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Webdramas seem to be all the rage these days, with very little (English) info on them. I was trying to translate the summary of To Be With You (最佳女配) while looking for a new show to watch, and after watching the trailer, I wanted to make sure I understood what was going on in the show,… Continue reading Quick Recap: To Be With You 最佳女配 (Ep. 1)
When I last posted, I was in the middle of (attempting to do) quick episode recaps while I watched Bu Liang Ren. Unfortunately, I quickly got bored/annoyed with that show and decided to take a break to watch With You (最好的我们), another highly-rated school/youth drama in China. With You is the best type of slice-of-life, school/youth… Continue reading Drama Review: With You (最好的我们)
I've reached that point in my drama career where I'm starting to venture into unknown territory. Meaning I've started to look for dramas that don't have a lot of English information on them, but nevertheless exist. One interesting thing I've found is that a lot of dramas popular in the English-speaking world outside of China… Continue reading Drama Review: Stand by Me
This episode is full of cute fluff, a change from the heavier plot content and tears of the previous few episodes. It's a nice change, and something that the drama does very well. Recap While Zhi Gang and Wang Lin discuss the universe, we see that Qi Long has been saved by one of Wang's… Continue reading Quick Recap: Shuttle Love Millennium (Ep. 14)
Our leading men can never stay in the time period they're supposed to be from for long. In this episode, we first get a quick resolution to that killer cliffhanger from the previous episode, more time travel mysteries are revealed, and the plot thickens... Recap Last we saw, a bomb had just gone off and Zhi… Continue reading Quick Recap: Shuttle Love Millennium (Ep. 13)
We finally get to some plot as our heroes are returned to their respective timelines. This episode actually flies by quite quickly compared to some of the previous ones thanks to some extreme plot developments, and Zhi Gang finds out just how much havoc Qi Long has wreaked on his life. Recap Instead of accepting… Continue reading Quick Recap: Shuttle Love Millennium (Ep. 12)
In this episode of Shuttle Love Millennium, our heroes are still stuck in the wrong time period. We learn more about the sequence of events in the past and get some answers to time travel, but the episode is very bogged down by tears. Recap We last left off with Zhi Gang and Wang Lin viewing… Continue reading Quick Recap: Shuttle Love Millennium (Ep. 11)
We get a lot of flashbacks in this episode, and some past mysteries are solved. Recap Zi Yi is captured by the Yellow Gang, who terrorize her a bit. The boss crony (Jiang Shi Kai) treats her with respect, but in a slightly creepy way. But Qi Long comes in to mess things up, bringing… Continue reading Quick Recap: Shuttle Love Millennium (Ep. 10)
Wow, things have escalated and just got much more exciting. Recap In 2016 Shanghai, Zhi Gang asks Wang Lin to help him go find Qi Long's grandmother, thinking that she holds the key to figuring out why he is going back and forth. In 1936, Qi Long figures out that it's the wine that is… Continue reading Quick Recap: Shuttle Love Millennium (Ep. 8)
No picture for this episode, but things start to pick up in terms of actual plot in Shuttle Love Millennium. Recap Qi Long happens to drive by the storefront for the dumpling stand he had once advised. Happy to see that the owner took his advice on the dumplings, he buys some to bring to grandma.… Continue reading Quick Recap: Shuttle Love Millennium (Ep. 7)
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