Category: TW Dramas

Rock Records in Love Eps 1 and 2 thoughts

Over the past year or so, I feel like I haven’t watched that many Taiwanese dramas. But I think I’m starting to get my head back in (so to speak) since there has been a few with decent production values and solid reviews. I wasn’t going to watch Rock Records in Love 滾石愛情故事 because it’s a…

April 20, 2016
Thirty Something with Xiu Jie Kai and Kimi Hsia premieres on December 12

Xiu Jie Kai has been one busy man in 2015, with two dailies (Dear Mom, Bittersweet), a web series (Lost, me too) and one drama (Constellation Woman Series: Aries) all released in the same year. Not to mention he became a father! Now the question is will he still do his military service at the…

November 30, 2015
4 Upcoming Taiwanese Dramas to keep an eye out for

It’s a pity that Taiwanese Dramas are mostly known for their happy (sometimes mindless) rom-coms. But once in a while there’re ones that break out of this tradition but receive much less audience attention. Actually, this post was supposed to be about A Touch of Green only, but then I saw these other three on the…

April 23, 2015
[Upcoming TW Drama] Murphy’s Law of Love character descriptions and teasers

Has it been 5 months since the end of Pleasantly Surprised / Love Myself or You? I was mildly obsessed with that drama (or someone) that I was too mentally exhausted to follow the next SETTV Friday night drama – Aim High, which just finished airing last Friday. However, I think it’s time to revisit…

March 16, 2015
Constellation Women Series: Aries Eps 1 to 4 – The Good, The Bad (and worse)

I posted about this drama some months ago and it finally aired last month! Constellation Women Series: Aries stars Janet Hsieh, Xiu Jie Kai, Chloe Wang and Patrick Lee and the idea is obvious – it aims to bring astrology into the storyline. Apparently, FTV already did a similar thing back in the 90s, there…

March 4, 2015
Dear Mom Episodes 1 to 25 thoughts

Since I was away a few weeks ago, I’m now WAYYYYY behind on Dear Mom (我的寶貝四千金), SETTV’s currently airing daily drama. I don’t usually watch Taiwanese daily dramas, because they are normally over 70 episodes and they adopt a shoot-as-you-air format. Scenes we’re watching tonight could’ve been shot a day or two ago. Needless to…

February 11, 2015
Sonia Sui, Christopher Lee and Hans Chung in GQ Taiwan: Who is Mr Right?

January has traditionally been not such a good drama-watching month for me. Besides drama-ing, a major fandom in my life is tennis. Although my favourite has now retired and I don’t follow it as much as I did, I still watch a lot of it in January because a few tournaments (including the first grand…

January 25, 2015
[Upcoming TW Drama] Rose Battle with Tammy Chen, Yao Yuan Hao, Jason Tsou and Nana Lee

After taking a break for over a year, Tammy Chen Yi Rong is back for TVBS’s new drama Rose Battle 哇！陳怡君 aka Wah! Chen Yi Jun (its previous name was ‘My name is Chen Yi Jun’). Filming had just started on the 8th of January with the full cast finally announced. Previously, Cash Chuang and Kingone…

January 10, 2015
Pleasantly Surprised / Love Myself or You 2015 Calendar

It’s been over 2 months since Pleasantly Surprised / Love Myself or You (喜歡·一個人) ended. Even though the plot started to fall apart from about episode 15 onwards and the ending failed to tie up all the loose ends, I still loved it a lot because of the cast. And this is not just the…

December 3, 2014
[Overall thoughts] Marry or Not (TW-2013)

So I started Marry or Not (結婚好嗎? – literal translation: Is marriage good? or it can also be meant like a proposal) almost a year ago (it began airing in late November 2013) but didn’t actually finish until July this year. Yes, it took 8 months and now it’s taken me another 3 months to…

November 8, 2014