The Day of Becoming You

Stubbled across this drama and totally enjoyed and loved it. LOVE STEVEN ZHANG since Skate into love. The emotions and comedy displayed are on point. A must watch. Enjoy.

I have started this show for comedy and to feel at ease. There are lots of lots of humour. Obviously, Zang's acting is again superb. He is cute and hot at the same time. Female lead has also done a great job. Yes, It is a supernatural theme based series. But trust me it will leave you with more than that.

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. After watching last episode, watch first 5 mins of the 1st episode.

The American body swapping shows have always been film length. I never dreamed it could play out for 28 episodes and be so much fun to watch. Steven Zhang and. Liang Jie are adorable down to their almost imperceptible gestures.. The writing, acting and OST are great. And its in Chinese !

Overall I liked it but the very beginning and the very ending about the book confused me. That entire section could have been removed and I think the show would have been better. The female lead was good, the male lead was fine but not a lot of charisma. He looked so young that I kept thinking he was too young for her when in reality he was only one year younger than the female lead. They were good enough that I did feel for them but their chemistry together was more of friends than lovers. There were glimpses of that passion but not enough to really make the story come alive. I did like the bestie and the parents of the female lead but overall it lacked something that I can't quite put my finger on.

I mean...WOOOW!!

I have been keeping this on my watchlist for a while and I was delaying it not knowing if I would enjoy it or not. The whole body swapping thing has been so used and repeated I thought it was going to be too cliché and boring... oh boy! How wrong I was!

Everything about the show feels fresh.

The pace of it is fast and there's always something going on with many twists and funny entanglements, so it's never dragging or boring. 26 episodes for a Chinese drama seems like an unbelievable dream but they got it perfect ( hopefully they repeat formula).

The chemistry of the main leads is something I haven't seen in dramas ( korean or Chinese) in a long time ( maybe since Something in the rain or You are my Glory) . They are so believable as a couple you can feel the passion in their gaze, their emotions and longing, even just by looking at each other's eyes.

I also enjoyed the fact that there is no toxic or unnecessary love triangle.

Oh, and, have I mention THE KISSES?? Finally a drama where they actually kiss and don't do those dead fish eyes kisses that makes the actors look silly.

The script is simple yet concise and straightforward, and it has a few dialogues where it actually very important values shine through, criticizing how the fans in asian countries behave irrationally or sexism in society discriminating women. I didn't expect this from a rom com so it was a pleasant surprise.

Im not going to lie, towards the end I was a bit less interested thinking it would have the very much expected cliché ending and then suddenly in matter of seconds the world of the drama completely changed and shifted changing not only the narrative but the genre of the drama!! What started being a sci-fi rom-com was suddenly not!?!? It's the most unique and original ending I have seen in a while!

There are so many good things I can say about this show but trust me, watch it, you won't regret it.