Half a year ago I was watching "The sword and the brocade" as my second chinese costium drama. After the trauma from "Oh My Emperor!" I didn't expect to go into the chinese period piece once again, but here I am!" The Glamorous Imperial Concubine" is my next take and I was happy to watch it. Drama was definately more complicated than the previuos one ?

It started out quite typical - royal family, happy princess that hates rules who finds a man that also hates it and wants to marry her badly. Then the tragedy happends ....
It makes princess to enter real-life and story becomes more serious and tense. She meets Meng Qiyou who needs someone to help him in his kingdom. That requires Ma Fuya to become seductive ? and fierce. The preparations and first days in the Shu kingdom are interesting and you think that it will stay like it till the end... Not really.... ?Somewhere around episode 30 we have sudden drop. No fun, no drama, no excitement anymore. Its just death after tragedy after death... boooooo

Unfortunately "The Glamorous Concubine" is an example of overly streched drama with too many side characters. It's a pity because the story was interesting and they could have make an amazing drama out of it. Acting was really good, the raw plot had a lot of potential, they had outstanding outfits, superb locations but it all went to s*** with too many side characters and stories and too few logical connections. They had so much to make this drama epic but didn't use much of it. I'm looking forward to see Ruby Lin (Ma Fuya), Yan Yikuan (Meng Qiyou), Wallace Huo (Liu Lian Cheng) and Jennifer Hung (Ma Xiangyun) in other shows as I find them as good actors ?

As a whole drama is not bad but I cannot rate otherwise as 5,5/10 as its far too complicated with billion background stories. It is even hard to say what I liked .... There was too much happening and I have one big chaos in my head.