Probably the worst series I've ever watched, I couldn't help but laugh at how terrible it was..

This series was hilariously bad. In fact, it being so bad to the point that it was funny is the only thing that saved it from being a 0/10 for me. It came across like the outline of a script after one day in the writer's room, a good skeleton with absolutely no meat to it. The only reason I finished it was to give it a fair shot before I reviewed it and I actually like it LESS than I did at EP. 8 when I originally wanted to drop it.

It had bad and often random cuts, little to no context to character decisions or story development, the appearance of characters seemingly out of thin air on numerous occasions, uncomfortable NC scenes, far too many random and cringey English lines, and virtually no followable plot outside of what you are told in the summary. Just an awful mess that was only as entertaining as it was laughable.

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No point in watching past season 1

If you've just finished watching S1 and, like me, were super excited to get into S2.... don't, just don't. The first episode and the last episode are fine but everything else is practically pointless. I'm not kidding,

THERE. IS. NO. POINT.

Seriously, this season is all filler to help open the plot for S3. It introduces characters and locations we'll need to know about for later but otherwise it's a complete waste of space. And if you think "oh, then surely S3 will be good and all this wasted time will be worth it!" Yeah, no, it's not so don't even bother with S3 either.

If you liked S1, do yourself a favor and pretend S2 and 3 never happened.

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If you're in it for the romance, go for it. If not, keep moving.

The show itself was fine. The acting, directing, and music were all great, there were a good amount of funny scenes that didn't detract from the plot, and the storyline was fine. However, the romance aspect of the plot takes up the majority of the run time and if that's not your thing than it can get quite boring after a while.

I wanted to watch it for the supernatural aspect and, while I don't mind romance, I ended up skippikg through most of the show and almost dropped it because it really hit a slump in the action/supernatural department. I wanted to finish it in case it got more exciting, however, th ending was much more lackluster than I had hoped.

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A great, situation-focused story

What I liked most about this season was that it felt very personal and focused on the situation at hand. Because the story was contained almost completely in the apartment building we were able to get very comfortable with our cast and location. We, as the audience, felt just as isolated from the main problem as the characters did and were able to learn about the world at the same time. It made the overall plot feel very tense and exciting!

That being said, I do think this show had some pacing issues. It felt like the writers wanted 12 or even 16 episodes but were only given 10 and because of that certain pivotal moments felt a little rushed.

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If you can, just pretend this drama only had one season, I wish I had...

While S3 wasn't the same complete waste of space S2 was, it just felt like a total waste of potential. The plot was exciting in theory but in practice it felt both too slow and too fast with pivotal scenes getting little screentime to instead focus on half-assed characters with less personality than a piece of cardboard.

Tell me why I was BEGGING for characters, even main characters, to die throughout the season so that we would have less people to focus on? Even the characters I liked ended up having their personalities scrapped by the end with no proof of character development for any of them.

The plot was right there, the actors were good, they had everything going for them but I guess they just bit off more than they could chew.

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If you're expecting the main plot to be about his vampirism, maybe watch something else

Only mild spoilers ahead: As someone who only watches supernatural dramas most of the time, I actually really liked it. However, while the vampire theme is the main storyline, it's in the background for the majority of the show. He's a detective that has non-human abilities but he rarely struggles to come to terms with it like you would see in a lot of other vampire shows. Also, spoiler: he doesn't drink blood at all during the show and never once shows he wants to drink it (which is odd for a show about vampires, but it's fine). Also, the human characters don't seem that surprised about the existance of vampires like you think they would be. They find out and then don't really talk about it, which makes the pacing of the show a little weird. I think that they could have had another two episodes if they just added more to him becoming a vampire instead of basically skipping over it.

Overall, a good show with a good stroyline, but not as vampire-focused as I had thought/hoped it would be.

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I cannot begin to express how amazing this drama is. The acting, the wardrobe, the set design, the music; it was all wonderful! The book that this drama is based on shows the intimate love between the main characters, but the drama shows the emotional love. Because of China's censorship, they technically aren't supposed to be a couple, but the actors do such a great job of expressing love between the characters through their eyes and body language that I honestly don't even notice that they never actually confessed.
I've watched a lot of BL and bromance dramas, but this one is a contender for my favorite. I highly recommend you check it out, even though it's really long, you won't be disappointed. I wasn't going to write a review for this, but after rewatching it for the third time I realized that it deserves to be talked about.

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