monstersnroses

I was halfway through this drama when a friend asked how the show was going. I told them it was so bad that it's only hope was if it just got worse and worse and turned Good-Bad. But it never did turn into a Good-Bad, it just stayed Bad, and it's a bad drama.

So then maybe you'd be asking if that were the case, then why did I give it a 6? The actors, straight up. They all tried hard for this script, and they all did a great job of serving up this sh*tpile in a way that at least left me not really regretting the time I spent watching it. I love that Yuan Ye is getting more acting practice on these smaller projects because he has a magnetism that I think will take him far if he can improve at giving his roles depth and gravity. I hope to see his career blossom into something amazing in the future.

ML and FL are seasoned actors, and did great work. The script and direction were terrible, so they didn't have a lot to work with but they made do.

But the script itself was god-awful. To tell you about it would be to spoiler you, so I can't. But I will say this, if you are into A) Vampires B) Werewolves or C) Twilight, you will probably not appreciate what they have done here. How can I explain this without spoilering you.... I guess it's like if someone chewed up a hamburger, then reformed the chewed up burger in the shape of a hamburger and said, "It's basically the same thing." Read into that what you will.

Then there's the very very problematic furry undertones. And this I WILL spoiler you on, because you need to know what you're about to get into. So (WARNING MINOR-NOT-MINOR SPOILER AHEAD)....

...... Imagine a scene where a good-sized pair of [trying-as-hard-as-it-can] dog ears are blended as seamlessly as possible into ML's hair to make it look organic and natural (it doesn't). Mkay. And the scene is a "neon pink lighting and saxophone music" type scene, supposed to be "dreamy and steamy and romantic". And ML and FL are playing the attraction between them STRAIGHT. And FL is nibbling lustily on ML's fake dog ears.

Mkay.

I know there is a subsegment of c-drama society - a very very small one - that is into this kind of kink. If you are, then this is absolutely the show for you, 1000%. But if you are NOT into that kind of thing, this is a REALLY hard watch in several spots. It hits a cringe level I rarely see in c-dramas. I have seen so much cringe that I'm usually immune to the pain and just find it amusing. But this made me inwardly squirm in pain a few times that made me have to reevaluate if I could tolerate going on. And if I was overcome by the cringe, I can't imagine what a mere mortal with a lower tolerance would go through.

The plot itself is so ultra-simplistic that it feels juvenile. The dialogue between characters is just... it has no suave. It has no hotness. It has no sophistication, no subtlety, no poetry. Every "spicy" scene feels gratuitous and low-class. The whole show feels like a little seed of furry sleaze wrapped in seven layers of cotton candy and 'just kidding' campiness. It makes me inwardly shudder just thinking about it.

So as a fine-cheese connoisseur, I can't call this fine cheese, or even cheese at all. It's just pure cringe is what it is.

Literally the only reasons to watch are the following:
*You are into cringe
*You are into furry/dog/werewolf/wolf kink
*You are into Charles Lin
*You are into Hong Xiao
*You are into Yuan Ye ----> This is prophecy that one day he'll get big and people will want to go watch 'all his dramas' and wind up here on this page and I will say "I called it in 2026" and here is the proof.
*You need a show to torture someone with

So 6/10

Because A) The actors did well and B) It was mercifully short.