Details

  • Last Online: Dec 1, 2025
  • Gender: Female
  • Location: Bucharest, Romania
  • Contribution Points: 0 LV0
  • Roles:
  • Join Date: September 5, 2023

AncaPaduraru

Bucharest, Romania
The Legend of Zhuohua chinese drama review
Completed
The Legend of Zhuohua
0 people found this review helpful
by AncaPaduraru
Jun 11, 2025
40 of 40 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 6.0
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 3.0
Rewatch Value 5.0

Lazy, lazy, lazy director

It would have been sheer perfection if it lasted 30 instead of 40 episodes.
The real bummer is that around episode 25 or so the director got really, really lazy and provided each and every episode with some 15 minutes break from action, in the total 45 minutes duration of an episode.
It did so with editing in long, repetitive shots accompanied by the very same two or three tunes, during which the story did not advance but was more like "displayed".
Also, imagine hearing over and over again (some 20 times over) the same two or three songs ...
No matter how touching on one's feelings the first time, they end up touching on one's nerves by the 20th iteration ...
Silly and artistically counterproductive way to stretch the material in order to reach the 40 episodes mark.
I understand: they may be paid by the number of episodes.
But that is not the way to go, but the way to mock at the otherwise onest work of the acting cast.
Was this review helpful to you?