The Detective Season 2 (2021)

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Though not overly exciting, I have sort of enjoyed the first half of the story (season 1) because there is nothing out there to watch. I thought the second half would more or less be the same, continue from the first half. To my disappointment, the writing gets really bad and childish, though the storyline continues. Throughout, I have been suppressing myself from hurling pillows at my computer. And I’m glad it’s over.

From season 1, we have established that Jun Wujiu (Li Xizi) is a genius investigator, and he works seamlessly with Cheng Yang (Chen Ziyou), who wears many hats (he is a police officer cum prosecutor cum magistrate - what a conflict of interest here), in solving criminal cases after cases. What seemingly unrelated, in fact all these cases are associated with each other and ultimately, pointing to a couple of villains who are behind all the killings in broad daylight. When the dots are connected, it is not difficult for the team to find evidence to put the villains away, and that’s the boring and frustrating part because of the bad writing. Though the villains are blatant and out in the open, the protagonists become very stupid and do all the dumb things that even a 3-year old wouldn’t do (well, maybe I exaggerated, but you get what I mean). The dialogues become kiddie with a bunch of noise and no substance. The timeline is all messed up (when it’s broad daylight, the dialogues refer to midnight etc.) causing eye-rolls constantly. Glaring flaws and plot holes run every minute. From episode 8 onwards, every episode is a torture – I feel like vomiting blood.

My Verdict
This is a very disappointing drama. There’s no character development, no plot build-up, no epiphany, and no planning because the protagonists are always reactionary. If you are looking for romance, there’s none either (I don’t care so much about romance here). Not one character stands out that makes viewers love and remember. The male lead character, Cheng Yang, is not very impressive though the actor looks very nice in his uniform. Perhaps that’s the only thing I like the most – beautiful constable uniform (call me skin deep).

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It was fairly enjoyable!

I actually enjoyed both seasons. The cases were quite interesting and it wasn’t as repetitive as Ancient Detective. Similar to Imperial Coroner but not so much autopsy stuff. There was a bit fighting too which I enjoyed.

I would actually have given this a 7.8 if there was a choice. Altho the main actors and actresses were kinda geeen but I thought they did a not bad job. And the plot helped. It wasn’t moving tooo slow either imo. I loved the interaction between ML2 and Wen Yue.

It’s not a spoiler per say but you might want to know how S1 and S2 is set up before you start. S1 had multiple cases spanning over an average of 2.5 episodes. S1 ended very abruptly and you really need to watch S2. S2 focused on just the last case in S1 but the eps were an average of 22 minutes each.

Things to watch out for:
Subs are horrendous. Also be warned that everybody is pretty new altho I did recognise one human (Zhou Fei’s dad from LOF). Andddddd the standard of beauty might not reach your standard of beauty. I liked two of the actresses tho. There also wasn't much hint of romance btw.

I would be interested to know your thoughts!

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