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Craziest thing I've ever watched in my life... AND IT AIN'T EVEN THAT GOOD.
English is not my first language, so forgive me if there is any spelling mistakes.
I picked this one to watch with a friend back when only the first two episodes aired, we didn't expect anything great but then we both got shot 50 billion times.
You know when you're like "this can't get more insane" and then it manages to get 10 times crazier than it was before? this is the experience of watching Double Helix. You think you have had enough, and then you realize you're only 15 minutes through the first episode. (spoilers ahead) like, the episode where xiao chen's mother dies and yi chen gets paraplegic was so crazy I just stared at my screen blankly trying to process what the fuck was going on.
I'm making this review as someone who watched it back when it was airing weekly, so I got caught off guard with the abusive stuff.
But, the writing is... kinda okay I guess?? The characters are fucked up, I like them because of that, but the writing always seems to try to justify their actions(i'm talking about lu feng here, oh god, WHAT THE HELL THEY DID TO HIM...)plus they get really annoying sometimes. Also I NEED to talk about the portrayal of mental disorders here and how poorly it was done, as someone who has suspected BPD, I watched it with portuguese subtitles so if I misinterpret stuff it's probably due to bad translation, but, OH MY GOD I WAS GOING FUCKING INSANE WITH HOW BAD THEY HANDLED BIPOLARITY LIKE SOME KIND OF DISEASE. I know the source material was written around the early 2010's, but man, couldn't they have changed some of the stuff? (ㆆ_ㆆ).
Talking about the main couple, they were really good in the first episodes but the dark romance stuff just completely ruined them to me(spoilers ahead)the episode where lu feng kept xiao chen kidnapped was HORRIBLE, I'm neutral regarding dark romance, but oh my fucking god bro the excecution was literal dumpster fire, LIKE I WAS EXACTLY LIKE THAT ONE HIGURUMA GIF FROM JJK WHILE WATCHING THAT EPISODE. I wanted to like xiao chen and lu feng as a couple, but they had to pull the abuse stuff, which I honestly think was so unecessary considering the direction their relationship was going in the first episodes.
The side couple also had a really rushed development, even though they are 100x times better than the main one, like I love Qin Lan he's so boyfriend material I wish he had more screentime (´。＿。｀) and yi chen's character could also have been so much more developed... their scenes were so good, the story wasn't afraid of making them commit mistakes and then forgive each other for it, it felt a little relatable to me as someone who is in a relationship.
One of the only good things about the writing is the script, like, even though the character writing isn't that good, the script is great. It is like seeing a script that is masterfully done in a way that can hook the viewer and that manages to surprise you every time be wasted into such a mid story. The portrayal of homophobic families also felt real, as someone who is gay and transgender living in a homophobic household.
Now about the acting, THE ACTING IS GREAT, LIKE REALLY GREAT. Ayden is such a good actor that I genuinely got goosebumps during episode 10 and 11. Lu si tong doesn't has many expressions, but he did a great job too in my opinion. I don't have much else to say about it, but to me, the acting is what carries this whole drama. The cinematography is also great, I mean, If you analyze Double helix from a technical viewpoint, It is almost top tier, the thing that fucks everything up is the mid writing.
There is a portuguese Idiom that is like "they had the knife and the cheese on their hands", except that whoever wrote this threw the cheese in the trash, and shoved the knife up their ass.
wasted potential, could have been done in a better way, I wouldn't recommend unless you don't joke about dark romance.
I picked this one to watch with a friend back when only the first two episodes aired, we didn't expect anything great but then we both got shot 50 billion times.
You know when you're like "this can't get more insane" and then it manages to get 10 times crazier than it was before? this is the experience of watching Double Helix. You think you have had enough, and then you realize you're only 15 minutes through the first episode. (spoilers ahead) like, the episode where xiao chen's mother dies and yi chen gets paraplegic was so crazy I just stared at my screen blankly trying to process what the fuck was going on.
I'm making this review as someone who watched it back when it was airing weekly, so I got caught off guard with the abusive stuff.
But, the writing is... kinda okay I guess?? The characters are fucked up, I like them because of that, but the writing always seems to try to justify their actions(i'm talking about lu feng here, oh god, WHAT THE HELL THEY DID TO HIM...)plus they get really annoying sometimes. Also I NEED to talk about the portrayal of mental disorders here and how poorly it was done, as someone who has suspected BPD, I watched it with portuguese subtitles so if I misinterpret stuff it's probably due to bad translation, but, OH MY GOD I WAS GOING FUCKING INSANE WITH HOW BAD THEY HANDLED BIPOLARITY LIKE SOME KIND OF DISEASE. I know the source material was written around the early 2010's, but man, couldn't they have changed some of the stuff? (ㆆ_ㆆ).
Talking about the main couple, they were really good in the first episodes but the dark romance stuff just completely ruined them to me(spoilers ahead)the episode where lu feng kept xiao chen kidnapped was HORRIBLE, I'm neutral regarding dark romance, but oh my fucking god bro the excecution was literal dumpster fire, LIKE I WAS EXACTLY LIKE THAT ONE HIGURUMA GIF FROM JJK WHILE WATCHING THAT EPISODE. I wanted to like xiao chen and lu feng as a couple, but they had to pull the abuse stuff, which I honestly think was so unecessary considering the direction their relationship was going in the first episodes.
The side couple also had a really rushed development, even though they are 100x times better than the main one, like I love Qin Lan he's so boyfriend material I wish he had more screentime (´。＿。｀) and yi chen's character could also have been so much more developed... their scenes were so good, the story wasn't afraid of making them commit mistakes and then forgive each other for it, it felt a little relatable to me as someone who is in a relationship.
One of the only good things about the writing is the script, like, even though the character writing isn't that good, the script is great. It is like seeing a script that is masterfully done in a way that can hook the viewer and that manages to surprise you every time be wasted into such a mid story. The portrayal of homophobic families also felt real, as someone who is gay and transgender living in a homophobic household.
Now about the acting, THE ACTING IS GREAT, LIKE REALLY GREAT. Ayden is such a good actor that I genuinely got goosebumps during episode 10 and 11. Lu si tong doesn't has many expressions, but he did a great job too in my opinion. I don't have much else to say about it, but to me, the acting is what carries this whole drama. The cinematography is also great, I mean, If you analyze Double helix from a technical viewpoint, It is almost top tier, the thing that fucks everything up is the mid writing.
There is a portuguese Idiom that is like "they had the knife and the cheese on their hands", except that whoever wrote this threw the cheese in the trash, and shoved the knife up their ass.
wasted potential, could have been done in a better way, I wouldn't recommend unless you don't joke about dark romance.
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