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Art in Love chinese drama review
Dropped 30/39
Art in Love
1 people found this review helpful
by mavinajfan
Oct 16, 2021
30 of 39 episodes seen
Dropped
Overall 6.0
Story 6.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 4.0
I dropped this show before the end. Too many cdrama tropes and, by the time I dropped it, I was like everything has happened to this woman, even multiple times, besides being kidnapped but seeing as there were like 9 episodes left there is still time. It started off really strong and, having an art degree aka being a certified art nerd myself, I thought maybe I’d like it but you know how some dramas face that mid drama slump and manage to crawl out of it? It might’ve gotten slow in the middle to stretch out the run time but in the end when it’s over you’re like yeah, ok, that was a good drama! To try and avoid that, this drama tried to pull every trick in the book. But you could really just see it as a cheap way to draw the number of episodes out. If you don’t have enough material for 39 episodes make it 20 or 30, tell a good story, we don’t need all the tropes, every trope like cheating, shootings, assassination attempts, injuries, Hospital stays, random surprise pregnancies, fake pregnancies, crazy exes, kidnappings, etc (Some of those things are in this drama)! While dramas aren’t supposed to be based 100% on real life because, life is non linear and doesn’t make narrative sense, dramas are supposed to mirror aspects of real life and be set basically in reality, unless it’s a fantasy drama but still the characters interactions, motives, and actions are still based firmly in reality even if they can fly. These people are some of the most unfortunate people ever or it’s unrealistic to the point that it breaks the immersive experience it is supposed to be. Btw, most of the misunderstandings could’ve been solved after a few episodes had the main guy just not been a jerk and been honest with his feelings/ kept in contact with main girl over the years and woo hoo a 10 episode or so drama. If they wanted to draw it out to like 20 he could be trying to woo her in the next episodes. In my opinion it’s not worth the watch but folks, if you have the time and like all of those drama tropes/annoying and mostly unnecessary plot building devices have at her. I’m just warning you in advance if you’d like to watch something else. After watching the 1st 30 episodes, maybe more I'm not sure, I was like meh, I wish I just watched Her Private Life again, both the girls are museum curators but HPL is a much better story overall.
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