Regeneration (2024)

Unique show that leaves a lasting impression

Regeneration is a complex, multi dimensional show with no hero or villain. It may sound unrealistic but the main hero is somewhat of an anti-hero playing with everyone while the victims are somewhat the villain but with reasons. It is understandable and reasonable for every character to act in the way they do and that is what makes a show relatable yet remaining a fantasy and a mystery.

The show changes genre quite a lot but mystery remains the core of it all. While the main character is established as dead and shrouded in mystery it is quite clear after a while that most if not everyone had knowledge of what they were doing and it is them that failed to make use of the main character where they got outsmarted while trying to play him. The show is smart, logical while not being overbearing to the audience.

The actions of the main hero is somewhat psychopathic and I would have loved the guy to have thought about his future more than trying to hurt others. I just didn't find the reason for most actions as there was no reason for him to hurt himself in trying to cheat for his brother. As he was going to cheat for his brother and he intentionally made him fail he could have just not given the exam. It felt quite dumb on his part while being a top student. Again he got out of jail and had plenty of opportunity to make use of his brain to do something with his life but he decided to go to university anyway and act like a student and got caught being involved way too much. It was not that obvious what his end goal was. As people go to university to learn and to get a degree, however, he was not learning much apart from business ideas from the finance club and he was surely not gonna get a degree.

Another gripe is his psychopathic girl friend. That girl seemed odd from the start and as time went by it was quite clear she was not in her right mind and he dumped her or she dumped him. But whatever it was it did not seem relevant to the story of why she was called into question and asked to come in his funeral.

Everyone tried to use him and failed while he used everyone and failed to make use of anything. I wish the show had a proper reason to why anything happened. It seemed it was a true story and I would not have minded if the director took some liberty in changing things to make some things more interesting.

Real life crime stories are interesting, however, it is not often satisfying. The same goes for here. Every story ends on a cliffhanger where we know what happened and why it happened but we desperately want to know more and want the hero to say why he did what he did and if he had any reasonable explanation to what he did. It is generally better to give some plot armor to the main character and give him a reasonable love interest that we all can relate to. I understand a true story has its limits and what we got is not something I would say is unfinished just it is unfulfilling to some degree.

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It all makes sense. And for that, it failed.

There’s not a single person that took even a peek at a trailer of this drama without every single bit of expectation weighing down on a single character alone. Everything, depended on portraying this rare lead character in drama land well enough. A balance of unforgivable and mysterious acts from Mr. Suave we can’t help but to uncover. A disturbing past, behind a dashing smile.

But i ask, how? How can you succeed at the only thing you set out to do, that EVERYONE wishes to see executed, and still fail? Well, you take all of the great build up and payoffs from the initial 7ish episodes and just say the magic word, sike.

Fe Ke

A great introduction of whom we’re dealing with here. A couple perspective twists thrown in early to link everyone’s experience with the man of the hour seamlessly. Slow, satisfying burns of finesse, open arms, and welcoming opportunities. Something’s unbalanced though, can’t quite tilt my soda can on it.

FeKe

Near flawless segues from one story to the other, why is that.. though? Was recollection always this easy? I mean hell, they’re bouncing off one another as if all of this over the past couple years has happened to them last week. Meh, who cares. These campfire stories are going great. Replace the battery in the flashlight for us Su Qian, that’s a 40 episode remake of classic Kdrama if i ever seen one. Something’s not quite adding up though, surely if i sell AMC now Cheng it wouldn’t hu-


Feke

Oh so predictable. Wait, come again? His daughter did what after? Hold on, these are the lies now, right? Well who the fuck wrote the lies y’all were dishing out the past 5 hours and where can i contact them for an inquiry? I mean this is absurd, why even stick with what really happened at this point when you can just make a better truth up. Now that I’m thinking about it, throw the damn soda can away already.


Fake

Hints of stories mixed so well together you refuse to believe the “reality” you chase down after them. You can tell the exact moment they decided to just start wiping their ass with the original work and start attempting to spin things their own way. I didn’t want to believe what i was told, but 7 episodes is as far as you need to go here to get what you want. 8 if you’re up for a good laugh after the dark and depressing themes this drama oozed throughout.

I’m not mad at the time i wasted. After all, the “twists” were at least in line with who most of these characters were from the jump, so it was of no surprise to me seeing it all go to shit because they must’ve forgot they were adapting an original work halfway through. I just wonder if the FL’s role was this dull and pointless there as well.

I don’t usually poke mindless fun at a drama without some pros at least, so here :
~ Skip to Su Qian. Done? Skip again to Su Qian, you’re welcome.
~ Great cinematography, music, and use of imagery.
~ Episodes 1-7 are worth your time, skip to Su Qian after. Done ? Close it out.
~New… party trick?

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