An okay drama that’s just mid

Everything about this drama is just mid. Average. Okay. There is nothing outstanding about it, it spends most of the time just cruising along as medium speed and medium pace with hardly any strong emotional investment in any of the characters. Wayne Lai is completely wasted here as the character he plays is completely two-dimensional as this nice guy ex-stuntman and this does not change even 21 episodes in, and I know it will not change due to the pacing and story beats happening. The only character worth watching is again with the awesome Rebecca Zhu as this strange wildcard of a person who suddenly returns home. Despite her past being the most interesting, it is barely touched upon, again wasting a huge opportunity. I really wanted to like this drama because Brian Chu gets to be a lead character and I do thoroughly like his acting such as in Al Cappacino, but here he is like a plank of wood with rarely any facial emotions outside of his typical thousand yard stare. Overall, this is not a bad drama, but it’s nothing exceptional either, it is just average and that is a huge shame.

Update: I just completed watching this series today and well… it is still pretty average. There were some touching moments, but overall it doesn’t shift my rating. What I found hilarious at the end was the romance between Brian Chu and Rebecca Zhu’s characters. Brian just suddenly blurts out “Hey, let’s be together” but he doesn’t love her and she just brushes it off. This made sense as they both has no romantic moments together in the drama. But, suddenly, in the final episode in a flash forward to the future scene for 1 minute we see the implication that they are together without the show outright stating it. Yes, it is really cheap for not showing us them getting to the romance stage, but at least I can say it is a better love story then Twilight. Literally.

You know, the entire show kept asking if 輕功 was an actual thing, and we see some implications that 輕功 does indeed exist, but I think the show missed out on an opportunity here. If 輕功 was real in the world of the drama, surely 氣功 is real, and if 氣功 is real then surely 九陽神功 is real, and if 九陽神功 is real…

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My goodness, wtf?

This drama is a direct sequel of Forensic Heroes 5, and despite some hype because it had been a while since I have seen Bosco Wong onscreen, this was ultimately a huge disappointment. Don't get me wrong, there were some interesting scientific explanations for many weird cases the show brought up, but the character situations and interactions just had me go wtf (what the fish) often. Really, I was going wtf so many times that I lost count.

So, this kicked off directly from the last series where Bosco Wong and Venus Wong are now married, Benjamin Yuen had broken up with Sisley Choi following what happened previously, and Jacky Cai was suffering from severe PTSD after being tortured at the hands of the crazy Kelvin Kwan. This series dealt with the aftermath of some traumatic events from the last series, but since the writers needed the trinity of main characters to suffer, they made Bosco Wong’s wife go missing while they were visiting Osaka, Japan.

What really annoyed me was how annoying most of the people were in the series. Bosco was not annoying, but he was so boring to watch because of how the character was written, that the only part in the drama where he started getting interesting was near the end when he was desperate to find his wife.

Bosco is still the same amazing lead of forensic investigation, but directly under him were several people - particularly Joey Thye and Niklas Lam. Now, I didn't mind Joey because she added the teacher’s pet element to the show, which was quite fun to watch, but Niklas Lam was just so annoying to watch. The guy's face rubs me the wrong way and in all his scenes he is just talking nonsense. He is only there to give Joey somebody to talk to, giving her more lines to speak. The guy cannot act, period. But somehow there is someone in the team who is even more pointless and that is Juliana Kwok. She is purely there as eye candy and she barely says anything, cannot (or does not) emote much, and the scenes where she was apparently doing science looked so unconvincing. She doesn’t even show us her ample assets. Why was she in this drama? Why? Wtf?

It is not just people in the forensic team that are annoying. Benjamin Yuen is still a cop and under him is this female actor that I have forgotten the name off. This is not my fault, she has a very generic face and spoke in a very generic way, so much so that I cannot remember anything unique about her except that she annoyed me enormously. Her grandfather was a fortune teller so she had picked up some tricks from him, and she spends the start of the drama thinking she would bring bad luck to some characters because their birth signs were clashing or something. And when something did happen, she felt responsible because she was too close to them. B***h please, you're not that important. She later checked out the entire teams’ details, even Benjamin Yuen's, and told Benjamin his fortune causing Benjamin to slam his hand on his desk (and rightly so). I found her very disrespectful because she did it without asking for permission first, a clear invasion of privacy because she thought Jupiter was going retrograde up Uranus. What really was the camel that broke the camel’s back was later - while in hospital to take a statement - she was speaking to a rape victim and assumed she killed her rapist, so coldly but firmly told the victim to confess to the murder or she would get into trouble later. Who talks like that? I hated her character immensely after that scene, like who did she think she was? Wtf?

Benjamin was not without his issues either. Early into the drama, one of his underlings played by Mark Ma, dies after being stabbed by a drug addict. This led to Mark leaving behind his wife, played by Kelly Fu, and their son. Now, I understand you supporting the family of the bereaved and helping them out during this time of grief, but Benjamin decided to allow both to move into his home. He was a single guy who had just broken up with his fiancée so was living alone, so having both move in with him was inappropriate, especially after her husband had passed away. Why not stay with family? This, predictably, led to Benjamin and Kelly developing feelings for each. Luckily, the drama ends with Kelly taking her son and moving to Paris, leaving Benjamin alone and sad, but if I am honest, he shouldn't have invited them over to live with him in the first place. Wtf?

And then we have Jacky Cai who was suffering from major PTSD and was seeing Kelvin Kwan everywhere she went, despite Kelvin dying in the last series. She later meets a night Doctor who looked exactly like Kelvin Kwan and had the same birthday date as well. Later, Jacky approached the Kelvin lookalike, and they became friends, and she started to think her PTSD was getting better, despite him meeting Bosco and Benjamin and both telling her that this Doctor guy had no resemblance to Kelvin at all. She obviously still had severe PTSD issues, but her friends would not try to help her and instead just brushed it off. Things really came to a head near the end of the drama when the lookalike Kelvin started to become deranged and thought Jacky liked him but ends up getting killed by his ex-wife. Later when Jacky looked at his corpse on the autopsy table did she realise it was actually King Lam. Why did nobody tell her "Yo, you need help because he looks nothing like Kelvin" and instead just humored her? Why? Wtf?

We now get to Joman Chiang, a supermodel who is hiding from her ex-boyfriend, played by Leonard Cheng, and has a manager played by Ball Mang. Now her manager Ball Mang was so darn useless, I mean in the drama there were so many times I wondered why Joman kept her around because she was not doing a good job as her so-called manager. For example, Ball Mang decided to go on holiday, and instead of getting someone to take over for the time she was away, she tells Joman to take care of herself for a few days. And in one case Ball even called Bosco - because he was a neighbor, to pop over and help out Joman because she was away. What? Why should he help when you're the one getting paid? She later found out Joman was pregnant with Leonard's baby, and despite being told not to tell anybody, she told Leonard leading to many awkward encounters. Why? And Leonard also used Ball Mang to force himself into Joman's apartment. My goodness, I would have fired her ass if she was my manager. So useless! Wtf?

Leonard Cheng as the ex-boyfriend was also unbelievably infuriating to watch. The guy is the sole male heir to the Lee family conglomerate, so his mother had huge control over everything he did. Every single word that came out of his mouth was "I need to ask my mom" or "My mom should know about this" or "Please do this or my mom would be angry". Like dude, can you think for yourself? Even if you're afraid of your mother, don't bring her up in every sentence! And to rub in how pathetic he was, he didn’t understand that no matter how many times Joman told him no she didn't want to be with him, he would not take no for an answer, being unable to comprehend that some people just cannot be bought with money. The scene where he was in the car and simply didn't understand that Joman really did not want to be with him made me want to break his neck telepathically. But I did not have to wait too long because later his elder sister just outright murders him. Wtf?

Oh yes, his elder sister is played by Toby Chan, and she really wanted to be the Lee family successor. Despite her brother telling her repeatedly that he did not want to be heir and would not fight for it, she still murdered him out of jealousy because she assumed their mother loved him the most and that he was lying. That was her brother, and she knew he was useless and yet she still killed him to take over the family business. That action made no sense because at that point he had already given everything up to try and be with Joman so he had nothing to stand on, but the sister just would not stop. Wtf?

And now we get to the final biggest head scratcher that just sealed it for me. Bosco had been spending the entire drama flying back to Osaka to look for his wife every weekend in an obvious Greater Bay Airlines promotional move, he finally found out what happened to his wife. His wife's friend, played by James Ng, had spent the entire time acting like he was helping Bosco in investigating the wife's disappearance, but it turned out that it was James who had abducted her and locked her away in a cage. The reason? In the past when Venus Wong and James Ng were at the same University in Japan, James had developed a crush on Venus but was unable to tell her his feelings because she said she was returning to Hong Kong. He had forgotten about her and had married Angel Chiang, but suddenly Venus returned to Japan and brought with her Bosco, her new husband. This apparently made him insanely jealous, and unlike a normal person who would let it go and realise he was already happily married, he decided to kidnap Venus, lock her in a cage, and try to make Venus love him. Oh yes sure, that was very romantic how he kidnapped her and locked her in a cage! (I was being sarcastic there). If that was not stupid enough, but what I found more ridiculous was how the drama did a fake-out death of Venus, so we all thought she had died, and right at the end of the drama - fast forward a few months - we see that she was okay and was happily camping with Bosco while travelling the world. She was completely fine! After over 1 year of being locked up and isolated from the world in a small cage - in the dark - she apparently had no PTSD or needed any time to recover at all, just a few months and boom yeah, she's good, she's fine! Wtf?

Despite all the idiocy in the drama, there were a few people who were exceptionally good in the drama.

Mason Fung plays the autistic younger brother of Venus Wong, and he plays the autistic role extremely well. His mannerisms and how to speaks were really accurate, and even when his sister goes missing, he showed little emotion about it, which was actually very accurate. He does care but does not show it openly or admit to it unless asked.

I also found Bob Lam as Bosco's boss to be entertaining. He is the much-needed comedic relief the show needed, and it cuts through the constant scientific postulating everybody in the forensic team does. Bob Lam is a talented forensic scientist, but was shown to be a mediocre leader, which really fitted with how Bob naturally acts so it worked well. I know many call him the cheap man's Bobby Au-Yeung, but I found him a lot of fun to watch whenever there were scenes with him in there.

But the best acting must be given to Nicole Wan. She portrayed a Japanese victim of a serial female attacker, who would wear a Fox mask and disfigure his victims. Her portrayal of a Japanese woman using English with a Japanese accent was unbelievably convincing and really accurate to how a Japanese person would annunciate English. I was very impressed with her performance.

I was hoping for so much more, but ultimately this drama was disappointing and made me want to watch the first three Forensic Heroes series instead. Those are classics! This just makes my class sick!

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A great entry in the Rosy Business series

I have seen all 3 previous Rosy Business dramas, and I was so disappointed with the 3rd entry. It lacked Sheren Tang, but if the replacement female lead was good it would still shine. We had Myolie Wu who did her best but yeah... it was still a very disappointing drama. The twin brother story and the lack of any real romance was a real turn off for me.

This 4th entry still did not bring back Sheren Teng, instead it brought back Nancy Wu as the female lead when she only had supporting roles in the previous entries but dang... I really liked her in the role. The comparisons with Sheren Tang are unavoidable - as expected because she was playing a strong female leader type role - but I found myself actually really enjoying myself watching her in this drama. I know, this would be blasphemy for some people, but I found Nancy's scenes of vulnerability more convincing as she openly admits her feelings to the male lead and it doesn't wait until near the end of the drama, something that Sheren Tang never really did. I also loved how Nancy had so many outfits in the drama, even if some of them made her look like a Christmas tree, but I loved that she had such a varied collection of clothes to wear as it reflected her status on the show and what lady doesn't like to have many dresses? I know I love to have many! She plays a General Manager at a bank during 1920s Shanghai and is nicknamed the 7th Elder because her financial power ranks at number7 in the whole of Shanghai. Of course, in this position she has many enemies that want her to fail, especially her brothers. Oh yes, most of the plot is driven by one of her brothers as I will explain later.

Wayne Lai is - as always - amazing here. His character Chai Sup Chat was great to watch as he played a really stubborn businessman who kept failing at business because of his bad people skills. However, as an advisor in investment opportunities, he will always give excellent advice to return a profit to those willing to listen. He spends the start of the drama butting heads with Nancy Wu, but their interactions throughout the drama made their growing romantic feelings for each other very believable to me. I know many would say Wayne looks way too old for Nancy, but I disagree because love comes in many different strange forms, and how they drag each other out of dire situations they themselves could not have survived alone was a convincing reason for them to develop feelings for each other.

Spoiler warning: A great scene that was unexpected and quite refreshing was when Nancy took Wayne out for a trip to a beautiful dock and then she outright tells Wayne that she wanted to be with him. A woman declaring her love for a man and wanting to be with them was a big deal in the past because it was nearly always the man to make the first move. Wayne's shock and subsequent rejection, because he felt he was not up to her level and therefore felt he didn't qualify, led to one of the most dramatic scenes in the drama. Nancy was very rich and very beautiful, and she put aside her pride to do it, so the rejection was a huge humiliation for her. Gosh, I really felt bad her and I was screaming at Wayne, like wtf were you doing man? He clearly liked her as well, but his low self-esteem held him back from making that step.

Next we have to talk about Joey Law. I never liked his acting in previous dramas but he has improved a lot in this one, being this retired mercenary who would kill for money. His acting is still a little wooden, but it matched the role he played as a guy trying to escape his mercenary past and trying to live a normal life so that he could be with the girl who he had loved since they were kids. The action scenes with him fighting and showing off his physical prowess more than made up for his wooden acting, and he clearly bulked up for the role.

And who was he in love with in the drama? Why, Hera Chan of course! She was okay I guess, and this time the producers knew her long neck was something quite distracting so her outfits all had collars to help reduce the appearance of that neck. Thank you so much for that! She was pretty average overall with no real captivating scenes, but earlier in the drama she got on my nerves a bit for being this girl who would run off on her own because she wanted to see Joey. Luckily, this improved later on after her family accepted Joey and his past.

But boy, the person I really wanted to talk about was Edwin Siu. He had so many roles in this drama that I lost count. He played the half brother of Nancy Wu's character and he was trying to get his revenge on her, but there are so many plot twists involving him that it made my head spin, and yet it led to him being one of the most memorable villains in TVB history. When you first meet him in the drama, you'd notice how he kept "dying" and yet somehow managed to return with the same appearance but with a different name and a completely different personality. Edwin really had me intrigued as to what on Earth was going on and every time he was onscreen you had no idea what he was going to do next, and that type of chaos was what made him such a scary villain. He nearly managed to win as well, which I found quite a nice change, but it came down to a last minute save that was a little disappointing. I'll explain why later.

Although I really liked this drama, I still had a few scenes that had me going what? for example, Wayne Lai later started working for Nancy because he helped her deal with a huge issue previously, and as part of his condition to join he wanted to fire a group of women who were bad for the company. Nancy agreed to this numerous times and yet somehow, these people who were fired all came back or never left in the first place even when all evidence proved Wayne correct. And then later, they all get along as if this never happened in the first place. That was such lazy writing like what were they thinking?

Spoiler warning: And then we have the main villain played by Edwin Siu. He was such a great bad guy to watch from beginning to end, knowing how to fight and how to manipulate people so well, however he ended up revealing everything in episode 23, and just as he was about to win he gets shot to death by his "mother" for everything he had done up to that point. What I hated about this was that we were told how poor his "mother's" eyesight was, barely being able to see 1 foot in front of herself, and yet from 20 meters away she managed to shoot Edwin accurately with her handgun. And to top it off, the drama was 25 episodes long, so we had 2 episodes after where the Director had to force something else in to keep things interesting for the viewers, so - predictably - he shoved in a Japanese invasion to raise the stakes before the end. To be honest, the 4th entry could have ended at episode 23 because despite both main protagonist hard-headedness, Nancy decided to travel to Hong Kong (watch the drama to find out why) to meet with Wayne Lai and they had a great reunion where she sang to him while he was missing her. That would have been a good ending there.

Spoiler warning: So, the last 2 episodes did drag it out a bit with Nancy suffering poor memory due to a bullet injury slowly causing memory loss, but I got to admit the ending was great and I did like it a lot. Nancy gets lost in Hong Kong later and could not remember how to get back home, so she ends up in Kowloon. Wayne spends 3 years looking for her, and finally finds her during a Japanese bombing run. He finally managed to take her home where many other plot threads are also tied up. Wayne got to spend the next 28 years with Nancy proposing to her every year, with her telling him each time she would think about it when they were clearly already together. The final scene had them really old and together, which was a very romantic scene that was very touching. It made me forgive the dragging out of the final two episodes.

I loved this latest entry of Rosy Business and I personally recommend it, and I can see myself rewatching this in future because the ending was just great. Unlike the endings from the other entries where there was no romance at all or it was very short-lived, this showed them being together happily for many years. I know many would compare it to the ones with Sheren Tang and voice their disappointment, but my opinion is that the torch has been handed over from Sheren to Nancy, and Nancy did a great job!

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Best TVB ICAC drama yet, but that's not saying much

Every year, TVB does a short ICAC series to discourage people from doing any dirty money laundering. I understand the need for this, but at the same time almost every year the short ICAC series have been awful. Do you remember the last few years of these? Nope. Because they all sucked.

However, this year there has been a sudden jump in quality. The actors are more compelling to watch and we actually do care a little bit for the characters we're watching, like Kelly Cheung being pregnant but also head of the ICAC department. The first episode even threw in Kent Cheng, who was great to watch being this greedy villain. He sold it really well and I thought the entire 5 episodes would be ICAC trying to nail him and him avoiding all ICAC assaults until the very last episode. When Joel Chan secretly confronted Kent and Kent got suspicious, that scene got tense. It made for some great drama right at the start.

But sadly, it fell apart so soon. Instead of a 5 episode cat and mouse game with Kent and the ICAC department, it did the classic monster-of-the-week sort of deal where each episode was it's own case, and the cases all ended without a satisfying conclusion, instead slapping onscreen text explaining what happened next. The classic rule for good story telling is SHOW, NOT TELL! When the ICAC made a move to arrest Kent Cheng at the end of the 1st episode, it doesn't show us what happened and just cuts to the text. Talk about giving the viewers blue balls! The other cases after episode 1 were all not as good and I have already forgotten them all.

This is not the worst part. Man, the music is still terrible. They took the classic ICAC theme music and remixed it but it still sounds awful. I think it is about time for an update TVB. Change it! And my gosh the character played by Yvette Chan was so annoying, just pure naïveté and stupidity that just got on my nerves. For all 5 episodes.

Overall, the quality is much better than previous years but there is still huge room for improvement.

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Movie is terrible

I watched this movie and found it terrible. There were some scary moment for sure, but even before we get to the scary parts there is a really confusing tripping intro to the movie where our protagonist is working out how to deal with his girlfriend's death. This was a clusterf*** of nonsense until we get to the hiking trip.

The only actor worth a s*** was David Chiang as he had some real complex backstory that actually had me routing for him, even when his ultimate decision was the massacre of the entire village and kill his daughter's rapist before having his body split into different wine urns. That was some dark stuff, but I can understand and even sympathise with why he did it. The other characters that went on the hike and got tangled up in this mess I really didn't care about, and of course they give the main protagonist the power to see ghosts. Convenient yo.

It ends with everybody dying and the the evil ghost end boss is still floating around, so basically nothing is really rectified. Terrible

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Boring…

Anyone who tells you this is a good movie was on drugs while watching it. Too much CGI, the main protagonists are unlikeable and the movies’ biggest sin? Wasting the amazing actor Kara Wai!

A warning: there will be some big spoilers here, but these will be needed to reveal some details of the movie so you can understand my issues with the movie. It mainly follows this girl played by Jessie Li who could see monsters since she was a child so her mother abandoned her at a mental hospital. I know we are meant to feel sorry for her but I really didn’t care because the actor really couldn’t carry it off. It felt like she was trying to act *gasp!* and lacked authenticity.

And then we have the male lead Shawn Yue as Meng who is a monster hunter. Everybody in the movie calls him rubbish and a second rate hunter and this is true, he really is useless. Near the end of the movie, while still being useless, he loses his left arm so he gets a new one from a side character called Uncle Ping who puts all his power into it. Even with his new arm he still sucks, and only wins his fight against a top hunter because of some dirty tricks and all the while was as graceful as a drunk horse. The final battle was poorly choreographed and there was way too much cgi and shakey cam it was almost impossible to follow.

There is this super crystal that can grant hunters immeasurable strength. Our main male lead gets this crystal and yet is unable to defeat out main big bad played by Kara Wai. Instead, the final battle is ended in 15 seconds as Jessie suddenly pulls a Yugioh and understands the heart of the cards and does one move… hold her hand out and then twist it like Aaron Kwok in his Never Ending Love MV. This defeats Kara somehow without any dramatic build up or awesome final confrontational struggle. Kara just stands and screams and boom done. Lame.

I just hate how they wasted Kara because she is a fantastic actor that just oozes charisma and malice. In this movie she just talks a bit and gets around with loads of cgi around her. It was one really lazy part for her and doesn’t allow her to show off her other acting chops. There is one scene she leans into a sculpture and basically rubs her chest over it during an exposition bit. Was that necessary?

And a massive plothole here is that that super crystal could be absorbed to power up anyone, why didn’t Kara Wai use it to power up? Instead she leaves it floating around her domain… that makes no sense. When Shawn appears in front if her near the end and she says “you have absorbed the power of the crystal?” No shit, what were you expecting to happen by leaving it there?

The best part of the movie? Paper. A character that can origami himself into any shape and is the comedy sidekick to Shawn. But again, it is CGI. The CGI is very good, but it cannot carry a movie that is poorly executed. Avoid this movie

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What the heck is this?

After watching two incredible dramas with Kenneth Ma this year I thought TVB were only going to get better, but instead we get this abomination. Ruco Chan really is unlucky, the first drama with him as lead this year is a pile of manure and that breaks my heart. I really like Ruco and I really want him to be in an awesome, likeable role, but here his acting is just mediocre. It is not his fault as we've all seen him be awesome, but the role he was given is just... meh.

Besides from him, the other main characters are just annoying. Mandy Wong here plays a pretty pitiful role, but her being this huge pushover just had me so angry because her meekness goes from pitiful to just pathetic. Roxanne Tong has a main role as a cop here, but she is so irritating to watch because her acting is awful and she has no chemistry at all with any of the other characters of the show. She just spends the entire time failing as a cop and following Ruco Chan like a leech because of her hunches with little reason to do so. Kenneth Ma needs to show her how its done, man.

One thing that also did not fail to get my blood boiling is Angelina Lo. Every single role I see her in gets me mad because she aways plays the same whiney, moany annoying f'ing old woman that is so unlikeable it makes me want to throw my phone at the TV. She has been typecast into the rich annoying old woman role and I get it, she is really good at it, but whenever I hear her voice or see her on the TV I automatically brace myself for the inevitable wave of anger to crash over me like a tidal wave of diarrhoea.

The best part of the entire drama is Hugo Ng as this massive a'hole father to Mandy Wong's character, who just got out of prison after 30 years. He is allowed to let loose and overact to his heart's content, just eating up every single scene he is in by being the rowdy and unpredictable villain and it is just joyous to watch him in action. If this drama did not have him in it it would not even be worth watching. I am watching this purely for Hugo, more crazy Hugo please!!

EDIT: my goodness, I really want Angelina Lo and Roxanne Tong to just stop acting in this drama already. If they die I will celebrate, damn they are both as annoying as each other.

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Boring. How is a Moses Chan drama boring?

I won’t write too much as many have already spoken about this but I can tell you now this drama was so boring. Predictable and boring. And when it tries to get interesting, it made no sense like what? My goodness, I like Shaun Tam and the tone of his voice can be ASMR soothing but he was just annoying af here. Moses is also portrayed as some sort of single minded businessman with a lot of ambition, but was too forgiving for his own good. He also got annoying to watch. Best actor was Katy Kung, but that’s not saying much I mean she was surrounded by mediocrity.

But the biggest sin of the drama? They took a classic musical piece Vivaldi’a Four Seasons: Winter - particularly the Allegro non molto movement - and put lyrics in it! Why? Why do that? The lyrics were terrible and I swear the timing was a little off as well! They could have left the lyrics out and it would have been fine but no, now all I hear when I listen to Winter is 續… 好… 戲! Damn it TVB! You ruined a classic!

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This has Wong Jing's trademarks all over it

TVB: What should we do for a TV drama?
Wong Jing: Hear me out. It's the 90s, there is this night club where the girls there sell their bodies for cash but they are not called prostitutes, we can't call them that. Then we have some goldfish there that men can only look at and not touch, but later they get touched, then we have this girl sell her virginity because that's what horny men wanna see. Add in a few triads and drugs and cops, this will be a hit!
TVB: Dude...
WJ: I'm bringing back Monica Chan
TVB: F yeah! I'm in!
WJ: And we'll play all the popular HK cantopop songs from the 80s and 90s!
TVB: Whoa... what about licence fees...
WJ: I know the owners, I'll call in some favours
TVB: Dude! This is gonna be a hit!

Update: ending sucks

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Boring af!

So boring! Man like wtf were the producers thinking? A young Justice Bao is all good but come on, a 10 year old kid as Zhan Zhao running around with a sword and doing dangerous stuff? No! What were they smoking?

The worst part is that it all takes place at an Inn and I could tell it would not deviate from that inn because I am 10 episodes in and they are still there investigating the same single case. I know this is a young Bao Zheng who has yet to become an official, but they make him look incompetent as he is stuck in this inn trying to unravel a murder mystery while being unable to leave due to the outside being too dangerous, all the while being protected by a 10-year-old. Geez.

It started off looking really promising but hot dang the mystery has no pulling power and I got so bored so I am going to drop it. The whole point of Justice Bao is that he solves multiple cases - one after the other - using his wit and intelligence to showcase his abilities, but this drama is clearly focused on one case and one location. This could have worked but only if it wasn’t associated to Justice Bao. Why do this?

But the worst sin of this drama? None of the female actors in it are memorable. They are all just a mush and nobody stands out at all. Wait I take that back, there is one girl Zi Fu Er who played Bai Ruan Ruan who clearly had a main role but was… sadly… ugly. They somehow managed to make a pretty girl look ugly, and that in of itself takes effort.

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