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Jae Jin

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Jae Jin

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The Fatal Letter chinese drama review
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The Fatal Letter
1 people found this review helpful
by Jae Jin
Feb 1, 2024
24 of 24 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 6.5
Story 7.0
Acting/Cast 7.0
Music 5.0
Rewatch Value 3.0
This review may contain spoilers

Decent Trashy Car Crash Romance

I can't believe I went out of that thinking it was decent

The story is about a woman who was able to predict the future through her dreams and she dreamt about her husband killing her in the future. So now, she has to figure out how to change the course of fate, and that's not the only thing, more things will get revealed as you watch more of the drama. I don't wanna spoil much, the drama is 5-10 minutes long per episode so just give it a watch if you're interested, you can easily finish it in 1-2 hours. For me, it was pretty interesting, but I just could not stand the domestic violence at times, for any woman out there you might not like this. Again, the story is pretty interesting for how did it, though they just went overboard with the violence (or maybe it's just me) and there are some disappointments as well for how they resolved things in the end.

**SPOILER**
What disappointed me, is that when FL got out of the relationship, she didn't like revenge on his ex-husband or anything, she just mindbroken him, like... for all the things that he did to you, that's your counterattack? I wish they just went above and beyond for FL's revenge because this man deserved to be beaten more, not just mentally, That's why I probably find the story pretty interesting because they tried to be grounded and used the law instead of violence against violence, not like in any revenge dramas. And then after that's finished, the story still continued because they still went through the trouble of explaining some more confusing stuff and kept bringing up more plot twists like "Oh... this character actually got played by this character since the beginning. NO! This character actually got doubled played this character and then this character went in between and controlled everything behind the scenes", like okay..??? you didn't have to do that, the show was decent, but you just set it ablaze in the end.

For the characters. FL really amazed me, because she knew what's gonna happen in the future, she just hung on for her dear life and just took all the beating every time like "Girrllll you are so strong" and when I thought she was such a good person, all the revelations in the later episodes made her a bad person, but I was still on her side because she had to do it or else she will die. ML really got it coming for him, he was such a possessive and abusive husband, but they tried to redeem his character by showing a back story of his childhood revealing that he was just a victim of his past, like pffft! I get it, if I were to see that as a child I would be traumatized too, but you know what I would do? I would do the opposite and try to be a good person, and learn from the mistakes of my parents. Ruyue, I'm kinda clouded with a bias towards your actress Wang Xing Chen because I mainly watched this because of her, she had it coming as well for ruining FL's life and it was satisfying, I know she was a victim of the past as well, but that doesn't say she's a good character because we didn't have much character exploration with her side. Yibai, they didn't really show much of his side in the drama, which is why he didn't really stand out to me, not until in the end because of the plot twist.

So yeah, overall it's pretty decent, could've been better in my opinion, but I'll take it.
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