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Mission in Parallel chinese drama review
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Mission in Parallel
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by Dcvbookfan
Jun 30, 2023
21 of 21 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 7.5
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 1.0
Rewatch Value 6.5

Cool Concept, missed delivery

**Caveat** The subtitles on the YouTube version I watched were auto-generated, so much of the content was confusing and proper subtitles may have improved my perception of the delivery. It very well may be that I will give this drama a better rating if I watch it again with real subtitling. (I'm looking at you Viki volunteers :))

**Caveat 2** I watch a lot of mini-dramas. I love these because I can get my Wuxia/Xanxia or Chinese Rom-Com without committing to 24-50 hours of viewing. I understand the limitations of the media and therefore gave this drama a higher rating than I would have had it been a traditional web or broadcast drama.

**Caveat 3** I have no memory of the music and watched most of this on mute.

This is such a cool concept. Not a spoiler because it is in the opening sequence - a fixer comes into a comic/novel/TV show to help the character who is getting beaten down but doesn't deserve the treatment. Here she is coming in to help the chubby wife of a philandering husband from getting beaten to death. Pretty high concept for such a comedy-toned mini-drama, but it still worked. The writer had a big task and tried to take on more than they could accomplish in 70 minutes. They tried to have too many complex backstories and another transmigration character that was unnecessary.

I think this idea could have been better dealt with in a short form with some streamlining. That being said, I enjoyed it.
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