ShortCircuit

Oh, modern used-universe cdramas :D - they do exist!

Go Ahead is a found family story (Song WeiLong is in it, he's pretty good, but the ones I LOVED were the parents), and it's a well-worn neighbourhood where most of the story happens. It got a SK remake that I tried for the first episode, but they didn't hit the right note IMHO, not for me anyway. You could take a look if you like the trope.

I Don't Want to Be Brothers With You is another found-family trope gem, and it takes place in a poor neighbourhood, I loved the slow pace and the young cast were SO cute and convincing! If you decide to look at it, watch it on Viki, the original Mango TV subs are immortals of MTL madness, LOL. Viki took it up and re-translated into a human language hahaha~

I'd also rec' another one that I really loved, particularly for the grittiness - that's Wolf Hunter (the original title was just Hunter) BUT sadly no one took it up for re-translation, and the only one available is the original Mango TV one, and they REALLY suck at English TLs. That one's a story about very hard men living at the edge of wilderness, trafficking things, among the more non-Han ethnic tribes at the borders of China. It has amazing characters and cinematography, a really thrilling story, but sadly... atrocious subs :(

If you want gritty and dirty and morally gray characters, maybe take a look at Gold Panning. It's a very harsh story about what gold does to the soul, and it has Chen FeiYu in it (he's one of the good young actors - he's also in Lighter&Princess, if you want another modern romance that's well-acted.)

They (cdramas) seriously have everything if you look close enough, and they make enough of them that there's always a good one to watch among the not-so-great ones, LOL.

I couldn't make it past the halfway point of the first ep, but I come here after each episode just for the schadenfreude. It's mesmerising to watch the trainwreck and see the comments defending this hot mess, LOL.

Can you imagine having the greenest flag among the adults (a little wilted but what can you do) being the one who actually fell for his own delusional love story and took 20 years to get revenge on her?!

Though IMHO, considering her, he did have a very lucky escape.

If jealous ex-intended BF of FL ends up saving JinWoo's career just because he likes his singing, I'll laugh myself to death.

ETA So does anyone else get "conceal, don't feel" vibes throughout the scene where they so awkwardly try to pretend they care about JinWoo's trauma? He SAYS he's not cutting so they just... let it go? (ha!)

Yeah because obviously she's working on a very limited amount of empathy and at the time it was all taken by her own guilt for the accident of her son so there was not a shred left over for the actual death of a girl in her care.

All the adults are amazingly evil in this drama.

Last two eps were way better, but I guess we're about to hit whattafuckery land (again).

Oh LOL, does he have a One-Word Spell in this one, too? I don't remember it from the first season, but after FoF, I'd recognise that stance anywhere :D

Lu Di's role in it was to be way too cute and to bring in the cats, and that's the hill I'll die on about this, LOL. (Also, Liu YiJun, the cop (the captain, not the rookie) has a main role in Guardians of the Dafeng, and he's great in it, too.)

So... more recs? (Now you've gotten hooked on cdramas, let's switch from mainland to the island? :D)

Another amazing time paradox story is the one in top of the rec list, Someday Or One Day, a Taiwanese drama about trying hard to save someone by going back in time. It gave me more of a feeling like The Girl Who Leapt Through Time instead of Reset, but it's still a pretty good and gripping (romantic) time paradox.

And one of the best supernatural but in a comedic setting dramas, that will twist your heart out and leave it out to dry is Oh No! Here Comes Trouble (still from Taiwan). It's not time paradox, but it's even more gripping than Reset, IMHO, and done amazingly well. Great (non-romantic) bromance, amazing characters, it brings out all the emotions and you end up laughing with tears in your eyes. I love that drama, LOL, does it show? :D

LOL, you went and completed it in a day! :D

Yup, this drama is pretty good and the time paradox held up very well.

Did you recognise ~Nihuang~ at all? :)

He's just a happy-go-lucky person who immediately adapts to his surroundings, he won't waste a lot of time on things he can't currently change.

ALREADY? Yes, please!

If you look at the OP, it says Season 1 under the title, LOL.

Extraterrestrial species and teleporting or warp speed ARE scifi. Even if they go way beyond our present abilities, there are theories that they expand on. It didn't use to be simple scifan. And for a drama set so close in the future (basically the present or tomorrow, since we already have space tourists and they're not really introducing ANYTHING too advandced compared to today's tech), the least they could do is pretend they understand what they're doing. It's not even all that hard science.

Suspension of disbelief only goes so far, and TBH, comparing it to wuxia is laughable. Wuxia IS martial arts fantasy, not even pretending to be rooted in reality in any way other than the costumes used, if they bother with those at all.

The drama falls flat totally on the comedy aspect, and sadly that's what they wrote - a space comedy that has no humour. I'm not even going to pretend it's scifi or even sci anymore, since it's definitely not.

So they're back to doctor-praising dramas? How did the latest strike end, BTW?

XQA's dad? :D

I'll take a Shen Shu re-bodied as long as he keeps smiling like that :D

So, theories. Is Supervisor THE supervisor who got his name removed from all records? Because he's madly overpowered.

Or is the missing supervisor Shen Shu? Why did he erase his own memory then?

Is Shen Shu going to remain a spirit forever? Boo!!!

Did Xinnian sleep at SiMu's door all night LOL?

WHAT the heck is the mystery treasure that feeds Shen Shu's demonic hand and WHY did it need to be put inside XQA? Did the supervisor put it there?!

Shen Shu's boyish smile is such a killer... I don't know what his deal is, but I hope they revive him or something, particularly if he's a TianYu sorcerer.

He was NOT alone, he just got his boyfr... err, he just got Zhu Yan's soul back.

Yeah but Lee JunHo and Jang Hyuk can actually act (I'm going to pretend KTL never happened. The boy needed his money anyway LOL.)

I kind of think JoL2 and UtM were filmed pretty close to each other, because he's way too skinny in this one, too. I've no idea why, I hope it wasn't because of over-working...