Scripted series · Tencent Video
A Summer Meant for Us
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How A Summer Meant for Us actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
A Summer Meant for Us reads strongest on Serialized, Cliffhanger Intensity and Tension.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
The story
What it's about
In the late 1980s, two feuding families are drawn back together when Wang Yingrong, who has lost her factory job, rebuilds her life with the help of Zheng Minjiang. As the two grow closer through hardship and entrepreneurship, old grudges slowly give way to reconciliation and love.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Tang ShiyiExecutive Producer
Direction
- Lin QingDirector
Where to watch
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