Broker (2021)

ONE OF THE BEST CDRAMA THIS YEAR !! BEST STORY !! MUST WATCH !!

This is one of the most inspiring drama that I have ever seen . Strong and Independent FL with strong moral values . Whenever I see a new episode I eagerly wait for the release of the next episode . I am filled with warmth of friendship and love after watching this drama( still am ). Whenever I feel like giving up I always remember the lines of the FL and the way she says it is printed on my heart ... I am sometimes overwhelmed with different emotions after seeing few scenes . I sometimes cry or laugh with the characters ... It's like all my senses are awake while I am watching this drama . Very well written story . I sincerely hope that each and every viewer will experience the same set of feelings that I feel and watch this drama .

Lire davantage

Complicated. Science. Tears, tears, and tears!

I was excited for this drama because I was highly anticipating Victoria and Leo's second collaboration since 2017's A Lifetime Love. They acted as siblings before so it was interesting to see them as a couple this time. Filmed in late 2018 to early 2019, it's finally out!!!

Pros:
1. Unique FL: The thing I was most surprised about in the beginning was how adorable a direct/honest/straight-talking, no-nonsense scientist can be! I'm in love with Qiu Jianing! Victoria Song is super adorable in this show and is so different from the usual FLs. She's savage with her responses but doesn't mean to be - this innocence is what makes the situation 10x funnier. Her low EQ and sense of righteousness + her loveable awkwardness is the reason why I'm surviving some of the slower episodes.

2. Science! It's rare to see a show with this degree of in-depth scientific material. I enjoyed it since I have a science background, but I understand that it may be off-putting to those who don't as it'll seem like a bunch of jargon.

3. Heartbreaking Romance: The ML and FL should be together, but at the same time, they really shouldn't be together. There are many reasons for each and it gets super complicated. I felt really bad for the FL because she's getting hurt unnecessarily by all the lies the ML is telling her. I understand why the ML is doing it, but I also hate him for it. Honestly things could've been so much better between them if he just came clean halfway through the drama when almost everything was exposed. The FL is already going to be in trouble. She's already in the cross-hairs because Zha Shu is clearly not letting her off the hook so she might as well know why she's gonna die if she's already a target. Also, this FL is very inquisitive and won't take no for an answer. She'll find out the truth sooner or later and so much heartache could've been avoided if the ML understood that. *Sigh* I guess that's just dramas for you. The ML is trying to protect her, but failing spectacularly most of the time which was hilarious. Although the final time he protected her was so cool and heartbreaking. *cries* Zhou Xiao Shan... :'(

4. Great acting: I'm not even going to start on Victoria's crying scenes because it'll-- I'll just summarize my feelings with this: *screams in fan girl*. I liked her balance between naivety/innocence and intellectuality/maturity. Lately, she never disappoints, is all I'll say. I've never seen Leo in any ML roles, but I liked him here. His character had kind of a "sophisticated-feminine" vibe when he walked/held things, but total badassery when he got into "spy mode".

Cons:
1. The English-Mandarin conversations: It wasn't just the FL, it was also the ML and a few of the side characters (e.g. Sun Qian). Am I just supposed to assume that Europeans can understand Mandarin and the Chinese can understand English? If so, why not speak entirely in English or entirely in Mandarin? Some people recommend dubbing which could work if the actors can't speak English (although dubbing sounds weird). From what I know, Victoria can speak English (albeit conversational English). From videos I found, her pronunciation is one of the better ones amongst the Chinese actors/actresses who didn't grow up abroad, as in the ones who don't speak native English.

2. Slow plot: I literally dropped the drama in the middle for a few weeks before picking it back up. It had a lot of potential (amazing trailer!), but they literally dragged this entire plot out for 42 episodes! I think it could've packed more of a punch if they'd halved the number of episodes. As is characteristic of draggy plots, there was a very quick resolution of all issues in the last 2 episodes.

3. Plot holes: Some things were brought up then abandoned somewhere along the way. Some things were deemed super important (as in life-and-death important), but somehow lost its importance as time went on? Just confusing. It honestly started as a cool spy thriller type thing that essentially became a love square. Actually on second thought, maybe a nonagon? Basically each female character had 2 guys chasing her.

4. The shady office dynamics: Nothing irked me more than those gossiping piranhas in the first half of the drama. For a research facility with such huge expectations of them, I have no idea where they got that glowing reputation from considering most of the scientists there just gossip and sabotage experiments. I mean, sure, why not drop expensive equipment just to anger a colleague; why not endanger lives, sabotage their already short timeline for drug development, and waste resources just to take revenge on someone who doesn't even consider you a rival? The stupidity of these idiots (can't even be considered scientists at this point) makes me question the integrity of this supposed high-class lab. Also, Sun Qian in the beginning telling Jianing not to act like a child and tattle on her colleagues - WHO ARE YOU TO DISCIPLINE HER WHEN YOU'RE LITERALLY ACTING LIKE A CHILD BY DOING WAY WORSE?! At that point, Sun Qian deserves to have disciplinary action and/or her degree stripped from her.

Special mentions:
1. Jianing's random model catwalk moment with that gorgeous hot-pink suit. WOW but also, why?
2. Leo's "little sister" - wanted more scenes of her, but not the pining over her "brother" part. Pitied her the most. So much potential.
3. The female glasses-wearing duo in the office: smart, kind, and loyal. The friends we all want in our posse.
4. Jianing guilt-tripping her sister into living. Something about "all [her sister's] efforts to be a better person will be in vain if she dies" lol - was crying during that scene but started to guffaw - I was a quite a sight haha.

Random thought: I wholeheartedly recommend everyone watch the BTS (behind-the-scenes, not the K-pop group) of this series as it's hilarious! The bond between Victoria and Leo really shines in it - you really see how close they are. It lightens the mood after this sad/intense drama.

Conclusion: great acting, could've done better with half the amount of episodes, a river of tears but a healthy dose of laughter!

Lire davantage

The end needed to change

First I like to say the drama as a whole was very lovely I thought it was good our leads Victoria a Lou had great chemistry I thought they gave us great work Victoria always gives great work Lou it's my first time seeing him I don't know what other dramas he is in but his acting was great second the drama had messed with my emotions towards the end like I'm Soo sorry they had all these issues from her to getting hurt to him finding out he has a daughter to them being held by the old guy to him loosing his mind and kills him and the old guy like whattt the whattt how can you do that to me like Victoria deserves to always have a happy ending but they decided to kill her love not to mention that Lou dieing at the end but he really let go of his love for Victoria and his daughter like when she was reading his letter I thought he was going to walk in like haha sike I'm alive but nope we didn't get it I never cried so much in a drama ending like this and I watch a lot of emotional dramas like Cambrian period that just messed up my emotions but this one here to see Victoria not having a happy ending ? like I'm lost for words like this drama I thought it was good but the ending I hated the ending

Lire davantage

Why would this happen?

Okay this was a really good drama but why would this happen i can't really understand. I really love this genre of dramas but the beginning was really okay it's good to be honest xiaoshan was a good character and jianing was a good character to i mean it began smooth but in the middle it was twisted.

And in the middle there were people that nobody understand or i didn't understand why the always would look for trouble and i really didn't understand who moli really was so i skipped her completely.

The ones i liked about it it was heartwrecking to see what jianing and xiashan has to go under the injustice is and it was really my style to like this kinda drama and i really love luo yun xi and victoria song and to be honest it was a drama i had really good hopes.

So what i didn't liked about it it was the story after the middle part at a point it was completely mess everything seems like it was a different story to begin with because moli and jaixin and qinbin and the person that came with the complet mess wenzhao there were nothing that i had understand but anyway i think it was a good drama.

And at the end why why why would lanxaing why would she suddenly pop up in the end or almost end of the drama and make thing more diffucult to xiashan and jianing and this would be enough a child that apparently belongs to xiaoshan and lanxiang when i heard it i was shocked and angry really.

And not to be a spoiler but i cried when i saw this scenes and to be honest i will not watcht it again because a really didn't like the end and this is not he first drama i would watch again after i saw the end but overall it wasn't that bad but i feel like i was fooled with the beginning and the end.

Lire davantage

This was so good

I not only like the main character, She was such a strong female lead that I don't see often I liked that so much, And the male lead ahh he was very strong as well, But they both were not afraid later on to show their weakness and cry when needed. I liked that because it shows people its okay for men especially to cry, because we as humans are weak I like how it said just because theirs bad, doesn't mean their isn't also light in the world, So keep moving forward to the light, you have a choice to even if you came from a painful past, background or present.

The ending was so sad I cried for like 15 minutes straight, and many other parts in the show.

Spoiler: The male lead died, it was so sad, you know that feeling where you think maybe he will come back because that's what usually happens but it didn't. It shows not everyone gets another day with the person they love so cherish them while you have the chance because life is short, like I heard from my pastor all you have is right now. I just want to say remember to cherish those in your life and go towards the light, not darkness. every right now is a different story, anything can happen within a matter of seconds and change your whole life.

Lire davantage

It broke me

I am a fan of Luo Yunxi and had been looking forward to seeing him in something completely different with a thriller-type plot so I watched it when it came out.
Unfortunately, after many years and at least three rounds with the censors this drama was butchered beyond recognition. Any hint of the main themes of corporate espionage and ZXS's abusive upbringing that made him a perfect spy was blown away in favor of padding with 1) an annoying office bullying plot for the FL and 2) a completely irrelevant secondary couple story line that were obviously paid for by their management. They cut so many of ZXS's scenes - even ones used in the promo material!! Not to mention the infamous beating scene which took two painful days to shoot and we got like two seconds of it.
Normally I would drop something this bad but I hate-watched it for xixi and was rewarded by his tragic acting in the last few episodes. The only other bright spot was his 'sister' Mo Li - an interesting character well acted, but again her backstory was completely removed which was frustrating.
Giving this a 4 just because of Luo Yunxi and in memorium to all the deleted scenes and whatever the director's initial intentions were.

Lire davantage

For those who like storylines that don't focus on romance, this is suitable for watching!!

First I want to review the main characters Leo Luo and Victoria Song. For their character traits, they can be very emotional. And also why I like this drama is because some of the dramas played by them that I watch have a very thick romance genre. And this time, even though it's spiced up with a little romance, I like how they deepen their character, which makes me emotional when watching it. I want to explain their characters one by one but maybe it's already in the synopsis and if I get more afraid of spoilers.
And now I will review a little about this drama, at first, I just thought this was a drama about science but not until the conflict that occurred in it. And I'm glad that I'm watching this because I've been waiting for the drama to be the same in this drama, I like the plot, even though here they prioritize the concept of science, but they also insert a little comedy and romance so it's not too confusing. And what I like most about this drama is the unexpected plots that appear. I want to tell a lot but I'm afraid I will give spoilers for this drama.

Lire davantage

Must watch drama

As an indian, i don't understand chinese, so i watched it with subtitles. And oh my god, people who are thinking on watching this show, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE you need to WATCH it. ITS AMAZING, it includes all kinds of emotions, happy, sad you name it, this is a very emotional show though which I really like, especially the ending, the ending shows that you dont always get a happy ending and have to move on with your life, i literally cried because of the ending, and I'm saying this as a person who has NEVER CRIED while watching a drama, movie or shows or ANYTHING. I just LOVE it

Lire davantage

This is not an fast moving drama & perfect length drama

This is the first drama in my life the story covers all the characters fully in screenplay
Thuds way the Broker length in 42 episodes
Victoria Song as [ Qiu Jia Ning ] , Luo Yun Xi as [ Zhou Xiao Shan ] their chemistry unimaginable
All artist played their role well matched
OST And background score also good
This is not an fast moving drama so who like enthusiasm please stay away
Overall aspect this drama superb
Finally THE [ Luo Yun Xi ] IS DIED THIS IS THE BEST ENDING for this drama there is no other way to make a great impression
Because of this ending the drama is in our thinking
Thank u Director, Screenplay writer, editor for this ending if he comes alive there is no hope for this drama
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Lire davantage

A Hidden Gem

I've been looking forward to this drama for a while now and when it finally aired, I knew I needed to watch it. There's been a lot of releases this year which are either complete hits or misses and after watching a lot of good dramas already, I was scared that this one would have become a miss but thank goodness, it was really captivating. After about 15 episodes in the background story for Zhou Xiaoshan (LYX) really seemed familiar to Zhuo Ran in My Dear Guardian. I won't talk about it too much here because I don't want to spoil it, but if you've seen My Dear Guardian (starring Li Qin and Johnny Huang Jinyu) then you'll know what I'm talking about. There's less action here compared to MDG, but overall I really like it. LYX and SQ both did a fantastic job. I really like the side stories between Qiu Jiaxin and Qin Bin, and Mo Li's story with the client. The character development here is actually carried out pretty well (imo) and we don't have any annoying female leads trying to steal the male lead or some annoying breakups yet. Their age in the drama and them being mature really helped with this. The one thing I don't like about this drama is that in every episode, QJN is wearing super tall heels and I get that she's supposed to come from a rich family and dresses nicely but the heels...it looked super awkward for her to walk when they had full body shots. I don't know why the directors made her wear heels because irl, the height difference between SQ and LYX isn't that large. But here they make SQ nearly the same height as LYX.

Lire davantage

Its an exciting love story with risk in every step

I loved it and i love luo yunxi's acting. I am happy that it was not a cliche romantic love story but thrilling one when two people from completely different world fall in love . we should accept that life cannot be always fairytale and this is what this series portrayed. That even when people turns to dust their love remains.

The script could have been better but the cast did a good job in their acting and delivering dialogues.

About the ending, we want season 2 obviously.

Anyway, i dont have much complain . go ahead and watch the drama yourself.

Lire davantage