Struggled a bit...

This will be my first Taiwanese drama. I had to struggle through the first episode. My exclusive k-drama consumption, up until now, has corrupted my ears to the sound of other languages. I had to reduce the volume to very low levels just so the Taiwanese could be tolerable. As for the episode itself, the long set up of the characters was a bit tedious. I wasn't immediately intrigued. I had to pause and then come back to it several times before I finally got through it. The performances also came across a bit forced, especially Vaness Wu's Ren. Things looked up a bit toward the end, though, so there's a promise of better things come. Very few dramas I've come across start off with a bang anyway so I'm gonna rock on and see how it goes.

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