Well this certainly gives me incentive to watch Kill Me Love Me more now lol. The drama was on my watch radar but the last two weeks I’ve been traveling for work and just swamped with life so put it on deck for later watch but in the meantime the entire drama aired and wowsers was the reactions probably more entertaining then the actual story. Starring Liu Xue Yi and Wu Jin Yan, both had small hits this year so this drama would have been a great follow up if it was also any sort of hit or at least well reviewed. Alas the drama started off with a bang, quite intense and moody, but then soon the male lead went from antihero to puppy in love and got de-fanged, the female lead had one big illogical logic swap midway through, the second male lead Baron Chen brooded and plotted beautifully but seemed to be acting in how own Shakespearean soliloquy show and also got killed off too early, and the second female lead played by Zhao Xiaotong (former member of The9 along with Yu Shu Xin) was apparently so bad at acting she singlehandedly (or singleexpressionedly) ruined a compelling second loveline plot. But all that pales in comparison to the complete and utter trainwreck narrative plot in the second half of the drama, it was apparently so bad that even many happy loyal viewers from the beginning ended up dropping it or complaining bitterly. Sigh, another wasted opportunity in C-ent, apparently the drama was so different than the novel no wonder it couldn’t pull off a proper plot when so much was changed.
I get they’re trying to make the ML likeable as his character was quite despicable in the novel but it just ruined the drama with all stupid plots. I really didn’t like the love line with the emperor and young princess. He was like her grandpa!
LXY was great in his dark aura. I wished to see that for at least 10 episodes. I hope he can do more dark roles in the future.
The leads were great so it was too bad that the drama failed them.
I think he’s in another dark role in The Princess Gambit with Meng Zi Yi. I am more looking forward to this. But I think it’ll come out next year as they just finished filming. Hope it doesn’t disappoint. I can’t seem to warm up to WJY even if I tried, I never can finish any of her dramas.
They lost me after just few eps… wasted talents. Same with Fangs of Fortune, I tried, oh I tried… but couldn’t sustain any longer. Cdrama is not lacking of interesting pairing just the storytelling and quality. But I know they will get there… as things have improved so much.
I wish there was a way to prevent production companies from buying IPs of novels to screen and then changing them so drastically. Just total lack of respect for the work and doing it for a cash grab to lure novel fans. At some point, it leaps from creative license to fraud.
koala, can you please make a post about the rise of ning too? i think it did fairly well for its run.
I’m up to Ep 28 and I keep wondering what happened to the crazy sexy man riding a litter and throwing out spirit money while holding a little white dog in his lap (I think it was the actor’s own pet). Gone without a trace, I guess! It had so much potential and then went down a bizarrely common domestic drama route.
This is why I waited it finished airing to check it out. Got burned too many times by horrible second half.
What a shame…I was contemplating to watch or not. I hate wasting over 20+hrs just to be disappointed. Such a waste of these 2 leads…and Baron Chen.
It wasn’t good from the start. I don’t know how it’s so popular in international spaces when it’s just genuinely bad.
I chose not to watch as the trailers didn’t interest me, plus the short production time also set my alarm bells ringing. Seems like I made a right choice.
They promise us deranged,crazy male lead,what we get lovesick fool and loser in love.
I will never understand why these “adaptations” can’t seem to do the one thing they’re supposed to – adapt an already written story. I was looking forward to the intense male lead who has a stone heart and psycho tendencies. If you’re going the change the plot, and the characters personality, you might as well change the drama entirely to be something original. Why buy the rights to adapt a novel; then not adapt it at all. Ffs.
It’s a letdown , to be honest.
Not surprised, it looks like they have thrown out all the interesting bits in the trailers and nothing much is left.
Not a fan of LXY, but I do like WJY and Baron Chen.
LXY upclose camera shots of his dirty thumbnail was very disturbing. But what more disturbing was when you realized that cake incident of LXY and Yang Zi when Yang Zi was caught by papz camera in HD slurping the cake off LXY ‘dirty’ finger 😭
I was planning on picking this up. Guess not.
The Double, despite some technical flaws worked because and became such a hit because the drama itself remained faithful to what the audience expected from watching the traileŕs and teasers. Unfortunately what we were promised through KMLM in the ttailers which raised our expectations and could have made the addicting only appeared in the first episode. Then it vanished.
Novel was toxic to death right from chapter 1 to the ending so I dont mind drama version not following it…
Had such high expectations of it, especially after finishing The Double which was fantastic from beginning to end. I have only watched KMLM up to episode 6, and could NOT get into it. There’s a disconnect among ALL the characters, main leads included. Unlike The Double where I felt like the actors and actresses ARE their onscreen characters, it felt like it’s just “acting” in KMLM. Not sure if it’s due to thr storyline or the chemistry between the actors/actresses themselves.
C-ent has never learned lessons. They have way more incompetent screen writers of the adaptations than the authors of original novels. More than often, these inept and uncreative screen writers ruined the flows of interesting stories told in the original novels by replacing sections with poorly designed subplots. It happened to the 2nd half of the Longest Promise. And now this is another one example among many. SMH. C-ent may want to pay more to screen writers so that they can find true talents in writing for filming industry. Do they even realize scripts are pivotal to the success of a drama/film? Unwise to rely on star power to make projects glorious!!!!!!
I won’t bother to even take a look at this one.
Watched the first few episodes and then dropped as I didn’t like the vibe I was getting from the drama. The ML was in emo-melo land, the FL was in action mode and the rest of the cast somewhere between melo/comedy. The tonality was all over the place, I figured I’d cut my losses early and drop it after episode 6. I’m glad my instincts were proven right about this.
Pls Even the novel sucks too; he was a crazy sociopath and FL wasn’t that bright and looked like brain love FL who never learns her lessons, interesting plot YES yea but as dark drama NOT Romance/melo drama.