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Girlfriend chinese drama review
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Girlfriend
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by coa-chan
Jul 14, 2020
36 of 36 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 7.0
Story 6.0
Acting/Cast 7.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 7.5
This review may contain spoilers

Great start but lost its way towards the end

Overall, fun and lighthearted, especially if you're willing to overlook the forgotten plot and character inconsistency.

What I liked:
- the main couple's chemistry
- a lot of adorable cheek kisses! (from all couples)
- the male lead's mother
- the second male lead
- Mo Xiaobai

What I disliked:
- side characters were not used to their full potential, often appearing only when they're needed for the plot
- the female lead's brother (am I the only one who found him annoying?)
- the overreaction of the guards that the male lead hired to protect the female lead (they should have at least made them act realistically)
- (Wang Jiayi) Bai Xin Yi's crying scenes; when she's not crying she's actually pretty okay
- the main leads' past together was introduced from the very beginning and it seemed so important but it wasn't

General thoughts:
The beginning was the best part for me. It was pretty good while they were living together and up until a little after that. There were interactions between the leads, and the story moved forwards, there was a goal, and there were interesting explorations in the characters.

But then the story became dragging. It repeated the cycle of the male lead not being able to say his true honest feelings so many times I got tired of it. During this period, it was really the second couple being adorable that allowed me to continue watching.

The pacing got better at around the time the male lead finally confessed. Unfortunately, it was also around this time that the story just kind of became so different from how it started it almost felt like a completely different show when I thought back to the first few episodes. Then, in the last few episodes of the drama, it seemed like the drama transformed from one genre to another with small "arcs" every 1-2 episodes like the terminal illness and the separation because of going abroad.

While I did see some character developments (such as the female lead's attitude as an actress, her friend's confidence in herself, Ling-er and Jiang Fang's view on love and relationships, etc.), there were times when it seemed like the characters changed completely (e.g. I find the male lead's characterization to be rather inconsistent and has no solid foundation personality).
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