I like dramas that don't take themselves too seriously but this feels like it was written for preteens. I'm on…
This is essentially a parody show and several of the directly parodied shows I don't preteens would get, such as Joy of Life and Go Princess, Go!. Honestly, if you aren't liking it by ep 2 I'd drop it cause the humor and style stays pretty consistent.
Ok I m on ep5 can someone tell me why smoking opium was such a big deal? Does it has something to do with republican…
Ummmm it is and was a dangerously addictive drug that killed people. Today's equivalent of shooting up heroin or fentanyl which are similar but now stronger and more potent than the original opium.
π That's the point. They deliberately spent all that time pointing out WHY it was the dumbest trope and people hate it and STILL did it because the point is to parody all the shows that do it seriously.
It starts out with I'd say a false equality and by the end its really just her taking everything. It's not the usual thing though where you're basically yelling at the screen "why are you taking this? just leave him" though so... yeah she really doesn't have much choice to what he does to her.
I've sat on it for a couple of days and thought about this show a bit. The "issue" with this show is they advertised and promoted a romance when realistically it's a spy show. Now that I have THAT out of the way... for what the show IS, 8.5/10 - if rating based on what I was "sold" 5/10.
I both 100% recommend that show as one of the BEST mini dramas that has come out... and 100% DON'T recommend it if you have basically ANY triggers...
Decide if you can handle watching a show where every single character is essentially mentally unwell to some degree. If you can handle a manipulative FL who starts out VERY strong and by the end is shattered to the point of being a husk through threats, imprisonment, being torturously disabled, poisoning, and finally being rpd. If you can handle a show where every character dies. Where one "attempt" by the FL is shown on screen and another is talked about in addition to the the discussion of his mother's cause of death and the 2FL. A show where there is a scene the FL cries as she is forced to eat. There is pregnancy and there is also pregnancy loss.
Me to...I lovded it but last 10 eps like what and that ending aghhh...Acting was amazing so i will give them nice…
π€£ Absolutely! Though I don't mind SE if they make sense for the plot and have been foreshadowed well. And I'd rather a clear cut SE than some of the murky "one or both OBVIOUSLY die then "3 years later" they are alive again and their eyes meet π€£ But yeah, every so often let's have a good thorough HEA from a seemingly hopeless situation drama.
Amazing how FL is able to manipulate everyone so quickly. Even the worship ceremony. Hmm ok.
I thought they explained it rather well actually. She's had YEARS to gather Intel on this family and choose the "right time" and course of action. The biggest variable was the 1st son, her ex, and she made sure even he would be able to be controlled by implanting the "Gu".
If you can stomach it, his best work yet is the recent Love & Bid Farewell. But it's.... rough to say the least and I wouldn't go into it thinking you're going to be watching a romance but rather a psychological horror where every character is mentally unwell to some degree.
Me to...I lovded it but last 10 eps like what and that ending aghhh...Acting was amazing so i will give them nice…
I think what's so hard about this one yeah was that the beginning was SO good that it was drastically noticeable and you're right, the acting WAS amazing, even in those weird last episodes which if anything made it more jarring. π π
Me too! I was just about to post asking for others to explain. IQIYI has the subtitles on the last ferry scene…
Yeah I don't blame the confusion, it's very easy to mistake him for the ferryman and it wouldn't even be THAT outside the realm of the story we were laid out. Basically the difference comes from that line that he comes to cross the river once a year. "Technically", that could have him as either the writer OR the Ferryman since they're both crossing the river presumably on that one day. When it was suggested he might be the Ferryman I even began revising my thought on who the writer was to be the Governor brother years later and that "telling the story" was the referenced "remember your promise" at the end before he took her away. Honestly... it was so obscure you could almost decide anything. Like hey, despite those lines saying he didn't remember her, maybe he secretly DID and that's how he could write everything.... Realistically though the only thing I know is no matter how you try and decipher the end it was depressing as heck π€£
Me too! I was just about to post asking for others to explain. IQIYI has the subtitles on the last ferry scene…
I honestly don't mind BEs when they make sense and fit the story... Even this one I feel would have been a bit better if it'd been edited better in that last act. Everything felt too rushed, things kept jumping around, it felt like there were missing scenes for explaining motivations... And then with this end there's also the fact the way they end it they specifically tell you he's left as an empty shell basically, wondering WHY and refusing to die... He doesn't even have that "we'll meet in our next life" goal or the ability to look back on the time they DID have together that comforts so many people.
Me too! I was just about to post asking for others to explain. IQIYI has the subtitles on the last ferry scene…
Oh 100% absolutely one of the most depressing of the BEs we've gotten lately. Was watching it with someone and we both had to sit and digest what we just watched. It doesn't help that there were so many editing issues in that last bit once they woke up with their memories that it almost became a chore trying to figure out what was going on. I had had a feeling it was going to end bad, but part of me wanted an ending more similar to Hard to Find... This one was MORE depressing imo.
:41 sec trailer:
https://youtu.be/e6M8oEXXgWY?si=C7Pj5Ob6_KR1eAln
1:44 trailer:
https://youtu.be/0dh28obP0ag?si=ghwncRxf19aDDe1v
Decide if you can handle watching a show where every single character is essentially mentally unwell to some degree. If you can handle a manipulative FL who starts out VERY strong and by the end is shattered to the point of being a husk through threats, imprisonment, being torturously disabled, poisoning, and finally being rpd. If you can handle a show where every character dies. Where one "attempt" by the FL is shown on screen and another is talked about in addition to the the discussion of his mother's cause of death and the 2FL. A show where there is a scene the FL cries as she is forced to eat. There is pregnancy and there is also pregnancy loss.
The show is gorgeous but NOT for most people.
But yeah, every so often let's have a good thorough HEA from a seemingly hopeless situation drama.