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A waste of Cheng Lei's acting skills
The good things: Cheng Lei's acting. He carried this whole drama on his shoulders all alone, he's the one actor that kept me watching. Nice cinematography and colour palette too, together they recreated the drama's atmosphere very effectively,
The bad things: The script. I was going to drop this drama because it turned into a cheap soap opera by ep 18 or 20, but I made an effort and plodded along because of Cheng Lei's acting. I just skipped through eps 35 to 40. It was the same unwatchable gruel that was regurgitated time and again through almost the whole drama. I simply don't understand the producers' criteria when they spend a lot of money to give a drama a highly promising start, some excellent first 10 eps and then they just let it spiral down into mediocrity and from there into cringe. I'll clarify that this perception is regardless of whether it is a happy or sad ending, I always evaluate the whole drama. To make matters worse, some actors playing main characters cannot act to save their lives, including Ping Jun, Xueting, the Yu father and the brother in law. In my view, the writer needs to be fired and the actors whose characters I mentioned above need to go back to drama school.
I would rate this drama with a 9 for Cheng Lei's acting and a 1 for the script, pace and the dead pan acting of several relevant characters. I think a 6.5 averages this generously.
The bad things: The script. I was going to drop this drama because it turned into a cheap soap opera by ep 18 or 20, but I made an effort and plodded along because of Cheng Lei's acting. I just skipped through eps 35 to 40. It was the same unwatchable gruel that was regurgitated time and again through almost the whole drama. I simply don't understand the producers' criteria when they spend a lot of money to give a drama a highly promising start, some excellent first 10 eps and then they just let it spiral down into mediocrity and from there into cringe. I'll clarify that this perception is regardless of whether it is a happy or sad ending, I always evaluate the whole drama. To make matters worse, some actors playing main characters cannot act to save their lives, including Ping Jun, Xueting, the Yu father and the brother in law. In my view, the writer needs to be fired and the actors whose characters I mentioned above need to go back to drama school.
I would rate this drama with a 9 for Cheng Lei's acting and a 1 for the script, pace and the dead pan acting of several relevant characters. I think a 6.5 averages this generously.
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