The Fierce Wife Sweeps the 2011 Golden Bell Nominations

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• yes, i also loved "the fierce wife" because of sonia's performance. good luck to all the nominees!

  • My TW friends and I call TFW "the drama where you NEVER let your hot and crazy cousin crash at your house." EVER. Unless your husband is gay and/or neutered. And maybe not even then.

    • hahahahaha...
      super agree with your friends..
      after watching TFW I made it a promise never to let a cousin stay with my family... gay or neutered, it doesnt matter, no girl cousins in the house for me...

• Haha I'm a Fierce Wife fan, so I'm really happy that they got all the nods! The theme/story has been done so many times, but the execution & the actors took it up a notch. Definately rooting for Sonia. She was awesome.. but hmm..I think Amanda Zhu is an even bigger lock..(though I don't really know who she's up against except for TFW's Janel Tsai). It really was a performance - she turned what could have been a one note "crazy" character into a real person. (And I think she had the harder role in comparison to Sonia).

  • I don't disagree at all about her performance. But part of winning is also the perception amongst the voters in the industry, and Amanda hasn't quite made a lot of friends that I think she would garner tons of votes. Let's just say she often hung out by herself while filming TFW. I think she's a nice girl, but I don't think she's a lock.

    • Sigh I did see those news/rumors about Amanda not getting along with the rest of the cast...but she did basically have most of her scenes with James. The most impt thing to me is that she delivered and was professional on set? It's unfortunate that it's not based solely on acting but that's the reality (for about like every awards show).

      Just a question, what kind of series did Megan Lai get nominated for? I do like Megan but am a bit surprised that she sneaked into the Best Actress race!

    • Not sure about what The Invaluable Treasure 1949 is about. Didn't watch it. As for Amanda, I think she has a decent shot. Just don't think she's a lock is all based on her not being exactly a social butterfly.

      Look no further than the great 2009 Best Actor upset of Mark Chao over Vic Zhou. It's all about the lobbying in the end if the votes are even anywhere near close.

    • Still bitter about the Vic Zhou vs Mark Chao battle! Tears forever~

      Guess i am the only one not impressed by Sonia? Maybe i didnt watch enough episodes of TFW...

    • She annoyed the hell out of me in Autumn's Concerto and TFW just about cemented that fact. Does she have any other drama where she plays not the annoying little character that makes the list of the most hated drama bitches of all time?

  • No, Soler, you're not the only one not impressed by Sonia. Sonia will always be the model-turn-actress for me, that's all. What I don't like most about her acting is how she says her lines. It feels fake.

    • No no, you mistaken me. I enjoyed Sonia's performance a lot as well and do want her to win Best Actress. It's just that I felt that Amanda's performance which was very good as well was overlooked by many.

  • well...amanda won for best supporting 0_0
    i was expecting sonia...but she didnt
    and will pan won too...

    • Yeah I can't believe I was correct when I thought that Amanda was going to be a bigger lock...Really thought that Sonia had it in the bag and she deserved it! Sigh really disappointing with the awards this year, can't believe that TFW almost went home empty handed. Congrats to Amanda for holding it up!!

      And cmon, Will Pan???

• This is very famous in Phil. This is currently enjoying highest rating. Always the talk in different social networking site in FB, yahoo and twitter. It even trended for two days. But I never had a chance to watch this. Did i just miss one fourth of my life? lol . Think I better check this. Im not really familiar with other T-Drama. Ive seen It started with a kiss, they kiss Again, Hana kimi and Meteor Garden only. Quite new in K-drama too. Ive watched the K-drama Temptation of Wife gulay is sooo long but i like it even my mom ( though we both agreed that Angeline shud be more mean with her revenge) It's also a hit in Phil and was even shown twice in primetime due to public demand.. Thanks for the post. I actually check and get idea here what to watch and not to watch. Thanks

• The Fierce Wife was amazing. Easily the best drama I've seen that has tackled the subject of affairs. The characters were so compelling, so complex, so refreshingly mature. I finished the drama two months ago and I still miss the characters from time to time. I especially miss An Zhen! T__T

  If Sonia Sui doesn't win an award for performance, there is no justice!

• Actually i was totally surprised by how well Will Pan performed in Endless Love!
  'Cause his acting made me CRINGE so badly in Miss No Good 2 years before Endless Love.
  Nonetheless, i could NOT finish that drama..gahhhh

  • But you gotta admit, Will Pan is a damn good kisser. He's my Taiwanese Gong Yoo. You can feel the passion just by the way they hold their leading ladies when they kiss. Hot.

    • He was convincing with female lead of Endless Love...but not so much with Rainie...oh, wait, did they even have a kiss scene?

      Also, to comment on your previous comment about Sonia..she was not in Autumn's Concerto.
      Sonia annoyed the heck out of me in P.S. Man (with Blue Lan)..and TFW just pretty much confirms the fact for me...

    • To ilikehim. There's no reply button anymore after your post so I just clicked on the nearest. I just don't know where this will pop out.

      Anyway, Rainie and Will did have kissing scenes in Miss No Good. And Amanda was the one I'm referring to, not Sonia, who was in Autumn's Concerto.

• I'm not a fan of TFW's writing....at all. But I understand the hype and agree with both Sonia and Amanda's nods. I thought James was soooo weak in it by comparison. :/

  • Cuz he played such a weak-assed lily-livered man? Hahaha, kidding. Yeah, he was totally the fluff to his two leading ladies substance.

    • Lulz u r my Mentalist. But frankly I see a potential of a more capable actor to make me peep into that beansized pile of straws inside head, IF I care that is. But seriously James has no chops to offer (not a fan of the superficial, u can tell). I never need likeable but I need to feel things as his char is going through but at meaty scenes esp, I got nth but confused, more so the confusion as an actor unable to keep up with his costars.

    • I have to agree. But it was more evident in his scenes with the bestfriend. He's being eaten alive, and not because he's getting a dressing down in the scenes, he simply can't measure up. He's just there, like some kind of a prop or something.

  • Actually I thought James was good in TFW. Looking at the nominees, he stands a decent chance. This must be his 5th or 6th nomination for Best Actor I think but has never won. Hope he gets it.

• "Yeah, I’m not sure where that came from, because Will Pan and good actor does not usually come to mind at the same time"

  Easy. For the same reason Hi My Sweetheart! got so many nominations last year: Angie Cai. She's the producer for both dramas and she's a part of Golden Bell's committee. And quite powerful, it seems. Don't get me wrong, even though I couldn't finish the drama, Show and Rainie really deserved the nominations. But I will never get over the fact that HMS was nominated for best drama whilst Autumn Concert only got nominated for a minor category...

  • Agree, I thought HMS didn't deserve best drama nomination but Show and Rainie did.

    Didn't watch Will Pan so can't comment if he deserves the nom, he could be good, but I think
    Golden Bell committee likes to throw in a small handful of idol
    drama actors and actresses for good measure anyway?

• I only really started watching TFW in the episode whereby Sonia finally realizes that James heart is really gone. I then decided to backtrack and watch earlier episodes.
  Sonia was nailing those scenes for me. Another scene that really left a deep impression was the one where she was facing the paparazzi at the gate and told them
  To leave her daughter out of the sordid rumour that Amanda spread about her. It was really nuanced piece of acting, not over the top but yet I could feel the ferocity if her love and protectiveness for daughter.

  I'm not crazy about the theme but love the writing and dialogue. I liked how the characters are written, especially Sonia's role, I was so glad that the part where she did a makeover to spite and try to James regret was short-lived and that she eventually grew as a woman who found her self worth and remained mature and graceful through the divorce.

  • Me too... :) I only started to like the drama when she finally gave importance to her life than to sulk around after her husband left her for that crazy bitch cousin. lol

• I rarely comment but in my opinion, Sonia has come a long way with her acting since the 1st time I saw her in "Magician of Love". Ms. Koala, thanks a bunch for writing reviews/caps of TW/CH dramas since most bloggers only write abt K-dramas.

• Only one I've seen on that list is Endless Love which I really liked (very angsty melodrama but with that refreshing twdrama vibe which makes it feel more natural and less overwrought, the way kdrama melos do, for me). I can't say whether Wilbur Pan's performance there was out of the ordinary because that was the first thing I've seen him in, but I thought he did a good job - I spent the drama alternately wanting to hug and comfort him or smack him so hard I'd break something.

  I know I am the sole person in the Universe who feels this way but I simply cannot check out Drunken to Love You due to the title - it's giving me FTLY flashbacks.

  No Material Queen? Booo. Admittedly, I didn't watch that many twdramas this year, but imo it was the best of the bunch I did watch.

  • I'm not too surprised with MQ not getting much love, TW critics and audience didn't like Lynn's performance at all.

    And tbh I'm very sad to say it but it jumped the shark at 10, l've dropped it myself after 3 unrecognizable crappily written eps. *sadddddd* it was almost perfect first 10.