Okay this might be an unpopular opinion but everytime I start a new series that has Bui Lu as FL, I end up getting…
I have the opposite POV, meaning what you write is how I feel about her Only For Love character, not her characters in Love Is Sweet and Till The End Of The Moon.
The main story is mostly unoriginal, side stories are not captivating. Everything drags since the show is very very long. While I like both actors, I didn't enjoy their performances here or their chemistry together (it's kind of so-so).
between this and love is sweet , which one should i watch first
In LiS everything but the main couple sucks. The funny stuff is funny (as long as it involves one of the leads). You could literally skip everything that does not involve the leads.
In this show, the main couple kind of sucks, especially the FL. It's very draggy and misunderstanding-heavy. Side couples are much better than in LiS, but also take quite long to get anywhere.
Both shows are fairly business-intense / work-heavy I guess. Neither has a good OST (the one here is quite poopy). In both shows, there are various degrees of fashion crimes.
Compared to regular modern dramas like Love Is Sweet, the outfits here are remarkably sane & humane. The first notable fashion crime is Chi Shan in EP16. Fortunately you won't drown in invasive adverts like Rio, 666 cold medicine, or non-stop facial masks.
The writing is quite overdramatic in the second half, and the ending/resolution ends up needlessly rushed, but to make up for it the leads have more and better intimacy than in your average 5x as long KR or CN show.
The soundtrack is also better than that of a random non-special long format drama.
What kind of ending was that? It didn’t really make sense. But honestly, the chemistry between the two lead…
The ending is: - ML is quite injured and passes out right after saying "I won't die" - FL gets to cry a bunch, worried that he won't make it - fade to black; audience gets to wonder if he died or not - cut to FL sorting flowers on the way to a funeral, to imply that he died and to make you worry - cut to FL and ML hopping into the car, presumably to go to YuWei's funeral
Or to have a weird minority view, you can choose to see it as that he died and "she still sees him everywhere". But that's kind of pushing it?
I'm not a fan of ML at all. I mean he's totally friend material even like a brother but love interest I don't…
It's only best friends like chemistry pre-dating, it's completely different afterwards. People who hype the chemistry in this show don't tell you that you essentially have to wait for it.
I'm currently watching TTEOTM, but I'm not rly feeling it, I constantly find myself fast forwarding through a…
I wouldn't recommend TTEOTM to skippers, you'd miss out on things and not really understand them. There was a lot I didn't enjoy in TTEOTM while watching it, but I found it quite impactful in hindsight.
This here however, you can skip everything that does not involve at least one of the leads (and also skip all triangle/job/etc stuff that does involve one of the leads).
it wasn't as bad to be unwatchable but constant beating of the husbands was too much! it felt like I'm watching…
I wanted to watch it to see another Lu Yu Xiao drama as she was good in MJTY and excellent in BIA but here she's vastly downgraded and even in her own story arc barely doing anything. Dropped to save the time.
So much straight-up bad acting, especially Bu Guan Jin (FL) and Zhang Xue Han (SFL) are painful to watch. It's one of those shows where most actors look forced and unnatural. Wang Xing Yue (ML) and Nie Zi Hao (ML's half-brother) are somewhat okay, and Yin Si Qi (ML's maid) has a certain charm.
Visibly low budget production.
OSTs added at random.
We were dreading the start of each new episode as there is a sequence of the ML addressing the audience (/ the audience imagining themselves as the FL) that just does not work.
The mediocre story is almost the highlight here, and I guess the many couple scenes.
If you are looking for something harmless and mostly fluffy, it could fit the bill.
Surprisingly the camerawork tries far more than the typical "series of single-person face close-ups" show, but that's really all the positive stuff I could derive watching more than a quarter of it.
The actors I'm familiar with somehow manage to be much worse than in their better shows (directing?), some don't match their roles at all (casting), and especially the men's headwear is just ??? (costumes). Half the time something important happens, it's entirely off-screen.
The special/extra episode is pretty good.
In this show, the main couple kind of sucks, especially the FL. It's very draggy and misunderstanding-heavy. Side couples are much better than in LiS, but also take quite long to get anywhere.
Both shows are fairly business-intense / work-heavy I guess. Neither has a good OST (the one here is quite poopy). In both shows, there are various degrees of fashion crimes.
Judging by my comment https://kisskh.at/27885-why-secretary-kim#comment-12034521 I also did not know any better when I watched it.
LiS has special end scenes (generally: the leads as teenagers) between episode stills and ending song after EPs 01, 02, 11, 15, 36.
Don't think I've seen a show that starts doing something like this but then does it so rarely.
Fortunately you won't drown in invasive adverts like Rio, 666 cold medicine, or non-stop facial masks.
The writing is quite overdramatic in the second half, and the ending/resolution ends up needlessly rushed, but to make up for it the leads have more and better intimacy than in your average 5x as long KR or CN show.
The soundtrack is also better than that of a random non-special long format drama.
- ML is quite injured and passes out right after saying "I won't die"
- FL gets to cry a bunch, worried that he won't make it
- fade to black; audience gets to wonder if he died or not
- cut to FL sorting flowers on the way to a funeral, to imply that he died and to make you worry
- cut to FL and ML hopping into the car, presumably to go to YuWei's funeral
Or to have a weird minority view, you can choose to see it as that he died and "she still sees him everywhere". But that's kind of pushing it?
Gotta watch the good old less legal way.
Example of the last; WARNING kiss scene :p : https://youtu.be/2-bLO63lFfA?list=PLVn9O_Mx0d6zd_ZoMMpl5Y0GYls6WAIO7&t=1668 (in the "actual drama" the song here is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW-CsUq-X7A = Lian Huai Wei & Peng Ya Qi - Love Is (爱是) )
This here however, you can skip everything that does not involve at least one of the leads (and also skip all triangle/job/etc stuff that does involve one of the leads).
You can find a more detailed spoiler list here https://kisskh.at/713107-modawi-s-secret#comment-13838129
Dropped to save the time.
Wang Xing Yue (ML) and Nie Zi Hao (ML's half-brother) are somewhat okay, and Yin Si Qi (ML's maid) has a certain charm.
Visibly low budget production.
OSTs added at random.
We were dreading the start of each new episode as there is a sequence of the ML addressing the audience (/ the audience imagining themselves as the FL) that just does not work.
The mediocre story is almost the highlight here, and I guess the many couple scenes.
If you are looking for something harmless and mostly fluffy, it could fit the bill.
Out of curiosity, what makes her one of your favourites? I've only seen her in this and her acting was really poor.
The actors I'm familiar with somehow manage to be much worse than in their better shows (directing?), some don't match their roles at all (casting), and especially the men's headwear is just ??? (costumes).
Half the time something important happens, it's entirely off-screen.