Category: Romance
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Bad Girlfriend K-Drama Initial Review: What Happens when a Woman Becomes a Casanova.
What if Taylor Swift’s Blank Space character comes to life minus insanity? That exactly is Yang Ji Soo in Bad Girlfriend. She gets any man she wants and ruthlessly rejects them when she loses interest. As Swift’s famous lyric goes, she is “a nightmare dressed like a daydream.” But there are some differences between Swift’s…
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Gaya Sa Pelikula Review: A Love Story that could be Called a Classic
Juan Miguel Severo’s Gaya Sa Pelicula (Like in the Movies) is a tightly written, soul baring piece of art which pierces through your heart. This is the love story between two boys. But the series deserves more than just being called a BL series. It moves you, indulges you and gives you incredible life lessons…
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Cafe Minamdang is Your Typical K-Drama that Fails to Make an Impact
Cafe Minamdang, based on the critically acclaimed novel, Minamdang: Case Note, introduces its hero Nam Han-jun, a few seconds into the first episode. He has a charm that we see typically in K-drama heroes(we have seen this a lot) and his entry sequence shouts the very same thing out. We get to see an interview…
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Alchemy of Souls Takes You to the Magical World of Daeho and Compels You to Stay
Alchemy of Souls, the Korean fantasy written by Hong sisters(Hong Jung-eun and Hong Mi-ran) is an intriguing story of the fictional magical world of Daeho which is dominated by mages. The series gets better with each episode, arousing your curiosity to the peak. Every episode begins with a scene from the past which is significant…
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Netflix’s All Of Us Are Dead is an Emotional rollercoaster ride for the viewer
Netflix’s series All Of Us Are Dead based on a Korean webtoon made by Joo Dong-geun is a dystopian fantasy where a group of students try to escape their school which became the ground zero for a zombie virus outbreak. The first few minutes of the web series itself give a sneak peek to the…
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Why you should stop at Netflix’s Heartstopper?
Netflix’s series Heartstopper is the adaptation of volumes one and two of Alice Oseman’s bestselling graphic novel series. The series narrates a cute love story between two high school boys Charlie Spring and Nick Nelson. The main plot takes place in an All boys Highschool. The story begins as Charlie starts developing a crush on…
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Netflix’s First Kill Gets Only a Few Things Done Right
First Kill created by Victoria Schwab based on the short story of the same name is not great and falls flat in many places. It becomes a parody when it tries to be serious just like its title track. It is a supernatural- vampire version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliette, where the hunter and the…