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There's actually fairly decent cdramas that's not idol-like. I really liked Remembrance of Things Past and Delicious Romance last year, both slice of life and female centric. The suspense dramas are usually decent as well and not filtered, although some end up being way too dark (lighting-wise), and they are fairly short too, like Bad Kids and Murderous Affair in Horizon Tower (both are character-driven stories, not whodunnit). The school/youth dramas that's focused on friendship are pretty good too. e.g. My Huckleberry Friends, Our Shiny Days, Hikaru no Go, Cross Fire.

For fairly unique premise, I'd rec Die Now, just skip through the romance at the beginning (about 15mins? to set up motivation), shame it was small budget made by small platform.

that's fast track, which is technically a vvip-like option. vip should get you more episodes IF tencent was subbing it at the same pace as it releases vip episodes domestically, but it's not.

Depending on what sort of dramas you are thinking of, if you are talking about non fluffy romances, yes they always existed and in large amounts too. This production company specifically tend to excel at producing fairly realistic drama (they are absolutely terrible at romance honestly). If you are talking about suspense dramas, still kind of yes? there's handful of them that's pretty well done overall. Every year, there's a couple that's decent, but yeah they don't really get subbed.

They weren't being detained, they were being questioned.

oh in that case you can do one ep a day, it finishes on 26th

It's based on a short novel, author was hired for second round of scripting, there are other writers on the project. Daylight, the production team tend to change script to suit their style more, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse (IMO). You can start watching on the 20th? :P depending how fast you watch.

It's wang juan's original script :) he actually writes pretty good original stories, with way too many plot twists, but young blood is the only one that's subbed. He's the headwriter though, so there's some draggy bits in I think one of the latter arcs, and the ending feels bit rushed/open ending (I think this is on him :P but he wrote a mini epilogue for it on his weibo later due to enthusiastic fans bombarding him on weibo. wait maybe it was budget reasons mhm).

Bless the two directors Sun Molong (If There is No Tomorrow) and Passsee Mu/Suan (Madhouse) for the fast pace beginning, daylight pls give these two more projects, thank you.

wang juan say "it's not see you later, i have been writing all along" which implies he's working on it, BUT dude also have multiple s2 so lol.

yep yep, that's what i gathered.

you didn't, it's a spoiler from the book.

Imperial cuisine was never announced with a date, it wanted the currently airing Hunan TV drama's slot but it didn't work out, see if it'll get the Jan 31st slot.

you must be new to douban then lol, most of them drop, only a few rises, and some are due to catering to niche taste.

eh, at least on cnet, most people criticising FL aren't part of fandom. If fandom was all the chinese viewers, SSS wouldn't do well. I think she's ok, she could be a better, a different actress might do a better job or they might not, that's fine.

A significant portion of people watching SSS probably only watched one other historical last year, and that's My Heroic Husband, so there's not much point comparing it to most other dramas.

duboku :P the recap isn't super interesting most of the time, but I find it more engaging in some of slower ep *cough*ep1*cough*. There's no recap between 21~25 for some reason. Trivia, the guy recapping is Yan Hexiang, Guo Qilin's partner is xiangsheng.

Shame it's not on wetv, this would be good opportunity to promote shuoshu a bit, like tientsin mystic did.

it's not due to episode limit (which is a suggestion by the way, not a hard limit) that they are splitting it into seasons, it's this type of dramas (male centric qidian novels) are usually split into season to lower the investment risk, the story are usually too long to film in one go. (see ever night which started s2 before 40 ep was fully in placed, also see fight break sphere that never manifested its s2)

one and only/forever and ever is functionally one drama (from a production pov), the novel didn't have enough content for 50 ep, and author/scriptwriter filled in gaps, then split the story to bypass the reincarnation restriction.

I think the drama is too far above Zhou Yutong or Wang Churan to reach tbh, even if I think they are both far better fit, since the age difference with ZRY isn't as stark. I think it's too early to even talk about cast change, when S2 isn't even set in stone and so far has no script :P

I like Song Zu'er, she endeared me despite her role being kind of annoying and infuriating in The Bond, I'm not huge on Eagle Flag, but I think that's more on the script than her. That said, she also look too much like a kid next to ZRY, there's no reason to jump from one kid to another.

DVDs and BDs aren't popular in China anymore so they don't usually release official dvds, people that want them tend to wait for Japan to release them, cos Japan tends to release DVDs for dramas they import as well.

It's not recommended to share your account due to security reasons, but if you have a friend that likes drama, sharing is fine. I'd suggest against giving it away to random people online since the account might be tied to your email/real phone/credit card or other payment system.

Reset, airing on Jan 11.

https://kisskh.at/54943-challenges-at-midlife this is the Lei Jiayin drama that's also daylight's that's rumour to air, but doesn't really look my type. I watched The Bond for the cast and the story pissed me off so much.

Maybe they'll drop while you are in US, you never know!!