Imperfect Perfection
This was the 39th TW Drama I've completed since my first 10 years ago, and the first I've scored as 10/10. There was NOTHING wrong with this amazing show.
First of all, the cast: LIN YI CHEN - be still my beating heart! She's been my TW bias for a decade and she was outstanding in this role. A billion light years from any of her cute, sweet Candy style FLs of the ISWAK era, she played a terrible person, and did a brilliant job.
Tiffany Hsu Wei-ning was every bit her equal too, as was necessary for a Drama all about two 'entangled particles'. And having Mike Ho as the male lead/McGuffin was a nice nod to the past, reminding me of Love Contract.
The writing was outstanding too. Being dependent on subs, when THEY wow me, I know the original must be awesome. Building the leads' relationship around analogies and hypotheses from quantum mechanics was an inspired decision. It meant that while neither of the leads was a NICE person, and Lin Yi Chen's character was by her own admission a terrible person, they were still understandable and relatable.
I knew going in to the final episode that it was emotionally impactful. But to be bawling like a baby DESPITE the absence of any twee, maudlin 'quick fix' between the two enemies was a remaarkable testimony to the power of the writing and the performances from the actors who delivered it.
First of all, the cast: LIN YI CHEN - be still my beating heart! She's been my TW bias for a decade and she was outstanding in this role. A billion light years from any of her cute, sweet Candy style FLs of the ISWAK era, she played a terrible person, and did a brilliant job.
Tiffany Hsu Wei-ning was every bit her equal too, as was necessary for a Drama all about two 'entangled particles'. And having Mike Ho as the male lead/McGuffin was a nice nod to the past, reminding me of Love Contract.
The writing was outstanding too. Being dependent on subs, when THEY wow me, I know the original must be awesome. Building the leads' relationship around analogies and hypotheses from quantum mechanics was an inspired decision. It meant that while neither of the leads was a NICE person, and Lin Yi Chen's character was by her own admission a terrible person, they were still understandable and relatable.
I knew going in to the final episode that it was emotionally impactful. But to be bawling like a baby DESPITE the absence of any twee, maudlin 'quick fix' between the two enemies was a remaarkable testimony to the power of the writing and the performances from the actors who delivered it.
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