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Princess! You have Five Husbands! chinese drama review
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Princess! You have Five Husbands!
8 people found this review helpful
by ScholarSnail
Jul 4, 2021
39 of 39 episodes seen
Completed 6
Overall 4.0
Story 3.0
Acting/Cast 5.0
Music 4.0
Rewatch Value 4.0

Comedy With Cheap Humor and Racism

I like to watch shorter series in-between the bigger ones, so I decided to check this one out while waiting for more episodes on my other dramas. I thought the premise sounded quite promising. It's not every day that you see polyandry in a C-Drama, and a parody of the genre on top of that. I knew the drama was low-budget going into this, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's bad. It's bad for other reasons.

Parodies do not need to have any significant plot, but this drama really didn't have anything special going on, and everything is quite forgettable. I don't like to use the word cringe, but some of the humor is very lowbrow. The cutaway gag + music is used way too often and becomes very grating as you go on.

And then there's also the elephant in the room; the episode featuring a black character. What were they thinking when they decided to add a black woman to the cast, only to use her in and extremely racist context, making her a nanny character and joking about bleaching her skin?! She cries in joy when the other characters gift her with giant box of skin-whitening pills???

This was definitely the moment that ruined everything for me. I consider this drama to not be worth watching. There are plenty of comedy series out there that don't need to resort to racism to be funny.
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