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Inconstant, Inconsistent, and Doing Burnouts on the Corners
I’ll start with the pacing. There is none. The tone, plot, and genre switched, braked, and hit top speed to the point of giving me whiplash. My neck aches.
From romantic comedy, through melodrama, with an attempt to stop over in Thriller city for a meal, this is the kind of drama that makes me remember those mix and match books, with legs, body, and heads on separate strips of card, so you could put a ballerina’s legs under the body of a firefighter, and top it off with an old granny’s head. The changes in vibe were jarring, and turned me off the very sweet main love story, which should have been front and centre, but which ended up being an afterthought. Don’t even get me started on the second couple, who got truncated into a will they/won’t they brain fart.
The locations were great, they cast were solid, aside from the odd ham, and the photography was very pretty, but they were so badly served by the writing, that I feel like there should be grudges over this series.
The good news is that it was short. Eight episodes is a blessing, when a story is as incoherent and zig-zagging as this one. In all honesty, I don’t recommend it, but I will be keeping an eye out for future roles from the cast, especially the main couples, and the villain (senior). He was brilliantly despicable. I may check out his past roles too.
From romantic comedy, through melodrama, with an attempt to stop over in Thriller city for a meal, this is the kind of drama that makes me remember those mix and match books, with legs, body, and heads on separate strips of card, so you could put a ballerina’s legs under the body of a firefighter, and top it off with an old granny’s head. The changes in vibe were jarring, and turned me off the very sweet main love story, which should have been front and centre, but which ended up being an afterthought. Don’t even get me started on the second couple, who got truncated into a will they/won’t they brain fart.
The locations were great, they cast were solid, aside from the odd ham, and the photography was very pretty, but they were so badly served by the writing, that I feel like there should be grudges over this series.
The good news is that it was short. Eight episodes is a blessing, when a story is as incoherent and zig-zagging as this one. In all honesty, I don’t recommend it, but I will be keeping an eye out for future roles from the cast, especially the main couples, and the villain (senior). He was brilliantly despicable. I may check out his past roles too.
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