Drama Review: Legend of YunZe and Tinted for You

I've not finished many dramas lately, though I have started a few. I have finished a couple very short web dramas these past couple days, however. One is Tinted for You on Viki and one is Legend of Yunze on Douyin, with english translations provided by douqi on YouTube (they also translated Legend of Yunqian, a pillar of the baihe community!). They were both short and light on any kind of plot, but you can't fit a huge amount into less than 90 minutes of content. What they have could have been tighter, narratively, but these are definitely closer to amateur content than something with a budget and a production company of more than a few people.

Legend of Yunze has 2 seasons, a xianxia casefic where Jiang Zhaoyun and A-Ze meet and a modern-with-magic reincarnation romance drama (complete with genre typical manipulation tactics by Zhaoyun lmao). Each season is about an hour long and there are several plot holes, but the characters have just enough substance to be interesting and it was a fun sort of brain turn off and watch show. A-Ze, especially, is a great little character. Jiang Zhaoyun is quite stiff but, like I said, these land on the more amateur/low budget end of the scale.

Content warnings:

• season 1 has a non-graphic suicide and sexual harassment of side characters, plus a tiny bit of mind control.


• season 2/special has manipulation (by jiang zhaoyun of a-ze, by a-ze's foster mother of a-ze), a bit of sexual harassment and some magical emotional manipulation.

Tinted for You is a 90 min korean BL where a schoolboy gets trapped in a painting/the past and falls in love with a prince (and, arguably, his bodyguard). This is one of those stories where the main character bumbles around until he remembers what he was told to do right at the very beginning but, in spite of all that, it's very sweet. There's an IC explanation at the end by the magical lady that put him in the painting that's very meta and interesting as well so that's nice. Though only 2 of the boys kiss, there's definitely canon support for a poly relationship as well which is nice to see. Or maybe that's my shipping goggles!
Content warnings: lots of attempted murder