Weak story good leads
To preface this, I recognize the extraordinary development of China in the past decades. liked the leads, their acting and the initial setting of the drama.BUT
Unfortunately, the story suffered from heavy industry and country promotion that was not well embedded in the story line and too blatant to not get distracted. At times the dialogues were drowning in propaganda and thus became very unnatural and unnecessarily long.
There was a tendency towards unnecessarily long dialogues in general, that seemed to only be there to fill episodes.
With the all it’s promotional ‘ambition’ this drama missed exploring interesting topics such as socio-economic division, privilege, lack of privilege, and their effects on life choices, career and character.
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