Bullet Point Review: Everyone Loves Me

C-DRAMA (2024) | COMEDY, ROMANCE, YOUTH

Spoilers Ahead…

• Everyone Loves Me, without wasting words, is a straightforward, uncomplicated rom-com, which can be funny and interesting at times, but chiefly borders on being unremarkable and bland; that is, after you get past the first six egregiously awful episodes.
• The plot takes root when Yue Qian Liang (Zhou Ye struggling to make the most of the thin characterization) plans to pursue Gu Xun (an attractive Lin Yi), after she is smitten by him when he defeats her at a shooter game. After consulting her best friend and her online gamer friends (one of whom is coincidentally Gu Xun himself — because fate is always one step ahead of mere mortals in dramaland), she resolves to act naive and shy in order to attract Gu Xun (which is a 180 to her original tomboy-ish, loud, hot-tempered personality), because apparently that’s the type of girls, guys like. It’s a rom-com staple (a plot point in many Disney Channel movies, wherein we learn to love ourselves and stop pretending to be someone we are not, just to attract the hottest boy in class), but here, I wish there was some context provided to understand and empathize with Qian Liang efforts and not suffer constant second-hand embarrassment. For instance, Qian Liang herself is portrayed as a confident, bright, talented girl who is considered as one of the good-looking girls of her department, and, she knows it! And neither is it ever revealed that this personality of hers has…