uwkram-02037
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A young widow battles her dysfunctional in-laws to find meaning of her life. The story may have been inspired by the life of Veuve Clicquot, the widow that created the vintage Champagne industry. The series seems to be produced specifically for the Taiwanese audience, but I'm not sure some of the self-deprecating humor is readily translatable to the general international audience. The language is a mix of Taiwanese, Mandarin, and some Japanese and English. I think the mix is perfect for present day Taiwanese audience. I highly recommend the series if you would like to know more about present day Taiwanese culture. Good luck to the translators though. Mandarin Chinese being the closes cousin of Taiwanese, I'm not confident that they can translate the meaning of the spoken words properly.
The review is for the Chinese language version.
The show presents the story in a setting that should be utterly foreign to most western audiences. In order to understand how the world in the story functions, one might want to brush up on Taoist Theology first. The show does not introduce the audience to the world of Taoist Theology. Instead, it immerses you in it assuming that you came prepared.
The story revolves around 2 immortals, one that is a "deity" (yang) and the other a "demon" (ying). The "deity" is of very low stature and twice banished from heaven for doing something that is right but offensive to other deities. In order to pay back his debts to other deities, he takes on difficult exorcism tasks to help people in the human realm. Along the way he meets the yin to his yang. And together they rid the human world of demons and lessen human suffering.
The art for the show was beautifully crafted, the story lines were pretty tight as well. The action sequences could be better, awkward split second pauses are found in the sequences that shouldn't be there. The story was interesting, but ultimately I found it empty because the characters are unrelatable. The story was interesting because it presented a mystery, but the characters are deities and demons, both immortals that behave in somewhat unrealistic yet predictable fashion. The show is worth the attention for the immersion in the world of Taoist theology, but ultimately came up short because it's very difficult to relate to.
The show presents the story in a setting that should be utterly foreign to most western audiences. In order to understand how the world in the story functions, one might want to brush up on Taoist Theology first. The show does not introduce the audience to the world of Taoist Theology. Instead, it immerses you in it assuming that you came prepared.
The story revolves around 2 immortals, one that is a "deity" (yang) and the other a "demon" (ying). The "deity" is of very low stature and twice banished from heaven for doing something that is right but offensive to other deities. In order to pay back his debts to other deities, he takes on difficult exorcism tasks to help people in the human realm. Along the way he meets the yin to his yang. And together they rid the human world of demons and lessen human suffering.
The art for the show was beautifully crafted, the story lines were pretty tight as well. The action sequences could be better, awkward split second pauses are found in the sequences that shouldn't be there. The story was interesting, but ultimately I found it empty because the characters are unrelatable. The story was interesting because it presented a mystery, but the characters are deities and demons, both immortals that behave in somewhat unrealistic yet predictable fashion. The show is worth the attention for the immersion in the world of Taoist theology, but ultimately came up short because it's very difficult to relate to.
I thought this was going to be a murder mystery documentary but turned out to be more about marijuana in California. I burst out laughing when the growers complained about all the regulatory fees and studies they had to go through to be a legal business. That's the price you pay to live in a California pot growing utopia. As a business owner in California, I sure can commiserate.