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True enough. But some of them surprise you very pleasantly. I'm watching Dream of Splendour (and it's very good); and I finished You are My Hero (well written adult relationship with people who are competent at their job). I think there are few other in recent past but I can't remember now. 🤷🏽‍♀️

And that actually makes much more sense given the generally not awesome scriptwriting. :) So much for a tiny bit of improvement.

I like the actors a lot! It's rare to watch them shitty script writing aside. hahahahaha

Good to know. :)

Whoah Ep 20. That was PHOAR! Well done our leads. Scriptwriter redeemed themselves slightly with that surprisingly enlightened convo about relationship expectations (implicit and otherwise) re what women are expected to give up/become.

ML's father is such an unmitigated waste of space. What a scumbag.
Also EP 19 that whole back and forth that's what I mean by adolescent writing by the scriptwriter. Do better by your characters. Indecision, and no communication are such misused plot devices and apparently, the only two this scriptwriter is aware of.

I thought Karma's comment about her poisonous workplace was hilarious too. Spot on but funny.

Lol, mine too! It was so funny.

Really enjoying this drama! It's nice to watch a drama that assumes the audience is clever and can follow plot intricacies without spelling things out. The interactions between our leads are delightful. Chen Xiao's eyes continue to be my fave part of his acting! So emotive and expressive. The switch from gentle swoon to grim to grieving. Really fantastic. Crystal Liu is very very good. Great casting in addition to our ML and FL, the secondary characters are really good too. I'm enjoying the sisterhood and dynamics between the women. The ebb and flow of emotions between them is great to see. Anyway, a solid watch and easily my top 5 of 2023 even though it came out last year! LOL. So many dramas so little time.

Hahahahah! #truth

Ikr!

Thanks for sharing the book reference. I haven't read it. :)

Interesting! Thanks for that. It certainly is a different perspective. I think we agree on what's happening. While you are validly interpreting it from an omnipresent viewer's perspective -- we see everything right...him, her, and their interior worlds -- I was thinking of it from a storytelling pov. Each of them is missing large pieces of the picture, which is ok that's how the story moves forward but the bits they do have make them react in ways, that I don't think hold up. Ah well. Insightful comment from you on her trauma, I missed that one. What do you want to bet her trauma and his issues are all going to resurface in a big just as we catch a glimpse of their sweetness?
Lol.

Sure

He's so underrated! Did you watch him in Rattan? He did a really good job. Not sure how these things work but he could really benefit from an agency and manager that can secure high quality scripts and productions for him.

Thanks for asking...from a storytelling perspective I find, in the first instance, the FL's reactions and responses inconsistent. This is not casting shade on the actress. I like Janice Wu and she's done well with what she's given. I found that for someone who is as clever and as quick as she is described, despite having conflicting feelings about the ML (stemming mainly from confusion is he into me, is he not into me - since she doesn't have the audience's omniscient perspective), her responses to him whips between hot and cold. The writer gave her a pretty overblown reaction to the whole Grandpa's secretary showing her the pic of the ML and the lady at HQ. While I can understand that, she then asks the HQ lady about their relationship and softens in her attitude, virtually in the same set of eps. Then the phone call in the hospital sets her off, and his 'confession' (of sorts) and her response to it. I can understand her reactions If they are trying to show that she has conflicting feelings about the ML, her uncertainty over how he feels about her (rightly so), and possible implications of leading her on/emotional infidelity but it could have more nuance. She's experiencing a lot of things/feeling a lot of feelings (lol!) so the emotional volatility is understandable but not, to my taste, to this extent. Meanwhile the ML's emotional muteness coupled with expectation that she can intuit his feelings/read his mind is making a lazy bit of writing even messier.
I can get behind her emotions and her reactions but it's a disservice to her character (and to some extent his) for the writer to force them to behave this way. Be angry, be upset, be uncertain but show me the transition from one to the other, or what triggers an emotional switch. That's my $1 worth!
Curious to think how you think it's going?

Thanks for explaining to me what I meant. :/

Whoever wrote this script should just be sacked, sent back to school and maybe re-employed in 10-years when they know how to write a consistent, coherent narrative and well-rounded characters. It get's worse as the show moves forward.

Largely agree with you OP. Except my expectations were far removed from You are My Glory, and I didn't mind Romance of the Little Forest. It was silly, funny. and cringey by turns. But the leads did alright. Him, especially.

Sparkling chemistry, and solid acting + comedic timing by the leads...but it does suffer from poor writing and wince worthy characterisations. Such a pity. These 2 deserve so much better. I wasn't expecting You Are My Glory because that novel is on another level and the adaptation was brilliant too (the director even made YY act/emote!! That was a first!! :D) But would have been happy within something like Perfect and Casual or Romance of the Little Forest. Aah well. Will continue to watch because they are sweet together. It's been a while since a contemporary rom-com caught my attention.
This will do in a pinch.