You know how sometimes you want to love a c-drama so much…
Well that was me with this one.
To be fair the first 8 episodes I was into it, the costumes were great and the story - interesting - although highly derivative, I mean it reminded me of Love like the galaxy from the get go; but I persisted because I liked the FL.
Even though there were red flags about the quality of the writing all over the place. And the ML’s face seemed to be stuck in a singularly blank expression, no matter what the scene.
Also why was every other guy in the drama better looking than the ML?🤔
After episode 8 the storyline just descends into incomprehensibility. But like an oncoming train wreck I can’t take my eyes off it and I am too invested in the chaos to not see this thing through to the end. I just need to see where it’s going to wind up, although I suspect I will be a lot dumber by that time 🥺
If this is the best that Chinese drama land has to offer for 2025 then gods save us all! 2024’s offerings were so bad I had high hopes for this year, only to have them dashed repeatly on the shores of terrible dramas,
The Glory is unbearably bad on too many levels. The only redeeming factors are the cinematography and the wardrobe, which is sad because the scriptwriting, the casting and the acting and the things that generally should carry a drama forward but in this case they caused it’s failure.
How on earth this drama is leading in all the main viewing polls is beyond me.
To be fair the first 8 episodes I was into it, the costumes were great and the story - interesting - although highly derivative, I mean it reminded me of Love like the galaxy from the get go; but I persisted because I liked the FL.
Even though there were red flags about the quality of the writing all over the place. And the ML’s face seemed to be stuck in a singularly blank expression, no matter what the scene.
Also why was every other guy in the drama better looking than the ML?🤔
After episode 8 the storyline just descends into incomprehensibility. But like an oncoming train wreck I can’t take my eyes off it and I am too invested in the chaos to not see this thing through to the end. I just need to see where it’s going to wind up, although I suspect I will be a lot dumber by that time 🥺
If this is the best that Chinese drama land has to offer for 2025 then gods save us all! 2024’s offerings were so bad I had high hopes for this year, only to have them dashed repeatly on the shores of terrible dramas,
The Glory is unbearably bad on too many levels. The only redeeming factors are the cinematography and the wardrobe, which is sad because the scriptwriting, the casting and the acting and the things that generally should carry a drama forward but in this case they caused it’s failure.
How on earth this drama is leading in all the main viewing polls is beyond me.
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