maboheme

Absolutely, it's called moving against the problematic dominant mainstream lol. I love to see more bromances, or actual romances between two men, or two women, in romantic love stories. But sadly two men having a romance isn't allowed in China b/c of homophobia and repression. So filmmakers are forced to use SUBTEXT, as you see in this series and in a number of "bromances." So yes, bromances with subtext are absolutely okay to do b/c we live in a world where queer love, subtextual or textual, rarely gets to be at the center of a major series, and is instead downplayed. Whereas heterosexual ships are EVERYWHERE and can be the center of a story in 100000 other Chinese dramas. People ranking this low this simply b/c it lacks a heterosexual love story is silly to me.

One of the best medical dramas I've seen. Exciting cases and lovely character development all around, from the two main leads, to the side characters, and even to the antagonists. So many episodes had me in tears. The friendship between the male leads was *chef's kiss* and made the entire series. Honestly the bromance was better than any heterosexual romance I've seen in a C-drama of late. People are ranking it low b/c of the lack of romance, which is so silly to do. Some shows don't need romance. The bromance fulfilled all the needs of the romance, even sharing romantic tropes, and had this not been China, it could have been the main romance. All the two say, if you're open to something different -- with the focus on the clever medical setting and the use of intervention technology, and even seeing disaster relief efforts done with amazing care, this show goes above and beyond. And again, the bromance is magical (they are each other's inspirations and other halves) and those two give you everything you need in terms of emotional resonance.