Nice story, nice actors, nice happy ending

A beautiful story, for a long time one of the most beautiful, for me perhaps the most enjoyable ever. Central, besides a criminal case, is the endearing conflict of the beautiful princess with the capable but arrogant writer who is convinced of himself.
The writer becomes a detective, as his well-known sharp sense is needed to solve an outrageous crime. Circumstantially, the clever princess gets involved.

Many uninspired stories almost turned me off Asian shows, this one from Korea was great and very amusing. What was pleasingly absent were the otherwise inevitable annoyances, such as annoying love triangles, gratuitous cruelty, human badness of the main characters, ridiculous misunderstandings, and whatever else might ruin an evening after work.

Needless to go into detail, friends of shallow entertainment. I enjoyed this funny, friendly and yet exciting story.

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Action, doctors and romances from the fridge

The author probably has no experience with romantic relationships. Is she a desperate wallflower, knows love experiences only from novels and movies? No feeling. Nowhere.

When the main couple's relationship should pick up steam, FL starts giving the boyfriend and viewers emotional cold showers. She gives lectures that are supposed to make her feelings clear, but sound like instruction manuals for vacuum cleaners. Only when she talks to ML about her ex, her time with him, and her suffering of the breakup does she come across as more emotional.

ML, an excellent, attractive man, the kind you rarely find, is just a constant gardener of this silly plant that rarely gets her appreciation.
In real life, most men would give up and wish FL luck in her expected new relationship disaster with the old hoodlum.

FL gets praised often and a lot. All the Mary Sue moments are annoying, unfortunately you have to endure that with almost all female authors.

Jonny Huang is great, while Li Quin has to portray an emotionally impaired person. She plays an emotionally cold person perfectly, although that probably wasn't intended. Never have I seen such a cold relationship portrayed. Too bad. LiQuin is a great actress and very sweet. Why do they do this to her?
At one point the script forces her to say, "If women had any sense, all men would be single forever." ...and men in hydrochloric acid are a solved problem, hahaha. Emancene bullshit!

Other forists have presented other actors, there is some misery. Well, despite annoying impairments, the series was sometimes entertaining.
However: I prefer to keep silent about developments towards the end of the story. There are some things that simply can't be depicted. However, we understood the good-human intention and thank you for the fish.

Last not least: I would urgently recommend the author to change her profession. Not only romances are not her thing

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Not bad, Ms. Park!

It's quite funny how many commentators do an overall review of a series, here too, listing story, characters, with first, second, third and finally the final score.

We learned this in school, it was called a reflection essay and here we apply what we learned. How beautiful, the school was not completely in vain, friends of the night.

I would like to celebrate here, deviantly, the merit of the author, that is Park Ji Eun, a beauty herself (is a compliment allowed, nowadays?). She writes creative, beautiful stories, from "Blue Sea," that wonderful story, to "Love from the Star," to "Crash Landing." Others, I am sure, are also excellent, but I have only seen these three by Ms. Park.

All of her stories are interesting, entertaining, also suspenseful and very romantic, the romance without drifting into the ridiculously cheesy. She never resorts to rude and brutal bangs, as is common in other shows, bravo, Ms. Park Ji Eun.

I wanted to get that off my chest, because dramas of the author scene are often poor. And what were the last words of the American poet William C. Williams on his deathbed: "There are a lot of shitheads out there".

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Your sister or you, your name is both Gu.

Apparently, daughters are used in China like a kilo of meat. "It doesn't matter" says the father, "if it's your sister or you. You are both called Gu."

Some other things are unsavory in this miniseries, too. The Ex who reveals to us scars on her most intimate part, the FL's sayings that she has had plenty of intimate experiences with men. On the other hand, she is supposedly a virgin, fiercely resists physical contact from the husband. Until the end, one nonsense of the screenwriters follows the other.

Attack of three men with intended rape, scary kidnapping to the father-in-law, who then brutally beats the poor girl: normally something like that would be 3 years in jail plus a fine. But it's just RomCom, just kidding!

I watch romance series because of the romance and not to get the promiscuous conditions of our own everyday life, plus violence, demonstrated. Cheap girls of the party scene are called sluts, kidnappers are criminals in our country. I don't want to see that, I want to see innocent, unique, eternal love. Even if some might find that old-fashioned.

Otherwise I'll go to the nearest disco and and quickly look for a girl. Besides, how can you shoot such crap in a beautiful city like Shanghai?

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Nice little cliché romances? Oh yeah

Life is often clichéd, so I have nothing wrong with this little romance. It may be that many of the critics who write here have an exciting life between space flights and dragon fights. I, however, know life as it is depicted here.

That's why it was pleasant to see the story arc presented in a believable way. Just as we experienced it at school, early love, crushes, "little" rivals, maybe our own lives were also clichéd.

I found the actors believable. The characterizations were also believable, one even thought to recognize certain schoolmates. The actors- I know little about career paths and possibly other films the actors have done.

The happy ending was nice, better than it usually happens in real life, but that's also a reason to watch such kitsch romances.

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Round & Square.

A series is, of course, a made-up story. It's just a movie. But the foil is the known reality: How do people deal with each other, how are social and economic conditions? Some things are obviously different in Asia/Korea than in the West. So many things seem strange to me, in detail:
The wage-dependent manager Jo Soo Kyung, for example, allows herself a tone toward her boss, the FL, that ranges from coercion to impertinence. In addition, she presumes to manipulate the FL's private life and personal relationships in an irresponsible manner.

She would not take responsibility if she destroyed the FL's happiness in life. She acts out of selfish motives as a matchmaker and on the other hand tries to prevent the FL's relationship that she does not like. We know that in boy/girl groups probably often bad conditions prevail, but here there is only 1 boss and 1 manager.

This raises the question: Is this common behavior? I don't really believe it, it will be due to the exaggeration of the authors.

Moreover, FL has to deal with the aggressive, threatening and possessive behavior of the ex-lover. His way of yelling at people, screaming at them, intimidating them, is it allowed? Has no one ever spontaneously kicked such a bastard in the face for unacceptable behavior?

Despite the above gripes, the series is mostly enjoyable and amusing entertainment. And Yoo In Na: how cute and attractive is that woman!
All the good stuff gives points, friends of the night!

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A little more skinship! I would have found good...

The story contained many little annoyances, script annoyances, but I don't want to overstate them. For example, the idiots of the stronghold, Deng+Sheng, let themselves be provoked to come out during the siege, so that enemy Tian Shu can also come in. So what qualifies the idiot Li Sheng to take over the leadership of the Strongholds later on, instead of the capable FL, who was beaten disgustingly by Mom throughout her youth? Well, that's just a small note on the side.

Overall, the story was still nice, with the nice little big romance and non-stop adventures. A love story, with no messy love triangles, no brutal torture, no nauseating forced marriages. Thank you.

Intermittent boredom spots were sometimes distracting, but I was able to grab an occasional beer from the fridge during that time.
I didn't notice the age difference of the main characters. Zhao Li Ying is cute after all and easily passes for much younger. Even if she sometimes looks like Tweety, the lunch of Tomcat Sylvester. And Yibo did his thing well, too.

Side kick Li Yan was annoying, her articulations alternated between screechy and super screechy, she should have been left out. This marginal character had an outrageous amount of screen time. Li Cheng, the boring loser, also had too much of it and all at the expense of the main couple.

A lot of reviews here, I can relate to. Guys, you are all right. But what the heck, entertained myself quite well and give this thing a 9.

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Nice and Easy

A very nice drama, with no after-work destroying, annoying love triangle, or confusing developments with stomach ulcer potential. I liked the actors, especially Caesar Wu as Zhan Zhao. He is often criticized here, but I think he plays a man who dutifully knows only his job and is completely inexperienced and often overwhelmed in matters of love. That's why his performance is really believable. Many of the other actors were also great.

What stood out to me here were the wonderful ethnic dresses and outfits of Liao. If there could be points for that, I would give 100, heck, a thousand points for that. Who was the designer there?
I think 9 points over all is ok, right, friends of the night?

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Django knows mercy, student Irie never!

There is much that is hard to understand. Are women still treated as inferior in Japan? Irie treats the lovely Kotoko like dirt. It is hard to watch his sadism, which he practices from beginning to end, ruthlessly humiliating the poor girl in every possible way. Maybe he should move to Arabia, there the women also have to run 3 meters behind the masters of creation, because they are supposed to be less valuable. He knows no compassion. How will he be a doctor there? Perhaps one should ask such questions to the authors.

He also likes to discriminate against social classes, which he claims to regard as beneath him. Does one live well with such an attitude in Japan?

All of this is supposed to be funny. Obviously, the writers can only realize their kind of wit in a way that hurts people. They probably find it especially funny when someone breaks his neck falling down the stairs.

I also wonder what about this dry technical idiot is supposed to be so attractive to girls? Is he perhaps a charming schmoozer when the camera isn't around?

Amusing is the Irie family, father, mother, the toxic little brother. Especially the mother, a sister of Kotoko in spirit, is cute.

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The good, the bad and the ugly. Or the other way around?

This show is a good study. The story is reminiscent of "Secretary Kim": aloof arrogant, vain boss, capable employees treated below value.
The Kim show was funny, all actors had merits and demerits. Especially the ML is also appreciated with his qualities, not only with his shortcomings.
In SuYu, on the other hand, we have a ML who is just stupid and ignorant. Other players are also not very flexible. The heroine is only good and is 10 years only victim of the ML.

Is this SuYu show funny? In the viki "running comments", a commentator thanks the filmmakers for making the show funny. That's when the ML has just been caught.
He is humiliated as a prisoner, after taking an "obedience pill", until the rind cracks. He has to wear pink women's clothes, annoying gay references pop up throughout the show anyway. Then cleaning latrines, the FL "lady", carrying her around on his back, while his former servants look on with grins. All enjoy his humiliation. Occasionally, the Mary Sue-FL strolls around with the love rival in front of Mus's nose.

Whereas ML used to treat his folks and his FL as an arrogant, egotistical narcissist but was never nasty. The revenge on him consists of barely tolerable, sadistic, discriminatory and inhumane humiliations. LoL, RoFL.

Enough grumbling, dear folks, it's just my opinion. Ignore this criticism and be entertained. That goes reasonably well in parts with this, oh uh oink, film work, especially since, after Blitz-victory over the villain, a short happy ending beckons. And bye!

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Primae noctis with the wrong guy was narrowly avoided.

Before I start complaining, I want to acknowledge that overall it's a nice drama that can be enjoyed without much frustration. Here goes:

The ML-FL relationship was volatile. She loved ML, but later she wasn't sure. He, on the other hand, loved her after a start-up period and then wholeheartedly. FL didn't want to take it that far. She rejected marriage with ML. For her part, the relationship was intended to be superficial and temporary. The loud lovey-dovey on the part of FL was therefore for the cat, the upright ML, who does not love easily, one could feel sorry for. One could have shouted at him: leave the bride, find something better.

The psychology of the main characters is therefore not very believable, it grew on the crap of the writer-girls. According to the mood of the day and gut feeling.

One could cynically say to the princess: By marrying the culturally challenged Tuo Ba Lie, she has found someone with whom she can spend her whole life until the end. She had refused this with Shen Yan.

Towards the end, however, FL overflows with declarations of love and marriage wishes. There is a lot of catching up to do. Here, their love is reworked, which could not really convince before.
But in the end everything turns out well, for everyone, and there is a nice happy ending, what more could you want.

The main actors, but also the others were good. And Yuan Bing Yan has the most beautiful mouth anyway. That's why it's okay to watch the series. Only: why is Shen Yan a vegetarian? What is wrong with him?

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Of the hare and the hedgehog

Overall a rather mediocre piece. I liked the good looking ML and also the pithy FL, while the 2nd ML was quite annoying. In an unstable relationship, in which both parties are looking for a level, it is annoying when the love rival, the 2nd lead, constantly appears, like shit on the shoe, or penetrating stalks.

It's like the fairy tale of the hare and the hedgehog, where the hedgehog is always at the finish line when the hare comes running.

The usual misunderstandings due to the lack of communication between the heroes are annoying, the partial lack of developmental progress makes one impatient. Sometimes it is somewhat funny, but the ML usually has the tragic part, while the love rival is responsible for the funny parts. Therefore, the sympathy may have shifted more to the penetrating 2nd lead.

One plot of this series I found disgusting: Two cronies of the love rival prepare a knock-out drink for the FL so that the love rival can sexually abuse her. This would ensure the final success of his courtship, the buddies of the 2nd ML believe. It fails though-of course-it's a Taiwan movie. Nevertheless, this is out of the question and should not be dressed up as a joke.

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Tom und Jerry

Da Shu, the ML, is a will-less slave to his obsession, the FL. She determines where it goes! The ML loves her, who is boring, ill-tempered and only moderately attractive. ML is treated badly and ungratefully and becomes a deceived looser. A female colleague in love with him, on the other hand, naturally has no chance. The justification of childhood love for FL and later his stalking is absurd.

Zhi He then makes out with two men, which the pathetic guy, who has been cuckolded accepts without objection. Sure, FL is a squirrel and collects nuts. Here, it's men, and the new lover is a wolf. Wolf is one, if man more often tow willing women. ML, the "giraffe", has no overview, as it would be possible, and a donkey is the writer, who spouts such a thing.

.I don't understand this pointless reference to animals anyway. I can think of more ironies here like, "Talk dirty to me, give me animal names." As for the happy ending, save yourself! The FL is talked over and talked about until the love comes back. Love is persuasion and mom helps for sex. Question: who is actually the father of the coming baby? FL's lover "House" or Da Shu? After all, she hasn't been with ML for a long time. Good prospects!

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Round and square. Funny!

The 1st. Season I liked a little better. The 2nd season, annoyed with some triangle stories. I'm sick of them.
Other than that, it's a nice, often very funny story. Giving an overall review with outline, content, music, etc. is redundant, right? Everyone has looked at it. Therefore: just a few marginal reflections:

One theme is jealousy, also from the ML. What happens when the naive silly doesn't notice when a "friend" is encroaching and penetratingly interfering with the relationship? And she doesn't notice it permanently? Right, her husband gets "jealous", and he is additionally the intolerant idiot. (All this is true the other way around, too, of course).

Of course, flirting within certain limits etc. is OK, but almost everyone knows quite naturally where the limits are.

For me, jealousy is a fighting term of relationship destroyers. If someone wants to grab your wife, you should watch it tolerantly, otherwise you are jealous. The tongue in the throat of your wife during the party, that's OK. The hand - whoops - on the breast of your girlfriend, does not matter.
Where is it different? Here: If someone steals your property or wants to beat you up, you can defend yourself. If someone attacks your economic interests, you must defend yourself, otherwise you are a loser.
But you are not supposed to stand up for your girl?

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All sorts of spoilers and a dark secret!

The core and motor of the series is certainly the horrific experience of the ML, potentiated by the despicable brother and the irresponsible, evil mother. The associated psychological deformation of the ML then continues to determine the plot. The FL also has a difficult fate with the family she has to feed.

I can't understand the brother's sparing after this terrible deed is solved. Perhaps it is due to the authors' need for harmony. I would have wished him a few dozen strokes of the cane and eternal banishment, together with the evil mother who multiplied the misery of the poor boy Joung Yoon. Up to the forced renunciation of his own identity!

Overall, though, a successful construction of a dark mystery.

Other than that, I mainly found the series very entertaining and funny, especially the office mates and their entanglements. All very amusing, as is the love story of Mi So and Young Joon.

Ms. Park Min Young is pretty and sexy, Park Seo Joon is good looking, all nice!

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