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Sugar Crown

no damsel - only distress

Sugar Crown

no damsel - only distress
Love Unexpected chinese drama review
Completed
Love Unexpected
2 people found this review helpful
by Sugar Crown
Mar 26, 2023
24 of 24 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 6.5
Story 6.5
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 7.0
Rewatch Value 6.0
This review may contain spoilers

MMA & sense-switch in a fluffly romcom? - Mama Mia!

Watchable thanks to certain scenes that stand out even against other dramas but other than those it drowns in a sea of predictable clichés and weak scriptwriting.

The pros (mild spoilers):
- the kisses! Damn! The cotton candy kiss is the most intimate kiss I‘ve ever seen in a drama (no wonder there were dating rumors after the drama aired)
- the times when FL had her period but instead the ML felt the pain. The way those scenes were written and acted made me feel certain that the drama was written by a woman (turns out it was).
- the ML performance when experiencing her pain was funny and he made it very believable. He did a great job.

Now to the biggest con:
The Female Lead. I‘m sorry but what the? Just now I praised the female writer for creating awareness and empathy for what women go through once a month but then she goes on to write the most pick-me-energy spiked FL? Damn.
*more on that in the spoiler section below.

I don’t even want to mention the MMA part because it was laughable bad. Her being a fighter & bodyguard is an insult to both of those professions. Especially because the narrative was that people don’t wanna see female MMA fighters for the sport but rather because of their appearance. This was never criticized but rather endorsed.

——SPOILERS——-

About the emotion/pain switch:
Both times the electricity goes berserk and both times the doctor is just like "oh well it’s alright"… no examination afterwards, and after the second time they don’t even have follow up appointments. It was said it’s a new technique in testing phase. Wouldn’t the doctors be super interested to see their reactions and document the process? - nope.
I guess they just needed some explanation that wasn’t too supernatural to pass censorship.

My biggest pet peeve:
The FL constantly asking ML to trust her, guilt tripping him into trusting her and pouting saying he doesn’t trust her — ALL THE WHILE she is actually cheating him!
She is the company spy and she knows actually what Mr Wu wants to do (destroy ML) and he also tells her all the time I just need xx and then I can finally destroy him and she still helps him??? All gullible and happy??
This was so confusing because she only has a guilty conciseness thinking about him finding out / his reaction but not that she is actually stealing company documents.
And she is of the opinion that she is protecting him by leaking documents to the enemy??? In fact she only started doing it because the MMA club was threatened, it had nothing to with ML.
And when he finally pushes her away, in the nicest way possible to note here, she is upset at him?? First trying to cling at him by saying her father is in poor health and then seconds later yelling at him he is a bastard??
And at the same time she asks the guy she knows has a one sided crush on her to take the fall for company spy thing?
Girl…. nah. She is a walking red flag.

———- end of spoiler ——-

In the end the drama didn’t know what it wanted to be and just mixed everything together, making it extremely superficial, as it didn’t go into depth with anything.

The first few episodes were fun but then it just became your average cold CEO, bubbly girl, co habitation romcom that is more predictable than you wanting a snack in the next hour :D

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