The new T-daily with lots of familiar male leads but mostly new female actresses. Better Man is not a drama trying to reinvent the wheel but follows the well used T-daily formula of following multiple characters' romance. So while a story about how three very different brothers' each finding their true love might be kind of stale but sometimes predictability has its charm.
I was blown away by the first episode of To Be A Better Man. The cinematography, the character set up and the pacing of the story was just crazy good for a C-drama. While episode 2-5 wasn't quite able to follow up the awesomeness of the first episode, I am still impressed enough with it to at least keep watching for now.
Synopsis: Our hero only has three goals when he came back to China from living in the US: 1. Bring the ashes of his best friend back home. 2. Take his best friend's daughter to her mother. 3. Find a quiet place to hang himself on a tree with a rope. The first goal was pretty easy but the other two wasn't so easy especially after our hero meets his ex-girlfriend again.
I checked out the first two episodes and I found it to be ...not bad. The first two episodes really didn't get me too excited about it but overall I thought it was passable. The heroine is the hard working candy type who will end up being caught in a tug of war between three male leads.
A conversation between me and Mama Ninja this week:
Mama Ninja "Do you think the hero will die?"
Me "I don't know! But I am too addicted to it to stop watching even if he is."
By the way, I am betting that he lives.
Episode 10 was a bit slower than the other episodes BUT the kisses really helped to keep my eyes glued to the screen so I am not complaining.
For some strange reason I feel like I should be totally in love with this show...but I am just not quite feeling it. I am tempted to drop this one but I probably will at least give it another week.
One of my favorite shows right now. Out of curiosity I checked out the novel The Interpreter is based on and was pretty disappointed to find it not only very different from the show's plot but that the story itself was fairy mediocre. I was really hoping the main characters would be even more intriguing in the novel but nope, the drama writer actually did a much better job.
Oldies but Goodies
I was thinking about shows filled with eye candies this week and Flower Boy Ramen Shop was one the first ones to came to mind.
I remember the show to be cute with surprisingly amount of heart in it. For a show that has quite a few characters in it, the writer did a very good job in focusing the story on our two leads but also paid enough attention to all the cute boys to make us swoon over them.
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