Underplayed Gems

iPartment (2009)

iPartment poster
Original title
爱情公寓
Directed by
Wei Zheng
Cast
Chen He, Lou Yi Xiao, Sun Yi Zhou, Li Jin Ming, Zhao Ji, Jin Shi Jia, Wang Chuan Jun, Du Jun
Genre
sitcom
Country
People's Republic of China
Length
5 seasons, 64 episodes
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 51 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Young adults live in a Shanghai apartment complex and navigate their relationships and careers. The show follows their comedic everyday lives and romantic entanglements.

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What happens

iPartment (Chinese: 爱情公寓; pinyin: Àiqíng Gōngyù) is a sitcom from Mainland China. It was produced by the Shanghai Film Group and Shanghai Film Studio, and aired by Jiangxi TV in August 2009, with twenty 45-minute episodes. The second season aired by Webisodes online due to its online fan base and polls for upcoming episodes. The second season featured four of the same characters from the first season by Chen three new characters. The third season followed with the same cast. A film adaptation, Love Apartment, was filmed and released in 2018, and featured most of the cast reprising their roles. The show is generally regarded as one of the most successful Chinese sitcoms of all time, mainly among the Post-80's generation minutes production on Z due to the advent of streaming services and network season is one of the first Chinese shows to depict modern young urban society and references wider Western pop culture phenomenon. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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