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yeah then it's following non vip schedule, 7 updates on thursday, then it's an ep a day. come back in two weeks if you are still interested, it ends in about three weeks for non vip (28th).

I thought the initial few ep' subs was okay? If it follows the non vip schedule for subs, then it's decent subs till ep 6? if so, 7 ends at the end of the week and will doing 1 ep a day daily till the end at end of the month.

I think it's better if you watch it yourself? I think ep 1 is paced little off, but it has to reintro chars, throw in some twist and callbacks and intro new mission, I liked ep 2 though. I think fair amount of people didn't like first mini arc (3 ep), but I liked it fine.

Lots of people are also annoyed by the subs which I assume follow the non vip schedule which is stuck on 6 till end of the week since it's waiting for the tv release (the schedule is just all over the place for mangotv to maximise its profit)

I disagree that it's garbage, I like it fine. I think it's paced better than s1 even lol. There are a lot of callbacks to s1 and filling in gaps + plot twists on that. I think Wang Juan excels more in original works than adapted works tbh, but his style isn't for everyone (there's longer setup, too much plot twists, humour is subjective, the directing/production is sort of varying).

I wouldn't worry about JoL s2, since it has the same production team, SSS had a lackluster director and it survived fine.

it was announced as 12 x 70mins slot, so no I don't think so.

I think you can? It has a recap + reintro before the OP in ep 1 that runs through basic info. The drama is mostly arc based, you'd just miss callbacks and might be bit confused for a bit.

hunan tv hasn't actually aired it yet, it's airing on august 7th lol. it's the youtube version that's different I think?

The bit about Ning Ling Ge is actually a spoiler technically lol. (for ep 1) His pseudonym was Ding Er, then he assumed the identity of his subordinate Mi Qin Mu Bei in s1. The Ning Ling Ge thing is technically a twist, one that's been predicted by some audience (and confirmed by Wang Juan post s1 ending on his weibo), but it's still a twist. The guy was also a real historical person.

JoL have more busy actors they might have to work around, its script is harder to adapt too (there might be changes to novel's story to make it more palatable for general public etc?). Wang Juan wrote the rough plot outline for Young Blood from scratch, maybe he had an easier time with it lol.

no, hunan tv does this a lot, it'll "extend" episodes, but what happens it'll do a lot of flashback, and some episodes are 20mins long (to fit with the variety show schedule).

I really really loved the concept of this show, and I like how much everything falls into place as you watch it. I do wish they casted someone else as ML, I think he got better in the middle and he def looks better, but for much of the drama, I was shipping FL with everyone (including her brother) but him. XD

Thanks for writing this great review, so I don't struggle to put my thoughts into words to recommend the drama.

o: surprised by the high score, since the movie didn't quite work for me as well. I was little bored with it, and kinda disliked the ending. I really loved Lei Jiayin's performance though, I wasn't sure it was him for the first 10 minutes he appeared. I don't watch enough Shen Teng or Zhang Yi to really be surprised btu I enjoyed them, YYQX was bit too fade to background for me.

watch the killer is romantic!! :P

Heads up, director/scriptwriter/editor/uploader zhi zhu said the last couple of episodes are too long so ep 30 is the ending, not 28, so it should finish on april 28 on kuaishou?

I found both the leads rather annoying from the start, but I started this like the day before it ended, so I got all the warnings from comments/reviews and that made it bit more palatable I think, still infuriating though. I still don't like them, but I did like the supporting characters. I did find using the case to explore screwed up views of marriage, relationship and love kind of neat, and a lot of them are eerily realistic. I also rather like the unreliable narrator aspect and various events could be up to different interpretations.

That's the thing, the writer woman situation is up to interpretation. Lot of people lean towards he might have just flirted or she had a thing for him, but Mu Dafu didn't actually sleep with her.

If that's the case, then he didn't physically cheat. Emotionally cheating is complicated and debatable subject, which is the entire reason this drama exists. It doesn't help the drama shows that all characters are all unreliable with their version of story, so you can interpret it rather differently.

FL projects a lot throughout the drama, and her constant questioning got very suffocating as it went on. I think a lot of people find ML rather annoying because he wasn't answering the question straight and did the exasperated dance, but then became super annoyed by FL.

ML is far from the victim, even in the best light, he enables FL and feeds into her suspicion at the beginning. At worst, he'd be what you say, a manipulator who's emotionally abusive, also might have some kind of hallucination/untreated mental issue.

It's a family ethics drama :P I think it becomes somewhat clear half way through the drama when you see they are super focused on relationship/how they might be connected to the case AND the fact they are all unreliable narrators.

Oooh I'm surprised your mum was interested. We tried to get our mum to watch and she watched the first two ep, went to bed and never came back, despite our repeated reminders lol. I think she finds it bit hard to follow and have to concentrate compared to other dramas she might have playing while half asleep.

I think there might be some non cdrama watchers? I heard some people talking about their friends/coworkers watching cos of the book? You'd have to have someone who watches cdramas or keep up with the news to know though, I think? Oh wait no, I think NYT and some other sites had articles, but it's unlikely it drew that many people in. I'd be curious to see stats tbh, it'd be interesting.

I liked the first two, but found whole ep 3 dedicated to countdown unnecessary, more characterisation for Wang Miao sort of worked till ep 5, I think 7 had the game, so I stuck around? I liked the game bit quite a bit. ep 8 and 9 were string of total duds and could be deleted. Then it went into game-flashback-game mode so I was okay, even if the flashback was slow too. I remember the early episodes cos I was following the release and stopped right before Chinese New Years cos I heard there were 2 dumb drama original ep lol. Then Knockout broke out and people stopped discussing Three Body for the most part, also cos I binged the rest after all the socialising for CNY lol.

I liked Shen Yufei okay, even though she shouldn't have been around for so long I believe, she was just little too cryptic for sake of cryptic. Pan Han I was sort of okay with too, but reporter I don't care for. They did sort of try to space drama original content out when it started getting back the main plot, too bad a lot of that was cluster at the beginning.

I'm still not that optimistic about Netflix's :P

oooh I'm surprised by the relative low score since it seemed like you rather liked it when you watched it! I think this drama is way too long and would be far better experience even if it cut down just 6 ep, better if it cuts down 15 so it's half as long. It also really enjoyed being cryptic for the sake of it, which I don't care for. ALSO if it would just turn on the lights, omg I was really patient and okay with the dim lighting at first for suspense reason. but it got more and more ridiculous! In latter third, there were just DARK ROOM, but there's lights outside! shen yufei's house with that BLINDING screen sjkfhsdjkfhsjkdfh