Compared to regular modern dramas like Love Is Sweet, the outfits here are remarkably sane & humane. The first notable fashion crime is Chi Shan in EP16. Fortunately you won't drown in invasive adverts like Rio, 666 cold medicine, or non-stop facial masks.
The writing is quite overdramatic in the second half, and the ending/resolution ends up needlessly rushed, but to make up for it the leads have more and better intimacy than in your average 5x as long KR or CN show.
The soundtrack is also better than that of a random non-special long format drama.
What kind of ending was that? It didn’t really make sense. But honestly, the chemistry between the two lead…
The ending is: - ML is quite injured and passes out right after saying "I won't die" - FL gets to cry a bunch, worried that he won't make it - fade to black; audience gets to wonder if he died or not - cut to FL sorting flowers on the way to a funeral, to imply that he died and to make you worry - cut to FL and ML hopping into the car, presumably to go to YuWei's funeral
Or to have a weird minority view, you can choose to see it as that he died and "she still sees him everywhere". But that's kind of pushing it?
I'm not a fan of ML at all. I mean he's totally friend material even like a brother but love interest I don't…
It's only best friends like chemistry pre-dating, it's completely different afterwards. People who hype the chemistry in this show don't tell you that you essentially have to wait for it.
I'm currently watching TTEOTM, but I'm not rly feeling it, I constantly find myself fast forwarding through a…
I wouldn't recommend TTEOTM to skippers, you'd miss out on things and not really understand them. There was a lot I didn't enjoy in TTEOTM while watching it, but I found it quite impactful in hindsight.
This here however, you can skip everything that does not involve at least one of the leads (and also skip all triangle/job/etc stuff that does involve one of the leads).
it wasn't as bad to be unwatchable but constant beating of the husbands was too much! it felt like I'm watching…
I wanted to watch it to see another Lu Yu Xiao drama as she was good in MJTY and excellent in BIA but here she's vastly downgraded and even in her own story arc barely doing anything. Dropped to save the time.
So much straight-up bad acting, especially Bu Guan Jin (FL) and Zhang Xue Han (SFL) are painful to watch. It's one of those shows where most actors look forced and unnatural. Wang Xing Yue (ML) and Nie Zi Hao (ML's half-brother) are somewhat okay, and Yin Si Qi (ML's maid) has a certain charm.
Visibly low budget production.
OSTs added at random.
We were dreading the start of each new episode as there is a sequence of the ML addressing the audience (/ the audience imagining themselves as the FL) that just does not work.
The mediocre story is almost the highlight here, and I guess the many couple scenes.
If you are looking for something harmless and mostly fluffy, it could fit the bill.
Surprisingly the camerawork tries far more than the typical "series of single-person face close-ups" show, but that's really all the positive stuff I could derive watching more than a quarter of it.
The actors I'm familiar with somehow manage to be much worse than in their better shows (directing?), some don't match their roles at all (casting), and especially the men's headwear is just ??? (costumes). Half the time something important happens, it's entirely off-screen.
If I place Lighter & Princess and First Frost somewhere in the 8–10/10 range for chemistry between the leads,…
In L&P I was only super offended by what the ML did to the laptop in one of the first episodes; though now I'm watching Perfect Match and the FL offended me just as much in the 4th episode.
One thing I learned from watching Hu Yi Tian in ALSB, GGS1 & GGS2 is that he can't stop himself from licking his lips.
In the first hours of BiA, this doesn't happen at all, so someone on set must have kept him on a tight leash, made him re-take scenes many times to get takes without it, and used appropriate amounts of blackmail to make him not do it. There were a number of times where I assumed the editors also helped by deliberately cutting scenes right before it happened.
Ep 12 at 40:40, he finally succumbs let's say 80% of the way. From then on, mostly in romantic moments, he slightly purses his lips.
P.S.: In Ep 30, at 12:30, no amount of crew minders were able to hold him back and his tongue darted out unhindered.
As a heart-warming family show, this is better than the Korean Reply's: For one because there's no ajummas bickering on the porch. And there's no forced nostalgic "remember how, back in 1980, we used to...". It has fairly high production value as well.
However, the romance side falls quite flat, with the chemistry of the ML and FL being lukewarm at best and there being little romantic affection between them that doesn't just look like their regular family member affection. Even two of their respective relatives have far more convincing romantic chemistry in their scenes. For that, it's just the wrong show to watch.
Judging them just based on their Go Ahead performances, Song Wei Long basically is a bit of an expressionless wooden log (mùtou: 木头), while Tan Song Yun certainly has comedic talent (with a decent modicum of over-acting thrown in), but she looks forced in all romantic scenes, as if it's not her genre or she can't see Song Wei Long as anything else but a brother.
Unless i’m missing something, did Qi Yue and senior sister Shi attend Lin Xi and Jing Zhehang’s wedding? I…
They did, but they're hard to find in the actual scenes. That they don't have speaking roles in those scenes gives the illusion that they're not around.
Fortunately you won't drown in invasive adverts like Rio, 666 cold medicine, or non-stop facial masks.
The writing is quite overdramatic in the second half, and the ending/resolution ends up needlessly rushed, but to make up for it the leads have more and better intimacy than in your average 5x as long KR or CN show.
The soundtrack is also better than that of a random non-special long format drama.
- ML is quite injured and passes out right after saying "I won't die"
- FL gets to cry a bunch, worried that he won't make it
- fade to black; audience gets to wonder if he died or not
- cut to FL sorting flowers on the way to a funeral, to imply that he died and to make you worry
- cut to FL and ML hopping into the car, presumably to go to YuWei's funeral
Or to have a weird minority view, you can choose to see it as that he died and "she still sees him everywhere". But that's kind of pushing it?
Gotta watch the good old less legal way.
Example of the last; WARNING kiss scene :p : https://youtu.be/2-bLO63lFfA?list=PLVn9O_Mx0d6zd_ZoMMpl5Y0GYls6WAIO7&t=1668 (in the "actual drama" the song here is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW-CsUq-X7A = Lian Huai Wei & Peng Ya Qi - Love Is (爱是) )
This here however, you can skip everything that does not involve at least one of the leads (and also skip all triangle/job/etc stuff that does involve one of the leads).
You can find a more detailed spoiler list here https://mydramalist.com/713107-modawi-s-secret#comment-13838129
Dropped to save the time.
Wang Xing Yue (ML) and Nie Zi Hao (ML's half-brother) are somewhat okay, and Yin Si Qi (ML's maid) has a certain charm.
Visibly low budget production.
OSTs added at random.
We were dreading the start of each new episode as there is a sequence of the ML addressing the audience (/ the audience imagining themselves as the FL) that just does not work.
The mediocre story is almost the highlight here, and I guess the many couple scenes.
If you are looking for something harmless and mostly fluffy, it could fit the bill.
Out of curiosity, what makes her one of your favourites? I've only seen her in this and her acting was really poor.
The actors I'm familiar with somehow manage to be much worse than in their better shows (directing?), some don't match their roles at all (casting), and especially the men's headwear is just ??? (costumes).
Half the time something important happens, it's entirely off-screen.
The https://mydramalist.com/50395-forever-love you watched is like a no-angst low-quality L&P btw.
In the first hours of BiA, this doesn't happen at all, so someone on set must have kept him on a tight leash, made him re-take scenes many times to get takes without it, and used appropriate amounts of blackmail to make him not do it. There were a number of times where I assumed the editors also helped by deliberately cutting scenes right before it happened.
Ep 12 at 40:40, he finally succumbs let's say 80% of the way.
From then on, mostly in romantic moments, he slightly purses his lips.
P.S.: In Ep 30, at 12:30, no amount of crew minders were able to hold him back and his tongue darted out unhindered.
However, the romance side falls quite flat, with the chemistry of the ML and FL being lukewarm at best and there being little romantic affection between them that doesn't just look like their regular family member affection. Even two of their respective relatives have far more convincing romantic chemistry in their scenes. For that, it's just the wrong show to watch.
Judging them just based on their Go Ahead performances, Song Wei Long basically is a bit of an expressionless wooden log (mùtou: 木头), while Tan Song Yun certainly has comedic talent (with a decent modicum of over-acting thrown in), but she looks forced in all romantic scenes, as if it's not her genre or she can't see Song Wei Long as anything else but a brother.
That they don't have speaking roles in those scenes gives the illusion that they're not around.