I binge-watched the tw-crime drama The Victims’ Game this week. It comes recommended! When the Taiwanese make a good show, they make a good show! Spoilery notes below.
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    Eight episodes, short and easily bingeable. I liked a few things and didn’t like a few things.
    The things I liked:

    — I liked that it had one single story and was not a procedural, which can get boring.
    — I liked that it tackled issues that most shows would be nervous to tackle, head on, e.g., mental health, sexuality. It was not done disrespectfully or nonchalantly, and the character sketches for this purpose were on point.
    — I liked that it was a short series (8 eps), and it was divided well.
    — I loved that there was no romance.

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    Things I didn’t like:

    — Although the topics discussed were serious and were well chosen, they couldn’t be discussed in depth, e.g., sexuality needed a much deeper dive than the due it was given. So the pacing was a little off.
    — One or two actors didn’t sit well with me. I know many thought Ruby Lin was great, but I thought it was a bit OTT.
    — I also thought some parts were really slowed down – too much slow mo makes me lose patience.

    Overall, I give this a thumbs up. It’s a good crime drama, not great though. Totally bingeable. (TBH, I think my own problem is that I kept comparing it with Stranger, and the standard eccentric/odd ML type format, which I thought this was a marginally lesser version of).

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