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Strong first half, tropey second
This drama had such a strong start; the bickering dynamic between the leads is really fun, and one thing I love about Taiwanese dramas is that the female leads are always a little rougher around the edges. Everything just feels really down-to-earth, despite the outlandish premise of the rich son of a CEO pretending to be an intern and living downstairs from his mini-boss.
The first half is strong, but the second half starts to drag a bit, going full-blown drama-land tropes with the evil second female lead, disapproving parent, and family illness. There are so many crazy additions to the plot, but it starts to feel frustrating.
I was also really impressed by the fact that there was no break-up between the leads as they were going through all of these tensions — up until the last episode where the drama pulled the “and one of them left and just left a note and they didn’t communicate at all for the entire time jump” thing and…sigh. I was just disappointed because I thought we’d avoided all that.
Other than that though, this is still a pretty good show, though I think the leads are the best part of it. The actors, particularly the ML, does a great job. The side characters are okay — mostly just there, sometimes a little too cringey and nosy, but sometimes funny. Still, it's a fun watch, and it feels very quintessentially Taiwanese.
The first half is strong, but the second half starts to drag a bit, going full-blown drama-land tropes with the evil second female lead, disapproving parent, and family illness. There are so many crazy additions to the plot, but it starts to feel frustrating.
I was also really impressed by the fact that there was no break-up between the leads as they were going through all of these tensions — up until the last episode where the drama pulled the “and one of them left and just left a note and they didn’t communicate at all for the entire time jump” thing and…sigh. I was just disappointed because I thought we’d avoided all that.
Other than that though, this is still a pretty good show, though I think the leads are the best part of it. The actors, particularly the ML, does a great job. The side characters are okay — mostly just there, sometimes a little too cringey and nosy, but sometimes funny. Still, it's a fun watch, and it feels very quintessentially Taiwanese.
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