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.
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Don’t believe the hype - this is barely a concept of a storyline…
Very disappointing, I chose to watch this drama as I have been a fan of Li Yun Rui since Love like the Galaxy and I was pleased to see him in a ML role for a change; but this drama and his performance in it has turned out to be a pretty average vehicle for his leap into stardom.The only positive thing I could say is that I do like Dou Zhao‘s adversarial relationship with her wicked stepmother, that at least made the storyline interesting. However, once the step mother was out of the picture, the series totally jumped the shark into the dark depths of - utter boredom.
I had been binge watching this series up to episode 18 when I started to lose interest, even though the marriage between Song Mo and Dou Zhao should have been exciting but just felt like a flat device amongst all the other unsatisfactory plotlines going on especially the one about Song Mo’s uncle’s unsolved murder.
I spent most of episodes 27 & 28 wondering just WTH was going on (?!) what with Song Han’s odd progression from hero worshiping younger brother to evil arch nemesis complete with expert level martial arts skills; which even Song Mo was surprised about. The rushed wedding between Song Han and Miao Ansu, who somehow progressed from humble merchant to princess. And I nearly forgot about, Ji Yong being revealed to be the evil mastermind behind Prince Ying with his target being Mantis Song.
And what’s the point of the dumbass Emperor?
A 6 yo could write a better script for a c-drama than this!
There is no way that this series deserves to be labelled as the best of 2024, or even the best of a bad bunch; unless of course you are so desperate that your standards have dropped; in which case do watch The story of Pearl Girl to sort your head out.
Overall, Blossom is so poor I can’t even be bothered to see what the final outcome will be; stopped watching at episode 28.
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Dependency is not romantic folks
I think this one has cured my c-drama addiction for good.This is the story of an overly giving woman having to raise an emotionally stunted man in order for him to be acceptably human enough to have a so called relationship with.
It’s a shame because it started off so well. FL actually managed to escape from the narcissistic ML but then repeatedly allowed herself to be pulled back into an endless cycle of abuse and humiliation whilst still continuing to aid and support him.
What are signally to young people here?
Writers need to do better, I mean the ML called the FL in the night to ask how to use his coffee machine so he can entertain another woman, and the FL talks him through the process WTF - all the while knowing the woman is with him.
Only watch this is you have high tolerance for idiocy.
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