Mon Cher et Tendre (2021)

please do not waste your time

The storyline makes zero sense.

This guy shows up and he's supposed to be a super trendy chef coming in to take the position of the ML, but the only thing he does thats supposed to be 'unique' and 'different' is add colorful ingredients to his dishes and carry a rumor that he steals other people's recipe?

Let's not even begin on how the conflict made no sense. Apparently he was an actor, but he can actually cook? Like what?

Finally, the ML gets pissed and leaves (as he should) only to say "if you get acknowledged I'll forgive you", even though the viewers, the main judge, and the characters KNEW it was rigged from the beginning? and it was even stated so?????? Which somebody explain to me how there were two other judges, and we didn't even get to see their results, nor did it make sense how only 1 judges votes mattered.

Finally, I'm glad that the ML ended up getting what he always wanted in the end, but honestly it seemed like a cheap ass copout so that it would seem more believable that A) he was okay with being fired from the position he literally began with as an opener of the restaurant, and B) him and his love interest were able to end up together happily.

Overall, this show has one of the most garbage story plots I've seen in a minute. Oh and don't even get me started on that annoying ass song they played throughout the whole show. Please, have some diversity in the OST next time.

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Good Series

Excellent story excellent acting! My only complaint would be is that it is just way to short. Korean BL dramas are mostly all too short the story line is good, but always seem too rushed and therefore a lot of important parts of a story are left out. Once again the actors are excellent the storyline is excellent they just should’ve spent more time elaborating the story and the actors relationship. Even the part where the owner came in that part of the story didn’t really make any sense because there was no background to explain that whole situation. All in all very enjoyable just needs more time to get the complete story across!

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workplace romance, sunshine/tsundere, rivals to lovers

Fantastic chef, but a bit of a stick in the mud, is challenged when the owner of his restaurant brings in a new hot shot chef into his kitchen. She pits the two against each other (even though she’s already decided the original chef is out). The new bad boy is pretty darn flirty. There is an impressive courtship, but the characters are a little underdeveloped. The tsundere softening journey is well done, and the tension given but the foundational rivals crisis (one having to lie to the other) is a good simple plot arc for a K-BL, but ultimately this show was still a little thin and some of the scenes seemed out of order. Still I enjoyed it and I look forward to the movie rewatch.

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my fault for expecting something, i guess

i knew from the very first minute of the show that this was little more than an excuse to film two hot guys attempt at acting attracted to each other.
it's perfect, it's pretty, the guys are hot. it doesn't matter that it's perfect to the point of unauthenticity, or that it's pretty but is as shallow as the pools of water those shells the main characters collected at some point live in. the guys are hot, so why does it matter that there is so little chemistry between them, that when i watch the show all i see are not the star chefs choi jungwoo and yoon dogun competing for laura dining and falling for each other, but the actors jang euisoo and lee chanhyung reading their lines?
honestly, they were so detached from their characters that i felt uncomfortable watching them "flirt". their unnatural closeness was weird. don't look far and take the very first interaction they have, of jungwoo turning dogun around and tying his apron. all i could think about was how wildly uncomfortable it would be, to have a complete and total stranger do this to me. you'd think dogun would get defensive, push him away, call him crazy. somehow, it seemed like he was completely okay with it happening. because, well, it's a korean bl drama, and characters in korean bl dramas aren't real humans, and they don't try hard to convince you they are.
it's not completely hopeless, and i wouldn't say either of them are horrible actors. choi jungwoo has acting experience and you can tell he puts it to practice; i feel like he genuinely tried to make something out of nothing here, when he wasn't told to stand in front of the camera and look perfect and sexy and hot. i'm sure that under a good director he could pull a praise worthy performance. lee chanhyung is rather unremarkable.
i'm not even going to talk about the plot, because it truly doesn't make a difference. it's a setting, it's a background image to put the actors against, it's a setup for the enemies to lovers dynamic.
what i can't fault the show for is its low budget and how rushed it is, or for when lee chanhyung spilled broth on the table trying to feed jang euisoo's character and they didn't reshoot it. there is no excuse for bad writing, though.

tl;dr: i mean, the show is only 8 episodes long, and i could only stomach 6 of them, skipping five seconds forward more and more often until i gave up.
skip this one if you're looking for entertainment with any substance to it or a compelling relationship. watch if you're a girl that wants to see hot korean guys pretend to be gay men that are into each other, which is the target demographic of this anyway. but, hey, bet those screenshots came out pretty.

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A time waster!

This drama has nothing going for it apart from the good-looking male lead... The storyline is non-existent... The editing is choppy.. Both the chefs were locked in the cool storage then what happened? The next episode they're doing their own things in the kitchen like nothing had happened. So why include that scene if nothing was going to happen and with no explanation afterwards like how they got out etc.
Then when the real chef was betrayed, yeah he got mad for awhile then he just forgive the fake chef after he was booted out of the restaurant that he worked for when it first started?
This drama is an absolute crap...and a time waster. Don't bother watching this.

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This might be true

So, I just finished watching the 6th episode. Let me just get straight to the point and not beat around the bush. I feel like Dogun is going to blow up at Jungwoo. I kept myself in Dogun's shoes. I feel like I would give the person a good lecture if s/he took my job, kissed me and didn't even tell me no matter how much I love him/her. I feel like it might be out last meeting. Dogun would feel like me just used him to get the job that was like his child and he took great care of him. I just wish them a good ending. I feel like they might not even start dating and if situations get any worse, they might not be friends either.

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Very sweet and clean BL

In the world of BL, you have many options: the young high school love (most Thai BL), the dramatic love (most Philippine BL), and the bromance (most Japanese, Chinese, Korean).

I honestly needed a cleans from the Thai and Philippine BL. I’m not a high school student nor I like dramatic and complicated issues. On top of that, I work and have some college projects that I have to finish. With limited time, I needed some short but sweet love.

My Sweet Dear is a very sweet and basically bromance with 1 kiss but very meaningful. There are only 8 short episodes but each one is full of emotion and with a clear message.

If you are like me, looking for a cleans and with limited time to watch other BL’s, then I recommend My Sweet Dear. I truly enjoyed the story and their acting. A very sweet, clean, and fun BL.

Bonappetit!

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My Short and Sweet Series

This series is short but it left such an impact on me. It took me a while to write this because I wasn't 100% sure what I thought about it. I should preface this review by saying I am a huge fan of Jang Euisoo so I will watch everything and anything he is in and that is the only reason I started this. However, I was soon sucked in.

The relationship is new and fragile, We get to watch it start, face turbulence, and overcome issues. It is a realistic relationship in that it shows everything is not perfect, however due to the length of the series, the feelings can come across as a bit rushed. There's nothing that really identifies the time between major milestones in their relationship so we don't know the pacing but this is easy to put to the back of your mind while watching it.

The restaurant owner is a little bit of a cold soul, seeing her warm up a bit towards the end while she remembers the journey it took to get to where she is. It was nice to see some character development for her. We very rarely see women represented well in shows that fall under the category of BL dramas. While having this woman have a storyline that isn't directly related to her romance with a man, this drama still doesn't pass the Bechdel test. If that's something you care about, now you know the answer.

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Short and adorable. Although it's really nice and beautiful I still have mixed feelings about it because by the end we knew almost nothing about the characters and their motivation, past or background. It would normally be annoying and here it is anyway, but not so much that I couldn't enjoy this really cute and beautiful love story. Although I would love to know more about them, in this case I can let it go, if you don't mind. I loved the way they never mentioned homosexuality, they treated that as a completely natural thing, which is always a big plus for me. The conflict was not unnecessarily long, the characters were open and mature enough to discuss with each other instead of being offended. I didn't watched many korean BL because when I did I usually had to be dissapointed. But this was really nice despite it's short. If you’re just looking for an evening program you’re in the right place, it's easy to watch, nice and sweet.

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