Pin Mao Ji (2024)

Not enough cats

So, I really like cats. I came across this show by accident and just had to watch it for the cats, no matter how bad it is.

And it is pretty bad. The plot and script are terrible, and the delivery doesn’t help either (the ML sounds like a robot, for example). The leads are solving murders but the cases are weirdly twisted to fit the cat theme. The cat stuff is sort of shoved in there in ways that don’t totally make sense, but none of the show makes that much sense to begin with, so you can only vaguely follow what’s going on. I was so confused about which caricature villain is stealing what cat for what.

The relationship between the leads is also weird. They are pretty inimical, then suddenly in an instant they are a couple; like somebody else said, I thought I missed a few episodes. The FL’s relationship with her brother is weird too.

The only reason anyone would watch this show is for the cats. I was pretty happy with the cat situation for awhile. There are quite a few, adults and kittens both, of various colors. They are really cute and even interact, like they are shown playing, cuddling, that sort of thing. I sort of suspected that they’re reusing cats, ie there are more cat characters than cat actors- but it’s kind of hard to tell because the show is nonsensical and I guess it doesn’t really matter anyways.

The first weird thing though, is that sometimes the cats seem in imminent danger of harm or death, and the FL- a professed cat lover- doesn’t seem to care that much or do anything about it. How can a cat lover not save a cat in danger?

And the second thing is, the cats disappear for a long stretch in the middle. Like they are just irrelevant to the story and don’t show up. What now, did the producers think I was watching this for the plot?

The cats do come back in the last few episodes, but sort of out of nowhere, unexplained, and by that point the show doesn’t even bother trying to tie the conflict back to cats. I also never figured out what happened to the potentially endangered kitties.

So is it worth it to sit through this nonsensical, poorly executed, and barely coherent mess of a story just to see cats? Well, no matter what it is nice to see cats featured in a show with an actual (kind of) plot- that's much more fun than random online cat videos. And it’s pretty short with ~7 min episodes, so if it's a waste of time then at least it's not a huge one. The cats are pretty cute so I might have still thought this show is a fine and relaxing way to spend a casual evening... if the cats had not disappeared halfway through. Such bait and switch is just disappointing.

4.0 for this show but +1 because, in the end, it does still have lots of cute cats. I just honestly don’t understand what people are thinking when they make a show like this. You might think, oh just some crazy cat people wanted to play with cats... but honestly, it doesn’t have enough cats or cat love to be the product of crazy cat people. They should have just made a show about a young woman saving cats and it would have been way better.

Oh, and the auto-generated subs are awful. The Mandarin is not very difficult though so if you know some, you could get by with listening.

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