How to Numb Your Brain (or a love story that meets its viewers nowhere)
If you want a brainless, shallow romance drama made for 12 year olds, whose idea of love was shaped by self-inserting into Wattpad fanfiction about a Mary Sue and her cold boyfriend, Harry Styles, who she can "fix", then this drama is for you. It’s something to watch after a long day of work to switch off your brain. In fact, it’s very important that you don’t use your brain. I’m warning you: do not use it. Otherwise, the moment you lock in and start trying to make sense of things, everything falls apart faster than the USSR did in good old 1991.
Under no circumstances should you get attached to characters or relationships that have substance and potential, because they will be sidelined or entirely ignored to push a female lead with no motivation or goals, along with her boyfriend (an incredibly fascinating character, I might add) who is butchered, robbed of his identity and turned into a vibrating tool the female lead can use or put in a drawer however she likes. Their romance offers nothing but cheap tropes stitched together. If you’re looking for that, though, you will thoroughly enjoy it.
If you’re looking for a drama with a coherent plot, developed character arcs, meaningful relationships, suspense that keeps you on the edge of your seat, and satisfying payoffs, run and find something else to watch. This drama is a textbook example of idol drama slop, with rare moments of sincerity between characters that the story actively tries to ignore in order to satisfy a very specific audience, leaving it with essentially no heart. Pure vibes, no substance. As Tian Jiarui’s initial reaction to reading the final version of the script went: "That’s it?"
Under no circumstances should you get attached to characters or relationships that have substance and potential, because they will be sidelined or entirely ignored to push a female lead with no motivation or goals, along with her boyfriend (an incredibly fascinating character, I might add) who is butchered, robbed of his identity and turned into a vibrating tool the female lead can use or put in a drawer however she likes. Their romance offers nothing but cheap tropes stitched together. If you’re looking for that, though, you will thoroughly enjoy it.
If you’re looking for a drama with a coherent plot, developed character arcs, meaningful relationships, suspense that keeps you on the edge of your seat, and satisfying payoffs, run and find something else to watch. This drama is a textbook example of idol drama slop, with rare moments of sincerity between characters that the story actively tries to ignore in order to satisfy a very specific audience, leaving it with essentially no heart. Pure vibes, no substance. As Tian Jiarui’s initial reaction to reading the final version of the script went: "That’s it?"
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