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laleiaPut Your Head On My Shoulder:
This is (again) based on a web-novel (that I have not read because it is not completely translated) by the same person who write the web-novel for A Love So Beautiful.
I finished this one only a few days ago and I honestly liked this a lot! This was very unexpected because I only started watching it because it was on Netflix and thus was easier to Chromecast onto my TV. I had not looked up anything about it beforehand, and had no expectations, and it was surprisingly addictive! It was very sweet and fluffy. There was basically no conflict, which I appreciated. Most importantly, the male lead is super sweet.
One thing I’ve been pondering recently is how I feel like, in the decade that passed since I last watched Asian dramas obsessively, the classic cdrama M/F pair shifted from a Asshole Guy / Spunky Girl Standing Up To Him dynamic to more of a Sweet and Loving Guy / Ditzy Girl Who Relies On Him dynamic. I haven’t consumed enough Asian dramas yet (though trust me I’m getting there) to know whether there has actually been a broader shift or if it’s just the dramas I’ve been watching. This mostly comes to mind because (1) I watched an episode of the Meteor Garden reboot and it defanged the F4’s assholery significantly — which, to be fair, I do see how a modern audience wouldn’t take as kindly to some of the F4’s truly spectacular awfulness from the original versions and (2) I watched Go Go Squid last Christmas which honestly surprised me because given the set-up and the way the male lead is introduced in that, I really expected him to be your classic cold, aloof, arrogant asshole who is rude to the female lead on their first meeting — and yet every time I thought he was going to say something mean, he would do something really sweet and considerate (although always in cold and distant manner) instead.
Anyways, this was all to say, the male lead in this drama is very cold and aloof, but he’s SO sweet! Honestly, it’s almost like ... well, let me explain the premise first.
When the drama starts, our female lead has a high school guy friend who goes to the same university as her, who she hangs out with all the time, and who she tells us (through voiceover) she’s pretty sure she’s going to end up with eventually. She’s liked him since high school and is pretty sure he likes her. Then she meets the male lead (who happens to be the high school guy’s roommate) and slowly ends up falling in love with him instead over the course of the drama.
Given the setup — that there’s a guy she has a lot of history with (but who takes her kind of for granted and who later says he never seriously pursued her before because he didn’t want to risk their friendship but then got jealous when the male lead showed up) who she likes and who thinks is going to be it for her, and then another guy shows up and starts being really sweet to her — it’s almost as if the archetype of the sweet secondary lead in any other drama showed up and suddenly became the male lead in this one.
Anyways, I really liked this — as mentioned, there was basically no conflict. The conflict for the first two-thirds of the show is whether he will be able to Confess His Feelings for her in a way that she will understand. (He is a physics student; his first attempt, which he workshopped with his fellow star physics student and his physics professor, was to confess to her through physics equations that of course she did not understand.) After they get together, there are conflicts but there are minor and don’t take much screen time. There is no Big Misunderstanding, which is very refreshing. Oh! And there’s this hilarious scene where the first time they have sex evidently does not go well — it cuts to afterwards, and she goes, “Well, you know, you always say that there’s some gap between theory and practice” and he proceeds to very determinedly Google (Er... Baidu) the shit out of sex, taking notes along the way, because he’s determined to get better at it. I cracked up.
Final Verdict: Would Recommend
This is (again) based on a web-novel (that I have not read because it is not completely translated) by the same person who write the web-novel for A Love So Beautiful.
I finished this one only a few days ago and I honestly liked this a lot! This was very unexpected because I only started watching it because it was on Netflix and thus was easier to Chromecast onto my TV. I had not looked up anything about it beforehand, and had no expectations, and it was surprisingly addictive! It was very sweet and fluffy. There was basically no conflict, which I appreciated. Most importantly, the male lead is super sweet.
One thing I’ve been pondering recently is how I feel like, in the decade that passed since I last watched Asian dramas obsessively, the classic cdrama M/F pair shifted from a Asshole Guy / Spunky Girl Standing Up To Him dynamic to more of a Sweet and Loving Guy / Ditzy Girl Who Relies On Him dynamic. I haven’t consumed enough Asian dramas yet (though trust me I’m getting there) to know whether there has actually been a broader shift or if it’s just the dramas I’ve been watching. This mostly comes to mind because (1) I watched an episode of the Meteor Garden reboot and it defanged the F4’s assholery significantly — which, to be fair, I do see how a modern audience wouldn’t take as kindly to some of the F4’s truly spectacular awfulness from the original versions and (2) I watched Go Go Squid last Christmas which honestly surprised me because given the set-up and the way the male lead is introduced in that, I really expected him to be your classic cold, aloof, arrogant asshole who is rude to the female lead on their first meeting — and yet every time I thought he was going to say something mean, he would do something really sweet and considerate (although always in cold and distant manner) instead.
Anyways, this was all to say, the male lead in this drama is very cold and aloof, but he’s SO sweet! Honestly, it’s almost like ... well, let me explain the premise first.
When the drama starts, our female lead has a high school guy friend who goes to the same university as her, who she hangs out with all the time, and who she tells us (through voiceover) she’s pretty sure she’s going to end up with eventually. She’s liked him since high school and is pretty sure he likes her. Then she meets the male lead (who happens to be the high school guy’s roommate) and slowly ends up falling in love with him instead over the course of the drama.
Given the setup — that there’s a guy she has a lot of history with (but who takes her kind of for granted and who later says he never seriously pursued her before because he didn’t want to risk their friendship but then got jealous when the male lead showed up) who she likes and who thinks is going to be it for her, and then another guy shows up and starts being really sweet to her — it’s almost as if the archetype of the sweet secondary lead in any other drama showed up and suddenly became the male lead in this one.
Anyways, I really liked this — as mentioned, there was basically no conflict. The conflict for the first two-thirds of the show is whether he will be able to Confess His Feelings for her in a way that she will understand. (He is a physics student; his first attempt, which he workshopped with his fellow star physics student and his physics professor, was to confess to her through physics equations that of course she did not understand.) After they get together, there are conflicts but there are minor and don’t take much screen time. There is no Big Misunderstanding, which is very refreshing. Oh! And there’s this hilarious scene where the first time they have sex evidently does not go well — it cuts to afterwards, and she goes, “Well, you know, you always say that there’s some gap between theory and practice” and he proceeds to very determinedly Google (Er... Baidu) the shit out of sex, taking notes along the way, because he’s determined to get better at it. I cracked up.
Final Verdict: Would Recommend
