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Could have been better but not the worst show out there
The premise of Deep Affection Eyes is the evil mother of the male lead hates her son, who has the lowest opinion of himself, is loved by his grandma and gets married to a beautiful but fiery better half.
As such, show stars one of my favourite female leads. Her acting is always on point. In this show she portrays a fiercely independent individual who knows what she wants, is professional and isn’t afraid to get married.
The male lead is dark, broody and believes the world would be better off without him. However, the way his character unfolds, although good at first became repetitious regarding keeping things from our lovely starlet. She in turn really did give him a hard time.
They do have good chemistry. When they are together, you want to see them have a happy and loving relationship. When there are misunderstandings, show wrings every possible ounce of angst there is. Still, you want what’s best for them.
The evil mother in charge of a corporate empire starts out strong. Her partner in crime is central to the misdeeds throughout the show’s run. In the end, I was meh regarding both.
The two grandmas are a delight. They were rivals in their youth but come together to guard our two lovebirds. We have seen both actresses in many shows before.
The second couple were wonderful. However, show played too many games with their relationship in the last third of the show.
In terms of the various friendships - yes, they were good. In fact, the female leads were great. The male leads together were frustrating at times.
So what did we have? Show was well made, great setting and moved along quite well. However, I felt it was trying to unveil too much in the number of episodes it had. We had the angsty theme, the evil redevelopment theme, the sick grandma theme, the misguided sister theme, the interfering boss and ex girlfriend theme, the secretly married couple theme, not one but two loud and irritating friends, the smart kid theme, the woe is me theme as I am the centre of all the world’s problems and finally a passionate couple when they got their act together.
Show is worth a look. I just found I began to fast forward in the last third of the show as it tried to resolve too many issues but at the same time let other issues peter out! It’s one of the few shows I rated below what is on MDL and way below what’s on Viki.
As such, show stars one of my favourite female leads. Her acting is always on point. In this show she portrays a fiercely independent individual who knows what she wants, is professional and isn’t afraid to get married.
The male lead is dark, broody and believes the world would be better off without him. However, the way his character unfolds, although good at first became repetitious regarding keeping things from our lovely starlet. She in turn really did give him a hard time.
They do have good chemistry. When they are together, you want to see them have a happy and loving relationship. When there are misunderstandings, show wrings every possible ounce of angst there is. Still, you want what’s best for them.
The evil mother in charge of a corporate empire starts out strong. Her partner in crime is central to the misdeeds throughout the show’s run. In the end, I was meh regarding both.
The two grandmas are a delight. They were rivals in their youth but come together to guard our two lovebirds. We have seen both actresses in many shows before.
The second couple were wonderful. However, show played too many games with their relationship in the last third of the show.
In terms of the various friendships - yes, they were good. In fact, the female leads were great. The male leads together were frustrating at times.
So what did we have? Show was well made, great setting and moved along quite well. However, I felt it was trying to unveil too much in the number of episodes it had. We had the angsty theme, the evil redevelopment theme, the sick grandma theme, the misguided sister theme, the interfering boss and ex girlfriend theme, the secretly married couple theme, not one but two loud and irritating friends, the smart kid theme, the woe is me theme as I am the centre of all the world’s problems and finally a passionate couple when they got their act together.
Show is worth a look. I just found I began to fast forward in the last third of the show as it tried to resolve too many issues but at the same time let other issues peter out! It’s one of the few shows I rated below what is on MDL and way below what’s on Viki.
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