Hello, you're watching AvenueX and this is my ranting video
on a recently started airing and right now still on air
Youku drama, Hou Lang, Gen Z
It's a contemporary drama led by Zhao Lusi, Wu Gang, Luo Yizhou, and it has 40 episodes.
I've watched the first 18 episodes admittedly with quite a bit fast forwarding through the drama.
Wow. That's all I can say about this drama.
It's written by Liu Liu who is a very well known script writer.
She had a couple of really successful drama and story written such as Wo Ju
One of the best known ones she's done,
but then in recent years she kind of completely flopped because what she said on social media,
particularly during the Kris Wu thing that happened 2 years ago
basically saying the woman exposing Kris Wu is friends with benefits
and then it's actually rather despicable of her doing that because by doing that,
she kind of killed all the future Wu Yifan's fans, girl fans' possibility of ever sleeping with him.
So ever since then she kind of completely flopped in china.
well clearly, it wouldn't stop you from writing scripts.
This year we've got ~~~ this drama
The backwardness of the things that happens in this drama is frankly shocking.
And it's an embarrassment to China as a modern country.
you know the only thing of this drama that belongs to this century and it looks like it belongs to 2020s
is it's high definition.
If you only watch it at 1080p it's still super high definition.
It almost looks like 4K, and that's the only thing to me of this drama.
That's up to date to its actual time.
Everything else is like at least 100 years old,
i'm gonna rant about this thing, It's not gonna be structured.
I'm just gonna start talking.
You have our female lead character.
Supposedly she still got the free quotation mark education in china,
which is 9 years and whether she's gone to high school,
not quite sure not that important, snd then she's from an orphanage.
And she very early on started working, earn her own keeping which is cool.
But then the way she acts and talks just looks like somebody who has no idea
about how to function in the contemporary world.
And it does not make sense that if you actually grew up in an orphanage
and you don't have parents to take care of you that you would act like that
towards every stranger you encounter,
usually people who don't have that kind of family care would be more shrewd clever
and much more observant of what's going on in the world.
So they can take care of themselves.
This is a polar opposite character in this drama
Everything she does is trying to kill herself and annoying other people.
At the beginning of this drama, she works as a fast food kind of delivery,
basically skip the dish delivery person, Chinese version
and then she lies to her customers when she is not there yet,
she would say i'm already there or I will be there soon.
She runs across red lights, throw food on a customer
and let the soup and food land on their head.
And then she comes across some kind of domestic violence happening when she's delivering food
and she goest directly hit the guy and then break their bones.
And then she ends up in police station like that's the first episode
and then somebody came in and paied the money to let her out.
And that guy is played by Wu Gang, Wu Gang
You are a pretty good actor,
but recently you have done so many bad dramas in a row.
I am really worried about Joy of Life, the second season
this is like one of the worst middle aged guy i've seen in a dramaland as a character.
The reason that he would want pay that much money and not really his own money
it's like his family's money which is actually his wife's family's money.
uh Let's talk about that later.
It's because he believes she by her blood,
yes by birth, would be the heir of the other chinese medicine long lineage family,
whose previous generation is kind of his teacher level.
So basically there's a young girl who is much younger than him
is actually higher in generation level than he is.
And that whole family's descendants kind of have died out.
And he's been searching for their blood heir
And supposedly that family has this acupuncture technique that is a loss to humanity
if it doesn't get inherited, but the thing is she grows up in an orphanage,
she doesn't know she comes from the family, she's never been trained in chinese medicine.
She barely actually graduated from high school and somehow he just believes
because she is by blood, the descendant of that family,
therefore she has to inherit it and she has the ability to do it
and she needs to be pulled out of the trouble.
And he will take the responsibility of teach her chinese medicine
regardless of whether she wants to do it or she cares about it and she is good at it or not.
Is this like a somebody is gonna have their third eye open?
you know they could x ray humans just by looking at them
like certain Korean dramas would do it.
Is this a fantasy drama just happened in contemporary time?
apparently by episode 18, it's not it.
It's still a normal human drama, it's just by blood everybody believes that can happen
and then he pulls this girl into his practice and then tells everybody
all the students and other doctors working in his own sort of medicine practices.
She's the heir to that legendary family by her generation level.
She is higher than all of us
bow to this higher level generation level girl just because she's by blood that
you have that going on.
And so this drama is filled with this type of Feng Jian Yu Nie stuff going on.
I can give you many examples, that's just one
Chinese new year and Luo Yizhou's role
who is Wu Gang's role's biological son
to his grandfather and grandma pay them respect during chinese new year
and kneel down which sometimes happens. That's okay.
But then what he would be saying at the same time to the grandpa is
grandpa live 10,000 years,
which is an Imperial China's saying that you can only say to the emperor
so wish the emperor 10,000 years longevity.
Basically apart from emperor himself,
everybody else like crown prince, emperess, emperess dowger, in the whole imperial family,
you can only use 1,000 years.
So this 2020s, university graduate says to his grandfather and grandmother,
I wish you live 10,000 years. I wish you lived 1000 years,
not only is he copying the imperial china's mhm
He's also distinguishing the fact that by gender,
the grandfather is the emperor of the family, and by gender, the grandma is ...
so she can only get 1000 years instead of 10,000 years.
And and i'm just like, WHAT?
how did it pass censorship?
There is a conversation that happens between Wu Gang and Jiang Shan's role
So the male lead's parents role, and the the lady of the family is like,
I don't really think you should take in the girl, and he's like,
she's the heir right to that whole family.
It would be pity that that whole family's technique gets lost,
which is like the whole family died out so their technique is already lost anyway.
Like, how can you make it come back? Just wake up her blood?
And then he says, even if she doesn't become a really good practitioner of chinese medicine
by bringing her in under my wing, teach her all the "right" ways of doing things.
I would at least have trained a good girl,
a good future wife for the society
2020s, and your goal is to at least produce a good wife for some men you don't know where that man is
Well that man is actually your son! You know you'll see that's gonna happen.
And also in this whole drama, you'll see this pair of husband and wife
Jiang Shan and Wu Gang plays, wow unbelievable that she exists in 2020s.
The guy's everything comes from her. She is the richer, more well established person in society.
Her family comes from the long lineage of chinese medicine,
but her parents treat her and as if she's not their real kid, but her husband is
they lean so much more on the guy who is actually their son in law.
And then they put down that woman of the family and make her the slave of the family so much.
And she internalize that so much and she would even in her language
treats him as her master, like she is in a slave position in this drama.
So many plots happen like that.
And this guy Wu Gang plays is so by default,
the owner of the whole household and family where all all the resources he gets,
even money was actually comes from the wife's family.
And he just so rightfully and happily and feeling so deservedly gets all of that
and thinks it's all good.
Other types of shocking plot in this drama includes the group
of chinese medicine students in this drama uh saw a girl
suddenly sort of fall in a supermarket and she's having a cramp
and they just took her pulse and then made the diagnosis on spot
saying basically she has periods cramps and then did a little bit of acupuncture and made her feel better.
And then later she actually had a really bad ectopic pregnancy
because of the misdiagnose of these kids students,
she actually had to have a surgery and have one of her fallopian tube removed.
but the way male lead reported up to his father is like really happily
you know with laughing, smiling face, She's good.
Now she doesn't have any like life threatening situation.
She only had this and only had that removed.
And then Zhao Lusi's role would come in and ask the question
because she's not trained in medicine, so I mean I understand
she's like how many fallopian tubes do human have?
Obviously, the answer is 2, and then she's like well then she's still got one left.
yeah you have two eyeballs, how about like dig one out?
you know just like give it for free to other people because you know you can still function
everything happens in this drama in the most ridiculous fashion imaginable.
She lives in a dormitory with a lawyer lady.
We're gonna talk about the lawyer lady later,
and the lawyer lady bought this ~~
to practice her acupuncture, but obviously, it looks ridiculous.
And she just think it's a cool toy or a cool thing.
So she grabs it without getting any permission.
And there's no any form of regret or apology that Zhao Lusi's role has towards the fact
that she takes her roommate's stuff without getting permission.
So the lawyer complained about this against Zhao Lusi's role to Wu Gang
the teacher of the whole class.
And Wu Gang is like, why can't you be more generous?
It's only something that worths like what seventy rmb or something
if you let it go~ it's all good.
And Zhao Lusi is like it's all good.
Imagine put yourself in the lawyer's position and your stuff gets used
without permission by a roommate. And somehow you are at fault.
That's just another plot in this drama.
I mean what else can we say
oh this lawyer lady wow she is interesting
And why does she go to chinese medicine class to learn chinese medicine
and completely kind of like put her practice at a halt
whether she's gonna go back to practice law or completely not.
I don't know, but she basically gave up herself being a lawyer.
How many years do you have to go to school and then practice to be a proper lawyer
who can actually go into court case. Right?
So it happens because when she finished a case and she walks out of the court,
and the opponent lawyer was like shaking hand with her and saying you know it's all good.
And then walked down the big steps of the court and that guy suddenly had a heart attack and died.
yeah I sorry, i'm laughing when somebody died.
Ambulance comes can't resurrect him and that guy just dies
and she saw it and she got so shocked and just suddenly find
law is just meaningless to practice and she can't do anything to help that person.
And she wants to be now a doctor to save lives.
So she gave up law on this spot and started to go for medicine.
And first thing she picked is going to a privately runchinese medicine class
that makes a lot of sense.
Other weird plot includes
there's a girl who's paralyzed from waist down and she's in wheelchair
Wu Gang's role cheated or lied to the girls saying we have some old pass down from generations,
thousands of years secret recipe to actually help you,
but he confesses to Zhao Lusi's role if I tell her she can't be saved,
she will probably lose all hope to live and then her mother would also,
so I decide to lie to them so that we can wait for the possibility of next year or tomorrow,
human medicine suddenly advance to the point where we can solve that problem.
That's a big moral debatable thing for doctor to do is not telling your patients the truth
that type of thing also happens in the drama.
And what are the other shocking things
oh and male and female they were drinking by a river bank
It's not wild, it's paved, it's like a park,
there's water and he intentionally made her drunk,
just lost consciousness and then he walked away,
left her at night alone on a bench, on the park,next to a body of water.
Genius! How many things you are doing wrong with that
Everybody in this drama is like in some way despicable, unbelievably bad.
I'm not surprised that Zhao Lusi picked a role to play like this
you know she's done a lot in a row
but like Wu Gang, really? Is he in debt?
The only thing I can think of is he's in serious debt and he needs money,
and so he doesn't care what role he takes on, maybe not in money,
but like in some kind of Ren Qing (人情） he owes somebody something
that he has to play a role, I don't know.
And Youku, the way that Youku has released,
just like really ridiculous stuff continuously.
It is really acting as if it's dashing towards a wall
and knows it's heading towards that, but it cannot stop.
So it kind of goes crazy and it's like well might as well just like full speed
press on the gas and let's just die in the most spetacular fashion.
It's almost like a desperate attempt to say since we cannot make good stuff,
let's make really crappy and really debatable things.
Any publicity is good publicity, bad one is also a good one, it's better than not having one.
So they went for crazy script
and in terms of all the Chinese medicine thing that this drama contains
just ignore them. Okay? Ignore them.
I mean the drama also has that warning at the end of every episode is
like don't believe what we say it's real, don't practice.
I don't know like if they are actually writing this whole story trying to promote Chinese medicine
or actually trying to "hei" make the reputation of Chinese medicine even worse
and then I don't understand a drama like this.
How can it go on satellite television?
There are so many dramas that got taken down for reasons that are
so much less than this and honestly less shocking and less problematic than this.
But this drama pas censorship.
It just shows you, in reality,the society is still run by real people,
and people are all fallible and there's always a way to get around things
when you have people not hard rules ruling anything.
Anyway, it's funny.
I am completely unstructured and I'm not really like making sense in my speech and language today.
I'm just too shocked by this drama and everything that happens in this drama.
Just when you think Chinese drama can't sink any lower,
it will give you something that shows you
oh oh you have thought wrong. We can go even~~~
Obviously I wouldn't recommend you watch this drama
I think every second you spend watching this drama is some kind of harm you've done to your own lifetime
because you only have that many seconds to live on this planet.
but if you're curious, just trying to see how ridiculous it can get.
I mean test it out, pick any episode, don't have to go from the beginning,
just pick any random episodes, and if it has a subtitle option
just see what happens and see how shocking it can be.
Thank you for watching AvenueX,
Hope you're having a good day, good night, good evening.
Whenever you're watching this,
hope you will never come across any doctors in your real life
as the doctors you see in Gen Z
please take care I'll see you in my next video.
Meanwhile live long and happy drama watching.