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This is not a revenge drama. It's a highly contrived romance that uses revenge as it's major pretext. So let's get that out of the way first.
Eve is a deeply frustrating watch. Just when you think you might be able to get somewhere interesting, the next episode makes you feel like you've been taken out on a bad date and forced to pay the bill. Hands down, I 100% agree with bad lilies' review and will add three things:
1) Our FL is understandably a bit upset about her dad being violently murdered in front of her as a child and therefore decides to take revenge on the perpetrators. I, on the other hand, am not upset.
The dad is a CEO killed by another CEO-type. And as someone who is very much Team Luigi Mangione, I honestly don't see her dad's death as a great loss. I feel no sense of injustice. I therefore have no investment in the emotional thrust of the revenge.
However, I would've liked to have heard more from her fellow partner in revenge - whose ire seemed to be rooted in workers' struggle rather than purely interpersonal issues - but that would've required good writing and the producers didn't seem to want that.
2) For some reason, our ML was only allowed a quota of ONE facial expression for the entire series except for the last couple of episodes where I counted THREE whole facial expressions. I had no emotional investment in him as the love interest because he was a CEO (ick), dull (ick), and wayyyyy older than the FL (ick, unless you play your cards right).
Also let middle aged people be normal middle aged people?? There's no need for such a heavy handed face filter or to insist on your actor being SUPER jacked. Plz just let him have a normal dad bod! It's ok!
3) The kids were the best part of this drama. I hope they had a fun time. The end.
Eve is a deeply frustrating watch. Just when you think you might be able to get somewhere interesting, the next episode makes you feel like you've been taken out on a bad date and forced to pay the bill. Hands down, I 100% agree with bad lilies' review and will add three things:
1) Our FL is understandably a bit upset about her dad being violently murdered in front of her as a child and therefore decides to take revenge on the perpetrators. I, on the other hand, am not upset.
The dad is a CEO killed by another CEO-type. And as someone who is very much Team Luigi Mangione, I honestly don't see her dad's death as a great loss. I feel no sense of injustice. I therefore have no investment in the emotional thrust of the revenge.
However, I would've liked to have heard more from her fellow partner in revenge - whose ire seemed to be rooted in workers' struggle rather than purely interpersonal issues - but that would've required good writing and the producers didn't seem to want that.
2) For some reason, our ML was only allowed a quota of ONE facial expression for the entire series except for the last couple of episodes where I counted THREE whole facial expressions. I had no emotional investment in him as the love interest because he was a CEO (ick), dull (ick), and wayyyyy older than the FL (ick, unless you play your cards right).
Also let middle aged people be normal middle aged people?? There's no need for such a heavy handed face filter or to insist on your actor being SUPER jacked. Plz just let him have a normal dad bod! It's ok!
3) The kids were the best part of this drama. I hope they had a fun time. The end.
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