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SO SO BAD ... you want to cry

OMG, GagaOOlala, don't do that anymore ... This BL drama was so dumb, so vulgar, I think we've reached the bottom of the genre... In fact, it's a porn movie scenario without the sex part: a little gigolo, not even handsome, chubby, with two false teeth on his front, coming from 'a broken family, responds to the ad of a gay old man looking for a "servant" ... he is hired and of course, they have sex on the first day ... Arrives the son of the man, young and pretty cute, the man goes on a business trip and needless to say, the son and the servant sleep together the same evening and fall madly in love with each other ?... It's not a fairy tale but a nightmare. It's very badly played, it's ridiculous, it's so stupid you want to cry. We know that Pinoy BL/gay films are not subtle, but with this one, one can't do worse...
What a disappointment Gaga! You have accustomed us to funny, subtle, sexy Japanese, Taiwanese or Thai series ...
To be urgently forgotten

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2021 Best Survival K-Drama!

There are many survival K-Dramas in 2021. But, trust me. This one is the best in every aspect while the others are overhyped ones. If you are looking for the best survival drama, watch this! Never watch overhyped drama! Trust MDL's ratings more than Koran television's ratings.

I've always been a fan of survival K-dramas. I want to see how the plot goes and how the writers give problem solutions to the conflicts in the plot.

So, as always, I'll just give you the summary.

Pros:
- It gives you an eerie atmosphere in every episode. Less talk, more atmosphere!
- No cringey lovey-dovey romance! Both (male lead & female lead) are focusing more on surviving and helping others than having a blooming love relationship.
- The plot is easy to understand, but it still gives you puzzles. Who is who, who did this and that, who will die, etc.
- This drama has plenty of characters/villains but they are really easy to be remembered.
- No sex scenes. Safe to be watched together with family (not for kids)!
- THE FEMALE MAIN LEAD IS STRONG, COOL, HEROIC, BADASS, NO CRY BABY, AIN'T SCAREDY-CAT. The writer(s) did justice to the female main lead in this drama, unlike in other action K-dramas where females always are the ones who have to be protected by males. This is what makes me score 10/10 ratings on MDL. I'm a male btw. I'm starting being a fan of Han Hyojoo <3
- No jumpscares and not that scary. Heart-friendly.
- Top-tier character developments: A kind-hearted person can be evil and vice-versa because of life-hanging conditions.
- The plot hole is there but it's almost invisible. Thanks to the scary atmosphere and the character's actions. You won't have enough time to think about the hole. You will spend your time reading the plot flow and thinking which character is likely to be alive, where is the antagonist.
- The plot twist is not that big, but it's there to surprise you.
- It portrays the daily life of metropolitan Korean families (kinda).
- This drama won't waste your precious seconds. The plot is solid and won't make you bored. Unlike other dramas where the talking scenes take longer than they should be, Happiness put the talking scenes to the nice timing with a good proportion.
- and many more I forgot what to write. I'll add them once I remember.

Cons:
- Only 12 episodes and this is a big deal.
- Needs more OSTs.
I think these cons have something to do with sponsorship. If I don't see Samsung in a drama, I assume the drama doesn't get enough $$.

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Amei. Amei. Amei. Amei TUDO. Nossa, acham o final trágico. Como assim? O final foi perfeito, foi um final feliz! Ele indo no submundo achar ela, colocou uma marca nela para poder encontrar ela, foi lindo. O final do Rei Demônio com o filho foi lindo também. Não coloquei fé nesse drama, e me surpreendi, amei muito. E não achei que fosse ter história para 20 episódios, teve e foi perfeito. Me surpreendi com personagens que cresceram e se tornaram importantes, exemplo a Zombie. Nossa que atriz linda, que personagem linda. Amei a história da sacerdotisa também, ela se transforma de várias formas. Achei a história dos dois irmãos bem original também. E gostei como o drama não teve pena de matar os personagens. E o romance foi do jeito que eu gosto, essa incerteza de sentimentos, um magoando o outro, mas se magoando no processo. Os dois se apaixonando aos poucos... E eles tinham uma senhora química. O bromance então? Lee Seung Gi e o rei demônio foram hilários juntos, e adorei que até o final a comédia se manteve no mesmo nível, claro com lágrimas a mais, mas o drama continuou engraçado e não foi só depressão. Todos os personagens foram muito marcantes, a secretária cachorro foi muito legal também. E a trilha sonora? Sensacional. Amei esse drama. Amei DEMAIS.

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i liked it

I would recommend you to watch it, because the plot is very different from other dramas. and the two main leads are amazing actors who I've admired for a long time.

I loved the storylines of the two main leads, but I didn't like the storyline of ''Kang Hae Jin. I watched it reluctantly at first, but eventually I just skipped his parts because I didn't enjoy them, and his story had nothing to do with the main character's story, so I thought it was very unimportant and unnecessary to give him so much screen time.

I also disliked the last episode because I think what they did was very unnecessary.

but overall I enjoyed the rest of the drama, so I would recommend you to watch it, but do keep in mind that you may not like every storyline because I didn't.

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Kim Soo Hyun and Kim Ji Won -the King and Queen of bringing me to tears

It’s not the story alone but the actors themselves who make way for this drama to be notable and successful. No matter how good or bad a storyline is, the actors can reverse the situation depending on their talent in acting alone. As always, Kim Soo Hyun never disappoints, and he gives everything in his power to deliver us the Baek Hyun Woo that we all love right now. Unquestionably, he is the highest-earning Korean actor in the industry because the man is always here to slay his designated character. The show became even more powerful with Kim Ji Won joining his side to carry out a tear-jerker romance with undying chemistry from start to finish. As an avid K-drama fan, it’s always been my pleasure to be their supporter.

I got this love-and-hate feeling during the first half of the drama. Aside from the main characters, the rest of the cast is annoying without a decent share of the story. The Chaebol family was outsmarted by a small group of villains who share the same brain cell with them -stupid and fool. I am unconvinced how these antagonists managed to take everything from them with the usual plot. The family members of Hyun Woo except for his mother were also a pain in the eyes during the early set of episodes. Everything became more enjoyable after the two families lived under one roof and fixed everything gradually.

The epilogues for every episode were always their best part. It never failed to make me cry and be in awe of the love and care that Hyun Woo and Hae In have for each other. Until the end, tears just keep flowing during the epilogue scenes. The set of OSTs also contributes a lot to the overall impact that the show has. Queen of Tears breaks TV records and has excellent ratings. Yet, I will not give them a perfect score since obviously they have flaws but still managed to make it to the top. In Kim Soo Hyun and Kim Ji Won, I put my trust in always bringing the best from every project they had.

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Disgusting

This is a film that is deeply offensive to the Vietnamese people and the history of Vietnam. The film distorted history by portraying Korean soldiers who came to Vietnam as heroes, who rescued the Vietnamese from the Viet Cong. But history is different, Korean soldiers massacred, raped, and plundered Vietnam while they were stationed in Vietnam. This is an insulted to Vietnamese people, how can they create a movie that completely wrong to the history and proud of it like it is the true. This movie should be ban because it can make people misunderstand about the history, THE REAL HISTORY. No matter how touching the scenes in the movie are, it can not be deny that Korean soldier has committed terrible crimes.

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Before it's a thriller, it's an exploration into what it means to be human

For the first section, I'll keep it spoiler-free!

The first thing that intrigued me about Happiness was the way the virus functioned. Despite the zombie-esque premise, the infected are alive. Once their episodes pass they return to themselves, they can think and feel and communicate. Despite having the same hunger and urges that your everyday zombie has, they're still people. And sure this isn't the only time this has been done in media, but in a genre oversaturated with dehumanized corpses, it provides us with a much lesser shown perspective. Humanizing the infected made the situation both hopeful and bleak as we're shown them in both their frenzied and calm states. But their living state doesn't necessarily grant them compassion from every character, and the lines between what is okay and what isn't start to blur.

To start from the beginning, Happiness is less a monster thriller and more an exploration into the different forms of happiness, what they mean to those who seek them, and what lengths those seekers will go to reach them. Yoon Sae Bom's motivation at the start of the series is to have her own home, a place that is entirely hers, after growing up never having her own space. She had a rough go of things when she was younger and is now desperate to take her first steps towards that long-sought goal, so much so that she even takes Jung Yi Hyun, a long-time friend, to be her fake husband in order to get the apartment that she wants. JYH, for his part, reached his lowest point in high school when an injury took his future in baseball away from him, and it was YSB who pulled him out of his thoughts and allowed him to think clearly.

But Happiness isn't just about these two characters. Over the 12-13h runtime, we get the stories and motivations of about a dozen other characters, each in pursuit of happiness of their own, be it in the form of money, companionship, lust or family. The pursuit of happiness isn't always a noble battle, and what means the world to one person could mean nothing to the next. In this way, the drama explores the darker sides of greed, envy and lust very thoroughly. Because of that, there are more characters you don't like than those you do, and even the ones you've enjoyed early on can infuriate you later. For me, that was the beauty of it. It felt very human, if exaggerated. Let's be honest, it can be a bit much. In around two weeks, we see people fall to newer and deeper depravities to get what they want. Desperation can do a lot, but the sheer number of people who break apart so quickly in this series is staggering. But, well, the pandemic showed us just how quickly panic can bring about stupidity.

So on one hand, we have a bunch of people infected with a rabies-like virus who still retain their humanity. On the other, we have a bunch of people with different beliefs, motivations and moral compasses all stuck in a building together. From cops and bickering siblings to murders and scammers, they either try to sway the rest to their side or try to determine who they should trust. At the end of the day, if they all stayed in their units and had appointed a few people to bring their food and water to them, then this story would have had half of the blood and death in it that it does. But we've all experienced quarantines and know how big of a hit they can take on mental health, even if there aren't zombie-like people trying to break into your building. And we all know those people who just won't follow the rules and stay indoors. Not everyone listens. Almost everyone is scheming. The entire story is a mess and I love that about it. I even love how angry it made me and how many times it sent me on tangents complaining about the characters. Because, for all of the annoyance it caused me, I liked how it actually felt like characters other than our leads were moving the plot along.

Spoilers ahead!

Happiness, like its concept, isn't perfect. Sometimes the leads made stupid or reckless decisions. Sometimes the other characters did, too. I can't really hold that against it, though, because humans by nature aren't very logical. We panic, or we're hasty, and we make bad choices. We mess up. It happens. Naturally, there were some things that I didn't like beyond that, as well. The first is the serial killer story that developed in the latter half of the series. While everyone could see what was going on with Andrew from a mile away, I did feel like his identity-stealing serial killer subplot felt a bit out of place and tacked on. They needed to up the stakes for the last few episodes to make it interesting, but suddenly bringing in a serial killer who doesn't have anything to do with the main conflict of the virus was a bit too left-field for my liking, even if their goal was to show that humans themselves are more dangerous than any monster. If they were going to add it then I wish they went deeper into his story and the plot surrounding him to make his story feel more grounded.

What really bothered me was what they did to Kim Se Hoon. From the very start of the drama, he was an interesting though very rarely seen character that I wanted to see explored more. He was a paranoid, doomsday-conspirator survivalist right out of the gate and I loved that about him. Despite his very radical beliefs and his concern over catching the virus, he was kind and considerate not only to our leads but to the other characters as well (even if under YSB coercion). He came down to place his vote on whether to kick Kim Seung Beom out of the building even when he didn't want to leave his apartment until the quarantine was lifted and shared his food, even considering to share it with the rest of the people living there despite not really wanting to. I really wanted to learn more about him and see him survive until the end, but instead, he's killed off-screen (though I believe there was a flashback later) and his body is dumped. Not only is he ultimately a tool in the Andrew subplot, but he's left forgotten until they need to use moving his body as an excuse for one last high-stakes conflict. They could have done more. I wish they did, but that's what we're left with.

I think Happiness could have done well with either an extra episode to properly resolve everything, or a restructuring of the plot to allow more time in the end. It felt too rushed and there were a lot of loose ends that needed to be tied. We saw that Han Tae Seok's wife survived, but what about their child? It never showed the child being born or passing away despite being so heavily referenced in his scenes. We never had YSB visit her mother in the nursing home even though she voiced her regrets over not doing so before the quarantine. We don't know if Park Seo Yoon's father made it out (they mentioned severe symptoms for him, but we never saw the family fully reunited), or if Kim Jeong Gook was okay after being treated or if his wife was okay (we can assume, but we don't see him after recovery and we never see his wife despite, again, mentioning her throughout the whole story). These are just the ones that stand out in my mind, but there are probably other loose ends left hanging. Dramas can't always close off every little thing, but even having ten minutes at the end of the episode to show these characters finally reunited with their families would have been a nice way to close things off.

So yes, I have a lot of gripes. But even with all of that, which would normally bump this drama down to an 8, I have to give it a 9. It may not have closed off as nicely as I would have liked, but the relationship between YSB and JYH was beautiful. From episode 1 their chemistry was great, I loved their dialogue and their scenes together were my favourite, but by the end, I really felt how much they meant to each other. JYH was willing to do everything to protect YSB. They trusted each other unconditionally, and the only time we ever see someone talk an infected down from an episode is between them. It isn't just them, though. The old lady, despite being one of the first ones infected, never has an episode (to our knowledge). Her husband is harsh with his words and bickers and complains, but after finding out that she's been infected, he quarantines with her in their apartment and stands guard outside the bedroom door at night to watch over her. He never leaves her, and she's never put in a situation stressful enough to attack. She has the willpower to control it the whole way through the drama. And even her son, one of the stupidest, most obnoxious characters, experiences character growth by the end. After abandoning his family when he found out that his mother was infected and stealing their food, he returns in the end and reconciles with them, and they wait there together for the soldiers to arrive after the quarantine is lifted. Another woman gains the courage to leave a man who clearly doesn't value her, and a brother and sister whose relationship was strained reconnect after almost losing one another.

So, okay, it's not perfect. I hate a lot of people in this. My quibbles are endless. But somehow this is still one of the dramas I enjoyed most this year, and I'm happy to have experienced it.

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being happy all time

two types of people one is believe in science but the other one is believe in god as we all know that we have difference believe because me as person i believe in god that he created the world but unforunately scientist proof that bigbag create the world and We can say, “that is the way it is,” but that’s not so satisfying to hear especially for someone who is inquisitive. Well, the human mind deals in duality in order to perceive the world, and we think if we were born, then the universe must have had a beginning. But the universe doesn’t have to conform to the human mind. Yes it's possible that universe to be eternal. But birth and death are illusions. As soon we look beyond the confines of our minds, we’ll see reality.

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Absolutely exquisite!

This was SO SO GOOD??? No really, flawless I'm in shock.
Despite all the clichés (storyside talking) it was extremely enjoyable , never heavy, super sweet but also exciting. The two guys' chemistry? Please let me tell you I've never been so connected even with my mirror. This is absolutely a gem. Also is so cute how the story is not just the usual enemys to lovers but it's something different, more like two people with their own flaws and habits and attitudes literally clashing together until they smooth out each other's edges getting more and more comfortable with the other one. Another thing that I loved is how all the "most confident" kisses started from sangwoo, he was not the fish, he was the freaking fisherman I'M HERE FOR THIS I'M LIVING FOR THIS I BREATH FOR BIG A* DUDES MOVED LEFT AND RIGHT BY LITTLE SHY DUDES (the power, us tiny, hold!)

OK I'll breathe, this was GOOD. PLEASE WATCH IT

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I LOVE EM I LOVE EM I LOVE EM :')

I LOVE when not only does a Thai BL hit the spot with me but makes me bingewatch couple vids on YouTube for the rest of the night and for the most part of the next day XD

Do i have BrightWin wallpapers on all my devices replacing the Pete Kao ones ive had FOREVER hell to the yes!

Have I been screaming every time Bright is being unbearably soft for Win and his beautiful ass smile in a youtube ship vid f yes!

look. Sometimes i have an inkling about why i like what I like but other times my brain is all like ... cute boys kissing being soft ME LIKEY LOL
But one thing I will say 2gether isn't perfect and might be a tad weak story wise, i t has some genuine writing, genuine hilarity, and the bonding between the male leads feels organic and there's a kind of natural innocence and relatability to both characters.

SO YES. give me more.

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