O Beijo do Destino

I love love loved this show! Cannot understand comments re the male lead being old, he (Yoon Kye Sang) is charming, charismatic and just a wee bit sexy. Chemistry between the two leads is sizzling and I loved the craziness of the last n20 mins of the final episode . Thought the storyline was fine and all the other actors played their respective roles well but hats off to the two lead actors, they both played their roles brilliantly.

I liked it. Except i think they botched the last episode. I dont want to give it away but it doesnt make sense and leaves a weird feeling. It would not stop me from recommending the show but be ready for some weirdness. Inlike the premise. The other love stories are also fun. There is a bit much going on for everybody to have the conversations they need to have. But again the sudden sourness at the end without any wise ones to help is unusual for the many korean shows inhave watched. And its too bad. Our couple deserved better. Thats all i can say. And now for 30 morr characters i can say this .

I understand this is based on a webtoon series that underwent major changes for this drama. First off, that ending was a whole load of cr*p. In fact, the essence of the fantastical love story was lost by episode 6 and all that was left were three story arcs that never managed to converge into any meaningful finale. My god, wtf happened to the writer? For a series to open so solidly and with such sizzling chemistry between the two main leads only to have it cave in on itself is astonishing. Why would the ML suddenly do a 180 just because he got laid and why was the FL written as a shrew? I lowkey hated both of them by the end of the series. If you want a nice romcom with great chemistry between the leads then please watch 'Well Intended Love' or 'You Are My Glory'.

"I love the way the lobby feels when it's raining." Sul gazes outside wistfully. Her coworker can see that she must have lost her mind: "It's sunny out! You're working too hard!" "I saw it. My 6th sense..." 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... ⚡🌧 🌩 Sul can't finish her sentence before the deluge begins.

💋6S is a 2022 release that is rated 88 on AWiki. It is 1 season consisting of 12 70-minute episodes. The show, being just 12 episodes, ends before things get too stale. It's nicely paced throughout. It has wonderful moments and some lovely shots. The blood moon over the lake shot in eps11&12 is really nice. Overall, the show is a mixed bag and, pretty much, tops out as acceptable time-filler.

There's a reason the divine has not granted mere humans the power of seeing the future. We would never live today if we were always consumed with tomorrow. If I had known some of the tragedy headed my way, I would have had a different life, and while I would go back now and change quite a bit, knowing what was coming would not have improved anything. I suspect it would have made things worse.

Sul sees death, misfortune, rain... too many scoldings she lives through twice - the preview and the main event. Sure, she sees some good stuff, but it's mostly bad. She kissed her father's hand at the hospital and saw his death. When she kissed her boyfriends, she always saw another woman in their futures. Not her. ALL of them. She decided she's not kissing anyone. Ever. Never again.

Sul is an AE, which means she works her sleep-deprived rump off in advertising. Her supervisor, Cha, is a legend. He's so good at handling clients that he almost reads their minds, it seems. Sul has learned everything from him. And she's hated him at every moment. He /finds/ ways to torture her. She doesn't believe he can sleep at night unless he's stomped on her self-esteem. He's rude and gruff. When we look into her memories, he might be saying horrible things like her clothes aren't acceptable, but he also pulled out a credit card and told her to go get something to wear. He pulled out his credit card on a couple of occasions, so his hands aren't the problem. His mouth is.

Yoon Kye Sang (The Kidnapping Day, The Winning Try) "Cha" Min Hoo. I've only seen him in Chocolate-6.5, and he's completely different here as a blunt, almost omniscient-seeming man. Seo Ji Hye (Dinner Mate-7.2, Crash Landing on You-9.1) plays Hong Ye "Sul". She comes over as sincere and comfortable. She's a very good FL. Kim Ji Suk (When the Camellia Blooms-8) is Sul's ex, Lee "Pil" Yo. He's now a celebrated director and he'll be doing one of the agency's ads. We learn that he wants to see Sul again. Why is this guy the one who usually doesn't get the girl? I think he would be a solid ML. He can project comfort and sincerity. He gets the girl in My Unfamiliar Family-7.9 (that isn't a spoiler) but that show isn't really a romance. It's a drama about family relationships. The director is Nam Ki Hoon (Tunnel-8.1, Destined with You) and the screenwriter, Jeon Yoo Ri, brought us Radio Romance & Last Summer.

Now Sul... she's clumsy. We see her trip and fall several times in the beginning of the show. (It should have happened in the later episodes too, at least once, for consistency's sake). As ep1 closes, she and Cha are cleaning up a filming site... for a BED commercial (I know. T😄😃 easy). It's been raining so everything's wet. She slips, falls onto him, next their on top of the bed, and she's on top of him, and their lips touch. She's instantly treated to augering Future-Them getting hot and heavy. Very hot. Very heavy. He had a (fully healed) scar on his back when she foresaw the future. He doesn't have one now. This won't happen right away.

Next we'll see that Cha can't kiss without significant fallout either. He becomes very sick and Sul has to carry him up to his apartment on her back. He's still sick the next day. We learn that kissing women causes him near unbearable pain for several hours. He puts on dark glasses and noise canceling headphones because his senses are heightened. He can hear a mouse step on a cotton ball - from across the street. In the next episode he carries /her/ on /his/ back when she's drunk. They are already mirroring eachother.

Why was she drunk? Pil showed up. She's the project lead for the commercial he's directing. She'll have to see him a bunch, and she didn't handle Day-1 well. He wants to get back together. He sprang that on her Minute-1. So she drinks-dranks-drunks, and Cha ends up tending to her. She tells him her secret, so he kisses her to test it out. Sadly, the next morning, she can't remember much. If she saw the future after that 💋, she has no memory of it. All Cha knows is that, for once, he's not experiencing the agonizing symptoms that he usually does after contact with a woman. Sul goes to work that day in a confused state. Pil corners her pushing guilt over the past in order to extort three dates from her. He wants a chance to win her back.

Later that day, Sul tells Cha she was too drunk to remember if she saw anything. He suggests they check again: Ep6 ends with a romantic montage that is very lovely. It's all in the future, it hasn't happened yet.

While all this is going on, Sul & Cha's two best friends have met, coincidentally. They're completely unaware of the existing connection between them. Their romance is actually pretty cute - all fun and sparkle, and a lot less complicated (though they do have static).

They have Sul doing something that doesn't make much sense in order to forward the plot. She tells Cha what she saw and then asks him to do what she saw so she can just put it behind her. That seems out of character. One would guess that Sul has been biting back her words all of her life and keeping her visions to herself. Why spill the beans to someone now? The most obvious guess is that she's ready to burst, coupled with these two being attracted to eachother (seems like 💯% on his part). The viewer shouldn't have to guess about things like this. It feels more like lazy writing than good writing. *see mini spoiler

Someone wants to sabotage Cha and leaks their client's hush-hush secret new car design online. The company punishes Sul for the incident. Pil took the photo, so the 3 of them are poking eachother in every kind of way. At the same time, a mystery surrounding Sul and her father emerges. A burglar broke into her house and stole all the pictures of dad.

💋6S has a Western attitude towards sex. Sul's work friend is crass at times when discussing sex, and her best friend is pretty loose about the subject as well. Once again, this fits with Hulu's Westernization trend of more violence, blood, gore, swearing, and sexual content. There's a distinct difference between Hulu's K-atalog and the Kdramas on other channels, overall.

In the way of criticism, things get muddled midshow. There's too many moving parts and not sufficient clarity. Cha doesn't seem all that romantically compelling to me. They lay down a couple of clues about the final drama that's connected to the past, but they could have done a better job with the foreshadowing. It feels like more of an add-on and not an integral part of the plot, because they failed to set it up well. We watch a woman toss her head in a way that causes her hair to brush Sul's face and Sul glimpses that woman's future. Any contact her lips make with another triggers this. I wonder if any other viewers are wondering if Sul can kiss herself and see the future? She probablycan't, but they should have laid down the rules and parameters better. The explanation for the entire phenomena is poorly supported by the script. The viewer has to roll with it.

"You'll never see a bad future with me. I won't let that happen." They haven't been dating long, but Cha's getting pretty romantic. Overall, their romance has some lovely moments when it gets clicking. Leading up to it, the show was unconvincing. The secondary romances are cuter and could have used more screentime.

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📣7 📝6 🎭7.5 💓5 🦋4.5 🎨6.5 🎵/🔊7 🔚7.4 🤗3 ▪ 🌞5.5 ⚡4.7 😅3 😭2 😱2.5 😯1 🤢2.7 🤔4 💤1

Shazams: Stay With Me by Grizzly; No Matter How Hard I Try, by KIM DO HEE

Age + Language: $h!+, d@mn; Rated: 15+

Re-📺? For me, this is a one-time-use time killer.

Love @ work

99 days with the Superstar-7, A Witch's Love-7.9, Blood Free-8.5, The Bride of Habaek-7, Call It Love-8.4, Cheese in the Trap-7.7, Crash Landing On You 9.1, Crazy Love-7.8, Descendants Of The Sun-8.3, C🇨🇳: Find Yourself-8.9, Flex X Cop-8.5, Her Private Life-8, Hospital Playlist 9 (give it 3 episodes to get warmed up), Hotel del Luna-8.4, Iris-8, It's Okay Not To Be Okay 9, Itaewon Class-8.7, The King: Eternal Monarch-8.3 The King's Affection-8.3, A Korean Odyssey-7.2, Love to Hate You-8.9, Marry My Husband-7.5, My Mister-9.5, My Sassy Girl / Yeopgijeogin Geunyeo-8.5, My Secret Romance-7 (if you ff thru overdone flashbacks); Never Give Up-7.6, Oh My Ghost-10, Romance is a bonus book-7.9, Rookie Historian-7.6, Run On-7, She Would Never Know-7.3 Signal-8.6, So I Married the anti fan-6.8, Strongest Delivery Man-6.6, Touch your heart-8.2, Tunnel-8.1,

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⛔*mini spoilers⛔ So, she suggests to him that they jump in the stack together, and "no, she won't regret it later, and she'll be fine around him." How naive is she? He tells her to come over and discuss it. When they do talk about it he starts giving her the third degree trying to elicit as many details as possible. None of what she saw sounds like him ~ /to him/. He agrees to go along with her idea, but he has a condition. He says he doesn't sleep around. He only sleeps with women he's interested in. If she wants to sleep with him, she'll have to date him. This clearly appears to be a manipulation on his part. He's into her.

By ep6 things have taken shape.

I was absolutely whipped for this drama when it first started. The chemistry between the FL and ML was terrific. I used to look forward to new episodes. However, I wasn't a fan when the ML and FL started dating and their personalities changed a lot. ML, who was known for his cold gaze and strict behavior suddenly acted like a school boy. I would've been happier if their dating was written differently...more subtle changes rather than throwing it all the at viewer's face.

Another thing I don't understand is the recent trend of inserting murder mystery and/or crime into a storyline. It felt out of place and absolutely unnecessary, especially for episodes 11 and 12. The story wouldn't be so good if it was 'just' an office romance with a sparkle of supernatural. The last two episodes made me feel like I was watching a completely different drama.

I still liked the drama as a whole but the more episodes I watched, the more my interest decreased. The writing had a lot of potential in the early stages but somewhere around episode 7, it started to go downhill. Overall, I hate to say it's an okay drama. The ending felt rushed and could've been executed better.