This review may contain spoilers
Katy Kung is so obnoxious in this
This drama was advertised as something spooky and scary and creepy. But when I started watching this and got 10 episodes in, it is just a run-of-the-mill fortune teller drama with the standard cynical characters trying to debunk superstitions like feng shui and so on.
So the drama stars Wayne Lai as this feng shui master who is extremely popular, and does live streams a lot to promote his expertise and business. I really like his character because it is just vague enough to seem like he really knows what he is doing and can speak with the dead, while at the same time he seems like he is also not really using his powers and is purely just very observant. This kept me guessing and I really enjoy his performance.
Then at the opposite end of the spectrum is Katy Kung. Oh my goodness, her character is the cynic and her character is unbelievably obnoxious, just constantly trying to debunk this or dispel that. The show informs us she had been doing this for so long that she had never dated anybody. Basically her life revolved around this obsessive behaviour. She spends most of the time just getting in Wayne Lai’s face and trying to prove he and other masters were frauds. For some reason, Wayne Lai hires her for quite a high salary and claims it is because her birth date and time were all Yin associated, making her great for contacting spirits. All this does is give her plenty of opportunities to see and try to prove what Wayne is doing was fraudulent and all the while being paid by the dame person. This made no sense to me, I mean isn’t this a conflict of interest and grounds for dismissal? Why hire such a person in the first place?
Then we have the side characters such as Karl Ting and Carman Ngai. These two can be annoying but not to the extent of Katy. Karl plays a guy who is in love with Katy but would not say it out loud, and when Wayne Lai makes a message seemingly from his mother appear using one of his techniques, Karl begged to work for Wayne Lai so he can hear from his mother. Now this I understand, but the dumb thing is that Karl’s salary is going through Katy, so Katy is getting his salary. This means he has to hope Katy remembers to transfer his money over to Karl every month. This is stupid on so many levels because wouldn’t paying Karl directly require paying less tax? Why pay Katy the large lump and subject the salary to a higher tax bracket and have her transfer Karl’s share over to him from Katy? This logic made no sense to me.
Carman Ngai plays a girls who has never dated so her dating status is A0. She always scares away men on the first date for some reason, and she blames Karl Ting because in the past he purchased a bottle of “cursed” water out of anger to curse Katy so she can never get a date after he said Karl would be single forever. Unfortunately, Carman somehow picked ip that bottle and drank it, and she believed it cursed her to never get a date. What a coincidence hey? In any case, she started working at Wayne Lai’s company after he saves her from a coma apparently induced by her spirit leaving her body, and has been a believer ever since.
It is an entertaining drama thanks to Wayne Lai’s presence but dragged down currently by Katy being this annoying person. Hopefully everything will make sense but for now it is literally just putting up with Katy’s pouting face while Wayne smiles at her.
So the drama stars Wayne Lai as this feng shui master who is extremely popular, and does live streams a lot to promote his expertise and business. I really like his character because it is just vague enough to seem like he really knows what he is doing and can speak with the dead, while at the same time he seems like he is also not really using his powers and is purely just very observant. This kept me guessing and I really enjoy his performance.
Then at the opposite end of the spectrum is Katy Kung. Oh my goodness, her character is the cynic and her character is unbelievably obnoxious, just constantly trying to debunk this or dispel that. The show informs us she had been doing this for so long that she had never dated anybody. Basically her life revolved around this obsessive behaviour. She spends most of the time just getting in Wayne Lai’s face and trying to prove he and other masters were frauds. For some reason, Wayne Lai hires her for quite a high salary and claims it is because her birth date and time were all Yin associated, making her great for contacting spirits. All this does is give her plenty of opportunities to see and try to prove what Wayne is doing was fraudulent and all the while being paid by the dame person. This made no sense to me, I mean isn’t this a conflict of interest and grounds for dismissal? Why hire such a person in the first place?
Then we have the side characters such as Karl Ting and Carman Ngai. These two can be annoying but not to the extent of Katy. Karl plays a guy who is in love with Katy but would not say it out loud, and when Wayne Lai makes a message seemingly from his mother appear using one of his techniques, Karl begged to work for Wayne Lai so he can hear from his mother. Now this I understand, but the dumb thing is that Karl’s salary is going through Katy, so Katy is getting his salary. This means he has to hope Katy remembers to transfer his money over to Karl every month. This is stupid on so many levels because wouldn’t paying Karl directly require paying less tax? Why pay Katy the large lump and subject the salary to a higher tax bracket and have her transfer Karl’s share over to him from Katy? This logic made no sense to me.
Carman Ngai plays a girls who has never dated so her dating status is A0. She always scares away men on the first date for some reason, and she blames Karl Ting because in the past he purchased a bottle of “cursed” water out of anger to curse Katy so she can never get a date after he said Karl would be single forever. Unfortunately, Carman somehow picked ip that bottle and drank it, and she believed it cursed her to never get a date. What a coincidence hey? In any case, she started working at Wayne Lai’s company after he saves her from a coma apparently induced by her spirit leaving her body, and has been a believer ever since.
It is an entertaining drama thanks to Wayne Lai’s presence but dragged down currently by Katy being this annoying person. Hopefully everything will make sense but for now it is literally just putting up with Katy’s pouting face while Wayne smiles at her.
Was this review helpful to you?
