Jian Hun

Dreadful but fun BL mini drama

Another completely biased review from me to you. Warning, spoilers ahead.

File this one under its so awful it's good? Why did I finish watching this? I guess solely for the 2 MLs. They are both just lovely. Hair/makeup/ wardrobe are 😘

I really enjoyed the first 2 episodes with the 2 MLs. I mean, it was bad but funny. 🥰
But then episodes 3 and 4 they threw in some really really REALLY terrible actress playing a seductive toddler who keeps trying to rape one of the MLs and ick. 🤮Yeah, really, she does that. Luckily he is rescued in time by the other ML! Love his line: "Serves you right for lusting after women" 🤣

I watched this on youtube where they combined 2 short episodes into one slightly less short episode. So maybe something got lost during the combination, but between each double episode there is an obvious gap. One episode the 2 MLs are somewhere chatting and then boom next episode they are someplace completely different in the middle of another scene that makes no sense!

Special shoutout and kudos to the set designer for episodes 19-20. I've not seen anything that looks like an old timey Star Trek episode quite like that cave scene with the moving boulders. 🪨Thank you! I haven't laughed so much in a while! 🤣

I loved the ending. Yes, lame as hell, but even with 'modern' hair they both look pretty! 🥰😘

So is it worth it? I had fun watching it! It didn't take up much of my time or brain cells. ⌛🧠 Bad acting and sets and music and all! The 2 MLs really were pretty together.😍 I would love to see them again in something that gives them a bit of room to stretch! Would I watch it again? Hells no, they are pretty but not THAT pretty! 🤣

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Entertaining, Enjoyable and Escapism par excellence

I downright fall under the spell of certain themes in either movies or series. This series had two of my favorites. Time travel and swashbuckling epic times full of exotic and romantic lore, legends, and traditions. And especially given my naïve Western upbringing, I am heart and soul smitten by Chinese fable and mythology. This series transported me back into time, like with the character, where I too could imagine myself beside them. This is a very short series and fast paced. The editing is very abrupt, and it feels as if a lot of the story is ‘missing’. While the narrative flows linearly, how it gets there is perplexing. Transitions between scenes are choppy and there seems to be gaps. But honestly, the acting is very good as well as the cinematography. The special effects were both good and bad, in the sense they were sometimes amateurish. The costumes were excellent and so were the overall scenes. This is a very enjoyable way to spend an hour of escapism. For those of us who still dream and use this as our flight of fancy, it was captivating and romantic. Perhaps I got too carried away, but I do not care. I am smiling as I write this. I think you will smile also.

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