Scripted series · Tencent Video
Sugar and Lies
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Sugar and Lies actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Sugar and Lies 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
On the eve of her engagement, Ding Dang reunites with her first love, only to discover he is living under a new identity after developing dissociative identity disorder from a failed experiment. Determined to help him heal, she and her friends secretly carry out a plan to guide him into confronting his buried trauma and reclaiming his true self.
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.
Writing
- Rao XuemanWriter
Direction
- Wang ZiDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
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