Details

  • Last Online: 1 day ago
  • Gender: Female
  • Location: California
  • Contribution Points: 144 LV2
  • Birthday: March 23
  • Roles:
  • Join Date: November 1, 2013

dramasgalore

California

dramasgalore

California
Somewhere Only We Know chinese drama review
Completed
Somewhere Only We Know
2 people found this review helpful
by dramasgalore
Jun 24, 2019
24 of 24 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 8.5
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 8.5
Music 9.5
Rewatch Value 7.5
This review may contain spoilers
WARNING SPOILERS BELOW

Let me start off by saying there were some really good points in this drama, but some major flaws that ruined the greatness of the drama. The plot line was very normal, nothing very unique from other love-hate relationships in dramas, but I don't mind the cliche plots because what matters is how it's carried out. The best thing about this drama though was the relationship between the characters, especially between our leads Xue Tong and Sir Mu. (I just adore Xue Tong, she's a very sweet girl and very relatable for me) Anyways back to our leading couple, they started a relationship very naturally and it wasn't weird that they were once student and teacher. They have a very mature relationship, not flaunting it and caring for each other sincerely. I subtracted 1.5 on my rating because of a couple of major flaws. I didnt really love any of the supporting characters besides Chen Yan (WHY DID THEY KILL HER OFF) and Xiao Tang. Song Qiqi had an affair with that married dude and then disappeared for like the rest of the drama. Liu Qi was really iffy for me. Like he suddenly took an interest in her for like one thing and he continued to like her for a long time without having talked to her a lot. Honestly I thought he was a douche since the beginning episodes... using your friend to get at a girl and then questioning her friendship?? To me that just shows his poor chatacter, I mean he matured towards the end I guess but I still don't understand why he actually likes Xue Tong. Their relationship also was hecka rushed but I kinda understand bc it was to show Xue Tong was pretending to have moved on (at least thats what I think). My biggest annoyance with this drama was Bai Lin. Besides being cute and nice (debatable) she was absolutely awful to her boyfriend. She treated him like a dog and got mad easily, like poor dude had to apologize for everything. I mean she did realize this in the end but her class skipping was also kinda pathetic, like she's in university and doesn't go to class even when its finals or whatever. Also in the beginning she was constantly going to the fan club stuff making her friends do her homework and when she was in class she doesn't even know how to take her own notes. Last thing in my review, like many comments say, the couple of episodes toward the end werent that great and the ending kinda unsatificatory, but I'm glad Xue Tong and Sir Mu ended up together. I started this to kill some time and it did just that. Although the beginning episodes were really good, all I can really remember was the ending and how it was kinda annoying. Overall a decent watch, but definitely not one of my favorites.
Was this review helpful to you?