No Meio de uma Tempestade de Neve de Amor (2024)

Very awkward romance

Full disclosure. I stopped after the 3rd eposide.

I usually give shows a fair chance to build characters and engage me. But in 3 full episodes, there was zero development, and zero character growth. The worst part, is that in a romantic drama, you want to see the attraction between the leads develop and grow. In this show, they seem to fall for each other by the 2nd episode, with absolutely no reason provided. All we get from them are quiet awkward conversations from the beginning. So when you add the fact that there is no other ongoing story line, i just gave up.

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Slice of Life

I will come back later once I've finished the show. I just wanted to right my thoughts in one spot

Pros
-Chemistry is the best I've seen
-No angst
-Gives slow burn vibes, but is actually quite fast paced
-Acting is really good
-Well casted
-Good clothing choices
-Great sets
-Rarely boring
-both leads were green forests, but they had understandable foibles

Cons:
-I don't really like English music in cdramas. Like they have grammatical errors, which bothers me. Some songs they overplayed to much (which were, to begin with, not that great)
-the sports theme was kinda not very much shown
-They do a lot of eating

(for the cons, they're not very serious issues)

In general, one of the best cdramas I've watched.

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The drama itself is very slow-paced, yet it absorbs with its narrative

I started watching ASSOL without any background information. At the beginning of the first episode, I thought that the blizzard city could be from Finland (by default, some place in China). After a while, I realized that the series was partly filmed in Finland. The cities of Helsin and Hel(l) in the story is Helsinki. Thus, as a Finn, the interest in drama rose all at once.

The drama itself is very slow-paced, yet it absorbs with its narrative. The male lead in his role is very convincing. The female lead is certainly a talented actress, but the image of women in Chinese dramas is annoying, to say the least, from such a European perspective. This time, shyness has been taken to extremes. Extra points for the following points: Due to Arctic conditions, this time there has been no need to look at the microskirts of female actors. In addition, the number of soft toys is kept to a minimum.

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