Love Starts from Marriage (2022)

Pretty typical

First off, these C-drama 'shorts' have much worse acting than what you'd find in your typical 45 minutes, 40+ episode C-drama so you've got to approach them with that in mind. There was a handful that have fairly decent acting, such as 'Campus Ace', 'Here is My Exclusive Indulge', 'My Dearest Boss' and episodes 1-2 of 'Please Don't Spoil Me'., but most have bad acting, especially in the supporting cast. I would place the acting in this drama somewhere in the middle - FL's parents are terrible as well as her bestie that slept with her boyfriend. The love rival - it wouldn't be a C-drama without one - is so-so. FL & ML are by far the best actor/actress, but don't except to see them starring in a high budget drama any time soon, ok?

The storyline is pretty typical as well. FL standing in as bride for a runaway twin sister. ML apparently wanted to marry the sister (not a forced marriage on his part, I guess), but he also can't seem to figure out - at least not right away - that he's got the wrong chick. Yeah, that's a real deep love there, isn't it? But he's not a dummy. He's slowly putting things together and noticing differences. Question is - did he want to marry the sister or the girl he slept with at the very beginning? And why the hell was he hanging around the bar/hotel for the drunken FL to basically fling him on the bed and have her way with him? I guess these questions may be addressed as the drama progresses.

I don't really care about the bitchy bestie who slept with FL's boyfriend. Nor do I really care about the runaway sister who, no doubt, will reappear with second thoughts. I don't really care about the love rival except for the fact that she's typical - obsessed with ML and determined to have him to the point that she pretends she slept with him while he was drunk and is now supposedly pregnant by him. That's where episode 12 ended. I hope since the drama is blissfully short that this stupidity passes quickly. Morale of the story - don't get so drunk that you can't remember what you did the night before! I will be interested to know how quickly she pulls out the prenatal ultrasounds - within a day? A week? A month? Two months?

I'll update with further comments as the drama progresses. Although it's bad in many ways, the FL/ML are engaging enough to keep me interested in their story, old and worn out as it is.

UPDATE at episode 18: Only thing I have to say is - he's supposedly a powerful CEO with unlimited investigative resources yet it takes his wife to clear his name when it came to a fake pregnancy claim by the psycho actress? Why was FL sneaking around outside the doctor's door, listening to psycho actress's conversation and alerting another doctor to catch this unethical doctor instead of ML's secretary or hired henchman?

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