Ying tao hu po

The series shines through its layered characters. The audience watches them mature and make decisions that feel authentic, painful, and at times inspiring. A poignant and nostalgic journey through the trials of youth in a changing nation. The cast did a wonderful job delivering the characters. Both actresses potraying young YingTao and adult Yingtao did especially good job carrying one of the standout characters in Our Generation, and arguably one of its most emotionally complex. She's not the central protagonist, but her presence adds significant emotional depth and a sharp contrast to the other characters, especially in how she navigates societal expectations, personal ambition, and emotional resilience. They did great job at it. All in all this series is a must watch for lovers of emotional, character-driven dramas.

I was so intrigued to see how this movie would end and the movie didn't bring it to any resolution. It was SO disappointing!

While I felt for the main characters, I wanted to see how the relationship would get resolved. How could it end as it did? Did the Network accidentally cut it short at the end? What a disappointment!

First, to clarify, despite what you read here this show has 24 episodes, only 21 of which have aired on Netflix to date. So most people don't know how it ends.

At times it shows flashes of brilliance and the settings are very elaborate and mostly do a good jobs of capturing the time and place in history. Character development is particularly strong, even if some on them are very annoy, they are that way for a good reason, it turns out. Nothing is superficial.

It is probably not going to be as good as the Korean shows Crash Landing on You or Extraordinary Attorney Woo. But it is certainly not mediocre either. A lot will come down to the payoff of the final episodes. Episode 20 is particularly frustrating but it is a setup for Episode 21 which is the big payoff so far. I will update with a final review once the final 3 episodes air on Netflix.

For now, all I can say is that 24 episodes is a long arc and try to be patient with giving overall reviews on a show that hasn't played out yet.

NOTE: These are just my opinions! You don't have to like/agree with anything I said, because I'm just one person.

The romanticization of the self-sacrificial heroine is a big no no for me.

The story was bad. The actors seemed to have zero chemistry and it should have been 10 episodes on the very max.

Really slow. Boring dialogs. Their everyday lives were really hard to watch. Also, I didn't quite like the main characters' personalities. I couldn't feel any emotions watching their characters developing. I had to skip a couple of episodes. I liked only the last two episodes. I wouldn't raccomend watching. To mean, the FL wasn't bubbly enough. The group of friends (5 of them)were only talking about school grades, they were never doing anything fun outside the school. Finally, the ML was to old for this role, I really couldn't see him as a high school student.