Meet the fearless Le Sserafim

Le Sserafim is one of those rare groups that keeps me coming back for more. Honestly, I get tired of songs pretty easily and after a dozen plays or so, I usually remove them from my playlist. But they debuted back in May and I still listen to their mini album almost everyday. However, even though I've been absolutely obsessed with their music since debut, I couldn't really find the time to get to know the members a little better. I'm a 27 year old who loves kpop, but like pretty much everyone my age, I have a job and responsibilities that usually get in the way of binge watching all the content kpop groups release all the time.
Once I saw this on YouTube, I had to check out more about the group that completely won over my ears (and heart) in 2022. It's a pretty easy watch, only four 20-minute episodes, so it's perfect for fans who don't have a lot of time in their hands.
I really enjoyed the honest and emotional approach the documentary has, it made me appreciate these girls, and idols in general, much more. It's not an easy job AT ALL, it may seem glamourous and all, but idols work so hard and they go through so much, from endless exhausting practice sessions to dealing with the public eye and judgement, they really stuggle, and the documentary showed all of that in a very touching manner.
I love how they showed that basically all members had the option to not choose this life, Chaewon and Sakura could have just enjoyed the fame and money from their IZ*ONE days, Kazuha could have persued a career in ballet, Yunjin could have stayed in the USA and gone to college, Eunchae could've carried on being a regular student and stayed in her comfort zone being so young and all, but they were all FEARLESS and worked super hard to debut as Le Sserafim. I'm definitely a Fearnot from now on.

PS: Imagine all the trouble they went through to delete Kim Garam from everything? No idea how they pulled that off, but the editing team deserves a lot of praise.

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Maybe I'm not used to lakorns, but... what was this show?

Wow, I can't believe I forced myself to finish this. The acting is horrendous (main actors are okay, but supporting cast is just cringy), the plot is super boring and FL is a huge pain in the ass. I don't even understand how she had 4 guys falling for her when she was nothing but rude and annoying all the time. I was hoping she would have some character development, but until the very end she was still the most immature FL I've ever seen ( I swear I've seen many teen and even child characters who were more mature than her).
Yes, this was my first non-BL lakorn and maybe that is just the way they act or write their stories, but still it's a no no for me. I finished this because I love cats, I don't like dropping dramas and the first few episodes were kind of fun, which gave me hope for some improvement, but boy was I wrong... They even suggest/mention/joke about zoophilia multiple times, which was off putting and unnecessary.
The "relationship" between the cat and FL lead was the one with the most chemistry, and the only moments when FL was... bareable (not likable, I wouldn't go that far). ML was sweet and funny, though he didn't sweep me off my feet, he certainly was way too good for FL.
Many loose ends (like the ML's health condition), the plot is a mess and uninteresting. I'm way too nice to give this lakorn the score it deserves, so I'm giving it a 4. Rewatch value is 0, I don't see how anyone would hate themselves enough to put themselves through the torture of watching this show for a second time.

Edit: I've watched other lakorns after this and now I can tell for sure that they are not usually this bad, actually some of them are amazing, with great stories and great acting. The problem is this one right here. Yikes.

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