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The Imperial Coroner chinese drama review
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The Imperial Coroner
2 people found this review helpful
by sora
Jun 11, 2021
36 of 36 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 9.0
Story 9.5
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 9.0
Rewatch Value 8.5

Truly A Gem. One of A Kind.

I totally loved this drama.

What I like about this drama is the script itself. This drama must be the one of few good chinese drama with well-written script ever. Though I haven't explored much drama in this genre, but I can clearly tell that the script for this drama is beautifully done by our two female writers and the director. I love the fact that they put a lot of consideration to the script. This drama is doing good breaking all the cliches and stereotypes in chinese dramaland.

Not only the story is well-written, but all the characters are also well-written especially the main characters. They are lovely and likeable. Start from our four main characters, they have the most healthy relationship to each other to the point that I could even feel the supportiveness through the screen. These young people are so respectful to each other, they're standing on the same ground despite some of them having high status and positions, they know each other the best and act on it. It is so rare to see this kind of relationship between the main/second characters that they stand on equal footing.

Chu Chu is a hardworking coroner that puts all of her efforts to her work, Jinyu is fair and humble judge that never speaks without evidence, Jingyi is a loyal partner, and Leng Yue has a good martial and medical skills as she's a granddaughter of a General. Four of them work in harmony and compliment each other so well--and of course respect each other so much. In addition, our best Gege, Jinli is also such a great help in protecting four of them in investigation.

The old generation characters are also wonderful. I love how forgiving they are and they listen to the young generation very well.

Though we can see a lot of flaws and shortcomings in the production, but the script of this drama is awesomely solid to the point that it covered all the flaws the production had.

This is my second time being impressed with chinese costume drama since I'm not a fan of this kind of genre--like period and costume drama. This drama is truly a gem that deserves a lot of praises for its writing quality. The actors are not very well-known with big fame, but they done the drama really well.

Nothing about this drama is out of the order, everything is on the track and makes sense. The script and the characters are written thoughtfully, that's the charm of this drama for me. There's literally nothing problematic and unnecessary things like misunderstanding or jealousy stuff in this drama and they did the romance part just in the right amount. Everyone is on healthy and mature relationship with each other, they listen and respect each other opinions and sayings. No unnecessary misunderstanding to test their relationship. The villains are also doing their job going against our good characters.

Ah, maybe at some point it felt like you missed the "woah" moment because some of the villains characters are written comically and some of them are dumb, it made the scenes less intense. It doesn't really matter tho, the script is still amazing despite that.

I also love the comic or illustration to explain about some details in cases and when they made summarization about what happened on the previous episode from our main leads' perspective in the beginning of every episode and also they gradually put intro video when the early episodes don't have intro. Details like those are very charming to me.

Absolutely worth to check out.
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