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Hi Venus
5 people found this review helpful
Apr 5, 2023
24 of 24 episodes seen
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Overall 3.0
Story 4.0
Acting/Cast 6.0
Music 3.5
Rewatch Value 1.0
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Extremely BORING

Plot - basically about a pediatrician becomes the assistant of the president of the hospital she works and thus their love story starts from there.

The setting might confuse people of it being a medical drama but it's just an office romance.


Story - their is no actually story in this drama to begin with. There is basically the main CP and the second CP whose story can be easily skipped as it doesn't take anything away from the main CP. The initial plot made me interested as it started in a village with the FL misunderstanding the ML as a swindler but later on when it shifted back to the hospital in the city it just went downhill from there. The pace of the story is extremely slow and when I mean slow it means as slow as a snail. I'm okay with a slowburn if it's good, but here it was infuriating. I'm okay with a drama not having intimate scenes or even a kiss but for this one I wanted to end it as soon as possible. Everything from the start to end went smoothly for the couple and at the very end the writers thought to throw some unnecessary problems which can't even be termed as that and then boom the end.


Acting - this is my first time with both the lead actors and I've to say this if anyone carried the drama then it's hands down Joseph Zeng, but even he felt flat after a few episodes, and as for our FL, at the beginning I really didn't liked her character and even though she had major character development later she just didn't appeal me at all. And there weren't really many interactions between the leads and other characters. There were extra unnecessary characters with mediocre performance.


Chemistry - the leads as friends were good but there is no heart fluttering, butterflies erupting chemistry between them. If there weren't showing any kind of skin ship then they could easily be mistaken as close friends, nothing else.


Production - it was a low budget okayish production. The leads literally wore the same clothes again and again.


OST - was decent enough.


My personal fav characters might be ML (not always), assistant Lin, the director and deputy director from the village clinic and the male doc who worked at that clinic after the FL left for the hospital in the city. They were surprisingly the funny.


What I disliked the most:

1. Even though the ML is the president of a huge private hospital, he has all the time for the FL and often can be seen with her other than actually working.

2. The ML's whole purpose in this drama is to support the FL in every possible way. His actions just revolves around her that's why his character was very one dimensional. He really doesn't have anything else to do in the entire drama.


3. FL was supposed to be a pediatrician but through out the whole drama she was seen working as the president's assistant which she was miraculously good at. (Are you kidding me?) And even after getting the opportunity to return back to her department she was still willingly working as an assistant. Like why?

4. Through out the entire drama FL kept saying that she was working at that hospital so that she could buy her own house and thus even refused to change the hospital even after being bullied at her workplace. At the end where is the house? By the end of the drama she probably forgot about it. There is no clear clarity of her character arc. Her father's suicide which was unnecessary was actually dragged till the very last episode.


5. The FL's character started out as hot headed, fiesty, aggressive, cold but still kind hearted. But after returning back to the hospital she changed into a submissive, soft spoken, kinda trying to be cute, and always agreeing with the ML no matter he is right or wrong. He successfully brain washed her, sold her out, caused her to get humiliated etc.


6. This was supposed to be a romcom but the cute romance was there but comedy was truly missing. To many long monologues, advices and life lessons were thrown in each episode and due to the lack of chemistry between the leads it's just felt frustrating.


7. The documentary plot, the plot with that popular actress, ML's ex gf cum producer plot, the whole Gao plot, FL's ex bf plot, after introducing them either they suddenly disappeared or solved without any problem. Like the GAO plot, he created problems but it wasn't even shown clearly exactly what happened to him or how he got punished or what were exactly the accusations on him. It just miraculously resolved. As if the writers just threw it in last min to spice up the drama as the story was going smoothly or should I say too smoothly for my liking.


8. ML might break the stereotype of being the typical overbearing CEO but he sure was childish most of the times and extremely chilled and laid back which made me not take him seriously most of the times.


9. The BGM. Even if the scenes weren't funny the heavy use of sound effects might manipulate someone to think it's actually funny and it was heavily used all the time.

10. Costume of the FL made her look like a grandma beside the ML.


11. Each episode just consisted of the leads taking a walk with a cup of coffee, long launches or dinners, FL buying another kind of flowers, going home, sleeping, then again going to work and the repeat of the above. That was all to summarize the drama and not to forget typical cliches like shopping in the mall. After every second scene they were there.


12. Same repetitive dialogues.


13. FL and ber best friend's scenes could be skipped too as she gave decent advice but not always great.


14. Mostly cliche, almost everything and there were many confusing parts with questionable actions.

15. After the torturous run of the entire drama we got an unsatisfactory ending. There was no wedding or a proper glimpse of what they might be doing in the future. Tbh I felt like I was watching a teen romance than two mature adults. I personally think the last episode should actually be termed as a filler. It left like it.


Final Verdict - give it a pass and don't waste your time. There are much better romcoms out there.

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Smile to Life
5 people found this review helpful
Nov 29, 2022
24 of 24 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 4.0
Story 4.0
Acting/Cast 5.0
Music 4.0
Rewatch Value 1.0
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Still wondering how the leads even fell for each other

A typical cliche contract relationship story between an idol and a normal girl with only new thing is the ALS disease. Plot is predictable as this type of concepts isn't even knew but what make the viewers want to watch a drama with a similar concept is how they execute it, which in this case just lacks.


ML for the first 14ish episode is just a childish, impulsive, bossy 27yr old guy, who knew nothing but to act jealous. His attitude was so ridiculous that I wondered how the FL even fell for him. The whole premise which leads to the start of their contract relationship was unbelievable and ridiculous. The ML wanted to talk to the FL about something and asked for her address despite knowing that she was drunk. Then the same guy who knew that media was after him, roamed around the restaurant ( and throughout the whole drama without a mask, cap, shades to hide himself) to the female lead in bare face and then took her to a hotel. My question was why? Just why? Even when they were running together after the very first encounter dude was barefaced and to top it off holding her hand. Really?? What the need of that? It seemed like the director didn't have a way to get them together so used this ridiculous ways instead.


FL was a bubbly, cute and optimistic girl who was trying to live in the present before she dies cause of her illness. She is ML's die hard fan and cares a lot about him. Everything is fine untill the FL decides to help the ML while pretending to be his girlfriend when he made it look like the leak of their pics were her fault when she was the one who was drunk and that guys was literally roaming around the place barefaced. And the FL said yes. I mean you are living a normal peaceful life and have your own dreams, why would you even suddenly want to destroy your peace and get engaged with a celebrity and expose yourself in front of the media just to make your like more complicated. If that isn't dumb then idk what is when it was clearly shown that although the FL wasn't rich but wasn't poor either and there wasn't any emergency financial need. And let's not forget how pathetic she was when the ML bossed her around, made her his maid, manipulated her, fooled her, destroyed her plans while she herself was annoying as hell still they somehow fell for eachother. That's the question all along How?


2ML and FL was straight up and annoying and the 2FL was those obsessive ex's who can't get over a man and can't take no for an answer. I skipped their parts till the end and trust me you'll save your time and won't miss a thing.

Side couples were annoying as hell too so skipped.

Only likeable character was the manager mr bao of the ML as sometimes he made me laugh but thats it.

The story completely flipped with the OTP couple when they got together as the ML suddenly became a whole husband material and as for the FL she was in love with him from start to end. Trust me there was no chemistry between them.

Then atlast as usual everyone became friends again and the drama ended.

The OST was bland in comparison with the fact that the drama was based on an idol who is a singer and songwriter so expected better OST's.

I don't recommend this drama as I've skipped everyone except the leads and even they were annoying and as usual the FL was a doormat.


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Mr. Bad
2 people found this review helpful
Nov 4, 2022
24 of 24 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 9.0
Story 7.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 9.0
Rewatch Value 8.0
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A cute and fluffy drama which warms your heart

'Mr Bad' can easily be described as one of the most cute, fluffy tale of love. Although the drama itself has it's own plot holes and drawbacks and it isn't the most perfect one but non the less it's enjoyable as it'll surely bring a smile on your face.


Few things which I thoroughly enjoyed was -


1. It's Positivity. The drama itself is very positive from the start without any kind of villain or typically used jealousy trope which is a great relief. It also gives a message to all the females that we should be ourselves and don't have to change our outer appreance for someone to like us. Your other half will like you just the way you are.

2. Chemistry. The chemistry between the leads were bubbling throughout the drama. They have more deeper conversation and hugs rather than lots of skinship and kisses and even though I'm not against it, it's refreshing how a drama could engage it's viewers without it. People are definitely going to swoon over this couple for sure. And not to mention one of the most healthy relationship I've ever seen.

3. The villain is the hero. Loved how xiao wudi isn't portrayed as the perfect hero which is another charm of this drama.

4. Female lead isn't the damsel in distress and even though xiao wudi had to save her, it's not because she can't fight but because of her own trauma because of which she was unable to. Though I really hoped to see her fight more like in the first episode but it's okay I guess.

5. Own concept with a new twist. Even though the concept of fictional character coming to life is nothing new but the way they've executed it was refreshing. They just didn't make the ML and FL fall for eachother from the very beginning and rather it was slow burn. Loved how ML was trying to set the FL up with other guys so that he could go back to his own world (which also shows that the ML was selfish and not the perfect hero to begin with.)

6. Side characters. Everyone was the typical rom com side characters and the drama was mainly focused on the leads so there isn't much they've done and played a very significant role. Whatever they were assigned with they did a pretty decent job.

7. Mom of nan xing. God she was so understanding, positive and supportive that I loved her throughout the drama and loved her relationship with both the leads and she was extremely beautiful too.

Now the things I didn't liked -

1. The second couple - I couldn't find any kind of chemistry between them tbh. I think personally there individual scenes with others were great instead of them being together on screen. And it's not even about acting cause they acted well and portrayed there own individual character to life. But their story wasn't nurtured more and was dragged till the end untill they became a couple. I didn't understand their problems honestly. I mean the way they separated was something I found weird and not needed. They lacked chemistry and I felt like they were better off as friends because honestly I never felt that connection between those two.

2. To many unnecessary side characters - that sisi and the guy who liked and were friends with nan xing from college disappeared in the middle that I forgot about them tbh. They didn't have much screen time to begin with and doesn't have anything useful to do. All the colleagues that were introduced by name weren't also necessary.

3. The whole mao xiao jun plot was the most unnecessary plot. The way that guy acted when he was alive with nan xing it won't take a genius to figure out that he didn't liked her. Nan xing thought he hated her witch wasn't wrong from her place. And then at last the script writers had to make him look like the best guy who cared so much about her and xiao wudi was actually his creation and xiao wudi got all those feelings because of mao xiao jun. They didn't just invalidate wudi's feelings towards nan xing. I mean nan xing clearly said that she just once mentioned the name xiao wudi to mao xiao jun then how in the world both of their main descriptions were same regarding xiao wudi's character and not to forget that he actually acted like a selfish villain which was similar to nan xing's character description and not like a perfect hero which mao xiao jun has made. I'll just assume that mao xiao jun was never there and xiao wudi was indeed the character from nan xing's fan fiction and he naturally fell for her but not because mao xiao jun.


Lastly I wanna say that the ost was pretty good to and matched the whole theme of the drama.

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Love Between Fairy and Devil
1 people found this review helpful
Dec 4, 2022
36 of 36 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 10
Story 10
Acting/Cast 10
Music 10
Rewatch Value 10

Best of Dylan Wang

A brilliant show with a splendid cast.

First when I started I wasn't expecting much but I must say it's one of the best Xianxia dramas out there with a well written and great plot. It keeps you wanting for more and making you guess what's gonna happen next. There is not a single scene which you can skip because each scene holds importance and necessary to watch to know the story and for the development of the characters. It's not a bit dragged and 36 episodes were perfect.


So coming to the cast -
Dylan Wang is not a new face for me. I've seen his debut with meteor garden and later miss the dragon(which I had to drop. That's how bad it was) but I must say, he had improved so much in acting that I could literally feel his each and every emotion. When they swapped bodies and he had to act like a scaredy cat to being the domineering moon supreme, his attitude was just too good. Loved how even when his love tree revived he stayed true to the roll of moon supreme and the writers didn't make his character overly cheesy that it'll feel like he was totally someone else. DFQC is one character which will stay memorable because of his acting. I genuinely felt proud while watching DFQC throughout the drama.


The FL is a familiar face but I can't remember where I've seen her. I want to applaud her for her acting too. From being a clumsy, naive and innocent person to being mature person who got to know about the world outside of her little place and how cruel while still maintaining her purity made little orchid one of the best female leads to ever exist. When they swapped and she had to play DFQC, damn she did looked mean. And let's not forget how exceptionally she played goddess xi yun. Even though she played all the characters but every single one had a different flavour to it and that's what did it for me.


All the other characters did a wonderful job too, from Shangchue and jaeli, changheng and Dayin, Rong hao and lady chidi, everyone played their respective character perfectly.


This drama will make you see that what you actually think of the world is not always correct. Just because they are gods that doesn't mean that they are right and moon tribe is wrong. Everything is not black and white, it could be grey too.

Even though DFQC was portrayed as a monster and his character was flawed but he deep inside he was good. While Chengheng was the perfect man and a woman's ideal type, DFQC is someone who you truly fall in love with. Everyone did everything is this drama because of love that's why even if you hate someone especially the villains or Rong Hao, you could still sympathize with him. Btw the actor who played Rong Hao did an amazing job.


This drama isn't about kissing or explicit scenes, but about deep conversations and warm hugs. The slowburn love between little orchid and moon supreme was the best kind of love you can see in a drama. Their love was soo deep for eachother that they were ready to sacrifice themselves to save the other and they always did that. They went through life and death together. There wasn't heavy angst between the couple because at the end of the day they always believed in their love which conquered it all, no matter how forbidden it was.


I was literally a proud mom watching DFQC and little orchid's love bloom and grow with their own characters. Their love was the purest, bloomed in the middle of cruelty, hurdles and a thousand conspiracies. Love can really melt the coldest heart.

Honestly I can't explain how good the drama is until you watch if yourself.


Last but not the least the OST was too good and made you feel the emotions which every passing scene. The opening one is my favorite.


The production, cinematography, script, direction, costumes, every thing was perfect. They literally made DFQC look majestic in black and his costumes were the best.


This drama will literally pull at your heartstrings and make you cry. Go try this brilliant masterpiece to witness it yourself.

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A Business Proposal
1 people found this review helpful
Apr 21, 2022
12 of 12 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 10
Story 9.0
Acting/Cast 10
Music 9.0
Rewatch Value 10
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Romcom at it's best

I actually binged watched it and I must say I'm not at all disappointed. Yes the story was your typical chiche but still I've seen dramas where a typical cliche couldn't be executed properly. But my god they did an excellent job here. I want to give credits mostly to all the actors. Because of them the show turned out to be this good. I mean there was not a single actor which I could point and tell that person didn't do well (except kim min gyu as I found him a bit stiff and lacking in expressions at first but at the end he also improved). Both the couples were mature and handled things perfectly. The healthy relationship between hari and Young Seo was great. Young Seo's relationship with Hari's parents and how they give their blesing to both the couples were heartwarming. I love the fact that even though the grandpa was trying to seperate Tae Mo and Hari because of his obvious reasons he still wasn't forcefully tearing them apart and his hospital scene with Hari made the fact clear that he really liked her but his pride was stopping him to accept that. There was no love triangle or unnecessary jealousy between the main leads and it was shown how their relation actuaqlly progressed and how they slowly realised their love for eachother rather than making out the next moment like the second couple. Tae Mo wasn't your typical cold male lead but rather a person with a soft heart. He was just a workholic person who was very strict and professional with his work. Female lead wasn't a damsel in dristress either and knew how to fight her own fight. She never needed the ML to help her and another refreshing thing was the consept of the food reasearcher and the CEO of a frozen food company. It was new to me and I loved how they actively used that concept throughout the whole drama. This drama was not the one where the OST's were played often as mostly different kinds of bgm's were used but the songs were good too. I loved how the ML wasn't the one who never apologised for his mistakes. The drama was a all about love and positive vibes therefore an emotional scene never felt like4 dragging. Kang Tae Mo and Shin Ha Ri truly stole my heart as their chemistry was on fire.

Once in a while you really need this type of lighthearted and fluffy shows. And for those who said that there were loose ends, I'll say no their wasn't any. And there were people who speculated a season 2 just because the lead's wedding and the grandpa approving of them wasn't shown. First of all I don't thing there will be any second season beacuse maybe they didn't wanted to end it with a typical wedding but just showing the proposal and second when Hari asked Tae Mo about his grandpa he said that his grandpa told him 'not to come back home untill you(Hari) accept It(ring). So it was basically indirectly saying that he approves of them.

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Extraordinary Attorney Woo
0 people found this review helpful
Jul 10, 2023
16 of 16 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 10
Story 9.5
Acting/Cast 10
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 10

Something Refreshing

The story of an autistic attorney who graduate with the top rank from her law school but couldn't get a placement even after that because of her autism and how she deals with life, law and grows as a person as well as an attorney.


This story is not serious, gripping, thrilling with over the top scenes, but rather a light watch with a perfect balance of court room scenes and life, sprinkled with some romance too.


What actually refreshing about this show is that almost every episode is standalone while focusing on a particular case, and while that happened there were side plots too which kept developing in the background as this show entirely focuses on the law department.


The cases were all new which most probably was never seen in kdramas before which seemed more realistic because these type of cases are the ones which mostly law firms deals with everyday and the drama introduced a wide range of those cases.


The production, directing and acting were all top notch and I can't pinpoint a character and complain that this person didn't acted well.

Every character has their own story and own character arc and were different from each other which made the drama more better.


This drama doesn't have some serious villains who are after the leads, so even though there are people who created problems, one could actually see why they did what they did, the reason behind there actions were clear the more you'll get into the story.


Acting wise kudos to Park Eun Bin for making Woo Young Woo come to life. Her manner, body language, the way she talked, walked, sat, ate and overall did everything made me believe she was literally suffering from autism. And Kang Tae Oh my guy, he didn't have that much screen time tbh but damn he was the greenest flag of a man. The way his character was portrayed and the way he dealt with young woo was phenomenal. What I loved the most in this drama is that every character was natural, realistic and nobody is over the top.


Even though there were not any overdramatic emotional scenes but there were enough scenes to make you laugh, cry a tear or two and relate with them. You will genuinely feel empathy for the characters.


The way it started and the way it ended, anyone could literally see the growth and character development each character has whether it be as an attorney or just as a person. The drama was definitely a positive one gives you one of the most important lessons - A DISABLED PERSON IS A HUMAN TOO AND THUS SHOULD HAVE EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES IN LIFE AND DESERVE TO BE LOVED.


The music wasn't really much used in the drama so I can say that the ost was decent enough whenever it was used.

Had a great time watching it and will recommend this to everyone.

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I Am the Years You Are the Stars
1 people found this review helpful
Jan 26, 2022
11 of 24 episodes seen
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Overall 6.0
Story 5.5
Acting/Cast 6.0
Music 5.5
Rewatch Value 3.5
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Boring drama

I had high expectations regarding this drama cause I generally like this type of genres but I'm highly disappointed with how this drama turned out. So I dropped it after the first 11 ep.

The things I disliked the most in this drama are:

1. Lack of chemistry between the leads. Their chemistry didn't felt natural at all and sometimes I even forgot that they were supposed to be the leads due to the lack of scenes between them. Tbh the FM had better chemistry with the villain.

2. The story is unreasonable from the beginning and sometimes I don't even understood why they showed certain scenes in the first place. Now why I called it unreasonable?? Because the drama was talking about one of the most important topic that is death and I know the drama was supposed to be a light hearted one but sometimes the FL's attitude regarding that topic felt really unrealistic. If you don't know when you are going to die then that's a different thing but she knew how much time was left with her and it was fine that she accepted it and was trying to live her life in a positive way but her acting felt like death is nothing serious but a regular thing in life. Another thing was when the granny offered her money to give company to the ML, I mean she was going to die but instead of spending time with your friends and family she just agreed to it, why?? She wasn't poor but still agreed to give company to a man whom she hated and had to live with him in the same house.

3. Very fast paced and the writers don't even give you time to process what is happening and the direction isn't focused. That's why one time it's showing something and the next minute another thing so when it again came back to the first topic you'll find your clueless with what was exactly happening.

4. The villain was predictable from the beginning and the story wasn't interesting. I don't remember any memorable scene actually.

5. It was supposed to be a drama with mystery but I found none. It was way too straight forward for my liking.

6. I can't exactly define the ML's character cause I felt like the writers didn't do it enough justice. It felt flat from the beginning. And for the FL it felt annoying. She didn't acted like her age at all.

7. Don't get me started with their "supposed" romantic moments and first kiss. The FL sudden urge to date someone before dying and practically forcing the ML to accept her made me more annoyed with her character. I don't even know from when she even started liking him?? Cause all of their scenes didn't exactly felt romantic but two friends hanging out or idk if I can even describe them as friends. But romantic?? Nah. Playing a romantic track in the background while slowing down their scene doesn't always make it romantic. And their bickering felt like an old man giving lessons to a young woman.

The things which I liked :

1. A more matured and reasonable bestie of the FL.

2. The little childish fights between the supporting characters especially the scenes between Qian Tu and Qian Cheng and Qian Cheng and William which honestly kept me going. Otherwise nothing particular which I can remember.

I kept watching till ep 11 hoping to find something interesting but after watching the leads first kiss I dropped it.

The opening OST is the only one which I liked but nothing too special.

Parts with a green screen looked awful.

Give it a try if you are okay with all the things I've mentioned above.

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My Queen
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Jan 23, 2022
24 of 24 episodes seen
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Overall 6.0
Story 6.0
Acting/Cast 10
Music 10
Rewatch Value 5.0
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A nice watch

It started out really nicely and the light-hearted comedy aspect was really good. All the actors have portrayed their individual characters really nicely. My fav was Murong Chen and I must say that June Wu with his expressions did a splendid job to express each and every emotion. He needs more dramas as the ML.

The OST was also great and it suited the overall atmosphere of the drama.

Well as for the story I'd say it was really going well from the start and it was a drama where the ML and FL were not married and their journey was shown with their friends which was a fresh. But from the middle part I think the story started getting dragged and unnecessary plots were added just to stretch it. The comedy was out of the storyline and the most annoying part was the ML continuously lying to the FL hiding the fact that both Murong Chen and Yun Ya were the same person. They just dragged that topic to the point were it became frustrating. The romantic scenes were almost not there between the leads throughout the whole drama. In a 24 ep drama the first 18 ep were the ML lying and the FL being confused about whom she actually loves (even though both were the same person) and when the truth was actually revealed, there were more misunderstandings and then the separation which continued till ep 22 and then the happy ending. I really missed the original light-hearted comedy of the story and it wasn't even shown properly whether the leads got married at the end or not and the fact that the writers practically excluded the FL's whole family was another thing. I just wished the story was shown in a parallel way where the FL was finding love in the game as well as dealing with her boss in real life. Cause at the end it was just a game. And during the last part the FL's identity was supposed to be shown as a cold heartless person but the way it kept switching with her being the bubbly mengmeng was really annoying.

I generally don't re-watch dramas but it was a nice watch so if you want you can go for this one.

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Back from the Brink
8 people found this review helpful
Jul 6, 2023
3 of 40 episodes seen
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Overall 4.0
Story 5.0
Acting/Cast 5.5
Music 3.0
Rewatch Value 1.0
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Your typical bubbly girl and cold male lead but couldn't execute it the right way

After reading all the positive reviews I decided to give this one a try before deciding anything and I know it's not the popular opinion but I'm highly disappointed.


I wanted to drop it after ep 1 only but still pushed and completed till ep 3 before deciding to give this one up.

Now why I'm dropping this one? So my reasons are :


1. Acting - it's my first time with both the M & FL and I must say that they both have a long way to go in terms of acting. While the FL is still comparatively better the ML is all stiff, wooden while maintaining that scowl or stoic face. His acting was real bad.


2. Vfx and CGI - even though this drama is of a cheap production some scenes are really done nicely not gonna lie, but those cartoonish spirits and animals just threw me off. I felt like I was watching some cartoon which was cringe. While the CGI made sceneries looked fake.


2. Chemistry - I don't mind a slowburn romance if it's executed well but the problem with this one is I can't feel the chemistry between the leads at all. The ML looked like the flower boy next door while the FL looked like his sister or bestie. I can't just vision them together and think they'll work out romantically.


4. Adaptation done wrong - at the beginning they clearly state that this drama was adapted from a novel and even though I haven't read it, I heard that the story was almost completely changed. This was supposed to be a female centric story but they just made her weak who doesn't have any spiritual power, is homeless and got kicked out of the taoist clan, so much so that she could rely on the ML. Sigh. I hate when in Chinese dramaland writers and directors just always make the ML the invincible great hero.


5. Emotionally disconnected - as the leads are already bad at acting, I didn't feel anything when they acted the emotional scenes. I just couldn't empathize with them because they are not at all convincing. I could just only stare blankly at my screen. (The grandma character at the beginning was unnecessary tbh and why introduce her only to kill her after an episode?)


6. Story - the story and the explanation was pretty confusing for me sometimes. Idk whether it was because of the subs but it was hard to follow. The most unconvincing thing for me was to believe that the ML was a powerful dragon. From the get go of the story it was time an again mentioned that a dragon is a mysterious yet a very powerful creature but still you'll see in the very beginning that Su Ying (our evil woman) just swung her sword and the mighty dragon king (they addressed him that at the beginning) was already spitting out blood while pitifully lying on the ground. It nearly took her a few seconds to actually finish him. He was that gravely injured because of a stab, what kind of powerful dragon king was he that he was defeated so easily? Also I don't know where the story will lead to in the future but initial story is not convincing or interesting for me.


7. Comedy - the comedy aspect for me was pretty forced. There was nothing that actually made me laugh even a little.


8. Editing - it was choppy and abrupt and doesn't really give you the time to feel the scene and jump onto the next. There is no stability with the scenes.

While the starting animation and ost was good and led me to have high expectations, I was eventually pretty disappointed.


It's what I truly felt while watching this drama and those who've found this good then that might be because we have different perspective and taste.

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Meeting You Loving You
0 people found this review helpful
Apr 21, 2022
1 of 24 episodes seen
Dropped 0
Overall 4.0
Story 1.0
Acting/Cast 3.0
Music 2.0
Rewatch Value 1.0

Boring

There is basically nothing which is really attractive about this drama. Just watched the first episode and then decided to drop it. The beginning was confusing, the first episode itself wasn't engaging at all. The scene when the FL woke up beside the ML on the bed and called him disgusting, it was already clear for me what their missunderstanding is actually going to be. Even when both the leads were on screen together, I really didn't feel the chemistry at all (after watching clips of them together). There was something about the female lead which made her acting kind of irritating for me. It was like waatching her acting and expressions was enough to make me depressed. Lets not forget about the super powers of the ML which wasn't necessary at all and felt like was even used in this story just for saving the FL as she was your typical damsel in distress. The way the ML uses his powers by keeping his finger beside his nose was really comical. I mean man you are being way too obvious and he didn't even try to hide it. From the comments I already know what the story is going to be like so I'm not going to waste my time over it.

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