Across the Ocean to See You Episode 6

Five Stars

So far, this show has been pretty good. On one hand, it is filled with many characters who are very unlikable for various reasons. Arguably, the only fully likable characters are the ML & FL, Zheng Chu and Su Mang and potential SFL, Yan Xiaoqiu. Everybody else is annoying for one reason or another. Even the SML (Tang Ming) is annoying because while he is a nice guy, he is also kind of pathetic with the way he lets himself get manipulated. But despite that, the show is fun to watch, moves the plot along briskly and whenever they use tropes, they make fun of doing so, either by calling them out in the script, diminishing their effect, tripping or even flipping the trope. The biggest such is of course the inversion of the classic C-Drama trope of the "cold-cruel-CEO boss" sternly but fair guiding the underling who they are destined to be with. Su Mang is excellent at being the female version of such a CEO trope. She keeps giving Chu more responsibility and he is growing professionally due to her guidance. And he literally acknowledges to Tang Ming that she is his "master" who is brainwashing his thinking. This whole dynamic is usually gender-flipped the other way around in so many c-dramas (and k-dramas).

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