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Mar 27, 2020 · The Untamed is an epic fantasy with a romance at its center, led by a problem child who comes back from the dead in order to fix the broken world he left behind — and finally unite with his...
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Nov 18, 2020 · The mesmerizing 50-episode Chinese drama “The Untamed", streaming on Netflix, is our TV recommendation of the month. Here's our review:
Seeing a couple of posts about The Untamed today and wanted to offer my suggestion on how I would advise people who are thinking of watching this for the first time. EDIT: added second option at the very bottom. Short summary: Watch the Special Edition first.
- What Is The Untamed About?
- What's The Big Deal, then?
- So The Main Characters Are Gay? But What About China's Censorship?
- What About The Rest of The Untamed's Plot and Characters?
- Sounds Great! Where Can I Watch It?
- I'm hooked. When Do We Get Season 2 of The Untamed?
The Untamed is based on Mo Dao Zu Shi (literally "Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation"), a novel by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu. It is a Xianxia story, which means it is a fantasy adventure heavily influenced by Chinese mythology and martial arts, among other traditional elements. The story is very detailed, so getting lost keeping track of the many character...
Mo Dao Zu Shi is a BLstory — "boy love," a term used for works depicting love between men for a presumed female audience. In the original novel, after many adventures together, Wei WuXian and Lan WangJi become a couple, and their sentiments for each other are very explicit. Though the story has been adapted a few times before — there's an audiobook...
On December 31, 2015, the China Television Drama Production Industry Association posted guidelines that included a ban on showing LGBT relationships on TV. That means fans never see anything as explicit as in the novel between Wei WuXian and Lan WangJi. There are no kisses, so their relationship can easily pass for an adorable bromance, if that's h...
The story is very complex. Half takes place before Wei WuXian dies, hated by everyone, and the other half takes place when he is resurrected and no one recognizes him. There are numerous clans — the Lans, the Jiangs, the Jins — with very peculiar rules, styles, and traditions, and we get to see how they fight for power and manipulate each other as ...
All of the episodes are currently on Netflix. You can also watch it on YouTube. But be careful: if you get past the first two episodes and the cheap but somehow endearing special effects, there's no going back.
Once you get to the end of the story, you'll realize there's not much else to be said. All the loose ends are solved and all the characters get what they deserve, so another season is very unlikely. But if you really, really miss it, you can always read the novel and watch the animated adaptation, like many other fans who got obsessed with the seri...
The Untamed uses its sci-fi premise to explore grounded notions of masculinity, sexual repression and the all-consuming allure of unbridled sex to great effect. Full Review | Original Score:...
Critic Reviews. User Reviews. Cast & Crew. Details. 72. Metascore Generally Favorable. positive. 14 (74%) mixed. 5 (26%) negative. 0 (0%) Showing 19 Critic Reviews. 100. The Film Stage. Sep 17, 2016. The Untamed does that very rare thing in cinema in that it blends mystery, horror and pseudo-reality with a kind of dark subconscious arousal.
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