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Canary Report: The Smiling, Proud Wanderer 2018

Canary Reports are a public service to help protect everyone who makes better choices than the Disgrace to Scholars Collective. We watch these and report back in so you don’t have to. Have a drama you want us to try out? Leave a comment below and let us know!

Where to watch it: Currently unavailable on all English language platforms, which is for the best.

Summary: An adaptation of Jin Yong’s beloved classic The Smiling, Proud Wanderer, this drama is nominally about the journey of Hua Mountain head disciple Linghu Chong as the wuxia world is rocked by the search for a secret powerful martial arts manual, the Bixie Sword Scroll. This four part novel is a masterful analogy for the duplicitous and hypocritical world of politics, as each sect leader becomes implicated in a conspiracy to seize power, or is taken down unawares in the attempt to remain neutral.

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Canary Report: SCI Mystery

Canary Reports are a public service to help protect everyone who makes better choices than the Disgrace to Scholars Collective. We watch these and report back in so you don’t have to. Have a drama you want us to try out? Leave a comment below and let us know!

Where to Watch It: For in-progress English subs, a wild hodgepodge of YouTube, Daily Motion and some Japanese website -- all uploaded by the same subbing team. A real pain. Or, if you can understand or want to try tackling the Chinese, you can watch it here on Youku. Not that it matters because if you heed the below you will spare yourself the indignity of watching this.

Summary: Childhood friends and professional enemies Bai Yutong and Zhan Yao are flung back into one another’s orbits when a series of murders rocks Hong Kong. It’s up to the newly formed specialty task force, SCI Mystery, to try and catch the murderer -- that’s if flashy detective Bai Yutong and cold psychologist Zhan Yao don’t kill each other first.

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Canary Report: Candle in the Tomb/鬼吹灯之精绝古城

Where To Watch It: This is show is available in its entirety on Dramafever and Viki. This is not a suggestion that you watch it.

Summary: A Chinese-American archaeologist, Shirley Yang (Joe (Qiao En) Chen) is trying to find her father who disappeared hunting for tombs in Xinjiang. The Chinese professor overseeing the hiring in Beijing introduces her to former army officer/current tomb robber Hu Bayi (Jin Dong), who learned the art of tomb feng shui from an old family book and has a special feng shui compass, and Hu’s childhood friend/co-tomb robber Wang Kaixuan (Zhao Da), called Pangzi. The team set off to the Taklamakan Desert to explore a “ghost cave” and hopefully find Shirley’s father; Hu and Wang also hope to find a way to undo the curse they are currently under because, well, they’re tomb robbers.

Review/Comments: Full disclosure: I think I got tossed on this particular grenade because my academic background is Asian art history, and hollyberries thought it would be hilarious to listen to me yell.
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Canary Report: The Flame’s Daughter/烈火如歌

Where to Watch It: DramaFever (English subs available), YouTube (English subs available), Viki (English subs available)

Summary: The DramaFever synopsis is terribly unhelpful, the description simply says: “A princess betrayed at birth. A deceived warrior who loves her. If you fall for the daughter of the flame, prepare to get burned.”
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Canary Report: As Flowers Fade and Fly Across the Sky/花谢花飞花满天

Canary Reports are a public service to help protect everyone who makes better choices than the Disgrace to Scholars Collective. We watch these and report back in so you don’t have to. Have a drama you want us to try out? Leave a comment below and let us know!

Where to watch it: As of right now, this show is not on any of the official English language streaming sites, which, given that I have watched all 66 episodes of this drama, a blessing for all y’all.

Summary: The official summary is that general Hua Mantian (Peter Ho) is stuck in a love triangle between his childhood love fallen on hard times, Xie Qianxun (Xinyu Zhang), and an imperial princess, Princess Qingcheng (Li Xinai). Through the help of a mysterious doctor in a ‘fairy-like’ grove, the two female leads manage to switch their faces so that they may avenge their family and gain Hua Mantian’s heart, respectively. Zhu Yilong, yet another Wuhan boy with beautiful features and great acting chops, plays general Hua Mantian’s younger brother, Hua Wuxie; he’s in love with the imperial princess, Qingcheng. (Yes, both Hua brothers’ names are callbacks to the drama title.)

Review/Comments: So. Magical face swapping.

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Entries tagged with canary report

Canary Report: The Smiling, Proud Wanderer (2018)

CANARY REPORT: SCI MYSTERY

CANARY REPORT: CANDLE IN THE TOMB

CANARY REPORT: THE FLAME’S DAUGHTER

Canary Report: As Flowers Fade and Fly Across the Sky (2017)

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