Bad Romance The Series (2016)

I probably watched these in the "wrong" order, but I watched both of the "Together With Me" series first, and then Bad Romance. I am sort of glad I did it this way because if I had watched this first, I might not have watched Together With Me. I thought it was the weakest of the 3 series, and I gave it a lower rating than the others.

I will start off by saying I LOVE the theme song, and most of the music throughout the series. They did a great job here. In general, the production quality was great, video and audio quality were very good. The english translation was not as strong as some series I have watched, there were a lot of blank [] (no translation) and [don't know that] sprinkled throughout the series.

The story was very much about the Cho/Yihwa relationship. It was nice to see it develop, but it sure took a long time and lots of twists and turns to get there. Korn and Knock get a small secondary role here, and they deserved more. Thank goodness they get their chance in the other series. This could be said about all the couples on here, but Korn/Knock especially need to learn how to communicate! So many misunderstandings and hurt feelings over nothing. Of course, that is the whole point of a drama and it would be boring without it. Like someone else said, it should have been called "Terrible Romance" due to everything that happened here. Poor Cho, how can one person have so much happen to him in one TV series?

I would have liked to see a bit more about the other (secondary) couple's relationships. I especially wanted to know more background about Pae and Martin and some of the other characters. Some plot points like the relationship between the teachers wasn't really ever clarified as far as I am concerned. Were the teachers a couple? Martin is wealthy? Nobody ever visited Tanguy's apartment? And what about Chinook? So many unanswered questions!

The mystery happenings throughout the series are all (of course) neatly wrapped up at the end, with a pretty big plot twist. I knew who was NOT causing these strange things throughout the series, but I didn't know who WAS until the end. I could have done without the creepy happenings, and just make the person be more straightforward with their feelings. Not like that particular topic would have been taboo in this circle of friends. Again, there wouldn't have been a series without the drama, but it could have been handled with less (literal) craziness.

I would like to see a fourth part to this series with the secondary couples of this show getting a more major role, and Korn/Knock and Cho/Yihwa having a secondary part. Part 4 would wrap up some loose endings in both this, and Together With Me.

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I hated this series!!! I think the only thing that saved this was MaxTul and even that... didn't have much happiness. They were always fighting and arguing. I think the series wasn't realistic at all. In the last episode the girl grabbed the guy by the neck and she catched the knife. The story didn't make any sense and the acting wasn't that good. If you liked Together With Me, then don't watch this series because it's going to ruin the all thing. Overall, this series wasn't good, telling the truth, it was the worst series that I've ever watched. I'm really sorry if you liked this series.

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Not comparable with parent show "T.W.M" but still worth a watch

OK... So, where do I begin????

It's going to be one of those "It's So Bad, It's Good" reviews. It's ludicrous! Totally crazy all over the place, very dramatic with plot holes galore & yet it still holds a certain comedic value (just not always intentionally so).

I watched it all, without skipping scenes. There's no rewatch value but I think its still worthy of a score of 4.5⭐ for a fun & entertaining one time watch.
However, if you're expecting it to be anything like "Together With Me" you will extremely disappointed.

The only characters "Bad Romance" carries over from its parent series are the characters Knock & Korn & Yihwa & the relationships between them are continued. These are the only origional characters/cast from "Together With Me" other than these 3, it's an all new cast/characters & story/plot.

I think the production team must have had trouble choosing a plot & decided to just roll with every plot on team brainstorming board! There's certainly a mish-mash of story/plot & themes going on here, ranging from romance, relationships & relationship problems.. to.. murder plots, detective mystery "whodunit's"... Oh & lets not forget the confusion & misunderstandings around sexual orientation, mentally unstable jealous ex's/friends & Bl shipping & fan-girling etc.
Basically, I'm hard pushed to find a plot/theme they hadn't managed to squeeze into the story.

So, if you don't mind that it's not on the same level as "T.W.M" or that it has a ludicrous mish-mash of plots and you're willing to watch purely for the extreme dramatics, comedic value and you don't take it too seriously, then it's worth a watch.

MY SCORE: 4.5⭐

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A very very BAD ROMANCE: One of the worst drama I've watched

I'm more than disappointed, I'm furious to have wasted my time ... I loved Korn and Knock in Together with me and Next Chapter. Max and Tul are extremely handsome and good actors. Their love story was nice and quite moving and suddenly here Knock became a stupid asshole, making Korn's life miserable. For nothing. Capriciously. His stupidest adventure was his ambiguous friendship with pathetically flamboyant and clownish Chinook, helping him selling a cream online to "save is dying mother... Everybody understood in 3 minutes that Chinook either wanted to sleep with Knock or his family melodrama was fake. Everybody ... but Knoll. It took three episodes for him to understand ...This sort of secondary story was totally useless. Korn's passivity, letting Knock acting stupidly without saying anything, was also unbelievable within a couple. It's like the authors of this drama added these silly things to reach the 13 episodes format ... They were surrounded by stupid, screaming, gossipy girls and even Cho, who was a sympathetic character became a mediocre guy. Glad it's over.
why do we have to give a minimum grade of 1 for rewatch value. My review is very negative. A zero would be more appropriate.

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not that great

Well, as a BL fan and a fan of the Together friends group, I dare say that I was quite disappointed with Bad romance ... Why? Because normally, Yihwa is a very good character, very creative and psychologist and in this series, she forgets to be really herself. She misunderstood Knock's false friend relationship, she believes Cho is gay, it's not Yihwa! Cho's character was ok, their relationship is so empty in _Together (...) following the chapter_ so it's my mistake to expect something better, I guess. It's a shame that the script no longer uses the diversity of these two actors and characters. For the Knock-Korn couple, I still love him but it's a shame that Knock remains so stupid. These two still do not know how to speak frankly, they have made the same mistake before and have learned nothing about it. And the investigation with Beauty, Tan and Mydear is just delusional and boring. So, in conclusion, I like the team but the script is not creative, not new, not surprising, no great dialogues like before.

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Things don't make sense

Well I've understand they made BAD ROMANCE before TOGETHER WITH ME they missed out a few details.
What TOGETHER WITH ME portrayed they fight so hard for the relationship just to only be apart in BAD ROMANCE and too much story's going on i see knock and korn 80 % less in the series, and they have a main role in bad romance like where are they like for an hour and 17 minutes i only encounter they twice.

What they missed out in TOGETHER WITH ME

korn didn't know about the reaction knock has with shrimp in BAD ROMANCE he finds out during lunch when he was feeling knock..

yihwa wasent quite sure about knock and korn relationship. Until korn asked her to spy she at that moment she was sure then they were talking.

Cho meets Yihwa at the one year of knock and korn not at the gathering at the club in TOGETHER WITH ME .

i think clo should have being the one to replace yihwa in TOGETHER WITH ME for he was sure that korn was gay but she wasn't sure

Bad romance aint that bad but the missed a few details that was forgotten in TOGETHER WITH ME..

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very cheap at times and quite cheesy- there was a blood splatter in episode 12 that was very fake, and a lot of the romance and interactions could be corny at times, but overall I'm rating this by how much I enjoyed it, and I enjoyed it a lot. The characters were great and of a larger quantity than most other dramas I've seen, and the different relationships between them were interesting to watch. I didn't expect there to be a mystery/thriller element at all, but that was interesting and fun as well.
I disagree with a lot of the things that were being tweeted, or asked in the first few episodes regarding sexuality, gender, etc. but I do understand that there's a big cultural barrier, and the perception of MOGII in Thailand is very different to that of a first world country like the one that I live in. I think if you're prepared to overlook that sort of thing, then this is a great show to watch!
Also, as I'm sure many people will likely watch it for the BL element- the leading straight couple are actually really great as well!!

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Bad is in the title

Bad Romance is basically 10 episodes of filler and not much consequence, and then we got the last 3 episodes with actual story development. I’m still surprised by how this show managed to get a prequel. It’s not like Korn and Knock worked well in this show. The biggest issue is that we can see from Together With Me that the actors are good and the characters have potential, the material they’re given is what’s Bad. The secondary plots on this show make no sense, specially the central one in the end, which brings everybody together.

With all that being said, I have to admit that I like the giant bear scene.

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Back up Candy

I came for Yihaw. I loved her character in the other series. She was strong, independent, and deeply loyal. The chemistry of the main two couples was great. I can say I honestly always disliked Knock as a character. He is childish and petty, but he makes some good points. He loved the man and wanted to express his love. Nothing wrong with that, but not calling your partner before you go on an all-night-er with a friend and having them worried sick about you is wrong, and playing way too many mind games is wrong. I truly love Cho and Yihaw's relationship. Yihaw annoyed me a bit, yes. Auto assuming Cho was gay and escalating the conflict between Knock and Korn bugged me. Also, the Bi man equals man hoe out for anyone comment was upsetting. But she was a great friend. The end was the worst and best. I was honestly super bored with the relationship drama by ep 8 the tacky overly dramatic villain shook things up. This series is like okay candy you settled on because they were out of Skittles. Not what you wanted or winning any awards, but it's okay.

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Okay, so from what i heard Bad Romance is supposed to be the sequel to Together with me, so thank God i didn't make the mistake of watching Bad Romance first.After watching Together with me, Bad Romance didn't seem as good as Together with me. Bad Romance is supposed to be a sequel which focuses more on the story of the other characters which didn't get to have their 'love story' in the prequel Together with me. The story line itself is pretty smooth when it comes to the love life of the characters which didn't get thier story previously. But when it comes to the characters who were 'main' characters in the prequel, it's just disappointing. It's not that smooth, i'll instead tell you that it's not well organized. Also, the amount of drama/arguing/problems is just way too stressfull. And the personality traits suddenly drastically change from the prequel to the sequel. It's difficult to understand at some point.

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Cut off the 80% ballast, add more kiss scenes and it's great!

I have watched the prequel and sequel (both having the advantage they KNEW ALREADY what to explore), I still need to stick with Bad Romance.

It has that something that makes me interested in the same sex relationship, so despite it being juvenile in compare to 'Together With Me', avoiding proper kiss scenes, and filling the screentime with endless antics of side characters you don't care rat's ass about, THIS has something.

What proves it the most are the "fictional interviews" with the CHARACTERS, not actors, that run after the end credits (LOVE the title song, by the way) that say it all.

So, though this material needed to be perfected in 'Together With Me' (still, the material WAS there else there would be nothing to prequel/sequel), you can glimpse that, in a way, it was already perfect here. It's just hard to see it. I know;)

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