P.S. Man

I was intrigued by the description of the series, and since I have some time off again for a while after a long and unforgiving semester, I went for it. After a long dash, another Taiwanese series watched. Starring the schmuck who’s amazing in Autumn’s Concerto, here it stinks to high heaven – first points down, and it doesn't end there. What I didn't like: dear Amanda using her child as a tool for emotional blackmail, the main character is such a good-looking duck that I felt like knocking her front teeth out while watching, the duck-heroine was being courted by two princes who did nothing but bicker for 16.5 episodes and did so in no interesting or funny way, the side stories didn’t hook me at all, and so on until at Episode 11 I was wondering where I would find the strength to finish the whole series, because I was not interested at all, but I gave it a go (I admit, sometimes I helped myself with the mouse and time skipped ahead...), towards the end they added a bit of business and bad family relations to the love story – of course, they had to stretch the boredom with more boredom... but what I don't understand is why the two of them didn’t just get on with "it" much much earlier? They loved each other dearly, but they weren't together because... of course, they had to fill those 21 episodes somehow. Aside from the fact that I was desperately bored for over three quarters of the series, that remaining one quarter contains some really nice scenes, some pretty mature behavior from the heroine in the beginning (she doesn't balk at things that make other heroines scream and cover their eyes), and a pretty nice soundtrack. I guess the biggest problem in my very negative view of the series is that I absolutely couldn't connect with any of the characters, they all seemed boring, flat, without a decent bit of character, and with thinking that really only fits in a soap opera. Once you can't relate to them in a story like this, it's over. Amen. A weaker 2 stars. (15.06.2013)