An Oriental Odyssey (Review)
(This review contains spoilers.)
The 50 episode An Oriental Odyssey aired on Ten Cent Video from October 18, 2018 to December 6, 2018. This drama series had a promising start and was quite entertaining, fast paced and gripping as we followed the 4 sleuths as they worked together solving mysteries in the Tang dynasty.
I really enjoyed the interaction and chemistry between the leads, the initial pairing of Ye Yuan An (Wu Qian/Janice Wu) and Zhao Lan Zhi (Zhang Yu Jian) and, subsequently Ye Yuan An and Mu Le (Zheng Ye Cheng) and Lan Zhi and Princess Ming Hui (Dong Qi).
The actors were great with Wu Qian embodying the role of Yuan An, a youthful noblewoman with a developed sense of justice and fairness in contrast with Lan Zhi, the chief investigator intent on solving the case according to the letter of the law, Zheng Ye Cheng as Mu Le, the servant with a mysterious past with his unwavering loyalty to Yuan An and Dong Qi as Ming Hui, the ruthless princess with her single-minded determination to succeed and to best Yuan An in everything.
For 32 episodes, this series held my interest and I binge watched 4-5 episodes a night, but after Mu Le took the blue pill and recovered his memory, it started going downhill and never recovered. The remaining episodes were a hot mess with cheap looking set designs, props and costumes and cheesy plot lines that included time travel, our heroine’s brief transformation into a blood sucking blue vampire, soul splitting magic and a rushed unsatisfying ending that made me wish I could have time traveled myself and not accompanied our heroes on this odyssey.
Bottom line, I would not recommend investing time in this series. I give this series a 6/10 only because I really liked the actors and the episodes before they ventured to Mu Le’s homeland.
Love it
Thanks tang
Great display
Interesting
Very interesting
I hate unexplained endings. Was it years later and Mu Le came to get her because she was dying? or Did Mu Le find a way to come back to the real world? or Was he just a memory of hers?