Oh My General (2017) [-]
Sep 24 2025
Oh My General is a Chinese historical light drama running 60 45-minute episodes. After defeating the Liaong Empire, general Ye Zhao (Ma Sichun/Sandra Ma) returns to the Song capital and reveals she's a woman. As penalty for deceiving the Emperor general Ye is forced to marry Zhao Yujin (Shin Yilun), playboy dilettante nephew of the Emperor and known as one of the prettiest men in the capital (I assumed they used Zhao for the two main leads for use in various jokes).
The first twenty episodes are the best as it focuses on the two leads. General Zhao is promoted to head the Capital Guard so she still has lots of military duties and also has to be a dutiful, obedient, and demure wife which she finds difficult. It doesn't help that she's been acting like a man for years so she appreciates beautiful women (and attracts Zhao Yujin's concubines) and like so drink and brawl. In contrast Zhao Yujin is more of a sickly scholar type who is good at poetry and dance. I also like that General Zhao has other female admirers like her cousin Liu Xiyin (Wang Churan) and Western Xia's Princess Yin Chuan (Mi Na) who fell in love with General Zhao back when they thought she was a man but finding out Zhao is a woman doesn't deter them.
Those first twenty episodes are more comedic than the rest of the series. Then there are ten episodes that focus on other characters and you barely see the two leads. The last thirty episodes our two leads are mostly secondary characters with the occasional two or three episodes where they feature. The last few episodes they do become more prominent but not as much as in the first part of the series.
The over-arching plot is the war between Song and Western Xia with machinations behind the scenes. Hence lots of episodes focusing on the Song emperor and his treacherous older brother who is trying to undermine the government. Also the Western Xia royal house gets much more screen time once Liu Xiyin ends up there as fiancée of the Crown Prince but also attracts the eye of the King. Eventually there is a big final battle in the last episode and so many characters die to the point it's a bit hilarious.
In general I have mixed feelings. The first twenty episodes are pretty good. The next 40 are not simply because it becomes a different series. It becomes a series with the occasional good episode and a lot of ok episodes. I watched it on Tubi and didn't help that two or three episodes the translation track was 30 seconds ahead of the video, a couple of episodes had no translation track, and one episode had a translation track from a previous episode.
Overall I wouldn't recommend this series.
The first twenty episodes are the best as it focuses on the two leads. General Zhao is promoted to head the Capital Guard so she still has lots of military duties and also has to be a dutiful, obedient, and demure wife which she finds difficult. It doesn't help that she's been acting like a man for years so she appreciates beautiful women (and attracts Zhao Yujin's concubines) and like so drink and brawl. In contrast Zhao Yujin is more of a sickly scholar type who is good at poetry and dance. I also like that General Zhao has other female admirers like her cousin Liu Xiyin (Wang Churan) and Western Xia's Princess Yin Chuan (Mi Na) who fell in love with General Zhao back when they thought she was a man but finding out Zhao is a woman doesn't deter them.
Those first twenty episodes are more comedic than the rest of the series. Then there are ten episodes that focus on other characters and you barely see the two leads. The last thirty episodes our two leads are mostly secondary characters with the occasional two or three episodes where they feature. The last few episodes they do become more prominent but not as much as in the first part of the series.
The over-arching plot is the war between Song and Western Xia with machinations behind the scenes. Hence lots of episodes focusing on the Song emperor and his treacherous older brother who is trying to undermine the government. Also the Western Xia royal house gets much more screen time once Liu Xiyin ends up there as fiancée of the Crown Prince but also attracts the eye of the King. Eventually there is a big final battle in the last episode and so many characters die to the point it's a bit hilarious.
In general I have mixed feelings. The first twenty episodes are pretty good. The next 40 are not simply because it becomes a different series. It becomes a series with the occasional good episode and a lot of ok episodes. I watched it on Tubi and didn't help that two or three episodes the translation track was 30 seconds ahead of the video, a couple of episodes had no translation track, and one episode had a translation track from a previous episode.
Overall I wouldn't recommend this series.