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Started promising, ended like a wet fart
I know this is a Hong Kong edition of the Korean drama “Marry My Husband” so I will cut it some slack on originality, but the producers chickened out on some plot points and I think it says a lot about censorship on Hong Kong TV these days.
So Samantha Ko plays timid woman who has stomach cancer, is married to a terrible man who steals her money, a mother-in-law who doesn’t care about her and a best friend who has an affair with her husband. When she catches them both in bed at a hotel (this is a an important point as I will reveal later), she runs away to the street to be pushed in front of a car by her best friend and boom, death.
Except no. Samantha wakes up in hospital many months in the past before it all happened. She was in a short coma after getting hit by a car.
This is a common trope in many manhuas where the protagonist dies and regresses to the past to make changes to their lives so the same tragic fates they experienced could be avoided, so I was hoping it would be done well here. At first it seemed as if it was flowing smoothly and it was following the typical trope beats beat for beat, but then suddenly it started to get very TVB.
You see the hotel too I mentioned earlier? It is room 310, and I noticed in this drama that every single scene that involved a hotel and an affair occurring it would happen at this same hotel in that same room, and somehow the characters would easily get access to the hotel room card to get into that room to take photos. Like did the production team just rent one room at a hotel and film all the affair scenes in that room on the same day to save money? It felt so lazy and it annoyed me so much.
Kenneth Ma is the love interest for Samantha and I will give it to him, there were many scenes where he would do things to save and help Samantha which I found to be very romantic and selfless. Those echoed the Korean vibes immensely and made me like Kenneth a lot, but sadly Kenneth is a rather passive character other than for those scenes, not really doing much but reacting to things out of his control and assisting Samantha without question because he truly likes her. His conflict with his elder brother is a subplot that somehow becomes the final plotpoint the drama ends on instead of the main plot with Samantha. The weird thing is that besides from one kiss scene between Kenneth and Samantha, there were not really many scenes where they got intimate. This made their coupling rather forced and I hated that.
Samantha’s best friend is played by Rosita Kwok and Rosita was such a disgusting bitch in this drama. She has absolutely no shame even when her cruel schemes are discovered and revealed by the other characters, she is not afraid to push the blame all on Samantha somehow. The more I watched the drama the more I wondered how anybody would let her into their friend circle because she was just a hateful harlot of a woman. Her reason for hating Samantha was also so stupid. I won’t even mention the cause here because when it is raised I actually said, “What? That’s why?” Watch it and go wtf yourself.
Samantha does manage to push her best friend with her ex-boyfriend played by Jonathan Cheung so she avoided the future where she would be treated poorly by him, but it took almost over half of the drama for her to succeed. Jonathan was such a persistent cockroach that it took ages to make him leave her.
What annoyed me most of all was near the end when Samantha decides that she never actually regressed but it was her subconscious that deduced her future would be from all the evidence she already knew before going into a coma after getting hit by a car. This made no sense because in the entire drama all the events that she saw happened and she got all the occurrences correctly, so how could her brain have known of those things would happen with that much accuracy? This was a plot rewrite by the producers that made no sense and it feels like it was forced on them by some censors.
The final boss is Kenneth’s elder brother played by Ben Wong. It turned out Samantha’s initial coma and future vision was caused by Ben’s reckless driving. He tried to cover it up but as Samantha started remembering details about the incident, Rosita suddenly has a video clip of what happened and it has Ben as the driver. Yes, Rosita had time to push Samantha into the road, have the car hit Samantha, then she had tine to run back and hide and then get her phone out to film the entire thing, and only near the end of the drama did she go “yes I will bring this out now”. Such lazy writing here. In any case, she wanted to sell the clip? Her husband Jonathan arrives and tries to sell the same clip to cover his debts, Ben goes apeshit and decides to kidnap Kenneth to make Samantha bring the clip to him. It all backfires after Kenneth uses the classic TVB trope of appealing to the goodness of the villains heart, which sort of works before Samantha arrives with the cops.
The drama ends with Samantha proposing to Kenneth with a ting she bought for herself and we never hear anymore about Rosita or Jonathan’s ultimate fates. The ending was so lame I almost vomited.
Started well, but chickened out at the end and gave us a lacklustre load of crap.
Omg I nearly forgot to mention the end credit song. That S.H.E.R.O song, what on earth were they thinking? And the AI animated superhero characters based on characters in the drama were terrible! They looked like terrible IronMan rejected ideas, and Matthew Ho was done wrong here because his AI character looked nothing like his at all! Instead it kinda resembles Edwin Siu! Stop overusing AI please!
So Samantha Ko plays timid woman who has stomach cancer, is married to a terrible man who steals her money, a mother-in-law who doesn’t care about her and a best friend who has an affair with her husband. When she catches them both in bed at a hotel (this is a an important point as I will reveal later), she runs away to the street to be pushed in front of a car by her best friend and boom, death.
Except no. Samantha wakes up in hospital many months in the past before it all happened. She was in a short coma after getting hit by a car.
This is a common trope in many manhuas where the protagonist dies and regresses to the past to make changes to their lives so the same tragic fates they experienced could be avoided, so I was hoping it would be done well here. At first it seemed as if it was flowing smoothly and it was following the typical trope beats beat for beat, but then suddenly it started to get very TVB.
You see the hotel too I mentioned earlier? It is room 310, and I noticed in this drama that every single scene that involved a hotel and an affair occurring it would happen at this same hotel in that same room, and somehow the characters would easily get access to the hotel room card to get into that room to take photos. Like did the production team just rent one room at a hotel and film all the affair scenes in that room on the same day to save money? It felt so lazy and it annoyed me so much.
Kenneth Ma is the love interest for Samantha and I will give it to him, there were many scenes where he would do things to save and help Samantha which I found to be very romantic and selfless. Those echoed the Korean vibes immensely and made me like Kenneth a lot, but sadly Kenneth is a rather passive character other than for those scenes, not really doing much but reacting to things out of his control and assisting Samantha without question because he truly likes her. His conflict with his elder brother is a subplot that somehow becomes the final plotpoint the drama ends on instead of the main plot with Samantha. The weird thing is that besides from one kiss scene between Kenneth and Samantha, there were not really many scenes where they got intimate. This made their coupling rather forced and I hated that.
Samantha’s best friend is played by Rosita Kwok and Rosita was such a disgusting bitch in this drama. She has absolutely no shame even when her cruel schemes are discovered and revealed by the other characters, she is not afraid to push the blame all on Samantha somehow. The more I watched the drama the more I wondered how anybody would let her into their friend circle because she was just a hateful harlot of a woman. Her reason for hating Samantha was also so stupid. I won’t even mention the cause here because when it is raised I actually said, “What? That’s why?” Watch it and go wtf yourself.
Samantha does manage to push her best friend with her ex-boyfriend played by Jonathan Cheung so she avoided the future where she would be treated poorly by him, but it took almost over half of the drama for her to succeed. Jonathan was such a persistent cockroach that it took ages to make him leave her.
What annoyed me most of all was near the end when Samantha decides that she never actually regressed but it was her subconscious that deduced her future would be from all the evidence she already knew before going into a coma after getting hit by a car. This made no sense because in the entire drama all the events that she saw happened and she got all the occurrences correctly, so how could her brain have known of those things would happen with that much accuracy? This was a plot rewrite by the producers that made no sense and it feels like it was forced on them by some censors.
The final boss is Kenneth’s elder brother played by Ben Wong. It turned out Samantha’s initial coma and future vision was caused by Ben’s reckless driving. He tried to cover it up but as Samantha started remembering details about the incident, Rosita suddenly has a video clip of what happened and it has Ben as the driver. Yes, Rosita had time to push Samantha into the road, have the car hit Samantha, then she had tine to run back and hide and then get her phone out to film the entire thing, and only near the end of the drama did she go “yes I will bring this out now”. Such lazy writing here. In any case, she wanted to sell the clip? Her husband Jonathan arrives and tries to sell the same clip to cover his debts, Ben goes apeshit and decides to kidnap Kenneth to make Samantha bring the clip to him. It all backfires after Kenneth uses the classic TVB trope of appealing to the goodness of the villains heart, which sort of works before Samantha arrives with the cops.
The drama ends with Samantha proposing to Kenneth with a ting she bought for herself and we never hear anymore about Rosita or Jonathan’s ultimate fates. The ending was so lame I almost vomited.
Started well, but chickened out at the end and gave us a lacklustre load of crap.
Omg I nearly forgot to mention the end credit song. That S.H.E.R.O song, what on earth were they thinking? And the AI animated superhero characters based on characters in the drama were terrible! They looked like terrible IronMan rejected ideas, and Matthew Ho was done wrong here because his AI character looked nothing like his at all! Instead it kinda resembles Edwin Siu! Stop overusing AI please!
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