If you liked Eternal Love, what are you waiting for?

Eternal Love 2 is a very natural continuation of Eternal Love. Whilst this time it is the male actor who plays two parts, otherwise in terms personalities, acting, plots everything is in perfect consistency to what happened before. If you enjoyed Eternal Love, you'll enjoy this. If you disliked Eternal Love, why would you watch this?

Watching Eternal Love and Eternal Love 2 almost in a row, was a bit too much. By the end, the crazy silliness/endearing aspects of the series had worn a bit thin. I had hoped some 40-50 episodes in, that Qu Xiao Tan would become a more equal partner, but unfortunately Mo Lian Cheng is always the leader in this one (perhaps even more so than Eternal Love). Also, there was a side inner palace plot that I didn't like as much as in Eternal Love.

But still, it is absolutely worth the watch.

Other Criteria I score by:

Complex Themes - 3
(Still none really . . .)
Character Growth -7
(As with Eternal Love, the split personality takes a fair bit of good acting and thinking. It's nice to see the ultra-serious, secretive old Mo Lian Cheng, next to the more mischievous and light-hearted new Mo Lian Cheng)
Nuanced Women -5
(The female friendships are tamped down in this one since there is no split personality on the female side, and this time Sun Yi Ning (the maid) has a romance plot of her own to take up screentime)
Cinematography/Production Values - 5
(Still not great, but an improvement from Eternal Love. They didn't try to do a mystic world on a low budget, more money was put into the costumes and interior design, and the modern scenes were done in the 'real world' without tons of green screen )