Caso X Decodificado (2026)

What a disappointing start

I was real excited for this drama because it brings back some old faces we’ve not seen in a while like the handsome Michael Miu, Eliza Sam, and even Eric Li, but the first few episodes had me going what? Now I know these are inspired by true cases that have had some creative liberties taken to them to make them flow in the drama, but holy moley.

The first case involved Rebecca Zhu who was this sad and unhappy woman that could not keep a pregnancy for more than 4 months. The pressure to have a baby from her husband and mother-in-law causes her to go nuts and so she starts murdering pregnant women to take their babies and pretending to still be pregnant. Michael’s wife played by Catherine Chau, who is heavily pregnant, happens to know Rebecca and so when Rebecca was going to jump off the roof of a hospital with a newborn, Catherine asks Michael if she could try and convince Rebecca to move away from the edge. Now this was so stupid on so many levels, she was heavily pregnant so she should have been at home or at least stayed out of the situation but nooooo, she wanted to help. After some nagging, Michael agrees and the predictable happens… Catherine gets shoved, she drops on her stomach and loses her baby. The scene when we find out she lost her baby I was screaming at the TV like wtf was wrong with you, you stupid woman?! And poor Michael having to deal with the aftermath that as well.

The next case started off even dumber. Eliza sees a huge teddy bear outside a cafeteria and tells the employee there to take it inside as it was a limited edition super teddy bear or something. Apparently it was not theirs and they were gonna throw it away so Eliza takes it to the police station to clean up. Michael walks in and immediately with his sharp nose smells something funky and goes “what is that smell? Are you crazy picking that teddy bear and bringing it here?” Suddenly he asks the team to cut it open and they find a skull inside it. How lucky was that Eliza would bring in the next case. And to top it off when forensics reconstruct her face, Eliza recognises the face as an old friend of hers! What the actual f? Who wrote this script?

This is gonna get worse I can tell and I’m only 3 episodes in.

Up to episode 6: I was wrong, it actually got better. The next cases with Tony Hung and Cheung Kwok Keung were great. Now my issue is with Michael Miu and how he solves the crimes, and the show tries to show how Michael has great detective instincts but at the same time it feels so forced sometimes. For example, Cheung Kwok Keung murders his wife and puts her into a wooden box he put together. He puts three together and was only able to show two of them with the third missing. Somehow Michael saw a garbage truck drive by and goes “stop that truck and search it” and sure enough it was in there. Like there was no lead up to Michael making that logical conclusions just a brief shot of him seeing that truck and boom.

Also everything feels like it is moving along at a break-neck speed because this drama is only 12 episodes, but the way the drama shifts from one case to the next and the time taken to solve the case is literally bang bang bang clicking of the fingers fast. This needed to be a standard 20 episode drama to allow us time to breathe and learn more about Michael’s team.

Up to episode 8: Michael Miu has a subplot where he is investigating the death of his sister and is getting very emotional onscreen. I have not heard him swear on TV for a long time so the scene where he swears at his boss for being taken off his sisters’ case was very surprising, and yet I get it. The new main case is also great involving human flesh being cooked into roast pork. It was really sickening and the characters in it made me sick like they all were beyond redemption in their own way.

But man the point that had me going “whaaat??!” Was when Michael goes home and his wife drops a “I’m pregnant” on Michael. Now, there is no sense of how much time had passed since she had her miscarriage but at most it had been 2 months. In that period she should be recovering still, but somehow she was already pregnant wtf?? So you’re saying she recovered enough in that time for Michael to rub uglies with her? Or did he wade into her murky waters and risked it? Completely unrealistic and again it feels like it was written by somebody who has never experienced it in real life.

Up to episode 9: I didn’t want to update so soon but man I noticed a pattern where the drama doesn’t show you the cops arresting the bad guy. Instead it cuts to the police station where Michael’s boss Wilson Tsui says, “our guys arrested so and so trying to leave Hong Kong at the airport. Good job.” This has happened multiple times and it is a good example of showing and not telling so you can close the case in a more satisfying way! I know it was done to speed things up but it feels so lazy and clearly to save time and money. Why wouldn’t the cops investigating it be the same cops to arrest the bad guys? Again, the latest case of a fake child kidnapping was great, but they somehow managed to mess it up with this.

It seems that for every good thing the show manages to drag it back down with something ridiculous, almost like getting ready for a night of passion with your partner and when they undress they are wearing old underwear with holes in them. Jesus.

Episode 10: oh my goodness. I was going to leave it until the last episode before updating but this episode threw such a standard trope at us that I had to comment about it. The current case is rather stupid with rich HK woman Toby Leung being tricked into thinking she is a undercover police assassin, but what took the cake was when Michael Miu took his wife to see the doctor because she was complaining about feeling dizzy. I knew immediately Youku would throw some typical medical trope in here, and sure enough at the doctor after doing an MRI scan, the doctor tells them that he sees a white spot in her brain and it could be a cancerous tumor. I shouted like “oh come on seriously??” This was so forced in to try and get more drama out of a short series that I am just lost for words. The only thing that could top this off is if Michael loses a limb while on duty and his wife sacrifices her life to bring the baby to term as a building is burning down around them. Come on Youku, stop getting your interns to write your stuff!

As this is a 12 episode drama, my money is on wifey being told she has cancer then she would say, “I will not do chemo, I want to keep the baby” because that is also another trope.

Completed: man the ending sucked. The last case was supposed to close the case on how Michael’s sister died but the reveal was so unsatisfying and Michael’s wife still has cancer and doesn’t want treatment to keep the baby. Essentially the show ends on that and that’s it.

Disappointing is an understatement. There will be no rewatching of this, one viewing is enough for me.

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