Ep14-15. The woven bamboo mattress made me smile: I still use those when the heat gets too strong in summers, old habit going back to the years described in this drama, when air-conditioners were not as ubiquitous as today and sometimes people slept on balconies to get some air, because rooms were crematoriums, lol. Summer in the Dongbei can indeed be very hot, but Gu Yiran, with his sizzling name, the guy from "Yuedong", should not feel too uncomfortable.
The "new" computers with Windows 95 also made me smile in nostalgia, and the mention of Tetris! The period touches are nice, down to the quaint equipment on markets, the video seller, the arcade game parlor... Most of these belong to the forgotten past, now. Can young audiences relate to this?
The Chinese version of Auld Lang Syne could still bring people together from all parts of the world, going through the imported rite of birthday candle wish and adapting with fireworks. It was a nice moment of bonding for the team, despite the rift about appropriate moment for cracking down on a law breaker.
Zhang bei should just let Xiao hai be cos that man is a lost cause,him & his sister are too deep in the underworld…
No, Zheng Bei needs to keep Xiaohai close, as in the saying : keep your friends close and keep your enemies closer.... It's part of his job to have a way in to the underworld, as a cop.
The guy playing the villain is a PHENOMENAL ACTOR!!!!! I think he is the best actor in this show right now….
I too think Zhang Yu (actor who plays Jiang Xiaohai) is standing out ! :-) Gruesomely ruthless smiling character! Very skilled indeed, despite not very frequently playing in dramas (more in movies, apparently). Can't believe he is 41 when he plays as "younger" than "Bei" who is what, in his early 20s as a character here? (HJY is 31 in real life; WZQ is 28).
8.1 is not a bad score but from the comments I see people like it and would expect more. Someone give me reasons…
real reason : it's not a romance and one commenter on this page already was upfront on her dropping after first episode + down-rating to 6 for that reason. Then, some nitpickers who frown at drama tropes like sleuths use of shades when it makes them stand out and such small details, possible mismatch of lip movements in dubbing... They may or not subtract points, depending on their overall feeling. Lastly, it's still airing, so those who rate may be doing so provisionally, starting from 8 or 8.5 with a perspective to adjust later to hike it up or down (instead of rating episodes as they should and waiting to rate until it's ended or close to end - like I do. But perhaps I'll give it a 10 to boost it provisionally, adjusting or not later: honestly, it's not really ethical or scientific).
Xiaohai looks like an angel but has no qualms doing some pretty nasty stuff.... His Godfather and henchmen have no trouble bashing heads in and drowning gang members who did not toe the line. Not to say anything about Xiaohai's apparently mild sister.... On the positive side, he did save Zheng Nan, suddenly rising from apparent half sleeping to perform an impressive jump and kick in the back of her attacker. (He is a complicated character who had a complicated past, and just now, I'm wondering if he could be the lost "Lele". )
I am fascinated by the ruthless character of Xiaohai who hides it well from his "Da Ge". But he did save his sister,…
yes, there's plain too much descending in avalanche usually, although the past few days saw a lull in new airing temptations. I usually stick with one or two dramas at most, having a glimpse of first episodes of other ones which I don't log in on my list before I get back to really watch them, if ever. My other temptations these days are If you are the one, Go East, and Chang Le Qu, perhaps Fateful Love. I may watch them later if I have time. Like I did for Dawn is breaking which I had put on hold because of the Escape...
At the moment I'll stay on thrillers track, started with sizzling romance Embrace in the dark night which is short, so it was easy to fit in after business romance As Beautiful As You.
Why can two top actors be 'trapped' in a boring drama like this. Too confident by eliminating the romantic element...…
I don't know how and why you give it a score since your watchlist is not published (and you don't share much either except one lone review from long ago)
It is not justifiable to down rate a drama because you came for mistaken assumptions (what were you looking for : ML pining for a frail policewoman --or for a male colleague, god forbid?!!) and because you are too tired to watch dramas. If so, just go to bed and forget about it. No one forces you to watch or to rate.
Don't worry about the actors, they are quite happy that hundreds of thousands like their work here and that the heat index is soon going to ring the 10,000 bell. They certainly have no cause to have felt trapped while taking on the job or watching the outcome, now.
I am fascinated by the ruthless character of Xiaohai who hides it well from his "Da Ge". But he did save his sister, so he's falling, perhaps, into the morally gray category. Although I believe he is thoroughly rotten, perhaps as much as the lady we glimpsed. Godfather vibes. Thrilling !! That jump and kick to throw Zheng Nan's attacker away! Totally the kind those who want romance with muscular and powerful mafiosi will look for -- to be ultimately disappointed, since I strongly doubt censors would let pass a drama where the police does not get the upper hand... The team is now well in place, and I am always chuckling at "Mad Dog Yao"s readiness to fly into the feathers of burly thugs. Team leader Bei is surprisingly soft-hearted for the Godfather's right hand man (doesn't he know by now?), and I was amazed that he let himself be out-drunk by Xiaohai. Gu the marathon runner is immersing himself into Dongbei language and cuisine with gusto, always with his glasses firmly in place even when he is being shot at. The other guys stand out less, but have their functions. I am puzzled by the "Snowy" intro pictures with the ghost like figures apparently dangling from a rope.
There is a ban on that sort for dramas in China, so it is unlikely that we'd have to put up with a bromance, especially in the police force, in The First Shot, which passed review.
Anyway, there is a ban on that sort for dramas in China, so it is unlikely that we'd have to put up with a bromance, especially in the police force, in The First Shot, which passed review.
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The "new" computers with Windows 95 also made me smile in nostalgia, and the mention of Tetris! The period touches are nice, down to the quaint equipment on markets, the video seller, the arcade game parlor... Most of these belong to the forgotten past, now. Can young audiences relate to this?
The Chinese version of Auld Lang Syne could still bring people together from all parts of the world, going through the imported rite of birthday candle wish and adapting with fireworks.
It was a nice moment of bonding for the team, despite the rift about appropriate moment for cracking down on a law breaker.
Don't worry, I bet it's going to hit a very good Douban initial rating score.
Very skilled indeed, despite not very frequently playing in dramas (more in movies, apparently). Can't believe he is 41 when he plays as "younger" than "Bei" who is what, in his early 20s as a character here? (HJY is 31 in real life; WZQ is 28).
Then, some nitpickers who frown at drama tropes like sleuths use of shades when it makes them stand out and such small details, possible mismatch of lip movements in dubbing... They may or not subtract points, depending on their overall feeling.
Lastly, it's still airing, so those who rate may be doing so provisionally, starting from 8 or 8.5 with a perspective to adjust later to hike it up or down (instead of rating episodes as they should and waiting to rate until it's ended or close to end - like I do. But perhaps I'll give it a 10 to boost it provisionally, adjusting or not later: honestly, it's not really ethical or scientific).
Not to say anything about Xiaohai's apparently mild sister....
On the positive side, he did save Zheng Nan, suddenly rising from apparent half sleeping to perform an impressive jump and kick in the back of her attacker. (He is a complicated character who had a complicated past, and just now, I'm wondering if he could be the lost "Lele". )
At the moment I'll stay on thrillers track, started with sizzling romance Embrace in the dark night which is short, so it was easy to fit in after business romance As Beautiful As You.
It is not justifiable to down rate a drama because you came for mistaken assumptions (what were you looking for : ML pining for a frail policewoman --or for a male colleague, god forbid?!!) and because you are too tired to watch dramas. If so, just go to bed and forget about it. No one forces you to watch or to rate.
Don't worry about the actors, they are quite happy that hundreds of thousands like their work here and that the heat index is soon going to ring the 10,000 bell. They certainly have no cause to have felt trapped while taking on the job or watching the outcome, now.
But he did save his sister, so he's falling, perhaps, into the morally gray category. Although I believe he is thoroughly rotten, perhaps as much as the lady we glimpsed. Godfather vibes. Thrilling !! That jump and kick to throw Zheng Nan's attacker away! Totally the kind those who want romance with muscular and powerful mafiosi will look for -- to be ultimately disappointed, since I strongly doubt censors would let pass a drama where the police does not get the upper hand...
The team is now well in place, and I am always chuckling at "Mad Dog Yao"s readiness to fly into the feathers of burly thugs. Team leader Bei is surprisingly soft-hearted for the Godfather's right hand man (doesn't he know by now?), and I was amazed that he let himself be out-drunk by Xiaohai. Gu the marathon runner is immersing himself into Dongbei language and cuisine with gusto, always with his glasses firmly in place even when he is being shot at. The other guys stand out less, but have their functions.
I am puzzled by the "Snowy" intro pictures with the ghost like figures apparently dangling from a rope.
https://kisskh.at/discussions/bian-shui-wang-shi/129385-escape-from-the-triangular-slopes-companion-piece?pid=3118859&page=1#p3118859
(you will get more comprehensive answers there than if I just leave the link to the appropriate subbed YouTube version).