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Unexpected Falling chinese drama review
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Unexpected Falling
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by K H-C
May 3, 2023
38 of 38 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 6.0
Story 7.0
Acting/Cast 7.0
Music 10.0
Rewatch Value 2.0
This review may contain spoilers

Someone please send the director to film editing class…

Using my personal rating system of "loved," "liked," "meh," & "nah," this is a “meh”.

First major dislike: That with some decent editing, this could have been a really good mystery drama. It had everything it needed already: naïve housewife relies on husband for everything only to find out he’s been embezzling money and she’s now millions of won in debt; hints that someone else died in his place and that he’s really still alive; a mystery to be solved; a tall, handsome, and mysterious man who offers to help; most episodes ending on a cliffhanger. The problem is that it was soooooo slow! Completely unnecessary amounts of detail. For example, there was one scene where someone rings the doorbell. The camera shows the FL pouring herself a glass of water, then walking to the door, then opening the door—all in real time. All of that could have been cut out—all you need is the sound of the doorbell, jump cut to her opening it, 10 – 20 seconds saved. And that happened all. the. time. Maybe some kind netizen will re-cut this. That’s really all it needs to be a decent mystery.

Second major dislike: I get that it was a romance…but…someone who was deeply in love with her husband for 10+ years then has to go through discovering a ton of things he hid from her is sooooo not ready to be in a relationship with someone else right away. She needs to take, like, 2 – 3 years to herself to get her $%&# together. This is probably the one drama where the a lead taking off for a couple of years in the last episode then to come back and be ready to be with the other lead (while they lovingly waited for them) would actually have worked.

This is one of my few reviews that mentions the soundtrack: I actually liked it! In fact the credits song for the first 10 or so episodes is quite good and they used it well throughout the drama. Usually I find soundtracks tiresome after awhile, but this one I enjoyed.
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