Hello, welcome to another video from AvenueX
looking at chinese dramaland in the past week.
Let's get right into it.
First,
the drama i've talked about last time
Under the Skin
Lie Zui Tu Jian has aired according to schedule,
and this has officially become AvenueX's
2022 first shippable drama.
I've already edited a small video.
I only put it on bilibili
It's tiny.
So I have at least three more videos planned in my head already,
but I may not get to make all of them depends on time and stuff.
I'm very happy about its existence.
It's by no means the greatest drama out there,
and it's only 20 episodes in entirety and
they've already aired 14 in the first week.
Next week it's gonna be done.
So I will go straight into making a final review after the last episode.
and I'm pretty sure because of how short
the airing time of this drama is
it's not gonna get too much popularity,
but pretty much everybody
that I follow on social media
who has watched this drama really liked it.
I didn't expect the 2 leads actually work off
a really interesting chemistry,
particularly as the story develops, it gets better.
So if shipping is your thing and you haven't found
one yet in 2022 from chinese dramaland,
this is a good choice.
And I really, really appreciate Tan Jianci's performance.
I think after watching the first four episodes
of his performance in this drama,
I was like,
I just want Sha Po Lang
Now
can't wait.
if you've been on my channel long enough
you knowI have special filter for Tan Jianci
due to personal experience,
can't wait for the day that he becomes big and popular.
He deserves it,
god knows it's been so long
should have happened a long time ago,
but hey, never too late
moving on to talk about other dramas.
First, a drama went live on march the 10th,
so literally just went live on Tencent.
It is a contemporary drama led by Huang Zitao and Song Zuer
called Cai Bu Yao He lao Ban Tan Lian Ai
Legalled Romance
Chinese title means don't wanna have a relationship with my boss.
So with that in mind plus the legally romance english title,
it already spoils the drama for you.
It happens at a law firm.
And Huang Zitao is the boss.
Song Zuer is the employee
cannot be more explicit.
I've watched 80% of first episode and I cannot form an opinion yet.
Based on what i've watched, too little,
but I do have to say I love the look of it.
It looks very serious, proper, rich color,
high contrast,
gritty skin texture like it doesn't make people
look like cheap idol drama
and both leads look really good with that lens and filter
So at least visually,
it's pretty satisfying.
Let's move on to talk about the next one.
A drama has just announced it's gonna go live on march 17th.
It's a contemporary drama again called Xin Ju
Life is A Long Quiet River
led by Hai Qing, Tong Yao, Zhang Songwen, Feng Shaofeng
and the story based on the trailer is talking about mainly two women.
Hai Qing is a woman who marries into a big city's family.
From a more remote place,
she becomes the sister in law of Tong Yao,
marrying Tong Yao's brother and Tong Yao is the city born
big metropolis girl.
and most of the conflict happens around this sister in law relationship.
Then there is a drama that is likely to go live also in march,
highly likely on youku plus satellite television
although they haven't announced the date yet
looking promising called Qing Jiao Wo Zong Jian
Master of My Own
Another contemporary drama led by Lin Gengxin and Tan Songyun
In a way very similar to the Huang Zitao and Song Zuer drama
where the guy is kind of the boss and the girl is the assistant
in this drama, the setting changes from legal firm to venture capital company.
Dramas tend to cluster hey
and Lin Gengxin is the great investor and Tan Songyun is his assistant,
but the assistant has more ambition.
So she eventually quit the job,
went to another firm and started her own
investing career and got really successful
Tan Songyun, I i'm not worried about her acting at all
as an actress, she definitely can hold down this type of role
as for Lin Gengxin, more question marks.
Based on the couple of dramas he's done in recent years,
and the overall
kind of like given up on trying harder as an actor
attitude of his
fingers crossed this one wouldn't crash.
Now let's move on to talk about a couple of other dramas at
different stages of production
first dramas that have wrapped
number one, Man Chang de Ji jie
no official english title yet
chinese translation would mean long season,
i'm really excited about this project and I haven't heard about it before.
It's a 12 episode, short thriller mystery drama,
very light on, right?
And then when you hear the director Xin Shuang
who is the director of The Bad Kids
You're like, oh my god! Is that another light on drama?
No, it's from Tencent.
Remember, Zi Jin Chen
the author of the two original novels of these two dramas,
moved to a different platform,
and then the director of bad Kids
used to work with iqiyi now moved to Tencent.
I feel like, iqiyi is bleeding like crazy of resources, people and money.
This drama started shooting last year November and it has just wrapped.
And then when you look at the casting,
it's like oh I cannot miss this drama when it airs
I have to like stare at it,
because it's led by Fan Wei, Qin Hao, Ren Suxi, Zhang JIngchu
Li Gengxi, Shi Pengyuan, Liu Yitie, Li Gan
it cannot get better than this, hey?
Qin Hao, Shi Peng Yuan, from the Bad Kids
Ren Suxi, goddess actress level
Zhang Jingchu, she's famous okay
Li Gengxi, not bad for her age
and then Fan Wei
If you don't know about him,
he usually shows up in comedy,
but he's when he needs to be serious,
he's like bloody good
Liu Yitie
a drama that has just finished airing, Chao Yue
the skating drama I made a video about
he is one of the actor who played the 1990s line athlete,
really good actor.
Li Gan, from Reset, the policeman that made everybody
not like him in the beginning and like him a lot, later
look at this cast.
There's like I have to watch this drama when it airs
I don't care
and I sincerely sincerely 100% fingers crossed.
Hope this is good, interesting thriller.
Then the other one that has wrapped also during this week is
a period drama called Wei You An Xiang Lai
no english title yet
It's based on an internet novel called Xi QIan Hua
And it's led by Zhou Ye and Wang Xingyue
If you've watched Word of Honor and One and Only last year,
you'll know these two who they are
the story itself.
The novel is about a contemporary person who traveled into a like a novel,
like ancient time and got stuck in a woman's body
who is in the most undesirable conditions imaginable
and has to fight her way through.
I don't know if this drama is actually gonna take out the travel
part out of it and just go straight into a period drama setting,
haven't read the novel either,
but i've heard this is a really torture heavy romantic story
moving on to the next piece of news about dramas that have started shooting.
First also during this week,
another drama based on an ip novel has started shooting,
calle Zhi Ci Jiang Hu Meng, English title
love and sword.
And it's a period setting romantic comedy drama
that's how they call it and it's from tencent.
So think about all Tencent produced periods setting romantic comedy drama.
You already get a feel of what it will look like,
what kind of sets costume it will have,
what kind of vibe it will have, almost.
And the leading man is Gao Wei Guang
and leading woman,
Xuan Lu
They've been around both for a long time,
and somehow I never pictured them together.
It's an interesting combination.
I would be curious to see a cp made up with these two,
how it's gonna work out.
The next one, probably a lot of people will be anticipating a lot
seemingly they're aiming at actually chucking this one out
at the end of this year last quarter.
Gong Su Jing Ying, no english title yet either
But the title actually means prosecution elite.
So contemporary drama first
then about prosecutors.
And this drama is led by Dilraba and Tong Dawei
and many other people
tencent drama
also produced by 最高检 （Zui Gao Jian)
which is china's supreme prosecution bureau
office or procuratorate like that word.
I can never pronounce it,
but that's what it means.
Let's hope 2022 we can get a good prosecution drama
and you know Dilraba and Tng Dawei
another very interesting pairing of actors.
Somehow I just never picture them as
belonging to the same universe.
Now to wrap up today's video
during this week.
Another interesting thing just happened,
which is Xue Weizhou announced on weibo that he's married.
He put this photo out of his hand and another woman's hand
holding their marriage certificate.
Right after that happened,
a lot of long buried materials and videos,
onset stuff happened during the shooting of Addicted
exploded over weibo.
Definitely people did it intentionally.
And wow some of that was like ....
beyond our expectation,
let's just say
personally,
because I wasn't really a fan of that drama or the cp at all.
So when I saw that I was like, oh okay,
no emotional reaction,
but for people who genuinely shipped that drama that many years ago,
it probably is a really complicated,
mixed feeling.
And with internet, there's no expiration date.
But on the positive end of the whole thing,
it just shows if you can live long enough century,
Huo JIu JIan (活久见）
you'll be able to see something.
So for everybody who's still waiting for the
raw footage of onset stuff of Guardian,
that supposedly
There's a hard drive that has like a couple of Ts of raw footage
that's still hidden in this production office.
Let's just stay healthy,
stay fit,
stay positive in this shit storm filled world that every
day looks like the end of earth
who knows
one day down the road,
maybe many decades later
that hard drive is gonna getlost and get stolen
and get accidentally extracted.
And its information got put on internet.
We will see our dream of youth coming back to life
So dramatic,
so that will be the end of this video.
Thank you for watching AvenueX
I'll see you in my next video.
Meanwhile, live long and happy drama watching.