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If I watched this series not long after its released, I would be so thrilled by the story and mesmerized by beautiful Zhao Li Ying. She is truly the Goddess of C-Drama.
Taking the set during Second Sino Japanese war where Japanese was occupying China, the story took place in bustling city of Shanghai. The intense spy war between the Nationalist and the Japanese intelligent services and to add to the complication, the involvement of the spy from the Communist China.
The story was interesting on how one can turn upside down due to a tragedy and change one's course of life during the war period. The story is about a female genius who has good observation ability from smell, hearing, photographic memory, ability to analyze thing, etc. She accidentally encounter the intelligence world and dragged down in this spy battle. With her ability she can navigate throughout the process and become heroine but it come with a great prize of loosing people around her.
The production was really trying to depict the Shanghai era during that period of time. Beautiful costume design, good action, suspense and thrill, deception, betrayal, you name it and they have it.
So, I raised my hat to this drama and production team, their cast, etc. Overall it is a good drama in that year.
However, I watched this drama just recently after I finished watching kind of similar theme drama which released this year (The Rebel - 2021) and I feel Rookie Agent Rouge (RAR) becomes obsolete. The spying technique were kind of doubtful. I am not sure whether the listening device were already invented in that timeframe. The wardrobe worn by the FL were too delicate and the design was too modern looking with lots of minis and sleeveless. I am not sure this kind of wardrobe really exist during that time in Shanghai. I believe majority of outfit worn by female during that period was Cheongsam dress. Having said that, I feel that there were several loophole in the drama. In the end, I started to skipping scenes starting ep 20 and finally dropped this on ep 38 and jump straight to ep 45 with lots of skipping.
Compared to the newer series: The Rebel (2021), in my opinion this is kind of heaven and earth in many aspects. RAR is more like a tale while The Rebel is more realistic.
Taking the set during Second Sino Japanese war where Japanese was occupying China, the story took place in bustling city of Shanghai. The intense spy war between the Nationalist and the Japanese intelligent services and to add to the complication, the involvement of the spy from the Communist China.
The story was interesting on how one can turn upside down due to a tragedy and change one's course of life during the war period. The story is about a female genius who has good observation ability from smell, hearing, photographic memory, ability to analyze thing, etc. She accidentally encounter the intelligence world and dragged down in this spy battle. With her ability she can navigate throughout the process and become heroine but it come with a great prize of loosing people around her.
The production was really trying to depict the Shanghai era during that period of time. Beautiful costume design, good action, suspense and thrill, deception, betrayal, you name it and they have it.
So, I raised my hat to this drama and production team, their cast, etc. Overall it is a good drama in that year.
However, I watched this drama just recently after I finished watching kind of similar theme drama which released this year (The Rebel - 2021) and I feel Rookie Agent Rouge (RAR) becomes obsolete. The spying technique were kind of doubtful. I am not sure whether the listening device were already invented in that timeframe. The wardrobe worn by the FL were too delicate and the design was too modern looking with lots of minis and sleeveless. I am not sure this kind of wardrobe really exist during that time in Shanghai. I believe majority of outfit worn by female during that period was Cheongsam dress. Having said that, I feel that there were several loophole in the drama. In the end, I started to skipping scenes starting ep 20 and finally dropped this on ep 38 and jump straight to ep 45 with lots of skipping.
Compared to the newer series: The Rebel (2021), in my opinion this is kind of heaven and earth in many aspects. RAR is more like a tale while The Rebel is more realistic.
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