K9 Cop Review

Title: K9 Cop

AKA: Police Dog Brother

Genre: Romance, Comedy, Family

Episodes: 19

Broadcast period: 2016-Feb to 2017-Feb

Cast: Linda Chung, Bosco Wong, Raymond Wong Ho Yin, Oscar Leung and Tracy Chu.

After losing both his parents at a young age CID officer Lai Yat Tsau (Bosco Wong) has been raising his three younger sisters on his own. The oldest is a kindergarten teacher, whose gullible nature and kindness is taken advantage of. The second oldest is completely different in the sense that she loves money, and originally started dating Fai Chung Lim (Raymond Wong Ho Yin), Yat Tsaus partner after she had found out he was rich. And lastly the youngest who is married and lives with her good-for-nothing husband with them.

Being a reckless person, Yat Tsau usually causes havoc wherever he goes while chasing criminals and crooks. And after a busting some drug dealers, Yat Tsau gets bitten by a watchdog called “Brother”, and is taken to the hospital. While getting treatment he meets Ma Chi Ho (Linda Chung). At first, she doesn’t tell him who she is, but soon he realizes that she is a veterinarian and is more interested in saving Brother, than him.

Chi Ho is an animal lover and works at the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conversion Department. She is known as being stubborn and quite blunt, much to others dismay. When she notices that Brother has the capabilities to become a police dog, she tries to make her case. AT the same time Yat Tsau is being transferred to the Police Dog unit, to get some discipline. And as fate has it, Brother becomes his partner…

Okay I might have spoiled a bit, but not all. Or at least I think so…

This drama I watched in one go, mainly because I am an animal lover, so anything with animals I will watch. That said, the drama as a whole is one of the good ones. Though acting and coordination is a bit lacking – also the editing could have been done better, the overall experience was okay. I like Mainland/Hong Kong series since they are quite a bit different than the rest (be it Taiwanese, Japanese and/or Korean). There is a lot of focus on interaction between characters, and the storyline is generally sub-plot. That is something you get used to though.

All in all, a good story and interesting character interaction.

☆☆☆½ / 3½ out of 5 stars

♥♥♥½ / 3½ out of 5 hearts

Line Walker Review

Title: Line Walker

AKA: The Apostle

Genre: Crime, Action, Thriller, Police, Undercover

Episodes: 31

Broadcast period: 2014-Aug to 2014-Oct

Cast: Michael Miu, Charmaine Sheh, Raymond Lam, Sharon Chan, Benz Hui, Sammy Sum, Elena Kong, Oscar Leung and Toby Leung.

Cheuk Hoi (Michael Miu) is the chief inspector of CIB and a handler for undercover cops. One evening he gets a call from his friend and the superintendent Hong Sir, to meet him at a rooftop in downtown Hong Kong, only to witness Hong falling of the building. In his last breath, Hong Sir utters that there is a corrupt cop in the police force and that Cheuk Hoi must save his five undercover agents – whom he was a handler for.

Back at the CIB Cheuk Hoi notices that the computers had been hacked, but fortunately the information of the undercover agents had been deleted by Hong Sir. Unfortunately, this makes Cheuk Hoi’s job even harder.

By luck he manages to find one: Ting Siu Ka “Ding Jie” (Charmaine Sheh), an undercover cop working as masseuse. She collects intel from the customers: some of them are the girlfriends of goons.

After noticing that she has weird friendship with a lowly goon, Sit Ka Keung “Bao Seed” (Raymond Lam), he puts her on the task to become his underling as Hong Sirs agenda for his five undercover cops is to catch the famous Chum Foon Fei ”Foon Hei Gor” (Benz Hui): a mafia boss owning most of underground Hong Kong.

Now Ding Jie must find out where her fellow UCs are, and together with Cheuk Sir keep her and the UCS from being exposed…

It’s been a while since I’ve watched Cantonese dramas. Generally, it is because I have low expectations in terms of quality, which in my experience I have seen several of. This drama however is so good and intriguing that I didn’t care. In the first 20 episodes, I really didn’t care if things were badly made, everything else was so good! The characters were well written, the storyline was thrilling and the entire screenplay was believable. Yes. there was bad acting here and there, weird “coincidences” and there were some stupid things I couldn’t get my head around, but that didn’t ruin the overall drama. After episode 20, the drama gets confusing a bit, yet you want to continues – kind of a charm if you will. So, it doesn’t necessarily get bad, just unnecessarily long or ‘extended'.

I think I will always remember Line Walker as a drama I really enjoyed, so yes, I think I would recommend it.

☆☆☆½ / 3½ out of 5 stars

♥♥♥♥½ / 4½ out of 5 hearts