WATCHED ❜24

✦ MARCH 27TH

✦ I enjoyed this just as much as I thought I would. I liked that this drama was shorter and more focused on a strong female perspective. She wants something more for herself beyond the typical path laid for her by Joseon customs. 

✦ APRIL 12TH

✦ "We should be the ones who understand each other the most.... This world is ugly for labeling us based on our appearances. But we should not be ugly like that."
OVERALL, I really really enjoyed this adaptation! I thought it was really well done and I truly enjoyed watching this story again from another country's take on it (ෆ˙ᵕ˙ෆ)♡

✘ APRIL 17TH

✘ EP 1 – this story started interesting, but its just not working for me right now

✦ APRIL 20TH

✦ “Let me tell you one thing. Mars is not your friend, nor a hero.”
It's a teen angst / fight-the-system / mystery dorama. I liked the themes of friendship, change, and looks-can-be-deceiving. Overall, I wish school dramas would stop with the trope that "all adults are evil"

✘  EP 8 – I really liked this drama, butI have a bad habit of dropping a drama as soon as the main couple gets together.

⏯ EP 1 [1/4]  – I didn't get into this right away, but I want to look back at it later

✘  EP 4 – It is cute, and I could be interested in more, but it is a bit too silly. 

✦ SEPTEMBER 10TH

✦ A pretty sweet, solid story. It has a simple sense of love that take place in 1996.  In the end, there's a feeling left with the audience where we know the couple will be ok.
Basically, the couple just keeps going back and forth on trains, just missing each other on the Mid-Autumn Festival. Eventually the have a small break and reach each other in the end, very breifly before they have to go back to work in their separate towns.

✦ SEPTEMBER 12TH

✦ the title is aptly named as this is such a sweet drama ♡ Super sweet! Nagatsuma Reo's character (Kaji Yusuke) said some really romantic things

✦ SEPTEMBER 12TH

✦ I actually love how short this drama is and the acting is quite good. There is still plenty of chemisty and funny moments. I almost wish it was longer, but its good for what it is.  By the end there were a lot of plot holes, but nothing that bothered me too much. I am basically just rating this on how funny it was and how cute the MC was.

⏯ EP 1 – I was excited to see this actress in something a bit serious. I just need to get into the story more and look past the bad wigs maybe? 

✦ SEPTEMBER 16TH

✦ the silliest, fluffiest drama this year!  All the classic, cliche tropes but it's done in pretty original way with a reformed ex-con and a children's content creator. 

✘  EP 6 – Its just ok. Its definitely watchable... its just everything about it is average. The story is average, chemistry is average, and production is average. He's deaf and can only hear the music she plays. 

✘  EP 6

⏯ EP 8 – I love that its based on one of my favorite kdramas, "Master's Sun"

✦ OCTOBER 5TH

✦ A total scam AND complete manipulaton! The kind of mystery that feels a little like an Agatha Cristie novel. 6 people need to figure out their connection to one man and his possible death.  AH! What a TWIST!! (end of ep6) THEY ALL LIED! Yes Fei Kei also swindled them of there money, but they were all not without fault themselves.
• Overall, in they end they make me think this was based on a true story in the end. Three of them got a prison sentence, while the rest went back to their lives.
• I loved her final monologue:  "But Li Zerui, life isn't a race. Life has no gold medals."

✦ OCTOBER 9TH

✦ Nothing is as cute as this! But I do wish it was longer..

✦ NOVEMBER 21TH

✦ I love when the FL is asked to be the bodyguard, but.. 1,500 years is a long time. I don't know that I understood the relationship much..  

• EP 11 [14] – I got a spoiler that says they don't end up together in the end so I just skipped to the last ep. Honeslty, it wasn't that bad. In senerios like this it does make sense that they don't end up together.

✘ EP 23 – Main Leads romance is a bit too melodramatic at times, especially around episode 22/23, so I dropped it for that reason.

✘ EP 8 – There is too much LYING in this drama!! Plus the story itself isn't all that interesting.

✘ EP 1 – Terrible! imo if they were going to continue the story again they should have started from the beginning with this new cast. I wasnt emotionally invested enough for them to just pick back up where they left off. 

✘ EP 4 – This ended up being not for me, but the actors are cute and their chemistry was good. 

✘ EP 5 – the amount of lying in this drama is a bit unbearable!

✘ EP 3 – I didnt like the acting or chemistry

✘ EP 20 – there were ultimately many reasons I dropped this, but the action scenes were very well done

⏯  EP 1 – the visuals and music have no business being so amazing! I just dont want to continue watching for now. 

✦ DECEMBER 14TH

✦ I love pretty much everything about this drama! This was my favorite drama of the year, as it was just so relatable and cozy to watch. 

⏯  EP 2 – not really into this "enemies"-to-lovers story, especially when there were so many great dramas with the same theme this year.

✘ EP 3 – not really into this, couldnt get invested right away. There was quite a bitof confussion as to what was happening in the story. 

✘ EP 16 – I heard the ending was very sad, so I dont want to continue to the end

✘ EP 8 – Not in love with the acting or chemistry, even feels pretty unbelivable to me

⏯  EP 12

⏯  EP 2

⏯ EP 2 – I dont love the concept. I just dont think this is for me.

⏯ EP 4 – a little confusing, but has an interesting premise

✦ DECEMBER 28TH

✦ A really cool rescue drama!

✦ DECEMBER 29TH

✦ Incredible from start - to - finish!

✦ DECEMBER 30TH

✦ Another perfect adaptation!

❂ EP 1

❂ EP 4

❂ EP 8

❂ EP 3

❂ EP 20

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