Fine but not the type of story which needs two serving seasons
I personally always appreciate the story which are weave around women financial independence and emotional freedom, well This was one of those finest stories throwing light on the challenges women faced when they made their debut in the business industry back in the time. The gender bias and societal pressure associated with it.
Beautifully written concept and artists did a tremendous job playing their respective characters. I am not a very big fan of yang zi as her work previous works haven't impressed me much .. i find her always treading in her comfort zone of playing subtle, graceful and straight-flat characters, not taking any challenging roles .. while she is playing a similar role in this drama also but I seriously couldn't have think of any one else playing mudan ..this character is created for yang zi ... Moving forward lo Xian was amazing ... His playful character definitely forced life into this drama, .. in fact the entire cast was good. No comments on the Chemistry of leads as you need some amount of romantic scenes to do that but This season just showed them as friends.
There were few things that were a little odd about this drama ..
1) after episode 8 ( to around ep 25) there is not much progress in plot or any development in character. It will not be an exaggeration if I say there wasn't any story in between these episodes.. but just repeated pattern of character creating chaos and characters handling it.
2) i understand this show is named flourished peony ..but It felt quite weird as to see how flowers have become the centre of karma in the entire world ... There is inheritance of flowers... Flowers are being treated as symbol jealousy ...people are being executed if flowers wither and ranked up if flowers are doing fine .. everyone from royals to nobles to common person is seeking her peonies as if it is the end of this world.(Gimme a break)
3)horrible ost ..
4) there were a little but visible cinematic mistakes .. she is getting her left hand operated but wears bandages in right ... In many scenes continuation he is holding the stuff in her wrong hand as if there was nobody to tell her about this. (Anyways that's not such a. Big issue)
5) no need for season 2 : they could have just skip over the repeated nonsense and finished the show in 40 episodes in single season instead of wasting viewers' time and planning an another season.
Beautifully written concept and artists did a tremendous job playing their respective characters. I am not a very big fan of yang zi as her work previous works haven't impressed me much .. i find her always treading in her comfort zone of playing subtle, graceful and straight-flat characters, not taking any challenging roles .. while she is playing a similar role in this drama also but I seriously couldn't have think of any one else playing mudan ..this character is created for yang zi ... Moving forward lo Xian was amazing ... His playful character definitely forced life into this drama, .. in fact the entire cast was good. No comments on the Chemistry of leads as you need some amount of romantic scenes to do that but This season just showed them as friends.
There were few things that were a little odd about this drama ..
1) after episode 8 ( to around ep 25) there is not much progress in plot or any development in character. It will not be an exaggeration if I say there wasn't any story in between these episodes.. but just repeated pattern of character creating chaos and characters handling it.
2) i understand this show is named flourished peony ..but It felt quite weird as to see how flowers have become the centre of karma in the entire world ... There is inheritance of flowers... Flowers are being treated as symbol jealousy ...people are being executed if flowers wither and ranked up if flowers are doing fine .. everyone from royals to nobles to common person is seeking her peonies as if it is the end of this world.(Gimme a break)
3)horrible ost ..
4) there were a little but visible cinematic mistakes .. she is getting her left hand operated but wears bandages in right ... In many scenes continuation he is holding the stuff in her wrong hand as if there was nobody to tell her about this. (Anyways that's not such a. Big issue)
5) no need for season 2 : they could have just skip over the repeated nonsense and finished the show in 40 episodes in single season instead of wasting viewers' time and planning an another season.
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