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I could fall asleep watching this
Going into this series, I didn't have very high expectations & I was honestly pretty sure I wouldn't like it. And well, I didn't hate it, but I was incredibly bored. Mind-numbingly so. I wasn't interested in a single part of the plot or the characters. Everything felt like it lacked substance as well.
To start, I could already tell that this series didn't need to be 12 episodes long; the pacing was already slow, and to draw out a plot like this for so many episodes is just unnecessary. I was watching at X2 speed from the very beginning, and it still felt like it took an hour to get through each episode.
The characters are also flat, and good acting can only do so much to cover that up. The relationships weren't handled any better when we speed-run Tim & Pei's in the first episodes, so we are basically working with their first meeting & some flashes of moments until they've known each other for a year. Yu and North just get married after meeting, stupid, and up to the part where I stopped watching, we haven't seen any real development for them either. They are so focused on the scamming part of the plot that it feels like the characters are just going through the motions instead of living through the experience.
I'm not technically dropping the show because the production and acting are great, and I may try to continue it in the future, but right now it isn't worth my time.
To start, I could already tell that this series didn't need to be 12 episodes long; the pacing was already slow, and to draw out a plot like this for so many episodes is just unnecessary. I was watching at X2 speed from the very beginning, and it still felt like it took an hour to get through each episode.
The characters are also flat, and good acting can only do so much to cover that up. The relationships weren't handled any better when we speed-run Tim & Pei's in the first episodes, so we are basically working with their first meeting & some flashes of moments until they've known each other for a year. Yu and North just get married after meeting, stupid, and up to the part where I stopped watching, we haven't seen any real development for them either. They are so focused on the scamming part of the plot that it feels like the characters are just going through the motions instead of living through the experience.
I'm not technically dropping the show because the production and acting are great, and I may try to continue it in the future, but right now it isn't worth my time.
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