Kiss Sixth Sense (2022)

Sixth sense or no sense?

My feelings for Kiss Sixth Sense are definitely mixed. On one hand, I thought that Yoon Kye Sang and Seo Ji Hye delivered formidable performances here as our main leads as well as surprisingly engaging onscreen chemistry. However while I was impressed with our main leads’ performances, I’ll be honest by saying that the writing and some of the casting choices felt poorly done at times.

First of all, I have to say that I’ve never read the webcomic . I have associates and friends who have done so and having briefly skimmed through some chapters, I can see where their opinions on the differences between the series and the live action drama come into play. One big thing that seemed to bug those that read the webcomic a lot after seeing some episodes or scenes of the drama came through casting choices.

Now as I’ve said beforehand, I can’t entirely base my personal opinions on these differences but even as someone who only has a loose grasp of the webcomic and characters, I have to say that I can see where these views come from. Don’t get me wrong. I have no issue with casting older actors into specific roles or playing younger characters and in many ways, this can offer viewers with some brilliant performances. However although I did think that the acting was pretty good across the board, I have to agree that there were a couple of casting choices here and there which did feel a little mismatched against the personalities/ personas of certain onscreen characters. Not saying it was bad to choose these actors but it did feel a bit starkly presented that some casting choices weren’t always chosen with the characters in mind.

Now that I’ve discussed one of my biggest peeves with the show, I guess that I should probably discuss a little about the writing and continuity. In all honesty I didn’t think the writing was entirely bad per say early on. It was cliche in parts but I actually think that the writing team did a good job with setting up the main leads and building up their onscreen dynamic to use in later episodes. However it did seem to me that in later episodes, the writing almost took a back seat and let the writing steer off course slightly.

What I mean by this is to say that the writing felt a little chaotic in later episodes with the writing team attempting to quickly resolve as many plot points as possible without always necessarily thinking about whether this would be something the characters in mind would do or act upon. For example what started off with a good dynamic between our leads descended into a cliche affair of events which while having a final resolution, felt overly predictable or poorly put together. I think that I share a lot of viewers’ thoughts regardless of whether you liked or didn’t like the show when I say that the ending felt a bit rushed and lacked a little clarity here and there.

The filming of the series was fairly good. I wouldn’t say that it really stood out and inspired me but it was pretty decent to watch. Maybe my one complaint here could’ve been that the show felt a little dull at times despite its genre mix, something the film and editing crew could’ve definitely intertwined into the onscreen narrative and animated to life a bit more.

The OST of the series was probably on the same level as the filming. It was decent and there were a couple of tracks like "Fantasy" by Suran and "You're Like Americano” by Yuju that you will maybe find yourself humming along to or tapping your fingers to the beat, but apart from that, it was pretty sub par in my opinion.

Overall Thoughts; Kiss Sixth Sense is what I define as probably an above-average drama. It was not terrible by any stretch of the imagination and there a lot of positives about the show like our main leads and elements of fantasy here and there ( though not encompassing the series) but it’s hard to really define a lot of outstanding marks with the show. The casting choices felt a bit mismatched, the writing did feel rushed at times and the filming and OST were pretty sub par. I think that someone is going into this show for a mindless and disengaging binge watch or isn’t too bothered by the quality of a series then Kiss Sixth Sense is probably ideal but for me, I have to say that this series was a bit of a time waster. Definitely a 7.0/10 for me.

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So much potential for nothing.

Oh boy, here we go. Buckle in guys, apparently I have a lot to say.

The first couple episodes of this show were so close to perfection that I was very excited to see where it was going to go, only for there to be so much promise that went literally nowhere. At the start I was in full ship mode, on pins and needles waiting for her premonition to come true; but by the time it did, I just didn't care anymore.

My gut reaction is to say that the show should have been longer, but in all honestly 12 episodes would have been perfect if every minute had been utilised properly. There were so many unnecessary side plots that should have been done away with to give the actual storyline more room to breathe - i.e. the girl in the team who felt unappreciated, the new guy who was filming a youtube video or something? (I don't even know.) The writers really should have trimmed the fat and just kept the meat of the story.

It took too long for the pair to actually get together and so the rest of the main plot was rushed. The whole miscommunication aspect went on for far too long and if the cute parts of their relationship had happened in the first half of the show, they would have had plenty of time to flesh out the rest of the story. Instead the last two/three episodes felt out of left field - especially that finale which was basically just an info dump to get us to the HEA. Let's not even touch that last half an hour because wtf.

It didn’t help that the main relationship wasn’t all that interesting. In the beginning when Hong Ye Sul had the premonition of them having sex, that was H O T. But then the way they got together felt so cold and calculating. It didn’t feel like she was attracted to him at all, instead she was just going through the motions because she knew that was going to happen anyway. And I didn’t like how Min Hu’s character basically did a complete 180 once they got together properly.

Lee Pil Yo and Oh Ji Young were literally the most horrific pair of second leads I’ve seen in my kdrama journey thus far (usually there's at least one that I like). Every second they were on screen I just wanted them to get run over by a speeding truck. Their jealousy should have definitely ended earlier in the series which also would have given them room to grow as people. And yet, I liked their ending better than the main couple? Go figure.

This show felt like a melting pot where everything the writers could think of was added in, and not enough time was dedicated to the stuff that really mattered. The final episode took me impossibly long to finish as I found myself pausing just to scroll aimlessly through my phone. And I really need to reiterate, that last half an hour was an absolute shock to the system. Definitely won't be rewatching and am unlikely to recommend.

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How to ruin an otherwise okay show

I loved the main couple throughout most of the show. I especially liked the more mature skinship for a change. They were lovely together through most of the drama. I'm a sucker for "we knew each other as children" storylines, if they are managed well.
Yoon Kye Sang was very good as Min Hoo.
Seo Ji Hye was lovely as Ye Sul. She is stunning and captivating to watch. The scenes when they were together and laughing were a joy to watch.
I enjoyed watching Tae In Ho as the doctor. In everything I've seen him in, he plays a complete jerk, so this was a nice change.

Problems for me:
2ML. He seemed desperate and needy and cared only about his own feelings. This wanna be triangle went on too long.
2FL. He told her repeatedly that he thought of her as a sister, she didn't care. This wanna be triangle also went on too long, and her crying and carrying on was irritating.
FL was too wishy washy. I got the feeling she couldn't decide who she liked.
Hwang Bo Ra as one of the office workers, Ye Sul's friend. I normally like this actress because of her quirkiness. In this she was just extremely irritating.
The doctor's storyline. Dating someone for a week. That storyline made no sense, and it showed up periodically to fill time.

But the absolute worst, and what made me drop my rating like a rock:
Did a different writer write the last episode?! A serious drama suddenly turned into a farce, with physical humor and by turning the main characters into caricatures! These were not the same two people that we watched fall in love and I was SO irritated!

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Just OK

This gotta be my least favorite drama I've watched so far.
I kept watching because I thought it would get better but never really did.
The concept is something but it was poorly executed.
I loved the FL in crash landing on you but here, I don't think she has much personality here. She's sometimes funny and adorable but I think she needs to pick better projects next time.

I think she would be far more better against a ML who had charisma and funny. The ML is is not that good either.
He and the FL didn't have much chemistry at all.
I'm not sure why she even fell in love with him. Just because she could see the future doesn't mean that future should be absolute and he was a jerk throughout most of the show.

The ML is fairly older than the the FL although not that much. It seems like they knew it might be awkward so they came up with a system for them not to kiss much lol but they had some few kissing scenes here and there though.
But them as a couple absolutely didn't know specially since he has been a jerk for more than half of the episodes to her.

There isn't anyone here who stands out. Everyone is just OK.
No one is charming or funny.
No one is interesting.

Also episode 11 and 12 are awful.
The end of episode 12 was so laughably bad.
Both leads ended up acting so comical and weird just because they lost their powers
I'm not sure what they were even trying there. I just couldn't believe my eyes. They kept yelling at each other and acted out of characters.

It really dragged on with some stupid back stories and tropes that I really hate.
Random murderer /killer or whatever. The leads knew each other when they were little and stuff, just Stupid.

There's one actress I really liked in this show. It's the chick that's after the ML. I think she should have been the lead instead of the FL even though I like the FL. She's 38 btw. Absolutely stunning woman.
But the other actress definitely would have made the show more fun.
I definitely won't remember this show tomorrow.

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Entertaining!!!

The stories never bored, you may curious episode by episode. I don't know the story in webtoon but I don't think this is an exaggeration. The plot was good, maybe if you haven't read the webtoon, no one will think it's related to their childhood.
The actor and actrees are so good in acting. Visual, editing, sound, the proportion of scene by scene not too much, it's good enough. Fantasy, romance and comedy are in good package! I just watched it but I really enjoyed it. I think the choice of watching this drama marathon is the right choice for me who is always curious. Very entertaining! Must watch and must rewatch!

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Cada um deve fazer o seu próprio destino.

“Talvez não estejamos destinados um ao outro. Teremos que continuar brigando e nos desculpando. Nós mesmo escreveremos nosso destino.”

O Dorama é bom, mas acredito que precisaria mais de dois capítulos pra concluir bem. Achei que no final, pela correria, as coisas não foram bem desenvolvidas. Tanto pra história do principal, como para os personagens secundários. Foi tão corrido o final pra poder explicar a história do casal, que coisas secundárias, que são relevantes para história , ao meu ver, não foram bem desenvolvidas. O que pra mim foi uma pena, pois a história tinha muito potencial. Até mesmo o enredo do “vilão” poderia ter sido melhor abortado.

Soube que é baseado num webtom, depois vou ver se consigo encontrá-lo.

Pois bem, gostei muito da química do casal, os atores me encantaram muito, e tiveram uma parceria ótima. Na verdade todos os casais tinham uma execelente química. E conseguiram me arrancar boas risadas.

E o que o corte de cabelo não faz com um homem em? Ele simplesmente se transformou, kkk.

É interessante a história dos poderes dele, a explicação que eles poderiam ter surgidos para eles se salvarem vazia muito sentido, só fiquei meio assim no final. Deu a entender que ela recuperou, o que daria margem para um continuação da história. Se não vai ter uma segunda temporada não curto quando um enredo termina assim aberto. Pois o que dá entender: ela recuperou, então eles vão ter que enfrentar mais desafios.

Vi que muitas pessoas não curtiram o final. Acredito que pelo fato deles brigarem muito. Mas que casal não briga? kkk E eles começaram um processo que perderam seus poderes, então tudo era novo para eles, pois querendo ou não eles viviam anos a base dos mesmos, então fazia parte da personalidade de cada um. E não vamos negar que os dois personagens possuíam personalidades fortes. Acho que as brigas deles, tornava tudo humano e real, pois são brigas cotidianas que existem na realidade. E como ela mesmo fala no final: eles agora tem que escrever o destinos deles, não mais baseados em suas visões.

No mais é um dorama que vale muito a pena ver, pena que é pouco comentado.

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Disappointment At The End.

This story intrigue me. They both had special power because of an accident. The lead characters are great. The story is really good and it even had a few twist and turn that surprises you. But the ending disappointed me. The way they hated each other because their powers was gone just totally did not fit with the story. Is like they lost their powers and the devil got into them with lots of hate for each other. I can't believe after all the years with the power that they did not get to learn about themselves and then about each other. The ending did not fit. It seem like they were in a hurry to finish the story and put no thought about the ending.

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Good till it wasn't

The beginning was what attract me. I like it all
However by the 7 ep it was introduced the murdering line, not necessary. But we can deal with it if it blossom the couples feelings.

But after everything the couple went through, the ML hurt himself more then once for the FL, they behaved like child by the end. It didn't make sense at all.

I mean, ok not to romantize so much the relationship between two workaholics, but throwing the breaking up card every single time doesn't sound mature at all.
And what about her powers? Did it come back? Was it the only way to them to be together? Wasn't she going to do everything she could to set her on destiny?

Let's not romantize a relationship where the woman is too insecure and the man has to support it all. Let's make them go to therapy. Because it is not healthy

It is good, till it wasn't.

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Compelling premise, started strong, but then fell apart in the last episodes

8/10 is my rating. Is a 2022 South Korean Supernatural Romantic Comedy with 12, 60-75 minute episodes.

First I will provided a synopsis the review.

Synopsis

Hong Ye-sool (Seo Ji-hye) is a hard working unit lead in an advertising agency. She works so hard she gets nose bleeds and is accident prone but still her boss, Cha Min-hoo (Yoon Kye-sang) nit picks every project she works on. Others think he shows favoritism to her and gives her the best opportunities. Their situation is very confusing to Ye-sool who just wants to get ahead in her career in a very competitive industry. Her personal life is a mess as she has a sixth sense that allows her to see the future when her lips touch another person. Specifically, she can see the future surrounding herself and that person but not when the event will happen. When she accidentally kisses her boss, she is beyond confused when she sees a future where they are together romantically. With the way he treats her on a daily basis, that vision does not make any sense to Ye-sool. While she is reeling from confusion her ex-boyfriend, famous director Lee Pil-yo (Kim Ji-seok) shows up hoping for a second chance with the woman he still has feelings for. But she has seen her future with him and it was the reason she broke up in the first place. All of this leads her to wonder is she seeing the future that will inevitably happen or are the action she takes as a result of her visions the cause of that future?

Review
I really liked the premise of this. Kissing someone or having your lips touch someone and seeing the future - that pulled me in. And he has some kind of super sensory super-power? I though wow! what's that all about. And the first episodes where he was the overly mean boss, she had ended relationships based on things she was in the future, and they are in this high powered add agency, all of that was very interesting. And it was clear they would get together but, in those earliest episodes, it was hard to imagine how. He was over the top mean to her at times. It reminded me of that old idiom about the boy who picks on the girl liking her. I don't subscribe to that because anyone that acts like that to me is too immature to be worth anyone's time. I really liked her ex-boyfriend, Pil-yo, and could not understand why she seemed to be leaning toward her mean, demanding boss. Slice of life is always interesting to me and getting some insight into what it is like to be a lead on a big add project was something I had not seen before. So there were a lot of things to pull me in and reasons to recommend others watch it. The male lead could be very attractive at times and, when he was being nice it made him more attractive, I thought. But, of the two I thought Pil-yo was more attractive and it was likely due to the fact he seemed to be consistently nice.

Spoilers*

Early in the series, Ye-sool was this kind, competent woman who was friendly and liked by her co-workers it seemed. The set mishaps and all the accidents between the two leads that triggered her visions and his super sensory were interesting. The way he completely avoided her was amusing. When we got the back-story of her break-up I thought, even though, but how does she know she can't change that future? I also thought perhaps it wasn't what she thought it was. Maybe he is just around a woman with a child but it's not his. When it came out later that was indeed the case and that he had waited three years to prove to her that things weren't what she thought they were, it was heart breaking. I had serious second lead syndrome. But usually there is something that makes you think her choice was the better one, at least for her. But in this case, I never saw anything about him or their relationship that indicated she made the better choice. He was consistently sweet and awesome to her. I liked and could tell there was something developing between him and the actress. They had that playful flirty energy going on. And I actually found that story more heart-warming than the main story. I also liked her cousin and the doctor and found their relationship very believable and cute. I found myself wanting to know more about those side romances than the main romance. I liked their secret romance at work and all the signals they came up with that used his special abilities. That was cute and funny. But then they really drove her whole vision of Ye-sool and Min-hoo having a steamy sexual encounter into the dirt. It made no sense to me that, after all the build-up, they had already been together before that happened. Then, the fact they went to so much effort to create all the circumstances surrounding it, to effectively make her vision come true was weird. It became like a fetish between them. And added nothing to the story at that point.

I agree with others that said the whole killer angel was put in awkwardly. There were so many ways they could have had a tragic accident in the past that would have given them abilities that some super stalker just seemed unnecessary. If they had kept that as an element the whole time, all these creepy encounters or something it would have been different, but it felt like they basically threw elements of it in at random junctures. Logic did not follow that this man would have killed her husband and she would choose to hide the details from her daughter. She knew he was not only obsessed with her but also delusional in thinking Ye-sool was his daughter. So the fact that he was able to stay so close to Ye-sool as a friend/confidant did not make sense. There was also the instance where they moved into a new house and Ye-sool was lost and that is how she met Min-hoo and most would assume they made this sudden move to get away from the stalker but that was never stated. And they spent very little time showing him actually stalking them before he is just suddenly in the house and murders the dad. So then they go to the USA but there is nothing about how that was significant or why and when Ye-sool came back. Lots of disjointed elements around the whole stalker story.

There were also character inconsistencies. Ye-sool goes from this somewhat demure, kind person that gets along with everyone to some unreasonable harpy after they start dating. She picks fights with him and seems to enjoy serial break-ups. They were so sweet together when they were younger that relationship built on constant conflict did not make any sense. They both were so careful about how they presented themselves in the office that their very public fights and shows of affection made no sense. It was funny on one hand but very disturbing on the other. It would be completely inappropriate behavior for any workplace and their big boss seemed to have very strict standards for professional behavior. I felt embarrassed for them and uncomfortable for their co-workers. She also became this hyper critical, mean-spirited lead and that did not make sense with her earlier character. She hated when Min-hoo was that way with her so for her to "grow up" as a leader and act like that made all the build-up earlier non-sensical. The fact they are both so hard to work with they can hardly find a director, you wouldn't last long in their profession if that was the case.

It was the first time I felt like rooting for a couple to split. Their constant fighting, breaking up and getting back together made for such a toxic relationship I felt like just quit it already. It was funny but cringy because anyone that acts like that should not be with the other person. On the plus side it did help me get over the second lead syndrome because I felt happy for him he escaped the completely toxic harpy. I did not feel she was fair to him anyway, if she loved Pil-yo as she indicated earlier, you would not have let something like that break you up. You would have tried to change that future or at least talked to him about it. They also did not give us much build up with them as a couple. We only saw a few snippets of them together happy then some crazy break-up.

My daughter read the web toon and said they deviated quite a bit from that. It isn't always bad they do that but, in this case, the deviations made less sense and made the story less engaging. In the webtoon she was always nice she said. It was a traffic accident that brought them together. Just a lot of things she said that made the story less grating. So, I think it would be worth reading the webtoon for comparison.

I recommend this just not as a top recommendation. It is interesting and has its high points but don't expect the romance to be heart-warming. Like seriously, at minimum they need a couple's counselor.

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Interesting concept, got a bit lost in the end

This drama started out really well. All the romantic tropes you could ask for where there. Enemies to lovers, Boss in love with employee, Childhood friends, a mysterious curse only their love can solve, a tragic accident resulting in memory loss, a second male lead that's too good for the female lead...

The storyline and concept in of itself is really interesting. Sadly, I don't think they used it to it's full potential. But let' get to the good things first. The biggest surprise for me was how open they talk about sex and it being a big plot device without making the show explicit. Yesool is going through her horny era in this drama for sure. It's not handled awkwardly as if it's a bad thing but rather naturally. I really enjoyed that.
Secondly is the last episode. I won't spoil it, but I've never seen a last episode like that one. Personally I wasn't a fan of that kind of dynamic, especially because it seemed that Minho's character made a 180. But I can see the directors/writers intention behind it.
This brings me to my biggest criticism. I honestly kind of disliked Minho's character. I try not to hold every character to a super high standard, but he treated her kind of shitty up to the 5th episode or so.. he worked her to the BONE only because she had a boyfriend? We never actually got closure on that. That's also why I never came around to liking him. His character development just suddenly happened. They gave us some loose backstory, but it never really clicked for me.

The acting was very good tough. I loooove that they casted Yoon Kye Sang for this. He was born in '78, so OUT with the baby faced male lead that somehow has an executive position at 23 y/o and IN with the 44 y/o who might actually has worked his way up. The dialogue overall was fun, as well as the main leads chemistry. I enjoyed watching them figure each other out.

In the end it seems like they tried to come up with a drama that has everything and smushed as many tropes into it as they could and then attempted to counter those with some sub plots when they should've focused on the main plot. They left sooo many loose ends and the resolve of the mystery of their powers felt like an afterthought and honestly kind of lazy. The first half was good, but they unfortunately lost me in the second half a little bit.

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