No amount of colorful costuming can hide how dull this really was
Eighteen episodes in, I feel like I've wasted twelve hours of my life watching this drama.
Stuff happens, but the audience is never given time or reasons to care about it, and it feels like the main cast do an awful lot of nothing. For instance, although interesting (and awful) things happen around and to Wan Mei, she never actually does anything interesting herself unless it's by mistake or someone forces her into it. Likewise, Chang'An and Gong Li are nice to look at, but pretty one-note and, unfortunately, kind of boring. The villains are cartoonishly evil, which makes it hard to take any other parts of the drama seriously. Rare attempts to add depth to secondary characters generally fall flat.
Stuff happens, but the audience is never given time or reasons to care about it, and it feels like the main cast do an awful lot of nothing. For instance, although interesting (and awful) things happen around and to Wan Mei, she never actually does anything interesting herself unless it's by mistake or someone forces her into it. Likewise, Chang'An and Gong Li are nice to look at, but pretty one-note and, unfortunately, kind of boring. The villains are cartoonishly evil, which makes it hard to take any other parts of the drama seriously. Rare attempts to add depth to secondary characters generally fall flat.
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