A drama worth watching for the hearts, not the brains.
Trigger warnings for the drama: PTSD, depression, mental illness
(Please consider these tags carefully before watching)
As the title says, it's a drama that you should use your heart to feel the emotions through the cast's superb acting skills, not your brain to see the obvious flaws in the plot/production.
Pros:
- Excellent acting performance by the cast, especially the ML Chen Zhe Yuan. So if you're looking to watch this for CZY, it's worth to watch until the end.
- Beautiful and meaningful messages
- OST's quality are amazing and thoughtful
- ML and FL's acting is the best selling point of the drama
Cons:
- Due to the drama having 4 directors, filming's quality is inconsistent and sometimes questionable, uncomfortable with those close-up/slowmo shots
- Unprofessional/Bad screenwriting that doesn't understand the essence of the source materials, so you can't use logic while watching, looking down on viewers' IQ.
- Many bad editing's decisions were made
- Unnecessary queerbaiting plots that added nothing but downgraded the drama and its original characters
- Overall, the production team is obviously an amateur team without much film making experience/knowledge, an example of big ambition not matching the skillset.
Conclusion: A badly-made drama that got hard carried by lead actors' acting skills and excellent original novel
Side note:
- For people who are impatient or can't stand slow pace, it is recommended to watch from Ep 27-38 first then you can go back and watch the rest (slow pace) later if you're still interested
- For people that hate tragic ending, you can stop at Ep 35 and pretend the last 3 eps don't exist.
Hopefully this review helps!
(Please consider these tags carefully before watching)
As the title says, it's a drama that you should use your heart to feel the emotions through the cast's superb acting skills, not your brain to see the obvious flaws in the plot/production.
Pros:
- Excellent acting performance by the cast, especially the ML Chen Zhe Yuan. So if you're looking to watch this for CZY, it's worth to watch until the end.
- Beautiful and meaningful messages
- OST's quality are amazing and thoughtful
- ML and FL's acting is the best selling point of the drama
Cons:
- Due to the drama having 4 directors, filming's quality is inconsistent and sometimes questionable, uncomfortable with those close-up/slowmo shots
- Unprofessional/Bad screenwriting that doesn't understand the essence of the source materials, so you can't use logic while watching, looking down on viewers' IQ.
- Many bad editing's decisions were made
- Unnecessary queerbaiting plots that added nothing but downgraded the drama and its original characters
- Overall, the production team is obviously an amateur team without much film making experience/knowledge, an example of big ambition not matching the skillset.
Conclusion: A badly-made drama that got hard carried by lead actors' acting skills and excellent original novel
Side note:
- For people who are impatient or can't stand slow pace, it is recommended to watch from Ep 27-38 first then you can go back and watch the rest (slow pace) later if you're still interested
- For people that hate tragic ending, you can stop at Ep 35 and pretend the last 3 eps don't exist.
Hopefully this review helps!
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