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Ah, so cultural thing I was unaware of. And a damn sight more practical than pre-natal exams where the doctor pretty much fumbled around with his hands under a sheet because he shouldn't look at his patient's naked parts. (Which isn't actually respectful of the patient, in my opinion.)

Cultural question from Episode 7. When Bai Jue is healing Shang Gu with the water bead, he suddenly has a strip of cloth over his eyes. Is that so he doesn’t see her nekkid shoulder? (I know in the Victorian era, English doctors would do similar types of things when dealing with certain aspects of treating a female patient.)

But, seriously, Chang Ming did everything but twirl his mustache at the end.

Cute and left me with a warm fuzzy feeling. Not something I’m going to rewatch, though.

I’d been watching Court Lady and a few other dramas set in the period, so I suppose he looked at the costumes and made an assumption. :)

He’s been wandering in and sitting from time to time as I watch stuff, but this is the first time he’s actively watched from start to finish. We’re also big mystery fans, so I think this one hits his sweet spot. When we’re done, I’m going to look for another mystery series he might enjoy.

I laughed at your title because when my husband wandered into the room while I watching the first episode, he stared for a moment, then asked, “What is this? CSI: Tang Dynasty?”

FIve minutes later, he asks, “Would you mind starting over?” We now watch it together and are having a wonderful time. I can see the visual echoes of shows such as Sherlock, but they make any influences uniquely their own. Smart, funny, clever, a little weird, I’m enjoying it tremendously. (As is the husband, who’s never watched a C-Drama before. He swears he’s not starting, that it’s just this one. We’ll see.)

The plot armor is strong in this one.

When the Emperor was trying to uncover who had set up the lightning rod, I found myself getting the giggles when Consort Pearl's servant took poison, followed by the announcement several members of the Household Department had killed themselves, and topped by the news Dowager Consort Wang had died.

I don't think this was the reaction they intended.

Previews are often misleading. Their purpose is to drive the audience crazy enough that they're guaranteed to tune in. (Think of how many movie trailers have scenes that are in the film at all.)

No, didn’t see the second trailer. Might have hesitated a little if I had. At this point, though, we’re so close to the end, I’ll see it through.

And I don’t think the biggest sin is the tone change, but the center change. This is really more Fu Rou’s story in the middle of drama than a love story with Shu Mu. My rating is probably going to dip a little more after Saturday night. (I usually count 5 as “meh” on a scale of one to ten. Below that is various stages of bad. Above that is stuff which has some good qualities, even if the number is low enough I probably won’t watch it again.)

I’ve put a rating on it already, which was a 7.5 because they promised us RomCom in the opening episodes, only to switch to heavy historical family drama. I’m enjoying it, but they’re not following through on the promises they gave the audience when they started.

I know. I've been scouring the internet for it. The link to Amazon? Yeah, they don't have it.

There are moments I'm reminding myself this is a C-Drama, not a Jacobean Revenge play.

Thanks. Lets me know how to schedule time.

General question since I've never followed a drama "live" as it goes out, but been able to binge all episodes. With nine episodes left after today, will apps like iQiyi drop all the remaining episodes next week from Thursday to Sunday, with one day having three? Or will they make us wait until the next Thursday to get the last one?

My husband, who does not get why I enjoy C-Dramas, has gotten sucked into Imperial Coroner big time.

Looks like they will. Almost everyone else seems to have been tossed into a revenge play.

And there was much rejoicing.

We're close enough to the end I'll see this through. But it does feel as if they started one type of story and morphed into another.

That’s adeath which will have me yelling at the screen. I’ve become very fond of that pair.