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My man, this show has the cringiest and darn sweetest stuff in it, it's crazy!!
Just watched this through the second time and I'm sure there'll be more.Main thing of this drama: it's very GOOFY!
Other main thing: THE MAIN GUY!
He is basically holding this whole show together and leading it. He has the most entertaining (and prettiest) face ever. He seems the most confident actor out of the four main ones, and he definitely makes his weirdo/cool character feel alive. The others are pretty much over/underacting like all the time... but you can get used to it, because the main guy has the most screen time THANK GOODNESS! The main girl cries well though, I have to admit.
And yes, she tries to be in disguise as a guy and looks nothing like a guy, yes, yes, the usual, it's okay, let's pretend is works... maybe one day they'll cast a guyish looking girl for a role like this...
So I don't know who wrote the first few episodes, but it feels like they might have changed the guy as the show went forward THANK GOODNESS! Survive the first few episodes please, it's worth it! It has the most disgusting humor and lame slapstick, horrible camera angles like a really cheap comedy. But it gets so much better not much later, I swear they must have changed someone on the crew. But even later the story is pretty much nothing or just drama, it just exists to create situations where the romance can thrive or bump into obstacles honestly.
Misunderstandings, drama, lies, villains: CHECK... Sadly it has too much of these, but someone might enjoy them, I don't that much, but I can get through them. There were some frustrating ones though by the end.
So why the extremely biased high score when I keep saying a bunch of flaws... well my friend, because the romance IS WORTH IT! (if you like the main guy, that is) It's the sweetest stuff, definitely up in my alley of the hate to love category. Also more eyeliner guys to the world please!!!
Also I don't really like the too romantic pop music in k-dramas but here the songs they sang were pretty good and catchy I think.
I laughed a lot, shed a tear here and there, cringed a lot, and fricking exploded from the cuteness! If you can see beyond the frequent poor acting skills and occasional lame humor, you can actually find a unique treasure, I think.
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Such an entertaining show!!
To be honest I didn't expect much.The idea of changing partners didn't seem that good, I thought all it could give maybe were just some cheap drama.
Oh, how WRONG was I!!!
This was such an entertaining show!
The story was actually quite interesting and quirky, it had its jokes but also its mysteries and you wanted to see what comes next.
The characters were quirky and fun, their interactions were nice to watch, how they shared and got to know more about themselves.
Also thumbs up for actually not overplaying that much! I mean some characters were maybe a little too straightforward with their personality but it fit the tone I think. Also some crying scenes didn't work well, but some were just really believable. I guess the acting had it's ups and downs, but I definitely think there were more ups!
Probably what I loved the MOST about it (after the characters) is how it mixed being super lighthearted with being scarily serious and tragic. It was quite goofy at times, and other times it brought up topics which were very dark actually. Sometimes they used these very bold and gutsy cuts, like cutting away in the middle of a goofy fun part to a silent serious one that you just did not expect.
It was also quite pleasing to see that someone cared either in the storyboard/camerawork/editing to find some connection between scenes coming after each other and cut similar looking pictures after each other at times. (I'm more used to kinda bad framings and low budget shots with these older dramas)
Overall I think it was a quite unique, heart-warming, super fun, but at times also quite deep series.
In one word very entertaining!!
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What I love the most in any romantic drama is when it feels NATURAL, a few over the top camera movements or whiny music are sadly almost unavoidable in these, but the less the better. Natural looking acting, writing and chemistry work the best for me. And this series just did that!
Setting: It's the typical high school setting, focusing on sports in the boys' lives, and to be honest that does feel pretty okay, nothing over the top fantasy world, or huge twists. This kind of environment feels very known for the audience and also this is where we can focus so much on the characters instead of world building and such.
Story: The story that goes on with the volleyball team is a nice one, I like sport themed stuff myself, it could have been maybe a little bit more detailed, but it sort of works.
The side characters are, well, okay. The other couple beside the main one felt weakly written and weakly executed, kind of out of place. Could have been better I think, but that would have probably needed more episodes.
The Guys: These two main guys were so damn good! Very cute too, and I loved their personalities, how they changed too, it was very well done. And nothing really felt awkward, they always felt to be 100% in role, it really showed!
Quality: The series' quality you might say doesn't really matter that much, but before that I watched a much lower quality one, and I have to say, it does. It does feel a lot better not to think about oh, hey the microphones are pretty bad, or geez the camera can't really take good shots in such a small place. Instead I thought, wow this is such a good shot, it's totally clear who is in focus, and the lights look gorgeous. So yeah, big thumbs up quality-wise too!
PS.: Also just a quick mention, for me as I started recently, too much BL action is a little too much. :D I like more discreet approaches, less sexual ones. (so yeah what am I doing watching BL, huh? :D) Anyway, if you by any chance have a similar preference, I can totally recommend this from that side too, it's very charming, quite innocent, just genuine and lovely. <3
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