Wow! If the first 2 episodes are any indication of craft and storytelling, this one will be spectacular!

There wasn’t anything that I didn’t find fascinating (though you might have to be a fast reader to catch all of the details in some of the subs). The story begins presenting problems to be solved — who are these people, what is the conspiracy that’s feared, what are they (both sides) up against? For a thriller fan like me, it’s enticing, but there is the added bonus of a very richly portrayed and exotic Tang Dynasty world.

Brief plot points for the set-up: A disgraced sleuth (military or police?) on death row is ‘bailed out’ by a wunderkind head of the anti-terrorist force (my term) to find a gang that appears to be set on murder and mayhem that very day in Chang’an. The plot may destabilize the throne, it may overthrow it… who knows!

I see that there are going to be 2 seasons of this but it looks amazing and I’ve got my fingers crossed that it continues as strongly as it started.

#the-longest-day-in-changan