Oh Mars, how I love you.
This is Mars, a soapy Taiwanese melodrama, not Life on Mars, I mean. I followed 
dangermousie's lead (she was raving about it a while back) in watching this and I am not disappointed! It is pure melodramatic pleasure on DVD.
The two main characters are about the most repressed, screwed up people you've seen. He has catatonic fits, gets kicked out of school, is prone to fits of rage and has a heap of issues about his dead twin (quite what they are, I'm not sure). She can't bear to be touched, is so timid she can barely speak at the start of the drama, and expresses anything meaningful through painting. Yes, they're about the two last people in the universe who should be in a relationship, but that's what makes it so wonderfully angsty and melodramatic.
And for bonus measure there is a loyal best friend, a psychotic person with too much interest in the male lead (he is seriously creepy) and some untold family drama for both of them in the background. It's like it was made for me.
ETA: The male lead (Ling) just had his 4th fit (or so). It was very exciting and then he beat someone up. But he also saved them from jumping to their death, so I figure that's probably a decent exchange, right?
dangermousie's lead (she was raving about it a while back) in watching this and I am not disappointed! It is pure melodramatic pleasure on DVD.
The two main characters are about the most repressed, screwed up people you've seen. He has catatonic fits, gets kicked out of school, is prone to fits of rage and has a heap of issues about his dead twin (quite what they are, I'm not sure). She can't bear to be touched, is so timid she can barely speak at the start of the drama, and expresses anything meaningful through painting. Yes, they're about the two last people in the universe who should be in a relationship, but that's what makes it so wonderfully angsty and melodramatic.
And for bonus measure there is a loyal best friend, a psychotic person with too much interest in the male lead (he is seriously creepy) and some untold family drama for both of them in the background. It's like it was made for me.
ETA: The male lead (Ling) just had his 4th fit (or so). It was very exciting and then he beat someone up. But he also saved them from jumping to their death, so I figure that's probably a decent exchange, right?