Sinasina

Lusi is really shining in this, she is portraying the uneasy happiness & everything else perfectly, this is what I call 10/10 acting. (though she looks malnourished as usual if not more so) Most other things -at least outside of the high production values- are very mediocre or worse. In the first half of the drama I did not really like any of the the main characters, they were all bad apples in their own way. Objectively there is nothing wrong with that, people watch mafia movies as well, however they really dragged out the spiraling lies part, 15 episodes?! -nearly getting caught in episodical fashion- is crazy to me. I found it difficult to get through this, authentically acted or not to me it's hard to watch a relationship drama where there is so little chemistry & where both parties bring questionable motives into a marriage. Especially considering how uninteresting & predictable most of the first half is.

Then there comes the second half where most main characters get a full personality rewrite, the tigers give their stripes to the lions & now it felt like watching a completely different show. On its own the second half has quite a few decent romcom moments, but there are so many annoyances. The corporate plots are trash, the child's things are meh & the second couple's difficulties are just awful. All the while there is a tremendous amount of propaganda speak happening involving "ethnic" content. I'm usually okay with governmental agendas in cdramas, but this has been too much even for me.