What on earth happened? First episode was fire and it went downhill from there.
The cooking competition especially with the Ming was boring and every reaction to eating her food got a bit ridiculous. Could have cut so much of those scenes and given us a whole episode in present day. The ending was ridiculously rushed. Just gave is lazy holes to wrap it up fast. Lacking in decent screen writers, not sure why everyone has been raving this show, it ended up plain mid.
I’m sitting on the fence here and giving it a solid 8.5, but I ended up skipping a lot of scenes here. Especially the sister scenes, who was a complete idiot for so long, there was no coming back in empathy for at all. Oddly I did have some hopes for her and the crazy emporer but it just was poorly written -last few episodes were rushed and chaotic with quite a flat ending. I don’t know how China keeps up, they making a million a minute of these historical dramas and I don’t have the energy to watch that many of them, especially at 38 long episodes like this one.
They still have old tired revenge plots, and its boring.
The acting was great from most of them evil Susha queen not so much, very flat.
Absolutely clever and stunning drama, with great acting all around. Lusi is the queen, and she keeps getting better. After all of her health issues its good to see her back again. Yes this show wasn’t 100% on point, sadly, I had hoped I could score this a 10, but it has far too many sub plots that got drawn out and disinteresting. I skipped a fair amount. It lacked a bit of punch in resolutions, and the family still felt disjointed at the end. Don’t TELL us the resolution—SHOW us.
Overall though a stellar cdrama, and its productions like this, Hidden Love, First Frost etc that show us the tide can turn from silly tropey cdramas - to big players in the game. I’m tired of Kdramas always been so depressing and melodramatic-so I’m grateful China has stepped up its drama game.
I am surprised Netflix has not picked up Love's Ambition.
Stop expecting a subscription to Netflix will get you all the dramas you want. Theres many in this biz, and as such you have to subscribe to more than one. You’re truly missing out if you are a Netflix only. Of course its not cheap to have multiple but I will support these kinds of dramas being made and competition in the markets reaps MORE and better content.
I know it was the whole premise that she lost ten yrs by her decision, blah blah, and it was a cute show. I wish there had been scenes where they actually discussed what his rebellion actually was and why she let him go, how she felt. Those missing scenes we can assume happened but when they are so pivotal to the plot we miss the healing part. Very short and I guess we should be grateful for that. 7.5.
For romance and plenty of kisses it hit the nail on the head, for weird plot and daft tropes you just can’t take it too seriously. For the eye candy and viki comments people stuck around lol. At best this is a 7.
For 90% of this show I was wondering what on earth happened to the ML, who is usually throwing his weight around red flagging as a ML left right and center - while then showing his softer side…. he was giving PG ML almosr the entire time lol.
Cute short, that contains zero step family of the FL trying to murder or destroy FL, and no gangster’s kidnapping a billion times. If it hadn’t been for the heavily make up’d FL I’d have forgotten I was even watching a short.
Thank goodness this wasn’t a cdrama. Going by the % of time the FL two timed and then hooked up with SML, we’d have had to endure 38 episodes of FL x SML relationship.
Far too little guy with the star of the show, and I can’t stand rushed endings like that. Wow, she realized she wanted him as he was leaving her, whoopie lady for taking so long to catch on. At that point I didn’t give a hoot that she was sad. Couldn’t stand her by then.
Clearly from the reviews many are salty about the last episode. It is what it is with time travel dramas, however I will agree the writers could have written some clever plot to go there.
This drama was fantastic for almost the entirety of it. There are some weird edits, when we skip forward a large chunk of time, and its a but jarring. However, the way this was written for the first 2/3 was pretty decnt, The leads are a good match, and I loved that relationship development. All the characters had some great moments in their own right. I didn’t feel the need to skip much. Although I love these shorter cdramas, I am feeling it should have been to resolve this more satisfying. I took off 2 stars on my rating fir the way this wrapped and for the ridiculous sub plot written for the FL when she acts like a self righteous child, accusing ML of the exact same thing she did, but somehow she has a free ride??? She was so frustrating for a little while there.
Can’t tell from the comments but I’m getting the vibe this Romance tagged show is not a romance or it at least failed at one? Wondering if I should even start. There seems to be a trend right now that shows that tag as romance or have a very romance feel poster, turns out mega disappointing. Korea, stop gaslighting and lying to grab the audience numbers you know a romance pulls, without delivering a happy romance. Tiring.
Im having a huge problem with this childish show. Does anything actually become mature in any of the plot or characters?!?! Why are the reviews so high? What am I missing. Ready to drop..
Well , it was nice nothing new , you have probably seen the trope million time so its not going to be a new experience…
Its quintessentially Korean. That is how they are as a people. Especially the younger gens. Wear the same clothes- style their hair the same, whatever the new trend. To an obsession. I don’t get it personally but then I don’t live in that culture. My daughter did for quite a while and she was always been questioned with distaste for not wanting to dress and style like them. she could not help them understand that being different is actually something to celebrate. Thats why its always presented this way in their TV. It is who they are.
The cooking competition especially with the Ming was boring and every reaction to eating her food got a bit ridiculous. Could have cut so much of those scenes and given us a whole episode in present day. The ending was ridiculously rushed. Just gave is lazy holes to wrap it up fast. Lacking in decent screen writers, not sure why everyone has been raving this show, it ended up plain mid.
They still have old tired revenge plots, and its boring.
The acting was great from most of them evil Susha queen not so much, very flat.
Overall though a stellar cdrama, and its productions like this, Hidden Love, First Frost etc that show us the tide can turn from silly tropey cdramas - to big players in the game. I’m tired of Kdramas always been so depressing and melodramatic-so I’m grateful China has stepped up its drama game.
If that is your thing you’ll enjoy the show. There is no other plot than this is how ML processes hate and revenge.
Also that “house” is not a house, its a billion bedroom hotel for sure irl. Quit gaslighting us, no one lives in that as a house.
Cute short, that contains zero step family of the FL trying to murder or destroy FL, and no gangster’s kidnapping a billion times. If it hadn’t been for the heavily make up’d FL I’d have forgotten I was even watching a short.
Super cute.
Far too little guy with the star of the show, and I can’t stand rushed endings like that. Wow, she realized she wanted him as he was leaving her, whoopie lady for taking so long to catch on. At that point I didn’t give a hoot that she was sad. Couldn’t stand her by then.
Dumb show.
This drama was fantastic for almost the entirety of it. There are some weird edits, when we skip forward a large chunk of time, and its a but jarring. However, the way this was written for the first 2/3 was pretty decnt, The leads are a good match, and I loved that relationship development. All the characters had some great moments in their own right. I didn’t feel the need to skip much. Although I love these shorter cdramas, I am feeling it should have been to resolve this more satisfying. I took off 2 stars on my rating fir the way this wrapped and for the ridiculous sub plot written for the FL when she acts like a self righteous child, accusing ML of the exact same thing she did, but somehow she has a free ride??? She was so frustrating for a little while there.