Tencent Modern C-drama Reopen My Journals with Li Yun Rui and Huangyang Tian Tian Opens with 7.6 Douban Ratings After Strong Reviews But Low Viewership
There’s a solid modern drama recently released that is worth checking out if the cast and the framework is up your alley. It’s titled Reopen My Journals (致1999年的自己 To Myself in 1999) with stars Li Yun Rui and Huangyang Tian Tian leading the younger generation cast as the older versions of the five leads are played by a strong cast of veterans. It’s got a 7.6 Douban rating which is the best of all the recent C-dramas to air right around lunar new year – Everlasting Longing has an anemic 5.3 and Perfect Match slightly higher with 5.7. However the viewership on Tencent is not high for Reopen My Journals despite the strong reviews, it is not the mega hit that is similar style drama Romance in the Alley which aired last year in 2024 and sits with a high high 8.3 on Douban. Still, Reopen My Journals for Li Yun Rui is a great immediate follow up to his break out at the very end of last year with Blossom (九重紫 Jiu Chong Zi).
There are times where Douban ratings don’t match the public sentiment.
Not just times, but most of the time IMO. LOL. Douban ratings are BS.
I have issue with this website. I always get the page of 6th February “TW star Barbie Hsu…” Sometimes, I can see the button “next” on the top of the page and sometimes not…
Same to me. Koala has probably lost traffic thanks to the tech glitches.
I just refresh and that solves the issues, but yeah, I’ve definitely been checking in less after the website makeover because of this glitch.
For me, if I refreshed it does nothing…
I checked this drama for LYR’s sake but he has almost zero presence there. The FL is ok although overacting sometimes. There’s actually excessive overacting in the series, just like so many other non-idol dramas, having a lot of overdramatic and theatrical moments from so called “old acting bones” (老戲骨). LOL. The story is boringly fake and I can’t relate at all. I dropped it after dozing off and fast forwarding several eps. As much as I liked LYR in Blossom, I can’t see his charm in the series. He’s just there as a sidekick for a bunch of veterans to flaunt their experience.
cdramas really lack its own colors aside of the fantasy
how a country with 1 billion citizens, rely creativity from the small South Korea?
I love this drama! It deserves its high Douban rating, imho. Nowadays, it seems like most Cdramas are romance-driven, especially the Xianxia and Wuxia ones, the story-telling and the plot – most especially are becoming repetitive and boring.
On my computer, I still open to this post… Lol.
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