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Is Agent Kim that good? I watched 2 episodes and didn't find anything special there. Does it get better?

Agreed about the cast, I like the scummy grandpa especially. Knew he's gonna be utilized, lol.

Definitely, but not as funny so far.

You should check official CN platforms' statements about revenue and critical acclaim. It's one of the top grossing dramas on Youku platform (the one who commissioned it), it was a commercial hit. And it had a ton of commercial revenue from national CCTV broadcasting. The platform recently announced several season 2 dramas and it was amongst them for these reasons.

As for scores, nobody gives af about MDL or other western aggregators, and it has too small of a sample anyway, with very skewed bias. Wanna look for something more coherent, go look it up on Douban or smth. This drama has better score there than most of the overrated ones on MDL.
You really should give up on MDL scores, anyone who's been here long enough knows there's too much overhyped bs here. If you only watch dramas based on MDL rating, you may miss lots of great ones.

It did really well, both commercially and critically. Don’t let biased MDL scores fool you, nobody really gives af about them.

https://mydramalist.com/810234-legend-of-zang-hai-season-2

That’t not how it happened. There’s no spirit transmigration here, it’s just part of her hallucinations. You gotta pay more attention to the plot.

Ehm, FL actress is 17. We're not getting any kissing scenes here, right? 👀

You can fast forward to the Lishan mountain arc that starts in episode 32, it's the highlight of this drama. Middle is rather draggy.

I find it really strange, your opinion. UJ had way tighter, well thought out plot, with very clear themes and arcs, and better, more meaningful dialogues overall. And no screentime wasted on boring side characters' baffling "dead end" stories, there were lots of these in TFJ. And of all things, FL's character there was terrific, very hard disagree. But whatever, to each their own, I guess. Maybe some other things as well, but no point arguing here.
Personally, I think BL did great in both, some of her finest work in these no-nonsense, mature dramas.

I've already checked, there was like one lyrics bgm track that sounded similar, but the rest were distinct. I hope they get released later.

But where is the instrumental bgm music (not with lyrics)? I still can't find anything, are they gonna release it? There were some very good tracks in the drama.

Have you finished it? In what way is it better than UJ? Because it's a different genre?
I'd say overall plot quality is worse than in UJ, it's very spotty "hit-and-miss" here. And also it gets a bit draggy in the middle and very draggy after the Lishan mountain arc. Could have been shorter by 5+ episodes and nothing of real value'd be lost.

Also, I agree about martial arts. FL here'd be a typical know-it-all Mary Sue if it wasn't for her mental trauma, but martial arts is not something you can learn years ago and then effortlessly execute to kill elite assassins without constant training (btw, who even were those guys? MJL's watchmen?). I'm in disbelief she even learned so much - her mentor died when she was just 16.
Same complaint goes to ML - he just barely got up from a wheelchair and wasn't training for 8 years, but suddenly he's kicking assassins' butts and defeating a veteran general who def liked to spar often. The guy should still be barely shuffling around and regaining muscle and flexibility.
If anything, FL in UJ had very believable background - she was working as a detective for 15 years, never stopped training martial arts since childhood, and fought all sorts of scum on the job all the time.

Same actress, samey character with reincarnation trope.

If it's in the same vein as her previous Blossom, then you're likely right. I'm tired of that type of regurgitated plot. Not my fav actress as well.

It was announced a while ago already. There's even a S2 page on MDL.

That's present in every historical cdrama, not fresh.

The synopsis sounds very generic, as well as the title. How many cdramas have "blossom" in their titles, lol? Anyway, is there anything fresh in the drama so far? FL actress here looks like she left one "Blossom" to play samey character in another "Blossom".

Yea, the emperor has lots of flaws here, his actions or inactions caused ripples through the whole plot. But they wrote him interestingly, you can't say he's a bad guy either.

Those actors can have chemistry even with a brick if needed. It's not the actors, it's the script. Some parts were great and actors did great there accordingly. Some parts looked like they had worse quality, and at times it felt like scriptwriters got confused with how they wanted to portray some characters. So sometimes leads' relationship looked forced, sometimes heartfelt, sometimes very prudish as if they thought getting into more passionate romance would be distasteful with mentally unwell FL, sometimes they turned "old married couple" mode...
And since they got married since the start of the drama, the scriptwriters decided this couple can just skip all the normal romantic relationship steps straight to the end. That's why so many reviews pointed out how lackluster it is. There's basically no-lead up, stakes, or struggle to get together, everything is taken for granted. Like in that scene where ML be like "alright, I'm healed, let's consummate our marriage" and dumbfounded FL be like "ok? I guess we gotta". Sheesh.