General's Lady (2020)

Fluffy romcom that had potential

It started off great! The FL was smart and crafty while the ML was cool but not completely blind to the FL's devotion. There were lots of cute fluffy scenes, pretty costumes and the story was progressing nicely. But around episode 15, the plot just started to get dull. If you can handle the "sometimes people in love do dumb things" trope then this drama might be watchable for you. The FL and ML created tons of misunderstandings on their own and it felt like the plot got sloppy. Problems were usually resolved in 1-2 episodes and didn't really have an impact on character development of the main cast....so I found myself skipping through the episodes up until the last episode. Yes it is a happy ending.

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Misunderstanding galore

8/9/2021

Let me preface this review by saying I am not a young (in age) viewer and have watched over 100 C-dramas. This might just not be the right fit for me. I enjoy romance, rom-com and historical dramas, so I thought I might like this. Unfortunately, I have to drop it. I watched 12 episodes and these episodes are filled with misunderstandings between the leads over and over again. It's one plot after another. The romance could have been good but it got too cheesy and immature. I've watched FL in "Chef Hua" and liked her OK, but I do not like her character here at all. She's supposed to be smart yet how can she not know the way she behaved in the army is going to cause all kinds of serious trouble? Being persistent in chasing ML is fine, but the way she's doing it is not OK at all. It's disappointing because I like the general plot of the drama and is a fan of forced-marriage-turn-love trope.

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Fantastic ML

Overall this drama did not failed me. Till now (ep9) the storyline, acting skills and overall production never failed me. There are a few Historical drama half way it derailed and i dropped it, but so far not this General's Lady. ML and FL have a very good chemistry to portrait their character. Especially the ML, very very good in his acting as a cold but warm hearted General. Caesar Wu well done. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. This is the first time I watch Caesar Wu's project, will definitely look back for his previous project. He is still young and can potrait a General character in such a manly, firm way. Very good future in his acting career.
FL, Tang Min, very cute. She has the right aura when she portrait as The General's wife. Her acting skill is superb. There are plenty good acting actress nowsaday but to have a right aura for a specific character only a handful. I might be wrong but this is just my opinion. I am a fan of Korean drama but lately i switched to Cdrama and an eye opening for me. There are plenty of nice and well rated drama. Conclusion, this drama is superb.

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average low-budget drama

Story and production:
A poor girl is forced to marry an "ugly and monstrous" general, but the marriage turned out to be a blessing. It sounds and is a very typical teen aimed drama imo.

It's a very average and low-budget comedy love historical drama. There's not much substance to review. Neither the love story or the comedy scenes have left an impression to me.

Acting: Average. Nither ML or FL have stood out to me.

There's really not much to tell imo. If you want to watch something without a lot of expectations or thoughts and you are a fan of historical drama, you might have a try.

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What a steaming pile of horseshit it was ...

We come across a lot of bad dramas.. but if you find the one that has everything that you possibly hate then a ranking or even 1 star feels very extra ...

Okay let's begin instead of writing boring paragraph I will put the entire review in points ..

1) below average/ average looking ML ... Say he is not bad looking but not very impressive either ... Flat face .. aloof expressions and annoyed ng character these are the things I can't tolerate in leads especially ML ..

2) the story is old fashioned ... There was absolutely nothing new about this story ..even the punches were old ... I expect scriptwriter/storywriter to atleast put something original or of their own ...but to my disappointment the dramas looks like someone wrote it by copying multiple drama script ..

3) unnecessary misunderstandings in leads and showing ML as Sigma FL as some annoying silly villager ... In my opinion this is the biggest turn off ...these days intelligent smart and independent FL are more in trend ... This story tried to deliver such FL character in the beginning after 2-3 episode she just turned some pushover ... Who has absolutely no self respect ...who forgives ML too easily ... Who has no regards for her dignity ...who keeps throwing herself on ML even when he clearly rejects her hints ... I HANDS DOWN CAN NEVER SUGGEST A DRAMA WHERE ML OR FL CHARACTER DONT DISPLAY A STRONG AND VALUABLE CHARACTER.

4)the flow of the plot which was very abrupt ... Like they are fighting like crazy in the one scene and they act all normal having dinner with each other in the next scene. Build up to connect the dots was very much missing and quite clearly visible

5) there was a lot of unnecessary screentime wasted on stupid scene. : you can literally sit on the skip button while watching it there were so much nonsense in between.

6) No SML : this story highly demands SML as the FML has a very introvert and secretive character to establish his character there is always a need to add a contrasting character that helps build a lot of sense to the story ... For example it help highlight the chemistry between FL ML

7) I slept like 4 times in between

8) no chemistry in lead

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Must have been one of those Grade C Cdramas

I was scrolling when this title came up. The synopsis looks promising, as it depicted how an unfavored noble daughter gets bethrothed to a seemingly evil general, fell in love at first sight and tries real hard to help her husband in solving problems her husband faces. Sounds like a strong FL who may not know any kungfu but bright in the head. I immediately imagined Ming Lan (from story of Ming Lan) type of character. I needed a breather after the fast paced and breathtaking ride of Legend of Shen Li which i just finished watching twice back to back. So I thought, 30 episodes, I can finish this quick, must have been fast paced too.

Boy did I get fooled. Instead I was met with one draggy episode after another, with an FL who is immature, stupid, childish, lack serious foresight, incredibly insecure and jealous girl who has no chemistry with the ML. The only strong point that she has is her skill of lock picking. Other than that she’s useless. I seriously pity the general character to have that unfortunate fate of falling in love with this stupid girl. I find it really stupid that she immediately thought that tribal princess wants to steal her husband, and when it’s all over, all misunderstandings settled, suddenly there’s another princess coming in and she immediately thought she was out to steal her husband too. My god i just had to drop the series when she shamelessly met with the princess in secret before her official arrival to the mansion. Immature, stupid, shameless. That’s all I see of this pathetic FL. Not her fault I guess as she was only going with the script. It’s lazy writing. I hated it. It could’ve been much better story. That’s what happens when You hire grade C scriptwriters I guess. I’m just mad cuz it could’ve been good and now I have to continue my search for a good series. Wasted almost 11 hours of my life. What a bummer.

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Me fez entrar no mundo dos dramas!

Confesso que comecei a assistir esse drama por conta do Caesar Wu, vi uma cena e achei ele muito lindo e resolvi assistir.
Um drama muito bem feito, tanto em questão de produção, atuação e além da história ser muito interessante. Esse drama te prender pela evolução da história de amor, na qual os protagonistas vão cada vez mais se conhecendo e se amando, além do mais tem todo um suspense e uma história por trás, sem falar nas lutas que acontecem que são bastante interessantes. O final tamnbém é muito interessante. E acabei por perceber no final que a história me prendeu e não somente pela beleza do ator principal como já havia falado. Foi o drama que me prendeu e me fez procurar por outros.

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ML is on my list of fave character!

Ghad! ML was so so so mwah! His character was so interesting. Like how he treats the situations and that phrase "I have a plan" shep! He has both sides which is why I freakin love his character. FL was not annoying. She understood the ML but still did not agree that he was right. Maybe not everyone likes that. That's why, some may not like it. Her resourcefulness and wit were underrated because of how she approached the situations but we can't deny that her wit saved them in things that were trivial and essential. I kinda like how compatible her attitude to the ML. AND DEFINITELY, how they handle each other! I was satisfied with how fast the pace was and it elaborated the topic like "After they fall in love, what's next?". The fast pace gave way to that plot and the confession was smooth... not much annoyance. For a light plot, I love this one. Smooth ride yet there's still a twist or thrill here and there.

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I took a wrong turn..

From the first episode, I thought I was gonna watch a combination of a heroic actions of the ‘demonic’ general and his wife fighting whatever they will have to fight including internal intrigues in the royal family. Having that in mind, I was hooked up until episode 10, when I realized that the story has not yet gone very far. With all the characters, acting and the likely storyline going forward, I decided to drop it.

For those seeking for a plain romance drama, this might be good one to watch. For an old timer wuxia fans like me, it’s a big no no.

Credit is for the theme song - it reminds me of those from the Legend of Yunxi and the Princess Agent. I also like Tang Min’s portrayal of her character - witty but elegant at the same time. The 10 scores are for the song writer and Tang Min.

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Weak storyline with never-ending attempts to be funny.

MDL has always been my reference for C-Drama, I always visit to check the rating & reviews of the dramas which I plan to watch and most of the time the overall ratings are in-line with the reality.. Well, except for this one, which made me decide to create an account in MDL only for writing a review.
The problem of this drama is not on the FL, she's just playing the role she's assigned to. There's no significance in the story, only unnecessary misunderstandings (without significant motives) which have been forced into the acts, the acting itself shows almost no emotions. There are a never-ending attempts to be funny but fail every time, they use these annoying background musics a lot trying to make the situation funny, for me that's really annoying these music keeps popping up in every casual scenes (non-serious) that makes it difficult to properly hear what they say.
If it's not funny, don't put those music to force it to look/feel funny, if it's really funny then it will be funny even better without those musics. If this mediocre story is served without those funny attempts maybe it still deserves 6 as the overall score.
The reason I didn't make an account for years while using MDL was because I believe the members here are better and more experienced in writing reviews, but thinking about it, that's very wrong because some people just put 10/10 for everything even when it's obvious not everything is 10/10 even if they liked the drama, that's the reason this one can receive 8.1 score when it's actually unbearable.
I won't drop it, not even skip it, because that's not how I watch movies. I'll finish this drama without even one sec skip, I promise I will change the score if it gets better to be fair, but I doubt it will.. Let's see then. If it stays the same then it means it only gets worse or it stays bad til the end.

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