Love, Now Review

Title: Love Now

Genre: Romance

Episodes: 72

Broadcast period: 2012-Oct to 2013-Mar

Cast: George Hu, Annie Chen and Dou Zhi Kong.

Lan Shi De (George Hu) is a ruthless CEO with an eye for perfection, yet his mother and grandmother have a hard time getting him married, even with the huge amount of blind dates, he leaves after a very short time. The reason is mainly because he is looking for a specific person with big eyes and a slender nose, whom he had met before and has been looking for ever since.

Yi Ru (Annie Chen) is a workaholic that doesn’t know how to slow down, right until she is told she has terminal liver cancer and only six months to live. Little does she know that her family made up the story about her being ill in order to make her go on a vacation, and take off from work for two weeks. She leaves for the Philippines and by a push of destiny so does Shi De, and notices her, which makes him more than happy. After saving her life, Shi De loses his wallet and baggage, so Yi Ru decides to help him out. The two spend time together and become close, and Yi Ru cries her heart out. This makes Shi De ask her to marry him. At first Yi Ru takes it as a joke, but for some reason she keeps imagining marrying him… will she?

Okay first of all, my review sucks, because the drama is much more than what I have written. Secondly this drama is really good. The couple is a match made in heaven, and the storyline is great as well. Oh and there are 3 amazing love stories in this one, which made me all hyper all the way through. And the general story is pretty amazing. BUT there is this: it is a stretched out family drama. When I say that I mean like for 72 episodes drama, you first think “oh it’s just a long drama” but it really is like those sitcoms… Not as taky and badly acted as them, but just LONG, and just too many clichés like decease, revenge etc.

Besides that it is a fun and loving drama, which makes you happy most way through.

☆☆☆ / 3 out of 5 stars

♥♥♥♥ / 4 out of 5 hearts

Love Around Review

Title: Love Around

Genre: Romance

Episodes: 21

Broadcast period: 2013-Jun to 2013-Oct

Theme song: Come back to me by Bii

Cast: George Hu and Annie Chen.

On his birthday Zhou Zhen (George Hu) is heartbroken when he is reminded of his girlfriend’s promise to celebrate his birthday with him. She broke up with him 2 weeks before the birthday, because she was fed up with his father and the gangster background of his. Ever since the break-up, Zhen started calling a radio station, asking for the same song to play. Hosting the show is Liang Xiao Shu (Annie Chen), who is known to be honest and straight forward in her opinions, and personally believes that justice will always be victorious. Feeling bad for him and wishing him the best, she repeatedly plays it every time he asks. As her boyfriend’s birthday is on the same day, she decides to buy him something related to the one thing he loves: baseball. At the baseball court she meets Zhen, unaware that he is who he is, and starts lecturing him about the fact that he paid three booths so no one else can play, except for him. When a competition is held where the winner gets a signed baseball bat, Xiao Shu wants to win so she can give it to her boyfriend, but is really bad at it, so she asks Zhen for the favor, basically pleading him, and eventually persuading him. He wins the bat, and gives it to her free of charge. The two end up meeting again after she by accident enters his cab, and she wants to pay him back, but he leaves not wanting her money. Running after him, she happens to see her boyfriend at the hotel where Zhen left, and follows him to find out that he is cheating on her.

After an ugly break up, and Zhen helping her, the two become buddies. But Xiao Shu hates gangsters, especially since her father is an ex-cop and she keeps putting Zhen’s father down on her show…

This drama was a very good break from all those dragged and long dramas, also made me fall for this couple. The storyline is very simple and honestly quite slow in its action. I mean for some people it might even be boring, but I have to say this, it really is an okay family drama, even with the lacking and somewhat obvious story. But for some reason I enjoyed it, and it might be because I really missed Taiwanese dramas, the entire too-serious-for-life kind of love stories and yes as said before, obvious.

To sum up, I would say it is good, and the couple is one the best in drama history.

☆☆☆½ / 3½ out of 5 stars

♥♥♥½ / 3½ out of 5 hearts