First off, I love this drama so much. I've watched this drama so many times, I also watched the donghua. If you want to watch 'The Untamed' but find it too long for you, I recommend watching the special edition or you can watch the donghua which consists of 35 episodes with the span of maybe 20-25 minutes per episode. The donghua is a lot more fast-paced btw.

The Untamed is a masterpiece, the storyline, the acting, the music, the costumes are also really good. However, the CGI, the camera angles, the set, the editing is not so much of a masterpiece. From the very first episode, you can see that the nevernight set looks really cheap. And during the Sunshot campaign when Wen Ruohan uses the Yin Iron to control some cultivators, the costumes look quite unpleasing to the eye. I have no idea if this drama is a low-budget drama or not btw. And also if you watched the donghua, the scene where Wei Ying comes back as a demonic cultivator was so epic. The scene in the drama was um not so epic. The 30+ episode flashback was also kinda unnecessary. I kinda wished they would've shown Wei Ying's past the way they did it in the donghua.

The acting is really good. I mean like RLY GOOD. Wyb manages to portray Lan Zhan so perfectly. In practically every shot, you can see his character's emotion just by looking into his eyes. Xz's portrayal of Wei Ying was omg so good. Especially after Wei Ying switched to demonic cultivation. You could see the drastic change in his personality. Also, I have no idea why but how on earth is Xz so capable of portraying Wei Ying's pain?!

Overall, I recommend this drama BUT only after u watched the donghua.