The Apothecary Diaries S1E1 Maomao ★☆☆☆☆

The premise is good and it looks great and maybe I was in an uncharitable mood when watching it but the first episode has completely turned me off the show. I have very little patience for internal monologues and narrations recapping things that just happened and shows generally treating the viewer like completely gormless fools who can’t be trusted to actually watch what is happening. The humour is also awful and I was particularly annoyed by the tired, leery jokes about big tits when the beauty standards of the periods this is based on were literally the opposite to the point where breast binding was practised.