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Daydream Land
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shut off your brain, ignore logics and you might like it
You know how you used to love Boys over Flowers and Playful Kiss back in the days, but once you actually go back to see it, you realize how little it makes sense, how much stupidity is screeching through the roof and the only way to be able to enjoy them again, is if you shut your brain off for the duration of the viewing while expecting next to nothing? Well imagine that, but 2019 version, and you pretty much get Love Alarm.
I gave this drama a 4.5 and I'm still contemplating if I'm being too generous. Now, with all due respect to the original webtoon writer, the premise was great, but the execution...? Not so much. I mean, the idea behind it had so much potential and then it drove down the hill, crashed into a lake and never came back up. It turned into our everyday love triangle story. Poor girl with a tragic past, rich male lead who's a jerk, and then second male lead with a heart of gold. Like tell me something I don't know. You probably saw that I dropped this at episode 2 so now you're wondering who tf am I to judge. Yeah, except I already know everything that's going to happen and how it will all play out because I am one nosy ass bitch who likes to spoil shit for myself. Also because my younger sister finished the drama already.
That brings me to my next point, which I am pretty sure the show is as popular as it is because it targets a younger audience. I mean, I get it. Young people likes this stuff. That's why while I was sitting through the show with my 12 year old sister who titled this her favorite drama ever, me on the other hand, was suffering through the whole thing. It legit got so ridiculous that halfway through episode 2, I just decided to embrace the ridiculousness and had to mentally ignore logics for a while.
First of all, most of the characters are so unlikeable. It's not the actors fault, because if there was anything redeeming out of Love Alarm, it'd have to be the actors casted, which Kim Sohyun, Song Kang, Go Minsi, Jung Garam and Shin Seungho are all very promising... but all of their characters planked so hard. Even characters that are written to be nice are still so punchable. The only character that was genuinely likeable was Dukgu but he wasn't part of the main cast although he does play a major role in Love Alarm itself BUT if the trio we're supposed to be focusing on are as bland as a dry sponge, then what's the point?
- Jojo is utterly so unappealing as a character. Like with 0 brain cells I tell you. This girl cannot make up her mind for shit and she needs a dictionary to look up the word "No" so she'll know wtf it means so she can actually use it. Bc it's like she never heard this word in her entire life before. Because guess what... she never uses it. She is a cheater on period and it doesn't matter if her and her boyfriend didn't genuinely like each other, she was still in a relationship. Her lip mutters I don't want it, but her eyes says go for it. Jojo honestly need to to learn how to be alone and independent for once. She gets into relationship after relationship and is so indecisive, she leads people on and makes choices that makes no absolute sense. I'd honestly hate to be in a relationship with someone like her who's the definition of a noble idiot.
- Sunoh... oh boy. Where do I even start. Before I say anything, just know that I LOVE Song Kang as an actor, but Sunoh is a whole ass mess. Sunoh is simply a little bitch who thinks the world revolves around him. He is unsympathetic and an asshole. If I ever meet someone like him IRL I'd very much like to shove chopsticks up his arse. He has absolutely NO RESPECT or boundaries for Jojo's privacy. We have a word for people like him who likes to pursue other people who's already in a relationship. Yeah, it's called a homewrecker. Sunoh, to describe him in the most straightforward way, is a homewrecker. He tells Hyeyoung just because she's in a relationship doesn't mean her and her boyfriend actually likes each other? Like ok and? Bitch you ain't a mind reader, sit down. Not to mention, he actively went for someone he suspected his BEST FRIEND liked. AND THEN KISSED HER TOO? KLSSDALDAKLSDAKDSAASDO Bitch bye. Idgaf if you're trying to prove something, YOU JUST DO NOT DO THAT! It's common sense! But then Sunoh doesn't have much of it so I'm not surprised. Also, you literally knew nothing about this girl except for a few eye contacts you made with her and that your best friend likes her. Why are you acting like this girl is some angel sent from heaven with the cure for cancer. AND YALL BARELY DATED FOR LIKE A MONTH OR A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN THAT?!!! GET OVER IT! IT AIN'T THAT DEEP! I'm sorry... I'm well aware that sometimes IT IS possible but this dude legit held onto a puppy love from high school for 4 YEARS! It'd make more sense if there was more context but from how I see it, it was only infatuation and puppy love. Sorry. If you want to see Song Kang in his full potential, then just go binge 'Sweet Home', cause his character here does him absolutely no justice.
- And Hyeyoung bruh... you need to grow a fucking backbone and a spine. I honestly just don't get it, like... he never talked to Jojo before but only admired her from afar, so pretty much for most part, she was only a pretty picture. Why. are. you. so. held. up. on. her. This is what the show failed at so badly. Development, reasoning, exploration. The show did none of these. We are just expected to know Sunoh's so in love, to know Hyeyoung's so in love, to know Jojo's so in love... but why? WHY ARE THEY IN LOVE! It's like some sort of love demon just appeared one day and cast a spell on all of them. Sunoh was Hyeyoung's BEST FRIEND! Why is he hiding his crush?! To his own best friend? He treated Sunoh like some stranger he just met yesterday instead of someone he knew for years.
It's. Just. All. Very. Confusing. And. Nothing. Makes. Sense.
Sorry for the long review lmao. But pretty much, go into this show with absolutely no expectation at all and you might enjoy it. If you have even the smallest of expectations going into this, haha... prepare to be disappointed.
I gave this drama a 4.5 and I'm still contemplating if I'm being too generous. Now, with all due respect to the original webtoon writer, the premise was great, but the execution...? Not so much. I mean, the idea behind it had so much potential and then it drove down the hill, crashed into a lake and never came back up. It turned into our everyday love triangle story. Poor girl with a tragic past, rich male lead who's a jerk, and then second male lead with a heart of gold. Like tell me something I don't know. You probably saw that I dropped this at episode 2 so now you're wondering who tf am I to judge. Yeah, except I already know everything that's going to happen and how it will all play out because I am one nosy ass bitch who likes to spoil shit for myself. Also because my younger sister finished the drama already.
That brings me to my next point, which I am pretty sure the show is as popular as it is because it targets a younger audience. I mean, I get it. Young people likes this stuff. That's why while I was sitting through the show with my 12 year old sister who titled this her favorite drama ever, me on the other hand, was suffering through the whole thing. It legit got so ridiculous that halfway through episode 2, I just decided to embrace the ridiculousness and had to mentally ignore logics for a while.
First of all, most of the characters are so unlikeable. It's not the actors fault, because if there was anything redeeming out of Love Alarm, it'd have to be the actors casted, which Kim Sohyun, Song Kang, Go Minsi, Jung Garam and Shin Seungho are all very promising... but all of their characters planked so hard. Even characters that are written to be nice are still so punchable. The only character that was genuinely likeable was Dukgu but he wasn't part of the main cast although he does play a major role in Love Alarm itself BUT if the trio we're supposed to be focusing on are as bland as a dry sponge, then what's the point?
- Jojo is utterly so unappealing as a character. Like with 0 brain cells I tell you. This girl cannot make up her mind for shit and she needs a dictionary to look up the word "No" so she'll know wtf it means so she can actually use it. Bc it's like she never heard this word in her entire life before. Because guess what... she never uses it. She is a cheater on period and it doesn't matter if her and her boyfriend didn't genuinely like each other, she was still in a relationship. Her lip mutters I don't want it, but her eyes says go for it. Jojo honestly need to to learn how to be alone and independent for once. She gets into relationship after relationship and is so indecisive, she leads people on and makes choices that makes no absolute sense. I'd honestly hate to be in a relationship with someone like her who's the definition of a noble idiot.
- Sunoh... oh boy. Where do I even start. Before I say anything, just know that I LOVE Song Kang as an actor, but Sunoh is a whole ass mess. Sunoh is simply a little bitch who thinks the world revolves around him. He is unsympathetic and an asshole. If I ever meet someone like him IRL I'd very much like to shove chopsticks up his arse. He has absolutely NO RESPECT or boundaries for Jojo's privacy. We have a word for people like him who likes to pursue other people who's already in a relationship. Yeah, it's called a homewrecker. Sunoh, to describe him in the most straightforward way, is a homewrecker. He tells Hyeyoung just because she's in a relationship doesn't mean her and her boyfriend actually likes each other? Like ok and? Bitch you ain't a mind reader, sit down. Not to mention, he actively went for someone he suspected his BEST FRIEND liked. AND THEN KISSED HER TOO? KLSSDALDAKLSDAKDSAASDO Bitch bye. Idgaf if you're trying to prove something, YOU JUST DO NOT DO THAT! It's common sense! But then Sunoh doesn't have much of it so I'm not surprised. Also, you literally knew nothing about this girl except for a few eye contacts you made with her and that your best friend likes her. Why are you acting like this girl is some angel sent from heaven with the cure for cancer. AND YALL BARELY DATED FOR LIKE A MONTH OR A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN THAT?!!! GET OVER IT! IT AIN'T THAT DEEP! I'm sorry... I'm well aware that sometimes IT IS possible but this dude legit held onto a puppy love from high school for 4 YEARS! It'd make more sense if there was more context but from how I see it, it was only infatuation and puppy love. Sorry. If you want to see Song Kang in his full potential, then just go binge 'Sweet Home', cause his character here does him absolutely no justice.
- And Hyeyoung bruh... you need to grow a fucking backbone and a spine. I honestly just don't get it, like... he never talked to Jojo before but only admired her from afar, so pretty much for most part, she was only a pretty picture. Why. are. you. so. held. up. on. her. This is what the show failed at so badly. Development, reasoning, exploration. The show did none of these. We are just expected to know Sunoh's so in love, to know Hyeyoung's so in love, to know Jojo's so in love... but why? WHY ARE THEY IN LOVE! It's like some sort of love demon just appeared one day and cast a spell on all of them. Sunoh was Hyeyoung's BEST FRIEND! Why is he hiding his crush?! To his own best friend? He treated Sunoh like some stranger he just met yesterday instead of someone he knew for years.
It's. Just. All. Very. Confusing. And. Nothing. Makes. Sense.
Sorry for the long review lmao. But pretty much, go into this show with absolutely no expectation at all and you might enjoy it. If you have even the smallest of expectations going into this, haha... prepare to be disappointed.
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