A new Taiwanese drama started. The original title is 16個夏天 (16 summers) while the English title is The Way We Were. It is supposed to cover 5 individuals (3 men and 2 women) for 16 years; from 1998 to 2014. In the first episode shown last Sat, our guys and gals were college kids in 1998.
Like other t-dramas, it's about 70 minutes long and one episode is shown every week. However, this is supposed to have only 15 episodes. So this is going to be short and concise.
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In the first episode it was 1998 and our guys and gals were college students. The main girl Jia-Ni (played by Ruby Lin), who struggles to make ends meet by part-time work, finds out that her live-in boyfriend was cheating. After setting up a revenge affair (one night stand) of her own, she kicks him out.
Her new neighbor Wei-De (Leroy Young) is the man with whom Jia-ni had the one night stand. Nothing physically happened during that night, though. Wei-De is a playboy, going out with several girls.
Rui-Rui (Tiffany Hsu) is Jia-ni's best friend who has a crush on Jung-Jie (Melvin Sia), but this guy does not see her because he likes Jia-Ni.
The first episode introduced the main characters and the drama setting. The story went smoothly and fast. It had a nice feel. My only complaint is that our guys and gals looked too old for college students.
This is going to be my weekend drama to watch.
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