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I'd call this the start of my short-drama journey. Watch it and you're hooked, guaranteed.
The storyline actually pulled at the heartstrings. It was well a written, soap opera like drama with some somewhat goofy directing and acting scenes. Sure, the acting could have been improved. But overall a pretty decent job. If the budget were bigger, I'm sure this could have been turned into a great film.
The grandkids just keep coming from somewhere...
Watched this back in the early Beeglow days, and I was like 'a cult leader in a SHORT drama??' but I had a blast. It's a twist-on-top-of-twist kind of show, and also the first thing I ever saw Ki Hyun-woo in.
A BL drama, based on the webtoon of the same name. School-set young love, the flutter and growing pains of youth, all giddy sweetness with an undercurrent of tension. He just didn't want to end up the loser at the bottom of the boys'-school pecking order. There's a love triangle too; it's comedic and I had fun with it ^^
The story might be hit or miss for people. The setup where the lead, dumped on her wedding day, gets trapped by a blackmail video..
Original: 危情合约 (Zhang Bei-shi & Zuo Yi). An ad popped up so I rewatched it, and since I loved it the first time, it's still great on round two. It runs the contract-relationship + chaebol chairman + revenge + reversal formula. Thanks to Zhang Bei-shi and Zuo Yi's chemistry and the fast pace, it hooks you to the end, textbook Chinese short drama. Later on, the once-exploited heroine seizes her own happiness. Lots of kiss scenes, definitely watch-your-back territory. Recommend it!!!
Burn through the family fortune and she gets to go back to the modern world, but the more she spends, the more everyone praises her lol. A comedy about desperately trying to go broke and failing.
Less about plot, more about mood. The handsome lead and sensual visuals create a chemistry that's sultry yet never heavy.
When I first watched this I was like, how is this GUY so pretty, and it was Wang Ho-jung. Basically a knockoff-uncle version of Wang Ho-jung~ The Yeo-in and Wang Ho-jung combo~ Yeo-in's short too so it gives even more of a niece vibe. This is one of those early short dramas I really enjoyed, so it stuck with me~ It's fun ^ ^
Watched it because Jin Zhu-xing is in it, and turns out it's based on the Chinese short 'Crossed Fates.' I already knew the story, but Jin Zhu-xing serving up his regret-guy, obsessive-guy, psycho act means I've gotta watch. What's different from the original is the cat-and-human? mistaken-for-a-sibling thing. You already hurt me every way possible and think a 'sorry' fixes it?
A shaman gaslighting her way to taking over a home-shopping company, a scene of someone tied up in ropes, a whipping scene where they beg to be hit harder. Plenty of provocative scenes, and the gaslighting/brainwashing runs on bell sounds? Everyone at the home-shopping network gets basically hypnotized by the bell chime on their phones. You do eventually find out WHY she wants the company so badly, and it's worth a watch ^^
Original: 另攀金枝 (Liu Yu-hang & Yang Shu-yu). Liu Yu-hang plays a dual role as twins!!! A drama that really nails the signature Chinese-short-drama cathartic pacing. In just a handful of episodes it packs in betrayal, misunderstanding, status reversal, revenge, AND romance, holding the tension start to finish, and the lead refusing to bow to an unfair reality and proving her worth is especially satisfying to watch.
A drama where I was needlessly on edge the whole time, sweating over whether they'd get caught being a fake couple. The actor playing Ji-an is handsome. But he acted so cautiously and tentatively that it kept me nervous. Happy ending though, so I did enjoy it.
Peak scumbag-hot sexual tension. Wang Yiran nails this kind of thing too. But... the ending's a bit of a hollow letdown.
They set out to destroy each other, but end up saving each other, a tale of two obsessives.
Just the poster gave me the creeps. If Signal was about solving cold cases, this short drama is about solving your mom's past love life. Through a phone that isn't even plugged in, you help your mom and dad's old romance along, past and future talking to each other. Wasn't bad at all.
Eps 31 and 32 do have kiss scenes, but a few of the actors give such toe-curling performances that it was a little rough to sit through. I figured they'd just lean into their instincts, but no. Go in with zero expectations and it's watchable.