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Annoying Side Characters and the Most Annoying "Love Triangle" Trope
I do like watching this but right now I'm on Episode 8 and the side characters are just pushing me on the edge of hating this...
So the story is pretty self-explanatory in the detail summary but just to add a bit more details, the two main leads have best friends who get together and get married. They try to get the main leads together.
As for the other side characters, the ML, Yu Hao, has a stalker actress who's in love with him and who is so annoying that every time she comes on screen, I have to fast forward and skip every scene she's in. I don't blame the actress, but her immature antics and acting are so bad. She plays the 3rd female lead and gets a lot of screen time. I dislike her so much I will only refer to her as the "stalker actress".
Then, of course, the FL, Su Ke Lan also has another guy, who is the director at her new job, that's interested in her and he teams up with the annoying actress to thwart the two leads from getting together. This is where I think that story really starts to crash and burn with the stalker actress and director. Honestly, the storyline was okay with the main leads and their besties trying to get them together, but the other two stalkers, ugh... it's really ruining the show for me, that I'm almost ready to drop this.
(Major spoilers ahead)
Here are some of the other ridiculous schemes the stalker actress and the director pull off:
-The director confesses to the FL on the first day of her job in front of everyone... talk about tacky and inappropriate behavior in the workplace. He basically gave her a job because he liked her
-The stalker actress constantly schemes and pushes the director to try to get the FL's attention. On top of that, the stalker actress has the audacity to constantly accuse the FL of "scheming" to take away the ML from her. OMG. Even when the two leads finally get together publicly, the stalker actress doesn't stop her antics. We can now add "obsessive" and "crazy" to her "stalker" title. I don't even like to use the term "crazy" for women so that's saying a lot for me. She still thinks she has a chance with the ML, even when she knows he now has a girlfriend, and yet, she still tries to break them up. Her acting is just limited to being immature and annoying.
-The stalker actress and director literally sneak uninvited into the best friends' wedding just because the stalker actress hates that the leads are the best man and maid of honor and hates the idea of them being close together. Seriously? Spying on them at a wedding?
-Most of the kindness that the director shows to the FL's mother is all due to scheming with the stalker actress so all of his kindness towards the FL and her mom, seems insincere and manipulative. Even when he found the FL's mother unconscious, it was only because the actress pushed him to go visit her. BS man.
-Did I mention how stalker-y the annoying actress and director are?
-The leads finally have a precious moment when the ML confesses, only to be rudely interrupted by the stalker director and actress... way to ruin a romantic moment writers. Thanks.
-Now about the leads. The FL's look and personality never change. Her business wear and casual wear are all plain and her work hairstyle is so boring. A tied-back loose ponytail with just too much hairspray. Her work hairstyle looks like she's doing laundry at home. There's even one scene where there's a professional hairstylist working on her with the same boring work hairstyle and I'm just like, "What an insult to hairstylists everywhere..." Let's talk about her acting. It's limited to just being overly nice, wide-eyed, smiling, and giggling. If she's mad, angry, or upset, her acting has no real emotional range. Actually, it's the same for the male lead too. He just tries to act stiff and cool all the time but it just kept looking like he was trying to pull a double-chin look. Even when he was angry or emotional, there's not really much range either.
-Then the mother goes to the hospital and the FL lead acts like it's the end of the world. She's supposed to attend a business meeting with investors but flies back after hearing about her mom, without a word to anyone. Even her phone is powered off the whole time. She acts as if her mother died. The acting here is so BS. I dunno why the director and writers went this route. It was way too unprofessional and unbelievable of someone from a top position to be behaving this way. She couldn't even call and tell ONE SINGLE PERSON about her emergency?? Even with a death in the family, women can still be professionals. The investors talk bad about her, the boss/boyfriend ML berates her, and then you have the doctor and stalker actress berate her for not taking care of her mother. Because of course, women can't handle having a boyfriend, taking care of aging parents, AND having a high position job. Whatever.
I'm watching this only because it's a filler during the week when nothing else is on. I also like the second leads storyline better. I may add more to the review when completed...
UPDATE:
-By Ep15, I nearly dropped this because I was just fed up with the stalker actress and her antics towards the director. Like WTF? The things she did was practically sexual harassment, but because she's a woman, we're supposed to just think it's "cute"? Talk about double standards. Ugh.
-The ex-bf of the FL comes back in a few scenes and really, I have no idea why. What a waste of screen time! His scenes contributed nothing to the ending storyline. I have no idea why they brought him back.
-In the last episode, it seemed too late to tie in the reconnection with the ML's father and grandmother. It was a bit rushed.
-Lastly, the last 15 mins of the last episode were full of cheese, cheese, and more cheese. Why they had to include the ML's ex-gf and his investor friend, (who really hated the FL btw), to be in this last scene made no sense whatsoever. It was if they wanted to include everyone in the last scene. Should've brought back the ex-bf while they were at it.
Because of the last 2 episodes and the points I just mentioned above, I lowered my rating from a 6.0 to a 4.5. I had enough of that stalker actress. She just ruined the whole drama for me.
So the story is pretty self-explanatory in the detail summary but just to add a bit more details, the two main leads have best friends who get together and get married. They try to get the main leads together.
As for the other side characters, the ML, Yu Hao, has a stalker actress who's in love with him and who is so annoying that every time she comes on screen, I have to fast forward and skip every scene she's in. I don't blame the actress, but her immature antics and acting are so bad. She plays the 3rd female lead and gets a lot of screen time. I dislike her so much I will only refer to her as the "stalker actress".
Then, of course, the FL, Su Ke Lan also has another guy, who is the director at her new job, that's interested in her and he teams up with the annoying actress to thwart the two leads from getting together. This is where I think that story really starts to crash and burn with the stalker actress and director. Honestly, the storyline was okay with the main leads and their besties trying to get them together, but the other two stalkers, ugh... it's really ruining the show for me, that I'm almost ready to drop this.
(Major spoilers ahead)
Here are some of the other ridiculous schemes the stalker actress and the director pull off:
-The director confesses to the FL on the first day of her job in front of everyone... talk about tacky and inappropriate behavior in the workplace. He basically gave her a job because he liked her
-The stalker actress constantly schemes and pushes the director to try to get the FL's attention. On top of that, the stalker actress has the audacity to constantly accuse the FL of "scheming" to take away the ML from her. OMG. Even when the two leads finally get together publicly, the stalker actress doesn't stop her antics. We can now add "obsessive" and "crazy" to her "stalker" title. I don't even like to use the term "crazy" for women so that's saying a lot for me. She still thinks she has a chance with the ML, even when she knows he now has a girlfriend, and yet, she still tries to break them up. Her acting is just limited to being immature and annoying.
-The stalker actress and director literally sneak uninvited into the best friends' wedding just because the stalker actress hates that the leads are the best man and maid of honor and hates the idea of them being close together. Seriously? Spying on them at a wedding?
-Most of the kindness that the director shows to the FL's mother is all due to scheming with the stalker actress so all of his kindness towards the FL and her mom, seems insincere and manipulative. Even when he found the FL's mother unconscious, it was only because the actress pushed him to go visit her. BS man.
-Did I mention how stalker-y the annoying actress and director are?
-The leads finally have a precious moment when the ML confesses, only to be rudely interrupted by the stalker director and actress... way to ruin a romantic moment writers. Thanks.
-Now about the leads. The FL's look and personality never change. Her business wear and casual wear are all plain and her work hairstyle is so boring. A tied-back loose ponytail with just too much hairspray. Her work hairstyle looks like she's doing laundry at home. There's even one scene where there's a professional hairstylist working on her with the same boring work hairstyle and I'm just like, "What an insult to hairstylists everywhere..." Let's talk about her acting. It's limited to just being overly nice, wide-eyed, smiling, and giggling. If she's mad, angry, or upset, her acting has no real emotional range. Actually, it's the same for the male lead too. He just tries to act stiff and cool all the time but it just kept looking like he was trying to pull a double-chin look. Even when he was angry or emotional, there's not really much range either.
-Then the mother goes to the hospital and the FL lead acts like it's the end of the world. She's supposed to attend a business meeting with investors but flies back after hearing about her mom, without a word to anyone. Even her phone is powered off the whole time. She acts as if her mother died. The acting here is so BS. I dunno why the director and writers went this route. It was way too unprofessional and unbelievable of someone from a top position to be behaving this way. She couldn't even call and tell ONE SINGLE PERSON about her emergency?? Even with a death in the family, women can still be professionals. The investors talk bad about her, the boss/boyfriend ML berates her, and then you have the doctor and stalker actress berate her for not taking care of her mother. Because of course, women can't handle having a boyfriend, taking care of aging parents, AND having a high position job. Whatever.
I'm watching this only because it's a filler during the week when nothing else is on. I also like the second leads storyline better. I may add more to the review when completed...
UPDATE:
-By Ep15, I nearly dropped this because I was just fed up with the stalker actress and her antics towards the director. Like WTF? The things she did was practically sexual harassment, but because she's a woman, we're supposed to just think it's "cute"? Talk about double standards. Ugh.
-The ex-bf of the FL comes back in a few scenes and really, I have no idea why. What a waste of screen time! His scenes contributed nothing to the ending storyline. I have no idea why they brought him back.
-In the last episode, it seemed too late to tie in the reconnection with the ML's father and grandmother. It was a bit rushed.
-Lastly, the last 15 mins of the last episode were full of cheese, cheese, and more cheese. Why they had to include the ML's ex-gf and his investor friend, (who really hated the FL btw), to be in this last scene made no sense whatsoever. It was if they wanted to include everyone in the last scene. Should've brought back the ex-bf while they were at it.
Because of the last 2 episodes and the points I just mentioned above, I lowered my rating from a 6.0 to a 4.5. I had enough of that stalker actress. She just ruined the whole drama for me.
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