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Hello Again! taiwanese drama review
Dropped 9/16
Hello Again!
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by 8392225
Apr 16, 2023
9 of 16 episodes seen
Dropped
Overall 4.0
Story 3.0
Acting/Cast 4.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 3.0

Uh... "Department store drama"?

Main guy is okay, but main "girl" (34) could be better. What's more weird is that in the school flashbacks, she was still bearable, I mean she could look like that as a grown-up but then instead, she appears after the time skip with frizzy hair and some funny hair clip sticking out of her head: just look at this drama's poster (basically, she keeps making facial expressions like a toddler). I WOULD understand if they made her look like that in an attempt to convince us for a few school flashback scenes, but not for the rest of the show, where she's supposed to be already grown up! Did the creators had her past & present visage switched? Who did such a mistake?

The school times flashbacks, the main couple has a good dynamics. He is the wealthy spoilt brat, she is the clever stuck-up. Now they are grown-ups, she no longer acts stern towards him, which was the only little thing creating a pinch of romance angst. Nothing makes sense anymore... Main guy also acts kinda childish... He says she owns him interest from their old bet. That literally stated: If you and me are in the same university attending the same class, then I'll carry your backpack for a year. But they did not both get in the same class. Only he got in. Had she got in, he would not get in (he was on the waiting list). So, either way, she owned him nothing. Yet he keeps talking nonstop about how he's going to make her repay him all those years... He's in fact overly interested in her since the very early episodes, he helps her (saves her, in fact), cares about her, even is jealous right in episode 2... It's like he's already DESPERATELY into her.

When there was a poignant scene in 1st epi where FL talks about the past events which prevented her entering college with the main guy secretly listening, the expressions on ML's face were great in conveying how he felt, but FL's looks AND acting was all over the place. I couldn't take her crying seriously, while the loosened hair clip kept wobbleing over her head...

I had to take time before 2nd episode... I had to smile when ML buttoned the loose button on FL's shirt. Watching her since she entered, that's precisely what I wanted to do:) But did they have to make her wear yet another headwear? In her new job, they wear platic tiaras with animals and other childish-looking objects attached to it, to promote the store... Like, was she sentenced to have something permanently stick out of her head? I missed how she just had a straight hair in her school days. She was more bearable. Also, our ML has even more childish behavior now, than back in school? Who did write this?

But... Each episode opens with dancing sequences, which are actually the best thing about this show!:) So funny. The "chillaxing" song is actually pretty energetic and catchy. I enjoyed the opening credits time and time again. Still, I DID wish the show would go back into school setting. So what if the main actor was 29 and the main actress in her thirties. They still looked better there. More importantly, their characters really had better dynamics in the school days... Just her working at his shop - awkward elements alternating with her moping about the fact that she didn't get into uni - already started to drag. I admit that ML's office had a REALLY funny interior. Else, I didn't really care for the "department store drama"... Instead, give me more of the super funny "loving, loving" dancing, LOL.

For some reason, Sean Lee was also added to the cast here, he's similarly "youthful" as FL is (I think I remember him from shows like TWENTY years ago) and I soon skipped his scenes. Problem was, I often wished to skip even the main ones. Episode runtime was too long for me to digest, I had to cut it in smaller portions. One of the biggest "dramas" happening in there is when one of street gangs gets into the department store. It like contradicts itself:) It's so stupid it really IS funny. Plus, the dance sequences. The dance sequences! This should have been a musical. THAT would really be good. Seriously.

First kiss is epi 8/16. They made sure FL was wearing pretty dress in that moment, nevertheless they let her look totally dead fish (and this is Taiwan, NOT Japan or Korea). ML is shown hyperventilating after the kiss, while FL just keeps making faces which makes her quite unappealing given her age. I would prefer had they not kissed. What follows is the scene when ML keeps pouting lips to the air and mimicking kiss movements while talking to his friend endlessly about the kiss. It's kind of ridiculous because that is precisely what we did NOT watch. The kiss was completely still. Then there are more scenes like both the mains keep texting about the kiss. Basically it's 1 minute and a half of screentime of the stiff kissing and the rest 1 hour and something of talking about it. There really is hardly any romantic suspense. As if the guy who pays millions for your debts, shields you with his own body, is super kind to you even after you treated him like cr*p, creates whole environment for you where you can feel good about yourself, and then kisses you, does NOT like you, LOL.

During episode 9, there was a school flashback, during which the song I know from 'We Best Love' was playing. Which fascinated me more than ANYTHING else. Perhaps, this should have been BL, too. LOL. It's clearly so hard to find likeable female leads. Then, the episode ends up with the decision that instead of a salesperson, FL should become ML's secretary. It's getting more and more idiotic.

Episode 10... Had enough after 5 minutes. Had enough in general.
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