First of all i am a huge fan of Elvis Han and Ma Tian Yu:)
I don't believe there has ever been anything like Secrets of the Three Kingdom on TV. The sheer amount of quality and talent in this series is staggering. The actors (and I mean really ALL the actors), the costumes, the visual effects, the make-up: everybody working on this show seems to have wanted to make Television-history. And the writing is just phenomenal.
Watching the whole episode in one sitting blows most comparative movies out of the water, this is masterful cinema at it's finest.