When is a woman in a domestic urban life drama most tantalizing? It's when she doesn't want to fall in love. It's just that these moments are so short that women in Chinese dramas are either in love, out of love, or on their way to love.
The best part of "Happiness Please Wait for Me" is that Niu Yi Yi Wang Caihong has fallen out of love with all of her friends, plus a friend who was divorced ten years ago, and the three of them have formed an "alliance of the lost". In this alliance, there is no hierarchical difference between each ally, every day gags, together is to figure out how to kill time, how to make their own cool.
So you can't say that the writers of Chinese dramas don't understand women and girlfriends. Chances are they do, but they're just pretending to be confused. They have functionalized the girlfriends' love and simplified it into a small dessert to help you heal, help you help, help you be happy, and the ultimate staple is still the man. When I think about it, I can't help but feel a little sad that domestic urban dramas really don't keep up with the times, and nowadays, even square dancers understand that it's not necessarily your partner, but your companion, who can make you happy.
There is a part of the TV series that I really enjoyed watching, that is, the "lost marriage alliance" collectively ran to the mountains to practice, and the result is that Wang Caihong and Niu Yi Yi are starving, and stealing a barbecue chicken is also eating the stomach to eat bad. Niu Yi Yi drove Wang Caihong to the hospital, stopping countless times along the way, she complained that if there were cameras, she would have been fined and punished to death, and Wang Caihong said that if there were cameras, she did not know how many times she had exposed herself. There is no avoidance between the two women, and no need to be polite, just so sashaying along. The original is a great aunt little daughter-in-law relationship, now become "girlfriends", become a friend together hand in hand through the hurdle of divorce. Later on, Wang Caihong got drunk and told Niu Yiyi the story of her childhood. Her parents died in an accident, and she had to raise her younger brother all by herself. She didn't dare to marry a man with good qualifications, thinking that he was not down-to-earth. When she met her current husband, the introducer asked her if she liked him. She said she liked it very much, but later said she didn't really like it that much, she just thought it was insurance.
"Insurance" is something that is too important, and is really embedded in the heart of every domestic TV drama writer. It's not until you understand this "insurance" that you can see why they can't write a good women's drama.
Maybe some "traditional" concepts still need to be maintained by them. For example, friendship between women can be insured for a while, but love between a man and a woman can be insured for a lifetime. It doesn't matter if you are entrusted to someone else, it's just like social security, just renew it with someone else.
I've seen some of the clips from the back of "Happiness Please Wait for Me" and the overall feeling is that it's too farcical and dramatic. The writers are only illustrating that no matter how much of a whirlwind a woman has lived before marriage or after divorce, life always has a worldly love affair in store for them. Or, like "Happiness Please Wait for Me", arrange several of them, which also include trials and tribulations of emotions that inevitably won't come to fruition.