Gu Jin Nan Qiu (2025)

It's a comedy, right?

Gu jin nan qiu, what can be said? Don't! Unless you have 3 min to spare and need a good laugh at the pure absurdity of every episode. If not, don't. This is the worst. Waste of effort on both parties. The entire production and the viewer. I will admit I stuck around when I switched from viewing it as a drama and turned it into a comedy. Only then it became bearable. Special mention of the volatile cousin and the security guard. One pranced around like a vindictive prima donna and the other a bumbling clown. Yes, heavy on the melodrama.

I'm leaning towards the idea that the director gave them free reign to do whatever they wanted. Nothing and I do mean nothing was cohesive, consistent or rewarding in any way. Had they got a better script, toned down the cousin's erratic melodrama, kept the meter at the other three actors and built from there, it might have been passable. Even though the budget was limited. This was the lowest of the low.

Visuals were there. OK, one good thing. Seriously, do better. Yes, there is an audience for China bl. There will never be an audience for chaotic absurdity aka crap. The open ending created a bit of interest within the chaos but still lost.

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You know what? I ate this thing up

I’ve been putting this off but here it goes: I liked it. I really liked it. I’m comically putting 10 stars for everything, because the show was likewise comically ridiculous. Matching energy.

With bigger budget, more actors, solid post-production, and longer script, this would have eaten the same way revenged love ate. It didn’t, but I saw the potential, and loved every cringy moment. It has all the cliches, all the phrases I like.

I literally cannot wait for the second season. I hope it comes out soon. One of the actors served a five-course meal and I hope I’ll see him in other works in the future. (You’ll have to give the drama a chance to know which one I mean.)

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Chinese bl

I have watched seven episodes so far and it is not as awful as some have reviewed. I am enjoying it and yes production could be better but these young men are starting their careers and learning their craft so I am all for giving them a go and their acting is fine. After 4 episodes you have to pay to see it but that’s fine as the series is quite interesting! Chinese bl are being broadcast internationally now thanks to filming in other countries so let’s support all bl good and average. Episodes could be longer but maybe next time they will produce a longer bl.

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abuse

Overall: abusive characters were abusive. 18 episodes about 5 minutes each. Aired on 欧芝居 YouTube channel https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNYcOUpIAiIkfPSoVrxOT8YDD3V2rjs-m&si=MymiwAhc6uAAmY_X

Content Warning: multiple slaps, held against will, sexual assault, past child abuse, coercion, repeated rape, drugging, suicide shown, past deaths/murder, blood

What I Liked
- episodes 10, 11 and 12 up to 3 minutes
- I did chuckle when the bodyguard interrupted 2 guys kissing and the 1 guy punched the bodyguard

Room For Improvement
- the side couple was terrible, repeated abuse then a ray of niceness and even after the guy is awful the other guy suddenly loves him, super sad that he killed himself
- a main character is 17 years old and the other character destroyed something he loved on purpose, slapped the 17 year old and treated him like crap for a lot of the series
- are they biological brothers? step brothers? (hoping it's step brothers, update, I was never clear what they were)
- character shows up in episode 17 to do an exposition dump

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This damaged my last brain cells?

I watched this obviously cz i was done with all the good ones, thought I'd probably find a hidden gem. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh it was soo bad. I finished ep 1 struggled to finish 2. The direction sucks, story sucks and acting sucks too. There is not 1 redeeming thing in this drama.
I've watched some short dramas and i know they don't usually have the quality of the normal dramas but this was worse than the chinese dramas we see on tiktok, insta or those drama apps. The funniest part is you can't see the actors face like they show it for a sec and then change the shot soo fast 2 eps in and i could only see the step brothers face. Had to pause to get the cousin and the mc's face.... also the summary for the drama is that a summary or the whole story?? A sad ending?? For a horrible drama??

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