monstersnroses

I looked over your watchlist and altho ur tastes are wildly different from mine, based on what you like/don't like I have a few suggestions of ones you could try:

Fake it Till You Make it
My Uncanny Destiny
My Fated Boy
Devilish Joy (a k-drama, but one i think might fit your tastes)
Blossom
A Dream of Splendor
The Prisoner Of Beauty

Hope something in there might interest you enough to watch all the way through...

Episode 17 @ 3:20-3:25

lolllllllll

yes. Lil sis and the crazy emperor. Youre at ep 28, so already the chemistry of the ML/FL has proved out to be like not the greatest, and the plot is just winding on and on, and soon lil sis's storyline is about to go off like a firework, brief, intense, and full of messed up crazy and awesome.

> They say things like people are stupid or dumb for liking the drama and blah blah.

yeah that's totally out of line, and doesn't make sense to me either. I often sense those kinds of comments have a 12-15 yo author. But really idk.

Didn't Blossom have good female characters?

it goes both ways. people get belittled for liking a show, and they get belittled for disliking it.

MDL isn't a fan page. It's just a place to discuss dramas. I would never belittle a person for their opinion of a show. But if someone wants to 'talk trash' about it's rating (or to praise it's ratings), I don't see anything wrong with that. What's wrong with differences of opinion?

If this actually was a fan page, it'd be different. I would also think it would be rude to go to a dedicated fan page and talk trash or throw shade at a drama. But this is a site for reviews. So if I'm considering watching a show, I want to see people's honest feedback after watching it, good AND bad. So that I can objectively make up my mind about whether to watch it too.

There is something equally wrong with voicing an opinion that you didn't like a show, and getting attacked on a personal level for it just because youre in the minority.

To be fair, I liked this drama only medium. And I said what I liked and didn't like about it, and this LITC crowd is very nice. I was not attacked at all. People came in to argue with me, but that's fine, as long as the argument is about the show and not hurling insults at me personally then i think that's totally fair.

So while Im not the hugest fan of this show (altho i didn't hate it either), I like the vibe of the fans of this show. Like TTEOTM and SOKP and WDBTD, the MDL page isn't toxic like with some other dramas.

Playing House
Love On The Edge of Divorce
Embrace In The Dark Night
Nothing But You
Skip A Beat
My Supervisor Husband
My Name is Zhao Wudi

i know sometimes in america, actors do crappy movies and musicians do crappy albums to fulfill contract requirements, and to me this feels like that. I honestly don't know what went on behind the scenes that led to the creation of this... whatever.... but it seems like somebody from like the direction/production/writer side just totally fell down. It's too cheesy to be taken seriously, and it's taking itself too seriously to be considered good cheese.

It was a dud. Which is really really surprising given this ML/FL team who could have given so much more if everything else had been on point.

There are sometimes gems among the short-length scraps, but this aint one of them.

It was ok, but not all that.

Everything was overly formulaic. Not a lot stood out when compared to other good dramas of its genre. Plot follows a predictable pattern, even the OST was completely boilerplate. And I'll tell you something. People like Ling He and Kai Soso and Arthur Chen take a lot of crap for being woodplank actors, but Ming Hao is even less emotive than any of them. He missed his calling as a really really hot poker player. Because he won't act (emote), he forces the FL to play her part less subtle than she would have with a different ML.

I mean imagine Chen Kun in that role (ML from rise of the Phoenixes), he would have slayed it.

I do however, appreciate FL's dedication to her cat.

Because the bar of achievement is My Lethal Man and Embrace in the Dark Night. And this completely misses the bar by a lot.

Fang Jin just is coming hot off the heels of Sinful Marriage, which was a genuinely GOOD short-length in which she was given a more substantial FL role, and she nailed it, proving she can act better than just what EITDN would have you believe. And Yan ZiXian is well established as an actual GOOD actor, as evidenced by Love and Bid Farewell, Love Sickness, and My Uncanny Destiny. So we expected more from this onscreen pairing.

Then there's the cheese factor, and this show is a miss on that. Real cheese connoisseurs can tell the difference between a fine aged gouda and a can of aerosol cheese, and they know that a good aged gouda pairs well with white wine and grapes, whereas an aerosol cheese pairs well with Chicken In A Biscuit crackers and way way too much tequila.

What was I talking about.

Oh yes, complaining. I say, why not complain. What is this Oliver Twist, thank you sir can I have another spot of gruel? This was not good! It was not good, and it was not bad-good either. I don't fanservice dramas, I stake my reputation as a cantankerous bastard who doesn't like anything on my ratings! You might want people fawning and drooling over this weird pittance of a drama, but you won't hear it from me. Not everything in life has to be positive.

All of us complainers are just cheese-jedis talking to other cheese-jedis saying basically "this is not the droid you're looking for". And this is indeed NOT the droid we are looking for.

Did I mention I've just slammed an entire pot of coffee.

this should have been a spicefest, and it was not....

OK u guys were right, by ep 19, i'm satisfied that she's at least making an effort to be honest now.

>grey characters
don't care abt that
>not typical/perfect
def don't care abt that either
>lie and scheme a lot
does that mean that she doesn't stop lying to ML until the final episode(s)?

>pretend to love the other until they aren't pretending anymore
at what point does this start to actually happen?

He just got done telling her in a moment of raw honesty, that she was the first person he felt like he could want to trust. She could have taken that window to come clean about - if not everything - then at least some things. That's what I would have done. But she just spins a new lie when her old lie starts to unravel, making it an even worse betrayal to him later. At this point, she doesn't love him, she doesn't honor or respect him, she doesn't take his trust seriously. She seriously thinks still that she is going to trick him out of the golden millet and then gtfoutta there like cya... sorry not sorry!

I keep looking forward to the episode where she comes clean with him, and it just doesnt happen and doesnt happen. so the only way i can relax and enjoy this show at this point, is just to flat out have it spoilered for me, when does she finally decide to start trying to be honest with him? Like around what ep does this start to happen?

He Yu, Ling He, An Yu, Jesse Ren, Zi Xian, Yun Xi, Yu Ning are my faves

Help! I'm on ep 14, and there is almost nothing I dislike more than a liar FL. Not only is this FL continuing to lie and gaslight the ML at every turn, she doesn't really love the ML at this point, and her actions and expressions are childish. Does this start to turn around? Around what episodes does she start to have genuine feelings for him? Around what episode does she finally stop lying to him about everything?

That was a really hi-tech safe

Lesson In Love - Taiwanese full length drama, stiff dose of angst and overloaded with spice.

The Crush with Richard Li - short length SPICY, well acted, but the dubbing is BAD BAD BAD so i'd recc this one on mute with some good music of your choosing instead. Do that, and it's good.

Lost Romance - Taiwanese full length

My Name is Zhao Wudi - chinese short length

Love is Phantom - Japanese short-length

Kakafukaka - short length j-drama

Que Sera Sera - full length K-drama with one of the hottest kiss scenes i've ever seen but the drama is long winded and draggy in spots and is just so-so

Koi to Dangan - short length j-drama, cheesy as hell, nicely spicy

The Rose - old classic taiwanese drama, full length, good only if yr into taboo and cheese

My Lethal Man - short length c-drama, cult classic of cheese and spice

Love in the Edge of Divorce - chinese short length, cheesy, spicy, fun

Nevertheless (the k-version is sufficiently spicy, the j-drama not so much)

Coffee and Vanilla - short lengt j-drama is pretty vapid, but also kinda spicy

When Destiny Brings The Demon - full length c-drama, drama has some fair spice content, and web novel has wayyy more, so that's fun.

Taking Love As Contract - short length c-drama with one rather awesome and spicy kiss, and a few other good scenes, drama itself is avg


French Kisses:

Embrace in the Dark Night
My Fated Boy (last ep, plus the drama is awesome, great script and acting)
Legend of the Blue Sea (but the drama is dumb and draggy after the halfway mark or so)

I thought it was because she's trying to uncover her memories so she wants to stay with so-called familiar people and surroundings. But maybe i'm wrong idk

I think the fact that she hasn't asked for a divorce is a good move, because she'd get everything when he dies, and he is a prime candidate for a Darwin Award, he could unalive himself out of sheer stupidity at any moment.

I don't understand how she keeps getting in distress when just a few eps ago, he said he needed to stay by her 24/7 or somethin. Every time he disappears, somebody tries to kill her or frame her for murder, and yet he still keeps leaving her to do things on her own like walk down the street to the board meeting. Does china have ubers? what even is she doing?

I also like in the board meeting when she slams her hands dramatically on the conference table.

i thought it was a nice touch that the mistress loses the baby due to "unstable genetics" lollll yeah that whooooole family lookin mighty recessive.