Moderate Story but Strong Leads - The Leads’ Chemistry Overpowers the Show
I really want to give this a 9, but when I see that Nirvana in Fire Season 2 is on my 9-point list, I have to admit that Pursuit of Jade is not there yet.
To be honest, I really enjoyed all the love scenes in this drama. The way the production designed them and the way the leads delivered them worked so well together. They were so good that I kept feeling the scenes were too short.
However, not everything felt too short, especially in the first 10+ episodes. I thought the beginning was super dragging. I honestly felt like they slowed everything down during the editing process, like the whole thing was playing at 0.75x speed.
The scenes in those early episodes also had this overly orange tone, which I really hated. I do not know why the director chose that kind of filter (maybe he associated orange with homie-warmy-cozy feeling), but I am just glad it did not continue throughout the whole series. It was torture for me to watch everything through that orange lens.
The storyline and plot are ok, acceptable and 65% enjoyable. It is not deeply absorbing, but at least it is not boring. Throughout the whole series, there was not a single episode that made me desperate to watch the next one. What actually kept me thirsty were the behind-the-scene clips of the leads’ love scenes. Those are the scenes I really wanted to watch. As for the rest, I mostly just wanted enough to follow and understand the story.
So this is one of those dramas where the leads overpower the show. The show itself is not bad, but the leads are very strong. They cast the right people here, even the supporting characters have a strong presence in the drama, and timed the release well. The FL had just gained more recognition from Moonlit Reunion, and they released this not too long after that when people still remember her.
Talking about the FL, I gotta say I only started noticing her because of Moonlit Reunion. She did well there, but in Pursuit of Jade, her role suits my taste much more and now I am already a fan of hers. She completely left behind her previous role in Moonlit Reunion and really became Fan Changyu here. Her acting deserves praise.
To be honest, I really enjoyed all the love scenes in this drama. The way the production designed them and the way the leads delivered them worked so well together. They were so good that I kept feeling the scenes were too short.
However, not everything felt too short, especially in the first 10+ episodes. I thought the beginning was super dragging. I honestly felt like they slowed everything down during the editing process, like the whole thing was playing at 0.75x speed.
The scenes in those early episodes also had this overly orange tone, which I really hated. I do not know why the director chose that kind of filter (maybe he associated orange with homie-warmy-cozy feeling), but I am just glad it did not continue throughout the whole series. It was torture for me to watch everything through that orange lens.
The storyline and plot are ok, acceptable and 65% enjoyable. It is not deeply absorbing, but at least it is not boring. Throughout the whole series, there was not a single episode that made me desperate to watch the next one. What actually kept me thirsty were the behind-the-scene clips of the leads’ love scenes. Those are the scenes I really wanted to watch. As for the rest, I mostly just wanted enough to follow and understand the story.
So this is one of those dramas where the leads overpower the show. The show itself is not bad, but the leads are very strong. They cast the right people here, even the supporting characters have a strong presence in the drama, and timed the release well. The FL had just gained more recognition from Moonlit Reunion, and they released this not too long after that when people still remember her.
Talking about the FL, I gotta say I only started noticing her because of Moonlit Reunion. She did well there, but in Pursuit of Jade, her role suits my taste much more and now I am already a fan of hers. She completely left behind her previous role in Moonlit Reunion and really became Fan Changyu here. Her acting deserves praise.
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