Eh, I really think it's okay. The plot is indeed too dull, and Aomei's performance is sometimes slightly inconsistent in the dark and retro overall atmosphere, but the characters in Zola's original work are deeply rooted in psychology, and the ending is logical and shocking. Some viewers said that Therese fell in love with Laurent too suddenly, but in fact, Therese's cheating was largely her counterattack against her long-standing suppressed life. Laurent doesn't have to be Prince Charming, he just needs to be an outlet.
Some passages and lines are quite bright. For example, "We were married the moment I stepped into the boat", Therese's quarrel with Laurent after going to the pub to get drunk, and the frank meeting of the grudge couple at the end. Also, Oscar is so handsome, so handsome, so good at acting. That unabashed selfishness has a primal attraction instead. Laurent is a character with no moral sense, he's a sort of uneducated savage, and he even has a rightly innocent look on his face when he talks about the murder plan, and that's how you don't hate this character.
Thinking about it another way, if Therese hadn't been able to let go of the sins committed by the two, Paris Pan Jinlian and Ximen Qing would probably have lived a life of "kiss you from neck to thigh" three times a day. When I think of the sentence in Qingchuan's novel, "Murder to kill, save people to live", I feel that it is indeed very instructive. As to how much difference there is between being condemned by conscience after doing evil and not being at all concerned after doing evil, that is another question.
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