Down With Love Review

Title: Down With Love
AKA: Just Want to Depend on You / Stick with You
Episodes: 16
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Broadcast period: 2010-Jan to 2010-May
Opening theme song: Jiu Xiang Lai Zhe Ni by Jerry Yan
Ending theme song: Ai Shang Ni by S.H.E
Cast: Jerry Yan, Ella Chen, Kelly Huang, Michael Zhang, Chen Zi Han, Xiao Xiao Bin and Ji Xin Ling.

Xiang Yu Ping (Jerry Yan) is heartless lawyer, who has to take care of his niece Xiang Yu Fei (Ji Xin Ling) and nephew Xiang Yu Ting (Xiao Xiao Bin) after the death of his brother. Hating kids and not knowing what to do with them, he hires nannies to watch out for them, but for some reason the nannies end up in the hospital or fall in love with Yu Ping, so he has to hire a new one every second day. By chance he meets Yang Guo (Ella Chen) a hardworking girl who is almost slave driven by her sister Yan Duo(Kelly Huang) who loves money more than anything on the planet. The two of them end up arguing, she calls him names and they split. To enlarge the coincident, Yan Duo happens to be the secretary of Yu Ping, and after Yan Guo being fired, mainly because of Yu Ping, the money crazy sister helps Yan Guo getting a job as the nanny of Yu Ping's niece and nephew, saying that she is impossible to break and that she is a lesbian, who will never fall in love with Yu Ping. To complicate matters even more, Qi Ke Zhong (Michael Zhang) the childhood friend seems to be the first love of Yan Duo, but he happens to be in love with the supermodel Ding Hui Fan (Chen Zi Han), who is secretly dating Yu Ping.
The day Yu Ping tries to propose to Hui Fan, she declines him and breaks up with him, believing he would eventually return to her. Yu Ping on the other hand feels relived, since he had lost most of his feelings trying to hide their relationship, feeling that it had become a habit to be with her. After finding out about Yan Guo, Dui Fan thinks that Yan Guo and Yu Ping are dating, she starts her mission, in getting Yu Ping back..

This drama is fantastic! Made me smile almost all way through.. I actually fell once off my chair, because I was laughing and I tossed my head back, not noticing the back of the chair was turned. Lol, so I was literally rolling on floor laughing.
Ella Chen and Jerry Yan as the leading couple, was both fun and sweet, occasionally passionate, so tooootally worth it. Chemistry knockout! The supporting roles were fun as well, Micheal Zhang and Kelly Huang were worth it. I was hooked at the beginning, right until episode 7. That’s were the lagging started. But the story became better further up, around episode 13. Shortly in math language ]start;ep 7] to [ep 13; end[ was the best, the middle is like a korean drama, dull.. :P lols.. All in all, GREAT!

☆☆☆☆ / 4 out of 5 stars

♥♥♥ / 3 out of 5 hearts

The Rose Review

Titel: The Rose

Genre: Family relations, Romance

Episodes: 26

Broadcast period: 2003

Opening theme song: Hua Dou Kai Hao Le by S.H.E

Cast: Ella Chen, Jerry Huang, Joe Cheng, Selina Ren, Joelle Lu, Cecilia Yip and Hebe Tian.

This drama is about the boring, not-so-pretty, often called ugly, and chubby Bai He (Ella Chen). She is having the worst day of her life; her boyfriend leaves her for another girl, whom he sais is a waaaaaay more attractive woman, her grandmother, whom she had been living with her entire life, dies from a stroke, and she is thrown out of her house. But on the same day she finds a letter, from her grandmother, explaining to her, that her real mother still is alive, and that she is the famous actress Han Li (Cecilia Yip).

Bai He, who never had a mother, leaves then to meet her mother, only to find out that the same mother has 3 more children, the 26 year old Han Fu Rong (Joelle Lu), the 21 year old Han Jin (Jerry Huang) and the 17 year old Han Kui (Joe Cheng), who all, which includes Bai He, have different fathers. Bai He is immediately hated by all three children; expecially Han Kui, whom she catches kissing Han Jin, in the middle of the night, while Jin is sleeping.

Things escalate as she falls in love with Jin, making Kui hate her more, but as he spends time with her, he starts to like her more and more, getting into a complex in being in love with both his sister and brother. Bai He then finds out about Jin's fiancé, Qin (Selina Ren), who's dead, and Jin cant get over or cope with it, but starts to fall for Bai He. Soon the truth is revealed and they find out that Bai He isn't really related to any of them, only by Kui, to Kui's despair...

I kind a liked the drama. It was fun, sad and dramatic - not really my style.. Oh well. I liked the "looks-complex" that is presented in the drama, and how superfical some people are. This drama warms your heart - or shocks it - but either way, its a good watch.

I loved Ella Chen in this drama, and I found it kind a funny, that she only acts in those "ugly-girl" dramas, but seriously, the role suits her perfectly. And you gotta love her facial expressions.

I was pleasently surprised with Jerry Huang, Ive only seen him in "Ying Ye 3+1" playing a supporting role, but in this, he was like a dream, you wanted to hug him. (And I couldn't keep myself from lauging seeing the hight differece, between Ella and him.. Least 30 cm!! haha, but kind a cute as he hugged her). Im not a big fan of Joe Cheng, and he didnt quite become my favorite seeing him in thid drama, expecially with the hair (looked like Rapunzel :P), but his character as the loud and annoying one really suits him, and I at the end was hoping for Xiao Feng (Hebe Tian) to pop up, eventhough her role was VERY limited (which is a bit dull, since I think her character would've made a huge difference), she really liked Kui.

All in all, if you like melodramas, guys with lonely blue eyes and Ella Chen's facial expressions, this one is your pick...

☆☆☆½/3,5 out of 5 stars

♥♥½ / 2½ out of 5 hearts