Press Conference (2022)

A surprisingly good drama with a thought for humanity progress

I watched this for Pets Tseng.
But the plot pull me in.

This is not your usual love story with those fluffy scenes and dialogue. ML and FL are both mature and responsible character. Their love story can be summarised in one word "Can I really have a normal happiness?".

Plot/Spoiler:
ML (George Hu) is Ren Shao Fan. He is a customised gene ordered child created by his mother for family politic reason. He is expected to be 100% perfect and heads the Wei Hai Company (family business that manufacture gene related medicone/procedure). But gene editing comes with heavy consequences.

FL (Pets Tzeng) is Song Pin Wei. She is a doctor specialist in gene/telemose with her own humble everyday clinic. She and her team organise a secret organisation (Free Radical) to help those poor with illness to get free medicines (expensive meds manufactured by Wei Hai Company) illegally. She is also looking for her missing younger sister (who was adopted under mysterious circumstances when she is still a kid).

They cross path and fall in love against all the odds of his mother disapproval, his illness and her own family burden.

I like one phrase that Song Pin Wei said in the drama. "illness can destroy your health, but it cannot take away your right to be happy."

I will always remember this words.

Acting wise were very good from both ML and FL. Pets is a tall girl and luckily George Hu is taller than her. They are very suited for the characters and brings out the mature nature of the character. Taiwanese dramas tend to have the cringy dialogue and scene but there are very few here. Instead you will find a meaningful conversations about life, love, and many aspect of life and their emotions.

It is a 13 eposode drama. I kinda hope to see more development. But this is a very though provoking drama to watch with suspense and cliffhanger. 10/10.

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