Abraço na Noite Escura (2024)

Este é um daqueles dramas que entretém, e que é bom, mas definitivamente não é um dos melhores que assisti. A história é muito boa, principalmente toda a trama sobre a irmã da protagonista e a sua busca pela verdade acerca da sua morte. Apesar de ter gostado muito dessa fase do drama, não entendi o porque dele ter começado com um história e depois ter mudado para outra história. Tipo, primeiramente estávamos naquele contexto em que a protagonista havia sido sequestrada e o ML era o seu "protetor". Porém depois a história virou outra, com ela buscando saber sobre a morte da irmã, em um cenário e contexto completamente diferente. Pareceu que eu estava vendo dois dramas diferentes e um não tinha relação nenhuma com o outro. Apesar disso, acho que as duas fases foram boas no quesito história.
A atuação, não achei ruim. Não é a melhor de todas, mas também não é péssima.
Já quando falamos dos personagens... Primeiramente, gostaria de dizer que não entendi como depois de ser sequestrada e colocada pra assistir uma luta de um monte de macho em troca do seu corpo, a protagonista continuou com aquela expressão plena. Além disso, ela e o protagonista estavam sendo vigiados o tempo todo e ela simplesmente estava tranquila, como se nada estivesse acontecendo. Não entendi isso.
Sobre o ML, achei ele bastante tóxico, mesmo que, depois da minha experiência com dramas republicanos, já ter visto coisa pior. Às vezes, ao assistir as cenas, me perguntava se estava vendo uma versão asiática de Cinquenta tons de cinza, com um protagonista estilo Cristian Grey, ou lendo uma fanfic de dark romance (não que seja ruim) O homem só sabia empurrar a mulher na parede e amarrar ela. Não sei se isso é tão romântico quanto deveria parecer, apesar dos beijos serem legais. Além da falta de comunicação, é claro, que parece ser uma regra nos dramas.
A OST realmente elevou o nível do drama, fiquei completamente apaixonada pelas músicas e pelo fato delas realmente combinarem com a atmosfera do drama.
Por fim, após o final, acho que ficou bem óbvio que há a possibilidade de uma continuação e apesar de todos os pontos negativos que citei, adoraria ver até onde isso vai. Ah, e também gostaria de ver os atores em outros dramas. Só espero que, se resolverem fazer uma continuação, que o protagonista melhore um pouco seu comportamento e que tudo seja um pouco menos confuso.

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Equal Parts Scared and Excited

This drama… Oh, this drama. I don’t even know why I started this as I rarely watch present-day Chinese dramas, minis or otherwise, and most I do watch are because they have an actor I like. But I have to say, what a ride this has been. I would categorize this drama as a dark romance. The story has another one of those troupes where the male lead is basically screaming through his actions “I’m giving you trauma because I love you and want to protect you”. But this one had an added spiciness to it. A lot of it. Every time I read the title, I wondered if it was an analogy for us viewers to embrace the darkness of the show. This one definitely kept me wondering about my own moral compass…

The male lead becomes more and more unhinged as the story moves forward. The word psycho kept popping up in my head every time he did something. I’ll be honest, this man both scared and excited me. I never thought WX, the female lead, was the brightest crayon in the box, but I didn’t think she was a dumbass either. That is until around episode 10, I changed my mind then. Her actions had become particularly sloppy and it was clear she was winging it. This is not a situation where you just “wing it”. The male lead kept having to save her. Although, he was also working against her. If he had communicated with her, she probably wouldn’t have done some many things without thinking them through. Am I giving her too much credit? I am. Their dynamic mostly screamed of abusive relationship and even for me, some things were hard to watch.

The acting… Okay, so the actress portraying the female lead was terrible. She had mostly one expression throughout the whole show and that was scared bunny. She was also very stiff. All of the characters, villains included, were cartoonish versions of what a well depicted character of their type would be. This includes the main leads, although the main lead actor did act really well in a few scenes. Ling Yuan, the “second male lead”, if he can even be called that, was also unhinged. He was also as obsessed with our male lead as I was. In one scene, he laments he has to buy his own chocolates, as if he went through a break up with Xu Zhe Qing. Which to be honest, he kind of did. You can have break ups with friends also and these break ups sometimes hurt more than one with a partner. Should that have been as funny as I found it? Probably not, but I was dying from laughter. Also, the OST was perfectly chosen for this show. The songs echoed possession and being possessed and of danger lurking in every corner. I enjoyed that very much as I felt it was fitting. The show also ends in what can be considered a cliffhanger, but it can also be considered as a "their adventures continue" and I don't need to actually see, but am happy to imagine it.

Did I think this was a masterpiece? Not at all. Was it entertaining? Yes. Also, Did I mention it was spaaaicy? Because it was. If you try to make sense of how things happen in this drama, you will get a headache. However, if you watch it for what it is, mindless fun, you'll be wheezing from laughing so much.

Note: If you have a hard time watching abusive relationships and possessive male leads on screen, it would be best to skip this one.

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