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The Lady in Butcher's House Episode 15
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I've been waiting and looking for a series like "The Sword and Brocade" and I have to admit that it's very hard to find similarily amazing Chinese period drama. "The Lady in the Butcher's House" had a lot of potential, but unfortunately something went wrong and an interesting story was wasted.The story sounds very interesting and I was interested in it's development from the first episode. The story wasn't unfolding and explaining what's going on, it was only adding new problems. Also the characters seemed to be not developing and persistently kept being exaggerated. I got to episode 15, which is almost halfway through the series, and nothing seemed to improve.I dropped dropped this drama simply because I felt extremely bored by the realistic tempo. Funny how the thing you liked at first changes into your enemy.... when about episode 8-9 the story started to unfold in a turtle-speed, I was falling asleep ?? It all fits the realism which producers seem to go for but unfortunatelly it killed me. When drama has 36 episodes each 45 minutes you have to give it a tempo.... but not a tempo of a turtle! The development of the story is one of the most important elements of the production and even if the actors are good and the drama seems to be interesting from the description, if this development is futile then the whole series is a flop ?
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I'm stubborn and try to watch the show to the end, even if I don't like it, to be sure that it's terrible. With Oh! My Emperor got to episode 10 and left this drama without looking back.As the serie description seems to be nice and interesting, the production itself is far from that. The writing, music, fight scenes .... are just bad. Characters behaved so stupid and childlish that I couldn't stand to watch it further than first few full episodes. Later I had to fastforward the episodes as it was unbearable to follow. I don't think that it was a fault of actors and lack of talent (maybe in some cases) because I read about the main actors and they were cherished in other productions. But on the other hand... if they were go why the drama is so bad?! So if you want to watch something interesting, this is wrong choice. Search further. You will waste time as I wasted my afternoon.
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