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Imperfect Victim chinese drama review
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Imperfect Victim
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by roro4
Aug 8, 2023
29 of 29 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 8.0
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 8.0
This review may contain spoilers

Strong start, weak in the middle onwards

This was an interesting watch that shed some light on the MeToo movement. Here are some good and bad things I like about this drama; I like that it has a good and strong start that allows viewers to see that what you see is not what you think. Our protagonist is the "imperfect victim" ZS. She is the young 25-year-old Sr.Assistant to the antagonist, Boss Chen Gong. ZS got her position because the boss likes her, he woo her and chase after her because she is a beautiful girl. With that said, she does everything with him; accompanying him to company dinner hangouts and drinking with men. She is young, naive, and inexperienced. This is by no means saying that she is stupid because she is not. Chen Gong is powerful, rich and is the boss at the company that ZS works at; he likes her beauty and promoted her to Senior Office Assistant (which is a position that usually takes about 5 years to get to), but for ZS it only took her 3 months after being an intern at the company; she was promoted through her connection with the boss and plus he likes her. He gifted her good luxury brands, like clothes, a company suite, and purses. Throughout the drama, ZS is unapprehensive about being alone with Chen Gong. On the night of the r***; she drank heavily at the company dinner and got drunk. Chen Gong took her home and laid her on his bed; she even told her she wants to go back to her house. He ignored her words, and instead took her back to his place. On that night, Chen Gong's bodyguard follows them and makes an anonymous call to the police that ZS is being raped. Police arrived at the scene and the drama begins from there.

At the very beginning, ZS is in a complicated mess and contradict herself between her visions of truths. I like how the drama is good at showing that not one version is the truth, and also good at showing literally what is the "Imperfect Victim," and its meaning in the drama. As the plot unfolds, ZS became a victim of her voice and treading the line of her words against his (Chen Gong's words). To sum it up, I like how the drama starts off strong, with good acting, and the ending song was nice too.

LinKai played by the actress was good and her delivery lines were amazing!!! She definitely knows her craft since she's a veteran actress. Chen Gong is also played by a veteran actor and he played it well. The captain policewoman was amazing!!! Basically, all the older actors played great here. ZS played by Jelly did a good job too. I saw her in one drama, and here she really improves her acting. I also like KangHui and YinZhang.

What I didn't really like is that this drama was longer than it needs to be; because it was draggy from the middle to the end. In some episodes, it seems like filler, and the plot was slowly moving along. I think YinZhang's gf plot was too long to tell; although I can see why it's in there. Other than the drama being too long, overall it was good. 7.7/10.

Definitely watch this drama with an open eye, and trust the process.
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