The Apothecary Diaries Season 3

For those who love a light hearted mystery

new problems, new villain for maomao to solve!

that opening scene with the hooded stranger handing out medicine in a stable is going to haunt me. They just casually dropped a cult or drug plot in the first minute and then acted like it never happened for twenty more minutes

watching Chue follow Maomao through the market like a kid seeing the world for the first time was sweet. then Maomao warns her about the flesh world and the tone drops fast

The ergot reveal got me. That whole scene where the sister pulls out the scraps their mom hid as a treat and it turns out those scraps are what killed her... I had to pause for a second

That cake being the thing that poisoned them is going to sit with me for a while. A mother saving scraps as a treat for her kids and those scraps are what killed her. Maomao just calmly explaining the black fingers while the sister sits there. Brutal

Gaoshun pressing his face against the wall while Jinshi tries to be smooth in front of Maomao is the funniest thing this show has ever done

Crunchyroll needs to fix the sub timing. You miss half the political names because the line is gone before you finish reading. Great episode but I had to rewind like five times

Maomao telling the older sister the Verdigris House was her best option is the most Maomao thing ever. Cold on the surface and yet she is handing them the only door that leads somewhere. Fandom fighting about it but nobody else was offering anything

Yorushika's new opening is gorgeous and the frames of the ruined countryside are doing so much work setting up where this arc is headed. Miss the season one sound a little but this fits the heavier tone better

The hairpin and the locust swarm are the same thing really. Small pretty objects hiding something that could destroy the country. Jinshi choosing a flower while Maomao watches grasshoppers turn dark is the entire season in two shots

Fun to see Mao Mao debunking the Bai Niang’s tricks!

I love how she took in the homeless sisters I whish she could adopt them and raise them with jinshi , and in my own perfect world I whish that ah-duo could be with the current emperor I want them to be that happy old couple that stays together forever, and I would love for jinshi and mamao to be together and married already

Maomao asking for money before she'd even look at the kid is such a wild way to open an episode and somehow by the end of it she's basically adopted the whole family. The long game with her character never misses

It was good

enjoyed watching the episode

That lullaby scene broke me. Maomao singing to a sleeping Jinshi while telling herself she's just managing a resource and you can see right through it

Pairin teasing Maomao the morning after had me grinning. also the fact that Maomao set up an entire night with the top courtesans just to make Jinshi sleep is peak Maomao logic. She treats his health like a case to solve. Gaoshun catching strays about his own home life in the middle of it all made it better

The lullaby being Fengxian's song is such a small detail and it broke me. Maomao does not do vulnerable and then she does exactly that for him without even explaining why

Everyone argued about the pacing being slow but the fried inago scene had me losing it. Maomao just casually eating insects while the whole room panics. That is why I watch this show