Agree! The First Frost, a masterpiece! Have you watched Blossom (December 2024) and Perfect Match (January 2025)?
I'm so glad you watched these wonderful series, both are spectacular, especially The Double, a real masterpiece. I wrote an article (Cho Na, MDL writer, made the wonderful visual design) about this series for MDL, "The Presence of Arts in The Double". I'll put the link at the end of the comment, in case you want to check it out. You'll love Perfect Match, put it on your list. I'm including two links, two reviews of Perfect Match, one is by the brilliant @twinty (there's a spoiler, Twinty is part of my group of friends, by the way, thank you very much for your friendship!), and the other review is mine. It might be useful for you to judge the series.
So, is there any chance for happy ending here? I'm kinda suspecting not. Anyone?
Well, Joey92, many cdramas develop with coherence, balance, and reasonableness, and meet the expectations that are built in us towards a HE. For now, I have no reason to believe in a SE. Several factors lead me to believe in a HE. Despite the natural doubt, it is a quality, intelligent production, with the unmistakable presence of Chinese art and culture that gives the series a special charm. Go ahead, the trip is worth it!
This is so good and insightful! I've read through a few times and find myself shaking my head Yes! 👍💯My…
Hi, my admirable friend Jabofi! I'm totally flattered by your words. What a great moment for me to offer you these flowers 💐 as a response to these words that also carry pollen and perfume! 《What would become of us without friends!》💕
Your words are an honor to me because of your stature as a human being, your greatness and high level flow from a dignified and stainless character. I will love to discuss with such instigating intelligence. You should gather the points you have already raised about TG and publish them in the Discussions section in order to preserve them as a record, since they are excellent references for those who want to know TG properly. Likewise, I hope you will write a review. I am also motivated to do the same. Until we do that, let's discuss here on the page. It is a great pleasure to exchange these words with you! Thank you very much for this opportunity and kindness!
as always, thanks for sharing such a well written piece! there's really so much to think about in this drama (i'm…
Hi, dear friend Honeylemoncha! Thank you so much for your sweet and kind comment! I always read your rich comments with great interest and there is not a single one that I do not give a heart to! Likewise, the scriptwriter would appreciate the subtle and intelligent comments, so connected with human values, sensitivity, discernment, critical and aesthetic sense, like yours! I am so glad that you are this voice on the pages of MDL!
Hi, LilTeemo! TYSM! I would also like to take this opportunity to thank you for your valuable comments. Just like you, who have already commented on the subject here, I also love Chinese poetry, which is so present in this and so many other series. Nothing is by chance in Chinese series, even in the simplest productions. Every detail of a speech, a quote, a painting, a music/song, present in the series, is immersed in the millennia of ancient Chinese history and culture. Watching a series is always a before and after in life, we leave richer than when we arrived. Your comments bring the value of this universe, you have great sensitivity and critical sense!
Art, in all its manifestations, has always been a projection of our lives. It is a highly precise tool and a powerful means of communicating all of human complexity. Theater and cinema give body and soul to fictions that imitate life, and that is why we are compelled to cross the borders of fiction to draw fair parallels with real life.
Yesterday I wrote the text below, but I didn't publish it so as not to stretch the topic, imagining that the subject wouldn't prosper today, but it prospered with rare opinions that challenge common sense. So, I think it is appropriate that I join many voices here. Let's go:
》Han Yan's prostration before Ling Zhi:
•Sacred right to mourn. •Sacred right to be in shock. •Sacred right to be exhausted. •Sacred right to be traumatized. •Sacred right to be like me, like you, like us: just human.
》Common sense vs. hypocrisy:
•It's not just a question of age or historical context, it's a question of reasonableness and common sense. •The historical intolerance and violence against women is enough. •How ironic: the hypocritical "judges" of 600 years ago, demanding that women be infallible, still echo in the hypocritical "judges" of the 21st century.
》Han Yan's behavior:
•Han Yan was not inhumane to Ling Zhi, she was just human. It is inhumane to ignore the context of this moment, a mere result of her inexhaustible struggle since she was born, of the brutal story of her life of only pain and abandonment. •How could we demand lucidity from her, who at that moment was completely dulled by the traumas that were still so fresh and forceful? •Certainly, later on, we will see Han Yan's awakening in the direction of Ling Zhi.
》The role of stories in our lives:
•Stories are simulacra of life, whatever the time, and we always take advantage of them to shed light on the present day. •Defending Han Yan has this role, because this fact, which generated some controversy here, is not just a discussion about History or the plot of the series, but about a topic that, unfortunately, is contemporary, because we are Han Yan in a world that continues to demand an infallible nature from us and, at the same time, tries to deprive us of our emotional freedom to feel and react to the storms of life.
》The timelessness of human hypocrisy, mother of many types of brutality:
•Hypocrisy is at the root of various shades of cruelty and injustice. •Intolerance is the driving force behind violence in all its forms and is the perfect match for hypocrisy. •Intolerant people are invariably hypocrites and invariably incoherents, since what they preach to others they invariably do not follow in their own lives.
》Role of Art
•In addition to revealing and refining our spirit, Art's greatest gift is its questioning, critical and reflective power, its ability to establish links between our human history and the world at all times: we have the right to exercise them with respect and freedom.
I'm on episode 4 and I'm obsessed with this drama. But reading the comments it seems that the drama slowly going…
It's too early for you to give up on the series. Make your own judgment with your own criteria. Amidst a minimal universe of possible criticisms, the acclaim of this series certainly prevails. It is a qualified production, well written, with characters that will certainly become notable, like HY's mother. Give the series and yourself a chance. I believe you won't regret it!
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https://kisskh.at/760155-perfect-match/reviews
●My review
https://kisskh.at/profile/ReginadeS/reviews
●The article "The Presence of Arts in the Double
https://kisskh.at/article/the-presence-of-arts-in-the-double
Yesterday I wrote the text below, but I didn't publish it so as not to stretch the topic, imagining that the subject wouldn't prosper today, but it prospered with rare opinions that challenge common sense. So, I think it is appropriate that I join many voices here. Let's go:
》Han Yan's prostration before Ling Zhi:
•Sacred right to mourn.
•Sacred right to be in shock.
•Sacred right to be exhausted.
•Sacred right to be traumatized.
•Sacred right to be like me, like you, like us: just human.
》Common sense vs. hypocrisy:
•It's not just a question of age or historical context, it's a question of reasonableness and common sense.
•The historical intolerance and violence against women is enough.
•How ironic: the hypocritical "judges" of 600 years ago, demanding that women be infallible, still echo in the hypocritical "judges" of the 21st century.
》Han Yan's behavior:
•Han Yan was not inhumane to Ling Zhi, she was just human. It is inhumane to ignore the context of this moment, a mere result of her inexhaustible struggle since she was born, of the brutal story of her life of only pain and abandonment.
•How could we demand lucidity from her, who at that moment was completely dulled by the traumas that were still so fresh and forceful?
•Certainly, later on, we will see Han Yan's awakening in the direction of Ling Zhi.
》The role of stories in our lives:
•Stories are simulacra of life, whatever the time, and we always take advantage of them to shed light on the present day.
•Defending Han Yan has this role, because this fact, which generated some controversy here, is not just a discussion about History or the plot of the series, but about a topic that, unfortunately, is contemporary, because we are Han Yan in a world that continues to demand an infallible nature from us and, at the same time, tries to deprive us of our emotional freedom to feel and react to the storms of life.
》The timelessness of human hypocrisy, mother of many types of brutality:
•Hypocrisy is at the root of various shades of cruelty and injustice.
•Intolerance is the driving force behind violence in all its forms and is the perfect match for hypocrisy.
•Intolerant people are invariably hypocrites and invariably incoherents, since what they preach to others they invariably do not follow in their own lives.
》Role of Art
•In addition to revealing and refining our spirit, Art's greatest gift is its questioning, critical and reflective power, its ability to establish links between our human history and the world at all times: we have the right to exercise them with respect and freedom.
《What would become of us without Art!》