Greenlemon
Youth Unprescribed is pretty light, fun, cute and fluffy overall with a phenomenal OST, equally light, fun, cute and fluffy.
The songs are so sing along, so 20 years old, enjoying university life, pursuing careers, falling in love... is endearing, particularly the main song: Youth tour by Wang Mingyu so full of life, of dreams, of friendship that is wished to last a lifetime... everything is wished to last a lifetime... then The Most Gentle Wondering by Pinguan, a poignant ballad that expresses a dept of emotions of hope, longing, promises...
There are a plethora of medical dramas out there but there aren't any that portray the lives of medical students at university as far as awareness goes which is rather intriguing. It's as if doctors become doctors out of the blue when in fact it takes years and years and years to become one.
Do you have a dream that you think is impossible?
Imagining wanting to become a surgeon, interning with la creme de la creme in surgery to hear that your idol, who is not a singer, an actor or an entertainer by the way but a doctor has never taken any female students as mentees, the sadness, angst and disillusionment... breaking down to emerge from the ashes like a phoenix to fight for the chance to become the first one, the first female student under his guidance.
It’s impossible until it's done.
Youth Unprescribed aside from the lightness and freshness of the story is rather original showing the challenges university students go through in general, their ups and downs, their particular stories, and the specific ones to medical school life, blending medical expressions with Chinese literature in the same episode which is resourcefully ingenious!
Reading about parts of the 16th Century Chinese novel by Wu Cheng'en, Journey to the West that incorporates aspects from Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Chinese mythology and folk religion is unusually distinctive.
Love stories... what are drama stories without them right? Some tend to go all in, others are slightly more subtle as that is not the main focus of the series. Here love is the centre of the series but not 100% in a romantic way. That takes 3rd fiddle to the experiences of the Wu Yue, Gao Yi Yang, Yao Wei, Tong Yu Shi, Lan Qi Xing, Sun Shi Zhen, Wen Hao and Shi Jie in medical school.
Love is about friendship first and following one's dreams; love is about helping others and love is about the feelings of two people for one another. This is the order of Youth Unprescribed love. Love that is just love, not perfection which the performances showcase well. The youth of the cast and probably experience doesn’t detract from the story, on the contrary everyone has great chemistry on screen. The script, spot on by the way was most likely a great help to the cast as well as the directing done by Ling Guo Song, a newcomer as far as idol-dramas go but with some less prolific filmography popularity wise, under his belt.
From beginning to end the drama invokes feelings of youth, of love and carefreeness, reminding the audience that regardless of their age, youth is a state of mind that ought to be constantly cultivated. To teach is to learn every day, to learn every day is to maintain humility and to maintain humility is half-way in the internal pursuit of happiness in a state of calmness to face whatever challenges are presented in a positive manner.
The drama would have been absolutely perfect had it not have a couple of mishap detractions. One, there was a visible editing issue which marshmellowed a bit of an episode’s consistence and could have easily been corrected in the editing board. Two, dressing the cast in period costumes for 70 odd minutes, that is an episode and half of the overall 24 drama episodes was unnecessary as the only substantial contribution it provided to the story was the re-emphasizing of who the drama leads were as if the audience hadn't already guessed that in episode 1.
For all of the above reasons, Youth Unprescribed is a 9 out of 10.
The songs are so sing along, so 20 years old, enjoying university life, pursuing careers, falling in love... is endearing, particularly the main song: Youth tour by Wang Mingyu so full of life, of dreams, of friendship that is wished to last a lifetime... everything is wished to last a lifetime... then The Most Gentle Wondering by Pinguan, a poignant ballad that expresses a dept of emotions of hope, longing, promises...
There are a plethora of medical dramas out there but there aren't any that portray the lives of medical students at university as far as awareness goes which is rather intriguing. It's as if doctors become doctors out of the blue when in fact it takes years and years and years to become one.
Do you have a dream that you think is impossible?
Imagining wanting to become a surgeon, interning with la creme de la creme in surgery to hear that your idol, who is not a singer, an actor or an entertainer by the way but a doctor has never taken any female students as mentees, the sadness, angst and disillusionment... breaking down to emerge from the ashes like a phoenix to fight for the chance to become the first one, the first female student under his guidance.
It’s impossible until it's done.
Youth Unprescribed aside from the lightness and freshness of the story is rather original showing the challenges university students go through in general, their ups and downs, their particular stories, and the specific ones to medical school life, blending medical expressions with Chinese literature in the same episode which is resourcefully ingenious!
Reading about parts of the 16th Century Chinese novel by Wu Cheng'en, Journey to the West that incorporates aspects from Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Chinese mythology and folk religion is unusually distinctive.
Love stories... what are drama stories without them right? Some tend to go all in, others are slightly more subtle as that is not the main focus of the series. Here love is the centre of the series but not 100% in a romantic way. That takes 3rd fiddle to the experiences of the Wu Yue, Gao Yi Yang, Yao Wei, Tong Yu Shi, Lan Qi Xing, Sun Shi Zhen, Wen Hao and Shi Jie in medical school.
Love is about friendship first and following one's dreams; love is about helping others and love is about the feelings of two people for one another. This is the order of Youth Unprescribed love. Love that is just love, not perfection which the performances showcase well. The youth of the cast and probably experience doesn’t detract from the story, on the contrary everyone has great chemistry on screen. The script, spot on by the way was most likely a great help to the cast as well as the directing done by Ling Guo Song, a newcomer as far as idol-dramas go but with some less prolific filmography popularity wise, under his belt.
From beginning to end the drama invokes feelings of youth, of love and carefreeness, reminding the audience that regardless of their age, youth is a state of mind that ought to be constantly cultivated. To teach is to learn every day, to learn every day is to maintain humility and to maintain humility is half-way in the internal pursuit of happiness in a state of calmness to face whatever challenges are presented in a positive manner.
The drama would have been absolutely perfect had it not have a couple of mishap detractions. One, there was a visible editing issue which marshmellowed a bit of an episode’s consistence and could have easily been corrected in the editing board. Two, dressing the cast in period costumes for 70 odd minutes, that is an episode and half of the overall 24 drama episodes was unnecessary as the only substantial contribution it provided to the story was the re-emphasizing of who the drama leads were as if the audience hadn't already guessed that in episode 1.
For all of the above reasons, Youth Unprescribed is a 9 out of 10.
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