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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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