Stand Still! Miss Hua (2021)

Finalmente Zhang He nel ruolo del protagonista!

Ho finito di vedere questa notte sul canale ufficiale Mango TV questo drama. E mi è piaciuto per svariati motivi.
Innanzi tutto perché finalmente hanno dato un ruolo da protagonista a Zhang He, che ricorderete tutti in Love 020 o Eternal Love. Secondo me lui è un bravo attore e meriterebbe più ruoli da protagonista ma magari questo è solo un inzio.

In secondo luogo ho trovato la storia leggera e romantica. Non è uno di quei drami che faranno la storia ma sicuramente un drama che si lascia guardare volentieri e per cui si possono passare notti insonni. Non esistono mai veri momenti drammatici e per questo ne beneficia sicuramente il nostro umore.

Terzo, devo dire che il cast tutto mi è piaciuto molto. Soprattutto i colleghi della squadra di soccorso di Zhang He, o Qin Donghai. E menzione particolare per Liu Yinjun (All I want for love is you) che sa essere camaleontico e passare da ruoli divertenti e sbarazzini, a ruoli più seri e drammatici.

Ricapitolando quindi il drama segue il classico sviluppo di una divertente storia d'amore con qualche intoppo qua e là. E il cast presenta oltre alla coppia principale con un antagonista, una coppia secondaria ed un gruppo di amici ben strutturato. Godetevelo!!!

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It's not very good tbh

The story had a lot of potential to be romantic and fun. When I read the synonpsis I was imagining the FL to start out a spoiled rich brat and have beautiful character development with the support of ML beside her as they gradually fall in love. Although that's the story they followed, those points felt like they weren't hit at all?? The company politics, the girl boss energy, the cute romance and the character development were all missing. To be more frank, these plot points were so badly executed that there was no impact at all.

I mainly wanted to watch for the romance and girl boss moments of the FL taking charge of her life. I feel like I got a watered down version of both. And my expectations for this drama and its quality was really low before I even started. I seriously was just expecting it to be a bit funny and cute. It didn't do anything for me unfortunately.

Their romance had no proper buil up/ progression in my opinion. It was just the ML being hesitant for 18 epsiodes. The FL sat on her ass for 18 episodes as well, just waiting for him to do something. I feel like I watched air for 18 episodes in terms of romance. I'm all for the man in dramas making the first move but FL seemed so detached from the romance plot at times it was baffling. After they got together, it was just ok. Nothing they did felt particularly romantic to me. I didn't even wait for last 2 episodes to get subbed. I just skipped through it raw. It's not unwatchable, but like I said the impact is so low after the first 4 epsiodes or so that it feels like watching air.

I'm very disappointed because this may be the worst chinese drama I've seen thus far ( for my tastes) and I've even watched those weird web chinese romcom dramas that don't even get registered on this website as dramas lmao.

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