Critiques (1)
All you need is to get the relationships sorted out at the beginning, who's who, and then just fast forward and fast forward and watch for an interesting scene every now and then. What constitutes an interesting scene I'll leave up to you. For example, I was most entertained by the main couple together (he and she are both pretty nice to look at). The others only occasionally deserved to be on screen for five seconds. That's not to say that the main couple were a pair of excellent actors. Oh no, not at all. It's just that their scenes were the most interesting of the entire series; unfortunately, they weren’t always entertaining or what the creators wanted them to be. I probably would have liked this a lot more as a two-part TV special or a two-hour movie, too. The script is obviously more suited to a TV series (which isn't these days) but it's so poorly handled, even all the twists and turns and reasons why this or that, is such a bland and flavorless, forgettable mess. There's rarely anything of interest, and when there is, it's usually a cliché that wouldn’t go missing from any similarly lame Taiwanese (hence Asian) series. And I'd say that's a bad thing. Any surprises? Nope. Touching? Nope. Character development? None. Music? Well, there was some, but, uh... Pacing? Drama? Yaaaaaaaawn. A weak 2 stars.
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