i have no idea what that was all about

I'm a big fan of the arranged marriage trope but this is just not it. It took me by surprise, but I wasn't mad (at the beginning).

The thing is you can't expect people to keep watching the same scenes for 12 whole episodes.

I became a big fan of the cast after this, not gonna lie. I already knew Zee and I think he, like always, delivered everything with this character. Nunew was a great surprise, along with the actors that play Nuer and Syn. The other couple tho I couldn't stand to watch their scenes together... Their story was so messy (like everything else honestly) and I just felt no chemistry between them :/

About the plot (can we even call it that way?) I don't think there's much left to say really, since everyone else already said it, but one thing that actually bothered me was the fact that they were trying so hard to go like Slayy Go gays!! i mean that final scene with the outdoor????? was that really necessary lmao I think there were better ways of conveying the message.

Finally, like someone already said it, this whole miscommunication plot only works in the end if both parts talk it out and have a change of behavior... I feel like they kept talking all the time but couldn't solve sh*t. like yeah hia lian accepted kuea the way he was but he already knew about everything from the beginning so how does that change anything? and the whole thing with his family going bankrupt ???? that was really just put there to fill some holes and give kuea and lian more reason to argue.

anyway not gonna extend this any longer i'll probably watch season 2 bc of the actors now that i know i can't expect much plot-wise!

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feeling down? this is a must watch! really refreshing

this is the kind of thing you will want to watch if you're having a hard moment or simply bored.

as a college student myself, watching kdramas placed in college makes me really excited! it actually gives me the feeling of "woah, i'm 19 and i should live this moment to the fullest". cheer up wasn't any different.

as someone who also enjoys cheerleading, i was already expecting to like this drama. i got so excited over their massive training and the performances. the outfits were mesmerizing and it all just gave me the feeling of wanting to be happy.

do heyi is the perfect female lead for this type of drama. she's cheerful and funny, never gave up and kept bringing happiness to others (me included). i just couldn't drop this even if i wanted to at some point (we'll get there) because i would miss her screaming + her cringe moments. she might be one of my favorite female leads oat! alongside with eun danoh from extraordinary you (my favorite drama ever) and tang xue from skate into love (witch is also a drama about overcoming difficulties mixed with sports).

the love triangle got me a little frustrated i'm ngl, but i liked how they worked things out at the end (even if i wasn't team jungwoo...) with sunoh still being friends with her and most important caring about jungwoo when he got stabbed. the scene where the two male leads talk over dinner a while after sunoh got rejected made me really satisfied. i feel like not a lot of dramas make this closure happen and i think is really important, specially for this plot. i also liked how everyone else became a couple and it wasn't out of the blue, like all of them already had something going on from the beginning and the chemistry was great.

finally, the only thing actually stopping me from rating this 10/10 is the attempted mystery. like yeah it was kinda thrilling in the first four episodes, but to keep it going on until ep 15? that was a lil too much.... they dragged until they couldn't. i would have enjoyed more if it was just a silly lil drama about silly lil cheerleaders! but as it is, i'm giving 8,5/10

the end actually made me tear up a bit. i liked the message and i felt really motivated after watching every episode, so that's a bonus.

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e o pôr do sol nunca mais foi o mesmo

eu normalmente escrevo minhas reviews em inglês, mas eu não conseguiria nem se tentasse mil vezes encontrar as palavras certas pra falar sobre itsay em outra língua, então pensei que na minha materna talvez fosse mais fácil.

sinceramente, o que dizer? primeiro que eu me arrependo muito de ter demorado tanto pra assistir essa série. eu via as pessoas comentando sobre ela quando lançou e coloquei no fundo da minha mente que deveria assistir assim que tivesse tempo, mas dois anos passaram e eu fui deixando pra lá e acabei esquecendo. por algum motivo no mês passado eu me lembrei dela e foi quando eu decidi dar uma chance.

eu nunca tinha visto uma pessoa sequer fazer uma crítica negativa pra itsay e eu estaria mentindo se dissesse que isso não aumentou muito minhas expectativas, ao mesmo tempo que me deixou com medo, porque se as expectativas são muito altas, as chances de se decepcionar também são maiores. eu não me decepcionei em nenhum momento.

foi difícil pra mim vir aqui escrever isso, porque eu realmente não sabia o que dizer. nada de verdade é realmente o suficiente. a grandeza dessa série nunca vai caber em quaisquer palavras que eu escolher pra escrever aqui, mas não escrever nada parecia pior, então eu vim tentar (quase um mês depois de terminar).

eu acho que nunca me identifiquei tanto com um personagem quanto com o teh. isso com certeza foi um dos fatores que ajudoiu a me conectar com a série, porque eu conseguia me enxergar no personagem principal (talvez não em todos os momentos, mas em muitos deles). cada erro que ele cometia, cada decisão que ele tomava que me fazia pensar pqp esse cara é um escroto, logo em seguida em pensava, porra, eu sou igualzinha a ele. o teh talvez seja o personagem mais humano e verdadeiro que eu já assisti numa série; as ações dele nem sempre precisam seguir algum pensamento lógico, porque as nossas também não seguem. ele não tenta fazer sentido na maneira que ele age a nas coisas que ele fala, porque ele além de ser humano ta apaixonado. tem como me identificar mais?

eu amo todas as cenas dele, todas as cenas deleS. o oh-aew é sem dúvidas um dos meus personagens favoritos de todos os tempos também, mas eu sou tão grata que o foco da série é na perspectiva do teh. o que seria de mim sem a melhor cena dos bl que é ele cheirando o pedaço de coco porque é a fragrância do shampoo do oh?

on another note, que ambientação linda. eu nunca vou superar como cada detalhe dos lugares me fez sentir. como pode alguém sentir saudades de lugares que nunca visitou? eu terminei a série com uma vontade absurda de ir pra phuket, no restaurante da mãe do teh, na praia com o resort dos pais do oh, no templo, no cabo de promthep pra ver o por do sol...

por fim, eu acho que nunca vou superar de verdade essa série. algumas coisas dela vão pra sempre ficar comigo e eu sou muito grata ao bilkin e ao pp por terem colocado tudo deles nesses personagens. não tem como não se apaixonar.

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honestly don't even know what to say

watching the first few episodes i felt like this was going to have a different pace compared to the 1 season, solely because it was focused on them searching for answers rather than engaging in games. there were less game scenes, but the ones that we got to watch were absolutely mind blowing.

i loved the new characters and got so excited seeing the old ones. to ep 1 to 6 my head was filled with theories!

i got so mad reaching episode 7, the final scene where everybody just d words took me by surprise. like ok you wanna take chishiya away? i already don't like that but at least he's just one. but then everyone else started dying while arisu was playing with deodorant ??? lmao ngl i kinda laughed (nervously). there was added suspense bc i just got to watch the finale a whole day after i watched ep 7, so i got a lot of time to morn over the characters and cry a bit more.

episode 8 however was a totally different thing. starting for the fact that it was more than an hour long i already knew i was going for a hell of a ride! and what a beautiful ride it was...
mira speech at the end with arisu and usagi explaining the reality of the world really got me. the plot with the trauma and her being his psychiatric was actually the one that made more sense to me since the beginning. i actually started season 2 waiting for this to be the final plot twist, with chota and karube being hit by the car and all. so imagine my surprise when all of a sudden that wasn't real anymore (again)? i got literal chills all over my body!!!

needless to say the last 20minutes was just me ugly crying while being so damn happy with where the plot were headed. i had my theories but i honestly think this couldn't have had a better ending. everyone got a last scene, everyone got closure.

it hits different watching aib again after you know where they are and i actually recommend a re-watch since you now got a totally new perspective!

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