Amensalism (2020)

I'm all for enigmatic, metaphorical dramas where you're never entirely sure what's happening. Hey I was one of the few people who loved A Piece of Your Mind and I still think that Someday or One Day was this year's best drama (and one of the best ever made).

So with a title of 'Amensalism' and an intriguing premise involving death dreams, I decided to overlook the terrible acting of Prince and tune in. It started off okay with a kind of dreamy and ambiguous tone. Prince was... actually even worse than usual, which I didn't think was possible... but it was interesting enough to get me through the first few episodes.

Unfortunately, overall, the show is a thematic mess and the plot is even worse. Having watched to the end, I honestly couldn't tell you what it was even about. A huge part of the plot was taken up with a conspiracy completely unrelated to the male lead's dreams or his near death experience. I squinted and cocked my head sideways but still couldn't see how 'Amensalism' factored into any of the relationships depicted.

Worse than that, the show undermined its own mythology more than once for head-scratching "twists" that the show could have done without. It also assassinated one character very badly and then expected both the other characters and the audience to forgive her the next episode. In the end, it came down squarely on the side of a standard predestined romance with a crime thriller complication.

Overall, Amensalism was an unfocused mess and I don't recommend it.

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Great Tdrama

If you are into good looking actors, Wang Zi is a heart throb. The cast members are too a great looking crew. The story line is interesting and very intriguing. The storyline touches on a very interesting concept that we can be in touch with a future event and there is nothing we can do about it. If Einstein is correct, and we beat the time spectrum, we may beat time. However it is not possible today, and I am not sure if parallel universes exist. But that is not this storyline but worth thinking about.

Don’t listen to stupid reviews. Don’t know why these people take their own bad day on a great T-Drama. Love Wang Zi. Love the T-drama. I looked to see if there are other Wang Zi Dramas I could watch. I already saw Attention, Love! And that was hilarious which brought me here. Good viewing

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An oddity

There are plenty shows which start well and then, after a couple or so episodes, go downhill. This show is one of them. Though the final episodes somewhat improve after very boring middle.

What's odd, though, is that acting is rather OK at first but then gets worse instead of improving.
I'm not sure who is to blame. The screenwriters, who took an interesting premise and barely made use of it throughout the show focusing on flashbacks, pointless details and stilted dialogues instead, the director, who hardly helped the cast to deal with the tepid script, or the editor, who often failed to combine the scenes into a coherent, flowing story.

The music was nice though.

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Good Enough

" Amensalism " had a good mystery, but the rest of the drama was boring.

The story about how everyone was connected to the past mystery case was quite solid. And, it would have been a really good drama if they had stuck to that one, and didn't add other plot lines that were underdeveloped. Also, the cases, in the beginning, were interesting, but they were too few.

The romance, on the other hand, was weak, as was the love triangle. Actually, the second lead was more interesting than the main male one. The other side characters were always overlooked and they had no story or actual personality, which is unfortunate, as the team was entertaining. The villains, finally, were predictable and too cliche.

The performances, lastly, was just okay. And the CGI horrible.

So, overall, five out of ten.

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I really wanted to like this series a lot more. It was okay but had the potential to be even better. I thought it was like the series “while you were sleeping.” But that’s not the case. It does have an interesting twist to it but the acting/script or chemistry was off. It really just seemed strange to me. It felt like something was missing but I couldn’t put my finger on it and because of that it just seem like the entire series was a flop for me. I know many people may disagree with me but the first few episodes was really good but then something went wrong.

Let’s start with the fact that our female lead is looking for clues to an accident to prove her families innocence. She discovers a piece of evidence that opens a whole new door and without thought she blames on me or lead who was just as young as she was when it occurred.

One thing that I do not like is the forced conflict. You know the type of conflict where the persons reaction is a bit far-fetched for the situation or when they point blame at someone who is absolutely not at fault. But they break up with them and blame them and maybe even slap their face like they were at the root of it all. I couldn’t like it after that.

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Comecei a assisti de forma despretensiosa, apenas por ter gostado da imagem da divulgação. Assistindo, observei que algumas cenas de estúdio ficaram um pouco comprometidas pela iluminação e caracterização, dando aparência de limitações da produção. O drama, em seus episódios iniciais, apresenta algumas cenas tão absurdas que tem nuances cômicas. A velocidade e dinâmica do drama, somados as atuações harmônicas dos atores são pontos bem positivos. Já ri muito, já chorei um pouco, fiquei completamente envolvida com a história e ansiosa pelos próximos episódios, pois é somente o começo.

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Only last episode I liked

Story start with good note . Two life entangled because one's exchanged his life with other .
But with starting drama I started loosing interest . Not connected myself with story . Every episode was little boring . First after watching few episodes I decided to drop but I want to know that why was he in difficult situation ,why he gave to choose to live with an exchange of another person life who he hated the most ,why such thing comes in his dream when he was abou to dies ,there was a type of power which trap him and last of the episode the power will reveal why it put him such a situation ,from where the power came . So just so much curious I decided to watch till end but it was no use only half of the reason had been revealed but nowhere had shown that why he had been given choice . This had been shown that to live he had to make choice but who give him this choice and why he had been put into such dilemma . He is not a bad boy then why he had been put into difficult .
So as a whole I don't like this drama mush . Even the love story was not come out in a good way .

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This drama has a very intriguing story like and I fell in love with the suspense!! I would definitely recommend this drama to those who like action and romance. So far the drama is doing a great job not dragging any episodes.

As for the acting, Lorene Ren is doing a phenomenal job at portraying her character. Prince Chiu(Wang Zi) does have moments where is acting is a bit awkward but after watching Attention, Love! Where I first got to know about him, I definitely see how much he has improved.

The girl (I can’t remember her name) who was pretending to be Fei Fei DID SUCH AN AMAZING JOB, I had chills all over. She did an AMAZING job and that episode had be on the edge of my feet.

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