Once Upon a Time in Lingjian Mountain

I loved this series as it had segments along the way that I had never seen before in a Chinese drama series so it was very refreshing. I like all the cast but love Xu Kai who's such a versatile actor, he can be funny and goofy one moment and totally serious the next. I love the story and how it goes back to help us understand more about the characters. I love the friendship between Wang Lu and Hai Yunfan. A lot of the characters have interesting personalities. Ive enjoyed the completion/quests part of the series. What I've learnt from this series is that things are not always what they seem. I'm off to start another Xu Kai series.

Season starts off fun and intriguing but a little slow. The final 8-10 episodes are fantastic and you see how the whole series builds to that point. It's very campy for sure so you have to like that style, but it's pretty subtly funny and has a lot of gems in it too.

Finally something different on screen. The series is a chinese comic (manhua) like story. Sometimes difficult to understand because I am not chinese and do not always have the background, other than having read a handfull of the comics. I was hooked from the start and am half way through the series. Explanation about the artifacts, fruits and herbs were absent in the first few episodes but they started explaining after a while. Although I still think they could do more about it because it would give more feeling how importand and valuable some of the artifacts are. Also the refining proces of the Qi could be more elaborated. Subtitles are only in rapid english on Netflix.

Why I still like the series is because I love the characters, the costumes, the settings, the story and there are some good fighting scenes. It is refeshing and funny. The humor is typical chinese with over the top overacting but it is more spot on than not. Sandrine Pinna plays the master Wang character which she does perfectly with good timing.

Even the original language doesn't sync with the mouthes. Who on Earth dubs the original language?

On top of that it is just a not funny comedy.

My husband and I both like wuxia /martial arts shows. We binge watched it together and was hooked from the first episode! All the characters were great! Love the storyline and how it tied all the characters together. Great details and costumes. Wang Wu and Wang Lu were great! Honestly I liked all the characters! Please make a season 2!!! We are anxious to see how Lingjian sect will handle the sky demon!👍👍👍👍👍