It’s almost time to say goodbye to C-drama The Double and I am ready to finish this with a flourish without being sad to let it go. It’s already episode 36 of the run out of 40 episodes and the grand revenge plan has been satisfying along the way and prepped for the grand finale. In some ways, female lead Wu Jin Yan may have lived the life of her character Xue Fan Fei/turned as Jiang Li – after her mega hit Story of Yanxi Palace she didn’t have any other popular dramas and even the reunion project Royal Feast which was supposed to be a hit didn’t work so she was basically written off in C-ent as a has been much like Xue Fang Fei was killed, but Wu Jin Yan is back with a hit much like Fang Fei came back from the dead as Jiang Li and went “I’m back! Miss me bitches!” The Double started to feel like it was going through the beats since about 10 episodes ago, really since her asshole ex-husband Shen Yu Rong started to get a lot more scenes (ugh, he’s so grody and uninteresting to me), and the OTP has been tooooo slow burn so it’s become more of a procedural drama for me to see how Fang Fei continues to maneuver through unexpected changes and outsmart her enemies. But it’s still so well done with all the female antagonists (Princess and Stepmom especially) absolute perfection in the performance and character shading, in the end this drama was carried by ALL the ladies and the men are just there for show as personified in drama by the hot smexy Duke Su. Reportedly the ratings were insane around the middle of the run but has since dropped a bit and is expected to end around the level of Fox Spirit Matchmaker: Red Moon Pact. But The Double had 1/6th the budget of Fox Spirit so it’s on pace to be a mega profitable drama for all investors and in the end that’s all industry insiders care about.