C-drama The Double is airing with so much buzz right now and all involved are reaping the rewards: acting, writing, and directing. The director is an industry vetern named Haozhe Si (also known as Lü Hao Ji Ji) and is the son of famed writer Hai Yan whose works have been adapted into many C-dramas and movies and made many actors and actresses famous. Haozhe Si started off as a nepo baby actor but his face was disfigured in a post sunburn plastic surgery incident. He was depressed for many years until transitioning into directing and has now gained recognition after directing Go Princess Go, Oh My General, and now The Double. He hasn’t met a wind machine he doesn’t like but he also knows exactly how to balance being extra with being suitably dramatic. His next drama already filmed is Moonlit Reunion with Xu Kai and Tian Xi Wei and now I’m looking forward to that one even more!
Not a fan of them but I’ll probably catch it because The Double is a great surprise.
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Go Princess Go and Oh My General are both mediocre productions. It’s surprising that The Double was also directed by him. It’s as if they have agreed to improve here lol.
Oh My General has the best and brightest color saturation I have ever seen in a Cdrama. And one of the best gender subversive tropes across the board, period. In terms of plot, it left a lot to be desired, but in the end it was quite a memorable drama which stayed in my mind years after I watched it. Unlike most Cdramas whose effects on me tend to blur as time passes.
I wonder if C-writers can write a good script without adapting it from novels… I thought The Double was an original work. The original source is helping a lot.
Loved Go Princess Go! That drama was addicting. I wasn’t fond of Oh My General but that was mainly due to the script so script does still matter.
You h*es make too much noise for Wang Xing Yue, and I hope he will disappoint you in his next performance. I’ll laugh at y’all until my stomach hurts. He’s not half as good as Xu Kai/Dylan Wang/Lin Yi/Yibo/Wu Lei. Wang Xing Yue is just another shoddy actor who plans to make a living from his good looks. Open your eyes, idiots.
And yet another one with mouth diarrhea. Scary disease.
Lin Yi and Wang Yibo in particular have nothing to do here with their frozen-in-time acting “style”🤣. Their fans excuse is always the same: ” They’re characters are supposed to be cold.”
Wang Xing Yue, on the other hand, is showing strong charisma in The Double. I didn’t liked him as an actor before, I even writed that he should be a model or voice actor. But now he is 🔥
Correction: Their*.
Wang Xing Yue acting was good in Delicacy Destiny and SOTKP. And he can deliver his lines
Stop falling for this troll’s tricks. It’s just throwing random names out there to see what reaction it can get. Last time it was LGX and LYN. Now it’s throwing in even more names.
What does “post sunburn plastic surgery” mean?
He got disfigured from sunburn or botched plastic surgery?
Maybe he had plastic surgery and then got sunburned? You are supposed to stay out of the sub for several weeks after plastic surgery.
And deservedly so. As I watched the drama I kept thinking …this director know how to tell a story…
The double is deliciously dramatic and even the lurid CG somehow works with Operatic Shakespearean presentation.
I am not sure about his earlier dramas. The posters look tacky. But I will watch Moonlit Reunion. What a lovely name for a drama.
Still not a fan of XK or TXW. Although I consider writing and directing weighing more in making a drama/film success, cast also matter a lot. I’ll check it out to see.
There were examples of excellent directing in prior works but not that impressive in the works later. For example, the director of the Untamed also directed Wonderland of Love. WoL started all good with solid acting and chemistry but the pace was still too slow for my taste to finish that drama.
The Double is like multiple steps up compared with GPG and OMG (LOL pun not intended). Acting in the Double did contribute A LOT to the success of this series. Not only did the two leads do a fantastic job portraying the OTP, but also other supporting roles including antagonists. I’m particularly thrilled at the scenes of Princess Royal. Her great performance of maniac schizophrenia sent a chill down my spine each time she spoke, stared, or smiled. Her abusive relationship with the paramour was also comical to watch. I cracked up each time when the coward dropped to his knees asking for forgiveness about his genuine sarcastic comments on his mistress. LOL. Also worth a mention is heroine’s stepmom. I was surprised to find out the actress playing that evil lady was famous Joe Chen. No wonder she looked so pretty with great acting! There were other actors or even extras who did impressive jobs to make the stories compelling. They are all very good actors in this drama. I’m not sure if that’s because of good directing or thanks to their acting skills. Could be both!
Anyhow, the Double has been the only C costume drama since Nirvana in Fire and the Untamed that I could binge ep after ep overlooking flaws and plot holes. It’s so addicting! Through the collective efforts of the production team and the cast, I’m sold on this mesmerizing story they told. The buzz is well deserved.
I’ve seen productions with great direction and yet the actors were mediocre. I won’t name names because in this blog you can exchange comments peacefully most of the time.
@Johanne It’s always the same h*oes barking about a subpar actor.
It’s so amusing to see a dog trailing me, barking, and littering everywhere. LMAO.
@ deranged SCHI.
BTW, one troll on this comment page acted and talked like Royal Princess in the Double, EXACTLY. She reminds me of her! LMAO.
And you act like you WANT to give Wang Xing Yue a bl*wjob. LMAO!
Wang Xing Yue hasn’t achieve stardom yet but you are already acting like your life depends on how much you despise him and the users who are pleased with his good job in The Double. Trolls are actually funny.
LOL. One psycho went berserk just reading the mention of WXY. You need some med!
@Somebody Your v*gina goes berserk because of him. LOL! I’m not the one selling my common sense over a d*ck.
LOL. You’re such a dimwit to easily expose yourself..at all level of low IQ and EQ. I’m so entertained.
Haven’t seen TD yet but sure it has good acting because I remember in this blog nobody was very enthusiastic about WYX or WJY before lol. But I understand their point because I was seeing the first works of my fave and he was bland lol.
You also want to give him a bl*wjob? Do you touch yourself when you think about him? Wh*re.
So happy for Wang Xing Yue and Wu Jin Yan. This is such a great comeback for her considering her dramas post Yanxi Palace didn’t generate a lot of buzz. Wang Xing Yue completely went on my radar after Amidst a Snowstorm of Love, even though I had previously seen him in One and Only. I thought he was older than Wu Lei, he just has such a dominant presence. I was surprised to find out how young he was. There are a lot of good looking actors and there are quite a few with solid skills, but presence and charisma are not easy to come by and he has it in spades with The Double. I think he’s only going to get better as an actor. It truly is amazing to see him have such command in scenes with actors so much older than him. I enjoyed him in both Delicacies Destiny and Scent of Time as well. Given the agency he’s signed with, I see a whole lot of projects coming his way. I just hope they don’t run him into the ground with mediocre projects. He’s young enough to build his way up to solid lead status. I hope he has a good balance of solid supporting roles in good projects that will let him hone his skills, and lead roles in dramas that will make him a bankable lead actor. I hope he continues to be paired with actresses that can deliver the level of chemistry he has with Wu Jin Yan. I’d rather him be paired with an unknown actress he has chemistry with than a traffic star that will just bring unneeded drama to a project. Truly looking forward to Shadow Detective airing and hope it airs this year. The photoshoot he has with Wu Jia Yi put Shadow Detective on the top my list of his dramas to air, but The Double came first. I’m not complaining though. Hopefully all the buzz he’s getting now will lead to Shadow Detective airing next.
agree. i also think it is better for him to act in only one good drama a year, than to have a lot of them if they are not going to bring artistic values. we already have enough examples of that.
Wang Xing Yue is probably the only 21 (he played Duke Su when he was 21) or 22-year-old actor I know now that can play the mentor or 30+-year-old men now and nobody would find it questionable. Plus guy can deliver his lines -something rare in cdramaland.
Right now Wang Xing Yue is outstanding among the actors in his age range that I know.
agree!
He is actually the only actor in his generation that I’m considering following. Charisma 100 on The Double.
Never met a wind machine he didn’t like haha…so true! I actually really enjoy how extra dramatic his scenes are!