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This review may contain spoilers
I finished it but at what cost (spoilers ahead but I feel like you might want to know this one...)
I feel like a vampire.
I'm not gonna explain that...
So this is...a show. Very disturbing show. Tseng Jing Hua is such a good actor and he always picks interesting projects and unfortunately, he doesn't have many lead roles so when I found out this show was coming, I was vibrating with joy! Now, I am vibrating with a mix of rage and sadness. It's really hard reviewing this show because there are two completely different things going on here.
On one hand, this is a show that follows two documentary creators as they get a once-in-a-lifetime chance to interview a serial killer on the death row. Things go south very fast as one of these people starts to have weird visions of this serial killer in a past she has never been a part of. And then we get transferred to the past and see what drove this cold-blooded killer.
The show is well-acted, the plot is doing its job for the most part though there is a level of confusion that never really gets resolved, you just sort of forget about it as the trauma and ruin piles up. It's partially very square and clear. It's a story that shows class divide, failing systems, and the bittersweetness of first love. It's only once you add the future parts that things get complicated because...what is happening? Is this a haunting? Is this a transmigration story? Is it a murder story? Are we solving some puzzle, here?
But the show really just drops the ball on that front as the second, or the last third really, of the show rolls in, bulldozes over the plot and stabs you 57 times in the stomach before dropping into a very slow-mo ending.
And that's the thing.
So on one hand, this is a drama, on the other, this is a horrifyingly realistic depiction of a violent group rape and the fallout after it and the absolute failure of the corrupted justice system that bamboozles the victim and the viewers.
How am I supposed to talk about this like it's a regular drama?! Because it wasn't. I'm just filled with blood-thirst now! Who even cares, I'm gonna be the rainstorm killer! We should ALL be the rainstorm killer! Who wouldn't be after what happened?!
And that's my point.
Certain elements once introduced into a story, completely hijack any conversation about that story. This is not a show anymore; this is a SA story. It's only about that.
If I was to review the rest of this show, I would say: it's painful and frustrating to watch at times but there is hope somewhere in it and it was a nice watch. But then if I consider Episodes 8-10, then that was a traumatizing and way too detailed display of SA and I don't think anyone should watch that. Also if the creators thought it was okay to show the violence of that part, then I want a gorey stabbing scene! Give me the part where the rapist pissed his pants. Show me his organs falling out of his stomach as he screams his last breaths, I don't care! Is that too much? Well, why is it that showing the worst nightmare of all women in gorey details is okay but we draw the line at a monster getting slain?!
Now, I think part two might give my inner Vampire some peace but as it stands, part one has both upset me greatly and angered me to the point of dying from anger (But this is not Wuxia, so I'll live. You know who won't? Those villains! We know because Rainstorm killer is gonna get them!!!)
So yeah. First part of the show: great. Well-made. Well-acted. A bit confusing. A solid watch.
Second half: Drop. Not worth the trauma. Still well-acted and unfortunately, well-written, possibly better written than the first part. Like, this is the point they were getting at this whole time. This is the climax of the story. But I felt sick. Could it have been worse? Maybe. Definitely if it was a US show. (They just have no sense of stopping before it's too much.) But it was enough to be traumatizing.
Anyways, it's a good show but the ending just runs you over like a train and honestly, all I wanna do is scream curses at something or someone, now. I'm really not coherent anymore.
And you know what makes it worse? I am finishing this show, right after I watched a report of an almost-identical crime having been committed in UK, now in 2026. This isn't fiction. This is just documented reality with fictional names. It's happened now in UK, it happened 20 years ago in SK, and the years between, before and beyond, it has been happening all over the world. And all those monsters are getting away in the exact same way.
So that's why I'm a vampire. Well. I guess I explained myself after all.
I'm not gonna explain that...
So this is...a show. Very disturbing show. Tseng Jing Hua is such a good actor and he always picks interesting projects and unfortunately, he doesn't have many lead roles so when I found out this show was coming, I was vibrating with joy! Now, I am vibrating with a mix of rage and sadness. It's really hard reviewing this show because there are two completely different things going on here.
On one hand, this is a show that follows two documentary creators as they get a once-in-a-lifetime chance to interview a serial killer on the death row. Things go south very fast as one of these people starts to have weird visions of this serial killer in a past she has never been a part of. And then we get transferred to the past and see what drove this cold-blooded killer.
The show is well-acted, the plot is doing its job for the most part though there is a level of confusion that never really gets resolved, you just sort of forget about it as the trauma and ruin piles up. It's partially very square and clear. It's a story that shows class divide, failing systems, and the bittersweetness of first love. It's only once you add the future parts that things get complicated because...what is happening? Is this a haunting? Is this a transmigration story? Is it a murder story? Are we solving some puzzle, here?
But the show really just drops the ball on that front as the second, or the last third really, of the show rolls in, bulldozes over the plot and stabs you 57 times in the stomach before dropping into a very slow-mo ending.
And that's the thing.
So on one hand, this is a drama, on the other, this is a horrifyingly realistic depiction of a violent group rape and the fallout after it and the absolute failure of the corrupted justice system that bamboozles the victim and the viewers.
How am I supposed to talk about this like it's a regular drama?! Because it wasn't. I'm just filled with blood-thirst now! Who even cares, I'm gonna be the rainstorm killer! We should ALL be the rainstorm killer! Who wouldn't be after what happened?!
And that's my point.
Certain elements once introduced into a story, completely hijack any conversation about that story. This is not a show anymore; this is a SA story. It's only about that.
If I was to review the rest of this show, I would say: it's painful and frustrating to watch at times but there is hope somewhere in it and it was a nice watch. But then if I consider Episodes 8-10, then that was a traumatizing and way too detailed display of SA and I don't think anyone should watch that. Also if the creators thought it was okay to show the violence of that part, then I want a gorey stabbing scene! Give me the part where the rapist pissed his pants. Show me his organs falling out of his stomach as he screams his last breaths, I don't care! Is that too much? Well, why is it that showing the worst nightmare of all women in gorey details is okay but we draw the line at a monster getting slain?!
Now, I think part two might give my inner Vampire some peace but as it stands, part one has both upset me greatly and angered me to the point of dying from anger (But this is not Wuxia, so I'll live. You know who won't? Those villains! We know because Rainstorm killer is gonna get them!!!)
So yeah. First part of the show: great. Well-made. Well-acted. A bit confusing. A solid watch.
Second half: Drop. Not worth the trauma. Still well-acted and unfortunately, well-written, possibly better written than the first part. Like, this is the point they were getting at this whole time. This is the climax of the story. But I felt sick. Could it have been worse? Maybe. Definitely if it was a US show. (They just have no sense of stopping before it's too much.) But it was enough to be traumatizing.
Anyways, it's a good show but the ending just runs you over like a train and honestly, all I wanna do is scream curses at something or someone, now. I'm really not coherent anymore.
And you know what makes it worse? I am finishing this show, right after I watched a report of an almost-identical crime having been committed in UK, now in 2026. This isn't fiction. This is just documented reality with fictional names. It's happened now in UK, it happened 20 years ago in SK, and the years between, before and beyond, it has been happening all over the world. And all those monsters are getting away in the exact same way.
So that's why I'm a vampire. Well. I guess I explained myself after all.
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