Just some thoughts about media I've been reading and watching recently
A Dream of Splendor, eps 1-13—I picked up this Chinese drama because it focuses on a group of three women who are friends – however so far their friendship hasn’t really grabbed me, which is a bit disappointing. But the tea making game is on point, and I am enjoying the plot and many of the other relationships. This show is bit morally ambivalent about torture – the ML uses torture, but feels bad about it (Of course the show also depicts torture as source of reliable information, which *sigh*) Overall I’m enjoying it just not for the reasons I thought I would. (content note: domestic abuse, coerced suicide )
Hedgewitch by Skye McKenna—I read this out loud to the kid at bedtime. It’s about a girl who discovers her missing mother was a witch and is sent off to live with her aunt and learn magic. It’s very much in the tradition of classic British children's books, with lots of elements that felt familiar in a nice way.
Legend of Yunze (2021)—I’ve been interested in a couple of mini dramas, but I’ve always found them hard to follow, and only managed an episode or two of any of them before this. So I decided to try again. I picked this because it's f/f xianxia, which sounded fun. There’s 10 2-5min long episodes so the whole thing was quick. I successfully watched the whole thing and didn’t find it hard to follow even!
( Legend of Fei, Melody Journey, To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth, and High-Risers )
A Dream of Splendor, eps 1-13—I picked up this Chinese drama because it focuses on a group of three women who are friends – however so far their friendship hasn’t really grabbed me, which is a bit disappointing. But the tea making game is on point, and I am enjoying the plot and many of the other relationships. This show is bit morally ambivalent about torture – the ML uses torture, but feels bad about it (Of course the show also depicts torture as source of reliable information, which *sigh*) Overall I’m enjoying it just not for the reasons I thought I would. (content note: domestic abuse, coerced suicide )
Hedgewitch by Skye McKenna—I read this out loud to the kid at bedtime. It’s about a girl who discovers her missing mother was a witch and is sent off to live with her aunt and learn magic. It’s very much in the tradition of classic British children's books, with lots of elements that felt familiar in a nice way.
Legend of Yunze (2021)—I’ve been interested in a couple of mini dramas, but I’ve always found them hard to follow, and only managed an episode or two of any of them before this. So I decided to try again. I picked this because it's f/f xianxia, which sounded fun. There’s 10 2-5min long episodes so the whole thing was quick. I successfully watched the whole thing and didn’t find it hard to follow even!
( Legend of Fei, Melody Journey, To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth, and High-Risers )
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