Exclusive Love

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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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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