429. Princess Weiyoung 锦绣未央 (2016) Chinese

Tiffany Tang, Luo Jin, Vanness Wu, Mao Xiaotong, Li Xinai 

Drama Rating: 6/10     Neck Score: A

Princess Weiyoung is just a hot mess of drama. It was a delightful hot mess, but also happened when I had my drama anxiety explosion that made me literally pause everything I was watching in favor of binge watching We Bare Bears. Sometimes the ridiculous drama where everyone is evil except the leads is fun and sometimes people's mothers are dying and I can't deal with that in the middle of a pandemic. However, after taking some time, I still came back and finished it, because it was ridiculous and I had to see the train wreck at the ending. It actually had a better ending that I expected. More... realistic, if you can believe that when everything was so over dramatic that it wasn't ridiculous. I just like that they didn't force a completely happy ending and were able to give us some tragedy that also wasn't forced. I had a whole thread on Twitter about this, because it was so 😲😲😅😅😂😂 that I had to shout out my feelings to the Twitterverse. You can probably get more details and spoilers from that thread then here. But at least you can know that it was crazy, dramatic, and I generally loved it, even then rolling my eyes and laughing every two seconds.

110. Perfect Couple 金玉良缘 (2014) Chinese

Tiffany Tang, Wallace Huo, Huang Ming, Wang Yang, Wang Jing Luan

Drama Rating: 5/10     Neck Score: A

So ridiculously over the top.  The first half was an over-the-top comedy, and then it had a sudden genre change where it because a seriously over-the-top melodrama.  But I laughed just as much at it either way because it was over-the-top.  When the bad dude went completely cray cray I laughed even more, because he has a seriously awesomely funny crazy laugh/face.  They even had good camera angles to make the crazy face all the funnier.  Even a bit of fish eye at one point.  However, despite it's craziness and overly dramatic execution, it was still compelling because the main couple has so much flippin' chemistry.  There is pretty good character development, no one ends in the place they start out, which is good.  Even though the bad dude goes completely crazy, it's a gradual thing, so that's good... even if it's super unrealistic and the redemption of some of the people is pretty much impossible.  Whatever.  The ending was really dumb.  I just hate time jumps.  Especially time jumps for no reason.  Let's have a time jump for no reason in the last 15 min of the show so we can end up a comedy instead of a melodrama.  Yep.  They went there.  Boo.  I really just want to play a villain in one of these things... not even just a villain, but anyone with power and a temper so I can flip tables, bowls of food, spit out tea or splash full cups of tea in peoples faces, also bitca slap everyone.  They have some epic tantrums, just saying.  I'd love to be an epic villain in a Chinese epic.  That basically sums this show up.  Epic.  Epic comedy.  Epic melodrama.  Epic romance.