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'Meteor Garden' on Netflix: China's Hit High School Rom-Com Explained

Netflix has a whole lotta content, and it's hard to keep track of just the shows and movies produced in America alone. When you factor in all the international content that Netflix acquires and distributes, it's no wonder plenty of shows fly under your radar. One such show might be Meteor Garden, a fun Chinese high school rom-com that's currently delighting audiences overseas and in the States–but you might have missed it considering all of the other new content that drops on Netflix every week, and also probably right now… and also right now… and right now. The content never stops! So if you've been browsing Netflix and have no idea what this Meteor Garden show is about, here's a crash course.

**What is Meteor Garden on Netflix?**

Meteor Garden is a live-action high school rom-com based on the manga series Boys Over Flowers by Yoko Kamio, which ran from 1992 to 2003. The show follows Dong Shan Cai, the daughter of a working class family, as she's accepted to a super ritzy university and immediately clashes with the coolest quartet of boys in the school, the posse known as F4. But Shan Cai, determined to stand up for herself and be respected, doesn't back down even in the face of pressure from the cool kids. And of course this being a rom-com, you bet a star-crossed, begrudging romance begins to blossom between Shan Cai and one of the F4 guys.

**When do new episodes of Meteor Garden arrive on Netflix?**

Meteor Garden debuted on July 9 over in China, and it made its Netflix debut not long after that on July 13. The series drops multiple episodes a week overseas, meaning that the show's "weekly" release schedule as advertised on Netflix is actually way more frequent than that. 20 episodes have been added to Netflix in July alone! Judging by release dates, Netflix's Meteor Garden release schedule seems to be every Wednesday through Friday, which means the US release schedule is only a day or so behind China's. New episodes of Meteor Garden will be added multiple times a week through August, until all 48 episodes have been released.

**Who is in the Meteor Garden cast?**

Shen Yue stars as Dong Shan Cai. The F4 clique consists of Dylan Wang, Darren Chen, Connor Leong, and Caesar Wu.

**But wait, what about Boys Over Flowers?**

A quick search will reveal that this isn't the only adaptation of the popular manga on Netflix. A 25-part adaptation of the comic was released in 2009, titled Boys Over Flowers, and you can also stream it right now in case you want to compare and contrast the different versions. So what are you waiting for? You have got hours and hours of Meteor Garden to get caught up on before a new batch of episodes arrive this week! Start bingeing!

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