i also rarely get past the first episode, but thought i would try this drama. I watched the first episode and…
I didn't notice the edits. I am used to films and Western dramas where the cost of production usually means that the most you get usually is 12 eps and now it seems 8 eps is becoming the norm.. The hurdle I have to get past is usually all the side stories which add nothing to the main story, which I usually just skip over. Its like they pay the writers by the word. Youku are getting some stick because they are cutting the amounts of episodes in dramas, thinking about the quality of the writing there are few writers who can sustain a story for nearly forty hours. Not every drama should be like War and Peace, which one of the best adaptations managed to cover the story in 6 eps. I feel sorry for the actors, they must feel they are on a treadmill, where a lot of plots are pretty much the same and main actors are having to repeat the same sort of roles. I think they are trying to cut the cost of production on all platforms, so there is dependence on green screen, and the cost of writing a hidden cut.
Completed in four days. Its my first historical C drama, that I have gotten past the first episode, bad dubbing and even worse special effects really puts me off. Very good story telling where each story and plot line adds to the whole. For once women are not treated as hysterical idiots, even when their choices are questionable they make sense given the circumstances. The action sequences where well done, and as a rider its great to see some better quality horses being used and actors being taught how to sit a horse properly. For once love wasn't treated like a simple thing, all love is complicated and needs a couple to adjust for it to last. If you like slush it's perhaps not for you. A very well made drama.
This was our couple watch over three evenings. If you have seen The Raid(2011), it is basically that with a touch of the Godfather, so no death is brutal enough with a chess game running along side it. Yes we worked who were that bad guys after about episode three, but its like getting on a roller coaster you know what you are getting, and I liked that were no stupid side stories, and very competently executed. Its a complete story with no filler, one of the best in this genre for us.
Seriously stupid but very addictive. Like shiny appealing Christmas hollow chocolate baubles, not a lot in them but it appealing. The actors make this because if it possible considering the OTT script, they managed to play it with some sort of basis in reality. Never seen both leads before and I was impressed, and the older support actors were experienced, it was fun working out where I had seen them before.
Just finished the Netflix version of this, and it was a mixed bag. Its like quality soap opera/farce obviously filmed cheaply on a set but has quality actors which make it work most of the time. I watched it at the start mainly to see Kim Jung Hyun would do with it, as he is an amazing comic actor and can also do the serious stuff as well, and he was really for me the best bit, followed by his screen mother and grandma, so no surprises really. My big but is some of the characters just obnoxious , some were often just very loud, shouting for long periods and little reason, and the sane characters just never told them to STFU or just behave. I think it would have been better shorter and just gone for all out comedy/farce, because the running gag was a pretty good one. I forgot the FL, that says it all , didn't leave a lasting impression, not good or bad.
Nothing that bad but just a bit clunky, I had worked out most of the plot, and the end from about ep3. If you have watched as many vampire movies as I have over the years, favourite action ones are Blade, and Underworld, they could have pushed the sexual tension and action by tighter direction. Tip, if you are planning ritual sacrifice, do more planning and have better helpers. Twenty one years to plan, 15 mins to cock it up. The OST songs were good.
I loved this because it was sort of normal revenge, the sort where the dog suddenly chews up important documents, or pees on his suit, basically f!cks over his and her life with a smile of concern on your face, with a frisson of the thrill of you shouldn't be doing this really..
Agatha Christie but without a happy ending. I think for some this will be hard to like because there are no real hero's, every one at some level is sick and twisted, and there is violence on a casual domestic scale. All I can say is as couple watching we both felt it was a well made and interesting story, and worth the watch. It's one of those that sticks in my mind because having seen what money has made people do in my own family, apart from the violence its perhaps for grounded in reality than most.
This was my Saturday afternoon watch. I defy anyone not to cry. I suppose what I was most impressed about was the unflinching look at death and dying, no Hollywood gloss, and how families can be stuck in the rut made by the past. I found the saddest part the confrontation between Grandma and her brother, The acting all round was very good but, Billkin is a master of the face of an absolute shit, and in a split second you somehow see a window in him that makes you sympathetic towards him.
Just brilliant. Its rare that a drama is so complete in its script and story telling, combined with characters who are easily identifiable from real life and great acting. The fact that that the 'bad' characters are what I would call normally flawed, where there is money in a family, there is always a chance of a rift, and the 'good' characters are also flawed but somehow manage to be likeable is a rare feat. Each character wants to make a better life for themselves, and I suppose it's the one's who care most about the people around them that truly get a better life. The end for me was true to reality, in life often things are not neatly tied up wish list.
Not really, you spend a lot of time worrying about mud/too dry, and do we have too much grass or not enough. As they poop about eight times a day, there is a lot of poop to get rid of.
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The hurdle I have to get past is usually all the side stories which add nothing to the main story, which I usually just skip over. Its like they pay the writers by the word.
Youku are getting some stick because they are cutting the amounts of episodes in dramas, thinking about the quality of the writing there are few writers who can sustain a story for nearly forty hours. Not every drama should be like War and Peace, which one of the best adaptations managed to cover the story in 6 eps.
I feel sorry for the actors, they must feel they are on a treadmill, where a lot of plots are pretty much the same and main actors are having to repeat the same sort of roles.
I think they are trying to cut the cost of production on all platforms, so there is dependence on green screen, and the cost of writing a hidden cut.
Very good story telling where each story and plot line adds to the whole. For once women are not treated as hysterical idiots, even when their choices are questionable they make sense given the circumstances.
The action sequences where well done, and as a rider its great to see some better quality horses being used and actors being taught how to sit a horse properly.
For once love wasn't treated like a simple thing, all love is complicated and needs a couple to adjust for it to last. If you like slush it's perhaps not for you.
A very well made drama.
Yes we worked who were that bad guys after about episode three, but its like getting on a roller coaster you know what you are getting, and I liked that were no stupid side stories, and very competently executed. Its a complete story with no filler, one of the best in this genre for us.
The actors make this because if it possible considering the OTT script, they managed to play it with some sort of basis in reality. Never seen both leads before and I was impressed, and the older support actors were experienced, it was fun working out where I had seen them before.
Pond , has the ability to change is whole face and persona, so he is not acting he is being that part.
I watched it at the start mainly to see Kim Jung Hyun would do with it, as he is an amazing comic actor and can also do the serious stuff as well, and he was really for me the best bit, followed by his screen mother and grandma, so no surprises really.
My big but is some of the characters just obnoxious , some were often just very loud, shouting for long periods and little reason, and the sane characters just never told them to STFU or just behave.
I think it would have been better shorter and just gone for all out comedy/farce, because the running gag was a pretty good one. I forgot the FL, that says it all , didn't leave a lasting impression, not good or bad.
Tip, if you are planning ritual sacrifice, do more planning and have better helpers. Twenty one years to plan, 15 mins to cock it up.
The OST songs were good.
It's one of those that sticks in my mind because having seen what money has made people do in my own family, apart from the violence its perhaps for grounded in reality than most.
I found the saddest part the confrontation between Grandma and her brother,
The acting all round was very good but, Billkin is a master of the face of an absolute shit, and in a split second you somehow see a window in him that makes you sympathetic towards him.
characters are what I would call normally flawed, where there is money in a family, there is always a chance of a rift, and the 'good' characters are also flawed but somehow manage to be likeable is a rare feat.
Each character wants to make a better life for themselves, and I suppose it's the one's who care most about the people around them that truly get a better life.
The end for me was true to reality, in life often things are not neatly tied up wish list.