There is a saying that “marriage is not child’s play” and after two contract marriage dramas in a row I feel burnt out by this ridiculous but seemingly ripe for drama mining trope. There was K-drama Love in Contract and now C-drama She and Her Perfect Husband also had the contract marriage that was legally married fakeness taken to a real, legal degree. If the chemistry was there and perhaps the groundwork laid then it could be palatable but in She and Her Perfect Husband it always felt like an older sister playing with her cute little boy neighbor next door in a babysitting setting. I wasn’t offended by the drama but it was a big nothingburger made all the more pointless with the release of the last 12-episodes this week in a row to introduce a final arc that also included an last minute ex-girlfriend for the male lead. What this drama taught me was that I am no longer allergic to Yang Mi‘s real voice, she still has the special charm I spotted from her debut says as the best cutest Guo Xiang ever in Return of the Condor Heroes, and that I see Xu Kai‘s visual and soft smexy voice as Koala-nip and can watch him like watching paint dry and still find it worth it. But this drama? It’s really dumb and now also comes with an unsatisfying ending to boot. Watch at her own election.
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I remember when auteurs in the cuisine world starts gastronomy and one of the inventions was culinary foams. So cool to look at and seemingly made dish]ed fun(ner) to eat but after you get past the superficial surface it’s just … Continue reading
Okay, Chinese broadcasting authorities, you drunk and need to calm the heck down. Because randomly pulling a drama a day before premiere and a month later only allowing it to preview out of the blue just gives audiences whiplash. I’ve … Continue reading
Well the abrupt cancellation of the premiere of modern C-drama She and Her Perfect Husband mere two days prior to the scheduled release has C-netizens abuzz with why. The first reason is that it’s just days before the October 16th … Continue reading
Da fuq, what are you smoking Tencent? A little over 48 hours after announcing the release of modern romance C-drama She and Her Perfect Husband on October 13th, Tencent announced that it was postponing the drama release now, with no … Continue reading
Okay, so it is likely October 12th but may be October 13th, but this week it will happen as C-ent is reporting that modern romance drama She and Her Perfect Husband (爱的二八定律) is dropping in the usual air drop suddenly … Continue reading
C-ent has lately been doing sudden drops of dramas, parachutes so to speak, with a drama suddenly announced to premiere on streaming mere days before the release. It helps that dramas promote periodically especially on holidays with promo goodies even … Continue reading
It’s weird, I’m not a Xu Kai fan probably because I won’t touch his breakout drama Story of Yanxi Palace with a ten foot pole (allergic to palace dramas and Yumama), but I am oddly super looking forward to both … Continue reading
Haha, this is like every K-drama noona romance paired with Kimi wa Petto but she acquires a fake husband instead of a pretend pet. Upcoming Tencent modern C-drama romance She and Her Perfect Husband (爱的二八定律 Love’s Two Eight Principle) caught … Continue reading