It’s Friday 10pm and I’m still in front of my office laptop in my bedroom…working. It’s been a very busy week for me as I have to update over 250 sheets of drawings for submission on next Monday. I’m all alone in this workload without getting any assistance. The worst thing is that there should be two colleagues to assist me on the authority aspects and submissions but they have abandoned the project to work on other jobs. The pending works ended up back in my to-do-next list which is already piling up high. It’s not going to be easy for me for at least another month.
The paragraph above is just for me to vent out my frustration. Very imbalanced distribution of works among the staff in my office. That’s the summary. To relieve my stress and to get back to the Friday mood, I treated myself a durian to satisfy my craving for it these few days. The durian tastes good and I enjoyed it while watching the final episode of a Hong Kong series called ‘Sinister Beings’ (逆天奇案) a moment ago.
Yup…a quick review to this 30-episode crime television drama that starred Ruco Chan, Ben Wong, Rosina Lam, Crystal Fung, Joman Chiang, Jonathan Cheung, Moon Lau, etc. The drama carries a very typical TVB formula for a police-based plot. Some of the crime cases are quick, predictable and unimaginative. I think I only find the last case (expected) to be the most interesting with an expert hacker pairing up with his wife to carry out the evil deeds. This is also elevated by solid performance by Jonathan Cheung who portrayed that hacker. Moon Lau did improved in her role as his wife but I still don’t quite like her disturbing cute voice.
I have not seen Ruco’s drama for quite some time and it’s good to see him back as he is a solid lead actor and it is very hard to find one nowadays in TVB. Ben is good too but he never truly shines in any of his roles (even lead roles). Many have been criticizing Crystal’s acting recently but I actually find her doing well here. It is Rosina Lam who couldn’t deliver as the first female lead in this drama. Her acting is so wooden. There is a scene of her finding out that Ruco cheated on her which is supposed to be very explosive and emotional and she gave a very dull performance (there is hardly any tear from her in that scene which felt so forced). The one that stood out from this series is surprisingly a junior actress / newcomer called Joman Chiang who portrayed a lawyer and she nailed it in such a convincing way.
As for the ending, it’s okay but I don’t quite like how it turns out that all the relationships between the main characters do not pull off. None of the romance works after 30 episodes of putting them together. This series do has a number of great action scenes and I quite like one of the theme songs for this drama. It’s called ‘Secret Garden’ by Hana Kuk. I have to find it later at Youtube. Out of 10 points, I rate ‘Sinister Beings’ a total of 7.5. That’s all for my review (not really a quick review though as it already took 3 long paragraphs).
Have a great weekend everyone! It’s Chinese Dragon Boat Festival (famously known as Dumpling Festival too) next Monday. Time to feast on some traditional rice dumplings.
(Images in this post are from various online sources)