Reviews

Funny and Cute

I heard this drama was filmed over six years ago. So I know the story is old, the fashion is old. But to my surprise, the acting is delightful because the actor and actress are so cute, and the story is funny. To kill some time and feel amused, this is a good show. Please don't be too serious about it.
I am also happy to see Chinese and Korean actors and actresses collaborate in the drama. It must not be easy to act when you don't understand your partner's language. I wonder how these actors and actresses react to their drama six years later. Will they feel funny and awkward to watch themselves acting six years ago? Anyway, I like drama, especially the main characters, who are all handsome and beautiful. It helps me destress.

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A nice romantic comedy

Although the plot is a bit cliche, the show was made a few years ago and the cast (including charming actors and actresses) shines with their charming looks. Excellent performances, especially Zhang Zhehan's portrayal of the arrogant star Gu Chijun, are the cornerstone of the show's charm. Gu Chijun's character seems arrogant, but he is very soft at heart. His interactions with the heroine are full of sweet moments, which is irresistible. Park Min Young's appearance and acting skills are both top-notch in the drama, the heroine Heo Jin played by her is cute, naughty and smart. The show, while narratively familiar, becomes an enjoyable watch that leaves viewers wanting more.

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Relatable, comedic, potentially heartwarming

This is such a fun AND funny show! Usually, comedy is such a hit-or-miss but the way the humor is weaved in the narrative is diverse so I feel like atleast a few jokes should land for almost everyone! I have alot of laugh out loud moments, thanks for Gun’s brand of comedy for Ryan’s character. Plus the sound effects are so cleverly used to enhance the funny moments. The characters also feel lively and the setting lends to some really unique and dynamic scenes. Off and Gun are wonderful and I’m really digging their assigned characters here. Won’t say much on the plot as of yet but the character arcs are set in a way that promise some satisfactory growth for the two main leads! Love to see the duality Ryan possesses – so competent at home but still stumbling (but slowly but surely finding his footing) at the internship. Can’t wait to see how their arcs unfold and how their love blossoms! It will particularly interesting to see the uber competent Jane letting down his walls and falling for Ryan but we all know who's developing the crush first, lol. xP

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Kind of boring

So... not sure if I'm just dumb or skipped around too much but I don't quite understand some parts of this show. The gist of plot is about how the Japanese/Nationalist government tries to find a Communist spy within their midst with the codename "Ghost". In order to do so, they decided to lock 5 suspects together in a mansion (lol) and basically "interrogate" (torture) them. None of the characters know who "Ghost" is (except for "Ghost" of course) and can only make educated guesses on who the "Ghost" really is. Hence, what results is a lot of talking, gossiping, and plotting to try and tease out the identity of the "Ghost". This does not make for entertaining viewing when the characters spend chunks of time sitting around a table monologuing and trying to manipulate each other. 38 episodes of this gets old real fast and I had to fast forward so much because I was losing interest. I get that this is a espionage thriller but this is wayyyy too much scheming and talking for a drama. Doesn't help that there is an average of 3 flashbacks per episode to show the backstory of the characters and that is just too many flashbacks come on... Some plot points made zero sense as well. Also, the CGI was horrifically bad and the props looked extremely low budget.

The 2 female characters are Mary Sues. Li Ning Yu especially so with her being beautiful, extremely intelligent, a top rated cryptographer who also coincidentally has 0 flaws. Her relationship with the other female character Gu Xiao Meng was confusing (to me) as she seemed to treat Gu coldly then suddenly revert to being warm and vice versa. It was strange. Chinese social media shipped them together but I don't get it. Censorship like what happened in A couple of Mirrors? Who knows. Actress playing Gu also overacts a fair bit which is cringey.

Conclusion: Plot seems more suited for a movie. Strong propaganda overtones as well considering the time period this drama is set in.

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Trying to start it as so many reviews gave it a solid 10, however, first two episodes were absolutely boring, the interaction between the two leads are boring, and bland. The humour last 3s, and the setting world, despite having fantasy elements, is nothing new, as a matter of fact, if you make it into 6 countries/kingdoms, it is the same! When the heaven empress displayed no real virtue of being a heaven empress, you wonder how they manage to become a god....

The lead actress’s acting is overdone in a lot of scenes, the lead actor - meh >_> lacking the charisma, so far, the god of night was the only one stand out. plus the usual tropes in literally every scene -.-

I felt increasing bored as the minute goes on. Too much yapping, music is forgettable, the ending theme song has this kinda annoying voice but good backtrack, though I wouldn’t sticking around to finish hearing that song either. CGI is kinda bad, not great details, maybe if you have no life and could sit there to watch another 10hrs for it to get better, then give it a try?

For people who have watched a lot of xianxia/wuxia series, it is nothing they haven’t seen before

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Watching this

It looks fine, they look cute... I don't know but i feel something not good watching this show , the show is hit because they caste popular actors ...

If you want to watch something most funny, best drama then definately you should watch ‘ My Unicorn Girl ’ i will never forget how much i laughed watching this series this year , i always regret why i didnot watch this before....
The plot not always does makes sense but chemistry and acting also friendship is so much good & overwhelming

Another in historical drama : i will recommend you Love between fairy and devil , i love this series

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Fantasy/ Romance

This has been one of the most amazing drama that I have watched so far. I am more than excited to watch the rest of the episodes. Just waiting to be released in English subtitles. I believe the more episodes I watch the better I would understand the story. I like this drama because of their acting. All the characters have played so well, especially the main leads. It's an amazing drama to watch, especially during this pandemic where nothing feels interesting to watch. It’s so boring and I am glad I have found something interesting. I highly recommend watching this drama.

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What a shitty stupid show. They're just modelling clothes and doing pp. 🤢💩 I would give negative ratings if it's possible!

The ML did an awesome job in 3 Body Problem as a professor but here, it's all wasted. Only the oldest version of the Candle In The Tomb series was worth watching. The rest, esp those starring idol faces, are full of poor acting, plot holes, illogical sequences and a few lads trying to look cool. The series went from bad to worst as years pass. Nothing short of trashy.

They're not taking this seriously at all. Maybe most viewers are nymphoic and don't care about sensible quality storylines. How else can I reason the many trashy productions involving idol faces??? Watching this reduces my intellect. Makes one angry and irritated for no good reason.


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I watched this already. So I'm sorry, but if today's scriptwriters are unable to come up with any story of their own and keep doing remakes it can't be helped: I've seen this already and that itself is annoying.

Other thing is, when I watched this for the first time, there was CHAKRIT, plus young Aum Patcharapa. Now, not only this is not original, but I need to put up with Michael Pattaradet & MOOKDA, instead (both these actors "proved" themselves to me in their previous lakorns I DROPPED).

Anyways the online site which this series was on was rather slow, and the video kept buffering till I found myself not really feeling the need to finish the 1st episode, meaning more than one hour of this.

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Es Kantapong still has it. I watched his previous main roles under Oliver Bever, this is like third in a row. Obviously he knows if he wants someone who'd look convincing as both action hero & romantic lead, he can cast Es and he won't make a mistake. Who is not convincing though, is bratty "Boss" Chanakan and his team, whom I would not believe he could help the main hero's case for a second. And I'm seriously getting annoyed with these naive storylines that "fight corruption" in more stupid way than love stories occur in romantic telenovelas. I know extreme naivety is like Bever trademark, but I'm tired with thai television producing more and more stupid corruption dramas, like they would like to somehow justify what is occuring in real Thailand. Making such a stupid shows about it is probably helping the mafia even more:// What's worse, this is not as trashy as Oliver Bever's previous work so you cannot even laugh watching it. I watched 1 episode which had a length of a movie and I think this time I had enough, nothing compels me to watch 17 of them.

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Might Drop After First 20 Minutes

I want to drop this drama but I am resisting. The premise of a lazy high school student becoming a CEO is just not believable (only if the former CEO is his father or grandfather). Maybe if he was an entrepreneur and founded his own company? Nope. Setting up a fake ski accident and leaking it to the press for some crisis management test during an important contract signing? Dumb. I think the FL did an excellent job of handling the crisis, I mean it was her first day as the CEO’s secretary. Cut her some slack you arrogant ass! Well, I will I try and make it through the first episode at least. Nope, I couldn’t do it. After the ML said the FL isn’t good enough to be his assistant, I. am. dropping. this. drama.

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Weir being talented ALSO as a singer unfortunatelly drowned in a lame genre mish-mash

We have 34-year old Weir paired with a generation younger Stephany Auernig... Their characters in here unfortunatelly seem to be the annoying kind. On their first meeting they yell at each other on a street like a pair of demented 15-year olds, he's loud (has a bullhorn, too), she's loud, trying to be "cool" by speaking english to him (they're both thai), and they end up almost physically fighting. I felt like closing the lakorn immediatelly. Not that I ever expected anything from Stephany Auernig besides being pretty, but after all his previous work I thought Weir finally could do better. This kind of "bickering couple beginning" deserved to be axed, and whoever written this to be sent back 15 years in time, when this was perhaps still in fashion. But, we have 17 episodes here. Shall the series gradually improve? It does have some nice reviews.

Yeah, next scene(s) Weir's character starts to act like a policeman, whom he also is supposed to be, in this role. Only it's incongruous with his childish annoying acting with the main girl just before. Pol Poonpat is a villain... once again. But, probably for 1 episode only, else I don't know why isn't his role listed here on MDL. Either way, he attempts to strangle nang'ek at one point. Ends up having his head cracked by a flower vase. And being called idiot. And then having his teeth drilled without anesthetics. It started to look like this would be the "crazy comedy" kind of a lakorn... Again, back to the word childish.

There is one more pretty face here, called "Boss" Chanakan. Besides being pretty, there's not much acting, which in case of a male is kinda worse. Then Stephany Auernig's nang'ek starts throwing food on pra'ek and he starts calling her names... She shouts: "Oh my god, you're so annoying!" which is ironic on many levels. What is SHE, then? Many years I continue to pray towards the whole asian community: Please, don't attempt to speak english. Just don't. PLEASE.

Then there's a song sequence featuring Weir. Thankfully, he's not singing in english so that's definitely a positive. I was thinking, perhaps they should be dancing & singing the WHOLE runtime. The show might actually be LESS annoying. Yeah, let's make the whole thing a musical. Episodes could be shorter and blissfully spare us any "crime" elements or "thai-glish" conversations. That could be done, right?

Sadly, they haven't done it. Soon, the song ends and we're back at watching various attempts of "acting" or "crazy humour acting" of the numerous cast. Not long after first 30 minutes of runtime, we hear the first gunshots (Remember the saying "Good romance doesn't need guns"?). Yeah, the disappointment comes quite soon. This won't be any better than any silly-screaming-and-fighting shows I watched before. Only difference would be, how often that would get interrupted by the musical sequences... As the 1st song was also the last one for the episode, answer is: not often enough.

"Boss" Chanakan's character ends up in a same situation with one secondary female (called 'Mo') in which females usually find themselves in. The gender roles got switched there, somehow it doesn't feel "refreshing".

Acting is not good enough for this to work as drama. It is too annoying to work as comedy. It's too little of the musical (which is a huge pitty, because watching the ending credits, I recognized Weir actually being quite tallented singer! The musical COULD be good. Seriously.) So...

Overall, the whole cocktail of MORE than hour and a half left me VERY tired.
So, maybe the show later improves a little, but I'm tired with it NOW.

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