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teafiend · 7 months ago

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Every once in a blue moon, I get haunted by this drama, one I watched more than 25 years ago. 🧐🤔

The main female character is unforgettable, and the psychopathic villain (all the red flags 🚩🚩🚩) is fascinating too. But I wonder what made this show memorable despite not being the type of storylines I enjoy.

(I have a few favourites from this era which don’t surface much in my consciousness. There is only one show from this period which I rewatch once every decade, but the reasons for that is clear to me).

Now that it is available on YouTube, maybe a rewatch (skimming) is in order to clarify on the whys.

#TVB drama #cantonese drama #now that I have rewatched a few of the episodes I realised what haunted me about this show #the pervasive misogyny and sexism #the sympathy extended to the villain which I thought undeserved #yes he had a sympathetic backstory but sorry he IS NOT AT ALL sympathetic to me #he is a psychopath who clearly knew what he was doing #we give too much leeway to MEN (fictional and real ones)#and they don’t deserve it #not after what they did #I don’t care what is their backstory #just another lousy excuse to let them wriggle out of their wrongdoings #it is funny because I was just rereading my own Mo Tae Gu fics #another demented/violent male character given a lot of excuses #and the memory of this TVB drama resurfaced #weird how the mind works #I ship MTG with a favourite female character in AUs #but I don’t have much empathy for MTG though sympathetic to the reasons for his being (in canon)#but OMFG #these male characters (and corresponding RL ones) deserve every bad thing which come their way #his mother IS NOT to blame HE IS #AMBITION #孽吻 #Amy Kwok #Gallen Lo #Leung Siu Bing #Michael Tao Dai Yu #thriller/crime #‘romance’

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