A BORING & UINSPIRING Show for a niche group of audience!!
As a huge fan of anything Zeng Shunxi! Unfortunately, this show became too tiresome and repetitive throughout the entire series, with lazy writing and uninspiring dialogues (a lot of it).❤️ Pros ❤️
CGI (Yes this show made great use of CGI during the xianxia / fantasy sets/arc, they look soo pretty, however considering that they wasted the majority of the episodes in the mortal world and being plain mortals, we rarely got to see these beautiful visual.)
Costume (Yes some of the set pieces and costumes were fire omg)
Zeng Shunxi's acting (Yes despite being cast in a boring show, his acting skills are great!)
❤️ Cons ❤️
Boring turtle-slow paced script
Repetitive tiresome plot (multiple betrayals, just when you thought it's over, POOOF you've been betrayed AGAINNN)
Lazy writing (read more below, including the "fake" romance (they were pretending to be in love while holding evil intent multiple times repeatedly)
A show with nothing much to offer aside from the main couple's fight and betrayal between the 2 of them, while everyone else gets involve just because the main couple are their "leaders".
[SHORT SUMMARY]
This series to summarize, comprises of the ml and fl's love story which is mainly fueled by a lot of angst and vengeance caused by misunderstandings. It's not a sweet romance so take note of this! The "genuine" romance in this show is minimal, at least from how they portray these characters and you will only see genuine romance via flashbacks and during the last 2-5 episodes!
[EXPLAINATIONS]
There were multiple repeated instances where the characters were made to be "pretending" to be a different person, scheming against the other to eventually backstab the other main character once vulnerable to the other's "pretense". The issue with this is the team made the characters appear to show not a single hint of that "pretense", as if the character were truly a different person. Usually there's a need to show the audience at least something as seen in other shows with similar "pretense" kind of plot twists. This is a particularly awkward, lazy and poor attempt on the team's part to create a cheap plot twist and definitely not a "unique" and "quality" way of creating a plot twist *cringeeeee*.
They had the time to create a whopping 32 episodes, yet failed to take advantage of it by repeating the above character's actions over and over again D: It's as if all they had as "ideas" to keep the show moving were by having the characters backstab each other over and over again in multiple arcs. Additionally, the built up to each of these repeated actions were slow and filled with an insane amount of dialogue scenes at mostly repeated locations between the main couple and the side characters.
[FINAL SUMMARY]
To wrap things up! Feud serves a niche audience, my assumptions would be for those who may be more inclined to watch a really slow paced, heavy in dialogue show with a main plot that progresses at tortoise :3 pace OR audiences who are new to the scene and have not yet watched a truly well paced and directed series with exceptional scripts that offers a rich amount of content such as (Prisoner of Beauty, Moonlight Mystique, When Life Gives You Tangerines, Love Between Fairy and Devil etc). If you have not watched actual quality shows and are not familiar with film theory, you may consider Feud normal and a decent introductory series (similar to those who lack proper critiquing skills and typically leave sugar-coated all positive remarks and a 10/10 rating on every show be it good or bad *cringeeee* 😂).
[CONCLUSION]
To conclude, it's a massive no for me, nope not recommending this show :D I fully agree with others who have said that the show is slow and mostly boring with nothing much going on most of the time! Skip this show if you're not into slow paced shows with basic repetitive scripts. There are better more captivating series from Zeng Shunxi and Bai Lu out there as mentioned above, Feud offers no way close to that same level of engagement that the other shows I've mentioned offers. And I'm not even sugar coating by rating those shows a 10/10 😂 They each have their pros and cons and will be rated critically.
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