strawgal

I dropped after 1.5 eps, I can not get past the FL goldfish face, at the start I thought it was a plus that she didn't have the squeaky childish voice. Who ever is directing just make it look as if she has nothing between her ears, which is a shame because the production values look amazing.

Well its apparently endless, which is nothing to wish for',endless or apparently endless'.
For the money spent it 's disapointing. Like a an over decorated Christmas Tree, they throw in an extra gimmick to try and cover the empty spaces where the plot should be, there is enough plot perhaps for some short drama on Youtube.
It just all a bit misjudged, full of stock character, dodgy make up and very odd wardrobe choices so it gives no reality to the sense of place and time.
The script is just basically the same lines repeated in various versions. It just makes me tired.

You what is sad it that if this was a real person she is not getting any support from anyone, when in real life there is usually someone even if it's only a therapist or medical staff saying this will get better and we just need to try and stop your stress bucket filling. its going to be OK. Or we will tweak your meds. That how she she is feeling is on the range of a normal reaction.
It's the general writers lets make, usually the women, life as hell as possible, they put up with it to be seen as good, and then they are miraculously cured by love.
There is not one person unless you count her 'friend' who listens to her or even watches her body language. I was thinking last night who can she actually be open with because part of the problem is not wanting hurt people, like the 'friends' brother or the son, whilst being shat on by every other adult, including the ML. He would be binned, not a keeper.
Even the ex girl friend had to be a saint for eff all.

Yep, you can withdraw if you feel depressed, but the character is easily distracted , when its something she wants to do. There is also the question she wants to be a good mother, but she is completely avoiding what it would take to be a an effective mother.
The idea of paroxetine is it helps you get some sort of clarity, I know several people who have used it, they work they function, it may not solve every problem , but it certainly helps people focus, when they have so many worries they are mentally exhausted.

I am not at the end yet, but as a parent I just thing WTF, how can the M and FL, leave a child to make up their own mind when the information that are getting is from social media. They both seem to think that being passive is a good thing, where as children will see a hole and fill it with something. It's emotional abuse through inertia, in the hope he will make the right choice. Its as if being 'good and mature' inoculates you from stress and worry due to uncertainty.
And who wants a partner who leaves you alone and doesn't stand up to you until cornered.
Then there is a grandmother who gets a free pass because she is old and has declining mental fuction, so nothing will be addressed and they can have a happy clappy ending.
The actors are too old for the age they are playing, and the characters are behaving like twenty somethings, not like responsible adults,
I do not know what the script writer idea was, but the writing and casting is foolish.

This is just not doing it for me. I think its the direction and the way its shot, there is no tension and looks old fashioned and it's just going through the motions.

The highest rate for law breaking is in young males up to the age of twenty and most will go on to have law abiding lives. The idea is if you are punished for an offence you have paid debt to society.
Unfortunately there seems to be people who seem to be making money about dragging up peoples past mistakes, either through ' journalism' or a form of blackmail which not only affects the actor but also the production company.
I respect the actors decision, perhaps it's what he thinks is best for himself and his family. I think I have enjoyed his performance in every thing I have seen him in.

Everyone likes to have dig a major international streamers but if actors made more money for acting and did not have to rely on advertising endorsements it perhaps would be a healthier industry. Koreans could end you seriously damaging their own industry.
There must be something in the air, this popped up in my feed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snulkyo9-3Q

If they cut of all the sentimentality and in the end cartoon villain this could have been a 9.5, unfortunately they tried almost to make a family drama with action sequences.
The tech manipulation part of the plot, which is scary in its self with the development of AI could have been better.
Its not terrible just a bit of a disappointment.

Most characters are made to have a perhaps the most two character traits when most people, can behave differently at different times depending on the circumstances, and what they have learned.
I think perhaps You Shu Lang has a stealer side which he covers up, like
Fan Xiao is a spoilt teenager forever testing and blustering while appearing in control, not really knowing what he wants and why. He needs control, like the art, set dressing the room, those pictures, so he can make something and destroy it before someone else gets the chance.

Ep 9, OMG
the contrast between the adult who knows what he has to do, controls himself although distraught, and the spoilt teenager who has to win at any cost to prove something. and then finds he has nothing.
There are going to be blood and tears before bedtime.

Well I never expected this, characters that are not one dimensional and a plot which is bit like mean girl bullying and manipulation but so well constructed, it has an actual timeline and drops hints of what may happen not to obviously.
I am impressed with both leads acting.

The elephant in the room is all the actors in this are basically too old for the story.
There is this c drama fantasy that forty somethings and above can play thirty somethings and behave like they are in their late twenties.
The ML is just weak, and the idea that they kiss and make up because it's all a huge misunderstanding and the mother gets the free pass of declining age related function and she is an manipulative old b!tch, but what can you do.

I expected a trash plot very done, and it is a trash plot, it's just a shame it wastes the WC talent, his character just look like he has a wasp in his mouth and debating whether to chuck or swallow, or he is thoughtfully constipated.
FL seems to play the same sort of part, therefore its rinse and repeat, an how she does depends on wholely on the script, which makes her unbelievable.

Its a job why would they be 'committed' off screen. I think most of the time if you have a close working relationship with someone you have another life outside that relationship.

Gun has always been a skilled actor, if you watch The Blue Hour (2015), which is pretty dark, I have always thought they have been using a Ferrari to run in 2nd gear.
Just like Dew I believe his looks have dictated the roles he is cast in, If you look at some of Off's old interviews I think he wouldn't have stayed in this partnership unless he knew that Gun was actually a benefit to his career.

Did they run out of money by the end? I just wish script writers would plot stories properly and think as much about the end as they do the hook and USP as they do at the start. The end is the last thing you remember, like a bad meal followed with a good desert can make you forget the tasteless main course.
It ended up a cut and shut of too many tropes, the stock bad females with reaction shots that look as if the were sucking a lemon with narrowed eyes. Too much and too long..
No body expects something like this not to have plot holes but some of them were just a drop too far.
I can not really fault the ML's acting, they carried it , but who ever was producing didn't do a good enough quality control, the end looked ragged and unfinished, as if the budget or time had run out.

I have been trying to decide about this. Sometimes I think its a satire or like one of those old Holywood movies where the plot what there is is so OTT but the style over powers what ever critical thinking you have, like in All That heaven Allows.
One thing I have decided is not to take it seriously, the last episode should have perhaps been the tone for the whole of it, because its pretty much camp melodrama, but very well done most of the time.. You just shouldn't think about the under lying misogyny, a class system the plot is based on with the lack biological reality.
The stand out actor is Huang Xing, but he had the most multi layered character, all the traits of a sociopath but still managed some how to make him charming.

I wanted the plot to go totally off the rails and man in the coffee shop be a serial killer.

Not the worst I have watched but so predictable and annoying. Just meh.

I would rather it had an unhappy, untidy ending, it was all a bit too neat and cliche.
I felt I had seen these scenes too many times before, and could could virtually guess most of the content of the last episode.

Why am I watching this, it's unremittingly grim ? Ground Hog Day, each episode you think it's going somewhere, any where but the circle of introspection, and then it doesn't.
I find neither ML's interesting as characters, and the fact they have virtually the same insecurities gives little light and shade. They are about as interesting as wet cement.