I enjoyed watching Episode 2.
Before I start my episode thoughts I noticed that this series is broadcast 7 days a week - quite unusual to TVB's usual schedule of 5 days a week (during the week day). I remember the last time that TVB did this was for Empress of China (probably because there were 72 episodes) but here it's only 25 episodes. Well I can only welcome it because I anticipate in watching this series everyday as it is very entertaining.
Here was what happened:
The episode started with a photo of Gin at a burial memorial site. That being said, it wasn't about Gin but about the photo of the guy on her right. May's mother (I will just refer her as Mimi) was a psycho scam who was obviously doing phony practices for her clients so the dead guy could live in peace without the ghosts bothering him. Watch that scene and you will know what I mean.
Pause. I find the dialogue of the 'linglang' (does it mean child?) to 'ailang' (lover) to 'darling' rather funny. At her first scene already Mimi shines as someone that is convincing as a scammer. Zhu mimi suited this veteran role perfectly.
Continue. Anyway there were two shark loaners outside of May's place and demanded her to come out and pay her back the money that her dodgy boyfriend from the first episode made her borrow (I knew it). Mimi comes to the rescue and tells the two men that she's not inside but they can go inside and be her client. The shark loaners agree and they come inside. With May not in sight, Mimi asks what they are looking for and they simply reply 'money'. Mimi plays all these tricks and say, 'nope you guys will never get the money back.' The two refuse to buy what Mimi said after Mimi charging them some hundred dollars but when they went to the draw to get the cash back it was instead fake money for the dead and off they go.
May comes out and Mimi gives her a lecture on being conned by her boyfriend. Mimi urges May to hunt her ex-boyfriend and tells her to look west. May actually goes looking for her ex-boyfriend on the west-direction and surprise surprise she saw him trying to con a chubby lady (this guy should claim the title of soft rice king or serial liar). When he sees May he tries to run away but instead run into May's sharkloaners. The sharkloaners weren't targeting for dude but instead were targeting for May. He decided to set up a trap and called May's name. May sees the shark loaners she runs off and when she was being chased there came a phone call from a local police station asking her to collect the evidence from the incident of Gin's death.
May runs towards the local police station that was conveniently across the road and force the shark loaners to leave her alone. This is not for long as once she retrieves the handbag along with the phone the shark loaners come after her and she tries to run towards a car in a car-park. The shark loaners refuse to let go of her and got a tool to try and get in. Her phone was smashed before so she uses Gin's phone (more like her fake phone that Gin innocently used and got electrocuted) to call the police. It was out of battery so May had to charge it and there comes Gin's ghost emerging.
Gin was unaware that she was dead and she tried to call the police. Instead she made the shark loaners call the police themselves and then the police told them that they locked their location and will be arriving momentarily. They run off and May is scared to death with Gin, who was supposed to be dead.
May hurries back home and tells her mum that she saw a ghost. Mimi was scamming a client during that time and she scared the client away. Mimi was frustrated with May and shooed her off. May was back in her room and she listened to Mimi's dialogue with her client before about how ghosts were humans in the past and to avoid ghosts bothering them is to first fulfill their regrets in life. May charges the phone back on and then Gin comes out. She got dead scared this and went back to Mimi of course couldn't see Gin. May was holding a sword and tried to take Gin down with the sword but it just went through her and instead May accidentally knocked her mum!
After Gin and May calm down, they search on the web about what happened to Gin and they found a clip that explained Gin wasn't a ghost at all but some electronic particle (some weird stuff I tell you).
After that all I could remember was that May searched on another link showing posts to remember Gin after her death one year ago and May went back to Gin's office.
Inside the architect firm, everyone was talking about the post about Gin and distastefully her past co-workers who didn't have a good experience with her decided to comment on the post by posting 'shit' -yes, 'shit'. Gin got furious.
They get back outside and we see Michael one year after with a cool car, cool girl and cool sunglasses. Funnily enough, he changed back to the nerdy glasses and took his luggage. Gin simply stared at him but Michael couldn't see and walked past. The episode ended with Gin looking disappointed.
End.
What I like about this series so far is that it is consistently funny and that in each episode it is filled with gags and some punny dialogues. Mimi is fantastic so far as the scammer who I have yet to get her name, Kristal shines in her role as May who gives the right expressions at the right time and everything was spot on. Nancy on the other hand is fine as well but she did exceptionally well in the last scene where she looked at Michael with the look of joyfulness yet curiosity. No comment for Moses in this episode.
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