#the long season

[nemainofthewater]

Best character surnamed: Huang

Come and vote for the best characters with the same surname!*

What does best mean? It's up to you! Whether you love them, are intrigued by their characters, love to hate them, or they're your '2 second blorbos whose personality you made up wholesale', these are all reasons for you to vote for your favs!

*note, the surnames are not exactly the same in all the cases, as often there will be a different character. I am, however, grouping them all together otherwise things got more complicated.

Propaganda is very welcome! If I’ve forgotten anyone, let me know in the notes.

This is part of a larger series of ‘best character with X surname’ polls’. The overview with ongoing polls, winners, and future polls can be found here

#poll #legend of the condor heroes #the king's avatar #spy game #history3: trapped #DMBJ #who rules the world #under the microscope #romance of the three kingdoms #the long season #story of kunning palace

[pangzi]

Qin Hao and Chen Minghao for V Magazine

#qin hao #Chen Minghao #dmbj cast #the long season

[lyselkatzfandomluvs]

Pàng Yé Chén MíngHào 陳明昊

More from Men's Uno 風度 China - September 2023

#chen minghao #dmbj cast #the lost tomb cast #dmbj #the lost tomb #the long season #cdrama #chinese actors #men's uno china

[wangmiao]

The Long Season | 漫长的季节 (2023) ep 3 vs. ep 9

#the long season #cdramaedit #cdramasource #asiandramanet #chineseartistsinc #dailyasiandramas #漫长的季节 #fu weijun #sui dong #usercrime #userthing #cinematv #cinemapix #tvfilmsource #smallscreensource #cdrama #jiang qiming #wang xiaoyu #userkunedits #the best cdrama of the year with a 9.5 rating on douban (i don't think any other shows can top it) #one of the best crime shows i've seen in years #these two are just minor characters but i liked this interaction #i thought they were going to kiss in the 2nd scene

[ao3-anonymous]

Fastest Growing Fandoms on AO3 This Week (06/06/2023)

Every week I pull data on how many fics are in each fandom and compare to the previous week, then calculate the percentage increase to determine fastest growing fandoms.  Since this naturally skews towards smaller fandoms, I have included the same data filtered to Over 1k, 5k, & 10k fics.

Overall:

Over 1,000 Fics:

Over 5,000 Fics:

Over 10,000 Fics:

Source: AO3 Fandom Dashboard

#ao3 #ao3 stats #Generation Loss #Let's Go Slam Dunk #The Long Season #PLAVE #Oshi no Ko #Till the End of the Moon #Honkai: Star Rail #Ashes of the Kingdom #Great Escape #Renfield #ZEROBASEONE ZB1 #Slam Dunk #Yellowjackets #QSMP Quackity SMP #Welcome Home - Clown Illustration #Boys Planet #Spider-Man: Spider-Verse #Succession #ted lasso

[romchat]

Gothic Horror in a League of Noblemen!!

Also since bad kids is that one director's older work. Would you recommend watching that before his recent drama? (brainfarting on the name.) Anyway what I mean does his style evolve in a way that it matters to keep his works in sequential order? Or does his storytelling mature further?

Ooh @kingsandbastardz this has to be a two-parter because I can go OFF about ALON.

The Long Season vs. The Bad Kids

I'm only halfway through The Long Season, but I'd say it's both thematically and narratively more sophisticated than The Bad Kids. The show is ruminative, bleak, but also humane.

One of the things I love about Director Xin Shuang's work is how meticulously he captures stories of the choices people make when they feel like they have no choices. In The Bad Kids, he uses color and frames within frames to create a sense of dread and inevitability about our young characters' futures. And in The Long Season, he uses editing and visual parallelism to create an even more complex narrative of fate. It's like the characters are forever suspended in time, doomed to repeat mistakes even in old age as they cling to the nostalgia and ideals of a world that doesn't exist. The fact that these moments are intercut with hope, resilience, and comedy make them even more devastating.

That said...I much prefer The Bad Kids. At least so far. It's simpler but also, at least for me, more emotionally engaging. The inherent vulnerability of our young main characters make the stakes feel that much higher. I also haven't seen a show do misdirection that well in YEARS. The way it plays with our assumptions and capability for empathy...it implicates us as much as its characters.

So I think watch order depends on the feeling you want to leave with rather than the director's style!

#the bad kids #隐秘的角落 #The Long Season #漫长的季节 #Xin Shuang #cdrama #meta #romchat ama

[chineseredcarpet]

Director Xin Shuang (The Bad Kids, The Long Season) for GQ China’s 2023 MOTY lineup

#xin shuang #fashion #the bad kids #the long season #gq china #gq china 2023 moty

[osugna]

#the long season #series #4/5

[pi-ying-xi]

I have The Long Season brainrot. Which means I have thoughts.

But briefly:

The Long Season is The Bad Kids if they all grew up, and their choices were all so bad, they could only choose among those bad choices. Which is why the last five minutes of the drama is bittersweet, with the bitter very subtly wrestling the sweet onto the train tracks.

The actors are all so good - I knew Qin Hao, Liu Lin and Tang Zeng from other dramas - but Chen Minghao and Jiang Qiming were the revelations for me. (Chen Minghao can *dance*!)

Things I loved: apart from the pitch perfect performances, I loved the soundtrack, naturally, given that Xin Shuang is also a musician. I liked how they made a main character deaf, and how the people around him interact with that as a fact rather than as a disability.

There were two things that I really appreciated about the drama: the way it had no fucks to give about episode length - some were a regular 45 - 48 minutes, others (I'm looking at you, ep 11) we're an hour and forty seven minutes. The other is how whatever the music is at the end, and each episode has different music at both ends, it is absolutely important to the director that it has its time, never mind if the titles were all done - have a nice black screen and listen to the music!

Have to say, that chaotic, auteur-ish approach to a drama is only possible with the platform supporting it, so props to tencent.

Taking away props from tencent for the ridiculously bad subs. When I edit this post later, I'll upload some examples of how utterly rubbish the subs are. Have heard that they've resubbed it now, so if you haven't yet watched it, hope you have a better time of it. Because this drama deserves good subs and right now it doesn't have them.

Finally (for now) The Long Season reminded me of a short film we used to watch back when PK Nair did his Film Appreciation workshop in the 80s and 90s: Big City Blues. (Will add a link if I find it on YouTube). It has the same post-industrial anomie; a portrait of youth wasted and those on the margins abandoned so brutally they have no choice but to be brutal in turn.

That's why the last five minutes are not as easy to watch as the censors may have hoped. It's a good thing that Xin Shuang has enough control over the material to allow for what the censors need, while leaving the viewer with whatever complicated feelings they have.

Afterthought: I also watched Thirteen Years of Duat recently, an iqiyi/Light On drama. Equally short, covering the same kind of ground, in that cops investigate murders from more than a decade ago. We see the same changes in society, a similar portrait of ageing and persistence, of what the snatching away of hope does to the young.

But that drama, though also very good, followed a more prescribed path to its conclusion, with a tacky and tacked upon paen to law enforcement and the flag and all that rubbish.

Tencent and iqiyi are about the same in terms of how mainstream or offbeat their dramas are. But the directors of both these dramas made choices, and those choices make one a decent drama that you'd make excuses for, until you watch the other and see what it's possible to do even when you're required by what passes for socialism to provide a thread of hope.

#the long season #xin shuang #chen minghao #qin hao #liu lin #tang zeng #jiang qiming #thirteen years of dust

[nemainofthewater]

Best character surnamed: Sui

Come and vote for the best characters with the same surname!*

What does best mean? It's up to you! Whether you love them, are intrigued by their characters, love to hate them, or they're your '2 second blorbos whose personality you made up wholesale', these are all reasons for you to vote for your favs!

*note, the surnames are not exactly the same in all the cases, as often there will be a different character. I am, however, grouping them all together otherwise things got more complicated.

Propaganda is very welcome! If I’ve forgotten anyone, let me know in the notes.

This is part of a larger series of ‘best character with X surname’ polls’. The overview with ongoing polls, winners, and future polls can be found here

#poll #sleuth of the ming dynasty #decline #the long season #placid chang'an #parallel love

[pangzi]

Chen Minghao and Qin Hao for V Magazine

#chen minghao #qin hao #dmbj cast #the long season #v magazine

[lyselkatzfandomluvs]

Pàng Yé Chén MíngHào 陳明昊

Men's Uno 風度 China - September 2023 (2/2)

#chen minghao #dmbj cast #the lost tomb cast #the long season #tibetan sea flower #reunion the sound of the providence #tomb of the sea #cdrama #chinese actors #men's uno china #men's uno

[metamorformed]

anyone knows where i could watch The Long Season with decent subtitles?

#it's impossible to find i'm :( but asking in case a gentle soul has fansubbed it #The Long Season #漫长的季节 #tvs #J's posting stuff

[wangmiao]

Qin Hao as Gong Biao in The Long Season | 漫长的季节 (2023)

#the long season #cdramaedit #asiandramanet #cdramasource #chineseartistsinc #dailyasiandramas #漫长的季节 #qin hao #filmtvcentral #cinemapix #cinematv #userthing #usercrime #usercreate #smallscreensource #dmbj cast #the lost tomb cast #cdrama #userkunedits

[ao3-anonymous]

Fastest Growing Fandoms on AO3 This Week (05/29/2023)

Every week I pull data on how many fics are in each fandom and compare to the previous week, then calculate the percentage increase to determine fastest growing fandoms.  Since this naturally skews towards smaller fandoms, I have included the same data filtered to Over 1k, 5k, & 10k fics.

Overall:

Over 1,000 Fics:

Over 5,000 Fics:

Over 10,000 Fics:

Source: AO3 Fandom Dashboard

#ao3 #ao3 stats #Let's Go Slam Dunk #The Long Season #Honkai: Star Rail #Queen Charlotte #Ashes of the Kingdom #Oshi no Ko #Till the End of the Moon #ZEROBASEONE ZB1 #The Wandering Earth #Fear & Hunger #QSMP Quackity SMP #Slam Dunk #Welcome Home - Clown Illustration #Boys Planet #Trigun Stampede #Blue Lock #Trigun #ted lasso

[wangjiaqi]

#The Long Season #漫长的季节