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Past half way. This is an engrossing drama so far: aspects of the occupation of Taiwan by Japan, a set of passionate artistic characters straining against the strictures of parents and family business, vivid locations (the tea manufacturer, the Beijing opera troup, the artists' kissaten), Alice Ke who despite not being conventionally beautiful is fascinating to watch (she was great in Someday or One Day and so I searched for more of her work and found this drama). The two Peking opera singers are evidently authentically trained, and their scenes skilfully enhance the dramatic moods. There are no villains (other than the Japanese occupiers in the background, who rarely intrude and never with the cruelty they were known for everywhere else), no overwrought drama, no violence.

Because language areas don't always match national boundaries. Taiwanese dramas and movies usually have a mixture of the two main languages - Hokkien and Mandarin. Chinese dramas are sometimes in Cantonese if they're made in Hong Kong. In India there are movies produced in several states in several languages (Hindi, Tamil, etc). National boundaries are so often imposed by powerful people on unwilling subjects and don't reflect the composition of the people within that country.

Thank you so much! Where did you get them from?

Eng subs for some episodes are at Dramacool, but they must originate from elsewhere - I don't think Dramacool translate their own.

Eng subs for some episodes are at Dramacool, but they must originate from elsewhere - I don't think Dramacool translate their own.

Thank you!!! I wonder where the subs are from originally - I'd prefer soft subs for my mandarin studies.

What is this hype? Seasons 3, 4, and 5 announced but no airing dates? And evidently this S03 has a new set of characters, and is therefore a cynical exploitation of the title. Why can't they just give it a new name and its own identity?

Bits of unrequited crush here and there, but six episodes in nothing major is likely to develop. It's a sibling and schoolfriend comedy.

I'm only 6 episodes into the drama, but it seems truer to the original webtoon and is episodic in structure, and very funny. The movie needed to tie it together into an overall story arc leading to a climax, and I think it became increasingly unbelievable as it progressed.

The off-the-wall humour of this series cracks me up numerous times each episode (six so far). The young actors appear to be having loads of fun hamming it up. And between the laughs are moving moments of real heart.

The earlier scenes have now too been re-shot with the replacement actor.

Nothing much new here. This Taiwanese romantic comedy does have a lot of comedy, but the romance is fairly pedestrian.

Two long-time friends develop deeper feelings for each other. And unlike most other gl stories, Asian or otherwise, are supported by their friends and end up happily ever after, or at least through to the end of the drama.

What kind of messed up world is this, where things like Parasite and Squid Game can freely show explicit ultra-violence in all its creative sadism, while a drama risks outrage at depicting two women falling in love, and doesn't dare show them kiss?

Can someone tell me if there is an intended pun in her name: Blue Green. Does that relate to something in Japanese hospitals or pharmacies?

Bad behaviour that nobody confronts (a physician who literally shoves the pharmacist around the room, a patient yelling impatiently in the pharmacy waiting area) by the antagonists to the titular heroine, renders the script more like a children's story than a realistic adult drama. Is it coincidence that the baddies are males in authority, who are subtly resisted by the wily females with less or no power, showing up the males to be cowards under their bullying facade?
Apparently we're supposed to admire the dedication of the pharmacists who work at a frenetic pace, while packing pills or running around the hospital, when in reality such behaviour would inevitably lead to an accident, physical or pharmaceutical, and staff burnout. If we saw that on a factory production line we'd call it exploitation. Nobody confronts this either, instead they all feel proud of their submission. There's a subtle message in so many Asian dramas that you just have to put up with oppression, or if you try to resist, few people will support you.
The climax of the first episode consists of a long platitudinous speech by the heroine. The director evidently realised this would bore the viewers, so tried the ramp up the emotion by swelling music, and throwing in a sakura-snowing avenue for good measure.
Dropped this after three episodes. Too much contrived sentimentality.

There were so many ingredients in place for a climax that could have been as hilarious as the rest of the film - if the writer had more imagination and didn't fall back onto the Korean/Hollywood cliche of violence.

I've started watching, but she only appears briefly in the first few episodes. I think she could become a fine actress, because she a confident music performer.

Dramas are known for getting their medical facts wrong, if they have any facts at all - whatever is needed to create their story. If you want medical facts, maybe stick to documentaries ;-)

You're using rather confused arguments. You claim to be quoting science, but clearly you're just twisting science to suit your religious agenda. And you're arguing that biology is the final word, without giving any weight to psychology and culture. As if we're only bodies without minds and without social relationships. Religious belief is not based on science, it's based on a different kind authority and means of argument, and so to pervert science and use it in the name of religion is specious and dishonest.