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I see your point, but there’s a difference between closing your eyes to avoid seeing something you can never unsee, and fast forwarding out of impatience or boredom. The later gives you an incomplete picture of the show and can make you miss points that skew your judgement of it. I’ve heard people make claims about shows that were clearly not true and then you find out they fast forwarded through parts of it.

I think she came off as weak because she was so much more calm and less demonstrative
than the male lead. So she just didn’t react or overreact to stuff. You can be strong without being in someone’s face. It’s more of an inner self confidence rather then the ML’s need to express himself.

I think her relative calm and unflappably nature was a good balance for his over the top blustery nature.

You do realize every domineering CEO drama has to have the woman end up not working for the man. It’s like an unwritten law that no woman shall end up lower in a given hierarchy than her partner. The reason is obvious. Most of the time she ends up working in another organization, though she can start her own company, the man can lose his position, etc.

She can do zany physical comedy so well.

I find them annoying when they do things with the second lead that would make them jealous if their partner did it with another man or woman. Really? Is it so hard to put yourself in someone else’s shoes?

Never watch Color of a Woman. The leads spend 90% of their time with the second leads. Worst ever. This one, there’s not a lot of flirting before they get together because of the way the comedy works. There’s tension at first as there always is, but it’s clumsily handled with no veiled interest or sense they are a match for one another. Later there’s loads of denial, so until they get together there’s not much room for flirting. Once they do get together it all changes.

It’s clear he likes her before they get together and some of the humor is watching him not even be aware he likes her in moments like the one where he blurts out “because I worry about you.” And even after that he still doesn’t realize he likes her. His lack of self-awareness is comical. She is in complete denial that someone as outstanding as him could like her to the point she finds the most rediculous alternate explanations for even the most obvious act of interest. Her imperviousness makes flirting nearly impossible, but it’s still fun to watch. After they get together he’s the ideal boyfriend.

I loved her in Love Is All-because she was so far over the top. I like her in this one. Humor can be tricky. I think some of the criticism here was because the humor utterly failed for a lot of people, to the point they didn’t see it was a comedy,

I agree. I think a lot of the comments seem to approach this as if it’s a serious piece of cinematic art making serious comments on society rather than a silly comedy built on over-exaggerated characters. It’s like complaining that the actors in Dumb and Dumber were stupid or bad male role models. Yes they were … it’s called humor.

I did find it incredible that she wouldn’t have picked up on the serial sexual harassment of that client. Not because she smart or educated, but because virtually all women are exposed to men and pick up very very quickly when someone is a creep.

It’s exaggeration for the sake of humor. Sometimes his awkward moments were hilarious despite the fact they were over the top.

I have actors and actresses I don’t like and I can’t really put a finger on why. I love the FLs acting in this, but I like silliness. Some might find it over the top.

Why bother. You didn’t really watch it, so what’s the point. Just drop it and you’d be happier.

I never saw her as dumb. In the first scene, she outsmarted the big shot lawyer getting into the apartment first and laying legal claim to it. How is that dumb?

Humor does depend on exaggeration quite a bit. The leads were awkward to the point of childishness to create humor. If it didn’t make you laugh, I can see that.

I think the idea was it’s supposed to be light humor. I found myself laughing out loud in almost every episode. If you didn’t find it humorous then I suppose it would be pretty boring.

To have chemistry they’d have have some scenes together. But apparently that would cut down on heartfelt and cute scenes with the second leads.

Watched this one for Zhong Rou Nan. I loved her zaniness in Love Is All. I’m only on episode 23, but so far I haven’t been disappointed. The rest of the cast are great too, particularly the best friend, the mom and some of the office crew, There are so many laugh out loud moments.

I’ll be honest, I’ve inky seen a few episodes in the middle while someone else was watching it. What I saw made me fully understand the comments on lack of chemistry. What I saw was a show that spent literally 95% of its time building chemistry between the female lead and second male lead and to a lesser extent between the male lead and second female lead. In particular between the female lead and second male lead we got all the camaraderie, friendship, sincerity, cuteness, teasing, heartfelt moments, hugs, dating, drinking, wanting to spend time together,, laughter and tears, longing and attention. How can you feel the female lead was meant to be with the male lead when they didn’t have any screen time together. More than that, you have to have them enjoy the company of each other to a deeper and more profound level than with the second leads. From what little I saw, it seemed like they were trying to give you all these great moments with the idea the female lead was doing them with the wrong guy, but instead it felt like the male lead was the wrong guy and her attraction to him merely theoretical.