Overview
- Criterion Channel begins streaming the first three episodes today, with three additional episodes arriving every Monday through January 26.
- Adapted from Jin Yucheng’s 2013 novel, the 30-episode series previously aired in China in 2023.
- The drama explores Shanghai’s 1990s stock-market boom and the power plays centered on Huanghe Road’s competing restaurants.
- Wong applies his familiar techniques—elliptical timelines, step-frame slow motion, and lush color design—to long-form storytelling.
- The early chapters introduce a 1992 car incident that prompts a police inquiry, and critics note restrained depictions of sex and violence.