Probably best short Drama
I usually refrain watching short dramas, but this one surprised me in such positive way. Many people did not liked it because of the bad ending, but in life not everything ends with "lived happily ever after".Both leads did amazing job in their love-hate relationship, story developed with the right tempo and the end was unexpected for me, sad but it felt right and somehow beautiful.
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Wasted potential
The first 6 episodes of this drama feel like a dream, like a bad dream from which you want to wake up.I love the world building, the costumes and watching again some of the best chines actors in play.
The trailer of the drama hyped us to expect something incredible, because we have same director who made "The Double".
I can't comment on how good the story is written and developed here because i would need more episodes (and I don't plan to torture myself with more) but from first episodes as viewer I have the feeling that there are things i should have known before watching it to make sense. I haven't read the novel or watched any old TV drama, who lays the foundation of "Rebirth" so I felt lost.
* Acting was horrible and I can't say if it is not the voice dubbing , how the scenes are shot or if some of the actors are indeed talentless. Zhang Kang Le is simply posing Infront of the camera, trying to deliver some emotions aside from his sex appeal. Many of the actors are talking straight to camera doing evil or mischievous faces or blank expression like the FL. The interaction between the characters feel too staged or forced as if they didn't have time to prepare with their lines.
*There were too many illogical things, which directly attack your IQ as viewer.
- First battle in the middle of the lake, our Zhuge Yue was fighting on pile of dead bodies of his soldiers with his few remaining men who were taking hits instead of him. I would understand if they were defending a narrowed passage, but in open field who gathered and stacked these bodies up and most important why? Because the director wanted to have cool scene where general is shot by arrow and falls down the pile of corpses ?
Then Yan Xun army shoot fire arrows, creating a perfect fire circle around the pile of dead bodies even though they never surrounded them and to end this amazing scene they shoot anchor type devices to destroy the ice sheet and sunk them on the bottom of the lake. Just turn off your brain, everything is fine.
-I know that the name of the series is "Rebirth" but which lows of nature need to take place for one of the main characters to die? Stabbed, beaten, sight loss, drowned several times under the ice lake..... everything leads to instant recovery because the next scene demands it. How can you feel as observer that any of these characters would be in a danger. There is no suspense or excitement watching this drama.
The production value looks high, I can't believe we see same director who created "The Double" bombing so hard here.
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Desperate housewives of ancient China
This drama is for ppl who love tea & harem intrigues. The plot felt really flat and predictable, i can endure it only until ep 22. Actors did amazing job when we take the weak script and pacing into play. If I can summarize this entire TV series with one word it would be "boredom" , i won't remember even one significant scene in few weeks.Was this review helpful to you?
Whisper of Dissapointment
Were they trying to recreate "Till the End of the Moon" or am I too obsessed by Luo Yun Xi aura? I watchedeverything until episode 10 and then i had to drop it because of pure boredom. What makes this drama slightly different from all others are the overexaggerated costumes and dramatic accessories which feminize the male characters to extends I haven't seen so far. The first 10 episodes I forced myself to watch look like a bad fantasy dream now. I also couldn't sing a single tune, usually I am used to hear really great music in Chinese dramas.
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Deja Vu
This Series feels like you watched it before. Immortals , humans & demons, gorgeous actors, unnecessary special effects and cheap plastic serving for accessories or armor decoration, plot is more or less the same.Love Bai Lu, but I prefer to watch her in more serios dramas., her character is the same as in recent Moonlight mystic .Jozeph Zheng beautiful drunken sleepy eyes save almost anything and this Feud is not an exception.
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Mediocre at best
I loved "goodbye my princess" , "Blue whisper" & "Love of Nirvana" so I was expecting something great, promo was so promising. Unfortunately Ren Jia Lun looked bored in almost every scene he was in and I kind of understand him. Story was indeed boring, same as his one type face expression. There was nothing memorable in the soundtrack, usually these series come with great soundtrack and there is at least one tune which you would remember. The entire production looks like this was shot back in 2015 but was released in 2025 for some reason. I would forgive it if we had some good side characters and sub plot, but none was actually interesting or memorable. The only good thing here was Peng Xiao Ran.Was this review helpful to you?
