Ending is wasted and rushed after 23 exhausting stuck record dialogue. They’d have a convo or a scene that looked that progression and then be straight back to square one one. Yul repeated the same 5 lines on repeat. We could have had a really good show why do the writers tank themselves?!?! Are they even writers?!?!!
Do not waste your time, I repeat do not waste your time. Such a potential for an amazing show. Writing is horrendous. The mains are horrendous. The ending the most stupidest annoying ending ever in all asian shows. Which is saying something cos there are so bad ones out there.
Started out well, with so much promise but what on earth happened? I was hoping for a tension filled confession. It was not. Random marriage, why? Seconds - held potential but fell flat. They just drop off. The second couple were just annoying and immature. The last 2 episodes were so disappointing. Everything and I mean everything was delivered monotonously with zero emotion in their expressions. Who on earth wrote this AND more importantly directed this? A potentially cute short drama ruined by writing and directing.
What a ridiculous drama. I started this desperately hoping the negative reviews were just picky viewers, however it became quickly obvious the writers were going to totally tank any potential for anyone here.
Main leads - may as well have been FL and 2 show because Luming had way more screen time than our ML, and FL acted like she was happier with him than the ML the whole time she was in a relationship with both the guys. To the point where you will wonder why we even had the pathetic attempt at one in the first place. FL treats ML like some little kid that has no idea about anything. She never takes him that seriously and keeps him at a distance while dropping everything for the stalker Luming the second he calls. Shes weak for the ML, tough cookie for the SML. I’m like cool ok I guess theres nothing wrong here, then voila because the writers need to end all that happy relationship with 2ML in order to wrap said draggy plot line- FL suddenly remembers who she really loves… Find yourself? Get Manipulated and at the end suddenly remember your one true love more like. She learned absolutely squat all about herself… find yourself… she was on her own for all of 10 seconds before she was officially a new guys gf. Where did she go on a journey of self discovery as a single person?!?!
Everyone else - theres far too much screen time given to the side characters. Of course where Miles is concerned- we can let that one go, happily stare at him all day lol, but that dragged on too long like everyones issues. They notoriously miss the tension moments on shows, the ones that give you all the feels.. big miss over and over. Even the twin brother and Esther had a potential but they got together in the oddest way and even tho it was clear they would unite, from the longing glance he has for her early on, he somehow turns into a utter weirdo, and then I guess eventually he is in love, but you’re not quite sure how he got there. Still they act like friends more than lovers. The besties were sn odd bunch to and did a pathetic job of helping FL see the light. The friends scumbag husband was a pointless side plot. Skipped all that. Incl the other friends weird 10 yr relationship. Was anyone normal in this show maybe the kids. The parents were ok but even then they didn’t behave consistently. The writing is a complete mess. FL has a complete personality shift with luming.
Do yourself a favor and after the first breakup (because yes there is a second one even tho they had nothing to break up from we get another overly dramatic break up scene) just skip to the last episode where everything is rushed to fix the complete train wreck of a drama with happy endings for all (except the friend with kids sadly).
I love swim dramas and this started out so so good. Sadly, like many cdramas its badly written and a dragged out 36 ep show misses all the opportunities to ramp up the action, angst and romance and spoils everything. There are so many awful tropes, and disappointing scenes- that by about ep 23 you just skip far more than you watch. I skipped all the high school flashbacks. It got tiresome. Guess what, you miss nothing. Oh well the swimming saved it for me.
Curious, this show has some pretty high ratings for a very low budget mid drama. There was nothing spectacular about this. The plot doesn’t even know what identity it has, the story is all over the place. Is it a spoof? Is it a typical infighting between royal off springs and the jealous mothers? Are there multiple near death moments for the FL that ML just so happens to arrive just in time for? Love triangle? Not really but you’re guessing there might be but the writers don’t really flesh that out. There is zero chemistry between the leads, and the Prince brothers woman (senior) looks way too old for him. FL still manages to cry and show emotion and feelings even tho they swapped thru the tears. The plot holes are many. I got so bored too it got draggy, I skipped the last 8 episodes and missed nothing. I suspect these high ratings are coming from fickle WXY fans, who hopped over here after the Double to watch him some more in their Su hangover!!! 🤣🤣🤣 The Double was well written tho annoyingly lacking in romance. This is badly written and apparently is packed full of sexual content according to the warnings. 🤣There not even a zip of chemistry- very innocent kisses, and plenty of hand holding. If thats sexual content in China then 🤷🏼♀️….. I’m not even sure if this is just worth watching to pass the time, I wouldn’t even consider it a filler. There’s far better historical cdramas than this.
Cute short series, heavy at times but nicely balanced. I did feel like the USA stuff was filler, and wouldn’t have needed to rush the ending. But a good watch.
Confused by the high rating and disappointed because of it. This show is mid at best. Started out strong, and suddenly tanked with the change of plot, FL too childish too often and though she had some heavier scenes, she didn’t change much. Chemistry was extremely lacking, I just think this script was a disappointment. Miles can do better than this.
This show is completely saved by the amazing seconds. Perhaps they are the reason for the high rating. It always felt boring to go back to the leads. Nice job Zhao x Rao you stole the show ❤️
Typical Jdrama. Mono plot, weak FL - odd as heck best friend of ML who pushes brocode and acts super suss. Wacky OSTs. I mean we know the deal with these shows. I don’t mind, they are great for a slump between Chinese and Korean, you know it’ll never take itself too seriously so its a safe bet. I wish though more Japanese Directors would take a leaf out of Eye Love You - which was the first time I saw a jdrama come even close to the production value and quality of its Asian neighbors. You can do it folks!! Budget was screamingly low and they did not convincingly pull off the kind of wealth they were telling us was there.
Also considering ML is after intimacy from day 1, its obvious there was feelings. The miscommunication is really the driver of the whole plot. If these 2 could talk like normal folk there would have been no show. That’s how monotone it was.
The only redeeming part of this story is the absolutely hilarious interactions of ML and his man servant. They cracked me up. So many plot holes, and odd things that happened - and can anyone tell me what happened to the pregnancy? Like did she loose it? Why didn’t she falling at that height? She should be dead lol. I could quite easily have missed something because I skipped so much of the last 15 episodes it got so tiresome. The political nonsense dominated way too much. I haven’t read the novel nor could care less about who everyone is in real life, but the story was so monotonous and boring. Princess Royal character was so cringe the entire time, its not about power she says almost the whole way through, yet at the end her being the Regent is because she wanted the power? OK. Without the humourous antics that take place I might have given up on this earlier. Very disappointing show.
I’m gonna miss this. Major bingefest, I don’t know how folks wait to watch as its releasing week by week. It would have driven me nuts. I need a whole show dropped before I even start. So funny. Jaesoo was one of my faves. A little disappointed the mains didn’t step it up a bit romantically that felt a bit flat as it progressed- but the comedy was on point. It did loose its way around ep 13-14 and it began to feel like plot rewind, so I took off one star, the momentum was rolling the entire time so when it suddenly changes dynamics it was really obvious. 9/10 for a solid UNIQUE kdrama that had feels of a 2000’s classic yet modern in every way.
I wanted this to be a 10, but I can only give it a 7.5:- An overwhelming amount of slow or irrelevant content…
I wanted them to resolve Lilis relationship with the single Dad. to give him the growth arc- amd happiness as a new family. That was a major lost opportunity for the script and the show. Everyone loves a HEA for a family dealing with grief. And redemption for the guy as he faced his fears would have been inspiring. They had chemistry that we as viewers felt organically not forced on us like the man child from the office. That was flatter than a pancake. No excitement when she showed up at the airport and utter frustration when the single dad gave his stupid advice at the end. That little girl must have been so confused. horrid decision writers and director.
I wanted this to be a 10, but I can only give it a 7.5:
- An overwhelming amount of slow or irrelevant content in parts. Some of it moves along perfectly. Until it doesn’t. When you find yourself skipping, because you feel like your time is being wasted it adds to my overall view. - Multiple plot holes. Bad guys always know the instant a main character decides something. Like why?!? - The exhausting breakup we all know just HAS to be included in every cdrama romance. So many can’t seem to grasp that despite ML ability to better communicate- the entire previous part of the drama he was a total green flag doing nothing but helping to start, grow and keep Star Tech progressing. They are absolutely nothing without his money. They’d have tanked as soon as FL money was gone. Which was early on. He patiently observed, advised and guided. His intentions were not nefarious and thecway the writers progressed a pointless breakup and the way they wrote it made the FL look pathetic and selfish. I realize this is very typical in cdramas. Over reactive FL who run off at the first sight of trouble, blaming it all on the ML their perfect standards for life destroyed.
I want to say its terrible to portray women as so stupid and immature. We are better than that, but the message being relayed to young women is not healthy. As always the ML has to grovel and beg, and this time based off of the way it was written it was so repulsive I skippes most of ep 32-34 due to my huge irritation for the FL behavior. Please stop it. You disengage empathy for a main character with the viewers. A show that was doing well now takes a nose dive. There are better alternative ways to cause conflict to resolve.
What I did love about this show: - Romance is perfect for the leads. They did a great job. Plenty of zing and lovely scenes. - Friendship between 3 of the friends was wonderful - Despite the regurgitation of the tropes amd plots - they were all there, it was refreshing to have a bold no nonsense ML who wasn’t taking any hidden agendas, and stood his ground.
biggest gripe after the dumb breakup episodes- the way they handled LiLis romance subplot. It shows that writers can write whatever they want, you can’t convince the audience if its just not there. I was mega disappointed at how all of that was written. It deserved a much better development.
Overall tho I was loving it until I didn’t but it ends well. The lost stars are reflected in the huge dissatisfaction mentioned above.
What is with all these young guys pulling off such incredible mature performances? Wang Xing Yue, Leo Wu are incredible and I hope WXY can get more bigger ML roles moving forward.
I’m not quite sure why the casting if such an older FL, they do this sometimes and then we are starved of romance scenes in a romance. At least this wasn’t completely bereft but I would have preferred to see their relationship move forward a little earlier, I understand the need for delay as FL has a crap ton to process. However, the chemistry was building nicely and then seemed to disappear for a while.
For all those praising what a clever FL she was, Duke Su literally saves her in almost every single bad situation she ends up in. Always the hero but getting none of the credit lol.
Was this better than Love Like The Galaxy, nope, but it could have been if we had gotten a bit more screen time for the leads and better romance scenes for them. At times it feels platonic, despite the zings some of the scenes bring.
Was not a fan of that last episode or the ending either. I haven’t read the book so perhaps they had to stay true to a story but when I’ve given 40 hours of my life to a typical period drama where everyone is out to destroy each other, I want a happy ending for as many folks as deserve it lol.
Don’t like it feeling flat and thats where this left me. We remember how we feel at the end Directors, keep that in mind.
Not bad though overall. The Double was a decent shot from cdramaland.
I didn’t overly love this. Too long and poor design layout, meant various cast members had way more screen time than they should have.
This starts out REALLY strong. The first episode is fast paced and dynamic. The military scenes snd team members were on point and the drama should have had far more of these kinds of scenes. Cut the business stuff down to a smaller qty of issues and edited the growth arc for NWK. Its choppy and doesn’t flow correctly. I’m probably in the minority for saying this but I love a redemption trope and I like how it ended for him, but getting there was a complete mess.
The writing is all over the place. So much drag time. Trying to throw in last minute problems. Rushing other elements. Dragged out the relationship development of the 2 leads so much that when they finally hook up theres no zing it felt meh.
The Chens were my favorite though I cringe every single time we have grown women acting like little girls. I get that a pitch of a voice might be high or even whiny sounding, but the BAD acting of childish tantrums and pouting is ridiculous. It makes asian women look like idiots.
The amount if air time is so unbalanced that if you started this show mid way through you would have no idea who are the leads. Everyone gets a lot of time. Odd.
This is not the best cdrama ever and its honestly exhausting in the end, but its watchable-I just wished it was shorter.
Short simple drama without a lot of depth to it, due to the length most likely. A few usual tropes- but overall a cute show with nice chemistry between the leads.
Main leads - may as well have been FL and 2 show because Luming had way more screen time than our ML, and FL acted like she was happier with him than the ML the whole time she was in a relationship with both the guys. To the point where you will wonder why we even had the pathetic attempt at one in the first place. FL treats ML like some little kid that has no idea about anything. She never takes him that seriously and keeps him at a distance while dropping everything for the stalker Luming the second he calls. Shes weak for the ML, tough cookie for the SML. I’m like cool ok I guess theres nothing wrong here, then voila because the writers need to end all that happy relationship with 2ML in order to wrap said draggy plot line- FL suddenly remembers who she really loves… Find yourself? Get Manipulated and at the end suddenly remember your one true love more like. She learned absolutely squat all about herself… find yourself… she was on her own for all of 10 seconds before she was officially a new guys gf. Where did she go on a journey of self discovery as a single person?!?!
Everyone else - theres far too much screen time given to the side characters. Of course where Miles is concerned- we can let that one go, happily stare at him all day lol, but that dragged on too long like everyones issues. They notoriously miss the tension moments on shows, the ones that give you all the feels.. big miss over and over. Even the twin brother and Esther had a potential but they got together in the oddest way and even tho it was clear they would unite, from the longing glance he has for her early on, he somehow turns into a utter weirdo, and then I guess eventually he is in love, but you’re not quite sure how he got there. Still they act like friends more than lovers. The besties were sn odd bunch to and did a pathetic job of helping FL see the light. The friends scumbag husband was a pointless side plot. Skipped all that. Incl the other friends weird 10 yr relationship. Was anyone normal in this show maybe the kids. The parents were ok but even then they didn’t behave consistently. The writing is a complete mess. FL has a complete personality shift with luming.
Do yourself a favor and after the first breakup (because yes there is a second one even tho they had nothing to break up from we get another overly dramatic break up scene) just skip to the last episode where everything is rushed to fix the complete train wreck of a drama with happy endings for all (except the friend with kids sadly).
You could skip this.
This show is completely saved by the amazing seconds. Perhaps they are the reason for the high rating. It always felt boring to go back to the leads. Nice job Zhao x Rao you stole the show ❤️
Also considering ML is after intimacy from day 1, its obvious there was feelings. The miscommunication is really the driver of the whole plot. If these 2 could talk like normal folk there would have been no show. That’s how monotone it was.
A bit of fast fluff. Forgetable.
- An overwhelming amount of slow or irrelevant content in parts. Some of it moves along perfectly. Until it doesn’t. When you find yourself skipping, because you feel like your time is being wasted it adds to my overall view.
- Multiple plot holes. Bad guys always know the instant a main character decides something. Like why?!?
- The exhausting breakup we all know just HAS to be included in every cdrama romance. So many can’t seem to grasp that despite ML ability to better communicate- the entire previous part of the drama he was a total green flag doing nothing but helping to start, grow and keep Star Tech progressing. They are absolutely nothing without his money. They’d have tanked as soon as FL money was gone. Which was early on. He patiently observed, advised and guided. His intentions were not nefarious and thecway the writers progressed a pointless breakup and the way they wrote it made the FL look pathetic and selfish. I realize this is very typical in cdramas. Over reactive FL who run off at the first sight of trouble, blaming it all on the ML their perfect standards for life destroyed.
I want to say its terrible to portray women as so stupid and immature. We are better than that, but the message being relayed to young women is not healthy. As always the ML has to grovel and beg, and this time based off of the way it was written it was so repulsive I skippes most of ep 32-34 due to my huge irritation for the FL behavior. Please stop it. You disengage empathy for a main character with the viewers. A show that was doing well now takes a nose dive. There are better alternative ways to cause conflict to resolve.
What I did love about this show:
- Romance is perfect for the leads. They did a great job. Plenty of zing and lovely scenes.
- Friendship between 3 of the friends was wonderful
- Despite the regurgitation of the tropes amd plots - they were all there, it was refreshing to have a bold no nonsense ML who wasn’t taking any hidden agendas, and stood his ground.
biggest gripe after the dumb breakup episodes- the way they handled LiLis romance subplot. It shows that writers can write whatever they want, you can’t convince the audience if its just not there. I was mega disappointed at how all of that was written. It deserved a much better development.
Overall tho I was loving it until I didn’t but it ends well. The lost stars are reflected in the huge dissatisfaction mentioned above.
I’m not quite sure why the casting if such an older FL, they do this sometimes and then we are starved of romance scenes in a romance. At least this wasn’t completely bereft but I would have preferred to see their relationship move forward a little earlier, I understand the need for delay as FL has a crap ton to process. However, the chemistry was building nicely and then seemed to disappear for a while.
For all those praising what a clever FL she was, Duke Su literally saves her in almost every single bad situation she ends up in. Always the hero but getting none of the credit lol.
Was this better than Love Like The Galaxy, nope, but it could have been if we had gotten a bit more screen time for the leads and better romance scenes for them. At times it feels platonic, despite the zings some of the scenes bring.
Was not a fan of that last episode or the ending either. I haven’t read the book so perhaps they had to stay true to a story but when I’ve given 40 hours of my life to a typical period drama where everyone is out to destroy each other, I want a happy ending for as many folks as deserve it lol.
Don’t like it feeling flat and thats where this left me. We remember how we feel at the end Directors, keep that in mind.
Not bad though overall. The Double was a decent shot from cdramaland.
This starts out REALLY strong. The first episode is fast paced and dynamic. The military scenes snd team members were on point and the drama should have had far more of these kinds of scenes. Cut the business stuff down to a smaller qty of issues and edited the growth arc for NWK. Its choppy and doesn’t flow correctly. I’m probably in the minority for saying this but I love a redemption trope and I like how it ended for him, but getting there was a complete mess.
The writing is all over the place. So much drag time. Trying to throw in last minute problems. Rushing other elements. Dragged out the relationship development of the 2 leads so much that when they finally hook up theres no zing it felt meh.
The Chens were my favorite though I cringe every single time we have grown women acting like little girls. I get that a pitch of a voice might be high or even whiny sounding, but the BAD acting of childish tantrums and pouting is ridiculous. It makes asian women look like idiots.
The amount if air time is so unbalanced that if you started this show mid way through you would have no idea who are the leads. Everyone gets a lot of time. Odd.
This is not the best cdrama ever and its honestly exhausting in the end, but its watchable-I just wished it was shorter.