geechoo

ok I think you're a fan but I'm just telling you the truth. he's currently receiving a lot of criticism from Chinese viewers for over acting and having poor line reading.

he's clearly over-acting tho. it's one of the main criticisms on chinese web actually.

imo he's good in those kind of stoic/badass roles like DFQC but this one.. his acting is really cringey and over-acted.

MDL isn't accurate. IQIYI has a couple of big historical dramas to air in Jan ~ Feb. The earliest this can air is March imo.

yeah I was gonna say this role is very much in her wheelhouse. she's good in upbeat spunky roles. it's the cold face/stoic roles that she isn't as good in.

sokp was already one of his better stylings imo. the wig in princess royal was just plain awful lol and mjty piled on wayy too much foundation in a shade 5 shades too light

kdramas are good at modern romcom, melodramas and suspense series. but imo their historical dramas aren't good because they don't have the high budget that cdramas have. on the other hand, cdramas are always soo long. it an work in historical dramas but 40 episodes for a modern romcom is way too much.

because China is strict with censorship.

where did he say that? I have a hard time picturing it lol isn't the character a traditional chinese medicine doctor

can someone spoil me with the main plot (eg the conflicts etc) because reading the summary and watching the trailer, I can't seem to figure out what the story is about lol it seems a bit too.. flat so far. Like girl goes to see doctor for insomnia and they fall in love. where's the conflict to drag this out to 28 episodes lol

imo China does historical dramas better than modern dramas. I prefer to watch korean or japanese modern dramas. China's modern dramas are always unnecessarily long and as a result end up dragging too much.

btw Chasing Jade will start filming on December 15th! I will avoid weibo on that day because I feel like the fans of the leads will fight over billing lol

search their names on x, there's a lot

this is getting veryyy good reviews on chinese forums. I'm gonna start watching it tonight. the director apparently has a good eye for visuals

why is this on the upcoming shows section? last time I checked, there's no release date or anything

have you noticed ZLH and Dylan Wang have a lot of overlapping female leads lol Esther Yu, Bai Lu and now Tian Xi Wei all within the last 2 years or so. Almost expecting ZLH to work with Shen Yue too. I know fans were protesting Chasing Jade but I am sooo happy he's working with TXW. She's my fav of the newer generation actresses. Super pretty and a good actress. Plus same age as him. Feel like he usually works with actresses older than him or a lot younger than him.

the director is a long time cinematographer for Guo Jingming and anyone that has watched Guo's films would know he reallyyyy likes dark material lol the source novel is kind of light hearted so was kind of weird seeing the teaser look so dark

I've watched one of the mini dramas he's done (the one with Cheng Lei) and it's VERY good tbh. the director knows how to shoot people. Honestly, I think ZLH's cfans are just causing him more trouble.

tbh I don't get why. the scriptwriter and director are both good. sometimes fans are just stupid. they haven't even seen the script themselves yet are trying to control the actor.

the reason to reject it because "the director never directed big dramas" is so so so stupid. by that logic, you can only work with veterans.