Scripted series · iQiyi
Detective in the Song Dynasty
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Detective in the Song Dynasty actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Detective in the Song Dynasty reads strongest on Character Depth, Emotional Weight and Bingeability.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
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 often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
After traveling back to ancient times, forensic doctor Liu Chuan takes on the identity of a murder victim who looks exactly like him and finds himself bound to an unexpected marriage while solving a series of deadly cases using his modern investigative expertise.
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