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Always Home chinese drama review
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Always Home
2 people found this review helpful
by Shiro
Jun 15, 2025
30 of 30 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 8.5
Story 8.5
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 5.0
Rewatch Value 6.0

Slice of life bickering joy...

This is a sweet and funny easy to watch drama, packed with love geometry this drama may have you laughing whenever you hear the ABC song, hey just thinking about the letters AB and C may leave you smiling from ear to ear.

This dama probably has one of dramalands sweetest portrayals of friendships, community and youth. combining some of the best part of Go Ahead, Reply 1988 and A River Runs Though It. A fun trio with very different characters mixing
calm and smart with goofy and sporty with friendly and hard working. The three help each other grow, fall, get up again... they may not always listen to each other or actually know how to communicate with words, but they stick up for each other with great loyalty. All three are lovable and did a great job inviting us and other side characters to their world.

Besides the main traits of each character, our female lead has this sweet, week but bad ass vibe to her. Being able to both faint and kick ass in the same episode.

I think I could appreciate most of the side characters, they where there to do their job, to keep us guessing , to create slight drama, and to prolong the episode count by creating barriers and misunderstandings done pretty well. And while I cn´t say there were any really annoying characters QiQi s(He Qiu) was overly high maintenance and made me want to ship her off to a land far, far, far away. But all.in all the drama was packed with lovable characters, interactions and fun!


Or at least for the first 20 episodes or so.

After that we get a little but to much cringe, an overbearing father, a roommate with anger management issues and loss of pace. There is so much amazing tension and build up throughout the drama but once we finally get there we only get to see some sparkles and firecrackers.

Some parts are frustratingly slow others rushed, The couples have very little screen time together once they finally do get together and some couples are not even shown on screen at all leaving us guessing what type of person did this character we have come to know actually settle for. And instead of giving me proper closure the las episode gave me cringe and still shots of apartments and wheelchairs to the sound of a piano. Basically leaving me wanting more of the couples, more of the friendships, more bickering, more adulthood and the twist and turns of adult life....

All thing that made me lower the score from a 9,5 or even 10 to this generous 8,5 star rating.
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