Parasites Reviews

The color and texture are excellent. It's too short. From the trailer, it seems that Haiqingyue and Xiaoxiang are intertwined. Xiaoxiang's experiment turned her into a reflection of Haiqingyue in the water pool, and she had an accident and died.
Haiqingyue blames herself and fears taking responsibility, so she becomes a reflection, losing her memory. The male lead finds her and wants to use a complete technique to restore her. He has always been against this unethical technology.
Luo Qiang secretly loves Haiqingyue, so he keeps obstructing the male lead, fearing that Haiqingyue's return could lead to her capture. There's another possibility that the public speculates, that the male lead is the villain, and these are injected memories.
But that's too ordinary.

After watching the finale, I'm downgrading my rating from two stars to one star. In all honesty, if they continue following the current script, it's a bit flawed and mediocre.
But as a short drama, it is what it is. However, the "ambition" of the directing team led them to design another plot that is not clever but brings along a whole new set of flaws.
And in the face of this, they simply brushed it off with a single line saying "to be continued in Season 2." Oh well, let's forget about it. / The first eight episodes, even up to the first ten episodes, could have been condensed into just two episodes.
Short dramas can still have shallow plots.

Well, there's quite a lot to unpack here. At first, I thought it was a scam. Then I started to think that the woman was vain and the man was wealthy, and all suspicions were overlooked, with a touch of lovesickness. Later on, I felt that the man wanted to transform this woman into someone else.
And then there's the second male lead who I thought was good, but later it was revealed that he was seeking revenge. When it came to the final scene, who made the call to the police? Surprisingly, the woman didn't die. Just as I was getting into the atmosphere of that ending, a new plot twist emerged, and it made me feel that the male protagonist does indeed have issues.
That's why he didn't finish speaking. Did the woman really die in the end?

Produced by the "Mao Fraud Team," the quality is reliable. It has a strong suspenseful atmosphere. If they had replaced Hai Qingyue's actress with An Ning and Zuo Yuan's actor with Yang Yu, it would have been even better. I was originally going to give it four stars, but deducted points for Episode 17.
After Hai Qingyue recovers, what happens next? What's the deal with the new girl who appeared? Zuo Yuan's character development goes back and forth, up and down. And there's the sudden appearance of the police and the trial subtitles. Although "Mao Fraud" Season 1 and 3 also ended with the involvement of the police, it didn't feel as abrupt.
This drama feels like it's forcing a bad ending on the villains just for the sake of it. I'm really curious, now that Zuo Yuan is in prison, how will they film the second season?

I've watched 17 episodes. Che Zhigang in the "Deception Team" is the director, and Shao Zhuang is the second male lead. Each episode is only 10 minutes long, so it's suitable to binge-watch once it's fully updated.
In the earlier episodes, there were some scary moments, and it was also frightening how Shao Zhuang would suddenly appear and disappear. The female lead, Hai Qingyue, wanders around at night without turning on the lights, either using a flashlight or unable to afford electricity.
The truth is that Hai Qingyue conducted a parasitic experiment that resulted in the death of another woman, Shao Xiang. She then tried to transform herself into Shao Xiang through another experiment, but it led to a dual personality disorder and amnesia.
She got hit by a car, and the driver misunderstood her words, so she became the amnesiac person, Xiaoxiang. As for Shao Zhuang, he is the ex-boyfriend of Shao Xiang and seeks revenge.

The screenwriters didn't come up with anything extraordinary, and coupled with the fact that the secret with the ex-wife is from the same screenwriter, my expectations were already quite low. But these actors don't seem to have better acting skills than those from Yu Ying's own production.
They're completely relying on Shao Zhuang to carry the show. Moreover, the plot is quite simple, and seeing that there'll be a Season 2 at the end, I don't know if they plan to continue the story or just wrap up the intellectual showdown from the ending.
But it feels like there's not much to say. There's no strong action element, nor a strong sense of suspense. It's entirely relying on buildup. And why the trend of short dramas now? It would have been better to make it into a web series.
The pacing of watching it in segments feels strange. 2.5 stars.

Well, it's a bit of a case of starting strong but losing steam. The new work from the Mao Scam team had such a tempting gimmick that it raised expectations, but in the end, it fell short.
The plot design is decent, filled with suspense and twists. It adopts a multi-line narrative approach, dividing the story into several chapters, each with its own theme and plot.
This narrative style keeps the audience curious and eager to explore, wanting to uncover the development of the plot. However, it lacks the constant twists and turns that Mao Scam is known for, which can leave you with that exhilarating feeling of your CPU burning out.
Also, the setup for the second season is a bit confusing, and I'm not sure what to make of it. Three stars for Mao Scam.