Meteor Garden

Cast:
Barbie Hsu as Shan Cai
Jerry Yan as Dao Ming Si
Vic Zhou as Hua Zhe Lei
Ken Chu as Xi Men
Vanness Wu as Mei Zuo

Synopsis (Provided by Wikipedia):

Meteor Garden is a Taiwanese Drama that began its broadcast on April 12, 2001 on China Television. It is based on the Japanese manga Hana yori Dango Dango (Boys Over Flowers - Which is a pun since Dango also means sweets). It stars Jerry Yan, Vic Zhou, Vanness Wu , Ken Chu and Barbie Hsu. The plot is centered around a plain and poor teenage girl called Shan Cai, who goes to a universitybasically for rich people as forced by her parents. In fact, the university is dominated by a gang of handsome but arrogant students called F4, because they are the heirs of the most influential families in Taiwan.

In the beginning, Dao Ming Si, the gang leader, hates Shan Cai so much that he makes everyone in university play tricks on her with all efforts. However, Shan Cai's persistence (and ignorance actually) gradually gains Dao's respect and later he falls in love with her. Like many other TV series, the lovers end up getting together after going through tons of painful challenges.

Personal Rating: (4 out of 5)
= You'll get hooked.

Personal Commentary:
Meteor Garden is my official Taiwanese drama that I completed. There were a lot of stuff that I loved about Meteor Garden. I loved all the F4 member's personality; they all got me hooked. However, the storyline was, to me in my opinion, disappointing. I undoubtedly wanted Shancai & Lei to hook up. Also, even though that's how it suppose to go; Shancai the character was a bit too over dramatic. That's the reason for the 4-star rating; even though it didn't get a perfect score in my grade-book it's still a show worth watching. Keep it mind it was BIG across Asia.