Ask MDL: And Now For Something Different Choi Fung was a determined and smart young girl. One day she meets Ah Wong , known as the "simple-minded" grown man due to a mental brain damage; he causes her a lot of trouble when he starts calling her his wife after she saves him once. Even so, whenever kids picked on him, she would help him out. Choi Fung's step-mother Lau Seung Seung only cares for her birth daughter Choi Dip and refuses to let Choi Dip marry Ah Wong when she realizes he is the one that the two families had an arranged birth marriage for. She and her daughter plot a scheme to make Choi Fung marry Ah Wong instead. Choi Fung thinks that she will be marrying Bao Gai Chung, but when wedding day arrived it was already too late. Her mother-in-law Mai Chu Lien likes the daughter-in-law and refuses to let Choi Fung go. Problematic and a few blissful moments in their daily lives are continuous under the new roof, not to mention a dark secret about Ah Wong when someone from his past turns up and causes even more disruptions in their lives: Yeung Pui Kwan. Edit Translation
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Cast & Credits
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![Roger Kwok in Square Pegs Hong Kong Drama (2002)]( "Roger Kwok in Square Pegs Hong Kong Drama (2002)")
Roger KwokTing Seung Wong / Ah WongMain Role -
![Jessica Hsuan in Square Pegs Hong Kong Drama (2002)]( "Jessica Hsuan in Square Pegs Hong Kong Drama (2002)")
Jessica Hsuan Main Role -
![Winnie Yeung in Square Pegs Hong Kong Drama (2002)]( "Winnie Yeung in Square Pegs Hong Kong Drama (2002)")
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![Raymond Cho in Square Pegs Hong Kong Drama (2002)]( "Raymond Cho in Square Pegs Hong Kong Drama (2002)")
Raymond Cho Support Role -
![Leila Tong in Square Pegs Hong Kong Drama (2002)]( "Leila Tong in Square Pegs Hong Kong Drama (2002)")
Leila Tong Support Role -
![Benz Hui in Square Pegs Hong Kong Drama (2002)]( "Benz Hui in Square Pegs Hong Kong Drama (2002)")
Benz HuiTing Yau LikSupport Role
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Ah Wong is not your usual shiny leading man. He is mentally disabled, a child trapped in a body of grown man with a bad bowl cut to match. He represents the best in us, when we were young and most innocent. Your heart will break when he’s hurt, and it will rejoice when he rises to the challenge. Roger Kwok’s performance is spot on, nailing the tiniest detail from the voice, the hand gestures, to the facial expressions. This is his role of a lifetime. No other actor can touch him here, not even Tom Hanks as Forest Gump.
Jessica Hsuan is a very down-to-earth actress who rarely overdoes it. Give her any ridiculous plot and she will keep the story grounded. Her Choi Fung starts out a girl who doesn’t want to be stuck with Ah Wong and tries all sorts of tricks to get out of their marriage. Then she learns to adapt and slowly starts to care for the husband who can never really be a husband to her. Jessica, with her acting style, makes that progression totally believable.
The rest of the cast ranges from decent to very good. The script and the directing are basic. It’s really Roger who makes this show into something unique and memorable.
The reason why I can’t give this 10/10 is in the last few episodes. I have a hard time accepting that a woman would fall for a man who is, in effect, a child. It doesn’t feel right. Choi Fung may love Ah Wong, but to actually be in love? No. Just no.
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