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Embrace in the Dark Night chinese drama review
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Embrace in the Dark Night
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by luckz
12 days ago
24 of 24 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 6.0
Story 5.0
Acting/Cast 5.0
Music 5.0
Rewatch Value 8.0

Watch this when you want a stupid vertical (?), but horizontal!

Watch this when you want a stupid vertical, but on a bigger screen, with a substantial amount of 🔥 or spice or 'kilig' or whatever you want to call it. I'll just dub this a horizontal.

Don't watch this to critique character motivations, evaluate plot point plausibility, or form opinions on whether the FL ever consents to being randomly grabbed & forcefully kissed.



The premise is kind of a copy of Mysterious Love, but the plot isn't as bad and disjointed.

The OST is randomly copied together (as in, it's blatant plagiarism), but most of the MDL comments still find it substantially adds to the enjoyment.

Some of the production is incredibly sloppy (audio, continuity, other things), but that doesn't mean you shouldn't watch it in 4K for scientifically analyzing you-know-what.

The only actor who is good from start to finish is Jesse Ren. Fang Jin is quite bad at the very start, then gets to an okay level with some outages here and there. However, she's not here to convince you of her emotional range or expression control, but to somehow be put into peril, before being rescued (and ravished) by Jesse Ren.

(There's a second couple, who are totally unnecessary yet mildly cute, but unlike the leads they didn't bring their intimacy A-game, perhaps related to their age difference. Might view them as in the wrong show. Beyond that there are various gangsters and office workers and office workers that are gangsters too, but none of these stand out much. I'll only keep a look out for future roles of Liu YuYang, ML's sidekick.)

Oh, and watch the specials!
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