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PENTHESILEA

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PENTHESILEA

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Black & White taiwanese drama review
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Black & White
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by PENTHESILEA
Apr 8, 2023
24 of 24 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 6.0
Story 5.0
Acting/Cast 7.0
Music 7.5
Rewatch Value 1.0
This review may contain spoilers

What did i miss?

This is the polite title.
The alternative one could be "A huge pile of crap!"
And a Sub Title is "Everything in this drama is random"***

Only one good thing came after i watched this.I have realized that is really hard for me to drop any Drama no matter how bad it is.Now i can finally relate to all of you out there who are members of the "Never Drop Disease " Club.I should definitely join you!

I kept watching it even i couldn't be engaged neither to the story nor any of the characters,just because of my stubbornness (call me mule!)my curiosity and mostly because of the many positive comments and reviews.It has so many 10's i thought
"wtf i don't see here?'"
Afrer all everything is a matter of a personal taste and Black & White totally proved this to me.

I have read alot about it.
I've read about :

-The Bromance.Everyone praises the chemistry between the two male leads.Iam sorry but i couldn't feel it.Yes of course their lines meant to present and show a great bond but all the feelings should've been conveyed stayed only on papers.Even if the word Bromance is too heavy,you can replace it with the word Brotherhood(which is one of the biggest ironies of this show,lol!)still i felt something was missing.If you have watched "The Devil Judge" then you surely know the definition of Bromance.Here..not even close to this.

-The Romance.Iam so glad i never invest into any romance at all.Here,fortunately,it was too light to annoy me.But i have to make a comment about it because if you love a nice,sweet and healthy romance,iam telling you,you won't find it here.The phrase"is complicated" iam sure came out of this series!
A Love triangle that sometimes turns into a quartet and some others into a pentagon!Go figure!Don't be scared everything is on a platonic level!
What bothered me though, was the "I will always love you,want and desire you and i don't give a shit if you are my brother or not" attitude of one of the main female leads.It wasn't spicy,juicy or intriguing.It was just a turn off(and im not prude when it comes to twisted stories..)
I put the spoiler tag in this review because i cannot fully justify my opinion without giving away some spoilers.Im sorry for this.

-The Twists & Turns.Come again??Everyone and i mean everyone talks about some super wow twists and turns,which meant to leave me shocked and totally surprised.
Im not a smartass ,lol,and im not telling you that aren't any(although from one point after was way too predictable,i couldn't take it as a twist.)
But all of them were unrealistic,unbelievable,ridiculous,stupid,silly,out of place and totally lame,to me.I love when im caught off guard and a script can captivate me with unexpected outcome.Just please make this outcome more logical and don't give me some lame events for the sake of awe!I felt like the writer wrote the main story and during he had an epiphany and added an extra story,and again another one after this and at the end he put them alltogether to create this mess.Yeah,that is what i got.

-The Black,White and Grey areas and some character development.What kind of development did you guys see?Where were the grey areas our protagonists walking through??Did you see any depth in any char at all?Did you see them struggling or fighting their inner demons or something similar?Because i didn't see any of those.
One guy is a cheerful,lighthearted,funny and the flirtatious type,takes nothing serious.The other is the strict one,stick to rules and laws,hot-headed,During the whole Drama he only once bends the rules and just for the sake of another turn(again everything is written to fit the lame twists!)
These 2 guys most of the time lives in a colorful world...

***All the random stuff
-The main story.Well,we see 2 -really good looking-police officers,fooling around,flirting,drinking,partying and occasionally doing some police work.
In the first 3 eps all was about a new drug came to town,called Dreamer and the operation to catch the drug lords which eventually failed.And i thought ,"ok this is one of the plotlines the story will be build around"
The next time something was mentioned about this drug was at episode 16 if im not mistaken.You get my point,right?
In early episodes some murders occured which left unsolved and we got no info at all about them.
The writer decided to give a face and a name to "a" Villain,We saw him max 5 times within 24 eps,in some brief scenes,lasted less than 30 secs each.. A decorative villain.Of course later we get to know that another bad guy was behind him and the writer also added few other bad guys just to give us a variety.Oh don't forget to mention a shady organization which makes brain surgeries to create cold blooded soldiers/killers with no empathy.
Also add some corruption,some dirty politicians and what a drama could be without the necessary dirty cops too!
Few characters added throughout the course of the story,without any background or any information about them.Just randomly appeared to take a part to the hot mess.Some bad guys turn to be good guys and vice versa .I think that is the reason everyone talks about turns and twists...Give me a solid ground to be really shocked about those revelations!
3 episodes before the end,within max 5 mins,they gave us some explanations about all those random stuff,which was the point my blood boiled and i felt i was treated like a complete idiot..Im not exaggerating.It was a 5 mins monologue giving some infos about all that happened.Lame,sloppy and totally unsatisfactory writing.

Few words about acting.Average at its best.I don't care if by that period Mls were rookies or experienced.They performed like a camera was following them the whole time.You know what i mean,right?
Fighting scenes.I always make a comment about them because i appreciate any good choreography behind them.Here all were too bad and considering this is an action drama that was a bummer.The most annoying detail though was the silly punch sound over those scenes.

I could easily give less stars.I gave 6 just because i didn't want to cancel all the hours i spent.Yes,iam trying to make me feel less bad about my decision to start it,lol!I do not recommend it.It has nothing to offer.
Over & Out.
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