Silly, cute & lighthearted rom-com
The drama tells the love story of a famous actress and a doctor who, despite initially refusing their arranged marriage, fall in love. The story is sweet, with minimal conflict, and the conflicts that arise are quickly resolved. There are no stupid love triangles, no exes coming back, no second male or female lead trying to break up the main couple. Aside from the romance that’s the main focus of the drama, we also get a lot of scenes about the entertainment industry. I don’t know how realistic it was but I could imagine the realness behind the scenes of filmmaking and variety shows and it was super fun to watch.COUPLES:
- The main couple is sweet, kind of a slow burn romance. The female lead is doing lots of seduction and the male lead pretends he is not affected but he totally is. They are opposites in many ways but somehow work well together as they compliment each other's personalities. Her overly silliness at times balances out his overly reserved nature.
- The second couple is fun to watch, especially if you love the bickering type, love-you-but-you-annoy-me vibes.
- The third couple is a very unexpected and sweet story about a fan girl who's favourite artist falls for her.
CHARACTERS:
- Female lead at first glance can seem silly and childish when trying to seduce the male lead which could annoy some people but I personally found it really funny. Her actions are done more as a comedy relief than for plot purposes and should not be taken too seriously. In fact when dealing with her career and other characters, she is very mature and down to earth. Her best quality is definitely always uplifting women around her and her kindness to those that did bad things to her. Even though she is an actress in the drama, they really portray her as a girl simply living her life and that felt very real to me.
- Male lead at first glance seems cold and reserved but is in fact soft and caring. I started the drama mainly for the actor and I felt like he did great with what he was given (which wasn’t much). His character doesn’t stand out much and I blame the script. The actor’s micro expressions are always on point. In general his character is a sweet, smart, caring, protective, patient, gentlemen-like husband that all women would love. His only big flaw really is that he is reserved and has a hard time communicating his feelings or knowing what to do in a relationship but it's all redeemable.
- Third female lead is the male lead’s younger sister. I’m specifically writing this because she is one of those rare characters that annoyed me like hell at first but I ended up really liking her by the end. She is a graduate student but at first acted like a 12 year old spoiled brat. She was clearly placed to create unnecessary conflict between the main leads. Her character got super fun to watch when she got a love interest and her focus shifted on her love story.
OVERALL:
I absolutely loved this silly, fun rom-com drama and I highly recommend it for those that want something light-hearted and silly to watch to relax and smile after a long day of work.
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So I came here after watching Ryan in The Romance of Tiger and Rose. I think if I had seen this first, I might have rated it higher, but in comparison to his performance/role in the other drama, I'm rating it a bit lower. Simply because I think he is such a talented actor and this drama didn't really use him to his full potential. That being said, here is how I would break my rating down. Plot wise, I think this drama is pretty typical and a bit cliche. I didn't like the characters particularly because they are a bit superficial and wishywashy. I love Ryan and Julio and have watched their dramas before. The other cast members were a bit lacking. I personally didn't feel that much chemistry between the main leads (or at least as much as there should be), but sparks were flying with supporting role romances. I found the FL a bit annoying, but it could just be the character. Music was neither here nor there. But I would rewatch just for Ryan's face when she tells him she's pregnant.
TLDR; watch before The Romance of Tiger and Rose?
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Can we have a season 2 please ? Where is the petition haha !
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Okayish.........
Okay so I started this for my watch challenge and I even had it my PTW.Now about the drama, it was really an okay one. I didn't like their acting that much as it felt too unreal. At one point I literally thought that "Yeah, Zhang YuXi said her dialogue" it didn't feel like Su Jinbei was the one speaking it.
The first 10eps were really good as they were a little funny to watch. But, we know that gradually a drama has to get better & better but this just took the other path and gradually became bitter & bitter.
There were a lot of cringey scenes like ML holding the FL up in his hands, then the one in which they spill the coffee and lot more.
I didn't like the filmography that much as well. When Ryan Ding was shown playing tennis & Zhang YuXi was shown exercising for the competition, it felt unreal.
There was not much need to add up a villainess kind of a thing, it could've worked better without it.
The relationship of Wudi & Yuansong was much better than the leads as there were no cringe moments in their relationship.
There wasn't any need to show Suying as an evil sister at first. I even liked Xu Jiawei & Suying's time together.
They were much better than the leads.
Overall 8/10 is fair enough because I usually rate them according to my enjoyment & for me Wudi & Yuansong saved this one.
I don't think I'll ever rewatch it again as I am not even having withdrawal symptoms as I had with my favorite dramas.
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For the first time, I am stumped about what to write in this review. I enjoyed the relationship between the two mains Bei Bei and Dr Zhou, and was sucked into the story and drama from the beginning. Both characters were genuinely good people who found one another, fell in love, and shared their love with one another and the world. Dr Zhou reminded me a lot of Zhao Nai from Love020, while Bei Bei reminded me of every role I've ever seen the main actress in, except for this time Bei Bei was a bit naive and overly dramatic but had one of the biggest hearts. She always saw the good in people, even when there was always someone trying to tear her and her career down. It was refreshing knowing that the only thing I didn't like about Bei Bei was how she just viewed life as a romance drama, and whenever there was a situation, she would react with a lot of flare. But it made it very enjoyable to watch as Dr Zhou loved Bei Bei's dramatics and never thought she was overreacting, even when the viewer did, and vice versa with Bei Bei loving the normalness of Dr Zhou. They loved one another for who they were, craziness and all. This leads me to my least favorite couple, Dr Xiao & Di Di. I thought that they were very opposite of the mains. I loved Dr Xiao and thought he was very much a guy version of Bei Bei, as they had very similar dramatics and were very passionate people and I believe that Dr Zhou def has a type that he likes to surround himself with (dramatic, passionate, big-hearted people). This is why I couldn't get behind his relationship with Di Di. Di Di is a very strong-minded person, who after a failed engagement, is very set in her ways (which isn't a bad thing whatsoever), but when she finally opened her heart to Dr Xiao, she had this mindset where she liked him but would love him more if he changed his habits. And it was weird as a viewer seeing this relationship between Dr Zhou and Bei Bei form with total love of one another, and then seeing Di Di always needing something more from her partner. Given, Dr Xiao would do anything and change anything in order for Di Di to reciprocate his feelings, so he is also to blame for my dislike for them. And I know that every relationship is different and not easy, but I felt like there was always something with them two, and it got old quickly. It got to a point where I wanted to fast forward through their scenes but decided against it cause I loved Dr Xiao's character.
Overall, I enjoyed how this drama was a good balance of easy watching as well as being super dramatic where everything either ended up in best-case scenarios or worst. Such as at one point (SPOILER) Bei Bei got sick and thought she was pregnant and then told everyone...even though her and Dr Zhao had never been "intimate" that the viewer was aware of, especially when they have a talent of always getting disturbed while they are about to kiss. It turned out that her body just didn't react well to her intense dieting, and I am sitting here like...this is the theme of this drama. The obvious first reaction is never thought about until the very end when someone else had to tell the mains...yo...what?
Given, I did enjoy this drama as the dramatics were easy to laugh at and the mains would eventually get to the right place...eventually. But I do think this drama would have been better if there was less Di Di. Also, I would have been more interested in more Jiawei and him building his relationships. He was a very enjoyable character and thought his store moved a little too quickly for the few minutes he had at the end.
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Not very good
Story:-The story line was ok and it gave a good perview into the lives of chinese actors and how they have to deal with media, popularity, etc.
-Lots of choppy storylines.
-The younger sister was soooo annoying for several episodes and yet overnight grew up even with hair/makeup?
Acting:
-Good acting but the FL role was a little too much...too sassy and narcisstic in some scenes and yet she was very forgiving which I appreciated and had integrity in a tough industry.
-ML was good looking but a bit stiff and maybe a little too much even for the role
-Side kick roles were funny but not as funny as other RomComs
Overall: Didn't like it and it could have been done in less time. Will not rewatch
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Sweet, predictable, but sometimes too annoying.
The acting was good. The main leads had decent chemistry and the story was funny and cute. Fairly predictable, but that doesn't really put me off. The OST was okay, I liked one song in particular. The second and third couples were good as well. The main couple, an actress and a doctor, it was all good minus one thing. The actress is supposed to be this cute and playful girl who is kind and sweet overall, but honestly, she could more likely be described as cunning and flirty as well as airheaded. While it didn't bother me in the long view, some times it was hard to believe a normal man who was smart and warmhearted wouldn't be frustrated that she's mature and kind one minute and childish and petty the next.The second couple, the actress's manager and the doctor's best friend who is also a doctor. To me, this one was more annoying. They had okay chemistry but a lot of dramas have this habit of having the man chase after a woman that doesn't like him and go so far that he could be called a stalker, but we're supposed to cheer when she falls in love with him anyway? Don't they realize that most of the time, when a girl says no she actually means no? Stop writing the story with a girl who seems to really dislike the man but eventually falls in love with him even though he makes her so uncomfortable that she literally would rather move out of her apartment than live near him.
Third couple, this one was cute and had a reasonable amount of development considering how little screen time they had. They are the main doctor's little sister and the actress's friend who is a famous musician. I was happy to see them get together because I actually liked the musician and wanted him to be happy. Although, honestly in the first part of the show, the sister is the most annoying little brat I have ever seen. How she goes from childish, petty, scheming, and a screetching banshee of a crybaby to a cute and agreeable girl with a mature and caring attitude, I just can't figure out. To be honest, the only parts of the show I fast forwarded were the parts in the beginning when she talked or did her screetching cry. I wanted to smack her and tell her to shut up because she was hurting my ears. She overacted it to the point of being a nuisance.
The rewatch factor is pretty high if you like a simple story with a cute and happy ending. Just skip past the annoying sister until midway through the season and you'll be fine. Overall, a really enjoyable show with happy endings all around.
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Honestly? Zzzzz
I watched this solely for Ryan Ding and though I liked his performance well enough, I was pretty much bored with this drama. Maybe it was just the mood I was in but this was like a little scheme here, a little misunderstanding there, then throw in a lot of cliches and viola you have a 24 episodes romcom.Maybe the leads as a star actress and a successful surgeon were too perfect to be relatable. From an engaged couple who were like total strangers to serious lovers, their relationship growth felt forced and artificial. Though the kisses looked real, I didn't feel their chemistry. The second couple (ML's doctor friend and FL's agent) was no better. I did not understand their on and off relationship. They kept having petty reasons to not be together. The third CP (ML's sister and FL's former suitor) had the only believable romance and chemistry. Too bad they had very little screentime. All of the 3 CP storylines seemed disjointed with each other so I felt like I was watching a mashed up 3 romance stories.
I probably won't rewatch since anything this drama offers can be seen in others.
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a fluffy, somewhat plotless filler drama
Intense Love was a drama that didn't give off a lasting, meaningful impression, but it was a great watch regardless. Though the story did not resonate that deeply with me and will likely be forgotten in a matter of days, it helped me pass the time and get my mind off of things, and I do not regret clicking it when it appeared on my Youtube recommendations.Note: I wish MDL gave more settings for whether or not there were spoilers in the review. In my opinion, there are no big spoilers ahead. It confirms things that people who are watching should already be anticipating, but it shouldn't be a problem and doesn't reveal anything that should come as a huge surprise.
Story 7/10
In terms of plot, the drama was not all that special. It's a typical celebrity/non celebrity love story where the female lead (Su Jinbei) starts out hating the aloof, seemingly cold hearted male lead (Zhou Shiyun) but slowly starts to fall for him. I watched the entire thing at 2x speed and felt that if I skipped 15 minutes of the drama, I would most likely miss nothing important. There were a lot of little things about the plot that annoyed me, and I especially hated how they used the second doctor, Xiao Yuansong, as a plot device. It was also super confusing to distinguish when Su Jinbei hated Zhou Shiyun to when she changed her mind. I could not tell when she was disgusted with him from when she loved him. That made it super confusing and unconvincing for me, but that could be because I abused the skip button a little too much. Even though the plot wasn't that deep, it is possible to extract meaning from it. I loved their emphasis on the media and fame and how they were able to portray it as both positive and negative. Su Jinbei used her fame as a way to connect with others and promote important projects while Gao Zitong used it as a way to slander others for her own benefit. Zhou Shiyun's sister was influenced by her idol so much that she wanted to hurt Su Jinbei's relationship with her brother, but she later became a better person through knowing her idol on a personal level.
Characters and Acting 9/10
The characters are what made this drama so enjoyable for me. That being said, let's start with something negative. I decided to watch Intense Love after being low-key unable to get over Ding Yuxi's other drama, The Romance of Tiger and Rose, and while I know that comparing the two dramas themselves against each other is unfair, I felt that Ding Yuxi's acting in this drama was much less captivating than it was in The Romance of Tiger and Rose. To be fair, that was probably because the character was written to have a lot less depth than The Romance of Tiger and Rose's Han Shuo. I just couldn't really feel his character as much here. Zhou Shiyun was a character that rarely talked or expressed his emotions, and Ding Yuxi's acting seemed to be quite stiff in his role. I wasn't convinced that his character actually cared for Su Jinbei that much. However, the female lead made up for all of the coldness that I felt from his character. Zhang Yuxi played her role of Su Jinbei admirably. The comment section was filled with people saying that they found her character cringeworthy, but I found her to be adorable. She balanced out her character, making it seem like even though Su Jinbei could be overdramatic, people could still relate to her feelings and find her to be funny. Still, I must say that I never really felt much for Su Jinbei and Zhou Shiyun's relationship and preferred the two side couples to them. The side characters were extremely well written and often took the spotlight off of the main characters for me. I absolutely loved the character arc of the ML's sister. It was amazing how she transformed from an annoying, spoiled brat into a mature, considerate adult. The two friends of the leads were also so entertaining. I loved the dynamic of their relationship so much and found myself waiting for their scenes more than that of the leads.
Production (OST, Sound, Sets) 8.5/10
The production was pretty good. The sets were very pretty, and it was cool how all of the houses fit the characters' personalities. I did find some weird errors. There was a really weird hand that showed up in the corner of the screen when the leads were in a house, and I was super confused. The dubbing was quite good. Sometimes it did not keep up with the video, but most of the time it went completely unnoticed, which I am extremely glad for. I do not think that the OST was anything that special. I remember finding it pleasant when it played but did not find it memorable.
Overall 8.5/10
Overall, I thought this drama was very fun to watch while multitasking. I laughed a lot and fell in love with (almost) all of the characters. Even though it was slightly problematic, that can all be forgiven because it's not really meant to be taken seriously. It's not going to impact me heavily or change the way I live my life, but it was quite nice.
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lighthearted mostly stressless joyful series
Life is too short for stressful drama. Why spend all that time watching and be stressed? Don’t our lives already provide enough of that?Summary of the series:
- Light hearted rom/com; series had good flow
- simpatico characters
- there were villains but not too stressful from them, there are some short struggles, calamity and miscommunications to cause more drama and some stress but overwhelmingly
- story was good (mega rich doc falls for a princess actress) , but the ending felt a bit rushed
- for some reason, when I watch this its more of childish love in the beginning and later to question if love or trust is more important in a relationship; FL had to through a tantrum and refuse to listen to extend / lead to an ending... a bit unnecessary
still joyful, mostly stressless series: recommended to watch for sure
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Wonderful Drama
This is sweet, soft romantic comedy....in the drama the Female lead is an actress & Male Lead a surgeon -whilst he is calm, quiet and serious, the female lead is totally opposite sweet, forthright, lively and very determined....I love shows about the love journey between successful/accomplished mature couples. I like this drama as they don't have in-law issues, love triangles or long breakups, melodrama- any misunderstanding they have gets cleared swiftly. There is a nice story for the Second Male & Female leads too - at times their story is tear jerking the couple end on a happy note.The main female lead is very persistent & determined in pursuing the male lead - and its so much fun to watch - there are elements of comedy thrown in.... As I am a sucker for sweet rom-coms I totally loved this drama, and have re-watched it as well.
Will recommend for people who are in to soft rom-coms, happy endings with less/no melodrama.
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