Amazing and Inspiring
Under the skin is a rare thriller crime Chinese drama that didn't suffer from overloaded pointless fillers and unnecessary romance developments. There are many crime series (especially Chinese ones) that like dragging out more episodes for profits, which reduces their core value. Of course there are many problems with this second season but overall, the good aspects outweighed the negatives for me.Because they appear to have a larger budget this season, the shooting locations are far more beautiful and diverse. The artistic value this season is way higher than in season 1. OSTs are as good as they have always been. Cinematography is also better this season, you can feel different artistic shooting styles in many shots. The pacing is planned rather well between cases, they know how to raise the audiences' curiosity so you keep pressing the next button.
The actors are superb, they did well in season 1 but I still can't really invest myself into the characters, but season 2 is different, we get to see other sides of the main cast, to understand their fear and anger, then find their bad traits endearing; it goes the same with the side cast, they act so well so the audiences instinctively sympathize with them even if their screentime only lasted for 2-3 episodes.
Plot wise, most cases are very well written, I love how they have so many different ways of using art to solve a case. The twists and turns, story pacing and development,... The only drawback but also having the biggest impact on the story is the last case, despite being the season finale yet it feels below average in comparison with prior cases, scriptwriters should have spent more time on this case since its season finale, I guess they're rushed to film the show. Fortunately, after that horendous suffering, audiences are rewarded with the advancement in relationship between the two male leads.
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Not bad
Since this one came out straight from the author's studio, it's closer to what the author wants to convey, still a bit OOC though. Not a shipper of this duo but this movie is probably better the previous one, vfx and acting wise. The movie also expressed the bromance better than the novel, mainly because of the OOC parts on each character, maybe the staff have to change it to get the results they want.For the ending teaser on "Flower Night" you can go read the novel and be surprised how Black Glasses is even colder and more ruthless. It doesn't have as much bromance because more than half of it was Black Glasses's solo mission but the story is very good.
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