I'm so angry at iQiyi for not making this available internationally. There's no value in the VIP subsription.…
I get where you are coming from. US viewer here. iQIYI for some reason did not make the recent Light On crime drama THE HUNT available on iQIYI US but THE HUNT was available on a non-iQIYI Youtube channel (which I found strange). I watched about 15 minutes of the first episode and gave up because of poor subtitles. I was pleasantly surprised to find DEAD END available on iQIYI US.
Through episode 2. Solid performances. iQIYI’s DEAD END looks like it will be a decent Light On crime drama. In the first paragraph of the synopsis above I have no idea what the ‘committed suicide’ is referring to. I think it is misleading. Suicide was never mentioned in the first homicide.
Thank you @Wenxia for this list of Tencent X Theater dramas. I am currently watching and enjoying a recent addition: PERSONA available subbed in english at Tencent Video. I have enjoyed Nos. 1, 3 and 4 from above. The others look very interesting.
I really enjoyed Bai Yu Fan earlier this year in iQIYI’s THE LOST NATIONAL TREASURE and just recently heard of this drama so I jumped on board. I enjoyed episode one. Fwiw I found the english subs at Youku superior to the subs at Tencent Video.
Average rating for this drama: 2.148%. If JTBC and writer Park Shi Hyun are satisfied with that, so be it. I didn’t find MY YOUTH particularly satisfying and I don’t blame the actors. They read the stuff that was written in the script.
Welcome back Song Kang! I am looking forward to you (and Lee Jun-young)’s upcoming drama FOUR HANDS. You are WAY AHEAD of the game since you already know how to play the piano thanks to piano lessons from your mom.
Watching iQIYI’s MOBIUS on Viki US. I finished episode 6 tonight snd I am hooked. Bai Jing Ting is superb as is the rest of the cast. O/T. This is my second Bai Jing Ting drama with the 2024 iQIYI drama ALWAYS ON THE MOVE my first. Unfortunately I put AOTM on hold (or stop if you will) after episode 10. BJT’s performance in MOBIUS is an incentive to go back and finish AOTM.
I enjoyed the first 2 episodes of Wavve’s NO MERCY. I just read about it today and somehow I was able to watch the episodes on Kocowa. This is my first Gu Jun-hoe drama and I like his portrayal as a righteous detective. Honestly, after the miserable police work shown in QUEEN MANTIS, GJH’s Detective Park Jung-hoon is refreshing.
It is a shame that actor Lee Chang-min who gave one of the best performances in QUEEN MANTIS as boyhood friend Park Min-jae doesn’t rate a picture in the QUEEN MANTIS gallery above. The writer didn’t do him any favors either by killing him off.
I’ve heard people talk about Light On but didn’t really know what it was, Thanks for the rec!🎭
You are welcome. I finished BELOVED last night and thoroughly enjoyed it. I believe iQIYI started its ‘Light On Theater’ series of crime dramas in 2020. The 2020 dramas were generally excellent. After 2020 the quality fluctuated but I thought 2025 has been a good year. Here is a link. If you haven’t watched, definitely watch BAD KIDS (2020). https://kisskh.at/775587-iqiyi-light-on
Through episode 9 and love iQIYI’s BELOVED. It is a worthy addition to iQIYI’s Light On Theater series of dramas. Also I really enjoy Wan Xiaoli’s OST that plays over the ending credits.
O/T. BENEATH THE UNDERTOW is also an excellent 2025 ‘Light On’ drama. On the other hand I dropped the 2025 ‘Light On’ drama THE PERFECT SUSPECT after 8 episodes.
I am still loving QM. Keeping my current rating of 10 stars BUT the police incompetence in episode 4 is mind boggling. Folks you are dealing with one actual psycho, one probable psycho and perhaps a mentally unbalanced young man. Let’s be careful out there!
I just finished Tencent Video’s 2024 crime drama FROZEN SURFACE. For the performances by the excellent cast especially MLs Chen Jian Bin and Hu Jin I gave it a MDL rating of 8. (I tend to be a generous marker lol). I love the winter crime dramas set in the gritty northeast China. Yes there were problems with the plot lines as indicated in the comments below. On a side note I found it interesting that here was another drama where official corruption was dramatized. On the political side was the County Chief and in the police was the forensics chief. Of course both were brought to justice in the end.
I pleased to see Jang Dong-yoon’s QUEEN MANTIS will be available to US viewers on both Viki and Netflix, however given the choice I will DEFINITELY watch QM on Viki. Undoubtedly the subtitles will be superior.
I was pleasantly surprised to find DEAD END available on iQIYI US.
In the first paragraph of the synopsis above I have no idea what the ‘committed suicide’ is referring to. I think it is misleading. Suicide was never mentioned in the first homicide.
Fwiw I found the english subs at Youku superior to the subs at Tencent Video.
O/T. This is my second Bai Jing Ting drama with the 2024 iQIYI drama ALWAYS ON THE MOVE my first. Unfortunately I put AOTM on hold (or stop if you will) after episode 10. BJT’s performance in MOBIUS is an incentive to go back and finish AOTM.
The writer didn’t do him any favors either by killing him off.
I believe iQIYI started its ‘Light On Theater’ series of crime dramas in 2020.
The 2020 dramas were generally excellent.
After 2020 the quality fluctuated but I thought 2025 has been a good year.
Here is a link. If you haven’t watched, definitely watch BAD KIDS (2020).
https://kisskh.at/775587-iqiyi-light-on
O/T. BENEATH THE UNDERTOW is also an excellent 2025 ‘Light On’ drama. On the other hand I dropped the 2025 ‘Light On’ drama THE PERFECT SUSPECT after 8 episodes.
On a side note I found it interesting that here was another drama where official corruption was dramatized. On the political side was the County Chief and in the police was the forensics chief. Of course both were brought to justice in the end.