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Smile after Tears taiwanese drama review
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Smile after Tears
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by L143
10 days ago
12 of 12 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 5.0
Story 4.0
Acting/Cast 6.0
Music 5.5
Rewatch Value 2.0
This review may contain spoilers

It was ok... and then....

This story was promising up until the moment when He got hit by a car...

The story started off intriguing with a good chemistry between the two characters. There was a lot of little things left to unravel later in the story which was enticing. However, I feel the relationship between He and Jiayi was rushed. It didn't feel as real as it was portrayed.

Another factor is, important scenes being glossed over. One example is when He's cat died. There could have been soooo much more done during the after scenes, but it was just skipped to the cat dying which made no sense. The same thing happened when He died. We never saw anyone's reactions or even He in the hospital which made the death less effective. It made it feel less emotional especially when the parents of He barely had any reactions like your son just died.

I found it interesting how after He's death they switched the focus to the second lead and the mc. However if this is the outcome they wanted, I believe it would have been better to shorten the emotional relationship between He and Jiayi.

The whole story line becomes really confusing to where it wants to go. The suddenly go lucky Jiayi becomes all depressed which is a complete contrast of his earlier character.

I also didn't understand the supernatural esc. Element. Like where was He and what was he doing. He suddenly shows up in ep 12, and the chemistry between yhe characters felt completely lost.

I think it was better that it ended with an open ending as it would have confused the story even more. The fact Jiayi ended up going abroad was probably for the best.

I think the music production was OK. Although, they use the same song in basically every scene which is a bit annoying. The cinematography is OK, there's nothing really outstanding about it.

I finished the series solely to give an honest review of the entire story as well as ticking it off my list. Honestly, it feels like the series can be easily skipped and forgotten. There's nothing in the story that makes you want to stay. Overall im confused on what emotions the story wanted to portray, maybe I'm just dumb, but the message wasn't getting through to me...
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