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The Best Thing chinese drama review
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The Best Thing
1 people found this review helpful
by Shiro
Mar 11, 2025
28 of 28 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 7.5
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 8.5
Music 6.5
Rewatch Value 1.0

The never ending flowery TCM ad

This could have been good or even great but they had to prolong it in all eternity turning this sweet and playful romcom to a never ending lesson about flowers, TCM (Tradituoinal Chineese Medicin) and traditional values as well as love yourself mumbo jumbo.

The male lead starts of as this care free fun guy on a skateboard, flirty, playful, caring, respectful but with slightly lackin medical ethics and has this lovely cheeky charm.

Our female lead is smart, fun, broken down from a 7 year long toxic relationship with the side of parental pressure but her fun personality does shine though.

The two of them have this bubbly, fun , caring encounters, great chemistry and a true process as it is clear to see curiosity turning in to something more... Up util they actually get in to that something more. though the tow have some pretty intense great kisses +, once the two get together (actually even before they get together), I the viewer got tired of hearing about TCM, and felt that added twists and plot lines gave me nothing (except for some gazes and kissing). Whatever drama or attempt to add conflict was under developed, not dealt with and made me annoyed with the leads.

Some episodes where slow you could watch them in double speed without even noticing.

That said the friendships and side characters where lovely, I even enjoyed the female leads parents character development as well as their relationship. Im not going to say it is goals (since my IRL is better) but a decent depiction of long term parantehood/ married life, especially for a c. There where also a few scenes/plot lines here and there that reminded me of One Spring Night and Something in the Rain (two of my all time favourites), But it was just not enough to carry this for 28 long episodes...

So basically what I am saying is there is a lot of good in this but the male lead should have spent more time on his skateboard and less time saying cringy lines or they could just have cut the drama once he hung up his board on the wall.
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