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Comedy vs Drama Badly Fight It Out
My favorite parts of this show were absolutely the comedic portions but the show felt like it didn't know what it actually wanted to do. The beginning episodes feel like a revenge drama with an intense first episode to give the FL meaning to needing to get her vengeance...
But then the show flips and it's like "okay... so this is ACTUALLY a comedy?" And the comedy was rather good. Both Yan Zi Xian and Chen Fang Tong are great at comedy and their over the top expressions and actions were a joy to sit through; especially when their two attendants were in the scenes with them.
However, the show had actual PLOT it wanted to push forward and so every time this would occur, the comedy would end and instead it was time to switch back into "serious drama" mode. I thought it felt jarring and would break me out of the show.
Now, this is NOT to say that these scenes were ALSO not good in their own way, they were just different and so the overall show comes off with a slightly disjointed feeling. For instance, if you KNOW your cooking is "the best", so good that it leaves an impression on someone long after eating the food, and you're trying to gather information... why are YOU the one doing the cooking? Playing the scene as a comedy might be acceptable, but in DRAMA mode it seems absurd and like the characters aren't smart.
Basically, I would recommend this show for fans of Yan Zi Xian and/or Chen Fang Tong only. Everyone else will have a large YMMV experience with it.
But then the show flips and it's like "okay... so this is ACTUALLY a comedy?" And the comedy was rather good. Both Yan Zi Xian and Chen Fang Tong are great at comedy and their over the top expressions and actions were a joy to sit through; especially when their two attendants were in the scenes with them.
However, the show had actual PLOT it wanted to push forward and so every time this would occur, the comedy would end and instead it was time to switch back into "serious drama" mode. I thought it felt jarring and would break me out of the show.
Now, this is NOT to say that these scenes were ALSO not good in their own way, they were just different and so the overall show comes off with a slightly disjointed feeling. For instance, if you KNOW your cooking is "the best", so good that it leaves an impression on someone long after eating the food, and you're trying to gather information... why are YOU the one doing the cooking? Playing the scene as a comedy might be acceptable, but in DRAMA mode it seems absurd and like the characters aren't smart.
Basically, I would recommend this show for fans of Yan Zi Xian and/or Chen Fang Tong only. Everyone else will have a large YMMV experience with it.
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