TV series

Dream in Red Mansions

1987 · 1 season

A slow, stately immersion into a lavish family world, where beauty and tenderness are shadowed by inevitable loss.

Tagline: Dream in Red Mansions—for all its glory, it is but a dream.
Overview: Dream of the Red Chamber, first released in 1987, was a television series produced by CCTV, adapted from the classic 18th century Chinese novel of the same name. It gained enormous popularity for its music, cast, and plot adaptation, being regarded by many within China as being a near-definitive adaptation of the story.
How it feels: Melancholic, romantic, earnest and dark. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Love, family, fate, grief
Content: Mild violence and sexual content. No gore or swearing.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
romanticstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: love
family
fate
grief
class
Places: single country house
big city
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence mild
Sex mild