Shadow of Justice (2021)

Bobby, step out of the way for the younger TVB actors!

Bobby was an absolute joke in this. Actually, that is kind of ironic because Bobby thinks he's funny when really, he is just a loud, mentally challenged old man, you know, the kind who can't stop laughing when he talks. There's nothing worse than an old actor who can't get out of the way for the younger TVB actors to step up. If I may quote Bob Dylan's song "The Times They Are A-Changin": "Your old road is rapidly agin'/Please get out of the new one/If you can't lend your hand/For the times they are a-changin."

The trailer and the opening theme song video both seemed to say that the storyline is too clever for its own good. I may have only watched 1 episode, but I felt my hunch was right. It's a bad idea to base a TV drama on chess when it's not about playing chess! It's a particularly bad idea to use playing chess as a metaphor for mind games because "Queen's Gambit", a very-well received Netflix series that needs no further introduction, only came out a few months before this drama.

I praise the other actors and actresses in "Shadow of Justice" because they had to put up with fat-headed Bobby who improvises when he can't remember his lines. Anyone who has watched "House of Spirits" (a 2016 drama Bobby was also the lead in) would know what I mean. I think he gets away with stuff like that at TVB because he is a senior citizen and in Chinese Culture, respecting your elders goes without saying.

In short, don't watch. Go wash your hair or clean your room because that would be better time spent.

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