Tameka Mechell Hensley
So much wasted potential
The first half of this drama had everything I wanted, but the second half was such a convoluted mess that I almost didn’t finish it.The acting was okay, especially from Louie, though the naive act got very old after awhile. I hated the Director though. I detest second leads who do not know their place. If you know someone is in love with someone else, LEAVE THEM ALONE. He was so controlling that it left a bad taste in my mouth.
The amount of times that unrealistic situations come up again and again is annoying and a sign of lazy writing.
In short, this drama would have been amazing if it were 10 episodes and they didn’t try to DRAG it out to 16.
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This show DRAGGED
It was a cute idea for like a 10 episode show. There was not enough intrigue for 16 episodes, and the last five were a CHORE to watch.The same three ideas got repeated through the whole show: her background versus his, rumors in the press, and his mother not liking her. So annoying.
Also, and this is petty but the FL’s hair and clothes were tragic. What is with this trend of having them dress so inappropriately for their jobs and age. Also, the wigs were atrocious.
And the FL’s acting was so wooden. There were times when I thought my TV was acting up because she would just stand there frozen on the screen.
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Best cast since Le Coup de Foudre
That is high praise for me as that is my favorite drama of all time. This has moved into my third after LCDF and ALSB. This cast was one of the best I have ever seen. They are all amazing people with well-flushed out back stories. There are no misunderstandings, except for the major one, and no real villains. But that doesn't mean the story is not interesting.This drama took a serious, yet light-hearted, look at trauma and what it does to one's personality and relationships. It made me feel literally every emotion in the book. I loved it from beginning to end.
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Either the best thing ever or the most mediocre story ever. I can't decide.
This is either the best drama I have ever seen or one of the most mediocre, and I can't decide which. That's why I just split the difference between a ten or a five because I don't know if this was cautionary tale about the trials of picking the wrong person or a mediocre romance with disgusting elements thrown in.The good: Yae, Khing, and Chiaw absolutely give me life and should be protected at all costs. They are all amazing characters and their acting was top notch.
The bad: The three named characters above have the least screen time in favor of the two actual leads Win and Fang. I hate both of these characters for different reasons, but I hate Win the most because he is the epitome of a bad choice in a good wrapping. He is cute, and at first glance, romantic, but he actually puts Fang in horrible positions and never really has a good reason for why he pursues her. He becomes noticeably horrible later in the series, but I hated him from the very beginning. Fang on the other hand is the epitome of innocence to a fault. She allows people to take advantage of her (and no I'm not talking about that DISGUSTING storyline thrown in at the end of the drama), never speaks up for herself, and is as interesting as watching paint dry. She has this most annoying habit of LONG pregnant pauses every time someone asks her a question, and it just made me frustrated the entire time she was on the screen.
If this drama is a cautionary tale, it was amazing because they seed from the beginning the cracks in the main leads' relationship.
If it is a mediocre romance, it was not very well done at all. Watch it for the three characters above, especially Yae. His storyline was amazing and honestly would have been a stronger drama on its own.
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Didn’t love some of it but man was the rest so beautiful
Edit: After finishing, I still don’t love the angst but those last episodes made the rest SO worth it. They are some of the most beautiful pieces of television I have ever seen.I loved this show for the first seventeen episodes, but it got angsty just for the sake of being angsty at the end. I don’t mind the characters having difficulties as long as they make sense, but I hate manufactured difficulties.
The target panic fell a little flat for me as this seems like something he should have dealt with earlier in the drama. At the end, it just seems tacked to add unnecessary difficulty to the main leads, who had amazing chemistry by the way.
The timeline was also really futzed and weird. It seems to make a time jump that it barely acknowledges that then leads the viewer to having no clue how long the leads have been together. This proves very crucial the last few episodes.
I wish they would just write dramas with realistic circumstances that may create problems, just have shorter seasons, or wait until the end to put the leads together if they feel like the drama will be gone once they unite them. This drama would have been perfect at sixteen or seventeen episodes.
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