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    ‘All Is Well’ Viewers Pay to Criticize the Show’s Lame Male Characters

    Mar 21, 2019

    Online vendors are providing an outlet for viewers of the hit Chinese television show “All Is Well” to vent their frustrations — in exchange for a small fee.

    For as little as 0.5 yuan (7 cents), users on e-commerce platform Taobao can pay to chat online with vendors who will lend a sympathetic ear to their complaints about the show, Hongxing News reported Wednesday. One such vendor, surnamed Wang, told the Sichuan-based news outlet that he has more than 300 customers who message him to gripe about the show’s chauvinistic male characters.

    “All Is Well” tells the story of a modern-day Chinese family with sons who are praised and a daughter who is shunned, and many viewers have slammed the show’s sexist overtones since its March 1 premiere. A hashtag about the TV program had been viewed nearly 3.4 billion times on microblogging platform Weibo by Thursday afternoon. (Image: Taobao)