Can This Drama Be Saved?
It’s exhausting how stupid the writing of this show is. Anime have more depth in storytelling and character development. Can This Love Be Translated? Has a more important question that it needs to ask. Can This Show Be Saved? The answer in all frankness is: No!
The characters are bickering about nothings. The love that we’re supposed to root for has no roots. It just happens, and we suddenly have to start applauding and gushing like brainless amoeba. It goes here and there but goes nowhere.
The variety show that’s basically used to move the plot just feels like the worst programming idea, but also just seems to disappear in the melee of bad writing.
The ex who is supposed to create a love triangle tension - we are supposed to dislike her for making moves on the ML while also empathising with her confused plight. Cha Mu Hee’s agent seems more worried about the ex than the talent he’s supposed to manage. 😅 Hiro is just a character that’s walked on set. He literally adds nothing. A total dud.
The acting is awkward and dead (over-powdered) faced.
What is the saving grace? The cinematography? If someone wants to think colour treatment substitutes for cinematography and a pastiche of landscape, beauty shots of actors and photogenic European architecture is cinematography, then I can’t argue about taste here, as it’s subjective and relative to one’s exposure and understanding. However, for me the worst still is the background score and soundtrack. It is bombastic and cheap and omnipresent. Never a quiet moment. No reflection. It’s as if the drama itself doesn't want to sit with itself without the visual and audio noise.
There is a lot of high contrast colour treatment, location design, designer wardrobe and smoothed out hair and make up, not-a-hair-out of place pageantry here. But nothing of substance. Not the characters, nor the story. The tragedy is forced, the romance unbelievable. The comedy: cheap. It’s shows like these that literally help discern what quality means to people.
No lies, it’s as deep as the chair 🪑 you sit on while reading this. Just a noisy, overdressed, overlabeled and over-produced mega-budget brain rot.
If someone wants to watch a show that has an escapist quality, an angsty romance with a lot of miscommunication and misunderstanding tropes, but with a bit of self-reflection and depth, I recommend you watch Lovestruck In The City. You will find that it actually is what Can This Love Be Translated wants to be.
The characters are bickering about nothings. The love that we’re supposed to root for has no roots. It just happens, and we suddenly have to start applauding and gushing like brainless amoeba. It goes here and there but goes nowhere.
The variety show that’s basically used to move the plot just feels like the worst programming idea, but also just seems to disappear in the melee of bad writing.
The ex who is supposed to create a love triangle tension - we are supposed to dislike her for making moves on the ML while also empathising with her confused plight. Cha Mu Hee’s agent seems more worried about the ex than the talent he’s supposed to manage. 😅 Hiro is just a character that’s walked on set. He literally adds nothing. A total dud.
The acting is awkward and dead (over-powdered) faced.
What is the saving grace? The cinematography? If someone wants to think colour treatment substitutes for cinematography and a pastiche of landscape, beauty shots of actors and photogenic European architecture is cinematography, then I can’t argue about taste here, as it’s subjective and relative to one’s exposure and understanding. However, for me the worst still is the background score and soundtrack. It is bombastic and cheap and omnipresent. Never a quiet moment. No reflection. It’s as if the drama itself doesn't want to sit with itself without the visual and audio noise.
There is a lot of high contrast colour treatment, location design, designer wardrobe and smoothed out hair and make up, not-a-hair-out of place pageantry here. But nothing of substance. Not the characters, nor the story. The tragedy is forced, the romance unbelievable. The comedy: cheap. It’s shows like these that literally help discern what quality means to people.
No lies, it’s as deep as the chair 🪑 you sit on while reading this. Just a noisy, overdressed, overlabeled and over-produced mega-budget brain rot.
If someone wants to watch a show that has an escapist quality, an angsty romance with a lot of miscommunication and misunderstanding tropes, but with a bit of self-reflection and depth, I recommend you watch Lovestruck In The City. You will find that it actually is what Can This Love Be Translated wants to be.
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