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What was good -
1. The drama started off as quite an interesting story - the con man's tricks, intrigues, crimes, getting-aways etc. adding a lot of tempo and suspense. But only in the first 5-6 episodes. Then everything slowed down badly.
2. Some physiological moments in the beginning were well portrayed, eg.: - the mermaid following a man who does not even remember her, or trying to adapt to the world like learning to eat, etc. Was a promising beginning.
What was bad:
1. after 6 episode the drama slowed down badly, lost momentum, was dragging on and on.
2. it felt like in the middle of the shooting the producers decided t target a different audience - high school girls. here the drama began to lose on its maturity, slipping into nonsense cheesiness. Also It felt like a copycat of romantic scenes looked up in other high-ranking dramas.
3. the ending was extremely disappointing. Of course it had to end well, but possibly, avoiding all the typical romantic clichés and poor script logic. Was not intelligent or smart or interesting. Very predictable, have-seen-it already, too wordy.
4. The whole film one kept asking oneself - why mermaid? Why so much "kids book" magic? It could have been an exciting story if the female lead had some other physical defect or maybe even a weird psychic ability. The drama was unnecessarily "childishly magical" making is hard to watch for more mature audience. Can imagine lots of high-school mermaid emogies and stickers, but featuring in leading life style magazines - probably not so much.
All in ll, not a high flyer with western fans that usually prefer more realistic romance, higher tempo and more complex, intricate story lines.
score 3/10
janeta-21317 1 February 2017
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