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On When life gives you tangerines

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  Kdrama should never make such a series like this again, this is the hardest series I've seen. And it's not even the one with the most tragedy (a lot of saeguk will it give it run for its money). But it's the rawness of it. The realism that's embedded in each of the episodes. We watched them grow from childhood with dreams, to adulthood with optimism. And we saw life beat them over and over and over. We saw the harshness of life sap some light out of their eyes. But through it all, we still saw unwavering tenderness between our two MCs.  We saw them trudge trudge through parenthood, more financial crisis. We saw them evolve, regrets in middle age and we saw them pick up their dreams again. We saw them find pleasures and contentment, making do with the situation they'd been served by life.  This was a masterpiece of being alive and I didn't even know when a tear escaped my eyes in the last episode cos why was this so heartbreaking, tear-jerking, and whimsical at...

On Dancing for the Devil

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  For someone like me that had fallen prey for brainwashing 419, I can totally get how people become brainwashed to religious cults. Especially if you're doing it for "supposed protection" of your family. The craziest thing about this documentary is that the religious audio snippets by the cult leader is probably the least impressive thing you'd ever listen to. Like the very least, bottom barrel. Okay maybe I'm just biased to never take anything that is covered under the umbrella of religion as trustworthy but this is just crazy. Like literally, once I hear men of God, my brain just screams "Grain of salt. Take this with a full spoon of salt." So you're telling me that you're a Christian, and you read your bible and someone is telling you they're the only way to God and you believe it? My heart goes out to the victims though.

On Court of Gold

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Oh this is an amazing amazing documentary.  I started off by rooting by Team France. By episode 5, I was on Team Serbia (rooting for the underdog and shit). But after team USA defeated Serbia, and by episode 6 for the finale, I couldn't help but cheer for Team USA. I watched the finals live but rewatching the highlights, that was a phenomenal game  Team USA is so arrogant, it grated on my nerves. But I mean why wouldn't they have that confidence?. They've won this gold for 4 times consecutively before the 2024 game. Others would chant their country's name before a game, and team USA was chanting "GOLD." Like not for once did it cross their minds they could actually get silver. It is Gold or nothing. I felt so bad for France. In their own country, and team USA defeated them in both the men and females for finals. I'm shaa looking forward to 2028 Olympics. I know it'd even be more obnoxious since it'd be in the United States.