DaliaB
Europe
The best mature drama I have watched so far (mild spoilers)
And here is why:
Acting: off the charts (Ep.9 has acting so good, I wasn't sure it was acting anymore.)
Chemistry: off the charts
Characters: So complex and real, that you start getting frustrated and almost bored, the way you would become frustrated and bored with yourself if you wanted to do the effing right thing, even though every cell in your body draws you to do the not-right-thing.
On the surface, this is a story about a smitten guy and a girl, who have kind of an affair, although they are really just in and out of the grey area. But underneath, it's about the kind of relationships adults in their thirties have. They aren't young, wild and impulsive and go-with-the-flow.
They settle, because otherwise they would be out of their personal timeline and then "Perfectlife.exe" would malfunction, and also responsibility for others feelings comes at you hard and heavy for people with a heightened sense of responsibility.
They do shady stuff, instead of breaking up, because in their mind they aren't a lot more than roommates or "family" as Kechuan puts it and it does not feel like betrayal.
They hold on to an empty shell of a relationship for way too long, because they invested too much time and energy and also don't quite know how to be alone.
They date someone, because they seem to fit perfectly into the slot they have drawn for "WIFE" in their 50 year lifeplan, not because they see into that persons soul and find it beautiful, but because they only see the endgoal of having a good, early pension and a, b, c, e... needs to happen before that.
They do whatever they like, with other consenting adults, but need to deal with the
They don't dance to the beat of their own drum, until someone hits their heart just right and it derails their life enough to see everything, every single layer of their life, from a different perspective and they wake up from their trance of eat.sleep.work.
This is a story about the hamster wheel society puts people on, and how you can get off it, all at once or in little steps.
And for anyone hating the ending: It's so real, and so true to WeiWei, because if you had been on the emotional rollercoaster she had been on, any woman as self-controlled and rational as she is would do the same.
Acting: off the charts (Ep.9 has acting so good, I wasn't sure it was acting anymore.)
Chemistry: off the charts
Characters: So complex and real, that you start getting frustrated and almost bored, the way you would become frustrated and bored with yourself if you wanted to do the effing right thing, even though every cell in your body draws you to do the not-right-thing.
On the surface, this is a story about a smitten guy and a girl, who have kind of an affair, although they are really just in and out of the grey area. But underneath, it's about the kind of relationships adults in their thirties have. They aren't young, wild and impulsive and go-with-the-flow.
They settle, because otherwise they would be out of their personal timeline and then "Perfectlife.exe" would malfunction, and also responsibility for others feelings comes at you hard and heavy for people with a heightened sense of responsibility.
They do shady stuff, instead of breaking up, because in their mind they aren't a lot more than roommates or "family" as Kechuan puts it and it does not feel like betrayal.
They hold on to an empty shell of a relationship for way too long, because they invested too much time and energy and also don't quite know how to be alone.
They date someone, because they seem to fit perfectly into the slot they have drawn for "WIFE" in their 50 year lifeplan, not because they see into that persons soul and find it beautiful, but because they only see the endgoal of having a good, early pension and a, b, c, e... needs to happen before that.
They do whatever they like, with other consenting adults, but need to deal with the
They don't dance to the beat of their own drum, until someone hits their heart just right and it derails their life enough to see everything, every single layer of their life, from a different perspective and they wake up from their trance of eat.sleep.work.
This is a story about the hamster wheel society puts people on, and how you can get off it, all at once or in little steps.
And for anyone hating the ending: It's so real, and so true to WeiWei, because if you had been on the emotional rollercoaster she had been on, any woman as self-controlled and rational as she is would do the same.
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