The Legend of Xi Shi (2012)

Cringe

First off, all of the costumes, especially the women’s are distractingly Han dynasty attire. The music and sound effects are all western orchestral music. And the lines spoken are almost all in modern positive speech pep talk style. And the main female protagonist voices are annoying as well. This show is better played in the background while doing other things as barely anything monumental happens other than in the beginning and end since anything outrageous xishi and zhengdan does gets forgiven by fuchai and guojian and his party are nearly always prostrating themselves. At the end, the pregnant xishi jumps off the battlement of the tower where fuchai battled to the death.

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