Ohhh yes, I’ve been watching!!! Overdo (这一秒过火) was on my radar since it was announced as I am way too curious to miss how it all works from end-to-end when it comes to C-drama dynamics. It totally didn’t disappoint! Every…
Now that I have quite a number of Chinese dramas behind my back and a huge bucket list of them on my watchlist, I reached a point where I get to write about some of the most specific cultural actions…
Most people start learning a language for several reasons that cover personal or business interest, celebrity-crush or pop-culture or simply because they want to study or relocate to China. I’ve had those reasons for 9 years already and they still…
In my journey in exploring Chinese drama there is one connection I couldn’t miss making after being in touch with two very different formats which originate from the same place namely China. As I’ve mentioned before I came to Chinese…
There is one particular image from the 2026 Grammys that I just can’t get over since I saw it. It is of one of my favored models from years back Heidi Klum barely walking on the red carpet in a…
I’ll skip explaining what long-form C-drama is in the textbook way, because if you’re here you’ve probably already watched one, maybe several, and you don’t need me telling you what a 40-episode historical drama is. But digging into the genre…
I’ll skip the formalities and the statistics of how successful micro-drama is and what it actually is because if you’ve landed here you probably already know it, and I don’t want to waste space for information that is already out…
There is one particular feeling which I am addicted to and every single time I get to experience it is as soul shattering as the first time I was lucky to have it. It is a millisecond between grabbing the…
I wouldn’t be me, if after a few dramas in, I didn’t try to go wider. Past the first one, over the hyped up actors and further by the algorithm’s suggestion. I know there is a whole world in there,…
There is one particular scene in “Our Generation” that I keep coming back to, and for a while I couldn’t quite explain why. Lin Qile goes to find Jiang Qiao Xi at his school and he just walks past her.…