I just can't. He's so sweet, Kwon Jeong U. He's been this whole time, but I just had to write a review. When he got Han Ji Won to play basketball with him, and the smile Han Ji Won rewarded him with? It was like he knew Han Ji Won missed playing a competitive sport. And then afterwards, the scene directors know their sh*t! Han Ji Won's hand placement... Stars in my eyes.
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Jack & Joker: U Steal My Heart! Episode 6
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I'm sure you're all aware that War is literally one of the most incredible actors out there, but in this episode, he outshone himself. I had already been impressed by the subtle voice modulation he implemented when he was under cover as the male model, and I fell in love when he went under cover as the makeup artist (didn't do a fake feminine voice like so many male actors do when they're impersonating women either). But his truck driver!?!? I bet the director just said, have as much fun as you want, and then laughed themselves silly while wishing they could make him even more of an international star the entire episode. War, you deserve the world.
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The Night Is Still Young Episode 14
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I didn't realize how lifeless he had had to be acting until we saw him smile in ep 14. Just after rebirth, the first thing he looks for is her and when he sees her... it's like his face goes alight.
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The parents freak out when he tries on makeup and wants to wear the pink dress when he's a little boy. We know that this is because of Lin Yang's influence (she wanted a younger sister and would dress him up as her sister), but if he were actually trans, the parent's behavior "You have to go to the hospital to get him checked out" and "it's not too late, should we go to the gynecologist? No probably the neurologist." This show being from China doesn't excuse it. It's not ok in any context, in any country, anywhere, so we must call it out even when it feels small, fruitless, and something we can't do anything about. BAD, parents, BAD.
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This is literally the most wholesome show ever. It's like someone who had been abused at every workplace they'd ever worked for came up with a show to show every manager out there what a positive working environment should look like. How to be empathetic, patient, understanding, and humane employer and manager!
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I've had a lot of really bad bosses, and Jane's monologue at the end is what every boss should say to their underling who makes a mistake. I can't emphasize this enough. Jane started out as a seemingly toxic boss, but showed us really the ideal of a non-toxic boss should look like. Hope he keeps it up.
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Under the Skin Season 2 Episode 15
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I ended up liking this episode. I was worried they were going to make Ollie the bad guy, and I'm happy they didn't. I really appreciate the reforging of the friendship between the two girls. I think a lot of people won't like this episode because it isn't a typical criminal case (or even a criminal case at all), but I liked it still. I don't get held up on what "should" and shouldn't be in a show just because of a premise or outside opinion. It was just as dark and twisty as all the other episodes... except we had an almost lesbian wedding!!! I am so happy they are on their way to repairing their friendship, and I'm by no means saying they should be lesbians. I hope they have a beautiful friendship and together repair the trauma in their hearts. I am just saying it also was a beautiful depiction of two girls as the centerpiece of a wedding, and a beautiful woman replaced a man and she loves her and would treat her better than the man. It's the celebration of their love, and we don't have to pin a definition on the type of love. We can just love two girls in beautiful dresses in the place of husband and wife. We don't see this hardly ever, and we will probably be seeing it less if the US's dictator has anything to say about it.Also, Shen Yi, you are a compassionate genius. I wish you the most positive mental health in the episodes to come.
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We Best Love: Fighting Mr. 2nd Episode 4
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This is a question. When Gao Shi De asks Shu Yi why he loves him, Shu Yi answers in Japanese. Does Gao Shi De now speak Japanese (did he learn for Shu Yi) <3
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Blue Canvas of Youthful Days Episode 2
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Does anyone else feel like they've jumped into the middle of the story and missed half the plot? Why is Liu Ming Yang buying hearing aids for Tan Yin when they seem to have only met a couple of times? Hearing aids are extremely expensive (at least where I'm from). Why didn't Tan Yin want to go into the doctor's office? Why was he afraid he'd get abandoned? How is Qi Lu already fast friends with Qin Xiao? They literally met yesterday and Qin Xiao viewed him as an arrogant annoyance. (Even if Qi Lu found his grandfather for him, it's only been 24 hours since they met.) Also, why isn't Qin Xiao suspicious of this kid who started following him around at first sight? This kid literally offered to buy off someone who was bullying Qin Xiao and left the final exam because he saw Qin Xiao leave, and he wouldn't have known like the audience that it was Qin Xiao's grandfather. Even if you explain it (and this is a guess that might be a spoiler) as Qi Lu wanting to get close to Qin Xiao because Qin Xiao's paintings remind him of his mother's, you don't skip your final exam just because he leaves. Or I guess you do, because this is a movie.
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In the part where both of them are staring up at the moon, Tou Tou references a poem and talks about a line Tian Zhen spoke to her about by a Japanese writer; then she says, "The moonlight tonight is truly beautiful." According to this piece of writing, the writer says, "The moonlight tonight is truly beautiful" to say "I love you" to his loved one. So she's literally saying I love you, TianZhen at 13:15. In case anyone was wondering. It wasn't explicitly laid out by the show (or at least not by the YouTube subtitles, which had their fair share of mistakes).As for an actual review... I'm literally skipping everything but scenes with Tou Tou and Tian Zhen. The plot point with the Father being you-know-what has me incensed. I mean, if this was a rom-com, that would be one thing, but this is not. And he was a bastion of this show and you just flipped everything this show was about on its head. I mean what the literal F. Not to mention the boy who stole the money plot. I'm just pretending it didn't happen. There's no point to it and it just makes an already marginalized, disenfranchised character an awful person, almost like they're saying poverty is a choice or caused by a series of bad decisions. Anyway.
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I have watched Zhao Lusi in a lot of shows and her acting has so completely shifted in this (no one could say she's not one of the most talented actresses in China. F those who abused her.). Her WALK is different, her posture is different, and the way her face rests is different (one side of her mouth turned down with a slightly suspicious frown in the eyebrows). Even the way she interacts with people is different. I love her bombastic side-eyes in this. She's testing people's reactions just like she's someone who's had to fight her way up from the very bottom, getting the short end and the worst of people all the way up.
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I have to stop after this episode. They made the bad guy a man dressed as a woman. It doesn't really have to do with the fact that they made someone cross-dressing the villain, it's how they refer to the person - "man dressed as a woman, disgusting" and other things like that. I know it's not the actor's fault, it's the writers. Still, it's not acceptable. Ruined a drama that I had started looking forward to watching.
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What!? Neil has shown no sign of seeing Sea as anything other than a talented band mate. Sea was the one who was obviously in love. I'm blindsided by (spoiler) neil's confession. I don't know if his acting just didn't portray his feelings of love for Sea, or if the plot is poorly written, but UGH! I'm pretty disappointed. Sea saved the day. That last scene with him curled up in front of Neil and just looking at him. it was beautiful. You could see beyond the love Sea feels for Neil, you could see everything that led up to it and how it made Sea the person he is today. You could see his devotion and yearning, But also happiness and delight, sliding in along his disbelief but hesitation. However, throughout, in just those last couple minutes, you can see his CALM that everyone else refers to. He's right where he wants to be even if it terrifies him, and he is not sure he's enough.
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They've exchanged less than 10 notes and now Got wants to date Diew? I'd understand if he was asking if Diew wanted to be friends, but I'm completely baffled at how the leap was made to dating. It's been about a week, and their interactions have all been extremely limited, both in duration and in number - Diew helped him for five seconds with his boxes, wrote him a note that told him to be quieter, wrote him a note telling him he took his mail, refused all his "gifts" except one, erases all his drawings, and recommends him a book. The interactions have all been negative except for the book recommendation (and the fire escape which was caused by Got in the first place, so are we to say that Got fell in love with Diew's hand)? What am I missing? How is this supposed to make sense? I understand wanting to be a friend after both enjoying the same book. I also agree you can fall in love and want to date without ever having met each other in person. Additionally, I believe people can connect strongly over a book. SO? They've interacted maybe 6 times and none of their conversations probably contained more than 5 exchanges each (though feel free to count and come back to me if it was over 10). I'm kinda surprised by how mad this has made me. Maybe because it has so much potential in other ways. Such a kind love interest, willing to show humility and learn, a fun opposites attract kind of dynamic, a relationship built on... um... not much, but it hints at an intellectual or emotional connection because they haven't interacted in any other way. I'm trying to give it the benefit of the doubt, ok! If they had spread this out over maybe 3 episodes this might have worked, and I don't really care what the rest of the episodes contain. It asks for such a suspension of belief and rationality.
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SPOILERIt could be said that their relationship was entirely platonic, but it could be equally said that Xiao Xuan loved Qu Lan Xin, but only could process it if she forced herself to believe Qu Lan Xin was a boy, and Qu Lan Xin was also in love with Xiao Xuan, and thought Xiao Xuan loved her for who she was, but as we see at the end it's not true, and Xiao Xuan can't live with loving another woman and kills herself. It's also likely that Qu Lan Xin is gender queer in some way. I want to be happy that there was lesbian representation, but we're really past killing our gays. Even in China, though there has been some backsliding. Furthermore, it is likely that the producers were already thinking about how to slide things past the censors, whether or not the producers intended Under the Skin to be more than a bromance or not.Other than that, I like how Shen Yi is coming into his stride and Du Cheng is starting to let him grow on him.
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