Moonlight Resonance

This series was passed to me by my ex-boss slightly more than 1 year ago. Finally started on so I could get rid of it!

The beginning was still bearable. The usual TVB drama stuff, trying to promote traditional family values and going all the way out to create the happy ending everybody loves. But the effort resulted in the portrayal of a close-to-the-point-of-dysfunctional family.

Coax back a damn f**king irritating, free-loading aunt after countless bouts of serious misbehaviour. She would have thrown out of my house after the first time she tried anything funny.

Have tons of fun playing 亲情猜拳 and 亲情绕口令 as a regular post-dinner activity. Really! Which really normal family does that??! I really empathize with 佳美 when she said she refused to go up for dinner because they have fun playing those things! Boey tahan!

The whole family webcammed with 佳美 for the aunt's birthday surprise. Later, when she was coming over to Hong Kong, all of them suddenly became very curious about how she looked like and found an ancient tomboyish photo, hence nicknaming her 唐山大兄 and even invented a wayang for it. Everybody forgot about the webcam thing! Incredible! Or they just wanted an excuse to give her a nickname.

Husband who kept going back to his ex-wife's home on the pretext of seeing his children. I don't blame his wife for feeling unhappy. Sure, it's his right to see his children. Sure, the children disliked going over to his place. But they could still meet in a public place right? A restaurant or something, everybody minus the ex-wife and ex-father-in-law?

Dr Yu and Dr Ling were neighbours in the same ward when they were born. Both became doctors. Fast forward X years later, Dr Ling was already a specialist who has delivered a wall-full of babies while Dr Yu has only just finished her probation. Hmm...

Imagine slogging for the past 2 decades building a business for your family. Or so you thought. Your husband and mother-in-law forgot to tell you that they were building the business not for you and your child, but for those kids from the other family! Only a saint wouldn't be mad!

The youngest son was an almost-illiterate but fortunately good enough at IT to do computer sales. So why didn't he go get a certificate in IT or something? And his family, all waiting to put him in charge of the company's IT if he joined. TVB, please take public education seriously. Can sell computers doesn't mean you can fix them up and it sure doesn't mean you can head the whole ITD!

And the best of all, portraying the second time a man has betrayed his lawful wife (albeit a different one) as a "happy-ending". How twisted can the script-writers get? The wife #2 has been unfairly villainized!

But that's why all these are on tv.

Rating: Hmm dunno ley. But it's the blockbuster of the year, so just watch lor.