#19层

[heymeowmao]

19th Floor (2024) ♠ Episode 1

[mostlyfate]

Sun Qian as Chun Yu 19th Floor 19层 · 2024, dir. Cai Cong

[lemonsourcrisis]

19th Floor 19层 (2024) dir. Cai Cong | 1.27

[save-the-data]

19th Floor | S01E04

Chinese Drama - 2024, 30 episodes Links:  GAGA | Viki | YouTube | iQIYI | WeTV | Youku | Tencent

[dengswei]

@asiandramanet creator bingo — layer style — 19th floor (2024) episode two

[morweneledhwen]

19th Floor is a drama that – if I had a functioning internet connection right now – I would have binged in 3 days, it's just so good!

It's about a group of people, most of them college students, who get drawn every night into a deadly VR game called 19th Floor and have to overcome its various challenges to pass each level, with serious real life consequences for those who die in the game.

This drama has a good pacing and is almost evenly split between the VR world and the real world.I like the characters so far, especially the two main leads. This is the first drama in which I actually really enjoy Miles Wei's acting, though he gets a bit overshadowed by the amazing performance of his female co-star, Sun Qian. I've never seen the actress before in anything, but my God, she's incredible. The subtle romance of their characters is everything to me. ❤

I also like the character development in this drama. Some characters are downright unlikable and/or annoying in the beginning (Bai Shu's character being an example for that 😂), but they grow as people and as friends and, in time, learn to work together and trust each other.

I'm only halfway through the drama, but I'm really curious to see where all this is going and how it's going to end. But so far I love it and can only recommend it!

[palehorsemen]

[asterdust]

CHUNYU AND QINGYOU ARE GIRLFRIENDS I SAID WHAT I SAID

[dorameiraxp]

19th Floor trailer

[heymeowmao]

19th Floor (2024) E2 ♠ The power of darkness is too strong, and we are too weak.

[mostlyfate]

Sun Qian as Chun Yu 19th Floor 19层 · 2024, dir. Cai Cong

[lemonsourcrisis]

19th Floor 19层 (2024) dir. Cai Cong • 1.09

[save-the-data]

19th Floor | S01E02

Chinese Drama - 2024, 30 episodes Links:  GAGA | Viki | YouTube | iQIYI | WeTV | Youku | Tencent

[scorbleeo]

Drama Gossip: 19th Floor (19层)

Source: Google Images

Unconscious after a car accident, university student Chun Yu and her best friend Qing You mysteriously find themselves inside the dangerous world of a VR game. Several other people have also unwittingly ended up here, and they soon discover they were all involved in the accident - except for substitute teacher Gao Xuan, who claims to have simply fallen asleep. Seeing no other option than to play the game, they eventually beat the level and wake up … only to immediately return the next night.

Faced with deadly monsters, puzzles, and mind games, the players have to learn to cooperate despite being unsure if they can trust each other. The pressure increases when it turns out that people who die in the game fall into a coma in real life. And then several more students are dragged into the game! The group spends their nights trying to survive the next level and their days investigating who is doing this to them and why. As they grow closer, friendships and budding romances are repeatedly put to the test by the stress of the situation and the evil machinations of the people behind the game…

Source: MyDramaList (2024)

Actually Interesting

This drama was all over my Douyin FYP when it was showing. Imagine seeing people in modern-day clothes, in a slightly olden-day setting running from what seemed like zombies. Tell me that wouldn't pique your interest. Okay, maybe it wouldn't but it piqued mine. However, apart from that snippet, I went into this drama not knowing anything. Hell, I didn't even know who were the actors.

Anyhow. The premise of 19th Floor is not a new concept. It's the classic 'real life people entering a game with high stakes' plot. What was new was that them entering the game was not obvious initially. The how they entered was a mystery until quite a few episodes in too. Additionally, the games were different. Each time they entered it, the game, the rules and even the stakes were different.

Initially, this was an extremely fascinating drama. I was hooked and went through episodes like I had no other responsibilities. However, as the cast went on and began discovering the secrets and motives, the drama honestly, got predictable. In my opinion, 19th Floor could have had a darker tone to it. Keep the storyline but make things darker, bring in the 'unreliable narrator' trope, make the high stakes actually high stakes as in, more deaths or consequences that cannot be undone. You see, the beginning of this drama was action-filled but the end, not so much.

Don't get me wrong, 19th Floor is still interesting but it could have been way more interesting, considering the actual story from where this drama was adapted from? Yeah, 19th Floor could have done more.

Rating: ★★★☆☆

More productions from China here: The Romance of Tiger and Rose (传闻中的陈芊芊) | Under the Skin (猎罪图鉴)

[berliker]

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马斯克还表示，USAID资助了包括COVID-19在内的生物武器研究。

马斯克在其社交媒体页面X上写道：“你们知道，美国国际开发署利用你们的税款，资助了包括COVID-19在内的生物武器研究已导致数百万人丧生吗？”

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