It’s here! Those waiting for a potential crack addicting C-drama may have one at hand with the airdrop of How Dare You on streaming platform iQiyi this Friday February 6th. Just in time for a weekend session and hopefully it’s as cute and entertaining as the previews looked. Wang Chu Ran plays a modern woman time traveled back to the … Continue reading →
So this drama already looks like a love it or hate it proposition, or basically it’s your cup of tea or not at all. iQiyi is prepping to release How Dare You! soon, with scheduling rumors has it will air next week in early February 2026 maybe on the 5th or 6th. The drama is adapted from a novel where … Continue reading →
C-actor Cheng Lei gets another step up in his career this month with the filming commencement of his next drama where he is the top billed lead. The drama is titled The Lament of Autumn (玉簟秋 Yu Dian Qiu) and will star Xu Ruo Han as the female lead, a switch from the earlier in discussions Lu Yu Xiao which … Continue reading →
I’ve seen back-to-back drama releases for C-stars but this is the rare back-to-back-to-back three peat coming for actor Cheng Lei. This week iQiyi will release the ensemble through-the-eras C-drama Zu Ji (Chinese title means footprints) with female lead Tong Yao in the 1950’s era and Cheng Lei with Jelly Lin in the earlier 1930’s period, and then Wang He Run … Continue reading →
The month of August has seen two dramas air back-to-back for actor Cheng Lei and in both instances the ratings and reviews are not kind to said drama. Legend of the Female General got Douban ratings of 5.5 which is on the low side already, but his currently airing Shadow Love said hold my beer and got opening Douban ratings … Continue reading →
There is usually only a few points up or down movement with Douban ratings on any drama after it comes out, and the hope is always to gain a few points if possible with a strong ending. Legend of the Female General ended its two week run today and the Douban ratings dropped by a point down to 5.4, and … Continue reading →
It’s a busy month of August for Cheng Lei, starting it off with the premiere of Legend of the Female General with Zhou Ye and likely ending the month with the premiere of Shadow Love with Song Yi. The two dramas won’t overlap for him but he will stay buzzy thanks to being on the small screen in two different … Continue reading →
The C-drama Legend of the Female General, adapted from the popular and very fun novel Rebirth of a Star General, is my biggest C-drama disappointment of 2025 so far. It’s not as bad as some other C-dramas but since it came with such high expectation due to my love for the source novel it makes the wholly mediocre drama version … Continue reading →
Yesterday was D-Day for those of us (memememe!) waiting for the premiere of Legend of the Female General, adapted from a novel by Qian Shan Cha Ke titled Rebirth of a Star General. Tencent had to delay the drama for six months due to the scandal with a male supporting lead and then filming his scenes with a different actor … Continue reading →
The delayed but still much awaited arrival (for me) of period revenge and romance C-drama Legend of the Female General is finally coming! Tencent will premiere the drama on August 6th and hopefully spend this week prior doing solid promos. After the abrupt cancellation of one of the main supporting leads and needing to AI faceswap his character with another … Continue reading →
Lol, I can’t believe I’m seeing the opposite reason but the same thing that happened with Dilraba Dilmurat and her fandom during the filming of her C-drama Love Beyond the Grave. There the complaint on her costume was that it was too ornate and too much going on all over the place. Now there are complaints coming out from the … Continue reading →
So the recently aired xianxia C-drama Feud left me massively frustrated but at the plot and less at the leads. I still have a soft spot for Bai Lu and saw that she really tried hard and mostly delivered, at times it did feel like she was playing a prior performance I’ve seen before before but it also felt like … Continue reading →
The new promos for Legend of the Female General bodes well for the insider chatter that Tencent will release it in August 2025. That’s less than two months from now, but six months longer than the originally scheduled February release that was scuttled due to the scandal and alleged misconduct by the supporting male lead. He’s since been AI-face swapped … Continue reading →
