The Long Season

Series Details:

Cast & Character:

• Wei Fan as Wang Xiang
• Hao Qin as Gong Biao
• Minghao Chen as Ma Desheng
• Jingchu Zhang as Shen Mo
• Yitie Liu as Wang Yang
• Gengxi Li as Shen Mo
• Diana Lin as Luo Mei Su
• Qiming Jiang as Fu Weijun
• Lin Liu as Li Qiaoyun
• Yiwei Yang as Xing Jianchun
• Jiajia Wang as Huang Liru
• Sibo Li as Cui Guodong
• Pengyuan Shi as Wang Bei
• Zeng Tang as Li Qun
• Yang Liu as Da Zhang
• Xixu Chen as Boss Lao Ge
• Yansong Hou as Shen Dongliang
• Liguo Yuan as Liu Quanli
• Xiaoyu Wang as Sui Dong
• Hongmei Wang as Zhao Jing
• Fan Zhang as Song Yukun
• Peng Ziheng as Lu Wenzhong
• Ding Yue as Chief Police Zhu
• Yuhao Li as Xiao Feng
• Yidi Wang as Yin Hong
• Songbo Li as Qu Bo
• Qi Zeng as Miss Xiao Lu
• Bocheng Lin as Doorman
• Yuyue Wang as Mrs. Xu (Middle age)
• Peng Lin as Teacher Wu
• Haoyu Yang as Lu’s driver Luo
• Zhongqiu Sun as Zhao Guangzhou
• Suxi Ren as Mrs. Xu
• Guanming Fu as Shen Hui
• Kai Wei as Hao Ge
• Song Cui as Hai Ge
• Xikun Sun as Little Shen Hui
• Yuan Yuan as Fortuneteller
• Li Junting as Wang Li
• Rui Chen as Fat Nan Zi
• Gan Li as Young Policeman

Storyline:

The series is set in the fictional northeastern Chinese city of Hualin and revolves around a dismemberment case occurring near the Hualin Steel Plant undergoing financial difficulties and lay-offs during the market reforms. The story spans nearly 20 years and employs a three-line narrative structure with interwoven timelines from 1997, 1998, and 2016, using both flashbacks and inserts. The series consists of 12 episodes divided into four chapters. The titles of the first three chapters appear sequentially in the first episode, while the title of the fourth chapter appears only in the final episode. The third chapter extends for nearly 11 episodes, corresponding with the series title and illustrating how the protagonist, Wang Xiang, emerges from the autumn that trapped him.