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Well Dominated Love chinese drama review
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Well Dominated Love
5 people found this review helpful
by kaister
Jul 27, 2020
24 of 24 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 6.5
Story 6.0
Acting/Cast 7.5
Music 6.0
Rewatch Value 4.5
This review may contain spoilers

It's ok...a decent-ish rom-com

It's a decent drama overall. This reminds me of What's Wrong with Secretary Kim except not as good, both in terms of story and the main couple. They're not as likeable as the kdrama. They sorta flipped it in which the boss is the one with the memory loss and the secretary is that one the knows about their past relationship. The main problem with this drama is the use of so many recycled plot points especially related to memory loss. It sorta gets tiring when they do that whole memory thing loss a second time. So the ML has an amnesia condition in which he will forgot the woman he loves completely when he falls completely in love. He had it after witness his mother attempting suicide after his parent relationship ends in divorce. This is such a bizarre and ridiculous memory loss trigger. They tried to present this as an emotional and tragic twist but it just comes off as kinda funny and hilarious to me. When something is too over the top, it simply takes away from any dramatic impact the writer wants to achieve.

Tons of overused themes:
-amnesia main lead, ML in this case
-incompatible social status: rich vs poor. rich male lead dad disapprove of female lead social status. poor female lead's dad this male lead rich social status will not bring his daughter happiness/stability. both side mother approves...lol....
-dominating rich boss vs poor workers: the boss being a dick in the beginning for the sake of being a dick. like for example in What's Wrong with Secretary Kim, even though the ML there are being ridiculous at time...I never felt like he intentionally go out of his way to be an ass to the female lead like what I see here in the drama. especially the beginning...he make her run difficult errands for no other reason beside being he's the boss and he can order her around....also (very funny when I saw it) he made her planned romantic set-up misleading her to think it's for someone else only to tell her it's for her at the end....what? did he just made a girl plan and prepare her own romantic date? lol
-foolish self sacrifice: female lead running away from the relationship despite fighting back against ML's dad in the beginning but left after his memory because...she thinks this is the best for them. then once ML know of his amnesia trigger after they got back together after the 2nd memory loss, he decided to push her away in the same manner because he realized this constant situation of him treating her as a stranger is unfair to her. you know the usual "let's not come together to make a decision as a couple because my decision is the best decision even though it's selfish to exclude your partner from the decision making process" standard romance drama lead's behavior...which in and by itself is not a necessary bad thing but i prefer writer approach it a different angle

Couples (since it's a romance drama, I guess this is what's important to people)
-main leads - i'm not too familiar with either actor and actress but i thought for most part their acting is ok. most of my complaint with them is how their characters are written. as for chemistry between them...it's ok. they're pleasing and good looking couple but it's nothing spectacular
- the idol-chasing secretary with the ML's psychiatrist doctor - yea not feeling this couple. as mentioned by other...the idea that girl chase a guy around like a girl chasing idol...is weird. How they try to present this as cute instead of creepy....is creepy...imo.
- the female star and the FL's old boss. i actually quite enjoy this couple. they both started off chasing the ML and FL respectively...but both walked away from that situation respectfully (the guy much earlier than the girl) and decided to hook up later in the story. i find their love-hate dynamic with each other cuter compare to the other two couples


Final Thought
I gave it a 6.5 but it's not decent drama but nothing really stands out...not the story, not the cp, not the comedy.
Catch it if you have time but it's skippable.


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