tenía mal humor, y que podía llegar a ser todo un personaje si llevaba su carácter violento hacía sus últimas y graciosas consecuencias. Pero no ha sido así. Salvo un par de escenas en las que Lee Shin A se muestra agresiva, su carácter es el típico de la comedia romántica. Nada interesante o emocionante en ella.

Con respecto al protagonista es todo un personaje, un auténtico abusón y no le importa serlo. Ahí reside parte de su encanto. Evidentemente a medida que avanzan los capítulos su forma de ser se va suavizando, es lo que tiene el amor. Y es una pena porque en cierta manera sus maneras groseras hacen de él un personaje diferente.

Si juntamos los dos, su amor va de trabajar juntos durante un año a una serie de acontecimientos que cambian la relación. Hay un accidente, una pérdida de memoria, una enfermedad, amigos, antiguos amores, competidores...

He de confesar que me ha gustado el trabajo de Kim Jae Wook -no lo conocía de antes-, y me estoy adaptando a la manera interpretativa de Krystal Jung. No me puedo quejar de las actuaciones aunque algunas de ellas me parecen demasiado forzadas, como la del hermano de Lee, la de su compañera de piso, o la del competidor del Noh Go Kin. Por suerte otros actores son más serenos como Ha Joo o Yoo In Young, así que todo se equilibra un poco.

Pero no puedo negar que esta serie se va desinflando a medida que van pasado los capítulos. La idea original se queda en nada muy pronto. La parte de suspense no se sostiene muy bien porque no está bien desarrollada, y romántica, es demasiado típica.

Creo que en general no es una mala serie, pero, ¿la vería otra vez? No, salvo algún que otra escena graciosa.

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A short review:

Copycat of 'Do It One More Time'- a koreanwebtoon which Has a way better of implementing the characters and comedy, has a way better of touching your hearts. ORIGINAL.

Copycat of 'Do It One More Time'- a koreanwebtoon which Has a way better of implementing the characters and comedy, has a way better of touching your hearts. ORIGINAL.

Copycat of 'Do It One More Time'- a koreanwebtoon which Has a way better of implementing the characters and comedy, has a way better of touching your hearts. ORIGINAL.

Copycat of 'Do It One More Time'- a koreanwebtoon which Has a way better of implementing the characters and comedy, has a way better of touching your hearts. ORIGINAL.

Copycat of 'Do It One More Time'- a koreanwebtoon which Has a way better of implementing the characters and comedy, has a way better of touching your hearts. ORIGINAL.

Copycat of 'Do It One More Time'- a koreanwebtoon which Has a way better of implementing the characters and comedy, has a way better of touching your hearts. ORIGINAL.

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