70% is great, the rest is a slippery slope.
Okay, let's get this straight: this is a great drama. It starts off with an interesting setting, a main character played by the always excellent Qin Hao, and a story of murder, prison system, and the eventual escape from prison.
With these characteristics, I'm always in. And I stayed in, at least up to a certain point, when what could have become an excellent series slipped into disappointment, both in comparison to other series that address similar themes (Prison Break and Rectify) and in comparison to what it had delivered in previous episodes.
A complete waste after the time jump and the discovery of the real killer. Mind you, I liked the way it was revealed, in a simple and almost "occasional" way. For me, it brought a good aspect of realism. But it lost strength because we saw practically nothing of Wen Guo's life up to this point, we couldn't feel almost anything of his suffering.
We need to see a little of that, even if it was a montage of a few minutes with the years passing by and him living in hiding and having to accept all kinds of jobs to support himself. He just reappears, with a plan that isn't very clear and gives up as quickly as the passage of time was shown to us. This was the moment that should have followed a "Rectify" style, about the difficulty of reintegrating into society and the traumas carried by an ex-convict of a media crime.
Anyway, I won't even go into the plot of the wife at the end, which is completely insane and absurd.
With these characteristics, I'm always in. And I stayed in, at least up to a certain point, when what could have become an excellent series slipped into disappointment, both in comparison to other series that address similar themes (Prison Break and Rectify) and in comparison to what it had delivered in previous episodes.
A complete waste after the time jump and the discovery of the real killer. Mind you, I liked the way it was revealed, in a simple and almost "occasional" way. For me, it brought a good aspect of realism. But it lost strength because we saw practically nothing of Wen Guo's life up to this point, we couldn't feel almost anything of his suffering.
We need to see a little of that, even if it was a montage of a few minutes with the years passing by and him living in hiding and having to accept all kinds of jobs to support himself. He just reappears, with a plan that isn't very clear and gives up as quickly as the passage of time was shown to us. This was the moment that should have followed a "Rectify" style, about the difficulty of reintegrating into society and the traumas carried by an ex-convict of a media crime.
Anyway, I won't even go into the plot of the wife at the end, which is completely insane and absurd.
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