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Before We Get Married taiwanese drama review
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Before We Get Married
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by jerrybratle
Apr 29, 2021
13 of 13 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 6.0
Story 5.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 9.0
Rewatch Value 1.5
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Mediocre story with quite suffocating and hypocritical characters

I'm giving 6 stars only for the outstanding acting, especially of the FL and Han Kefei but the rest was so burdening, toxic and suffocating, it was sometimes hard for me to keep watching it from episode 5 till the end. I had the feeling that there is no sane person in this whole drama. First, Gao Zi Yuan just had no limits. I understand that her character was probably supposed to be like that but after 3-4 hysterical episodes she was too much to watch and listen. Just get tf out of here, woman! Second, the story was repetitive. The drama was too obvious and too monotonous. The same things kept happening, the same problems occurring. For a person who kissed another dude several times Weiwei was quite hypocritical to be mad at her boyfriend for putting his hand around his boss's shoulders and play the victim. Exactly why are u mad at him when you are the one at fault? Portraying cheating as something natural and normal when you're "feeling lonely" was a total no-no for me. First, this shows the lack of love and respect in the first place. No one cheats out of loneliness if they love their partner. She looked intrigued enough even before the problems between her and her boyfriend began so, hey guurl, I see what you're doing. The story, on the other hand, covers a lot of important problems and aspects of human relationships which are really important and they should have been focused way more on that. Although the main line was shown through Weiwei's relationship and Gao Zi Yuan's character there was a huge lack for me in the story and that was the fact that till the very last moment Weiwei did not apologise sincerely to Hao Yi for cheating multiple times and for lying to him while he was working. Throwing randomly the "sorry" word does no good, not even in real life. I believe that when you cover such important matters in relationships taking responsibility for your actions and apologising to the people you've hurt the most is crucial. She did not do that while she actually kept playing the victim and despite her brilliant acting, her character was the least appealing to me. I couldn't even sympathize with her. I'm sorry I couldn't see more of Han Kefei, they should have focused a bit more on her side of the story but I'm glad that Chu Kehuan's character was well developed and explained.

The OST was quite good. I'm glad this was 13 episodes. I don't think I would have been able to keep watching more of it.
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