Fall in Love With Me (2014)

I wish I'd read all the reviews before I started it ... then I wouldn't have.

Story: I almost dropped this after a couple episodes because it was a bit too silly, but stuck with it because I've come to expect some silly from shows like this - for example, Love Family. Then it started to get better before falling off a cliff and that's when I skipped the last third of it and jumped to the very end just to see how it wrapped up. The first half was just fair, the second half was very poor.

Acting: Kudos to Aaron Yan for being able to play two totally different characters and actually pulling it off well enough that you almost forget its the same person. I wish I could say the same for Tia Li, while she did a great job of being pretty that was about all she did well. Beatrice Fang really pulled off a multi-sided and continually evolving character well.
Karen Wang created a very enjoyable character in Miao Miao and it's sad to see she's done nothing else in the 6 years since. I hope she's okay and returns to acting. Jack Li's character Leo was rather wooden but I'll blame that on the writers and director because I've seen him do much better.
Chen Bo Zheng was great (as usual) as Fu Bo, I wish that hadn't reduced the role in the second half. Isa Hsieh was excellent as the mom.

Music/Technical: The music was fair but the sound people seemed to have a problem controlling the volume of it, it got so loud at times I turned the sound down on the TV only to have to raise it when dialog began.
Editing was quite jumpy at times, some scenes were either cut short or missed the beginning by a second or two.

There is no rewatch value, I couldn't even watch all of it the first time.

I don't recommend this drama, there's a lot of good moments in it but they're outweighed by the bad and mediocre one.

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