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We’re kicking 2025 off with this? Oh boy…
First 5 episodes: What on earth were TVB thinking? I mean I get it, it is the New Year in 2025 so we want to start the year with a comedy but come on! A comedy with the main male lead is an adulterous swine? Why? The only thing worse than this would be the Lunar New Year having a drama with a lot of death and destruction.I could not enjoy this drama because the set up is so stupid. Edwin Siu used to date Winki Lai, but they broke up - or as Winki puts it - on a break. That evening, heart broken, Edwin somehow ends up in bed with Jinny Ng and gets her pregnant. Since Edwin was an up and coming actor, he had to marry Jinny to maintain a positive image. And, coincidentally, Jinny managed to bag a commercial acting gig from Winki because of her innocent look, making Winki this incredibly lucky girl. I should remind you all that we are told all of this and never shown.
There were some funny moments but ultimately I hated most of the characters. Edwin Siu started an adulterous relationship with Winki during Covid while his wife and kids were stuck in Canada, so they have been secretly been together for 3 years. To maintain his image, he and Winki pretend to hate each other in public. Suddenly, his wife decides pay him a surprise visit to bring him some joy, and that is when all the “craziness” occurs. It is very predictable, and so far it is going as expected. I have no doubt in my mind Jinny is gonna end up with Brian Chu because they make it so obvious.
My biggest issue with the drama is why is Edwin being such an asshole? His wife played by Jinny is amazing and attentive and beautiful and is such a pleaser so why would Eddie go “no, I will cheat on her with Winki.” Why? And Edwin clearly overacts when he compliments her in public, could Jinny not tell he was not being truthful after being married to him for 15 years?
I also hate how Winki is happy to be the third party, like what? She doesn’t even mind it after 3 years, 3 long years of pretending in public and secretly sleeping with Edwin.
So far, the most annoying character is Anthony Ho. Goddamn, his character is so self-centered and selfish and he is such a piece of s**t that I imagined him with all his legs falling off every time he was onscreen and being an anus. I sure hopes he gets punished onscreen later.
Brian Chu is the only likeable character so far. He works for Edwin and helps him with many projects and solving difficult issues that go Edwin’s way.
Is the show gonna get better? My bet is hell no.
Episodes 6-10: man it keeps getting worse. Brian Chu is still my favorite character and the flashbacks to previous TVB dramas he was in and mixing that into this drama was quite funny, but everything else so far has still been a wtf for me.
So, Edwin’s wife leaves Hong Kong and return to Canada after a terrible advert she made got her kids bullied, so she decided to quit acting and return to Canada to solve that issue. She is a main character, so obviously TVB will make her return somehow, and that somehow was a competition to hire a new video editor by someone submitting edited video clips and getting the most votes on social media. The two best submissions obviously came from Jinny so she won easily and immediately returned to the office following the announcement, despite intense disapproval from Edwin. That timing made it as if Jinny was a fortune teller, because she bought tickets and flew 14-15 hours straight from Canada to arrive in Hong Kong and then catch a cab to the office at the right time the announcement was made, confident she would win. Like pardon?
And I’m confused. A video editor just edits videos so stays at the office, but we see Jinny basically acting as a Production Assistant doing PA work. Did they mess up the job role?
Winki also had me shaking my head constantly. She spends way too much time using this AI chat bot sharing her concerns and asking it questions that the AI bot replies in this robotic fashion. Does Winki not have any friends at all? Nobody she trusts like a sister? The dependence in AI makes her look even sadder than usual third parties as she has no human to talk to and just this cold robot thing throwing out responses based on a learning model. I understand AI is a hot term right now and TVB are trying to embrace it but every time it is used it just cheapens the experience for me, I don’t know why, like during the Miss Hong Kong 2023 pageant the hosts used AI generated questions and using AI to fuse past champions together to create the ultimate contestant like wtf? Stop it!
Talking of AI, oh man I forgot to mention how bad the deepfakes of younger Edwin, Jinny and Winki looked. Like you can immediately tell they were deepfakes and they look so creepy. Goddamn, why do they not just do the classic TVB use different actors to portray younger versions of the main cast? Why this abomination?
Edwin… what can I say about his character? A huge coward and pushes responsibility to other people. Watching him squirm just made me cringe immensely.
And Anthony Ho is still a huge unlikely lump. I hate the character here. I have nothing against Anthony as he can be great fun to watch, but his character here is just a huge douche and so I gotta give him credit, he does the douche role very well.
Episode 10 ends with Winki being rushed by paparazzi because she was ousted as a third party mistress. We all know it won’t be Edwin as the supposed man she is cheating with as it is only episode 10, but we will see for sure next week.
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