Broker

Absolutely rubbish

This drama sux so much. I rarely drop dramas especially one with Luo Yunxi but even he couldn't save this garbage. The female lead is grating, people keep saying things in the dialogue about her age and it's clear they cast an actress who's much older than the character. I don't mind older characters but fix the script, it sounds stupid. Her boss keeps talking about how the FL is so young and idealistic (even refers to her as "This little girl") and the boss is CLEARLY younger than the FL. The acting is cringe. The chemistry between the leads is completely non existent. The FL is not likeable at all and flip flops between acting like a door mat and trying to order people around who have no reason to obey her.
The office drama feels like it's written by a teenager who can't imagine a real workplace but understands school bullying, with their grand plan to get rid of the FL basically being "be really mean and cliquey to her until she leaves". It's embarrassing watching a 40 year old lady staring sadly at her lunch alone while wishing people liked her when she doesn't ever try to talk to any of them or make friends.
Also the fake research plot makes no sense, they didn't even bother trying to come up with a convincing way they did it, they just lied about the numbers.
It's all just awful and it's weird that this drama got made.

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Its sad !!

Ok so i was really excited about this drama and eagerly waiting for english subs. I finally started watching and reached ep 13. Then i came across the ending and it was devastating. I mean aren't we all enough sad in our lives, why add a little more pain to it? Do the reel stories need to adjust with real life stories? I mean i know its more difficult to make a story with a sad ending into a drama. It needs real hardwork and dedication of the actors. But why can't something that neither the viewers nor the actors are facing need to be so much real and sad, can't it be a fairytale. I just had to drop it because everyday is a real depression on its own.

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Same ol' same ol'

The trailer was interesting, unfortunately after watching just 2 episodes I saw that it was again just the typical "romance" C-Drama with the typical twenty-something actors/actresses. Only difference, at least in the episodes I watched, the action is somewhere in Eastern Europe. Okay, but when Victoria Song talks to her boss in Chinese and he answers in English for quite a while I was thinking: "Seriously"? They couldn't get a Chinese actress that speaks English for this part? How realistic is that? Then I saw Leo Luo acting his part as a tough agent/broker in a fight with several people. For heavens sake, he is just too young for this role. If at least he looked kind of tough and mean, but no, quite the opposite....From then it just went downhill for me. Apparently someone thought let's make a series with some more or less fresh faces, underutilized actors, for people like me that are getting tired of seeing the same actors in more or less the same roles. I have no problem with this idea. Only problem is, these actors should be in some other series. The action genre, no, most definitely not. "Broker" is screaming for actors at least 10 years older than the actors here plus some common sense added to the scenes.

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Non l'ho amato ma, non l'ho nemmeno disprezzato

Se siete fan sfegatati di Luo Yunxi, Broker potrebbe valerne la pena, perché mette davvero in mostra il suo talento. Offre un'interpretazione emozionante nei panni di un antieroe imperfetto e tormentato che si innamora di una donna che cambierà l'intero corso della sua vita. Broker potrebbe fare al caso vostro anche se amate le protagoniste femminili forti, brillanti, indipendenti e mature. L'interpretazione di Victoria Song vi farà desiderare che ci fossero più personaggi come lei nei drama cinesi. (Avrei voluto aggiungere "sensibile" alla lista di attributi di FL, ma purtroppo non posso a causa delle sue azioni e parole negli ultimi due o tre episodi.)

MA. E questo è un enorme MA. Per tutti gli altri? È un po' un testa a testa. Broker è imperfetto e caotico, e se vi piacerà o meno dipenderà dal vostro gradimento o dalla vostra tolleranza per i melodrammi sdolcinati e irrealistici e altri elementi che alcuni amano e altri detestano: i discorsi scientifici, le politiche d'ufficio e gli schemi (solo nei primi episodi, però, poi sono fantastici), la OTP secondaria, eroi/eroine/antagonisti molto tormentati (dichiarare che Leo viene messo a dura prova, soprattutto alla fine, sarebbe un eufemismo). Con il progredire della serie, flirta sempre più con le trame del "sangue di cane (狗血)", fino a quando, MOLTO prevedibilmente, non si abbandona completamente al melodramma makjang nell'ultimo quarto. (Un paio di personaggi fanno persino riferimento ai drammi del "sangue di cane", il che fa pensare a un subdolo cenno di autocompiacimento.)

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Decepcionante

Primero que nada no es un drama para todos por la enrome cantidad de palabrerío técnico que hay en el drama, esto puede llegar a alejar a algunas personas o aburrir en alguno que otro caso porque es algo que se va a ver en los 42 episodios así que es entendible que alguien pueda llegar a dar una baja puntuación por ese motivo.
Personalmente creo que el drama esta partido en 2 partes, la mejor para mi gusto, fue desde el principio hasta que mo li y zhou xiao shan tienen que volver a Europa. Pasando esta mitad creo que el drama se transforma en otro que tranquilamente podría ser una segunda temporada y como norma general "todas las segundas partes son malas" y esta no es la excepción porque literal nos vamos a olvidar de la continuación del desarrollo y de los personajes de la primera mitad, el ejemplo mas claro esta en mo li, personaje que solo va a volver al drama para morirse y no aportar absolutamente nada a la historia.
Este drama me estaba encantando creo que tanto victoria song como luo yunxi tenian una hermosa química (el final de ellos me saco las lagrimas ) no los sentí forzados y tampoco creería q luo yunxi no encajaba en el personaje de zxs por su físico, creo que hasta encaja mejor por el físico que tiene .
La pareja secundaria si me pareció algo desubicada, ni su principio ni su desarrollo ni su desenlace me logro atrapar para nada y tranquilamente podrían haber no estado y no me hubiera molestado para nada.
En fin creo q era un drama que lo tenia todo para mi y a mitad de camino se fue por las ramas y no supo encontrar el camino de vuelta.

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