HAPPY NEW YEAR! Wishing everyone good health and happiness!
Watched:
(TVB) The Impossible 3: Very short and silly series with Bosco Wong, Chilam Cheung, and Chrissie Chau. It’s enjoyable if you want to watch something but not have a long commitment.
(MangoTV) Perfect and Casual: This was the first series that got me into the C-Drama phase this year, to a point where I barely watched any TVB dramas.
(Sohu/Kukan) Mysterious Love: Romantic. Thrilling. Action packed. What more can you ask for in an addicting series that you stumble upon from Youtube clips? Rumors are a second installment with the original cast is in the works, but has been delayed due to the ongoing pandemic. Even the song is addicting to listen to.
(Kukan) Sunshine of My Life: Hans Zhang is super charming in this one and Lulu Xu make a very convincing couple. I watched the whole series, but stopped with the episode recaps, as I could not squeeze in time.
(TVB) Fraudstars: This was a short 8 episodes series that was pretty creative at the beginning, but dropped off massively in the last two episodes. That is not an excuse as that would be 25% of the entire series!
(TVB) Plan ‘B’: This was Eliza Sam’s first series back after giving birth. After this series, I can confirm for sure that Kenneth Ma is only good in roles where he plays a doctor!
(TVB) The Kwoks and What: A rather lighthearted drama with not too much excitement.
Skimmed:
(TVB) Lo and Behold: Some of the episodes are just not worth watching, so I’ll either read the summary the weekend before OR randomly turn it on.
(HunanTV/MangoTV) Begin Again: This popped up on my Youtube feed. I did see chemistry sparks between Simon Gong and Zhou Yutong, but the storyline did not spark much interest for me to watch from beginning to end.
(MangoTV) Love Unexpected: When I first read the synopsis for this, I honestly thought ‘what a stupid storyline’. But, on Feb. 18th, 2021, news broke out that the main leads Kris Fan and Judy Qi were spotted heading back to his apartment. And suddenly, I found myself skimming the series. There are very cute scenes in here, but ultimately, I didn’t end up watching from beginning to end.
(Tencent/iQiyi) Go Go Squid 2: Dt. Appledog’s Time: Only skimmed through the scenes of Wang Anyu and Nina Wang.
(Tencent) The Sword and the Brocade: Wallace Chung, despite being 46 is still a leading actor! Some of the scenes were interesting when I skimmed through the second half of the series, but I’m not really a fan of costume drama to watch this.
(Youku/MangoTV) One Boat One World: Jumped on the Hans Zhang boat (literally) while watching him in Sunshine of My Life. They were aired simultaneously, but it didn’t look interesting enough to watch from beginning to end.
(HunanTV) Here to Heart: Another one of Hans Zhang’s series that kept popping up on Youtube’s recommendations. However, 48 episodes seemed to long for me to watch.
(Tencent) Pretty Man: How interesting that they dropped the female lead (Sierra Li) but kept the male lead (Dylan Xiong) for the second installment!
(Tencent) Young and Beautiful: I came across the subtheme song 明明可以爱很久 (We Could Have Loved for Longer) on Youtube and thought about giving the series a try. It looked promising. However, as I was skimming through the episodes, I could not believe that the female and male lead were still not together at episode 40! Although it was a happy ending at 42 episodes, I did not like how they dragged on the storyline.
(TVB) Battle of the Seven Sisters: This was decent, but definitely not Best Drama material.
(TVB) Line Watchers: It was nice to get an inside glimpse of the customs department, but the ‘love square’ between Benjamin Yuen, Mandy Wong, Venus Wong, and Jack Wu was just odd.
(TVB) Kids Lives’ Matter: I really liked the interaction between Linda Chung, Kenneth Ma, and Kevin Cheng. A bummer that this did not win the awards worthy of its content.
Dropped:
(TVB) Beauty and the Boss: I tried to watch this but gave up midway. It was just not as interesting as the trailers suggested.