Silver-Bus

She’s a CEO in an artists company focused on classical music, engaged to a renowned music professor out of family interests. She wants the company that belonged to her mum (you know the trope, step mum/ sibling)
And there’s a piano wunderkind out of a working class family, his mum died in a hit & run, his father lies comatose in a hospital. He works several jobs just to get by, his place at the academy had to be given up.
And then they meet. There’s a chance for spring. Hope.


This is an outstanding drama. It’s a bitter sweet jiejie romance which is carefully layered with several motives (betrayal, deceit, duplicity, a spider web of interests). Music is a central part of the drama.
She hurt her hand and can’t play the violin anymore and he can’t play his instrument either, he lacks the means.
There’s Brahms, a genius composer in the romanticism, the ml draws a comparison between his hopeless love to Jiang and Brahms’ to the older and married Clara Schumann. They’re both damaged, wounded warriors in their own way.

Yesterday, I reviewed a drama and said “I don’t like melo.” That’s still true. But it’s as well true that some dramas are melodramatic and I love them because they’re simply excellent and not one note *same problem, no solution, rinse repeat* which is the reason why I dislike melo, but layered, intricately so. To enjoy it, expect a good Woody Allen movie vibe (yes, he’s a despicable human being, but e.g. Blue Jasmine is a fantastic movie).

You can’t help but watch what’s unfolding and though the leitmotif is melo, it’s so much more.

Is this a rave review? 😇 It is. When I’ve watched a drama and at the end want to rewatch immediately, just to catch nuances that escaped me the first time, it gets high marks in my books.

**MXY** surprised me with his range, he was sweet, naive and a dreamer. I nearly cried (rare). He has grown so much as an actor, I’m curious what he’ll do next.

And the fl **Jeana Ho** is a cold calculating CEO, experienced and jaded - her arc is an exciting one, she’s so detached and you may wonder if she’ll be able to build an emotional bond with this sensitive and trusting didi.

Very good performance from both.

*Quality* - high, all in all. And I won’t add “for a vertical” because we’ve all seen a pronounced upwards trend the last months.

**Recommendation**

Definitely. It’ll get you hooked and reeled in. But don’t watch when you want to forget what you’ve seen ten minutes later. It won’t work.