You Season 1

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A dangerously charming, intensely obsessive young man goes to extreme measures to insert himself into the lives of those he is transfixed by. (Source)

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You Season 1 is just a mess and mystery of a series. The acting was believable and shocking. I will warn there is a lot of sex scenes. I do have to say if you like mystery and solving things, you will enjoy this show. I do warn that you would most likely roll your eyes at points. Would you watch it again? No, I was watching this off and on because of how stupid the characters are being.

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Ai no Kotodama 2: Sekai no Hate Made

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Hirofumi and Shinji are colleagues at the same advertising agency. Hirofumi works in IT, and Shinji is on the company’s elite fast track. The two start off completely on the wrong feet, but as time passes they find themselves falling for each other.  (Source)

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I Am Not Okay with This Season 1

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Sydney is a teenage girl navigating the trials and tribulations of high school while dealing with the complexities of her family, her budding sexuality, and mysterious superpowers just beginning to awaken deep within her.(Source)

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I Am Not Okay with This is just a show that I fell in love with in the first episode. I love the choice that they pick for the cast. I admire how they show how small towns are, where the setting stuck in the past due to most small towns not being the richest. I love outfits that Syd and Stanely wear throughout the whole season. This tv series had my attention the entire time. The only problem I had with this show is that it was only six episodes long. I think of you fell in love with the 2017 IT young cast, you will enjoy it. It’s just something as a teen would connect within away. I love the feel of the character and their relationships. Like how IT executed, it shows more of how preteen and teen act and say. I think most writers forget that just because parents have a hold of the situation in their home and think they shelter kids from the sinful passion of the world doesn’t mean when the kids get in the world, don’t act differently. Most of the time, when kids learn to cuss, it will be from other kids or just something that they overhear. Would you watch it again? Yeah, I plan to binge the whole season(s) when the new season(s) comes out.

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Ai No Kotodama

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Ootani and Tachibana have been inseparable since high school. Now that they’re in college, they live together, they’re happy and everything seems prefect. But their little world is disrupted when they meet an old high school friend, Yuki, who seems to have a crush on Tachibana, making Ootani feel jealous and insecure. Will Tachibana really choose him over a pretty girl? (Source)

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Ai No Kotodama is about Ootani and Tachibana, who have been boyfriends since high school. They happen to reunite with Yuki, a girl who is a friend of their high school years. I think Yuki was just someone who had a crush on Tachibana and just kind of a groupie of Ootani and Tachibana relationship because they are always together. Yuki kind of puts a wedge in Ootani and Tachibana’s relationship due to Ootani knowing that Yuki has a crush on Tachibana, his boyfriend, causing Ootani and Tachibana to fight, which like always has a lack of communication and hearing the other out. This film was not the best I have seen; it was alright. But I did like the scene where Tachibana and his friend are talking about what they love about their boyfriends; they say the thing people would think to be negative things that they love. It was different to see that. I am giving this movie a better rating only because I had to pause multiple times due to being interrupted, and I’m fighting some illness. Also, I did enjoy the character growth for Yuki to realize she wasn’t in love with Tachibana, but they want to have a romantic relationship like Ootani and Tachibana’s relationship. Would you watch it again? No, not really. The film felt rush for the plotline.

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Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness

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A rivalry between big cat eccentrics takes a dark turn when Joe Exotic, a controversial animal park boss, is caught in a murder-for-hire plot. (Source)

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Tiger King is just a roller coaster of a show. Every episode begins with a plot twist. This show, at times, seems to be not real. As a human being, I have to realize that the show is from the film crew and the director’s point of view and not from the people it’s concerning. I’m not going to tell you who is guilty and not, only for the reasons that I don’t want to change your honest first viewing to be changed from what I think. However, I will say I love the ending quotes said at the end of the last episode because once you break it down, it correct. Would I watch it again? I feel like I have seen it enough for a lifetime, but if any more episode came out or more documentaries came out about the people in the series, I would gladly watch to learn more.

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A Frozen Flower

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Under the pressure of the Yuan Kingdom, the King of Goryeo is pressured to produce a successor to the throne. But the king is in love with his loyal general Hong Rim. After seriously pondering the issue, the king asks his lover Hong Rim to sleep with the Queen, with unexpected consequences.(Source)

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A Frozen Flower is a movie that I think you can only honestly watch once. I will warn you do not watch this if you are under the age of 18, around loved ones, or someone you would not want to watch sex scenes. The movie has sex scenes and a lot of blood and violence. The acting was astounding. The actor for the king made you feel that love and passion for Hong Rim. Hong Rim’s actor made you feel that passion for the queen for he fall in love with her. The queen was a character you feel sorry for in the movie. She is married to a man that is entirely not interested in her at all for many reasons. The main reasons are she is female, and the king is already in love. I will say how the king and his guard meet is the standard time the movie takes place. However would not be acceptable in western and now, for it can be portrayed as the king is grooming his guard for the age is 7- 10-year-old taking care of the king who 13- 17 years old. So many people feel like Hong Rim was groomed, I see their point of view. I feel like if you look between the lines, you could see in the more adult time as Hong Rim having Stockholm syndrome in away but could be a loyal servant just doing as his king told him. The king’s word is law at that moment. However, the only way we could say that Hong Rim had been groomed or just complete loyal to his king is if we got more scenes with them growing up and see the relationship developed to what is their adult lives. But I do want to talk about the ending scene. In the scene, the king asked, did you ever love me? And Hong Rim says No, not at all. I do feel like Hong Rim was lying to do what he thinks he had to do at the moment. I mean, I can see Hong Rim being borderline Stockholm syndrome. Hong Rim being the most trusted loyal servant of the king, you are going to know things that little to no one would know. In the beginning, we know that the king and Hong Rim have a brotherly bond that grows to be sexual. You are going to be in love. I feel sorry for all three characters because all don’t get what they want at the end. Would you watch it again? No, the movie is alright, and acting is excellent. The film is about two and a half hours long and just stretched at moments and scenes that are not needed. 

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Before I Love You: Mek x Mork

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Often love is not a coincidence. But it is caused by friends of friends! (Source)

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Before I Love You: Mek x Mork is a short story about two friends trying to set up their friend Mork. It is sweet that they were thinking about their friend. But there are a few flaws like they didn’t even know if Mek liked guys or was trying to date anyone. The acting is cheesy. The music was the same soundtrack for the rest of Before I Love You series. I think this needs more time to developed by like 5 minutes. Would you watch it again? No, it just was not something I would watch it again.

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Episode 3 of Before I Love You Series

Secretly, Greatly

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A group of spies called the 5446 Corps were trained by North Korean elite special forces since their youth, ostensibly towards the lofty goal of unifying Korea. They are ambitiously dispatched to South Korea, where each disguises himself as a fool, an aspiring singer, and a high school student. Passing boring time without receiving any orders from the North, they gradually get used to life as ordinary neighbors in a small town until one day, their mundane lives are turned upside down when a “secret and great” mission is suddenly assigned to them. (Source)

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Secretly, Greatly a movie that took me for a surprise. I love the soundtrack that producers use for the film in fight scenes throughout the whole thing. I will say there is a little bit of bromance if you read between the lines. How I found this movie was a bl or bromance compilation video. I love how the actors portray their characters. I didn’t expect the ending to make me weep. The end is guessable, but I think as audience members we hope for the opposite. I won’t tell you if the tears were happy or sad tears. I will say I expected a whole different movie from the summary, but I’m satisfied with it. I feel like how they portray the three main characters having a brotherly bond play with the audience’s emotions. I enjoyed that the main focus was that they all had someone close to their hearts that they would rebel their whole country. Would I watch it again? I don’t think I would personally, however, I would watch it if I were showing someone who has never seen it or if it was on a streaming series available in my country.

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Before I Love You: Rain x Storm

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Believe that university, aside from being a learning center Is also a learning center (Source)

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Before I Love You: Rain x Storm is the beginning story for how Rain and Storm became a couple. The story is a little over 10 minutes long. Rain does do somethings we would call crazy stalker things like drinking from the same bottle. But Rain also does sweet stuff like buy Storm food. It was a good clip to watch. The music had a great choice, and the actors did an excellent job. Would you watch it again? Yeah, it was short and adorable.

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Episode 2 of Before I Love You Series

The King and the Clown

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At the height of the 16th-century Chosun Dynasty, a pair of rural male actors – boisterous, macho Jang Seng and quiet, feminine Gong Gil – travels to Seoul and team up with a struggling acting troupe. When their irreverent show, complete with enough bawdy humor and gender-bending to make a contemporary audience blush, mocks the famously hedonistic king, they get more than they bargained for. After being promptly arrested, they’re given a chance to spare themselves if they can make the king laugh. To everyone’s surprise, the ecstatic monarch loves the show and names the actors official court jesters, giving them more extravagant food and shelter than they’d ever imagined. But the king’s attentiveness to Gong Gil makes it quickly apparent that humour isn’t the only thing motivating his generosity. The king’s mistress, the country’s ministers and Jang Seng soon grow suspicious, and jealousy and anger spring from all sides. (Source)

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The King and the Clown is a shocking masterpiece that takes a moment to process. This movie would not make in today’s world for the fact that the comedy style for the acts in dirty and sarcastic. The actors and actresses are what make you feel what the character is going through. The two main clowns/characters had a bond that is just something people wish for in their lives, the close friendship of that make you feel like they are brothers. However, they are not brothers by blood but by choice, which is why I’m glad that the two main characters are not romantically involved with each other. You do have to read between the lines for the boy love scenes in the movie because they show the bare minimum. I identify that the background of the king is something you would read in a history book. The king’s character is someone who had thing force or taken away from him that causes the person who he is today. He is out of control at scenes which make you fear him, but he pulls you back in with the soft unseen side of him that makes you feel sorry for him. The main two characters have moments too that make you feel for them. I won’t say what, for I fear to spoil it for anyone who wants to see it. But I can give you a hint with a sentence. As much as we don’t want to make sacrifices, someone one will have for things we need to live and express ourselves. The ending was not what I expected at all. The end is all from how the audience has seen it. Would I watch it again? I feel like it something I would watch again one or two more times but not something worth bingeing over and over again.

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