Favorite Chinese TV Shows on Youtube for Learners?

[zhouhaochen]

What are everyone's favourite TV shows in Mandarin that one can watch easily online (Youtube is the easiest I guess)? Preferably something not too hard to follow and using not too difficult Mandarin (like a soap opera), but still fun and made for native speakers.

Could have character subtitles, but no English.

 

[XMandarin Chinese]

Hi, I don't really like "fun" tv shows, but I think the following series are very good and might pike the interest of fellow members, they are both available on youtube : 

 

开端 (Reset, 2022) is one of my favorite C-Drama in recent years; This series is taking place in modern China and is about a girl and a boy trapped in a time loop in a soon-to-explode bus. The 15 episodes follow the protagonists trying to figure out how they can escape this dramatic situation and save everyone else in the bus while finding out why is that bomb here and who placed it in the bus. I would say the spoken Chinese is quite easy to understand for hsk5/6 people, and it has Chinese subtitles embedded to the video (you can also turn on youtube english subtitles). 

 

The 2nd one I would recommend is called 隐秘的角落 (The Bad Kids, 2020), this one is darker than Reset, but has really interesting plots and cliffhangers. Basically, it's the story of three children caught up in a complicated situation after they unintentionally filmed a murder scene in the mountains. As they become involve with the suspect, the situation will progressively get out of hand and the consequences will worsen in an out-of-control snowball effect. This one doesn't have any embedded subtitles but you can also turn on youtube subtitles for Chinese, English subtitles and a dozen other languages).

 

I also love historical dramas but they definitely don't fit in the "not too difficult Mandarin" so I'll leave you with these recommendations  

[jannesan]

家有儿女

 

Not super easy in my opinion, but one doesn’t have to understand everything to follow along well.

[suMMit]

No need to start this thread. There's one going for 10 years here: https://www.chinese-forums.com/forums/topic/52523-any-good-tv-series-recently/page/23/

 

Surely can find something in there.