Triad Princess is an attempt to make a drama work based entirely on the charm of its actors. Predictably, it doesn’t work.

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    That’s Taiwanese dramas in a nutshell after the “Autumn’s Concerto” era

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      I’ve never watched Autumn’s Concerto. Is it any good?

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        The last good TW of the last decade, imho…

        Disclaimer: Make sure you prep your tissues to be handy before you watch

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          I have seen only one episode of Autumn concerto so I can’t tell how good that is (I heard it’s too good) but there have been two shows this year that were liked by people, one The World between us and the second Yong Jiu Grocery Store. I have seen the latter myself and it’s incredibly good (near or even better than Misaeng my personal favorite) so there are good T dramas lately.

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        Ah Autumn’s Concerto! My favourite Taiwanese romance and maybe romance in a drama of all time.

        It looks like a typical melodrama but the cast and the chemistry between the leads are superior to any melodrama I have watched. The drama did a good job in not antagonizing every “bad characters”. The second leads were really fine too. I even thought if the OTP never met each other, they could have been happy with the second leads. It just proves that they did a great job balancing the story’s heaviness and the characters development.

        The World Between Us (with one actor of Autumn’s Concerto), Yong Jiu Grocery Store had good reception. I haven’t finished them but I only read positive feedback. Five Missions and Iron Ladies are recent dramas I’ve enjoyed.

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          “Autumn’s Concerto” is definitely one of—if not THE— my favourite TW dramas 🥰🥰🥰 Yes, to everything you said about it 👌🏻👌🏻

          I haven’t been able to approach a TW drama since “Murphy’s Law Of Love”, but even with this one, each re-watch just makes me analyze the drama more and makes me realize even more just how unbearable—not in the good “it hurts so good” sort of way but the eye rolling inducing way— it is 🙄🙄🙄

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            It was – or is still(?) – on my watchlist but I have read it wasn’t that good when you really paid attention in the second half. Older Taiwanese romance dramas had a peculiar charm I don’t find anymore in newer ones.

            A friend is watching all BOF versions and she has a hard time with Meteor Garden. BOF and MG2018 are her favourite adaptations and comparing to them, MG2001 pales in comparison. From the acting to the character development, she just doesn’t feel it. I’m trying to convince her Vaness Wu can act and that she needs to see him in Autumn’s Concerto xD

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            @mango

            You’re right about TW dramas nowadays giving off a feeling of missing something and just not being as good in the overall feeling 🤔🤔That’s why I was so curious about why last year’s TW drama “Before We Get Married” had such a cult following 🤔🤔

            Hahaha
            Van Ness Wu gets better and better as the episode go by in “Autumn’s Concerto”, but he was actually good in the Chinese period drama “The Princess Wei Young”, costarring Tiffany Tang Yan & Luo Jin 👌🏻👌🏻

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            Everyone’s enthusiasm for Before We Get Married made me curious. I don’t know if I will ever watch it tho.

            I only knew him as a singer and
            first saw his acting in The Princess Wei Young. I hated his character haha I wondered why so many people still swooned over him even as an antagonist. Well, I got my answer with Autumn’s Concerto ^^ There were some cracks here and there, especially his crying scenes, but he got better.

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    I’d like to know how decided to put a 24 episode drama into 6 episodes and how we can get that guy fired.

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      This is 100% spot-on. Everything in this drama after the first episode is compressed and sped-up. In two episodes, these characters go from barely acquainted to dating, with barely any explanation in between and no real opportunity for us viewers to appreciate the process by which these two became close and the early moments of their incipient relationship. For a drama that is billed as a pretty standard cliche, completely fast-forwarding this stuff completely deprives viewers of the only incentive they have to watch this show and it precludes the writer from actually taking advantage of any of the charms which these actors possess and any chemistry which they may have with each other.

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