| The Criterion Channel | Season Premiere Date: November 24, 2025 |
Summary:
Ah Bao (Hu Ge) becomes "the Jay Gatsby of Shanghai" thanks in part to the 1990s reopening of the Shanghai stock exchange in Wong Kar-Wai's 30-part miniseries adaptation of Jin Yucheng’s 2015 novel "Blossoms."
[Premiered originally in China on CCTV-8 and Tencent Video on 27 Dec 2023 and in the US on The Criterion Channel on 24 Nov 2025]
[Premiered originally in China on CCTV-8 and Tencent Video on 27 Dec 2023 and in the US on The Criterion Channel on 24 Nov 2025]
Genre(s):
Drama, Movie/Mini-Series
Season 1 Episodes
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Nov 24, 2025
It revels in the stylish sensuality that has made Wong an art house favorite over the years, even if it might be difficult to follow as it sets up its story over a 30-episode arc. The streamer, already a must-have for any viewer interested in art films and film history, will air three episodes every Monday.
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RogerEbert.com
Nov 24, 2025
Even as the narrative tightens up towards the end of this stretch of episodes, you may find yourself wondering exactly how Wong plans to stretch it over the course of the next 18 episodes. For starters, anyone worrying about Wong having to sacrifice his usual cinematic approach in order to work within the parameters of the television world will be relieved that this is indeed a Wong vehicle through and through, one that feels of a piece with such classics as “Chungking Express,” “In the Mood for Love,” and “2046.”
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IndieWire
Nov 24, 2025
It’s sly and funny, charming and fierce, even while the series may lack the subtle grace of the artist’s finest films (and feel, at times, like a capitulation to what TV used to be, back when the future César Award winner started out writing soap operas, more than what it’s become in the fading era of small-screen auteurism).
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Nov 24, 2025
Collider
Nov 24, 2025
Between dense dialogue and inconsistencies in filming, Blossoms Shanghai is flawed. It's not a masterpiece, and, honestly, the project has caused more headaches for Wong than it's likely worth, but that doesn't mean it's bad. In fact, what makes it good, especially as it ramps up its plot and starts to bring all its players into the main narrative, far overshadows the problems permeating the series.
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Dec 1, 2025
Wong is in the world of conventional melodrama here rather than the rarefied, allusive landscape of his films, and his touch is off. He gets the look he’s going for, but he isn’t able to maintain anything distinctive in terms of mood or tone; if the series has a tone, it’s a shiny, commercial blandness. .... It is visually enveloping, if not in a notably rich or interesting way.
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Air Date: November 24, 2025
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