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[STORY]
LOVE ACTUALLY (2012) borrows skeletal elements of the German film MOSTLY MARTHA (2001) and its American 2007 remake NO RESERVATIONS. If you love food-oriented films or dramas, you might enjoy the first 12 episodes of the series. After that, the remaining 2/3 of the series goes off the rails into a crazy melodrama that no amount of fast-forwarding could fix. I FF'ed through ep. 27 and skipped to the last episode because I just couldn't take it any more.
Chinese dramas would be helped tremendously if they cut down the episode count. There's no reason for this story to be 34 episodes. 18 tops is enough.
[ACTING/CAST]
As Wang Xiao Xia, actress Lee Da Hae is so awkward at the beginning that I pretty much laughed non-stop the first two episodes. Fortunately, she quickly improves and isn't a distraction from the story. As other commenters previously noted, Xiao Xia is so pure, sweet and forgiving to the point of disbelief. Still, I love her scenes where she wields her super taste buds.
Cheng Joe is a beautiful, beautiful man which makes his emotionally frozen Chen Hao Feng somewhat tolerable. He is charming when he smiles, for sure.
Everyone else is fine but they have to portray characters who are crazy in their unrequited love, driven mad by the thirst for revenge, or just generally mean.
MUSIC didn't leave an impression on me and I will NEVER REWATCH this.
LOVE ACTUALLY (2012) borrows skeletal elements of the German film MOSTLY MARTHA (2001) and its American 2007 remake NO RESERVATIONS. If you love food-oriented films or dramas, you might enjoy the first 12 episodes of the series. After that, the remaining 2/3 of the series goes off the rails into a crazy melodrama that no amount of fast-forwarding could fix. I FF'ed through ep. 27 and skipped to the last episode because I just couldn't take it any more.
Chinese dramas would be helped tremendously if they cut down the episode count. There's no reason for this story to be 34 episodes. 18 tops is enough.
[ACTING/CAST]
As Wang Xiao Xia, actress Lee Da Hae is so awkward at the beginning that I pretty much laughed non-stop the first two episodes. Fortunately, she quickly improves and isn't a distraction from the story. As other commenters previously noted, Xiao Xia is so pure, sweet and forgiving to the point of disbelief. Still, I love her scenes where she wields her super taste buds.
Cheng Joe is a beautiful, beautiful man which makes his emotionally frozen Chen Hao Feng somewhat tolerable. He is charming when he smiles, for sure.
Everyone else is fine but they have to portray characters who are crazy in their unrequited love, driven mad by the thirst for revenge, or just generally mean.
MUSIC didn't leave an impression on me and I will NEVER REWATCH this.
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