Details

  • Last Online: 4 days ago
  • Location: Dramaland
  • Contribution Points: 0 LV0
  • Roles:
  • Join Date: August 9, 2024
  • Awards Received: Flower Award1 Clap Clap Clap Award1
Shine on Me chinese drama review
Completed
Shine on Me
6 people found this review helpful
by IA-000
4 days ago
36 of 36 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 6.0
Story 6.5
Acting/Cast 6.0
Music 5.0
Rewatch Value 4.5

A manufactured romance at the expense of portraying real people living real life and love ...

The first 8 eps were very good. But after that, the drama got way too generic for my liking.
The introduction of the drama felt so raw where characters felt deeply real and raw.

But after ep8, the characters started to behave in ways you would guess way too easely, life itself was portrayed without its true essence. Everything was at it place, everyone was doing what their characters would have done ...
I'm not sure how to explain exactly what I felt ... so let's say it felt artificial.

The relationship between the cp was lovely and healthy but tbh, after ep9, they rarely behave as raw characters but as a cp that was doing its job to get people to root for them ...

I got bored after they got together, the dialogues weren't that interesting. The directing was generic and bought nothing to the table lol.

The acting was good, but nothing outstanding, the second ml Lai Wei Ming did shine the most in term of skills imo.

Song Wei Long's acting was good during the first 8 eps were his character looked more grey, but after that it was boring.

Zhao Jin Mai doesn't know how to not act tbh. But her acting isn't always that great, often repetitive. Here, she did the job without truly making her acting shine. I hope she would improve her range, she stagnates a lot. I rarely see her displaying other type of energies.

The chemistry between the cp was very nice but unfortunately the drama overall was more about fanservice and a way of displaying what people wanted to see, through a rather stereotypical moral point of view where the leads (the cp) never get their hand dirty ... 
Was this review helpful to you?