Murphy's Law of Love (2015)

Alors, je ne suis pas familiarisée avec les dramas Tawainais et je me suis lancé dans celui ci parce que le résumé étaient interessant. Le résumé il parlait de la loi Murphy d'une maniere assez interessante et j'avais hate de voir comment cela allez etre abordé dans le drama. Au final cela a été plutot bien abordé dans le drama j'ai bien apprecié la facon dont l'héroine avait pris l'habitude de tout plainifé et de toujours préparé un plan B.

Casting:

Le cast était en soi tres bon. J'ai beaucoup aimé le first lead féminin qui a fait un bon travail et qui honnetement était trop cute. Le first lead masculins a lui aussi fait du bon travail mais parfois son regard était trop froid envers la First lead ce qui m'a frappé d'autant plus que ce n'etait que par moment, le reste du temp il faisait du bon travail.
J'ai d'ailleur apprecié son personnage qui meme si il a été blessé est tres chaleureux. On peut vraiment voir que le coté froid n'est qu'un masque.
La first lead en revanche ne m'a pas vraiment plu. Meme si le personnage était vraiment gentils et bienveillant j'avais souvent du mal avec le manque de demonstration envers le first lead qui lui pourtant montrait vraiment son amour. Aussi je l'ai trouvé tres peu courageuse mais ca ca fait partie d'un des questionnements de l'histoire donc je ne lui en veut pas trop.
Les acteurs secondaires ne m'ont pas trop marqué, j'ai apprecié Zhi Yu qui n'est pas tombé dans les travers de la méchante second lead féminine.

Ost:

Les Ost sont sympathiques surtout le générique que j'ai vraiment adoré. Les autres OST ne m'ont pas vraiment marqué mais dans l'ensemble je me souviendrais d'un Original Soundtrack pour ce drama.

Histoire:

Alors... Par ou commencer.... J'ai beaucoup de choses a dire.
L'histoire qui nous ai vendue dans le résumé c'est une comedie romantique a propos de la loi de Murphy. Mais honnetement cette derniere n'est qu'une spécialité de l'héroine et honnetement plus on avancait dans le drama moins on en entendait parlé. J'ai vraiment aimé les 10 premiers épisode. La romance évoluait de maniere réaliste et les deux était trop mignon. On ne forcait pas non plus trop le drame avec le second lead masculin ce qui était vraiment appréciable.
Apres les 10 premiers épisodes, malheureusement cela s'est...Comment dire.... Déterioré ...?
Je veux dire, la premiere moitié du drama est vraiment trop mignonne. La relation entre les deux me faisait fondre et honnetement arrivée environ a l'episode 10 je n'avais pas besoin d'en voir plus.... Les deux étaient en couple, heureux, j'avais passé un bon moment devant un drama qui allait assurement recevoir une bonne note mais il y a eu les episodes suivant...

Je pense que ca coincide avec l'arrivée de Zhi Yu et toute l'histoire avec l'accident de voiture qui a perdu mon interet au fil du temps. J'aurai bien aimé qu'elle soit juste la un petit moment pour regler les non-dits avec Jia Wei. Mais non et honnetement le fait qu'elle soit aussi "collante" meme apres avoir tout regler avec Jia Wei m'a parfois agacé mais apres elle avait des raisons donc je peux lui pardonner.

Apres l'intrigue avec la mere de Jia Wei était honnetement osef. Je regardais le drama sans vraiment etre investie avec les personnages et honnnetements les derniers episodes, c'est du drame forcé. Ca crée des problemes ou y a pas de problemes. C'était long et le first lead feminin m'a enervé du plus profond de mon etre alors que J'aimais de plus en plus Jia Wei.
A cause de ces derniers épisode, Murphy's Law of Love est passé d'un drama très sympathique a un drama moyen.
Je sais que ces défauts sont purement d'order personnel c'est pourquoi je vous invite t'out de meme a aller vous faire cotre propre avis. C'est sur Viki et ca n'attend que vous ;)

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Story: This is a typical love story between two people with two vastly different beliefs, character and background. Anything that can go wrong did went wrong with the relationship. There are many cliches in the story and if it's not for the brilliant writing, dialogue and chemistry between the leads, it would have gone terribly wrong. What I love about the story is the fact that although it has cliche setting and scenes, the character development and the rationale for the growth of the relationships were excellent. Unlike typical Asian drama setting where revelations would bring about catastrophic turn of events, our leads dealt with all of the challenges thrown at them maturely, logically and calmly. I can totally see how this sort of relationship can be found in reality. The underlying philosophy of ending things well and moving on in life is also a mature take on how what's in the past should stay in the past. Both the leads have their personal issues that they need to deal with as they move forward in their relationship and this is how we see the character growth. I love the interactions between the leads and the people around them. They are a very sweet couple. I love the naughtiness and 'smartie pants' kind of things the male lead gets into in order to get the female lead to fall for him. There's plenty of skinship (forced, planned and natural) between the leads that reminds me why men are such devious creatures! There is no sudden deviation of character because of the challenges faced, rather the characters remained true to their natures while learning how to grow in relationships. There wasn't a single moment in the drama that felt rushed or dragged. Each scene and episode is vital to the natural pace of the story. If you are expecting 'drama', you will be disappointed, but if you are expecting a beautiful story that flows naturally, you will be delighted. The ending makes sense and was not rushed. In fact, I find myself wishing the couple all the best! Fans of mature story-telling would love this drama.

Acting/Cast: I was glad to see that Danson Tang came back to the TDrama scene with a bang. His depiction of the main character was brilliant. I love how Danson was able to act out such a wide range of emotions on his face from sombre, mad, in love, sad, naughty, teasing to just being plain cold and arrogant. His was my favourite character in the drama. This brings me to my least favourite character in the drama - coincidentally, the female lead! Do not get me wrong here. Ivelyn Lee acted brilliantly and delivered an excellent performance. It is her character that I disliked. What I disliked about Ivelyn's character of Guan Xiao Tong was Xiao Tong's cowardice and indecision when it comes to love relationships. She tends to over-analyse everything (like the psychologist she is) and tries to predict how the relationship will end. She failed to just enjoy being in a relationship and just let things develop naturally. She's always putting one foot in the relationship and another foot out (just in case things go wrong!). Therefore, she would always take the first step to end the relationship before she would really get hurt beyond repair. It did not matter what the man did for her or how much he had expressed his love for her...she has her own agenda and has already decided how she will end things with him. And once she had ended things with him, she started to over-analyse and regret her decisions in her past relationships.....the indecisiveness of her character totally makes me angry. Hers is like a pendulum, always swinging back and forth, always trying to take the middle ground but failed. Personally, I dislike ppl who are indecisive and have insecurity issues. I am glad that towards the end, she learns from this flaw of her character and grows more mature in her relationship with the male lead. It is because of my personal dislike of indecisive characters that I rated this drama 8.5/10 instead of the 9/10 I gave for its story. A stronger female lead character would be more to my liking.

Music: Lovely music but I've heard better ones before.

Rewatch value: I love all the lovey dovey scenes and the scenes where Danson acted the jealous and naughty man going after the girl he likes. I am a traditional person when it comes to love and appreciate it when the man is the one who goes all out after a girl and makes it so very apparent to all and sundry! To me, that is very flattering to the woman and very romantic as well. Therefore, this drama has a high rewatch value for me because of all of the romantic scenes between the leads.

Overall: It has been a while since I'd watched a TDrama. The industry has experienced a slump of late but once in a while, you'll find a gem and as of July 2015, this drama is the gem of 2015 TDrama for me. If you like romance dramas with mature story lines with a hint of mature comedy such as 'In Time With You', 'I want romance', 'Gentleman's Dignity' etc - you'll most likely like this drama as well.

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This is my 2nd Danson Tang drama. I saw him first in the HK vampire drama, STILL HAVE TIME TO LOVE YOU. He was very cool and brooding (my favorite characteristics), but in Murphy's, he was a much better actor. The chemistry between the male & female leads in Murphy's was amazing, what a cute couple! I really enjoyed watching how their love blossomed, the way Danson's character became I'M TARZAN, here to take care of you JANE.. Lvelyn Li played the sweet & innocent Jane to a perfection.

What prevented this drama from getting full marks was the way the story line neutered the male lead. I've seen this a few times in dramas, and it is really annoying. They take a perfectly good guy who is confident, loving and loyal and reduces him to confusion over 'what did I do wrong, I only wanted to love you'.. It became worst when the female lead went from sweet & bubbly into a little 'I am woman, hear me roar, witch'. Girl Power became extremely overrated when she became unappreciative of all he does for her and decides to 'find herself';. She of course soon learns the hard way that the love she pushed away is really what her heart desires and to quote the drama, 'what you want most in life can be achieved if you persevere and work hard to the end'; Good life lesson.

There were so many romantic & touching moments and the music really complemented the moods. The OST is amazing, check it out on YouTube. I am now hooked on the New Artist, GJ who sang JUST WANT TO SAY. Turns out to be 2014 contestant on China Idol.

Going to watch it again....

PS: incredibly cute dog, POLO, throughout the drama,

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Started watching for Danson and I thought this drama had potential!

Story: It was alright at first, I thought the premise that the girl was unlucky held tremendous amount of potential, especially for a romance drama. It was also alright all the way till 3/4 into it, where the tension builds, where they play push and pull... until the last few episodes where I just got really frustrated with the (non-existent) issues that the girl was struggling with. In my mind the whole time I was just like... WOT M8 do you want him or nah? which made me minus a good chunk of points because of the shitty ending. Also the unlucky theme didn't surface consistently, so sometimes it felt like... was it even important to the story?

Acting/Cast: Ah, hot Danson with the cute girl. He's alright and she's the stereotypical meek girl, which works I suppose. They're okay. But the rest of the cast (other than our poor Jojo who's always the yearning second lead) is just meh. It was okay, but nothing spectacular or terrible to shout about.

Music: I actually don't remember the music. :x Was alright I suppose. Meh again.

Rewatch value: Wouldn't, except for the kiss scenes maybe.

Overall: meh.

Okay, it's not really worth a watch unless you've finished watching the better dramas and want to use this as a filler. It's just meh. It was a good premise but they didn't use it to its maximum potential.

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A renew agent of divorce? Really?
I found this T-dramedy to be too formulaic, stacking the deck with eye candy in order to compensate for a very dull story.
Oh man! Ji Jia Wei has mommy issues! Who cares? And Guan Xiao Tong got stood up. So how does that make her a love expert?
I'm sorry but Danson Tang had this creepy androgynous vibe going on like a #prettyboystalkerserialkiller. Of course, he was very convincing as an emotionally distant asshole, which is apparently a requirement for the role of romantic male lead in most Taiwanese television shows.
Ivelyn Lee is incredibly cute and adorable but she looked underage and the o-t-t pouting served only to emphasize that fact. She looked like she should've been carded in various scenes. I foolishly thought that maybe, just maybe the writers at some point would use her fake-id-middle-schooler-who-is-caught-out-after-curfew-look as a vehicle for some much needed entertainment mileage but I guess I was wrong.

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Petardazo

Posiblemente el peor drama que he visto en mi vida. Predecible, tedioso, aburrido y es imposible que los protagonistas caigan bien. De esos dramas en los que prefieres al pretendiente que sabes que no va a conseguir a la chica porque no es el protagonista. No voy a poner que esta review tiene spoiler porque ya hay que ser alma cándida para creer que la chica se irá con el pretendiente que vale la pena cuando se pasa toda la serie siendo una petarda. Le pongo un 8 a la música porque casi 4 años después de haberla visto todavía me acuerdo de la cabecera.

Volviendo a ver la intro la gente más avispada se percatará de que el main masculino no deja de ser molesto con la protagonista y al verlo sabrá que no vale la pena ver como esa toxicidad sale victoriosa, pero yo no fui de esa gente avispada.

Pérdida de tiempo lo mires por donde lo mires.

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This drama started off really good. A cute story with great leads and funny and interesting side characters. Somewhere along the way, however, it took a wrong turn and became a trainwreck.

The plot was supposed to be about a girl who is very unlucky. Anything that can go wrong in a situation goes wrong for her. After being dumped by her boyfriend, she quits her job as a psychologist to begin a new career at a dating agency, so that she can help others find the true love she longs for. It just so happens, though, that a divorce agency opens up across the street. The boss of the divorce agency also happens to become enemies with her. Of course, that makes for a promising Asian drama, right? Especially when you throw in a kind, caring second male lead that keeps getting friend zoned and an ex girlfriend that just can't let go. Even though it was rather cliche, the first half was presented in a fresh way, devoting most of the time to the build up of the lead character's romance. We really got to see each step, the emotion, the reactions, the mental aspects. A great deal of time was spent on character dialogue and longer scenes, something most dramas do not do.

Then....

At first....


Nothing happens. You are waiting for the conflict to start. You know the signs, there is always a formula, right? It then happens and it's such a little blip in the story that you are left in disbelief. Instead, it is like the very distant roll of thunder right before a storm hits, except this storm is full of WTF, and I mean that in a bad way. Just a little after halfway through the episodes the story takes a big deviation. This is almost certainly due to very, very bad rewriting of the script. Suddenly, there is major conflict, but this major conflict makes zero sense, is stupid and DRRRRRAAAAAGGGGGSSS. Seriously drags on and on and on until the last episode, where it magically vanishes with a sudden epiphany and everyone lives happily ever after.

In conclusion, this drama had so much potential but just ended up being a huge, whopping disappointment.

I still heart Tang Danson though.

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So I was sucked in by Danson Tang on this drama and because the whole Murphys Law plotline was intriguing and mostly why I continued to watch it, to see how they used it to pan the story out.

It's light and fluffy drama which your average sweet sweet Taiwanese drama bits and the cringeworthy stuff, as much as I loved Danson doing his whole smouldering look charade for some reason it made my toes curl at the same time.

This drama had soooooo much potential if some areas of the drama wasnt so badly written! For the most part this drama was good, just good though. something simple and easy to watch without too much drama, some parts were unneccessary, if only they focused on other areas instead, like the second male lead, he didnt have much importance shown. I know what his role was meant to be but they didnt show it enough and back him up as a second male lead for me to be like ohhh which lead should the girl pick?!

I kinda wish they did more with the supporting characters, it felt like we dipped into their storylines but they didnt take the time to expand to make it a fully and wholesome cast.

Don't get me wrong i really like the Murphys Law in it, and I like how they linked it with the story! Danson's acting has certainly improved, its my first time watching the main girl, she's cool, if only her character didnt have so many whining scenes it wouldve been great!

The songs are nice and fitting, if you dont like the opening theme at first... you grow to like it cos the first half pretty much it is used for any type of scene... but its a good song..!

I would be able to rewatch this simply cos its easy to watch, i reckon id only skip to the fluffy parts though :P

One of the good things about Taiwanese dramas is that they often have BTS after each episode and these ones are worth watching!

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The story is not new, it's also not that cliche. It's somewhat refreshing due to a different tackle about love. It had a sad start and a fluffy ending. The MCs had so much chemistry it sizzles and you find them so cute together. Fun part about this series were the secondary characters that completed the whole story, from funny, supportive friends to idiotic colleagues, to nagger ex and lastly, an adorable dog named POLO!!! These characters gave so much color on the story and they greatly helped the MC in times of trouble. This was a light, cheesy, romantic-comedy drama, predictable but entertaining! A certified chic-flick that can give you flattering emotions even after the last clip is rolling.

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It started off with a bang. The first half of this drama was fast paced and exciting to watch. I eagerly waited for each episode because I wanted to see more interactions between the leads, Ji Jia Wei and Guan Xiao Tong. The OTP has great chemistry- not forced at all. The first half set the story/background well, and the various relationships, whether friendship, family, or romance. I liked the set up of the drama and the idea of Murphy's Law, but to be honest, the interesting idea of Murphy's Law that got me intrigued to watch this drama in the first place kind of died out the second half; It was barely incorporated in the drama later.

Oh my, Danson Tang. Thank you for coming back to T-dramas. His acting as improved a lot, and I could feel the emotions he was portraying. After loving him in Fabulous 30, I think his character in this drama was even better. I never seen Ivelyn (GuanXiaoTong) in T-dramas before but I thought she was a good female lead, and was paired well with Danson though her character was a bit annoying/indecisive towards the end. The supporting characters were likable. I liked Jia Wei's office staff, as well as Xiao Tong's co-workers. They were evenly matched, and some brought comedic relief while others added the friendship aspect. It was cute, and felt like a family. The second male lead wasn't that obnoxious, and the second female lead was annoying at first, but did get much better. For those of you who hate the cliche evil second female lead, this drama doesn't have that. :)

The music was so catchy! There were a few really good emotional songs played at the crucial scenes; I liked that a lot. The music was used to its advantage; it added to the drama tremendously.

I'm going to rewatch the drama soon to see if some of the plot adds up as well as rewatch the very romantic scenes between the leads. I do have to say though; the second half ruined it a lot. I mean, yes, I liked the ending but the ending wasn't enough to completely pull the drama back. Nevertheless, I enjoyed this drama a lot and the ending was semi-satisfying even though it could have been longer.

I would definitely recommend this drama if you can stand a bit of dragging near the end. Suffer through the dragging ( like 3 episodes) to see awesome chemistry and a refreshing first half storyline. If you have a similar taste in dramas as me, you will like this drama too! (9/8)

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It was going so well and then...

For the most part this drama is really cute. I loved it every time the ML got all giddy over the FL. Before watching this I saw a lot of comments about the main leads not having chemistry but I actually loved the main leads together.
The way the first episodes starts you know there will likely be exes involved so if you don't like a story with exes or love triangles/squares then this isn't the story for you. Although to be fair, neither lead ever swayed. They only have eyes for each other. Which was kind of a surprise given how much the ML once loved his ex. It was refreshing to not have a lot of back and forth with that storyline.

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At one point the ML's mom who once abandoned him comes back to Taiwan from the US. Then the FL finds out some unfortunate information about her and why she's back in Taiwan. She is really upset about this and doesn't want to tell the ML because it'll break his heart. Then the ML's mom up and leaves for the US without telling him, abandoning him for a second time.

Here's where I got really frustrated with the story...
The FL doesn't tell him the information she knows and on top of that breaks up with him! His mom just abandoned him for a 2nd time and now she is going to abandon him too?!
Her reasoning is because she can't be herself when she's with him. Meaning her whole life revolves around him. This was never mentioned or hinted at before this so as a viewer I thought she was lying and using this as an excuse. I was thinking maybe she’s feeling guilty about not telling him the information she has about his mom and can’t handle keeping that secret from him so she breaks up with him instead…? Yes and no.
Even after his father tells the ML about his mom. The FL still doesn’t want to be with him because of the reason previously mention. He even blames himself for her not speaking up in their relationship. They clearly still love each other but decide to split amicably because they agree that the lessons they learned in their relationship can only be applied to their next relationships.

Honestly I didn’t even want to watch the last episode because by then Ep 15-18 burned away all good feelings from episodes 1-14 for me. The ending was nice and it was cute to see them being a couple again. Also, the OST has a few good songs too.

Would Not Re-Watch
Would Not Recommend

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