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Check out "The Youth Memories"

I discovered him in that .. and LOVED it.
He was brilliant in it.

And the Drama was so rich and layered with various complex well played characters.

However : the FL in Go Go Squid actually made me drop the show :-O
So we don't have a match on that ;-p

AWWW!!

Kind of sounds like you plodded on .. and wasn't really swept away by it.

rofl ~ that always puts me in a dilemma too ;-p

While on the topic :
I'll recommend a beauty of a film
- A Bittersweet Life (2005) with Lee Byung Hun

then there are 2 more Korean Films (both with Hyun Bin ~ he really proves his serious cinema mettle in both):

- Late Autum (2011)
- Come Rain Come Shine (2011)
Both were Festival films


And some Kdrama (not as slick as this one whose page we are one ;-p) but still a little offbeat and stylishly done
~ Extracurricular
~ Coin Locker Girl

LOL .. for me too ;-p

OMYGAWD!!!

This is HEAVY DUTY.

@Arbaz Akhtar the person who tipped me off on this gem of drama

The director's / Script writers brought out the real 'ammo' of 'film making' here.

It kind of doesn't belong in the Asian Drama segment - the way we kind of understand the genre as popular worldwide.

This Drama has moved it's domain into SERIOUS FILMIC DRAMA TERRAIN .. closer to HBO classics ..

I am taking it SLOW .. chewing it ..

THANK GOD it's 11 episodes .. Equivalent of 6 + 6 (season 1 & season 2) format of Netflix / HBO serials.

It's a similar story to The Smile has Left your Eyes; SO MUCH correlates, BUT .. there is NO fooling around .. The sound track, the editing, the dialogues, the raw realness of it.

We are NOT going to squee here .. OR get heart flutters .. but the story will be king .. A CLASSIC I sense.

Just finished Ep 2.

Will watch 1 Ep a day I have decided .. to let it sink in.

ALSO strangely though it's a TERRIBLE BLURRY Dramacool Print (makes me SO SO MAD that I reject those dramas - no matter HOW good the Drama is or how BADLY I want to watch it)
This show I am sticking it out ..
Albeit MAD and SO annoyed that I cant see a sharp print.

I am going and posting on the J version thread :
"Sora Kara Furu Ichioku no Hoshi"


ooooo BOY!!

I already did.
2nd run through.

Finished yesterday

L&P is my 100/10 Drama 😂🤣

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Cool go check again.
I added more...under modern settings -which is L&P

Actually since we were talking Period Drama I only put those similar setting drama examples.

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;-p

I have shelved the show for now.

Will return once I get off my "bad boy - bad gal" Drama mode .. and cant find one

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I feel you friend

Enjoy my friend!

I kind of envy you at this point.

Last night I finished my SOKP rewatch. Was SUCH a treat.

Hee Hee Hee ..
that's how you and I went bonkers over L&P
Gosh That Li Xun was one heck of an intense character who was a magnet for 'people's hate and dislike" as the Lead Character in that drama..
Actually more 'misunderstood' than bad .. someone who was simply 'a-social .. except with a very very few people in his life.

I think I defended his character motivations and wrote the maximum number of comments on that thread LOL

true .. I LOVED the teasing playfulness of it.
Reminded me of the LYX - Bai Lu dynamics in "Love is Sweet" They were such an adorkable pair in that ;-p

And the adorkable playfulness of CFY and FL in Lighter and Princess. Such natural ease and HILARIOUS .. not an iota of cheesiness or cringe AT ALL.

goodness!! Exactly!!

I got a headache trying to sieve the dialogue from the lyrics.
They should not put lyrics when characters are talking.

Plus the dialogues were sometimes long and didn't continue over the entire speech .. so I had to pause SO MUCH to read (I am NOT a zippy reader .. regular speed sub reader - Netflix / Viki does a great job usually).
Or is Mandarin a very concise language that conveys a LOT in very few syllables? I know that some language translations are not the same length.
(which sometimes sets up HILARIOUS situation comedies of course .. where a character talks and talks and talks and then the translator says a clipped sentence and the other party is like :
"... and?? That's ALL?"
LOL

ALSO some dialogues just flashed by like lightning - was so annoying when it happened during the intense Bai Lu - ZLH scenes (I was like .. oh no not the lyrics again).

I saw that ..

cool