Xia Yi Zhan, Xing Fu

Not a bad dorama. It actually has some good qualities, and when I look back those are all I can recall: sometimes the behavior and reactions of the leads, the lack of shyness about the topic of sex (or touching, etc.), the interesting story, or the cute little boy, I really melted over him :-D, some of the twists and turns, that what we saw sometimes wasn't as it seemed (when he was in court, defending that pig, it reminded him of the past and later we revisit it again through the abused girl); the character of the main character was very likable to me in the beginning, later some of her decisions were worth a thrashing. The nice thing about this dorama is that it doesn't treat the audience like idiots. Yeah, it's a pretty time-consuming series (I did put it in 2 days, but who's going to devote 20 hours straight to it like I did, are you crazy?), but if you're in the mood for a more "realistic" story with characters fitting the Far East, turn to this one. And you know how those moms are always awfully adamant, hard as rocks? Well this one has that look, but she's still a person with feelings, which was very cool :-) (26.08.2011)