Ya know, I thought the deluge of #Cdramas in February was bad. March takes the cake. I cant keep up 🤣
I just completed Judge Dee's Mystery (great drama!) and am now enjoying the guilty pleasure that is Yong'an Dream. But these are Feb dramas. Meanwhile, various platforms announced about >12 dramas that will land or have landed, including the very eagerly awaited Legend of Shen Li. I probably will watch that but the rest I hope will grant me an extra month in this year to catch up 🤣
After all the smart-ness in #CaptivatingTheKing, I needed a #kdrama that didn't require any thinking. #ALoveSoBeautiful has the emotional and mental depth of an after-school special, and 20 minute episodes! Winning.
Except the ML is a total JERK to the FL. And the 2ML is thoughtful, supportive, considerate, kind, emotionally aware... exasperated sigh
It is a Korean remake of a #cdrama and ... I can tell?
Of all countries I expect to produce hopeful fiction about the #environment, China was not the top of the list. But I was really intrigued after reading a news article about it & decided to give Sunrise on the River a try.
I thought it would be a dry drama but there is a dead body, fishy beurocrats, a possible conspiracy and a mysterious environmental mystery. Another thing that surprised me is the subs are pretty decent. Worth a watch! Its on Youtube.
My dad loved old Chinese tales and used to tell me the stories. One of the ones I remember best is The Eight Immortals. Someone on Youtube described them as the "OG Chinese Avengers" and I was like, this is a perfect description of them. And each character is so iconic.
And I must've watched this 1985 version cos I remember the song so much!
Dream of Splendor is a historical romance drama that I absolutely adore. I love how it features a mature relationship between a beautiful couple, and that it also highlights the food and tea culture, music and art of the Song dynasty.
We're starting Nirvana in Fire watch party this Sunday (March 3rd) with episodes 1 and 2!
Tag your reactions with #NifNotABirthdayParty, interact with ppl who are watching, etc.
Please do indicate the episodes in your spoiler CW, so people who are behind can still interact with the tags without getting spoiled if they do not want to be spoiled.
There is no strict schedule for this, so feel free to watch it anytime this week up till Sat, and if you find yourself falling behind later, that's okay. This is not meant to be a stressful schedule.
Check the thread in the quoted post for resources for the first few episodes if you find yourself lost!
I have been struggling to find a drama that I want to watch 🌸 So I've decided to watch "One and Only" with Bai Lu and Ren Jialun. I didn't watch this drama when it came it, because I'm not that great a fan of him, but there's been so much talk about this drama that I'm giving it a go ...
Have been watching "White Cat Legend" 🌸 with Ding Yuxi but will drop it now. I have made it to episode 12 and I really like his portrayal of the cat detective. However, I'm not loving the slapstick nature of the other detectives in the bureau.
The mysteries don't quite drive the plot forward enough for me to put up with their silliness + Li Bing's own story is drowning in the nonsense that is going on around him. So sadly, I'm dropping it. I wanted to like it!
#NirvanaInFire rewatch/watch party will start the first full week of March (3rd March)!
It's 54 episodes long, each episode about 40-45 mins. If you plan to join this watch party, I recommend VPN to U.S., and watch it on Viki. The subs are generally better there (because they use fan labor...)
It'll be two episodes a week, at your own pace. Just so we can find each other who are watching, you can use the hashtag #NifNotABirthdayParty when you watch.
I'll post every week on Saturday the episodes we will be watching that week (watch week is Sunday to Saturday).
Not interested in: het romance stories, stories abt/centering cops, BL or GL romance plots that feature cheating.
PLEASE REC ME: BL and GL stories, nothing super long (maybe max. 20 eps?), and ideally nothing set in a high school setting. I do love mystery plots. Historical settings are A-OK as are contemporary ones too.
FAVE Dramas I've watched: Imperial Coroner, Bad Buddy, and Semantic Error. (Yes, pretty old stuff, but there we are, LOL.)
just want to say that i appreciate the Mastodon #Kdrama#Cdrama folks so much for being such a mature, pleasant and non-fandom-gatekeeper lot.
I am a mod of the CDrama subreddit and let me tell ya, I feel a spike of anxiety each time i am there. I have to wade through sinophobic things and worse, those fan worshippers who will harass u for even saying anything less than glowy about their idols.
I kinda understand why God banned idol worship now 😆🤣
Jokingplsdontkillme #Cdramas#Kdramas
Finally managed to get the English subbed episodes for All Men Are Brothers, the 2011 #CDrama version of Water Margin. Unfortunately, Jiang Hu subs didn't finish subbing it so I'd have to watch episodes 37 onwards in raw Mandarin, which, is not ideal thanks to the use of ye olde Mandarin and my level of Mandarin proficiency. US Viewers are lucky. It's on Amazon Prime. I could try a VPN, but it often doesn't work :/
I need a #kdrama or #cdrama recommendation where the romance has a happy ending, please? I cannot afford to have my heart shredded by fiction currently.
And my brain doesn’t seem to be able to deal with words currently so I’m not reading.
Gu Long's novels don't seem to get the same love as Jin Yong's, so there are less TV adaptations to enjoy. Meteor, Butterfly, Sword is a gritty, dark wuxia tale that you rarely see these days. #CDramas#CDrama#Wuxia#TV#Entertainment
I just finished #myjourneytoyou. Wow. All of that and in the end we're left hanging. Did they run out of money? Alls I want to know is if there is supposed to be a S2. If not my 9/10 rating goes down to 5/10 for the acting and cinematography. #cdrama
Anyone missing some Leslie Cheung? A Chinese Ghost Story is one of my favourite movies in the world, and so is this beautiful song he say.
PS: The movie is based on one of the Tales from "Tales from a Chinese Studio", an ancient compendium of ghost/supernatural stories from the 16th century.
Just finished "Amidst a Snowstorm of Love" 🌸 It was a really sweet, understated love story but also about how to move on if life doesn't quite work out the way we had planned it. The sporting element became a catalyst for their love story and not just added on to make the target audience bigger. This drama will stay with me for a while.