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Awful English title! Wish they stuck with Super Emissary.

Kinda worried that SaSa won't be a part of this season...

"#WhostheMurderer returns with S6 as #HeJiong, #LiuHaoran, #ZhangRuoyun, #BaiJingting, and #YangRong were spotted arriving for filming of the new season in Beijing today"

from this tweet -> https://twitter.com/dramapotatoe/status/1327136607389036545

Yeah, I had to get through the boring episodes by watching them while doing work lol. Once they reached the Thunder City, things became more fast-paced.

The first 12 episodes are such a bore. Does this season become better?

That's a little disappointing but ah well, that means we get both seasons in the same year + season 3 of The Great Escape!

Liu Haoran rumored to be filming the first episode on November 13th & 14th, based on this tweet - https://twitter.com/liuhaoran_intl/status/1322738453444849665?s=20

Is it true that the new season will start airing in November? Because I saw a picture of the station's sales presentation ceremony and they actually put this season as airing in the first quarter of 2021.

THERE'S GOING TO BE A SEQUEL!!!!!!! I'm so happy, I really love this show and I'm glad that they are continuing Yeesa's story (even though it seems from the trailer that the main focus will be on Ka Chung instead)

Holding hopes that he will appear in the HK broadcast later. Doesn't make sense that they made him film and then cut all his scenes out, when they could have not asked him to film in the first place?

I will recommend Swipe Tap Love as a mature romantic drama. The thing is, the dialogue in this drama is very localised as they use a lot of Cantonese inside jokes and lyrics from Cantonese songs. So not sure if you will be able understand if you are not familiar with Cantonese.

Another drama I will recommend is Life After Death. It's a bit melodrama but I was very touched because the focus on friendship and family are as strong as its focus on the romance. Just be careful of the last episode, it somewhat ruined the whole show so maybe stop watching until the first 25 minutes of the last episode.

From outside of TVB, I will definitely recommend the following dramas as the way romance is depicted in these dramas are very original but also realistic.
: Leap Day - the main character may start off as the typical K-drama heroine - naïve and helpless but the pacing of the show gets a lot better when she starts to take responsibility of her life. There are many touching moments with her father and her best friends in the show, and the love triangle between the three leads is actually the weak points of the show. That being said, I love how the love triangle is very quiet and non-intrusive on the female lead character.
: Margaret & David, Green Bean
: The Gutter

I have the same sentiments. Not sure why TVB is so afraid to use younger actors/actresses and choose to stick to the same old artistes over and over again, when they should be training these young actors/actresses so that they can take lead roles in a few years time.

The only "young" artiste that I can recall from recent dramas is Sofiee Ng who are various VIUTV's series and Chloe So (played Zi-Yau in Life After Death).

Joel Chan and Selena Li won't be playing Siu and Alex, they will play a different set of characters. The sequel was confirmed in January and there were many rumors about the cast. Filming officially started in September.

https://hyn5-hyn5.blogspot.com/2020/09/selena-lee-performing-new-character-in.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYZsUx04o6Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS7Dcl4xic0

They are filming the sequel to BOK now! The two main leads are returning as a couple but I doubt it will be as the same characters, since the whole timeline had been re-written in the last episode. The focus will still be on Kam Siu Building so I hope we can get another good set of mini-stories.

Of course, their deaths had nothing to do with them being lesbians. But then the question comes back to "Why make them lesbians and have them killed in the end?" I do agree that in a way, their deaths were needed as a sort of creepy backstory to the building's otherworldly power but also, I wished they weren't lesbians AND then tragically killed. Like I would rather them be hetero characters and have TVB use up their lesbian quota in another series where perhaps a happier ending can be expected.

This "bury our gays" thing really needs to ... die, not just in Asian mainstream media but all over the world.

I'm not saying TVB is evil and anti-LFBTQ+, they have taken small steps to having healthy representations on screen - we can probably count the sprinkling of lesbian kisses in various shows as small triumphs. (IF we discount the fact these kisses might have more to do with the male gaze than actual lesbian representation; that is a whole different discussion). But these steps are slow as they have to wait for a generation of traditional thinkers to die out lol

I love BOK and I was rooting for it to win last year.

I actually really like the lesbian couple in BOK but did they have to die such tragic deaths? It really does say something about the kind of treatment they have for LGBTQ+ characters - either these characters are murderers, mentally instable or doomed from the start. I'm not saying this is a TVB problem though, after all tragic endings for lesbians is a prevalent trend in Western mainstream media too.

I guess I'm one of the rare few who still watches HK dramas regularly. I agree that TVB's dramas have been lacking in quality and creativity this past decade, even cop/police/mafia dramas are beginning to feel repetitive. A lot of them are mediocre at best, unwatchable if I have to be brutally honest. But there are certainly a few surprises like BOK, BWD. I think there is a subtle change in the company where younger writers and producers are slowly taking the helm and it's because of them that dramas are becoming less ostentatious. Slice-of-life dramas like Swipe Tap Love, The Offliners, and Life on the Line bring a much needed sense of comfort and hope to Hong Kong audience

Another point I like to make is that there are other broadcast companies who have tried to produce quality dramas that reflect life as it is in Hong Kong. HKTV was the first do so, producing political drama The Election as the first of its kind in HK's TV history (to my knowledge). In the next 2 or 3 years, they have produced quite a lot of dramas that are very different from TVB dramas and cover a whole range of topics that are more relatable to HK audience. I've watched a few and I really recommend Sexpedia (a show that discusses topics about sex in a healthy and non-offensive way), The Borderline (typical police drama but Lau Kai Chi and Dominic Lam were excellent in the show), The Menu (about journalism and it is the show that propelled Catherine Chau to a certain popularity before Margaret & David: Green Bean). These broadcasting companies also features LGTBQ+ characters in a good light (I mean when you compare to how TVB constantly villainizes and degrade LGTBQ+ characters in their shows, even to this day). In the drama Hidden Faces, Leslie Chiang played a lesbian and John Chiang played her father who struggles to accept her sexuality. These are struggles that the LGTBQ+ community and their families faced so it's nice to see that in the small screen, without harmful prejudices and biases.

After HKTV ended its run as an alternative broadcast company, ViuTV slowly started to take over the spot, recognizing there is an untapped source of talent and market here. I've been really amazed by the way they are willing to think out of the box in terms of writing and character development, while staying authentic. I haven't watched ALL of their dramas but there are a few that I recommend:
- Leap Day
- Margaret and David - Green Bean
- Stained
- The Gutter
- Who Sells Bricks in Hong Kong
- #MeToo
- Limited Education (apparently this was a huge hit among HK audience, more so than the TVB dramas who was airing at the same time.)

Aarif and Meng Ziyi OMGGGGGGGG will actually love to see Ziyi as a swordswoman but she looks so beautiful here and paired with the beautiful Aarif ;_______; nice to see Marius in a second lead role too! Also love that there is no messy love triangles within the four main characters.

There was some boring moments in the first episode but overall, pretty thrilling! Nice to see Kara not yelling for once, even though her character is somewhat similar to the one in The Defected.

wow am i the only one who can't stand dai yong