The Legend of Hao Lan

The 3 stars:

• Beautiful scenery & costumes
• Very good acting from many actors (Han Qiong Hua, a side cast did very well. Most impressed.)
• Some good moments of ingenuity and cleverness

THE BAD:

• Horrible script. The writer keeps dilly dallying and using a multitude of irrelevant filters to fill the episodes.
• Just when you think the lead male hardens his heart for a bigger cause, he weakens and falls back into her arms, and ruins his plans once again. This carries on at least 20 times. For Christs' sake. Once is fine. Twice is plenty. Thrice is stale. And they went more times than that.
• There is just no sense of a good script at all. People can walk in and out of the palace to anybody's content. The way they write this is ridiculous.

If you are a big fan of Yanxi Palace, stay away from this. You'd be sorely disappointed.

Jinyan Wu is the Kristen Stewart of China, dull, expressionless, and for some reason all the men in the series are madly in love with her. The script is terrible, full of conveniences and characters taking meaningless actions.

The series is supported by the magnificent costumes and excellent actors (except the protagonist).

Yuan Nie in many moments maintains the series with his charisma and Jing Ning created a very interesting character who is cruel and wonderful at the same time.

It had everything to be a memorable series, but the terrible script and dull protagonist ruined the series.

But in the last episodes the series becomes terrible, boring, almost unwatchable.

The shooting scene is very beautiful, the actor's costume is also beautiful, and the heroine is very smart

It is very Good drama to watch if You love politics And hard damn drama this is for You it also shows reality about surviving in palace I reccomend it for people who like more serious Dramas

I love this cdrama-mdrama the characters show atypical love story and what it means to presevere in times of turmoil and no way out. All of the good characters they introduce all have their charm, wit and endearing quality about them. The only "evil" characters the one that last an impression on me was Empress Dowager of Zhao emperor and the Han concort showed they were more than just lovers but helped the emperor. The only sad part about this drama and ALL historical dramas is you shouldn't get yourself attached to any of the good characters like the supporting characters who helped the leads escape by sacrificing their own lives cause it just doesn't feel right. I'm 50 episodes in and they got rid of majority of the villains in the show except for one and this one is like a fester that just wont be gone! It's the Empress Dowagers daughter and her own jealousy mixed with her cold upbringing makes her an "evil" character that I find hard to feel sorry for. She just continues to mess up Hao Lan and Yiren and BuWeis life!! Her jealousy completely envelopes her and unlike the other evil characters she never leaves! The writers keep writing her in!! But overall the show in my opinion has wit, tenderness, humor and complexity. It's my favorite right now I've binged watched and I just want to find out the ending hoping the writers don't kill off my faves cause that would be heart wrenching!!