Comfort Detective Show
This is a comfort drama set in 1920s Shanghai. The male leads are an investment banker turned detective and a gangster turned cop who really needs the help. The female lead is a reporter and also the daughter of the head of a large and powerful gang (and that gang leader is effectively the boss of the cop).
The cases are weird and resolved within 2 episodes of the crime, so there is a bit of a Scooby Doo effect here. There is an overarching narrative, generated by the setting, Shanghai in the 1920s.
It is a pleasant watch and the cases are unusual enough to keep the viewer interested, but this genre is usually not that challenging. I may be the one person here who thought the romantic relationship was telegraphed pretty early on, and the silly arguing and insults were an immature way to flirt. It helped keep the show light, which seems useful to me given “lots of murders in 1920s Shanghai” could be bleak.
The cases are weird and resolved within 2 episodes of the crime, so there is a bit of a Scooby Doo effect here. There is an overarching narrative, generated by the setting, Shanghai in the 1920s.
It is a pleasant watch and the cases are unusual enough to keep the viewer interested, but this genre is usually not that challenging. I may be the one person here who thought the romantic relationship was telegraphed pretty early on, and the silly arguing and insults were an immature way to flirt. It helped keep the show light, which seems useful to me given “lots of murders in 1920s Shanghai” could be bleak.
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