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The Bad Kids chinese drama review
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The Bad Kids
6 people found this review helpful
by emma
Nov 23, 2020
12 of 12 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 10
Story 10.0
Acting/Cast 10.0
Music 10.0
Rewatch Value 10.0
This review may contain spoilers

Unreliable narrator?

OH WOW! Luckily for me I found this show right as it finished airing so I got the opportunity to binge it and finished it in only 24 hours.. I didn't really know what I got myself into, but the synopsis sounded very interesting to me. I was bored of romantic dramas and I wanted some kind of break from that.

This won't be a review without me complimenting the kid actors. They did such an AMAZING JOB?!... I can't really imagine any other people playing their characters because they're just perfect for the roles. Together with them, the scenery & music made this show so good.
I'm one of those people that really admire when a show use a lot of metaphors with the help of cinematography and this show did just that! Through out the episodes you have this perception of how Chao Yang is, but later on in the last episodes you start to realize this entire show has been from his perspective. You can always make yourself look better from your perspective and that's when you start to realize that the main character is an unreliable narrator. It makes you start to question what was ever real and what wasn't. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE that this show did this. I found it so incredible how your opinion of a character can change so brutally just through that once scene when we found out that Chao Yang actually pushed his younger sister through the window.

While we are talking about the last episode I also just want to talk about how incredible Pupu and Yan Liang wrapped the story up. I know this is mostly just speculation, but the fact that Pupu and Yan Liang are probably not alive (most likely never have been because I believe they are imaginary friends made up of Chao Yang simply because he wished for friends, but he didn't have any, so he made them up himself) is so INTERESTING TO ME.. The theories of this drama is absolutely insane and I really suggest checking some of them out after finishing the drama!

Something I also really enjoyed was the fact that they actually made Yan Liang and Pupu look like they had no money. You could see how they reused the clothes they had had from the beginning to change their outfits. I LOVE THAT! but that might just be me since I'm a sucker for details.

The last thing I have to talk about is how amazing the music is. Music can do so much for a drama if you use the right music, thankfully this show has an amazing soundtrack. I actually just yesterday checked out the entire soundtrack and most of the songs are very creepy, but in a VERY good way. I absolutely adore when a show create their own background music that will fit the scenes perfectly. It really helps the whole show set its mood.
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