Perfect Match (2025) - Final Review

Final review/rating: Perfect Match (2025) - On the ties that bind and finding perfection in the imperfect 

This is 7.5/10 stars ✮✮✮✮✮✮✮✮  from Pandafan🐼

Overall rating:         7.5 Stars Plot:                       7 Stars Acting/cast:            7.5 Stars Couples chemistry:  7.5 stars Music:                    7 Stars Re-watch value:      7 Stars Enjoyment factor:   7.5 Stars

If Perfect Match (2025) was a novel, it could have begun as follows: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a mother in possession of five unmarried daughters must be in want of five good son in laws." However, the drama may not be everyone's cup of tea because it is a fairly blunt portrayal of the Northern Song marriage mart, warts and all. 

Whoever came up with the English drama title did the drama no favours (or was being rather tongue-in-cheek?) because Perfect Match (2025) is not a fluffy romcom in which perfect people pair up neatly. 

Instead, it explores conventional romance tropes with imperfect people. It is almost as if the drama is testing how much it can get away with in making each of the leads unlikeable in some way, though the way the drama is structured means you can pick and choose the trope/pairing of your liking. At the same time as the drama takes us through each of the Li sisters' path to domestic felicity, it also looks at the ties that bind and what it means to be family. 

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Perfect Match (2025) - Synopsis

 

Drama info:

Title:                      Perfect Match 

Chinese title:         五福臨門 / 五福临门 

                              (Eng translation: "Five blessings come to this house")

Episodes:               36

Genre:                    Family, slice of life, romance, multiple couples

Original network:  Mango TV

Release date:        25 Jan 2025

Airing schedule:    25 Jan 2025 - 11 Feb 2025

Synopsis:

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a mother in possession of five unmarried daughters must be in want of five good son in laws.