One More Time

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Finished One More Time over the weekend and overall I'd say I liked it.  The basic plot is that a struggling, in-debt musician breaks up with his long-time girlfriend and his band, and takes a deal from a big entertainment company only to wake up and find himself repeating the same day.  The show jumps around a lot between time periods  and it's kinda confusing if you're not paying attention. There's a truth behind what happens in the first episode, but it's not revealed until like the 6th episode.  Obviously it's a fantasy, or at least, real life with fantasy woven in.  I feel like Asian dramas do this really well bc it's not overly questioned by any of the characters, just accepted as is.

The story kinda goes in three phases.  At first L's character, Tan, tries to make the most of his repeating day by making a bunch of money and hitting on girls.  But then he finds out what happens to his gf at the end of each day and he's focused on saving her.  It turns out later that his gf has a contract with the shinigami who has concocted this whole thing in the first place.  The wrap-up at the end isn't entirely explained, but if you put the pieces together you can pretty easily see how Tan gets out of the loop and the shinigami finishes the contract.

The good thing about this drama is that it was short.  I can easily see it being dragged out with filler and losing its power.  So as much as I wanted it to be longer, I'm glad it wasn't lol.  The soundtrack was also on point and I believe it was L doing his own songs (it sounded like him) and tbh he sounded really good.  I pretty highkey want some kinda solo from him now lol.  His acting was also good in pretty much every aspect.  I don't think he overacted the emotional parts either, which is a sugoi pet peeve of mine in Kdramas especially.  And he was quite funny in the comedic parts.  SOme of his expressions were great lol.

I rated it 'Good' on MDL, just for content I suppose.  But there's really nothing I'd change about it.  I'm definitely looking forward to seeing L in the Master of the Mask coming up in May.