After Fox Spirit Matchmaker: Red Moon Pact aired in May to terrible reviews and mid viewership, it’s like everyone associated just disassociated from it and never mentions it again. Unfortunately it’s year end reviews and awards time around the drama realm and the Douban drama forum decided rightly to vote it as the top flop C-drama of 2024 – 年度仆街劇冠軍: 狐妖小紅娘月紅. But right on its heels in second place for a flop drama is Go East, sad to see that one was so bad as well. The individual flop awards go to Tan Jian Ci as flop male actor and Zhao Lu Si as flop female actor. Yang Mi gets top flop goddess and Gong Jun got top flop god, which is somehow even worse for them because neither even gets deigned as an “actor” lol. Top hidden actress is Li Qin and top hidden actor is Xu Kai, meaning neither many any impact this year and has no presence from their dramas. And top flop rising actress with potential is Bao Shang En and top flop rising actor with potential is Zhou Yi Ran. Welp, better luck next year in 2025 for everyone named here.
It’s Go East, but I did think that it started off fresh and strong and then got progressively boring and the direction and editing got progressively worse too.
I’m more interested in which ones lost money and which ones gained than in douban ratings. Some of these dramas look so damn expensive to make and some cheapened out. What was the ROI on them?
All which are very popular still despite their flops lol so mean. Reminds me of American razzies. Many famous celebrities won those too but still super rich and slightly famous despite it. But I liked Go East because it was a funny one despite the political messiness of it. But man so funny though that they were mentioned as flops lol. Hope this encourages them to improve but shouldn’t the flop stuff go to the direction and writing why the actors always get the full blame?
Lol cnets are vicious. I thought hidden actor means they’re actor who has hidden talent. But damn cnets give a new meaning to that
Same. So ruthless I am in awe.
Yeah they really can play with words lol
Why Zhao yi ran is flop? I think he did okay with lotw, its just unfortunate for him to replaced xiaozhan cause people like comparing him with xz.
People are comparing them bcoz both played Tang San and Xiao Zhan was also a fresh face when he was Shooting for Douluo Continent and I am ngl, I have recently watched both the dramas clips side by side and according to me Xiao Zhan’s acting is way better than Zhou Yi Ran. ZYR needs more practice , he should especially work on micro-expressions which Xiao Zhan delivered perfectly but ZYR failed to do so. Most of the time his face looks blank, devoid of expressions where he should actually show some subtle expressions.
“Go West” lmaoooooo this makes everything invalid. Welps better luck in your next flopped review.
So, basically, the awards for famous/top liuliangs lol. Bad publicity is still publicity.
Adding context. This vote only represents a single group on Douban, similar to a single sub reddit on Reddit. There were less than 2000 votes on average per category.
Nah I don’t care. The drama is average. But the acting is quite solid. I went through it thanks to the acting.
No surprise, among these actors/actresses some have a lot of haters which also fans of other actors. The hate they get looks good for them even so.
These butt hurt comments are hilarious.
It will be interesting to see how Bao Shangen and Zhou Yiran new drama will fare since both are named as top flop rising actors.
Cnetizens and their many flop definitions. Makes me think of rap and their disses LOL
Hidden isn’t that they had no impact… it’s that they had flops but somehow managed to sneak under the radar as most of the “fire” was targeted at their costars or there was just bigger news.
Wow… Chinese netizens can be savage : “Top flop goddess”
“Zhao Lusi – Top FLOP female actor”
Sounds about right. LOL
I have always believed OP is a Gong Jun hater but I can’t help but be surprised (in a bad way) everytime she writes an article just to bash GJ and his projects when a)he’s not the worst actor of his age (he’s not the best but come on) and b)Fox Spirit Matchmaker wasn’t the hit of the summer, but it also wasn’t a flop, it got more than “decent” views and ratings. So many of these year’s cdramas fall under that category.
I’ll admit though, that Yang Mi and GJ’s chemistry wasn’t really there.
I’m not gonna lie this was funny as heck😅😂😂😂😂😂…yap leave it up to Cnets to show how savage they can be…lmao…I mean likes towards a drama can be very subjective.. But for those who were mentioned…its best to also take criticism constructively so one can improve on where they are lacking.. Just accepting praise all the time will never allow one to truly see their imperfections and faults.
I especially agree here with Yang Mi and Gong Jun…there was no chemistry and to be in the industry for a good while now esp for Yang Mi…their acting was not cutting it at all…
For Li Qin…girl you can do better what happened??? For Zhou Li Si…girl your plastic surgery face( which is still in denial ofcourse) was even more popular than her acting this year😅😭😭😂😂😂….
Tian Jian Ci….it feels like his popularity from Lost You Forever was diminished with Go East…but hey Under the Skin 2 is coming…so there is a high chance he’ll get back on track…given if the drama dies well as S1
I wish all a better results next year!!!