I Hear You (2019)

The dullest of Zhao LuSi drama

I don't know about this drama. I think this was the most dullest drama Zhao LuSi ever been in, seriously though, she's not very herself like we knew her. Riley Wang was also...OMG...the dullest character ever. I mean if you're a quite reserve man, you don't have to extend it to become a painfully grumpy - like there wasn't any 'fire' in his eyes...couldn't see his passion to violin either. Even his parent (in the drama) stated to the same effect....for the money Bei Er Duo would do anything to fullfill her dreams to go to Japan for her further training for voice-over actress. Then, it became dismantling her character by rival Tang Li (whose in love with Ye ShuWei), very belittle Er'Duo personality because her side jobs. If they said about lively and funny cohabitant, well there's none funny or lively about it, it's all fallen flat! As we can see Riley Wang wasn't a violist for real because he didn't know how to hold it right even for an act. They both were looking good to each other...both cute...young...on the rise...perfect. Too bad they're both also making the most dullest drama...

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Not convincing

This drama most of the time, it was without big emotions and when it had, I was stressing with Shuwei, he was sly most of the time, and his words of love for Bei Erduo did not match his attitudes, he said he liked it her but at the first opportunity to invite a woman to his house without consulting her he did it, without even thinking about how she would feel about it. Bei Erduo was a good character, hardworking, funny at times, cute and charismatic, Zhao Lusi always rocks, but I can't say the same about Riley Wang, he kept practically the same impression the whole drama of boredom, just changed to smiles that showed off his beautiful dimple, the highest score for acting is all thanks to Zhao Lusi for him it would be lower, his acting I found weak. The couple itself lacked chemistry, the few kisses were so-so, there was nothing wow happening between them, the best scenes are of them pretending for the show, because their relationship even off-camera is tedious, the ending was a little off . Finally an immemorial drama, I would not watch it again.

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It was bad, but entertaining enough to finish

After I watched Hidden Love right, Zhao Lusi piqued my attention because she did really great there, so i wanted to watch her early shows and this is the earliest that netflix has in their catalog. Also great, since Riley Wang is in here cuz i just checked 'Everybody Wants to meet you' too, though that drama was really trash.

Anyway, the story... I wouldn't say it's trash, though they did add something new to the table with that "Fake relationship" concept in dramas, i think they just did it badly like they had an idea, but they didn't manage to put it all together really well. It was such a mess in the first half, but after the season 2 of the dating show, i wouldn't say it's good, but it got a littleee better enough for me to feel something and to be at least a littleee invested for me to finish it, and it got fast paced as well. FL's mom, i think she got introduced too early and it was soo sudden, like there are no bits of crumbs that we might get a FL family drama side plot incoming, she just came in storming and it never even got a proper resolution, because suddenly she's okay with her mom, like did i skipped an episode or something? why is her relationship with her mom suddenly like "Oh, we're good now", and the scam part with her mom, i kinda predicted that, but that scene with the other victims like those paid extras doesn't even give a shit, they didn't even put an effort in their acting. I also don't like how the moment she knew her composer crush was actually our male lead, immediately her feelings flipped, it wasn't like "now i'm in love with this guy" kinda thing, but it was sort of like you can tell she started developing some feelings towards Shuwei right away just because of his other identity. The accidents in this drama are soo predictable, how could you mess up something that's supposed to be a turning point for a character or story? I don't really know how to explain it... I've watched a lot of dramas that have accidents in it and it's supposed to come out as a plot twist, something you're not expecting and just happened out of nowhere, but here i can sense it a mile away and it's baaaad. I like how they handled the side plot with our 2nd male lead. It's not intrusive, and they didn't really focus on it that much, it's just there from time to time, that's probably why i never felt the 2nd lead syndrome. It's very cute and heartwarming, glad he got a proper closure. 2nd couple's side plot was a nice break, for how messy our main couple was, but it got messy too as it went on and i wasn't expecting it to turn out that way, though i'm glad it got a proper closure too. In the very late game, i don't know why did this, but why introduce a new girl? I get it she had some sort of contribution to the story, but i think that is unnecessary, there's a lot of ways you could've done that without adding a new character to the story, it just stretched out the last parts of the show. The japanese dubbing in the last episode was so obvious, but props to them since it matched Zhao Lusi's voice

The characters, I think they're all ok and the acting too was meh... it's passable. The one that stood out to me in the beginning was the 2nd couple, again it was nice, but it got messy as it went on, their acting was okay and then i switched to our main couple because they got better in the 2nd half. Zhao Lusi, although i like you here, because you're so cute and adorable, but this is me after watching your recent work 'Hidden Love' so there's a very big difference in your acting. In here, i can tell it's not up to par with what your current acting skills can show, i don't really have much to say about your character here, aside from 'it's okay'. Riley wang, this is the 2nd drama that I've watched that he's in and to be honest, I feel bad for him because this one too is still bad, He really needs to be given a good written and scripted drama. Also, at the same time i don't like his acting here, he's just a frowning soulless character, that's not how you act cold. You just look like you're angry all the time. I don't even think I've seen his character smile genuinely in this show and it didn't develop much at all. I don't know if i'm supposed to blame your acting or the writer...

The music was okay, i mean it's there... good. Though i liked the violin stuff. I wish they did that more.

Cinematography is ok, but i just noticed this, and not just here, but in other cdramas as well, when they do video calls, dashcam, or cctv footage stuff it's always a full on cinematography, oh my god.. are you really that lazy to film those kinds of shot? like, have an intern film those for you if you couldn't be bothered to film it yourself. In most cases, you're not gonna bother eyeing that shit, but it's just that, i would notice it every time. Stop it!!!

So yeah... overall, this drama is bad, but still entertaining enough, like the first half if you could endure, and get past that then you're probably gonna enjoy the 2nd half since that's where it'll get better in terms of story and characters. Would i watch this again? heck no!

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Starting is good ,love start with fake relationship but then there is misunderstanding between them which increase rivalry and whenever they meet they fight . Her nature is little aggressive but he didn't have aggressive nature at the same time he showed no expressions too that what he was feeling when she blamed him ,he felt upset ,ashamed ,insulted what exactly he was felt didn't come out from his expressions .Drama enters the love triangle but there is no impact of this love triangle story and third wheel automatically disappeared ... At some stages he felt jeoulous but again no expressions of jeoulousy...
I felt loose expressions between them..
Last episode made little disappointed and ending too.
It is so so story

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It is not enough to hear you, you must also use words to communicate

This was a poorly dubbed drama about a girl who just wanted to study dubbing and the 30000 obstacles she had along the way and the guy who had everything including a whole lot of red flags.

The female lead in this drama has a whole lot of good lines and is indeed independent lovable yet makes really strange decisions and seems very confused by the guy she adores... The guy of course does not make life easy for her as he really hates using actual verbal words for other than correcting peoples wrongdoing. Dude does however have a one track mind and makes sure the women around him take all the responsibility for more or less everything around him.

We also have one of dramalands most lovely and frustrating side couples that out shine the leads, great friendships and idiot men and evil women. Having seen this drama around the time I saw the western movie Barbie I could not help to compare some of the men with the Kens out there (that is not a good thing).

There are some good very self aware and important lines here and there some unpredictable turns (to the bad, but lovely not to expect them). But mostly a whole lot of things that make no sense at all + a whole lot of odd double standards.

There is also a cute cat and a mom I wanted to hug but also a mom I wished bad things would happen to.

All in all the cat and the gals + nephew made this drama worthy of my time the rest are not the least bit memorable...

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One of my first foreign dramas and I loved it!

This is one of the first foreign dramas I have seen. I really hated watching subtitles instead of seeing everything going on in the show but over the years got used to it because my father is almost deaf. So I wanted a change from the American Hallmark shows that just got boring. I ran across this show and more on Netflix and decided to give it a try. I am so glad I did! I have enjoyed many KDramas and CDramas now and will keep watching them!

Ok so this show... I really liked it even with then not so great acting and the huge mistakes especially in the parts of Riley Wang playing the violin. I have a daughter who plays so watching him try to act playing was a bit painful! Lol however, it is still one of my favorites and I have watched it 3 times now!

Storyline - I liked the story. It was not acted perfectly. Some of the parts were lacking in big ways. But I do like the story itself.

Acting/Cast - I love the main leads! Riley Wang is getting better in his acting since this show. Rosy Zhao has also gotten better. I have seen a few of their recent dramas and have enjoyed them.

Rewatch? Yes definitely! Might go for my 4th soon!😉

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This is not a positive review. I don’t mind if a drama is not happy but there should be reasons for difficulties in the relationships. The second mains surely had them so you could see their problems a mile away. The mains here the problem were contrived in the usual drama fashion and it was just cliché. It get really tiresome to watch Chinese and Taiwanese dramas wherein the woman must chose between romantic and professional happiness. My mom had to make these decisions back in the 1960s and managed to do both. But we consistently get these goofy dramas from the aforementioned countries. You don’t see this from dramas in general. It’s just nonsense. Japan is hardly distant from China. Also when I took a job that separated me from my family I took a flight to see them every month. It’s not difficult to have long distant relationships now.

Other things I was not wild about was the English speaking actor. He wasn’t a disaster but hardly A list for China. The music was not good. Also anyone with even a year worth of violin lessons would be able to tell NONE of the violin playing is approaching real. I don’t expect it to be but wtf they can’t give them a couple weeks to learn to bow in sync? Also the Vienna Symphony Orchestra does not order a bunch of violins. That’s just comical.

Last, although I know I could come up with other criticisms, despite what others claim this was typical tsundere. The guy bordered on abusive at the beginning. And of course he’s an expert in, let’s count them, violin making, violin musicianship, archery, ice skating, etc. And people wonder why kdramas are more popular.

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This show kept me on my feet at all the time,i finished it in 2 days! I have so many opinions about many aspects of the show, ill go over all of them :)
Story: as I previously mentioned always kept me waiting to watch more it was really unpredictable,couldn't stop!They made average cliches seem special. The first few episode upto maybe 16? was very good, the story was a slow burn and showed reasonable real building of love,that was refreshing,loved that.It showed a cold Male lead who became warmer and helped the female lead in meaningful ways.It showed supportive strong parents of both the leads, the female lead's mom was a little annoying at times,but didn't really mind after a point.The show didn't have much skin ship,which was little disappointing,but they were pretty cute. I do feel however that they dragged their romance.Sometimes the male lead was so controlling and the girl just said NOTHING ,was super annoyed. I loved the story character and development of the second female lead,her presence made this show 10000 times better. Her friendship with the Female lead was so cute! Her way of solving problems and finding happiness was EVERYTHING!The last two episodes and the ending was super abrupt and didnt make sense,what was the writer thinking! Overall i loved the different unique elements portrayed on the show,was super impressed by them and a cute story about dreams and hardwork YES!!
Music: This was so off honestly sometimes the music really didnt complement the scenes and seemed so awkward,It was sometimes didnt set the emotions,was really a mess. the ost song was not bad though!
Acting: by the end of the show i was so done with the stone face of riley wang,he had the same expression for literally the whole show. I was so disappointed. I really hope this is how the character was and he can hopefully act.The second male lead character was so frustrating gosh,but i guess thats intended. I particularly didnt find any faults in the other actors. They were pretty good.
also i have to mention, they dubbed japanse in the last episode like?? didnt even try to lipsync it,,,WHAT.There were also so many instances were the no name charecters were doing random shit, they didnt shoot this properly lmao
Overall don't regret watching this show,was something new and kept me entertained ,which is the point :)
will be praying for another season!

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To be honest this is not a good story ,there is no twist no fun no romance nothing .and that same shitt the ML is rich and the FM is average or poor the fm don't like the ml
.and the FM looks so innocent compared to ML . but I won't say anything about anyones look .
it was fun till ep 17 -18 .it was not necessary to drag .the ep after finishing the drama I though it was a waste of my time .I don't like the drama in a simple way .and there is no romance nothing they just stay away from each other .there is only one kissing scene in this drama .beside kiss there should be some romance which was missing .
So if someone reading this review thinking of watching this drama .I would suggest not towatch this. there are many drama which can be watched so I don't recommend this ..and I'm sorry if I offend someone.

thank you for reading .

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Smiley series

This series concept is nothing new. Poor girl, rich man because of some circumstances they are made to cooperate together and then eventual cohabit.
I love the concept of him being violin producer and her fighting hard to become a voice actor! I just wish they've shown us a little bit more of this sides of them, and yes, we do know their passions and dreams but it would be nice to show us some in-depth, bts of how they reached it (when it comes to Ye ShuWei) and how much work and effort it takes to make a violin and when it comes to Bei ErDuo I wanted to see more than just a few japanese books, and her saying "Ohayo Gozaimasu" during her course or just standing in the booth recording. It's not that it was bad! Do not misunderstand me! I just think this professions are not so well known (especially Ye ShuWei's) and so I think it would be great to put some emphasis on them.
What I really enjoyed about this drama are all of the characters (maybe I would just exclude ErDuo's mother. She was annoying and beyond unreasonable! Grrrrr) Bei ErDuo is a normal girl with a dream and a plan for her future, she might not be a genius but she is smart, brave and kind (in the right proportions), she might be a little bit loud in the first few episodes but then you'll notice she is not the infantile, silly FL we often get in this kind of series. She is responsible and she knows how to use her brain, she will not get easily swayed, she will believe the person by her side and her own heart rather than unrelated people. What I really was happy about is that she: can cook, can clean, can take care of a sick person, can study, can work in a normal part-time job. God bless the screenwriter! A normal human being! I'm so tired of this girls in dramas being all silly and useless!
Ye ShuWei might be a little bit cold at the beginning but he will learn too, do not worry ! He is a very confident and quiet person but a very caring a the same time. When he notices that he enjoys this girl's company he do not run away, do not get cold or he don't get excessively possessive he slowly and gradually learn about her, try to understand her and learn how to take care of her and make her happy. He is not fickle! He wants for her to feel secure and he never let other people get between them! We need more characters like this. They both look after each other. Really sweet.
Let me say a few words about side characters. I will not spoil so I won't get in details but be prepared! Side story is soooooo good and I personally love the outcome. We love smart, confident people that know how and what to prioritize. This story was a really big surprise to me but a good one!
I can see the unused potential in this drama, their professions, the competition all of this was just an empty shell without much contribution to the series it was necessary because of the plot but I really wished they would show us something more.
Music ?? Didn't notice anything special or mind-blowing but nothing bothered me so I would say acceptable.
Locations and sets ... Let me tell you you'll want to live in Ye ShuWei's workshop, I almost loved it more than his real house (which was amazing too). Plus can I have his car?? Please <3 .....
Clothes ... I liked them, I find that the styles really fitted perfectly with characters and at the same time looked really good on the actors. With Riley Wang 182 cm this suits were just the icing on the cake !!! Such an eye candy <3 .
All together I think it's an easy and enjoyable series that you'll not feel frustrated with but you'll smile a lot.

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Made an account to write this review so what I liked was it was not dubbed (I still am confused why chinese dub their films tbh it makes it suck more) or if it was, it was done well. The expressions the girl uses to act sometimes does not match the situation at hand. The girl's mom was highkey the most annoying character ever in history. I guess the main girl's concept was to be kind blablabla but she was good in a stupid way. Her mom only thinks about money, got scammed, and above all the stupid things the mom did, she still hindered her daughter into reaching her dreams like wtf? The girl on the other hand did not even say a thing about her problematic mom and still supports her. I may actually drop this show just because of that

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