You Are My Glory (2021)

Sweet, but boring and slow-moving.

I enjoyed You Are My Glory, but only to the extent that I could play it in the background while I did other things.

Story:

I really wish Chinese studios would stop saturating the market with e-sports dramas (and Yang Yang would stop starring in them) because the story set-up often feels so contrived. That aside, though, You Are My Glory is remarkably well-executed. Strong chemistry, witty dialogue, and likeable protagonists turned a lacklustre, overused premise into something worth watching. I do have one large grievance to air, though, and that is the pacing - this show is very slow. It could easily have been 15-20 episodes instead of 32. There are insanely long stretches in which nothing really happens, or when things do happen, it takes far too long to resolve. If I needed to read subtitles I don't think I would have watched this show at all because I simply wouldn't have the patience to sit there.

Acting/Cast:

I credit the cast with about 80% of the reason I watched as much of the show as I did. Dilireba and Yang Yang have good chemistry, and this is one of Yang Yang's better roles in my opinion. Yu Tu's quiet introspection suits him much better than some of the more assertive characters he's attempted in the past. Dilireba's character is adorable and charming, not obsequious, and I appreciate that she is independent of the ML and romance. I found myself rooting for her more than I root for FLs with similar backstories/contexts.

Music:

The OSTs are pervasive but not bad. Don't have much else to say about it.

Rewatch Value:

I don't think I can sit through You Are My Glory a second time, but it's as good a choice as anything else when I want to put something on in the background while I do chores.

TL;DR: The plot of this story meanders but the pay-off in sweet and romantic scenes as well as chemistry between the two leads makes up for it.

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Sweet and fluffy

I really enjoyed this drama. While the main couple were flirting, pursuing, and angsting it was a great watch! I really loved the ML's acting - you could feel his inner conflict and pain when things were tough for him and those close to him. The FL was also really fun to watch. She is girly and sweet, but also knows how to stand up for herself (especially with her ex).

Both characters are mature adults that make decisions that make sense and that was my favorite part about this show (apart from the acting). I felt like their characters were real, not those over-dramatic characters I see in some dramas. The problems they faced were realistic, and their reactions to them were also realistic.

There's honestly not too much drama in this show. Once the main couple got together, I felt like the show got a bit boring - it was cute and fluffy, don't get me wrong, but not much happened. I felt like a lot of it was filler. But overall, honestly it was good! I don't think I'll re-watch but I'm very happy with how it went.

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Good Chemistry ! Must watch it for career drama !

This is a drama related about occupation of both male and female lead that can show all angles

Production : good production that it is too reality of aerospace industry that is too hard to know in detail like this. There show about details that made people understand in industry toward to character.

Actor : all actors are professional not only male and female lead but support role are real ! I cannot stop to talk about Yang yang and Reba have best chemistry !! When love scene or ordinary that is too real ( hold hand, kiss, hug and etc) that made me smile in every ep !
Plus, character in this drama is good, it made people think positive and understand others. Main female lead is empathy people so why her fans love her.

Ost : ost from Liu Yu ning is always the best !! No more word to say ! Must listen !

Over all is good drama in every angles. I love it and hope you guys love it too

Thanks

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Era baru drama China

Sejak gosip awal pembuatan drama ini saya tidak merasakan apa-apa karena menganggap biasa saja. Selalunya nonton drama sudah setengah episode tayang atau tamat baru nonton (kecuali CLoY - streaming TVn untuk 2 eps terakhir).

Tapi entah kenapa pas YAMG tayang baru eps awal sudah tertarik untuk menonton dan karena penasaran langsung cuzz cari novelnya, Oh My Allah...saya sangat-sangat suka apabila cerita di novel hampir semuanya diadapatasi ke drama walaupun ada sedikit perbedaan malah menjadikan dramanya semakin menarik. Saya penggemar novel apabila novel diadaptasi ke film atau drama maka minimal 90% harus sesuai jalan ceritanya.

Drama pertama yang membuat saya harus merogoh kantong lebih dalam karena harus berlanggangan WeTV VIP dan fast track untuk 2 Minggu penayangan dan hasilnya sangat-sangat memuaskan dengan senyum-senyum sendiri melihat perkembangan hubungan Jing Jing dan Yutu.

Dengan menonton sinetron Indo**** yang selalu ada pelakornya maka menonton YAMG seperti healing jiwa .

Walaupun ada yang mengatakan bahwa separuh episode awal agak membosankan tapi saya sangat menikmatinya terutama eps 13-14. Latar cerita yang berbeda dengan drama modern lainnya (Aahhh saya bosan dengan cerita CEO dan gadis miskin serta cerita percintaan ABG) dan visual yang menyilaukan membuat drama ini layak menjadi CDrama no. 1 bagi saya saat ini karena saya bukan fans Yang Yang maupun Dilraba. Saya hanyalah seorang penikmat drama sebagai bagian healing jiwa ditengah kesibukan bekerja.

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One of my favorite couples - romance is heartwarming

8.5/10 is my rating. This is a 2021 Chinese Romantic comedy set against an e-sport backdrop. There are 32, 35 minute episodes (actual episode time ranges from from 30-45 minutes).

First I will provide a synopsis then a review.

Synopsis:
Qiao Jingjing (Dilraba Dilmurat) is a model, singer and actress who is isolated from regular social contact because of her fame. As such, she is only able to keep up with what is going on with former classmates through her close friends. One former classmate in particular, the guy who got away, Yu Tu (Yang Yang), turned her down in high school but she has never forgotten him. Years have passed but he is still handsome and brilliant and broke up with a long term girlfriend Yu Tu finds out through her circle of friends. She discovers by accident that he is a very skilled player in the mobile game Honor of Kings, which is a game she is advertising for. When fans found out she had been playing the game she needs to become a master or risk loosing the sponsorship to someone else. Looking for an excuse to see her former flame, Jingjing tricks Yu Tu into a face to face meeting for the purpose of enlisting his help as a tutor on Honor of Kings.

Review: (contains spoilers)

The romance portion is one of the best I have watched. I absolutely love the couple they represents everything that comprises a good relationship. They support each other and try to understand the other person's perspective. Although both have jobs that keep them away for long periods of time they ensure they are able to be part of each other's daily lives. She is no push over. When he rejects her she doesn't beg she walks away. When he decides he wants to be in a relationship with her she doesn't immediately accept his feelings. There are scenes when they are together where it is like they are the only ones in the room. When she was out with their classmates and he found out where she was he zeroed in on her. She was the most important person to him in that room and that shifted their relationship and made it so she believed he was sincere in his feelings after having rejected her earlier. The chemistry was there between them and they represented relationship goals.

Jinjing was someone who was fun to be around and amazing beyond her fame. It made it easy to understand how he could have fallen in love with her. She was mischievous, which was enjoyable to watch and was part of her overall confidence and unwillingness to accept being treated poorly. Both of the main characters underwent a lot of character development to become the best version of themselves for each other. She became less focused on material things and he became more fun loving.

I loved the sets and scenery. I felt like I saw parts of modern China that I had not seen to date. There were some beautiful places with lights, flowers, sculptures, architecture that showed the modern aspect(s) of portions of China. As they traveled, you got to see the diverse geography from desert to more tropical landscapes and from country to city. I felt like I got a mini tour of China it was nice.

There was slice of life of her career as a Chinese idol and that aspect was interesting and there was also slice of life of his career as a aerospace engineer. I found the aerospace engineering aspect less interesting because there were these long stretches where it was just him solving various aspects of space engineering puzzles. I remember when I was younger a popular saying was "I am not a rocket scientist" which was a self effacing way of saying you weren't an expert on something. It could also mean something was simply to do "it's not rocket science." In this case he was a rocket scientist and they went pretty far into the details of what he did to provide that slice of life. For me, I found it boring and actually fast forwarded through some episodes because it didn't show her much at all and was just focused on his issues surrounding his work. They could have cut out maybe 4-6 episodes that had heavy focus on rocket science. They didn't show Jinjing's work as much and her lifestyle was, to me, the more interesting of the two.

Overall I enjoyed this a lot and this is one of my top couples now. What detracted for me was just the unnecessary depth on rocket science. I recommend this highly, may watch parts of it again but would fast forward as I did through the "dry" episodes where not much is happening between them.

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Not as exciting as I thought it would be, but still great.

Perhaps it's because of the high expectations I had before starting this, but this was not the masterpiece I expected it to be because of the reviews. It is definitely a perfectly romantic and heart-fluttering drama but not for those who prefer something more fast-paced.
It started out with the story of him helping her out for a game tournament during his break, which is a unique and sort of engaging storyline but after that not much was going on besides their romantic life, which i found cute but overdone as it went on for the full last quarter of the drama. The first half did have my attention, but i had to skip a lot of boring scenes (including most of the male lead's work), which made me wonder if i should keep watching. Overall not a bad drama, just wish it didnt entirely revolve around their romance.

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Pochi conflitti per una storia molto convincente

Questo drama è stato per me una piacevole sorpresa. Della bravura di Dilraba non dubitavo perché l'avevo già vista diverse volte in precedenza, ma non mi aspettavo che Yang Yang, oltre che bello da paura, fosse anche così bravo. E devo anche riconoscere che praticamente la totalità degli attori e personaggi di spalla e di contorno ha fatto un lavoro egregio. Molti personaggi tra cui sicuramente i principali hanno conosciuto una piacevole evoluzione, ed è stato veramente gradevole vedere il procedere della relazione fra i due protagonisti. Entrambi sono stati caratterizzati come persone molto verosimili, con pregi e difetti. Reali. Grandi assenti le lunghissime incomprensioni tanto care ai drama, che dividono i protagonisti per decenni... Qui, dopo un inizio un po' burrascoso, le cose filano lisce. Con nostro grande piacere.
Per quanto riguarda la storia, non si può dire che abbia conosciuto uno svolgimento particolarmente aggressivo. Le conflittualità sono state obiettivamente poche, eppure ciò non ha minimamente inficiato il valore dell'intrattenimento di questa serie. L'unico appunto che forse si può fare è il fatto che nelle prime puntate l'attenzione si focalizzi tutta su un videogioco, mentre nel prosieguo questo aspetto viene praticamente a sparire. La seconda parte infatti è molto più dedicata all'impresa aerospaziale, forse un po' troppo, perché la carriera di Dilraba, che pure prosegue, passa un poo' in secondo piano.
E qui veniamo a quella che è forse un po' la nota dolente di questa serie: la grandeur dell'autocompiacimento cinese per le proprie imprese. Ma, dico io, basta guardare un film americano per incappare in autocompiacimenti di livello anche superiore, che francamente hanno stufato da mo'.
Più che altro, si ha l'impressione che questo drama, che utilizza attori già adulti e che sembra rivolgersi a un pubblico non prettamente di ragazzine, voglia affrontare il discorso delle convenzioni sociali e dell'importanza che ha per il grande paese lo spirito di sacrificio di coloro che lavorano nei campi scientifici.
Ma il mio pensiero è: se è così importante avere degli scienziati, degli ingegneri aerospaziali così bravi e preparati, perché non pagarli un po' di più in modo che non siano costretti ad abbandonare la professione per cercare uno stipendio più dignitoso per la famiglia? D'accordo lo spirito di sacrificio, ma il merito andrebbe ricompensato.
Detto questo, occorre rilevare come ci siano state diverse scene piuttosto... diciamo accattivanti, con baci bollenti e conversazioni suggestive che hanno reso diverse puntate abbastanza birichine, molto più di come siamo abituati guardando le opere cinesi. Bisogna riconoscere che Yang Yang sa come baciare davanti alla macchina da presa e i suoi sguardi e le sue espressioni sono materia per sogni bagnati. Non so se sia doppiato, ma se questa è la sua voce, tanta roba. Sarà che ho visto questa serie d'estate, ma per certe scene ci vuole un ventaglio. O un ventilatore. E un ghiacciolo. La chimica fra questi due è esplosiva, sono di una naturalezza incredibile, sembrano fatti l'uno per l'altra. Non c'è possibilità di elementi di disturbo né per lui né per lei: i vecchi amori di entrambi non hanno mai avuto alcuna possibilità e infatti sono spariti ben presto, rimessi a posto con poche secche parole.
Anche le musiche sono state molto gradevoli, ci sono stati dei pezzi strumentali molto piacevoli e molto ben utilizzati nei momenti in cui servivano, e anche le canzoni opening ending e insert si sono lasciate ascoltare molto volentieri.
In sunto, un dramma molto piacevole che, proprio perché prodotto di intrattenimento così lineare, gentile e simpatico, a mio parere regge benissimo una seconda visione, anche solo per vedere l'interazione di questi due, così teneri.
Non aspettatevi colpi di scena e scintille ad ogni episodio, perché le scintille di questo drama le fanno i due protagonisti che, già da soli, riescono a rendere questo lavoro indimenticabile. Aggiungiamoci tutto il contorno, che è fatto molto bene, e abbiamo un drama assolutamente da non perdere.

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