Our Golden Times

One summer two young men become close, and then the summer ends and they go their separate ways with nothing said. Years pass, and both change more than either would have guessed. When chance puts them in the same room again, one of them decides he is not letting the other walk off a second time. George (Nathan Cheung) and Mike (Lawrence Fok) carry a story told across two time periods, cutting between that first summer and a present in which new commitments and working relationships govern what can be said aloud, with Cindy (Sherman Chan), Abby (Maggie Kwan), Pony (Mira Leung) and Ricky (Matthew Ho) around them.

Timing is the whole of it: the gap between what was felt and what was said, and a reunion treated as a chance to answer a question left open years earlier. Ambition and the chasing of a personal goal sit beside the romance in the way the series presents itself, and at six episodes of about ten minutes the entire run is shorter than a feature film, which holds it to a small number of encounters. Each instalment carries its own title rather than a number, opening on a vanished first love and closing on fireworks going up.

The producer is not a drama house. D.A.C.K. Concept is a digital marketing agency in San Po Kong whose regular business is performance marketing, social media management and video production for brands including Canon, 3M, Del Monte and Wilson Parking, and it made this as a showcase for its own production and social capability, listing the series on the company site among its client campaigns and reporting the viewing figures the way it reports campaign results: more than three million views across Hong Kong and Greater China in 2024, by the agency's own count. Confusingly, that portfolio entry calls the series If I do rather than Our Golden Times. Six episodes went out weekly on Mondays at 9pm from 9 September to 14 October 2024, free and simultaneously across Instagram, Facebook and YouTube rather than through any broadcaster or subscription service, which by then was the standard route for a Hong Kong web BL.