I’ve joined a cult… (following)

laelene Post in general blog，Tags: chinese dramas, tv shows, videos

29 July 2021

I recently watched Addicted (also known as Addicted: Heroin, Addicted the webseries) and I’m a fan. Those two boys were cast perfectly and I really wish they could make more of the show. I can’t really pinpoint what I love so much about it, but I’ve learned that they’ve got quite the cult following and I’m happily on board.

I did a ton of research on the whole situation and it seems that when the show came out in 2016, it played until episode 15, at which point it was banned by Chinese censorship for the saucy, salacious, gay content. There were supposed to be 3 more episodes to the season, which never got released. I’ve seen some claims that you can find the episodes online, but maybe they’ve been taken down in subsequent years because I couldn’t find a thing. The actors were even banned from being at events together! I didn’t even know the government could do that.

It seems that the two main actors, Timmy Xu/Xu Wei Zhou (许魏洲) and Johnny Huang/Huang Jing Yu (黄景瑜), then had trouble getting work because of their affiliation with the show. From what I’ve seen, Timmy had to release his own songs for awhile and didn’t really get acting gigs. Johnny apparently had his comeback a little easier/sooner and continued acting.

This video lays out the situation with a terrible voiceover lol, but you get the point.

Other than the 15 episodes that aired and that you can watch online, there seem to be 3 other scenes available:

This shows a cut scene from one of the episodes that aired, then a bunch of the intimate scenes.

This music video features beach scenes and a tent scene that I think were also going to be in an episode that never aired. Sung by Timmy Xu.

Ok, so if you watch the show, I know that their relationship isn’t exactly healthy but dang it’s truly addictive, no kidding. I love watching them interact and even in the behind-the-scenes, they’re so buddy buddy and close and sometimes flirty.

This is one of my fav BTS clips, which really showcases their interaction.

It’s been 5 years with no sign of the rest of the show airing, but they might be doing a second season out of Taiwan… however I’m not sure it’ll be the same cast, which definitely dampens things. Since this was based on a novel, I found an online translation that I started to read so I guess I’ll have to imagine my way through the rest of the story.