The play is worth watching！
This play triggered my thinking. It talked about women's choices in the workplace and family. Girls will encounter many difficulties after having children and getting married. Therefore, through this play, it also gave me a lot of ideas and told me how to balance the relationship between family and career. Bai Baihe and Tong Dawei also have good acting skills, They performed their roles very vividly, which made me integrate into this TV play and feel indebted as if it were received in person.Which are highly recommended!Was this review helpful to you?
A true reflection of what life is all about
If your have the time and space, watch it from start till the end if not, just need to watch the last episode.Manybof is are living in a conflict world, many of our times we though that we are in control but infect, we are not.
This drama really hive us a chance to reflect on ourselves. What is life and what we really wanted.
We can be lost at times without us even notice because of our super fast pace. This is the reality and we must recognise it and move on from it.
This land we are living in now have been beautifully coloured by many personal selfishness.
As much as many wanted to wake up the rest, its not going to work in thisbnew generation. So we will just need to do what we can and try to rebuild this piece of land that we are living in
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Thoughtful drama on dilemmas of parenting
I watched this drama because of the director's brilliant work in The First Half of My Life and The Rise of the Phoenixes. As per Shen Yan's previous works, Modern Marriage also featured characters who are nuanced, flawed and very real.The drama highlights the struggles faced by parents juggling work and raising young children. Main couple decided that Mum would stay home to care for their daughter. She rejoined the workforce when her child started preschool. Her daily stresses between school runs, childcare, career demands and house work are all so relatable. Her step by step achievements and growth alongside with her husband made me cheer for them. My initial frustration with their lack of communication eventually melted away.
Three other couples with different arrangements give insights into universal issues faced by parents everywhere.
The setting is also quite interesting. The world of venture capitalists is not familiar territory for many of us.
Acting was pretty solid all around, though not in the same league as the actors on The First Half of My Life.
A thoughtful drama that was a good break from the mediocre romcoms that I've been watching lately. Haha.
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Such a good show
I was genuinely not sure if I would like this show, but the plot sounded compelling so I decided to give it a try. I am really glad I did. It is interesting and thought-provoking and has me hooked. I really like the pacing. The acting is also phenomenal. Even the kids are good. I also really like how questions and critiques of traditional versus modern relationships and the way they affect families and workplaces are laid out using an interesting plot and equally interesting characters, snd that most aren't totally good or bad, just like most humans IRL. I thought I knew going in which lead character I would support based on my beliefs but it shockingly ended up the opposite. I also nev er know what the next episode will hold. My only critique is some of the dramatic moments are definitely Extra. And maybe I will hate the end, I don't know yet, but so far I have really enjoyed the ride.Was this review helpful to you?
Long live SIMPS of China - a story about feminized men and masculine women
This show is the stereotypical Chinese feminist story where all male characters are actually women, and all female characters are more manly than Arnold Schwarznegger/Sylvester Stallone. Every single man in this show behaves, talks, cries, weeps, begs, cooks and takes care of house like a real woman. And every woman in this show behave like very manly men and expect the male characters to kowtow to them and take care of their needs.Except one. The character Lu Wei Bin (played by Tong Yue) is the only REAL MAN in this show. And he commands the screen in the few scenes he gets as a supporting character. But his character is portrayed negatively as required under the rules of Chinese feminism. Still he shines in the way he conducts his life and wins against his opponents. The opponents also include his wife in the show - Jiang Jing (played very well by Cao Xi Wen). Tong Yue succeeds in overcoming the negative bias of his character and manages to command sympathy and support for his character despite the attempts by the screenwriter and director to turn him into a villain.
The other characters and their story arcs are just NOT interesting and can be safely skipped. Tong Da Wei is the star of this show and plays his character as a female to perfection. Tong hasn't had to play a real man in decades and his acting skills have atrophied so he is strictly confined to playing simps, cuckolds and feminized men.
Ultimately, this show is just not worth watching since it parrots the Chinese feminist delusion that ALL real men are evil and ALL women are angels.
The ending of the show was meaningless - all the men turn into women and praise the female characters, and all women become more manly and praise the (FE)male characters, i.e men who behave like women.
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