Theme: Legal drama
Cast: Ben Wong,
Louis Cheung, Ram Chiang, Grace Chan, Elaine Yiu, Jeannie Chan, Stephanie Ho,
Natalie Tong, Timothy Cheng, Elena Kong and Moon Lau.
What is this series
about? This series promotes itself as a legal drama revolving the big four newbies
actresses; Grace Chan, Jeannie Chan, Stephanie Ho and Moon Lau but at the end
of the day it’s falls short of exploring the meaning of justice in the legal
world and instead it is a try-hard love romance drama.
Grace Chan: From
the start you will find Giselle charming, likeable and friendly, but eventually
you will be annoyed that she is really a biased, naïve and judgemental person. At
the start of the series I was intrigued by her unique character – someone outgoing
and ambitious in a way of wanting to become a barrister. Her smiles convinces
you that she is a graceful and nice person, her facial expressions convinces
you she can be cute and this is why Grace Chan rocked in this series as
Giselle. Before the series changed focus to Elaine Yiu’s Vivian adultery, she
got a lot of screen-time compared to the other three supporting actresses. This
all came to an end though when the series showed her human failings as
illogical and someone quite dumb. I am talking about towards the end of the
series when Li Dan falsely accusing Barrister Fan of raping her. Most of the
evidence pointed towards that Barrister Fan was innocent and did nothing wrong,
but Giselle refused to believe in this fact. It’s reasonable to have a few
doubts like everyone else whether Barrister Fan was a two-faced creep but
Giselle didn’t really bother to argue and seek the truth. She supported Li Dan
all the way simply because she was a long time old buddy. It was confirmed when
she stubbornly decided to give away Li Dan’s diary to Li Dan’s parents instead
of handing it into the police because she wants to respect Li Dan’s privacy?
This made no sense because if Giselle thought about it, if Li Dan’s parents really
read that Li Dan wrote something that can prove Barrister Fan’s innocence can
you guarantee they will do the right thing and hand it in? They didn’t end up
handing it in for selfish reasons and this could have jeopardise Barrister Fan,
potentially causing him to go to jail. I liked it when Quinton held a temper
with Giselle for not doing the right thing.
Overall Grace Chan did a marvellous job portraying someone hardworking
and overcoming challenges. She acted very natural when it came to body
movements and her eye expressions speak volume. For a newbie she did very well
so I daresay she will one day get TV Queen. One Day…
However, the problem with Grace in this series though was that she completely
failed to convince me as someone who studied in Australia. The terminology she
used were all wrong and the way she spoke in English in no way resembled
Australian English. If she did any research at all, Australians do not say ‘mom’
but ‘mum’ for a start. Also, her English sounded very Canadian (because she was
raised in Canada) but if she really wanted to try she could of attempted to mimic
the Australian English accent where we use a lot of diminutives, abbreviations,
high rising tones, assimilations and slangs. But she didn’t. I wouldn’t have
minded too much but the drama excessively emphasised that she was from
Australia and it started to look too ‘put-on’ and fake. The props in her room
with the Australian flag, the Australian animal toys and the Australian cup, it
looked way too forced in my opinion. Why can’t the writers just make her come
from Canada? Obviously those that aren’t Australian may not notice this flaw
from Grace Chan at all but being an actress Grace should have acted a character
different from her real life and I just see Grace Chan but not Giselle in this
series when she talks about the “I come from Australia” scenes.
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