101 Marriages (2023)

"Love" Story with Problematic and Antiquated Relationship Tropes

The forced marriage that turns to love can be fun with the right writing. Unfortunately, this series fell short. Though the leads had great chemistry their relationship was problematic. The ML basically pays the FL’s adoptive mother $50 million dollars to “rescue” her from her adoptive family i.e. mother who treats her like trash. Mind you, the FL had no romantic interest in the ML as she was in love with the SML. Once married, the ML proceeds to yell at the FL, manhandle her and lock her in the home when she doesn’t respond to him the way he desires.

Granted he does secretly pay for her incapacitated brother’s care, but that still doesn’t make up for his possessive treatment of her. When they finally divorce, which he initiates as he decides that he has to “let her go” so that she can be happy, he then follows her around town (essentially stalking her) and continues to do things to control her life, such as arranging an apartment for her without her knowledge and ensuring that she chooses that place for her new residence. Of course, the FL finally realizes that she loves him and, in the end, they reunite, but honestly I don’t see why. Despite them being close schoolmates in high school and him doing a couple of honorable things that would warrant appreciation, that evolving into her having a romantic love for him made no sense.

The SML and SFL were a cute couple. They had nice chemistry and a descent love story until that relationship was destroyed by the SFL’s mother and unfortunately materialistic needs. The corporate drama wasn’t well played and the storyline with the FL’s incapacitated brother seemed to be an integral part of the story to start, but then was immediately dropped and was only revisited for a blink and you miss it moment, late in the series.

This was a very entertaining show. I did find that I wanted to see what happened next, but the writing wasn’t good and neither was the love story. The acting was hit or miss and some of the designs of the scene settings i.e. the homes and businesses, left a lot to be desired. Is this worth watching. Not really. Would I re-watch. No.

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this is garbage so stay away from this Crime turn love

Sheng Shi has been in love with Gu Lan Shan since high school, but Gu Lan Shan is in love with Han Cheng Chi. The proud Sheng Shi could not accept this and finds a way to turn Gu Lan Shan into his woman.

Gu Lan Shan feels that Sheng Shi has betrayed their friendship. On the day of the wedding, Gu Lan Shan tries to run through the help of her younger brother who unfortunately gets into an accident. Faced with high medical expenses, Gu Lan Shan turns to Sheng Shi for help, but he uses the situation as a bargaining chip to ask her to marry him. At that time, he believed that love was possession. Two people who don't know how to love enter into a marriage that is doomed from the start. One wants to get closer while the other wants to escape, always leaving the other scarred
in this drama ML is villain who try his ass of to force FL and her lover should never meet
and took advantage of her forcefully

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A...come Allucinante, Assurdo e Agghiacciante

Davvero, sono basita. Il livello di esasperazione era tale che non sono nemmeno riuscita ad abbandonare la serie, avevo quasi la necessità di vedere con i miei occhi, fino alla fine, il delirio di un drama che è a dir poco assurdo.
Dovessimo riassumere la traccia in poche parole, direi che lui - da sempre innamorato di lei - la costringe a un matrimonio che lei non vorrebbe ma al quale, per una serie di motivi, non può sottrarsi e inizia così l'improbabile convivenza - segreta, perchè quasi nessuno sa che sono marito e moglie - dei due giovani coniugi.
Ora, questa descrizione calza a pennello anche con altre serie, ad esempio la recente e popolare "When the phone rings", tanto per citarne una.
Nel concreto, però, parliamo di due pianeti diversi (anzi, galassie diverse, data l'infinita distanza).
Tornando a 101 Marriages - già sul titolo ci sarebbe molto da ridire - ogni azione e reazione, le cui conseguenze hanno determinato il concatenarsi degli eventi che costituiscono il drama, sono davvero in contrapposizione con qualsiasi minima forma di sano buonsenso. A livello di recitazione, lei quanto meno nella prima parte è talmente poco espressiva e sulle sue da non fare quanto meno alcun danno. Lui è imbarazzante, sembra quasi bipolare, alterna momenti di ridicola gelosia - nei quali da prova di comportamenti anche malsani - a scene in cui si atteggia a uomo tutto d'un pezzo, per poi virare nuovamente in siparietti inverosimili, con occhi a cuoricino e sorrisi beati (in realtà, mi sono sembrati solo inquietanti). Occorre davvero una buona dose di crudeltà per imporre a un attore un copione del genere. E' tutto poco credibile, al limite del grottesco. Una farsa che fa davvero ridere, non una risata di sano divertimento, ma di puro imbarazzo. Per la storia, la recitazione, la caratterizzazione dei personaggi. L'unico motivo per vederlo è se si vuole ampliare i propri orizzonti in termini di giudizi negativi.

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