My Top Ten Favourites

Beautiful and well crafted. Cried every episode.

Lavish, interesting and cerebral. I adored the attention to detail, especially the medical scenes. And the director and cinematography was genius. The show’s confusing when you first watch it. But when the pieces start to fall into place you can appreciate it far more. It’s an amazing sci-fi thriller first, BL second.

Great costumes (especially for the main cast) and brilliantly acted. Xiao Zhan kicks it out of the park. Some CGI and practical effects look terrible. This show’s censorship removes the necromancy elements and jumps through hoops to make sure the resentful corpses are not actually the undead - this might cause confusion if you are still reading the novels. Wei Wuxian is de-fanged and the nuance of his bad choices are transposed on other characters to make him seem like a ‘better’ person.

Several continuity errors. But a sweet romance, good acting and generally entertaining. The misunderstanding is suitably heartbreaking and believable for the characters’ personalities (stubborn and immature versus closed off).