I have a terrible feeling that Nirvana in Fire may be to cdrama and kdrama what The Lord of the Rings is to doorstopper fantasy novels. The peak of the genre, and everything afterwards will fail to measure up. Even the sequels by the same author.
I have somehow watched 15 episodes of The Untamed, though. The wigs are terrible, the acting adequate at best, I had a sudden realisation that the tropes are right out of classic school story fiction*, and the Tortoise of Slaughter actually turned up. But I am a complete sucker for stoical/expressionless characters who feel passionately inside but cannot admit their feelings (TM). Even if the stoical expression might seem to come from the actor being botoxed at an unusually young age.
no subject
I have somehow watched 15 episodes of The Untamed, though. The wigs are terrible, the acting adequate at best, I had a sudden realisation that the tropes are right out of classic school story fiction*, and the Tortoise of Slaughter actually turned up. But I am a complete sucker for stoical/expressionless characters who feel passionately inside but cannot admit their feelings (TM). Even if the stoical expression might seem to come from the actor being botoxed at an unusually young age.