Exclusive Love

Meh

Now I understand why this is rated so low.

Story sounds interesting, but the actual drama isn't.

Second leads story was soo boring, which is weird since it's the simplest story ever best friends to lovers, it's a classic for all romantic dramas even straight couple, how can you mess that up?????

The two leads has acceptable chemistry, Du Zhi was slightly robotic, barely showing any emotions, which is fine because of his character and past, but it did put me off a little while watching, the only thing I enjoyed was Wang Zhan, he was adorable, a little childish and silly.

I watched the whole thing with a straight face, even the comedic scenes were not funny, the drama had good premise but terrible execution ~~

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Why Did I Watch This Show???

Even good actors would fail at saving a bad script with abysmal storytelling!

Can you fall in love with your kidnapper? Makes you wonder if the said victim Wang Zhan suffers from Stockholm Syndrome or he is simply finding comfort in the arms of the man who puts him through a gruelling routine for three quarters of this show. Wang Zhan & Tang Du Zhi’s love story is quite questionable; Wang Zhan is afraid of ghosts and obviously funeral rites scare the bejesus out of him. Ironically, his family business involves running a funeral home and he wants absolutely nothing to do with it. A runaway wannabe, playing music on the streets, Wang Zhan is content with his life. Until, his older brother’s lackey Tang Du Zhi forcibly brings him home and starts training him to takeover the family business. They have a lot of differences, opinion clashes and yet inevitably in the midst of all those disagreements, they slowly grow closer. But Tang Du Zhi has personal demons and baggage to unpack, while Wang Zhan has to face his own fears. The show doesn’t make a lot of sense in certain aspects, the pacing falls back in some places and in the second half, you feel utterly bored. This is one of those shows that starts good but ends miserably!

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Stop with the Stupid Plot Lines!

This whole series is one giant contradiction. But it presents well. That much I shall give it credit for. It hides its flaws with beautiful men, a heart tugging storyline, and an endearing love story. While the men are quite beautiful, the core story is based on kidnapping and coercion, and the beloved love story (actually there are two) is right out of the trope cliché playbook. You have seen it all before. Everyone functionally acted well in this series. Can I say anyone caught my attention? Well, no. It all seemed rather robotic to me and with little effort and development to fully get into the characters or who they were. Overall, this looks good. Polished performances. Even sometimes heartstring scenes. But an empty plot and an awful premise. One should not divorce, nor should one, from how the story developed. Falsely under duress and coercion using kidnapping and abusive techniques. And frankly no ‘love’ should overcome that premise. That is morally, ethically and I suspect legally wrong and unjustified. “Love’ will not change that. To fall in love with your kidnapper, no matter how ‘valid’ the reasons might seem or be, is a foundation not built on solid trust and one that will become suspect in the future. That is the classic case of using the Stockholm Syndrome.

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Meh Tier very middle of the road

What’s up with Taiwanese BL’s lately? Last year and prior majority were so good from Be in the house I do (2021) to See Your Love (2024) but Exclusive Love isn’t really good at all safe for the acting but I have to say that I preferred Parker Mao’s character in Your Mine (2023) to Tang Duzhi who is basically just so stoic and robotic without hardly any genuine emotional evolution throughout the series. Also the script, writing, and general pacing feel so so so slow without any real proper slow burn romances at all; and not to mention they packed everything into that final episode and I mean everything but the kitchen sink from NC scenes, both couples getting married, a time skip of 3 years with the previous funeral scene meant to finish up the brothers story but it really didn’t do that. All pretty meh as I said before great acting but Parker’s character in Your Mine and by extension VIP Only felt more realistic to me as well more of a genuine chemistry with the other lead in that series to this one

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delightful if unoriginal

what to say about this drama？
delightful couple(s) handsome actors and with the virtue of Taiwanese gay dramas that it brings equal treatment with straight dramas to the physical side of relationships as well as other aspects including marriage and the actors play their parts quite well without inhibition I would say。

on the other side it failed somewhat as a drama。 the idea to set this in a funeral business background is original but、it does not make the actual development of the story and romance original or add anything to the story、 its intrusion in the last episode truly is macabre。
this is a drama supposedly of two couples but the secondary couple's story was really drowned out by the main couple and the resolution of the second couple story putting it kindly rather unconvincing。
for me the drama went on too long and was beginning to drag around episode 8 and the twist in the last two episodes again putting it kindly rather weak and adding little to the resolution。
so. for me、 even with its good points it does not pass the ”I can not wait to watch and must watch every day test”； so a generous 9.5 from me because of the equality factor🩷🌈

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Tolles Drama, nervige Kinderstimme

Exclusive Love erzählt die Geschichte eines jungen Namens ( Musiker) , der ein Bestattungsunternehmen übernehmen soll, aber es gibt ein Problem: Er hat Angst vor Geistern und will es gar nicht machen. Er wird von einem gutaussehenen Manager trainiert ,und man merkt direkt, dass es zwischen den beiden zu knistern beginnt.


Der erste Eindruck des Dramas war eigentlich sehr positiv. Die Handlung gefällt mir und auch die Chemie zwischen den beiden Hauptdarstellern scheint zu stimmen. Aber die kindliche Stimme von Wang Zhan beginnt mich zu stören. .... Ich verstehe einfach nicht, warum ein erwachsener Mann so sprechen muss.
Dieses Phänomen ist vor allem in chinesischen Serien zu beobachten, allerdings bei weiblichen Protagonisten. In taiwanesischen Dramen hingegen werden kindliche Stimmen von männlichen Schauspielern bevorzugt. Oft verändert sich die Stimme jedoch, wenn die Protagonisten persönlich wachsen und sich entwickeln. Aber im Moment stört mich die Stimme zu sehr. Deshalb werde ich das Drama an dieser Stelle anhalten, warten bis alle Episoden verfügbar sind und dann entscheiden, ob ich weiterschauen werde.

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