Good actors, low execution
I really tried to like this, I really did. Actually the first episodes were great, but after episodes 8-12 I couldn't stand the show and I dropped it.
Most of the actors did their job amazingly and they portrayed their characters as if they were alive. I have no comments on that and I applause their effort!
I started watching this drama because I love strong female characters who want to get into politics ahead of their time. Unfortunately, at some point the story went somewhere else and the plot wasn't focusing on the FL's ascension to glory. There were a lot of unnecessary scenes. I appreciated they wanted to portray feminine struggles of that era and maybe some of the subplots could have been interesting later, but there was something in this show that felt uncanny.
I mean I thought I was watching an AI drama or a poor-budget vertical drama a lot of the times. I've heard that they've had some problems with the budget, but also the script felt really weird. The dialogue didn't feel natural. Even the cinematography seemed inspired by those short AI dramas and there were a lot of static breaks between the scenes. A few parts were cinematic and I cared about what happened to the characters, but most of the time it couldn't interest me.
I'm disappointed because I wanted to find something like the Legend of Lu Zhen again but this was not it.
Most of the actors did their job amazingly and they portrayed their characters as if they were alive. I have no comments on that and I applause their effort!
I started watching this drama because I love strong female characters who want to get into politics ahead of their time. Unfortunately, at some point the story went somewhere else and the plot wasn't focusing on the FL's ascension to glory. There were a lot of unnecessary scenes. I appreciated they wanted to portray feminine struggles of that era and maybe some of the subplots could have been interesting later, but there was something in this show that felt uncanny.
I mean I thought I was watching an AI drama or a poor-budget vertical drama a lot of the times. I've heard that they've had some problems with the budget, but also the script felt really weird. The dialogue didn't feel natural. Even the cinematography seemed inspired by those short AI dramas and there were a lot of static breaks between the scenes. A few parts were cinematic and I cared about what happened to the characters, but most of the time it couldn't interest me.
I'm disappointed because I wanted to find something like the Legend of Lu Zhen again but this was not it.
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