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Loving The Drama

Loving The Drama

My Girl chinese drama review
Completed
My Girl
2 people found this review helpful
by Loving The Drama
Oct 19, 2020
24 of 24 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 2.5
Story 1.0
Acting/Cast 6.5
Music 2.0
Rewatch Value 1.0

Do yourself a favour and don’t waste any time on this.

Alright so the only reason I forced myself through this is because this only has two(?) negative reviews on here. My guess is that most people dropped this after two episodes and didn’t see the need to write anything.

I’ll start with the positive (that made me not give it one star) since this will be the fastest to write.
I really like the actor that played the main lead, not sure if he was a good choice for this part since his character was just stupid, but the actor himself did a good job at portraying a bad role.
The main reason I’ve added 1.5 stars to my rating are the side couples or side characters in general. I honestly liked their stories and their characters, sadly they alone are not worth forcing yourself through this mess. They could have made a Drama out of them and their stories, I’d have probably enjoyed watching that. There we’re some kind of entertaining scenes, but that doesn’t make up for 24 Episodes of terrible screenwriting.

Now the negative:
Let’s start with the female lead. I know that the actress chosen is capable of acting, she did quite good in Meteor Garden. However in this drama I did not vibe with her at all.
Theoretically her character should have been the most interesting. However to me she was just boring, the switch in her characters was extremely inconsistent, she did alright portraying her first alter ego, afterwards the lines between her normal self and her different identities just got really blurry. I also did not feel any chemistry with the male lead on her part. This and most of my problems with her are probably not entirely the actresses fault and more due to the bad screen writing I guess. Which is why I’ll elaborate further in the next section.

The plot: First of all, the description of this Drama on here contains major spoilers (not the Drama’s fault obviously but a MDL problem). So if you’ve not read the description yet but plan to watch don’t read it, it’ll kill the little suspense the Drama actually built.
I did not read the description before starting, but the first Episode kind of intrigued me, it was done quite entertaining, the female lead and her condition seemed interesting, and it wasn’t as full of BS about dissociative identity disorder/PTS as other Dramas I’ve seen.
However all of this quickly went down hill at around the second or third Episode.

First of all the Female Leads condition got weirder and weirder with every Episode. At least her switch in characters wasn’t as dramatic as in other Dramas. Still I do not get why you have to portray a switch in character by making it look like the character is turning into the hulk. Especially since in the beginning her characters where quite distinct so it would have been enough to just show the change in posture and expression.

Now they said in the beginning that her alter egos mostly come out in very emotional situations etc (which is the case for a lot of DID patients) because they mostly start existing to protect the Person from seemingly dangerous situations. This was all fine however, they seemed to distance themselves further and further from this rather accurate portrayal of mental illness. There is no logical explanation as to why her alter ego should leave her in the moments she needs it most. Then they just start giving her random personalities, Creating new ones whenever necessary, none of them ever return. And lastly turning them into some kind of quest the other characters have to master. I mean if they wanted to give her some kind of non-existing disease, they should have not used an existing condition and turned it into something so absurd, to me it just seemed really tasteless, getting worse and worse every episode, and lastly being “cured” by the most stupid thing.

The main problem I had with the main couple was that they just seemed really forced and uncomfortable the entire time. There was no moment I could truly enjoy them together or wish them happiness.
Starting from the weird development of the female Leads feeling, or let’s say the absence of it. Most of the time she wasn’t even herself, still somehow the feelings for the ML we’re just there all of a sudden.

Now their relationship in general: this was just painful honestly since there was always one big hurdle right in between the two of them that was never really dissolved. Which to me made it absolutely impossible to enjoy the few moments that could have actually been kind of cute. Everything just seemed fake, forced and awkward. Every reason for the characters making a choice or doing something was just plain stupid.
The way they treated the female lead when she was “not herself” was also just plain stupid and lacked any sense of logic.

I also had to ask myself a couple of times how the ML’s Company hasn’t gone bankrupt yet. Him handling his work was really just painful to watch.
Basically everything about the two leads and their relationship was just Bad.

While the ML at least had some kind of goal and we got to know some things about him, the FL didn’t really have anything to her except for her condition. No apparent goals or a clear character.
While the ML did have a character that was a little more thought through, he was still 100% frustrating and stupid in almost his every action. Most of the time he didn’t even think for himself and rather listened to other people’s opinions, and when he did think for himself his choices were everything but rational.

The OST was honestly just as weird as the rest. There was basically one song that was just repeated over and over no matter the situation.

In the end I really can’t say what kind of story this Drama wanted to tell? Maybe that beauty is everything and that if you’re not pretty you’ve basically lost in life? ‘Love’ is the ultimate goal no matter at what cost?
Idk this is the only lesson that I could draw from this mess of a story.
This was honestly just an absolute random mess and sadly not even in a funny or entertaining way.

Do yourself a favour and don’t watch it.
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