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Rocky start, but will eventually get better
This drama is pretty good. It has Carlos Chan's Fong Yat-Chun (Jason) as the criminal psychologist who helps Hera Chan's Madam Ying to solve high-profile cases, along with their forensic assistant friend Nicholas Yuen's Chong Ding-Kan (Duncan). Something that threw me off at the beginning was the unnecessary sci-fi plot where Jason can have premonitions. It's something that can easily be removed and does not do anything much with the plot. Same goes for him being able to contact Madam Ying's future counterpart Mary, which is just her fake name to avoid getting detected from the cops, can also be removed. It pretty much spoils what will happen at the end so as soon as she said she and Jason are going to become wanted, I can tell Jason would eventually kill Duncan and die somehow (his body covered in blood was shown in a teaser lol) then Mary will be wanted (judging from the promotional teaser).
Speaking about Duncan, his whole character was incredibly well-written. This is by far Nicholas Yuen's best role and his portrayal of a mentally-ill person with bipolar disorder was so well acted. You can feel the anger in his eyes and voice everytime he has a crashout. Which is understandable considering that he is Madam Ying's half brother after her dad got with a prostitute while taking notes for a movie involved in a nightclub, and the woman eventually gave birth to Duncan. His backstory was so sad that you can't help but root for him when he killed his mom, and was eventually about to kill Madam Ying's mother too after it was revealed she paid a guy to hookup with Duncan's mom in hopes to get her husband back. It was a really selfish move and I did hope for her to die, but that just shows how well written she was to be incredibly unlikeable. Mimi Kung did a great job of being a selfish mother who only cares about her own family and not Duncan's, as well as being a mother who supports her daughters. The actor who played the father is also really good, you can tell he was in an inescapable situation and was trying his best to please both sides, but in the end it didn't work, which resulted to Duncan relapsing. But the character I really hate was Madam Ying's sister. She's really annoying, and it wasn't just how her character was written, even the actress who played her makes me so angry whenever she does something, every word that comes out of her mouth makes me want to punch my TV everytime she appears onscreen. I don't know what's with the TV producer in writing these extremely annoying characters, but at least it's only one and not multiple. The other characters are fine. I don't understand the hate against Hera Chan though. She's pretty alright for the most part to me, even though her crying sounds so fake like he just immediately shout cries after someone dies, but luckily she doesn't do that for most of the drama. Even the supposedly annoying To Siu-Bo played by Anthony Ho who has a crush on Madam Ying isn't as annoying. You could tell he just cares about her and the family and means no harm.
I actually skipped some of the episodes of the drama because they got boring, but I started watching again after the case where they had to find out what happened to the missing sister. It still got iffy there, but after Duncan's first breakout where it was revealed he was Madam Ying's half brother, that's where I started to pick it up again. I haven't finished the drama yet, but so far it's been great. Just had a terrible start and unnecessary sci-fi subplot. It could have been just a police investigation, would make the drama much more interesting, but the sci-fi part really ruins it. The lighting is also pretty bad, it's too bright and blue. I would prefer the lighting they used in the teaser but oh well.
Update episode 24: Man, so the director of the mental hospital really was the killer. Although it wasn't really predictable since I had to rule out so many possibilities and the director was in it, it really was a good twist and thankfully his motive made sense. So after a hustle with him and Duncan, Duncan would eventually die after bleeding out which really sucked because we're in episode 22 and he already dies. The acting was really good here, as you could hear in his voice before he died that he was happy that Jason and Madam Ying no longer thinks he's the killer, but it's still really sad that in order to prove his innocence, he had to sacrifice himself. The thing that did bug me a lot, was to add in another mystery in episode 23 about a 'new' serial killer nicknamed the Midnight Killer. I feel that them pointing out that the director died from slipping on gasoline and getting burnt to death just makes the final case of the series so rushed, because there was a whole lot of build up for the alphabet killer, and now we're getting a last minute addition. The writers also tried really hard to make it connected to Jason so that it won't feel out of place by saying that he used to be Jason's neighbor when he was young and the ruled out suspect was also the son of the director.
Also apparently I would think Madam Ying would go fugitive after killing the Midnight Killer and going on the run, along with Jason dying, which yes I'm still going to think he dies in the final episode, but nope. Apparently the Midnight Killer used her gun to shoot Siu-Bo, and accuse her of killing him by placing the gun under her hands since he wore gloves to prevent fingerprints on the gun. Man I don't know why but everytime Anthony's character dies in a drama, it's always really sad. He really has the likeable charisma to him so I'd always feel heartbroken if he dies in the drama. His character was a genuine good guy and didn't mind that Madam Ying didn't like him back. Her crying did ruin the mood, how is the downgrade from her crying scene in On-lie Game, to this so big??? Anyways, after that she had to run away from Madam Chiu so that she could find Jason i guess? They never really discussed why she decided to run away instead of just being in custody, which would be a much better decision considering she would be safe in a jail cell and not be a victim of the midnight killer, but oh well. Turns out her long hair was a wig, but what kind of wig is that strong since we saw in the future flash that she'd get drowned by an old serial killer that Jason interrogated in the earlier drama, and her wig manages to stick on. Ridiculous.
We also learnt that the explosion of a car was not the same explosion that happened in Episode 4, which yeah made sense since she would eventually find out that someone saved him and he was wearing different clothing. Feel like it was a stupid reason to make him wear a suit in ep4 though during that car explosion, felt out of place since he never had a clothing style similar. And the call from the future still did not make sense. She tried contacting the author of a crime book, but it turned out to be Jason from the past, which helps connect to what happened in the first episode. I still really hate the sci-fi plot. It's absolutely not important to the story, we've made it this far and if it was removed it wouldn't even make a difference.
Speaking about Duncan, his whole character was incredibly well-written. This is by far Nicholas Yuen's best role and his portrayal of a mentally-ill person with bipolar disorder was so well acted. You can feel the anger in his eyes and voice everytime he has a crashout. Which is understandable considering that he is Madam Ying's half brother after her dad got with a prostitute while taking notes for a movie involved in a nightclub, and the woman eventually gave birth to Duncan. His backstory was so sad that you can't help but root for him when he killed his mom, and was eventually about to kill Madam Ying's mother too after it was revealed she paid a guy to hookup with Duncan's mom in hopes to get her husband back. It was a really selfish move and I did hope for her to die, but that just shows how well written she was to be incredibly unlikeable. Mimi Kung did a great job of being a selfish mother who only cares about her own family and not Duncan's, as well as being a mother who supports her daughters. The actor who played the father is also really good, you can tell he was in an inescapable situation and was trying his best to please both sides, but in the end it didn't work, which resulted to Duncan relapsing. But the character I really hate was Madam Ying's sister. She's really annoying, and it wasn't just how her character was written, even the actress who played her makes me so angry whenever she does something, every word that comes out of her mouth makes me want to punch my TV everytime she appears onscreen. I don't know what's with the TV producer in writing these extremely annoying characters, but at least it's only one and not multiple. The other characters are fine. I don't understand the hate against Hera Chan though. She's pretty alright for the most part to me, even though her crying sounds so fake like he just immediately shout cries after someone dies, but luckily she doesn't do that for most of the drama. Even the supposedly annoying To Siu-Bo played by Anthony Ho who has a crush on Madam Ying isn't as annoying. You could tell he just cares about her and the family and means no harm.
I actually skipped some of the episodes of the drama because they got boring, but I started watching again after the case where they had to find out what happened to the missing sister. It still got iffy there, but after Duncan's first breakout where it was revealed he was Madam Ying's half brother, that's where I started to pick it up again. I haven't finished the drama yet, but so far it's been great. Just had a terrible start and unnecessary sci-fi subplot. It could have been just a police investigation, would make the drama much more interesting, but the sci-fi part really ruins it. The lighting is also pretty bad, it's too bright and blue. I would prefer the lighting they used in the teaser but oh well.
Update episode 24: Man, so the director of the mental hospital really was the killer. Although it wasn't really predictable since I had to rule out so many possibilities and the director was in it, it really was a good twist and thankfully his motive made sense. So after a hustle with him and Duncan, Duncan would eventually die after bleeding out which really sucked because we're in episode 22 and he already dies. The acting was really good here, as you could hear in his voice before he died that he was happy that Jason and Madam Ying no longer thinks he's the killer, but it's still really sad that in order to prove his innocence, he had to sacrifice himself. The thing that did bug me a lot, was to add in another mystery in episode 23 about a 'new' serial killer nicknamed the Midnight Killer. I feel that them pointing out that the director died from slipping on gasoline and getting burnt to death just makes the final case of the series so rushed, because there was a whole lot of build up for the alphabet killer, and now we're getting a last minute addition. The writers also tried really hard to make it connected to Jason so that it won't feel out of place by saying that he used to be Jason's neighbor when he was young and the ruled out suspect was also the son of the director.
Also apparently I would think Madam Ying would go fugitive after killing the Midnight Killer and going on the run, along with Jason dying, which yes I'm still going to think he dies in the final episode, but nope. Apparently the Midnight Killer used her gun to shoot Siu-Bo, and accuse her of killing him by placing the gun under her hands since he wore gloves to prevent fingerprints on the gun. Man I don't know why but everytime Anthony's character dies in a drama, it's always really sad. He really has the likeable charisma to him so I'd always feel heartbroken if he dies in the drama. His character was a genuine good guy and didn't mind that Madam Ying didn't like him back. Her crying did ruin the mood, how is the downgrade from her crying scene in On-lie Game, to this so big??? Anyways, after that she had to run away from Madam Chiu so that she could find Jason i guess? They never really discussed why she decided to run away instead of just being in custody, which would be a much better decision considering she would be safe in a jail cell and not be a victim of the midnight killer, but oh well. Turns out her long hair was a wig, but what kind of wig is that strong since we saw in the future flash that she'd get drowned by an old serial killer that Jason interrogated in the earlier drama, and her wig manages to stick on. Ridiculous.
We also learnt that the explosion of a car was not the same explosion that happened in Episode 4, which yeah made sense since she would eventually find out that someone saved him and he was wearing different clothing. Feel like it was a stupid reason to make him wear a suit in ep4 though during that car explosion, felt out of place since he never had a clothing style similar. And the call from the future still did not make sense. She tried contacting the author of a crime book, but it turned out to be Jason from the past, which helps connect to what happened in the first episode. I still really hate the sci-fi plot. It's absolutely not important to the story, we've made it this far and if it was removed it wouldn't even make a difference.
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