So lame

It shouldn't have ended so badly, I didn't watch last 10 (ten) minutes of the last episode because I was so over the storyline. Why does a review have to be so long? Anyways, it was so, so bad. I thought things would get resolved in second season and it would be a happy ending. Which kind of did happen. Everyone who's curious should check out for themselves if you're confused by my review. I guess I still don't have 500 (five hundred) characters. Will this be enough now? Omg, what else do I write, I don't want to spoil things for people, just wanted to voice my displeasure over what happened, this isn't why I stayed up all night?

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Everyone turns out good

I like the main actor and I like to learn stuff about sports through dramas, more interesting that way, so this is why I started watching this drama.

I was very frustrated about the bit where the main guy got injured and couldn't play pairs anymore, it was very logical that he should play singles, didn't know that's not really how it goes IRL so it didn't make sense to me why it wasn't a default option.

The coach was so dumb, I could see how there would be a person like that, but man, he was so shortsighted and there were some things done by him that were questionable, like when he bought the skates for the FL, or was hangin around with only Ms Luo at coffee shops and restaurants some of those things were never explained properly. He seemed like a good guy, so I was kinda hating on him for being such a simpleton and not having a moral stand. In the end he turned out alright, like everyone else.

Worst character by far is FL's mom. With her behavior she was dividing the family and then she would blame her family members of conspiring against her, when she was the one in the wrong. She was even dragging the FL home when she first found out about the skating, they didn't make that scene as embarrassing as it would've been IRL with all the students in broad daylight. She was making a huge fuss about the head coach and after over 20 years of resentment she could've ignored everything but she was being extremely petty. I don't care that she has a constant reminder of her injury, at least she could still function normally, except for the slight pain here and there when it rained.

And finally, if I was the ML I wouldn't ever forgive my mother, now that he's a grown up he can take care of himself, his mom wasn't there when he actually needed her, didn't even try to make contact.

In the end everyone got over their issues, everything got resolved and it's a very happy ending for all. Every "villain" turned into a good guy and they all lived happily ever after.

P.S. I was impressed that they got an actual short track speed skater on the show.

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All too real, most of it

I gave this a 10, maybe it doesn't completely deserve it but people who worked on this show seriously deserve a 10 for their effort.

Maybe it was a tad explicit but it's a show about mafia so it's justified. Some scenes get downright erotic yet the guys did it really good, they didn't look awkward during sex and kissing scenes, they didn't avoid using their mouths on some specific areas of another person's body, like plenty of dramas do.

Everything looked oh too real and I'm glad that the main couple did a lot of kissing and stuff, a lot of dramas just make the initial kiss, maybe one more towards the end and the rest of the show basically has no intimacy, I would say that there's no way a couple wouldn't be intimate in their honeymoon phase.

Would be nice if there would be a second season and maybe I'll get to see that one couple become a thing too.

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Not for the faint of heart

??? When I tell you I nearly got a heart attack every time our ML went berserk, it was done so cleverly that it was ultra believable. My heart was pumping so hard and I was panicking so hard in my native tongue.

My eyes started to well up when Soo Ho went down. He so didn't deserve what he got, he was only trying to be helpful and looking out for his friends.

After Beom Seok almost killed a person I was glad that he got beaten up by the assemblyman even though I was sad about it before s*** hit the fan. Also, are those beatings even a solution, he got used to it anyways, which begs the questions are beatings even an effective way of getting a revenge against him.

In the end I have a confession to make, I didn't watch all of the episodes completely, I skipped through our guys getting the raw end of the deal it was just way too intense for me, hence the title of this review. For the people who don't get too invested in the characters you should have no problem watching this all the way through but I just couldn't handle the emotional wreckage.
This was only 8x45min episodes it would be so much harder to bear if it were the full Korean format.

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