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Themed Reviews 10: Hate to Love

REVIEW #1: The Hating Game (2021) I read the book a few years ago and found it just okay, which is why I had no interest in the movie, especially after learning that Robbie Amell was no longer playing the male lead. However, a good friend of mine recently watched it, thus moving “The Hating Game” up on my watch list. “The Hating Game” follows two work rivals, Lucy and Joshua, as they fight for a…

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Chinese Micro Drama Reviews Compliation 19: Green Flags, I Suppose

REVIEW #1: “Give You Spring” 予你春色 (2025) One of the top comments on the video I watched was, “Is it that difficult to ask if the other person is single?” I found that hilarious because if they had asked that simple question early on, there would have been no misunderstandings in the plot. Anyway, in “Give You Spring,” Su Wanwan and Xie Yanning had feelings for each other in high school, but due…

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Asian Drama Review: The Best Thing

~ Spoiler-Free Chinese Drama Review: “The Best Thing” 愛你 (iQiyi 2025) ~ REVIEW When I first saw the teaser for “The Best Thing” and it was advertised as a romance between an insomnia patient and her doctor, I thought it was against ethics for a therapist to sleep with his patient, so I was not sure if I wanted to watch it even though I love the cast. However, more information came out, and I…

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Asian Movie Review: Mischievous Kiss 2 and 3

~ Warning! Minor Spoilers! Japanese Movie Review – “Mischievous Kiss the Movie 2: Campus” イタズラなKiss THE MOVIE2〜キャンパス編〜 (2017) & “Mischievous Kiss the Movie 3: The Proposal” イタズラなKiss THE MOVIE ～プロポーズ編～ (2017) ~ REVIEW I enjoyed the first movie, and you can check out my review of it here. As for the second movie, it feels like nothing happens and is boring. Also, why was the mother changed? It…

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Asian Drama Review: HIStory Season 2

~ Warning! Minor Spoilers! Taiwanese Drama Review: HISt♂ry Season 2 (2018) ~ History 2.1: “Right or Wrong” 是非 Shih Yi-jie is a college professor and a single father of a 6-year-old daughter. Honestly, he lives like a bachelor and is a terrible father whose life only revolves around nonstop work. Fortunately for his daughter, he hires a caring college student, Fei Sheng-che, as a nanny, and from…

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Asian Movie Review - Mischievous Kiss the Movie: High School

Spoiler-Free Japanese Movie Review: Mischievous Kiss the Movie: High School/ イタズラなKiss THE MOVIE ～ハイスクール編～ (2016)   REVIEW I was scrolling through Viki to find my next watch and had learned that there was another adaptation of ‘Itazura na Kiss.’ I know I should have grown out of it, but there’s just something about this story that has captured me from middle school to adulthood. I know it is…

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Asian Drama Review: Ski into Love

~ Warning! Minor Spoilers! Chinese Drama Review: “Ski Into Love” 噓，國王在冬眠 (2025) ~ REVIEW First things first, these characters are fucking snowboarding, they are not skiing. Having gotten that off my chest, let’s dive into a quick synopsis. Cartoonist Wei Zhi was dragged into an AI scandal, and in turn, her company confiscated her pen name and copyright to her work. Feeling down, Wei Zhi saw a…

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Book Review: Onyx Storm

~ Warning! Minor Spoilers! Book Review: Onyx Storm (The Empyrean #3) by Rebecca Yarros (2025) ~   After enjoying the first book and being disappointed by the second, I knew I had to continue reading ‘The Empyrean’ series. The third book is Onyx Storm, and there was truly no need for the novel to be this fucking long. Primarily, Violet assembled a group of friends and traveled to various islands…

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Taiwanese Drama Review: HIStory Season 1

~ Warning! Spoilers! HISt♂ry season 1 (2017) ~ HIStory 1.1: My Hero I don’t like the premise. A cisgender female (Lan Shi) uses a man’s body (Gu Siren) to win back her boyfriend (Hero aka Mai Ying-Shiung) and life since her soul was mistakenly taken. The solution, especially the kiss, reminded me a bit of “Yu Yu Hakusho,” but I might be remembering it wrong since it’s been a while since I’ve…

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Chinese Micro Drama Reviews Compilation 18: BLs 3+1 Bonus

REVIEW #1: My Enemy Has a Crush on Me 我的死對頭暗戀我 (2025) “My Enemy Has a Crush on Me” was super entertaining. The passionate chemistry and intimate moments were like a chef’s kiss. The two actors did not shy away from showing affection once the relationship was confirmed. Anyway, in this Chinese micro-drama, Fu Ci and Jiang Nai have been adversaries since childhood. As adults, they work in the same…

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Chinese Micro Drama Reviews Compilation 17: Established Pairs

REVIEW #1: 纏她上癮、陸總的嬌氣包 (2024) 黄文博 (Huang Wenbo) & 翟一瑩 (Zhai Yiying): I have already seen a few other Chinese micro dramas with practically the same plot. Lin Momo is accidentally given medicine and on the run from her soon to be rapist, she bumps in CEO Lu who rescues her. The two of them have a one-night stand, which ends with Momo being pregnant with twins. Momo decides to raise the twins on…

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Movie Review: Sinners

~ Warning! Spoilers! Movie Review: “Sinners” (2025) ~ REVIEW Actor Michael B. Jordan is truly Director Ryan Coogler’s muse. In 1932, identical twins Smoke and Stack return to Mississippi after stealing a fortune in Chicago. They decide to open a juke joint for the black community. Their cousin Sammie, an aspiring guitarist, joins them despite his pastor father’s warnings that blues music is…

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Book Review: Fourth Wing

~ Warning! Spoilers! Book Review: Fourth Wing (The Empyrean #1) by: Rebeca Yarros (2023) ~ REVIEW Firstly, I want to thank the book club my coworkers created and allowed me to participate in, which finally forced me to read Fourth Wing and jump on this hype train. I am so glad to have an opinion on this mega-popular book finally. Fourth Wing is a romantasy: Violet Sorrengail, who was going to…

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Book Review: Morning Glory Milking Farm

~ Spoiler-Free Book Review: Morning Glory Milking Farm (Cambric Creek #1) by – C.M. Nascosta (2021) ~ REVIEW A friend hilariously gifted me Morning Glory Milking Farm for Christmas. I finally listened to the audiobook to take it off my physical TBR shelf. Morning Glory Milking Farm is the first book in a human/monster romance series. Violet has bills and debts up to the roof and thus finds…

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Movie Review: Loving Vincent

~ Warning! Minor Spoilers! Movie Review: “Loving Vincent” (2017) ~ REVIEW During a weekend trip to Virginia, my friends and I visited an art house cinema showing “Loving Vincent.” Hailing itself as the world’s first fully painted film, “Loving Vincent” follows a man trying to deliver Vincent Van Gogh’s final letter after his death, and through this, learns about what took place before the…

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TV Show Review: Extraordinary

~ Spoiler-Free TV Show Review: “Extraordinary” Season 1 (Disney+ / Star 2023) ~ REVIEW A clip of “Extraordinary” showed up on my Instagram feed, and I immediately recognized the actress, Siobhán McSweeney, from one of my all-time favorite shows, “Derry Girls.” I looked it up, and “Extraordinary” is available on Hulu, which luckily is a streaming service I am subscribed to. In the fictional…

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TV Show Review: Primo

~ Spoiler-Free TV Show Review: “Primo” (Amazon Freevee 2023) ~ REVIEW If you like “This Fool,” then you should give “Primo” a chance, but unfortunately, both shows’ lives were cut short. A semi-autobiographical series, “Primo” is a coming-of-age comedy about a teenage boy growing up in San Antonio, Texas, with his resourceful single mother and five corny uncles. Why didn’t this well-written…