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Started promisingly but started to get worse
This drama started off really promisingly with classic undercover action with Mark Ma as an undercover cop trying to arrest a drug dealer, but it slowly turned into a generic drama. The drama is just looking for an excuse to put a bunch of women together in skimpy clothes and jump about the place.
The point when it jumped the shark was when Mark Ma was reinstated as a cop after the drug dealer was caught in the early episodes, but after being reinstated he decided to go back undercover, so half the police station had to sign NDAs to not reveal his identity because they all knew his identity. Man, in real life you know he could not go undercover again because too many cops knew who he was so it was so stupid. Suddenly, the story took a turn and Mark Ma needed a girl group to compete in a competition to gather information on an organisation. Huh? The excuse was so weak it was clearly just a reason to get hot women together to show their legs.
Mark Ma weirdly is the best part of this drama as you’re always guessing what he is really up to. The ladies that make up his team really have me going huh? Kelly Cheung Plays a very rich and qualified Psychiatrist who is a consultant for the Police. She is shown to be observant and to notice stuff and make deductions that make no sense. One thing that had me going “pardon?” Was when she saw a notebook and noticed some marks on it where a clip was held on it, and somehow from that she deduced Mark Ma used it to hide an SD card and slip it out of the Police Station. What the actual f? Despite her position, she agreed to join the undercover girl band group. Why? She’s not a cop, why involve a civilian?
Kelly has a younger cousin played by Yuki Law, who is a cop, a very short cop but she is a cop. Despite being in her thirties now, the drama tries to portray her as this young adult in the drama who pretends to be 18 years old as she requested to join the undercover girl group. Huh? She is probably the worst member of the group because she leaks all confidential information when she is drunk. With this, she should have been removed from the operation but nooooo.
And finally we have Jeannie Chan, who in classic TVB serious drama fashion, is in depression mode for most of the beginning of the drama and it really got on my nerves. Somehow Jeannie also ends up joining the team.
I really hope things improve as I am 10 episodes in and it is still pretty average, but who knows maybe it can turn around.
Update up to episode 19: man this drama got so much worse. I thought the girl band would be a major plot point where the entire drama would center around it as thy competed and passed each round while investigating behind the scenes. Instead, they get together, sing one song, competition is over, and now they are all doing individual jobs to gather intel like Yuki is working at a launderette, Jeannie was a bodyguard then returned back to being a cop, and Kelly now works as a security consultant (wtf) at the company to gather intel. Wasn’t the main advertising point the girl band? Why was it disbanded after a few episodes? This is basically false advertising.
To top things off, the female leads are all so annoying. Yuki meets one of the antagonists played by Felix Ng while working at the launderette and somehow falls for him, so later when she discovered he was a bad guy she spends 2 episodes crying and moping over this fact. Come on! I also cannot get the thought out of my head that she is in her thirties now, so when she tries to act all cute in her cosplays I just have to cringe.
Jeannie is still the boring meh she ever was. She won’t let herself get pushed around anymore but she still does the monotone depressed voice.
The biggest sinner here is Kelly. The drama keeps trying to push her as this intelligent and observant psychologist, but it is too forced and so full of crap. One scene had me going wtf was during dinner at a restaurant she noticed Mark Ma bringing in a backpack and she noticed it could fit a 15” laptop in it. Then when all the ladies left the room, she surmised that he must have swapped out a key piece of laptop evidence because he brought in a backpack that just so happened to be the right size to carry that size of laptop. She was right, but what a completely stupid way to get to that conclusion and completely unrealistic. And man, she has such a great boyfriend played by Hugo Wong, like he is such a great catch in this drama, but Kelly treats him so badly. When her dad has a heart attack, Hugo rushes to get treatment to save his life, I mean that is a man you can depend on. When he later proposes she agrees but immediately regrets it saying something feels off or wrong. Later she tells him the news she wants to call off the engagement, he rightly loses his shit like wtf girl? I really hated her character after this, like what on earth were the writers thinking?
The best episode was episode 16, which had none of them in there and was a simple flashback episode of how Mark Ma met Jeannie’s friend and started dating her until her untimely demise. It was a great episode showing how they grew close and started dating, a great example of how you should show and not tell.
And man… Oscar Tao cannot act. He really sucks. He is Yuki’s old school friend who happened to be a beat cop and he secretly likes Yuki, but his acting is terrible.
This drama is 25 episodes long and so far nothing amazing has happened yet. Just slow-paced boringness and with 6 episodes left I can only imagine it not really improving much.
The point when it jumped the shark was when Mark Ma was reinstated as a cop after the drug dealer was caught in the early episodes, but after being reinstated he decided to go back undercover, so half the police station had to sign NDAs to not reveal his identity because they all knew his identity. Man, in real life you know he could not go undercover again because too many cops knew who he was so it was so stupid. Suddenly, the story took a turn and Mark Ma needed a girl group to compete in a competition to gather information on an organisation. Huh? The excuse was so weak it was clearly just a reason to get hot women together to show their legs.
Mark Ma weirdly is the best part of this drama as you’re always guessing what he is really up to. The ladies that make up his team really have me going huh? Kelly Cheung Plays a very rich and qualified Psychiatrist who is a consultant for the Police. She is shown to be observant and to notice stuff and make deductions that make no sense. One thing that had me going “pardon?” Was when she saw a notebook and noticed some marks on it where a clip was held on it, and somehow from that she deduced Mark Ma used it to hide an SD card and slip it out of the Police Station. What the actual f? Despite her position, she agreed to join the undercover girl band group. Why? She’s not a cop, why involve a civilian?
Kelly has a younger cousin played by Yuki Law, who is a cop, a very short cop but she is a cop. Despite being in her thirties now, the drama tries to portray her as this young adult in the drama who pretends to be 18 years old as she requested to join the undercover girl group. Huh? She is probably the worst member of the group because she leaks all confidential information when she is drunk. With this, she should have been removed from the operation but nooooo.
And finally we have Jeannie Chan, who in classic TVB serious drama fashion, is in depression mode for most of the beginning of the drama and it really got on my nerves. Somehow Jeannie also ends up joining the team.
I really hope things improve as I am 10 episodes in and it is still pretty average, but who knows maybe it can turn around.
Update up to episode 19: man this drama got so much worse. I thought the girl band would be a major plot point where the entire drama would center around it as thy competed and passed each round while investigating behind the scenes. Instead, they get together, sing one song, competition is over, and now they are all doing individual jobs to gather intel like Yuki is working at a launderette, Jeannie was a bodyguard then returned back to being a cop, and Kelly now works as a security consultant (wtf) at the company to gather intel. Wasn’t the main advertising point the girl band? Why was it disbanded after a few episodes? This is basically false advertising.
To top things off, the female leads are all so annoying. Yuki meets one of the antagonists played by Felix Ng while working at the launderette and somehow falls for him, so later when she discovered he was a bad guy she spends 2 episodes crying and moping over this fact. Come on! I also cannot get the thought out of my head that she is in her thirties now, so when she tries to act all cute in her cosplays I just have to cringe.
Jeannie is still the boring meh she ever was. She won’t let herself get pushed around anymore but she still does the monotone depressed voice.
The biggest sinner here is Kelly. The drama keeps trying to push her as this intelligent and observant psychologist, but it is too forced and so full of crap. One scene had me going wtf was during dinner at a restaurant she noticed Mark Ma bringing in a backpack and she noticed it could fit a 15” laptop in it. Then when all the ladies left the room, she surmised that he must have swapped out a key piece of laptop evidence because he brought in a backpack that just so happened to be the right size to carry that size of laptop. She was right, but what a completely stupid way to get to that conclusion and completely unrealistic. And man, she has such a great boyfriend played by Hugo Wong, like he is such a great catch in this drama, but Kelly treats him so badly. When her dad has a heart attack, Hugo rushes to get treatment to save his life, I mean that is a man you can depend on. When he later proposes she agrees but immediately regrets it saying something feels off or wrong. Later she tells him the news she wants to call off the engagement, he rightly loses his shit like wtf girl? I really hated her character after this, like what on earth were the writers thinking?
The best episode was episode 16, which had none of them in there and was a simple flashback episode of how Mark Ma met Jeannie’s friend and started dating her until her untimely demise. It was a great episode showing how they grew close and started dating, a great example of how you should show and not tell.
And man… Oscar Tao cannot act. He really sucks. He is Yuki’s old school friend who happened to be a beat cop and he secretly likes Yuki, but his acting is terrible.
This drama is 25 episodes long and so far nothing amazing has happened yet. Just slow-paced boringness and with 6 episodes left I can only imagine it not really improving much.
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