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Princess Agents

Details

Title: 楚乔传 / Chu Qiao Zhuan
English title: Princess Agents
Also known as: 11处特工皇妃 / 11th Bureau Princess Agents, 特工皇妃楚乔传 / Legend of Chu Qiao
Genre: Period, romance
Episodes: 68
Viewership ratings: peak = 2.525%, average= 1.741% [1]
Broadcast network: Hunan TV
Broadcast period: 2017-Jun-05 to 2017-Aug-01
Air time: 22:00 (Monday to Thursday)
Opening theme song: Spark (望) by Zhao Li Ying, Zhang Bi Chen (张碧晨)
Ending theme song: Burning Heart (心之焰) by G.E.M. (邓紫棋)

Synopsis

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties,the Western Wei enslaved large numbers of civilians. The slave girl, Chu Qiao (Zhao Li Ying), is thrown into a forest along with other slaves and becomes the next hunting target for the rich lords. She is saved by the Prince of Northern Wei, Yan Xun (Dou Xiao). Afterwards, she is brought into a powerful family of Yuwen and witnesses their bloody power struggle. Seeing this, she swears to take her younger sister and flee from the situation. However, she catches the attention of Yuwen Yue (Lin Geng Xin), and undergoes strict training while building a sense of companionship with Yan Xun. Unfortunately, the Emperor of Western Wei is distrustful of the powerful Yan clan, and slaughters Yan Xun's entire family.

After that incident, Yan Xun grows ambitious and cruel to avenge for the things and the people he lost. He doubts Chu Qiao and takes advantages of her loyalty and love many times, disregarding their relationship as well as the sacrifices he will have to make for power. Disappointed with the man she once loved, Chu Qiao eventually breaks off her relationship with Yan Xun and decides to join hands with Yuwen Yue, yet she may be too late...

Cast

Zhao Li Ying as Chu Qiao / Xing'er / Jing Xiaoliu
- Huangyang Dian Tian as young Chu Qiao
Lin Geng Xin as Yuwen Yue
Dou Xiao as Yan Xun
Li Qin as Yuan Chun

Extended

Deng Lun as Xiao Ce
Jin Shi Jie (金士杰) as Yuwen Xi
Wang Yan Lin as Yuwen Huai
Niu Jun Feng as Yuan Song
Huang Meng Ying as Xiao Yu / Fang Qin
Tian Xiao Jie (田小洁) as Yuan Zhengde, Emperor of Western Wei
Sun Ning as Noble Consort Shu
Jin Han (金瀚) as Zhao Xifeng
Xin Shao Lin (邢昭林) as Yue Qi
Cao Xi Yue as Jin Zhu
Zhu Sheng Wei (朱圣祎) as Xiao Ba
Ruan Hui Jing (阮伟旌) as He Xiao
Li Ruo Jia as Zhong Yu
Miao Miao (苗苗) as Jing Xiaoqi
Huang Hai Bing as Zhan Ziyu
Hu Bing as Wu Daoya
Wang Dong as Yuwen Hao
Guo Feng (郭锋) as Yuwen Zhuo
Li Ying as Bai Sheng
Dong Chun Hui (董春辉) as Liang Shaoqing
Jin Jia as Yuan Che
Wang Yu (王嵛) as Jinsi
Yuan Zi Yi (苑子艺) as Meng Feng
Liu Yu Cui (刘玉翠) as Madam Song
Fu Jia as Zhushun
Rex Zhang (张瑞) as Jinghan
Chen Si Han (陈思瀚) as Wei Suye
Jurat Kutilai (居来提·库提来) as Wei Suyou
Jiang Yi Yi as Curly hair
Cao Xin Yue as Chu Wei
Ruan Wei Jing as He Xiao

Production Credits

Original writing (novel): 11 Chu Te Gong Huang Fei (11處特工皇妃) by Xiao Xiang Dong Er
Screenwriter: Jia Wen (嘉纹), Yang Tao (杨涛), Chen Lan (陈岚)
Directors:Wu Jin Yuan, Chen Guo Hua (陈国华), Li Cai (李才)
Producer: Liu Ying Xuan (柳盈瑄)

Notes

The shooting wrapped up on November 21, 2016

Reviews

See Princess Agents/Reviews

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 ==Reviews==
-It's hard to imagine the impact and the enormous repercussion that has had this drama in China alone, his trailer came to present more than a million views, on the day of its release many tuned in to see the first episode, more this say it was a success in rating, came to have more than 40 billion views.
+''See [[Princess Agents/Reviews]]''
-It's more than sure that success precedes it at the audience level, but in terms of critical appraisal, it's something completely different.
-==Pacing:==
-First of all it is an extensive drama, that tries to adapt the book, emphasis in "tries," although at the beginning of the drama they knew how to tell the story in an attractive way and above all simple, without any complication.
-Although after a certain number of episodes everything started to get ugly quickly, the pacing was absolutely incoherent, making the whole narrative a complete mess.
-in the book an important point of it was to travel in time, the drama not knowing how to adapt the story correctly made that important point became something that caused many gaps in the plot.
-Another important detail to highlight is that they focused a lot of development on the romance of Yu Wen Yue Chu Qiao's characters, but it was developed at the same time very quickly, at the expense of the development of the other events in the plot.
-The drama also suffers the case of covering less of the original material to make way for a probable sequel in the future. This gives the hint that the production behind the drama was already anticipating a high level of success with the drama.
-==Characters:==
-Yan Xun's conflict was the object of a constant change in the drama, but it was handled in a credible way, viewers could actually believe that Yan Xu as the story progressed had gone from: cheerful and optimistic to vengeful and resentful.
-Chun Er and Yuan Song, on the other hand, were the typical optimistic characters, Chun Er turned out to be a badly developed character in the confines of the story and even badly acted by the actress who did not show the right range of emotions, Yuan Song turned out to be quite interesting as a character, a tragic victim of a cruel world but who nevertheless trusted that there was a place for good in the world, was undoubtedly touching and his philosophy was fascinating and had a place in the theme of the narrative, apart from the fact that the actor was excellent in his interpretation of the character.
-Chu Qiao was undoubtedly a mysterious character, the drama was able to present her as someone with whom the characters should not cross him, although every change when it began to acquire more relevance in the plot and the script simply failed her as a character, the actress was good in the role, but the script presented her as a dynamic character and always strong, but was always rescued Yu Wen Yue or Yan Xu.
-==Performances:==
-The central characters were undoubtedly good in their roles, with one notable exception, in terms of secondary and more characters, their actors knew how to interpret well the roles that were given to them.
-==Costumes & Sets:==
-The costuming in the drama was very exquisite and very well crafted individually, it was simplistic but also with a high sense of elegance. As for the sets, it was a job well done.
-==Cinematography:==
-The drama was predominantly in favor or perhaps interested and in the duality of both black and white, there were also pastel colors predominantly in the background. An issue was that the characters were very dark colors and there it was a mute filter for the filming of several action sequences that are good in slow-mo, but bad in motion.
-==Special Effects:==
-It was used sparingly and it was not obvious.
-==Musical Score & Soundtrack:==
-The musical score was delightful and it hit all the keynotes perfectly in the melodramatic scenes without being overbearing, and the theme songs were absolutely excellent.
-==Conclusion:==
-The drama was a mixed bag, the beginning managed to show a lot of promise only to deflate itself the more it went on. It lacks quality in the storytelling department and production values as well, the plot progression was astonishingly poor and the ending was disappointing and terrible in equal measure.
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