luxury, criminal decadence, martial-arts cops and profiling on the streets of the people's republic of china: WHEN A SNAIL FALLS IN LOVE

excellent cokehead (coke is not mentioned)

capt ji to xu xu: "you may be small but you've got lots of flaws. monsters don't have a gender"

(he is beginning to fall for her hard)

drugs and trafficking have now become a storyline btw: we've seen the coke but no one has called it coke

i’m reaching around for something to watching after trying and failing almost immediately to watch mcmafia, and find myself gradually falling into the idea of the snail’s web...

\o/

e11: in which shit gets very real :0

(also crystallised my feeling that the makers are keen fans of the cumberbatch sherlock -- this is not at all as tricksy and glib as that but the way it framed the new villain…)

mcmafia is trash and not in a good way - apart from some really outstanding acting from russians i'll most likely never see in anything ever again :/

i will hit this

\o/ \o/

i caught the first ep and this seemed like any other chinese drama lol. i'll keep at it though

i have watched seen no other chinese dramas ever!

(except jackie chan films and ZU WARRIORS OF THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN, which were mostly made in pre-handover hong kong)

e12 is the slowest yet: ALL FOUR OF YOU JUST FUCK ALREADY, OMIGOD

love 2 see multiple burmese guards with machine guns overcome with good old-fashioned unarmed martial arts skills

(myanmar is portrayed as a corrupt third-world wild-west kind of a country: picturesque and with good put-upon people pushed around by its military -- or at least by corrupt elements in the military)

fake blood is very orange in this show

ji bai n xu xu love interlude scored by (eng lang, mild-mannered country) cover version of tim mcgraw's "where the green grass grows"

and that's it