Taiwan TV Series: Meteor Garden

Meteor Garden, F4 Vic Zhou as Huaze Lei Jerry Yan as Daoming Si Vaness Wu as Meizuo Ling Ken Chu as Xi Men

After much convincing from dear Sister, I watched Meteor Garden, a taiwanese drama, aired 2001 in Taiwan, and in 2002 in the Philippines. I’ve heard about Meteor Garden from vacationing in the Philippines as that foreign TV series dubbed to Filipino language. It has become really famous that it become a trend setter.

There are always references to the characters from this TV drama in conversation between the women in the family. Before, I just didn’t understand it. I couldn’t follow in the conversations. But they all make sense to me now - my cousins’ and aunts’ giggles over hunkie TV personalities, including my brother’s hairstyle!

Meteor Garden Barbie Hsu as Shancai

Four handsome model/singer/actors play the four leading characters of handsome arrogant but glamorous and filthy-rich bullies in a university. They call themselves F4. The love story begins when, a poorest girl in school, Shancai, defies the bullying. She then gains their respect, and the leader of F4, Daoming Si , starts falling in love with her. There’s more to the story - love triagle, family challenges, friendship, etc.

Well, the story is engaging! It has clever twists. I enjoyed the bickering between the lovers, and their stubbornness. They brought out a lot of laughs. It is really funny! Also as the story progress, the F4 members become caring and lovable, as the reason for their arrogance and playfulness becomes clear. Much more reason to get hooked to the story and the characters. However, I also find it violent. I mean the lead female character, Shancai , endures being beaten up - literally, being kicked and slapped and almost being raped. It’s just unbelievable!

But I have to be honest, I got really caught up with the characters. There are 4 handsome guys to look at even though they really can’t act. Out of the four character, I am more drawn to the second lead characters - Meizou(Vaness Wu ) and Zi Men (Ken Chu). These characters are more interesting to me - cheerful and great personality, while Daoming Si (Jerry Yan) and Huaze Lei (Vic Zhou) characters seem dumb and don’t-have-a-clue. But they are all so lovable and still these are 4 interesting prince charmings to dream about.

Jerry Yan, Vic Zhou, Van Ness Wu and Ken Chu

Due to the success of Meteor Garden, these four leading cast formed a boyband, which is famously known as F4, now officially known as JVKV.

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