TV series

Modern Marriage

2022 · 1 season

A grounded, emotionally earnest look at the quiet strain of balancing ambition, marriage, and family, played with patient realism.

Overview: Shen Huixing, a former top student and full-time mom, decides to reenter the workforce, leading to challenges as she balances her career and family responsibilities while her husband remains busy with work.
How it feels: Earnest, melancholic, tense and warm. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Family, work, identity, parenthood
Content: Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
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Tone: earneststrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
work
identity
parenthood
gender
Places: big city
home
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild

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Genres: drama
Created by: Liu Haibo, Shen Yan
Written by: You Li Li
Starring: Tong Dawei, Bai Baihe, Jiang Xin, Wang Xiao, Gao Ye, Shi An, Cao Xiwen, Morning Chang
Length: 1 seasons, 38 episodes, 45 min each
Network: Tencent Video
Country: China
Languages: Mandarin