Interesting and wise comments from Park Hae Soo. We want to know how netflix etc now influence the careers of beloved supporting actors. We miss those who have passed and marvel at their work.
It's not that the show wants to forget they ever existed. It's just a known fact that people go completely into…
The big shows all had flaws but I liked these 3 quieter ones this year: Haunted Palace (lowkey), Our Unwritten Seoul, and Spiritfingers. Small perfections are fine with me.
i never been this confused at the start of ep 1 he was going to wuxia to go on a date with her? when he got into…
present moment is from her POV. She is i n her senior year of college and in this painful situation with the SML there.
She may have seen ML from afar during her highschool years, but as MIJ says, we will need to hanker after clarity so as to pay attention properly to find out how that happened. She knows nothing of his career or that accident. (Which by the way takes the cake for the best lyrical camerawork in the last few years!)
Dr Lin (SWL) has long recovered from that accident and is now (In FL's timeline) unhappily working as a business manager at ShengYuan in Shanghai.
The fictional locations are harder for us to keep straight because we dont live there. Here's the list, I may not be exactly right...: Nanjing (college), Shanghai (work for SWL), Wuxi (where her divorced and estranged dad works/lives)...
Up to Ep 3 of Shine on Me -- so glad I started this. It is turning out to be a real classic rom-com with sadness, good friends and laughter.
Wow. I knew Zhou Jin Mai had achieved a personal best in Our Generation, but she really has grown and carried on! She is still the best friend anyone could want but she carries the emotional load of every scene in she is in so far with strength and precision.
The Prisoner of Beauty was a funny wry take on marriage. I watched The Female General but felt it was cynical, likewise the Princess Gambit. Didnt watch Love's Ambition.
Does anybody know what WeTV based these choices on?
The Glory was a perfect beautiful tragedy, plot driven and glorious in that regard. Symbolically perfect, but without splashy visuals or sound to my taste. Not speaking Mandarin, I felt faintly that the script's dialogue was at a high level through the subtitles only. This is the first time I have an inkling that this might be true because no one has ever responded to my reviews on it.
In a year of exciting but often flawed rom-coms everyone will have their differences about the best ones but I hope that everybody gets a chance to watch Sniper Butterfly. It is really wonderful, it was a wonderful show to watch.
yeah tons of cheesiness, fluff and silliness from 1950s - I am using 50s as a metaphor, this is actually 1850s…
Hi Inspector -- I like your comments better when they are short and sweet like this.
The question of how and why these fantasy elements of rom-coms are popular is closer to a question about Jungian psychology than about doctrinaire sexism.
Young people are more capable of intelligent agency than you seem to think! And the major audience for Rom-com is older women. The shows you like and I like were popular with younger people at the time.
Grumpy and doctrinaire is better suited to other channels if you want to be so long-winded..
WAiting for the viki drop of 28.....thinking about Michelle Chen's open look in conversation and how Taiwanese it is. So I looked up the crew and the main Director is also from Taiwan. On the topic of modernity and semi-realism in romance, acting and directing styles still are tied to national cinematic genres....e.g. in country with a built-in ideology of equality for women citizens, China, women behave more naturally on-screen/their roles are written for actual modern people .
I know this sounds bad, but I’m starting to skip bits and I’m finding the main couple very cringe. I know…
Just to say I am starting now to skip bits too. Bored and have lost hope of a better outcome in FL development. Usually I watch all of a show if I am going to watch it at all in loyalty to all the unsung heroes in cast and crew. Holiday grumpiness?
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She may have seen ML from afar during her highschool years, but as MIJ says, we will need to hanker after clarity so as to pay attention properly to find out how that happened. She knows nothing of his career or that accident. (Which by the way takes the cake for the best lyrical camerawork in the last few years!)
Dr Lin (SWL) has long recovered from that accident and is now (In FL's timeline) unhappily working as a business manager at ShengYuan in Shanghai.
The fictional locations are harder for us to keep straight because we dont live there. Here's the list, I may not be exactly right...: Nanjing (college), Shanghai (work for SWL), Wuxi (where her divorced and estranged dad works/lives)...
Wow. I knew Zhou Jin Mai had achieved a personal best in Our Generation, but she really has grown and carried on! She is still the best friend anyone could want but she carries the emotional load of every scene in she is in so far with strength and precision.
My own list had to do more with my judgement of enduring perfection, so for Chinese ROMANTIC drama of 2025 I pick only 3.
1. Flourished Peony and its second half, In the Name of Blossom. Production and cast/acting.
2. Sniper Butterfly, amazing amazing acting and script.
3. Love in the Clouds, gorgeous, really interesting direction for Xianxia/Wuxia romances, acting.
Legend of the Magnate wasnt available on Netflix or viki
Does anybody know what WeTV based these choices on?
The question of how and why these fantasy elements of rom-coms are popular is closer to a question about Jungian psychology than about doctrinaire sexism.
Young people are more capable of intelligent agency than you seem to think! And the major audience for Rom-com is older women. The shows you like and I like were popular with younger people at the time.
Grumpy and doctrinaire is better suited to other channels if you want to be so long-winded..
But nevertheless, this show always seduces me into laughter.
On the topic of modernity and semi-realism in romance, acting and directing styles still are tied to national cinematic genres....e.g. in country with a built-in ideology of equality for women citizens, China, women behave more naturally on-screen/their roles are written for actual modern people .