Trouble-chan
United Kingdom
This review may contain spoilers
I LOVED this - the story was brilliant, not too much drama and 'death, doom, destruction' that usually accompanies such dramas.
STORY - the story was very good. There was an age gap of about 11 years and a child from a previous relationship for the character Shi Yi Jie (wonderfully portrayed by Jiang Chang Hui - aka Steven). He also had an ex-wife but, without adding spoilers, I can't say much more on her. The younger character Fei Sheng Zhe (played by the very cute Zhang Xing - aka Hunter) was the right balance of emotionally damaged (due to traumas at high school) wariness and desperate to love, nurture and be loved in return soft-heartedness. His relationship with Yi Jie's daughter, Yo Yo, was wonderful too. It had a happy ending and never left you feeling disappointed. the last scenes definitely made me smile...but a teary one of happiness.
ACTING/CAST - here's why I only gave this 9.5.......the KISSING. Seriously, I know that Hunter was the young and inexperienced student, they're straight men in RL and all that - but guys come on, kiss PROPERLY. They're supposed to be besotted with each other and yet the kisses (on hunter's part to be fair to Steven) was just VERY tame. Hunter seemed determined to keep it to the always disappointing 'lip bumping' no matter what Steven tried to do to make it more realistic. That is the ONLY reason I gave it a 9.5; the wife's character was a nutjob anyway, so any overacting there can be forgiven. The storyline was a lot for a little girl to take on and understand, so a major pat on the back for the little girl who played Yo Yo; she did a really good job. The other two characters who were Sheng Zhe's student friends were also well portrayed.
MUSIC - the music was good; the ending song was the best. It didn't have the catchiness that the songs from series one did - but they were still good and I liked the ending song in particular.
REWATCH VALUE - well, I've already watched the last three episodes three times so I can definitely say that it's 10/10. What I did like a LOT was the hugging, little touches, affection and cuddling that was included - I have a gay cousin and I know she's like that with her partner; it's not always all sex and passion. the LGBT community have the same companionship and affection side of their love as we do,and it was so genuinely nice to see it properly portrayed for once. It's one of the reasons for me rewatching the last three episodes almost on repeat.....it made those episodes the cutest of the eight.
OVERALL - although the little indicator above suggests 9.5 as an overall score - for me this has to be a 10. Sure the kissing was a bit tame (especially in the bed scene), but other than that it was such a well acted, beautifully cute and low drama story that to not give it a 10 would be criminal. HIStory: Right or Wrong is a MUST WATCH for any BL fan.....in fact anyone who loves a decent love story and can look past the bad kissing.
STORY - the story was very good. There was an age gap of about 11 years and a child from a previous relationship for the character Shi Yi Jie (wonderfully portrayed by Jiang Chang Hui - aka Steven). He also had an ex-wife but, without adding spoilers, I can't say much more on her. The younger character Fei Sheng Zhe (played by the very cute Zhang Xing - aka Hunter) was the right balance of emotionally damaged (due to traumas at high school) wariness and desperate to love, nurture and be loved in return soft-heartedness. His relationship with Yi Jie's daughter, Yo Yo, was wonderful too. It had a happy ending and never left you feeling disappointed. the last scenes definitely made me smile...but a teary one of happiness.
ACTING/CAST - here's why I only gave this 9.5.......the KISSING. Seriously, I know that Hunter was the young and inexperienced student, they're straight men in RL and all that - but guys come on, kiss PROPERLY. They're supposed to be besotted with each other and yet the kisses (on hunter's part to be fair to Steven) was just VERY tame. Hunter seemed determined to keep it to the always disappointing 'lip bumping' no matter what Steven tried to do to make it more realistic. That is the ONLY reason I gave it a 9.5; the wife's character was a nutjob anyway, so any overacting there can be forgiven. The storyline was a lot for a little girl to take on and understand, so a major pat on the back for the little girl who played Yo Yo; she did a really good job. The other two characters who were Sheng Zhe's student friends were also well portrayed.
MUSIC - the music was good; the ending song was the best. It didn't have the catchiness that the songs from series one did - but they were still good and I liked the ending song in particular.
REWATCH VALUE - well, I've already watched the last three episodes three times so I can definitely say that it's 10/10. What I did like a LOT was the hugging, little touches, affection and cuddling that was included - I have a gay cousin and I know she's like that with her partner; it's not always all sex and passion. the LGBT community have the same companionship and affection side of their love as we do,and it was so genuinely nice to see it properly portrayed for once. It's one of the reasons for me rewatching the last three episodes almost on repeat.....it made those episodes the cutest of the eight.
OVERALL - although the little indicator above suggests 9.5 as an overall score - for me this has to be a 10. Sure the kissing was a bit tame (especially in the bed scene), but other than that it was such a well acted, beautifully cute and low drama story that to not give it a 10 would be criminal. HIStory: Right or Wrong is a MUST WATCH for any BL fan.....in fact anyone who loves a decent love story and can look past the bad kissing.
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