Guardian (2018)

Original title

镇魂

Directed by

Zhou Yuan Zhou, Xie Yi Hang, Gao Han, Gu Zhi Wei

Cast

Bai Yu, Tang Zi Yue, Zhu Yi Long, Xin Peng, Shen Da Wei, Li Yan, Wang Zi, Jiang Ming Yang

Genre

drama television series, fantasy television series

Country

People's Republic of China

Length

1 season, 40 episodes

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 23 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A detective and a professor team up to investigate strange supernatural events in a modern Chinese city. Their close partnership is filled with unresolved tension and hidden history.

supernaturalbuddy-dynamicmysteriousurban-fantasymelancholicslow-burnintriguingemotionally-charged

What happens

Guardian (Chinese: 镇魂; pinyin: Zhèn Hún) is a 2018 Chinese web series starring Bai Yu and Zhu Yilong. An adaptation of the 2012 fantasy-danmei web novel of the same name by Priest, the series was released on the video platform Youku between June 13 and July 25, 2018. It follows a detective and a professor who investigate supernatural phenomena. Though the novel depicts their relationship as romantic in nature, the web series depicts the relationship as a platonic friendship with homoerotic subtext as a response to Chinese laws prohibiting depictions of same-sex relationships on television. The series was widely popular on the internet, and received a total of 1.8 billion views in its streaming platform by August 2018. That same month, Guardian was pulled from Youku amid a crackdown on "harmful and vulgar" internet content, but was later re-uploaded. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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