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The Pavilion chinese drama review
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The Pavilion
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by Micha
Oct 23, 2021
12 of 12 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 7.5
Story 7.5
Acting/Cast 8.5
Music 7.0
Rewatch Value 7.0

Broken family through past happenings, can they heal?

While writing this review, I was listening to the comforting OST...although I have never really listened to the words, the music is mirroring my feelings of this drama and is giving me nice closure.

After watching the trailer, I knew what was coming at me and I was not surprised, great acting by many veterans, interesting characters and coloring and camera quality. The story, personally never had really big highs or lows, it had similar pace. I would not call it a suspense thriller. The characters had all many problems within themself and among themselves. I liked the family setting and could quickly feel for the characters. The first half of the drama was more a setup and more showing us the superficial problems. I would also say, it was weaker part of the drama. In the second part we really got to known the real problems, how deep the case from the past influenced all the people. Also how differently we saw the characters in the first half and maybe misjudged them and saw all the beginning in different light.

The police investigation was great, young police officer Li has shown his potential in asking good questions. Mi La, the young actress playing both Xuan Zhen and Nianmei, surprised me in the second half of the drama, because I found her acting weaker in the first half, but now I understand why she acted like that, the second part really shows all whys to both characters she was playing. The end, I like how the case finale was presented, how we learnt the truth through two different sources. But I didn't really like how they rolled out the end of both cases, not convincing enough, they could have show more of the trails earlier on.

In the end, the solving of the case really helped the whole family and people to grow, change and accept things, it helped them heal and finally put Xuan Zhen's lingering to peace. I enjoyed it, because this dramas was as I was expecting it to be.

12 episode to solve two cases and ... heal the broken family.
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