Forever and Ever Episode 29

Another hot mess of an episode.

It is hard for me to decide which episode is worse: The 28th or this one. This one continues the same absurd "Shi Yi lying in a coma" storyline and it is just so, so dumb. Again, the behavior of multiple characters is just weird and bizarre in order to stretch out this plot gimmick. The episode just drags things out with a combination of unreasonably stupid behavior on the part of some characters filled in with lots of flashbacks. We get no Shi Yi time on screen except in memories. And the Zhou Sheng Chen we get in this episode is a regressive throwback to the emotionally stifled, hyper-reticent, absurdly deferential-to-a-fault Chen that the was at the start of the series. We lost so much character growth that he had shown through 27 episodes. Without the main leads (especially without Bai Lu's character) on screen the show really suffers. The whole episode just drags slowly and is filled with flashbacks to stretch out screen time.

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