Romance C-drama Overdo with Zhang Ling He and Wang Chu Ran Opens to Scathing First Impression Reviews with a Litany of Complaints
The C-drama Overdo with Wang Chu Ran and Zhang Ling He dropped on Sunday the 19th and its a testament to how much buzz was going into the drama that the first reviews are this strong in sentiment. Sadly it’s a negative wave of sentiment as the first impressions are overwhelming a mass of complaints. The AI created opening sequence is universally mocked and hated, the drama filters are dialed up to overkill on every single person onscreen, the director keeps focusing on close ups and cross cutting between characters in a scene, the special efforts are comedically bad including CGI backdrops, and quality of the entire production feels like a mini drama level. There are even hilarious accusations to audit the production for embezzlement because where did the big budget money go because it’s clearly not seen in the end product. The drama has just premiered and so far the viewership is strong but all signs point to a steep drop to come if indeed these early reviews are true and the drama sucks way more than it should. Alas, what a waste of two visual tops paired together.
Their acting is so horrendous, that I have no words. Yes, direction is bad, AI use, even music sucks etc but their acting? Horrifying.
I am am not sure who is worse, both of them are terrible.
How long ago was this filmed?
It wrapped up end of September, 2025.
Not every drama will be a smash or hit. From what I read not many complain about the actors but pretty much everything else. Which is practically the drama itself. Did not see this coming at all. lol Hopefully the actors survive this one. Not so sure about the director and production crew.
Wow this drama is so bad lol. Everything is bad. The plot is all over the place, the directing n editing is choppy, bad loud bgm, caricature performances n characters. The AI slop, cheap looking sets and cinematography. The leads acting is nothing amazing either and for such a makjang type toxic love drama they have no chemistry or heat at all. I didnt expect it to be good but I never expected this level of bad.
This is like Pursuit of Jade without the good cinematography.
Lead and supporting actors are good looking, story is relatively fast-paced.
Its a pity ZLH and WCR didn’t collaborate on The Lament of Autumn instead because the production looks much higher quality, but the actors are less attractive.
The whole drama is horrible. Slomo shots,closeup shots with eye hurting heavy smooth filters in the drama,so far no chemistry between actors, their stiff acting performance with dubbed sound is so bad. It seems all budget was spent on makeup and costume of male lead and female lead, cause they are acting too camera conscious.
I couldn’t sit through second ep. Hahaha.
The whole drama is horrible and Zlh still doesn’t improve his acting. Tbh, someone with Zlh’s level of acting skill shouldn’t have debuted. He’s watchable when he doesn’t make any facial expression, but once he does, his expression looks weird, which reminds me of his performance in his first drama, Maiden Holmes. If in PoJ he was given Foundation General nickname, in this drama he’s called Lipstick Warlord.