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Under the Skin Season 2 chinese drama review
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Under the Skin Season 2
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by Aroha
Feb 3, 2025
28 of 28 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 8.0
Story 8.5
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 9.5
Rewatch Value 8.5
This review may contain spoilers

Emotions under the skin!!

This season was about Shen Yi’s exploring the world of emotions. Season 1 was amazing and season 2 was no less. The main concept was the same of catching criminals through art but they did a great job of highlighting it on a deeper level this season.

What I like-
1. Shen Yi being the genius that he is wants to explore more. The way he was seeing through people’s emotions was amazing. This season reminded me a lot of THROUGH THE DARKNESS. I was excited and afraid at the same time to see his dark side. And when episode 20 came, I was shocked. I got goosebumps all over. To me, he carried the whole season. He is such a great actor. I want to see him in a psychopath kinda role. TJC deserve all the awards.
2. Li Han and Jiang Feng got more screen time this season. I could see more of their individuality. I loved it. Now I can understand the characters more.
3. The cases and their writings were amazing. Though some were boring and draggy, some were so well-written that I forgot about the boring ones.
4. Du Cheng in the last few episodes was amazing. I love how everything turned out well.
5. The cliffhanger was so good. The similarities between the stabbing in the alley in so uncanny. Now we have to see if it is a metaphorical dream-like season 1 or if he actually got stabbed.


What I don't like-
1. Du Cheng’s is lost in this season. What happened to his hunch? He was so clueless for most of the series. He cares for Shen Yi but I could see more of this in season 1. His emotions this season were not up to the mark. Sometimes it felt like he was jealous and sometimes genuine care. I want season 3 more about Du Cheng. I want to see his character development.
2. Shen Yi has to understand that not every time Du Cheng can save him. He had to think before taking some dangerous actions.
3. Season one for me was better because they worked on cases together. They trusted each other but in this season they were solving the same cases but separately. They wouldn't discuss much with each other and it seemed off. And then the circle talk comes at the end but I couldn't relate to it because their actions said otherwise the whole season.
4. Where did Shen Yi’s hunch go when it came to Fang? Even Du Cheng could tell that he was weird but Shen Yi trusted him.
5. I wish this series also had 20 episodes like season 1 because some cases were draggy and boring.

All in all, I will still give it 8/10 and will wait for season 3. Hope they don't make the same mistakes next season. I want to see more of the focus on Du Cheng this time.
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