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Handsome Siblings chinese drama review
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Handsome Siblings
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by Anarya
Dec 15, 2021
44 of 44 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 8.5
Story 7.5
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 9.5
Rewatch Value 8.5
This review may contain spoilers

Overall a good and fun show

Handsome Siblings is overall a really entertaining show, with several fun characters and performances . It has a very impressive production quality and is highly engaging. I did like it a lot for most part, but decided to break down what I thought was good and what wasn't so good. There are minor spoilers ahead, so read at your own risk.

THE GOOD
I actually enjoyed about 90 percent of the show immensely. The story was intriguing and I couldn't stop watching. It was hilarious at points. The acting was pretty spot-on overall. Honestly, after seeing Hu Yitian in A Love So Beautiful, it was great to see him here. He acted the two characters he played rather well. However, I think it was Chen Zheyuan who managed to steal the show in almost every scene (especially the funny ones). The acting from other side characters was also pretty good overall.

By the looks of the show, it seems that the production budget was pretty high. I could see great sets and costumes and plenty of outdoor shots and the show was a visual feast.

I know many people complain that the show drags at points, but I thought the pacing of the show was good and let you take in the journey of the characters. Some of the parts where Xiaoyu'er has his own little side stories with the villains were actually very interesting to me. There were great character moments and I don't think those parts dragged at all.

There are several interesting characters here - especially the Ten Villains and Little Fairy. Even Jiang Yulang managed to be hilarious when he was stuck with Xiao Mimi and Xiaoyu'er. I think the many interesting side characters on this show actually made it even better.

NOT SO GOOD
I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed most of the episodes, probably until the last 4 or so episodes. At this point, the show had started to drag a bit. I also thought the last few episodes were a bit inconsistent. This was mainly due to the fact that Xiaoyu'er felt a bit too cocky (not in a fun way anymore, but in a smug way). He kept saying some pretty misogynistic stuff. I wasn't so bothered about it initially because he was a character who had never been around girls (apart from one of the Ten Villains), so it was funny when he would comment like he knew how girls were. But as the show went on and his comments just got worse, it became sort of annoying.

That brings me to the female characters. Tie Xinlan started off as a really cool female character who knew how to fight and stand on her own, but she became rather useless by the time she fell in love. Every time there was a fight or something, I expected her to show off her skills, but she just stood there and got saved by the heroes. She was a weeping mess at other times (nothing wrong with crying, but she literally did nothing else). It was an absolute waste of her character and her potential. Generally, I didn't see very strong or well-fleshed out female characters on the show. They were either far too evil (the Hua sisters - although I know LianXing was never evil to begin with, but I thought she needed more character development), or needed to be stripped of their memories to become less evil (as in the case of Murong Jiu). Su Ying is pretty strong and independent but I wasn't fond of her overly jealous nature either. I think the female characters could have been improved upon especially when the material for it already exists. They were very one dimensional in most cases. I mean, why not make Tie Xinlan as cool as she was when we saw her initially? I liked seeing Little Fairy most, even though she was supposed to be quite a brat. I disliked Tie Pinggu the most, out of all the female characters. It is like she had no brain to think of anything after she and Yulang became an item.

I know the story called for the Hua sisters to orchestrate this long-winded plan to get rid of the siblings, but I thought if they were going to show Yaoyue become so single-minded in her quest for revenge, they needed to build a more convincing reason for it rather than her being scorned in love. I mean they could have shown why she was this selfish and heartless. They needed to show her more examples of her arrogance (and not only when it came to being scorned in love).

I didn't like that Hua Wuque just disbanded the Yihua Palace at the end of the show. I mean, the Yihua palace may have been coldhearted in many ways, but he could have ushered in a new era. What about all the disciples of the Yihua Palace - what a shame for them. Oh well...

I thought the ending was not the best. The brothers seemed to have more chemistry together before the found out that they were brothers. Could've done without the ending where they both rush to their respective partners. Wasn't a big fan of the romances anyway, so ending with the brothers would have been better. But that's just my issue with the show.
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