Mission in Parallel (2022)

Definitely worth watching

This is actually a great mini-show. The setting inside a novel is brilliant. FL is an outside (the novel) person who is a professional “story-changer” and her job is to fix the problems in the novel in order to end the story correctly. In this novel she comes to occupy the wife of a cheating husband and wife beater. The way she handles matters is funny and entertaining.
It may not be the best actors and the story does feel rushed but the things happening and the flow of the story is great.
So, if you like a bit of fantasy and a strong FL, this is definitely well worth watching.

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Cool Concept, missed delivery

**Caveat** The subtitles on the YouTube version I watched were auto-generated, so much of the content was confusing and proper subtitles may have improved my perception of the delivery. It very well may be that I will give this drama a better rating if I watch it again with real subtitling. (I'm looking at you Viki volunteers :))

**Caveat 2** I watch a lot of mini-dramas. I love these because I can get my Wuxia/Xanxia or Chinese Rom-Com without committing to 24-50 hours of viewing. I understand the limitations of the media and therefore gave this drama a higher rating than I would have had it been a traditional web or broadcast drama.

**Caveat 3** I have no memory of the music and watched most of this on mute.

This is such a cool concept. Not a spoiler because it is in the opening sequence - a fixer comes into a comic/novel/TV show to help the character who is getting beaten down but doesn't deserve the treatment. Here she is coming in to help the chubby wife of a philandering husband from getting beaten to death. Pretty high concept for such a comedy-toned mini-drama, but it still worked. The writer had a big task and tried to take on more than they could accomplish in 70 minutes. They tried to have too many complex backstories and another transmigration character that was unnecessary.

I think this idea could have been better dealt with in a short form with some streamlining. That being said, I enjoyed it.

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