bad story great acting
سریال خوشگلیه مخصوصا قسمتای اولش.بازیا هم واقعااا خوبن و اصلا مصنوعی نیست.
ولی نویسندگیش تو نیمه دوم سریال واقعا ناامیدکننده بود. حیف شد یه جورایی
نمیدونم اینکه میگن قرار بوده ۴۰ قسمت باشه بعد ۲۴ قسمت شده درسته یا نه. اگر اینجوری بوده احتمالا برای همین یه سری صحنههای بیفایده داره. البته که با این نویسندگی و این قصه خداروشکر که ۴۰ قسمتی نبود
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“Not perfect in pacing, but perfect in emotions.”
Our Generation is a warm and emotional coming-of-age drama that takes us through the lives of Cherry (Lin Qi Le) and Jiang Qiao Xi — from their childhood innocence to the struggles of growing up and falling in love.The early episodes showing their childhood are especially touching, making you feel like you’re growing up with them. The drama captures the sweetness of first love, the comfort of friendship, and the bittersweet pain of separation.
What makes it special is its nostalgic, slice-of-life tone — it doesn’t rely on big twists, but instead on small, heartfelt moments that feel real. The acting of the child and young leads leaves a lasting impact, and the atmosphere is warm and relatable.
On the downside, the romantic chemistry between the leads feels a little weak, and the pacing sometimes suffers because the story was cut down to 24 episodes. Some moments feel rushed, especially in the later part of the show.
👉 Final Verdict: Our Generation is not a perfect drama, but it’s a heartfelt one. If you enjoy stories about youth, friendship, and first love with a nostalgic touch, this is a beautiful watch that stays with you.
✨ Our Generation isn’t about dramatic twists or grand romance — it’s about the quiet, simple moments that shape who we are. It reminds us of childhood laughter, bittersweet first love, and the friendships that guide us through growing up.
While the pacing feels a bit rushed and the romance chemistry isn’t always strong, the drama shines with its warmth, nostalgia, and emotional depth.
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Understand why it’s called Our Generation
This drama hit home in a way I wasn’t expecting. Our Generation beautifully captures the emotional complexity of growing up under pressure — the unspoken expectations, emotional wounds, and quiet toxicity that can exist within families, and how those experiences follow us into adulthood. It felt incredibly real and relatable, showing not just the pain, but also the resilience and healing that comes with growing older.What stood out most was how thoughtfully the story unfolded through different stages of life. The transitions felt natural, and you genuinely felt like you were growing up alongside the characters, witnessing how their personalities, choices, fears, and relationships evolved over time. Nothing felt rushed or overly dramatic for the sake of drama — the emotional moments landed because they felt earned.
The love story was one of the most beautiful parts of the drama. It was pure, unwavering, and deeply moving — not perfect, but strong in a way that felt authentic. The chemistry was beautiful, and the emotional depth made you root for them through every challenge.
I also appreciated that the drama didn’t try to unrealistically “fix” every family relationship with a perfect ending. The relationship between the mother and son especially felt painfully real — you could tell there was love there, but also years of distance, misunderstandings, and emotional damage that don’t disappear overnight. They weren’t suddenly close, but they were trying to rebuild, and honestly, that felt more authentic than forcing a complete reconciliation. Healing in families is often messy, slow, and imperfect, and I think the drama handled that beautifully.
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Slowburn drama that’s so slow it forgets where it’s headed
Our Generation is a slow-burn character study about youth — first crushes, academic pressure, and the awkward stretch from small-town innocence into the messier world of adulthood. At its core Our Generation is a collection of realistic moments of how childhood memories can grow into something that transcends time and distance.The best part
Zhang Linghe as aloof math genius Jiang Qiaoxi, is why you want to see this. I’ve been following him since Love Between Fairy and Devil, but this is the first contemporary drama of his I’ve watched. (I know I know there’s The Best Thing). He’s extremely talented — while he shines in idol and costume dramas, his subtle performance here is a real standout and feels different from his more popular roles. I liked that the creators didn’t just throw his “face card” at us to distract from character development. He isn’t scared to be shown in an unflattering light here. And I respect an actor with entire image built on his looks attempting to do something different for a change. And that honesty might be the best part of the drama, that tired, beaten down young man in Hong Kong stretch of episodes. If for nothing else (and there is truly nothing else), the drama is probably worth watching for Zhang Linghe’s performance alone.
Zhao Jinmai as Yingtao is good, but I’m not a big fan overall. Her performance here doesn’t measure up to her work in The Princess Royal, which I enjoyed much more because she was actually convincing there. In Our Generation there are really great emotional moments where she lands the feelings like a blow, but her overall portrayal as a high school girl didn’t fully convince me and it was a little hard to watch at times. It’s like you can tell it’s a grown woman acting as a little girl. I don’t think she’s cut out for those roles. She has her strengths elsewhere. Still, I like Zhao Jinmai in this drama better than in Shine on Me. Plus the emotional scenes between her and Zhang Linghe when they are both playing adults is where she really packs a mean punch.
There are lot of interesting supporting characters, but this is also the drama’s one of biggest issue. Some supporting roles got a lot of screen time while others felt like they were there just for the sake of having supporting characters. The stories weren’t distributed evenly across the gang. A lot of stories had foundation, but nothing ever came out of that foundation. I wish the drama had either stayed tightly focused on the main couple or actually distributed storylines evenly among the whole group.
I liked the family dynamics between in Yingtao and her parents. I liked how they were contrasted with Jiang Qiaoxi’s completely opposite family dynamics to showcase why he is the way he is. It’s an understanding and loving family against a dysfunctional family that doesn’t remember what it means to be a family. Still I wish they showed his parents at the end asking for forgiveness, even for a second, especially his mother. There was so much emphasis on her broken relationship with her son at the beginning of the drama that it felt strange not to have their story come full circle.
Pacing is the biggest problem
The show has a really strong foundation, but it drags. And I mean it. You can skip through minutes and minutes of dialogue and still not miss anything crucial to the plot. Yes, this is mostly character-driven rather than plot-driven — slice-of-life youth vibes for the most part — but the pacing still hurts the overall impact. Stretching the high-school portion of their lives across so many episodes and leaving only a handful of episodes for their adult reconnection does the story a huge disservice.
The drama does have a great ending — you get butterflies — but the last couple of episodes feel almost like a different drama: faster paced, upbeat, with comic relief we hardly see earlier. That tonal shift is jarring but it does leave you satisfied.
Bottom line
If anything, watch this drama for Zhang Linghe’s performance. I skipped quite a lot, and his acting was the only reason I powered through. There is plot, but it’s paper thin and nothing new and so much screen time could have been just taken out and it wouldn’t affect the plot one bit. The show has real heart and honest moments, but uneven supporting arcs and painfully slow pacing keep it from being great. Still, when it works, it really works — just be ready to grit through long stretches to get there. Or skip. In the end, it’s hard to say if the show is trying to be a youth drama, a family drama or a romance.
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3rd collaboration pls
friendship,family,love story sobrang ganda nakakaiyak..happy ending..🥰😍🥰😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😋😋😋😋😋😋🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰😍😍😍😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍Was this review helpful to you?
aoao oooa ao ouu
TLDR; as someone who's watched enough coming-of-age stories, I know that even w/ the first few eps, it's def skewed towards a certain direction. I would not recommend watching for the main romances--side ones are better imo--but what I like most are the messages from the parents, which def hit harder as an adult. There's also quite a lot of character development (albeit probably not fully realistic). Acting is natural. Music was alright. I do love the costuming, esp fl's outfits (which I would unironically wear if they existed). Ending was okay--had some parts I liked, others not so much. Would not rewatch bc of that teensy little plot drag that ruined my rating of this show.Story: I do appreciate that it starts off w/ the childhood story instead of inserting it into the narrative just to check off a thing. It shows that they were planning that part from the start as an important plot point. I do appreciate the friend group dynamic.. Story is pretty predictable for the romance genre. Honestly, it could've been a better story if they did a switcheroo bc fun fact: puppy love exists and grade-school romances don't always work out. It could've been a better story if she knew how to move on from her first love and find her better self, but here we are. ep 15 ruined the story for me, and it rlly makes it hard for me to pity the ml, and ep 20 actually made me angry lool. Fl literally cannot move on from her first love/the past and needs to learn to grow up to realize that ppl move on. She's so clingy to ml after the climax like why. Even ml told her that everyone grows up. Her best friends moved on persuing their love interests, while she's over here stuck in the past bc ml said one thing and will follow him unconditionally. Also we never fully tie up the second leads' story. Ml isn't any better than fl. Has he ever heard of communication?? ig it's a result of his parents, but even among friends he never says anything even if it's life-changing..atp you're being hella selfish, and you're always changing the topic even when they ask directly. After ep 20 I started mentally spacing out. Now you might be wondering why I watched til the end. bc I hate myself and maybe the ending will redeem everything somehow, which it kinda did?
Acting/Cast: ml looks like 30 trying to play a high schooler lool. Anyways, acting is pretty natural, ml loves to cry, kid actors are surprisingly good.
Music: There's one particular song that's grating on the ears bc of that one part (see title of the review). Other than that, the rest aren't terrible.
Rewatch value: absolutely not. It is shorter than a lot of cdramas but not worth it if I have to endure ep 15+ lol.
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Lazy writing. Don't waste your time!
Had big expectations from this one, who wouldn't after the Princess Royal.I believe even youku and others expected big from this.
I was sad that cctv dropped this show, but also read that they were confused that this didn't fit into what they wanted at all. Now I understand why.
This is neither a youth show nor a romance one.
Except building up of Yingtao' character, it's like if they didn't even care about the rest characters at all.
Qiaoxi is a tortured boy who likes Yingtao. Few minutes and viewers should be OK with it.
The squad: one like Yingtao, one is infatuated with the other, the rest two have no ambitions or real meaningful sentences if not related to Yingtao.
I got that this story revolves around Yingtao, but this isn't just revolving because all other characters are so uni-dimensional, zero character growth, zero character depth. Mere objects just fit in to support Yingtao.
In fact I would say that everyone are doing only guest appearances in this show because they don't have anything else to make them endearing to a viewer.
For me it's a failed adaptation completely.
If you want to really enjoy a good youth show, with all friends having an arc, meaningful arc, then this is the wrong show totally 😂.
Don't waste your time.
Only gave a rating of 6.5 because of actors and the kids in first episode.
Adding to my review above:
any so-called chemistry between Yingtao and Qiaoxi are only because viewers like both actors and they have a off-air natural chemistry, because storywise it makes zero sense how and why these two should even be in love?! infatuation maybe, purely physical attraction- but love? sorry you lost me here! They hardly have any worthwhile scene to prove this ardent so-called love.
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One hot mess of a drama
This show has all the good elements of a fantastic drama : 1. Six childhood friends with deep bond who went through the challenges of growing up from primary school to their professional careers; 2. Strong camaraderie among neighbors; 3. Dysfunctional family with controlling and destructive parents; 4. Young and pure love that defied all difficulties; 5. Tragic past; 6. Global financial crisis. But it’s as if the script writer, the director and the editor quarreled and let each other run amok on the set and do their own thing to sabotage each other. There were so many disjointed scenes, back stories not explored, no character development on the supporting actors, inconsistent story telling. I was confused and couldn’t decide if this was a drama about life, coming of age, or just fluffy romance. Too many non value scenes like that ghost story in the FL’ s college dorm. I can’t believe they allotted 3/4 of the full episode for that! The messy flow of going back and forth on childhood stories were confusing and repetitive. And when I finally reached the end, I thought I was watching a fantasy fairy tale when their young selves appear talking to them. No wonder the rating was low and drop out rate was high. I rated this slightly above 7 purely because I’m a fan of ZLH AND ZJM. Sadly their flawless acting and strong chemistry were totally wasted.Was this review helpful to you?
Our Generation is a powerful drama that captures the struggles, dreams, and resilience of today’s youth. With heartfelt performances and relatable themes, it sheds light on identity, social pressure, and hope. A moving story that speaks deeply to this generation.
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Disini zhang linghe dan zhao jinmei memerankan perannya dengan sangat apik..chemistri mereka sampai menembus layar😊
Pertemanan yg sangat indah tidak semua orang mempunyai pertemanan seperti mereka saya sendiri jg bisa merasakan begitu menyenangkan mempunyai teman2 seperti mereka
Saya suka peran ZLH dia benar benar bisa memerankan seorang anak yg tidak berani menyuarakan isi hatinya demi menjaga keutuhan keluarganya yg dr awal kematian kakaknya sudah tidak sehat
Overall bagi saya ini adalah sebuah tontonan yg menyenagkan dan menghibur
Semoga sukses untuk dramanya dan para pemainnya
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Don't waste your time and energy with this drama. It was depressing to watch.
Our Generation is a modern drama about young lovers starring Zhao Jin Mai and Zhang Ling He. Okay, just because they were good together in the costume drama called The Princess Royal, it doesn't mean they are good in this modern drama.Their acting ability was good, but the script was horrible, and I blamed the director, editor, and producer for even making this drama. I wasted my valuable time, and I had hoped things would improve, but they didn't.
Jiang Qiao Xi was such a loser and an insecure guy, and his domineering mom was annoyed; Lin Qi Le was stupid enough to stick with him. It was depressing to watch this drama; I even watched it at 2x speed.
Synopsis: Lin Qi Le, nicknamed Cherry, grows up under the loving care of her parents, both electrical construction workers, alongside her friends Yu Qiao, Qin Ye Yun, Du Shang, and Cai Fang Yuan in a construction site nestled in the mountains. Jiang Qiao Xi, a talented boy raised as a replacement for his late older brother by his parents, gradually integrates into this close-knit group after transferring to their school. Lin Qi Le's family becomes a rare source of warmth in Jiang Qiao Xi's childhood, and she becomes an important figure in his life. As time passes, the friends scatter in different directions. Lin Qi Le, whose heart is as clear as amber, begins to experience the bittersweet aspects of growing up and steps out of the protective wings of her parents into the wider world. Years later, the group reunites at a provincial experimental school, where they support one another through three years of hard work, preparing for a broader future. At this time, Jiang Qiao Xi, whose future is promising, leaves without telling anyone to go to Hong Kong to care for his cousin, who has been bedridden due to an accident. Lin Qi Le, who misses him, bravely seeks him out, and after learning about the world as adults now, the bond between Lin Qi Le and Jiang Qiao Xi grows stronger.
My Reviews:
1. Acting: 7
2. Script: 4
3. Music/OST: 5
4. Production Quality: 6
5. Cinematography: 6
6. Rewatchable: 3
7. On-Screen Chemistry: 6
Overall Rating: 5
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weak storyline
This story is about an obsessed female lead who never stopped looking for the male lead as a child at the ripe age of 8 or 10. The kids (ml & fl ) met for a brief period of 6 months or less they went to school together, played together , in short, they spent the summer together before ML's mother took him back to the city. But FL constantly wrote letters to him which he never answered because his mother was strict. Her friends moved out one by one to the city after the ML but somehow all her memories were filled with ML whom she spent the least time with, while she have had known her other friends for much longer. I didn't see any effort from her to catchup with her real childhood friends. She was yearning for that man in 5th grade she could not focus on her studies, she was writing novel for that boy how much she missed him, up until they met again in high school. This is where the saga continues where the ML's mother is evil and so on. After meeting him her obsession tripled. It has really boring storyline, such a bs ahh story.Realistically, who remembers someone from 5th grade lets say as a high school teen. Instead of a romance, I see this drama as a cry for mental health support.
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