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Poisoned Love chinese drama review
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Poisoned Love
9 people found this review helpful
by esper
Sep 27, 2020
24 of 24 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 8.5
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 8.5
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 5.0

Do you believe in destiny?

The drama explores the concept of how two people are destined to be together. Even as a misunderstanding seemingly pushes our leads apart, destiny pulls them back together. If you don't mind seeing some typical romcom tropes and a misunderstanding that lasts for more than half the drama, then this drama is a great light watch with a lot of chemistry between the leads and more than enough fluffy moments to satisfy your sweet tooth.

Story: The story deals primarily with the female lead's sleepwalking disorder and her attempt to cure her mysterious disease. This disease brings her closer to the male leads and then a love triangle is formed due to a misunderstanding. That's pretty much the main story, and its a happy ending. There's some pretty unrealistic moments but the story doesn't drag too much and there's always some sort of progress in each episode. I'd say the story is pretty shallow (I pretty much predicted the whole mystery half way through the show) and its purpose is the serve as a bridge between the main leads. The romantic development is pretty much the strongest development of the story.

Acting/Cast: The main couple has awesome chemistry and watching them go from a bad start to sweet romance is sure to make you smile. There is a side couple too and they also have good chemistry. The acting is not bad, considering I only knew some of the main actors as support roles in other dramas. Since it is a light romcom you can't really expect too many emotional moments or moments that really show an actor's competence.

Some of the drama's characters are pretty questionable though. There's the typical evil doers that attempt to screw over the female lead and the drama doesn't really explore them even though they repeatedly sabotage the female lead. Thus, they feel like shallow plot devices to cause chaos and problems and can be annoying to watch. Then, there's the second male lead with his selfishness that makes it hard for you to root for him. Though his selfish behavior is understandable, I found myself rooting for the main male lead way more.

Music: I enjoyed listening to the soundtrack as the tracks were pretty good and they fit their respective moments. Although the songs were used pretty repetitively and they didn't strike me enough for me to listen to them apart from the drama, they weren't half bad.

Rewatch Value: You'll probably go back and rewatch some of the funny and sweet moments but that's pretty much it. There's no point in rewatching this drama as its not groundbreaking or especially memorable. It's great as a one time watch though.

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