Depends on your pacing. There's gonna be no episodes on tuesday-wednesday... so if you space it out you can watch 5-6 episodes a day until the show resumes on thursday.
I'm on chapter 8 and I'm bored. The story doesn't catch me and also the dialogues are so fast, my god I can't…
Subtitles can sometimes be fast (I had to pause/rewind a couple of times myself) but I absolutely loved the story from episode 1 (actually from the intro song already) so I can't say that "things get better later on" because to me they never were at a bad place to begin with. I love the setting, the OSTs, the storytelling and the various characters. Their slow burn romance is also very cute.
I had the same issue with episode 7. It was quite draggy to me. I ended up speeding through the episode. Now I…
The mood really started to change in the latest episodes and ML has gotten some life breathed into him too. I think the "main plot" will start unravelling in the upcoming episodes so I'm looking forward to it.
tried to watch this drama, first few minutes in, and it was all magic then I still continued but I think first…
To be honest with you, the first few eps are packed with things happening and it can get a bit tiresome. I started watching this because I generally like chinese fantasy dramas and I didn't have much else to watch but I have considered dropping it. But I feel like it starts to get deeper from 8 ep onwards and if you're into dramatism of love and sacrifice I think this drama have plently of this. I wouldn't necessarily recommend this as a must watch but I would recommend for the genre fans. Whether you should continue watching this depends on your overall preferences.
It was implied in the begininning by the secretary's comments on their "wild night" how "rough" he was, but it wasn't shown so it can be possible that nothing happened and the "little gangster" made some other mess that "hurt" the secretary. Or it happened like it was implied, because secretrary did use words like "you're bad at sex".
Many compare TDJ to Killer and Healer, saying that it's a similar level of (B)romance. The romance between the…
Untamed? But I guess that's an obvious answer. Fangs of Fortune had strong male leads bond but FL was very prominently thrust in between, so I wouldn't say the two compare. Word of Honor?
Weak Hero Class 1 (loved their bond)
In regards to chemistry, I'd also recommend thai BLs such as This Love Doesn't Have Long Beans (the chemistry is hot as hell), Kiseki: Dear to Me (cheap production but the main leads are fizzling with chemistry, also one of the main leads kind of remind me of Yue Lou?)
You might not be missing anything, 8.0-8.5 is a very solid rating already, isn't it? :) I've watched 18 episodes…
Yeah I agree with you about Ruan Lanzhu, he's super fixated (crushing) on Ling Juishi, and some scenes reminded me of Untamed (vibes like "Do you like Miaomiao"). Ling Juishi seems pretty clueless to it all though (not sure if it'll last or change, currently at episode 18(35-36).
Untamed is probably my all time fave chinese drama (even though follow up dramas had better effects) simply by being able to draw out deep emotions with its story and because Lan Zhan's silent devotion is heartbreaking.
I recently watched Fangs of Fortune and it unexpectedly turned out into a bromance while I went into it hoping for a good straight romance. It's probably one of the most visually stunning series I've ever seen and the male lead's bond stole the show, but...I didn't like how the FL's presence seemed forced in between.
Killer and Healer took me a few episodes to get into but once the lead's vibe gets established it's really hard not to smile at their screen time. The actors speak A LOT with their eyes, and unlike Fangs of Fortune the females aren't there to "make it less gay" lol What I mean to say is, in K&H their bond is quite obvious, just not explicitly stated (due to censorship).
You might not be missing anything, 8.0-8.5 is a very solid rating already, isn't it? :) I've watched 18 episodes…
Oh, I actually already counted "bromance" within the rating. Maybe it's because I just finished watching Killer and Healer where the main's connection was SO in the face that in comparison Spirealm's looks tame. And of course, 8.0 -8.5 is high enough, just that for a 8.9 dramas I'm used there to be something that really stands out.
11 (22) episodes in, I find myself enjoying the series but not to the point of 8.9, more like 8.0 - 8.5? It feels very 'monster of the week', like the usual american tv series. Am I not seeing something?
I would like to say it gets better after episode 24, but it doesn't. Actually, I find that this director really…
One thing that I found bugs me is how often everyone cries. Like, they look gorgeous in their miserable closed-up state but... realistically, everyone doesn't cry ALL THE TIME.
Weak Hero Class 1 (loved their bond)
In regards to chemistry, I'd also recommend thai BLs such as This Love Doesn't Have Long Beans (the chemistry is hot as hell), Kiseki: Dear to Me (cheap production but the main leads are fizzling with chemistry, also one of the main leads kind of remind me of Yue Lou?)
Untamed is probably my all time fave chinese drama (even though follow up dramas had better effects) simply by being able to draw out deep emotions with its story and because Lan Zhan's silent devotion is heartbreaking.
I recently watched Fangs of Fortune and it unexpectedly turned out into a bromance while I went into it hoping for a good straight romance. It's probably one of the most visually stunning series I've ever seen and the male lead's bond stole the show, but...I didn't like how the FL's presence seemed forced in between.
Killer and Healer took me a few episodes to get into but once the lead's vibe gets established it's really hard not to smile at their screen time. The actors speak A LOT with their eyes, and unlike Fangs of Fortune the females aren't there to "make it less gay" lol What I mean to say is, in K&H their bond is quite obvious, just not explicitly stated (due to censorship).