Heavy Topics, Good Acting, and Budget Fight Scenes
Reborn didn't shy away from heavy topics. The drama tackles a wide range of intense themes, including toxic family dynamics, grief, depression, school bullying, domestic violence, societal criticism, and the endurance of young love.
The cast did a great job with playing out these heavy topics, delivering strong, convincing performances across the board... some too convincing 😆. One character in particular made me want to jump through the screen and fight them myself. Unfortunately, the actual fight scenes were where the show fell short for me. It felt like production could have spent a few more RMB to make the action believable. I'm not saying that I was expecting Pursuit of Jade level choreography, but at least make it feel like a real street fight, if that's what you're trying to show.
I would say my biggest dislike for this show came from the ending and the central romance. While the main leads were well-matched, their love story left me unfulfilled. I wanted to see more affection, warmth, and genuine yearning between them. The ML (Zhou Ri Yan), played a similar archetype to his role in "You Are Desire", where is was also displayed as a fearless, tough pretty boy, but I never found his "tough guy" persona entirely believable.
The cast did a great job with playing out these heavy topics, delivering strong, convincing performances across the board... some too convincing 😆. One character in particular made me want to jump through the screen and fight them myself. Unfortunately, the actual fight scenes were where the show fell short for me. It felt like production could have spent a few more RMB to make the action believable. I'm not saying that I was expecting Pursuit of Jade level choreography, but at least make it feel like a real street fight, if that's what you're trying to show.
I would say my biggest dislike for this show came from the ending and the central romance. While the main leads were well-matched, their love story left me unfulfilled. I wanted to see more affection, warmth, and genuine yearning between them. The ML (Zhou Ri Yan), played a similar archetype to his role in "You Are Desire", where is was also displayed as a fearless, tough pretty boy, but I never found his "tough guy" persona entirely believable.
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