Sísifo (2020)

Superou todas as expectativas e ainda surpreende em roteiro e atuação!

Essa foi uma história com muitas reviravoltas inesperadas e fodas, um mistério dentro do outro, além dos rebuts temporais. Difícil assistir um episodio por dia, acaba querendo maratonar, porque sempre termina o episodio em uma cena que voce fica "OMG preciso ver o proximo". Sobre os atores, todos muito bons, mas amei mais a atuação do Luhan como Zhao Binbin, primeira vez como um vilão e merecia um oscar! Foi esperto, cruel e calculista de uma forma que nunca tinha visto nele 😎🥰. O final fez sentido, o que me deixou mais chocada para os finais abertos da China 🤭.

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Time after time.

Zhang Haifeng is a cop that will not rest even after he is caught in a deadly explosion with his daughter's alleged murderer. In a bizzare twist, time after time he has a close shave with death, he wakes up in the past but while each time the events, the people and their actions rhyme, they are not exactly the same. Yet gradually shadowy outlines of the truth emerge as he pulls at the different threads and uncovers hidden relationships and causality. The first ten episodes are full of suspense and the cat and mouse encounters between Haifeng and the antagonists brim with powerful undercurrents and inuendo. I was really hooked and this was the show I looked forward to and watched first. The encounters between Wang Qianyuan and Lu Han were superb - both actors really got it just right. Qiao Xin's subtly suggestive portrayal of Sun Xiaomeng also deserves special mention.

And then I watched a murder take place right in front of my eyes. It is unambiguous. The censors did it. They massacred the last two episodes of what could have been an awesome thriller. It is really hard to tell what really happened with this. In any whodunit, we need to know who, when, how and why. It is quite clear who and even why but the full motive is not revealed or is not convincing. The when and the how really depends on which version of three different accounts of the events as they played out actually took place. It doesn't really qualify as an interpretation ending because there are too many open questions no matter what you think actually happened. I have an idea of what I think most likely happened but I am left with a deeply dissatisfying and unfinished feeling. So watch this at your own risk. I rate the first 10 episodes 8.5/9.0 and the last 2 a 4.5/5.0 for a 7.0 overall.

There is a brief spoiler in the comment section of this review with what I think happened.

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