General's Lady (2020)

I took a wrong turn..

From the first episode, I thought I was gonna watch a combination of a heroic actions of the ‘demonic’ general and his wife fighting whatever they will have to fight including internal intrigues in the royal family. Having that in mind, I was hooked up until episode 10, when I realized that the story has not yet gone very far. With all the characters, acting and the likely storyline going forward, I decided to drop it.

For those seeking for a plain romance drama, this might be good one to watch. For an old timer wuxia fans like me, it’s a big no no.

Credit is for the theme song - it reminds me of those from the Legend of Yunxi and the Princess Agent. I also like Tang Min’s portrayal of her character - witty but elegant at the same time. The 10 scores are for the song writer and Tang Min.

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Weak storyline with never-ending attempts to be funny.

MDL has always been my reference for C-Drama, I always visit to check the rating & reviews of the dramas which I plan to watch and most of the time the overall ratings are in-line with the reality.. Well, except for this one, which made me decide to create an account in MDL only for writing a review.
The problem of this drama is not on the FL, she's just playing the role she's assigned to. There's no significance in the story, only unnecessary misunderstandings (without significant motives) which have been forced into the acts, the acting itself shows almost no emotions. There are a never-ending attempts to be funny but fail every time, they use these annoying background musics a lot trying to make the situation funny, for me that's really annoying these music keeps popping up in every casual scenes (non-serious) that makes it difficult to properly hear what they say.
If it's not funny, don't put those music to force it to look/feel funny, if it's really funny then it will be funny even better without those musics. If this mediocre story is served without those funny attempts maybe it still deserves 6 as the overall score.
The reason I didn't make an account for years while using MDL was because I believe the members here are better and more experienced in writing reviews, but thinking about it, that's very wrong because some people just put 10/10 for everything even when it's obvious not everything is 10/10 even if they liked the drama, that's the reason this one can receive 8.1 score when it's actually unbearable.
I won't drop it, not even skip it, because that's not how I watch movies. I'll finish this drama without even one sec skip, I promise I will change the score if it gets better to be fair, but I doubt it will.. Let's see then. If it stays the same then it means it only gets worse or it stays bad til the end.

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Partially funny story with manipulative child women!

A woman writes this drama, and of course then a woman is always the better half in a story. Surprise! That's why I would like to see more dramas written by men, or mixed teams.

Let's take an example: In F7 and F8, the FL provokes the ML with her flirting with Xiao Su, the emperor's spy. This Xiao puts himself over military orders in the military camp. Later he thinks he has uncovered a crime of the ML. Then he fights against ML's soldiers. All gripes in the toilet.
But FL defends Xiao and says to the horrified ML: "He (Xiao) is my man", nobody should touch him. This was almost a marriage vow in ancient China. The crowning glory was then the thing with the precious token. She looks like a lover and behaves like one at that moment. She doesn't need explanations.

Nevertheless, the ML has the ass card. He's stupid and of course got it all wrong. He has to take reproaches not only from the troublemaker Xiao Su. It needs an apology to the FL. And the tough soldier, this one-man slaughterhouse, has to give an embarrassing whimpering, screaming and crying performance. It sucks and is unbelievable! The following "resolution" then lacks any romance, one does not find redemption, but a formal explanatory text.

I cannot follow this: Why didn't FL have to justify her misunderstanding behavior to ML? Did she have a thing with Xiao? Didn't Xiao have to explain why he was spying? What is he doing in the camp anyway?

Overall, the story is riddled with little annoyances like this. But much of the rest is also very funny. And entertaining. Maybe just leave out the annoyances?
But the author sits at the longer writing instrument! And whether in China, or with us in the west, a woman writes of course annoyingly biased. Therefore: Goodbye and thanks for the fish!

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Ca va, c'est pas mal

De temps en temps on aime bien se taper un drama chinois historique juste pour les costumes, les codes stricts et l'histoire d'amour sucrée. General's Lady (l'Epouse du Général, sur Viki) remplit tous ces critères quand on veut voir un historique pas prise de tête et pas trop lourd à suivre.

L'histoire nous présente Shen Jin, issue d'une famille royale apparentée à l'empereur mais hélas fille d'une concubine de seconde zone, qui se retrouve malgré elle (à la place de sa peste de sœur) mariée à un général chargé de garder les frontières. Ce mariage fait suite à un ordre de l'empereur qui veut s'assurer la fidélité du général. L'époux désigné bénéficiant du gentil surnom de Général Diabolique on comprend pourquoi la perspective de cette union est peu séduisante pour ces jeunes vierges effarouchées. En toile de fond, l'assassinat du 8ème Prince héritier du trône seize ans plus tôt, que le héros tente de résoudre afin de rendre à son frère adoptif (le général en second, véritable héritier depuis la mort de ses parents) la place qui lui revient.

L'histoire n'est pas très originale, les rebondissements sont convenus, les intrigues assez simplistes et vite résolues. Et pourtant, on passe de bons moments, parce qu'on ne s'ennuie pas un instant, les choses s'enchainent vite, l'histoire d'amour démarre rapidement, les problèmes durent rarement plus d'un ou deux épisodes et surtout, tout le monde est plutôt sympa. Donc on n'est pas frustré, on ne tremble pas des heures pour les personnages en se demandant comment ils vont se sortir de la galère dans laquelle ils se sont fourrés. Pas de complots chiants et alambiqués à part le minimum syndical, pas de morts inutiles, tout finit bien pour tout le monde sauf pour le méchant (caricatural et ridicule mais au moins il ne nous plombe pas l'ambiance avec des manigances à rallonge). Les nanas se comportent plutôt bien entre elles (à part la peste de sœur, mais bon on a vu pire) donc c'est assez rare dans les dramas pour me donner une impression de légèreté, j'avoue que c'est une bouffée d'air frais bienvenue. L'héroïne a un côté gamine irresponsable mais elle reste agréable et sympathique, le héros froid et rigide n'a besoin que d'une huitaine d'épisodes avant de se dégeler, suite à quoi on à droit à de jolis bisous tout mignons pour le reste de la série, qui parvient tout de même à conserver notre intérêt parce que la romance du frère du général vient à point nommé pour prendre le relai, et aussi parce qu'on a droit au milieu à 4 autres romances, peu développées mais on ne va pas cracher dessus.

Voilà donc un drama dont le côté historique n'est qu'un prétexte à de jolies couleurs, assez superficiel et honnêtement je ne pense pas que je le reverrai un jour. Ca ne vole certes pas très haut, c'est parfois un peu mièvre et trop gentillet pour être réaliste, mais franchement, parfois ça fait du bien. En plus ça ne dure que 30 épisodes, du coup on n'a pas vraiment le temps de se lasser. Ca ne va pas chercher plus loin.

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Primeiro amor

Este foi o meu 1º drama chinês e responsável pelo meu amor por estas produções.
História leve, sem triângulo amoroso, são os dois contra tramas de poder, tem bastante cenas românticas, um toque de humor, uma OST muito bonita, inclusive o tema de abertura é interpretado pelos protagonistas, uma canção daquelas que tocam o dia inteiro na cabeça e mostra a meiguice desta produção.
Há quem não goste da protagonista, mas ela é uma mulher que age, mesmo sendo um pouco boba e ingênua, ela é uma boa filha, amiga, esposa e mãe. O general pode ser um pouco arrogante e parece que quer se interpor com o primo, mas se vê que é pelo bem dele, e quando percebe pela esposa de que está errado dá o braço a torcer.
Eu gosto muito desta história é o fato de não ter um vilão tradicional, um personagem da qual sentimos raiva, que apronta a história toda e vive se safando e às vezes nem tem um final justo, então "A dama do general" é ótima sob esse aspecto.

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un coup de coeur

Premier drama que je regarde dans lequel on peut voir la vraie vie d'un couple après mariage. J'ai adoré tous les personnages surtout le général. C'était agréable de voir les haut et les bas d'un couple marié. The main couple had great chemistry too! On aurait vraiment dit qu'il était marié. J'ai besoin d'un autre drama avec ces deux là! Il y avait beaucoup de scènes de baisers. Tous leurs moments ensemble étaient adorables. There were no misunderstandings and the little ones were resolved quickly, so it was not draggy. Bref, j'ai adoré et je recommande ce drama!

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Na minha opinião a palavra que define esse Drama é satisfação

Desde de o primeiro episódio eu fiquei com um sorriso a cara de satisfação pq não decepciona, os personagens não são perfeitos mas é isso que muitas vezes avança a trama do drama, o casal principal só traz satisfação.
Trilha sonora sensacional é colocada nos momentos certos.
Fiquei sem saber quem era o vilão principal até o arco final, isso foi muito bom.
achava que era um depois achei que era outro e não acertei quem era kkkk
quem quer um drama que coloca um sorriso no teu rosto desde o início acredito que seja esse.
o início você verá a aproximação do casal principal e como eles vão superando os " medos"

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El mejor Drama del mundo

El mejor Drama que he visto, me encanto de principio a fin espero con ansias la temporada 2 la historia debe de continuar esta pareja es excepcionalmente buena tiene una química impresionante, muchas quisiéramos tener un amor así, el amor fluye por doquier, me gusto tanto la historia que llevo como 2 semanas viéndola y no me canso de repetir los capítulos y seguiré así por mucho tiempo estoy fascinada con la pareja grandes actores deberían hacer mas dramas con esta pareja.

No soy muy asidua a ver series pero desde que la vi me enganche a tal punto que me desespero sino la veo una y otra vez todos los días, son muy bonitas las historias es el primer drama que empecé a ver y me ha encantado tanto, recomendadisima cuando la vean van a quedar encantados como yo, me dio mucha tristeza cuando termino solo espero que haya otra temporada para continuar esta sublime historia, que tiene todos los fragmentos, es lindísima la historia, tiene mucho que dar todavía, la pareja es encantadora una super actuación sigan regalándonos mas capítulos una temporada mas seria genial.

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Cosa non è stato questo drama 0.0
Questo è un drama ciclico. Cosa intendo? Beh gli avvenimenti sono più o meno sempre gli stessi a ciclo continuo. Cambiano le dinamiche ma causa, effetto e risoluzione sono quelle. La cosa bella che è un crescendo: ogni volta che il problema di turno si risolve, il legame tra i due protagonisti è sempre più forte e pronto a nuove sfide.
All'inizio mi ha colpito subito per i trope 'matrimonio forzato' e 'strangers to enemies to lovers' che sono i miei preferiti all'interno del panorama romance. Sia ML che FL poi hanno alle spalle degli attori che sono stati bravissimi ad interpretare i loro ruoli (Caesar Wu è stato una vera riscoperta, poichè l'avevo già notato in Meteor Garden ma non mi aveva entusiasmato là; si vede che è cresciuto molto) e a portare avanti una relazione senza modificarsi mostruosamente per l'altro come a volte purtroppo accade. Adoro quando i personaggi crescono ma rimangono fedeli a sè stessi. Inoltre qui quasi manca il terzo incomodo ma rimane cmq d'intrattenimento quindi ottimo. Forse sul finale avrei da storcere il naso perchè alcune cose una persona in quelle condizioni.. Beh non si sognerebbe mai di farle, ma così è stato.
Nel complesso non posso non consigliarlo. Anzi, mi è proprio dispiaciuto che sia già finito :(

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