E Mo Zai Shen Bian

It's 20 episodes long, and anyone who expects the main characters to get together in the last one is sorely mistaken. They've been snarling at each other since the first episode and I think by the second, at most the third, they're already together, already "dating". This show hasn't stopped surprising me, I was expecting this kind of tired drama: "he sees her hugging someone, she sees him doing the same and wham, there's already a misunderstanding, wham, there's already a big drama", but no, that doesn't happen... yes, jealousy is there, and when the other person hugs someone, the characters usually use the gift of speech and talk, which is fine, because that's what any sane person would do, right? Talk to the other person, explain how it was. They all play on "directness" here, so the viewer has no doubt about who is with whom and for how much ;-))) The only thing I was occasionally annoyed by was the camera, sometimes IMHO rather inappropriately chosen points of view. In the middle I thought I would give it 3 stars, by the beginning of the 16th episode I was confirmed in that, because who cares about the love of some professor, a teacher from the heroine's past? I certainly don't, but then the episode took off. It changed the mood and kind of sucked me in. And lo and behold, episode 20 is here. It's fun, it's dramatic (but nothing over the top), it's just occasionally hokey (especially the scenes where the heroine is knitting gloves...). I think there are some scenes I would happily and willingly watch again. And having a devil like that next to me... well, it wouldn't be bad. (06.11.2009)