GASP! China’s ‘The Untamed’ is Officially Leaving Netflix
This is not a drill, folks! We repeat this is not a drill. The streaming giant casually and subtly announced this week that China’s The Untamed is officially leaving Netflix – and soon! Fans from around the globe who logged in to watch their favorite ancient Chinese gays this week were greeted with the message that they only had until October 24, 2024, to watch the show before it would be removed from the platform altogether.
For those who don’t know, The Untamed was released in China on June 27, 2019, and landed on Netflix a few months later. Since its release, the show has been streamed over ten billion times and the viewer count just keeps rising. Based on the web novel titled Mo Dao Zu Shi by author Mo Xiang Tong Xiu, the show is set in ancient China. It’s the story of Lan Wangji (Wang Yibo), a repressed and righteous young man whose world is rocked by Wei Wuxian (Xiao Zhan), a cheeky, smart, and mischievous rival by all accounts.
Really, the two boys shouldn’t fit together so well, but as the old adage says opposites attract, right? And once these two begin their orbit around each other, they’re connected for all of time. Due to censorship laws over the depiction of homosexuality on television in China, the physical aspects of the relationship between the two characters were removed from the screen adaptation, but a quick glance at the explicit web novel (which now exists in print as well) proves that this is definitely not a bromance, and is undoubtedly a romance. The most epic, unyielding, unapologetic romance that ever did romance, if we do say so ourselves!
Fans have taken to online spaces, loudly lamenting the news that their beloved Wangxian is officially leaving Netflix platforms. It seems many are still streaming on the regular, despite being released long ago. The good news is, that globally, The Untamed is still available to stream in other places.
Prime Video carries the drama, as does Viki Rakuten. Tencent Video, the network responsible for the show in China, has also subbed it and put it on their YouTube channel too.
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