Dicey Business and Heart of Greed: Bosco and Tavia

Similarity: Bosco and Tavia are a couple and they have a wedding ceremony

Difference: In Heart of Greed, the wedding goes ahead, in Dicey Business, Bosco refuses to marry Tavia.

The Price of Greed and The Brink of Law : Kate and Shirley

Similarity: The hospital scene. Both may never wake up.
Difference: The Price of Greed scene is shown in episode 1 and they are friends, The Brink of Law– shown in last episode, Kate treats Shirley as a friend, but Shirley does not feel the same way about Kate.

The Brink of Law and On the First Beat: Ron and Kate

Similarity: Kate loves Ron.
Difference: In On the First Beat, its only a one-sided love, while they are a couple in The Brink of law. In the Brink of Law, the two play more mature characters.

Glittering Days and Heart of Greed: Susanna and Chris Lok Yi

Similarity: They play mother and son in both series.
Difference: Susanna plays an evil scheming women in Heart (including using her own son), while a kind-loving mother in Glittering. I think the difference is obvious in the screencapture above =)

The Brink of Law and Heart of Greed: Michelle Yim

Similarity: They have similar hair-style, whether dressed in formal or not.
Difference: In Heart, Michelle is a good character, while in Brink– she plays the evil villain.

Hm..ok, so it turns out that Louisa already knew that Krystal was her sister. In this episode, we learn more about their lives when they were young, how the three sisters were orphaned and how Louisa and the youngest sister (which I believe will be played by Leila Tong) were adopted away from the orphanage. I can’t believe that old man who was harassing Krystal! (Louisa’s adopted father- referring to episode 1) Ek! And Louisa’s adopted mother, evil enough to spill hot water on Krystal.
It makes me wonder what happened to Louisa’s adopted father: He’s a rich man, how come he’s not helping his adopted daughter? Does he believe that his adopted daughter really killed his wife? I just find it a bit weird we don’t see his reaction at all.

In order to see Louisa, and hopefully look out for her while she was in jail, Krystal applies for a job to work at the prison. In order to get the job, she paid the other applicants money so they wouldn’t apply and bargained for the lowest pay possible.

There’s a really annoying “kelefe” who plays another prisoner (I don’t know her name but she always plays bitchy roles because she looks it) . She bullies Louisa a lot, slapping and beating her up and the other officers don’t do anything about it. In another scene, she takes Louisa’s egg, puts it in her mouth and spits it back out for her. She seems to be scared of a big women though, so I think it would be good if Louisa could become friends with her.

Leila appears in this episode as a recently graduate from overseas- Instructor type of person: to help and train the prisoners to change for the better so they could become useful citizens to the society and start over when they are released. I didn’t know such a course existed ..
I’m not finding this series as creepy as I had first imagined. The creepiness is the prison atmosphere, but in general, it’s about the sad, tragic life of the sisters. Some scenes were gross, like how Louisa was treated and how she was killing the cockroach that was on her food =__=

This little girl plays Louisa when she’s young. I think she’s quite cute ^^

Episode 19 This is the episode where Joey realises her feelings for Ron.

As a request from Kate, Joey helps her call out Ron who thought he was having dinner with Joey. She takes him to an expensive place, arranging a candle-light dinner with a violinist as well. Kate calls, saying that she couldn’t get off work so the two end up having dinner together instead. Turns out this is the first time Ron has had a candle-lit dinner with a girl; not even with Tavia.

Ron accidentally breaks some ceramic and Joey watches him as he glues the pieces together.

After dinner, the two go by those shops with lots of toy machines (not sure what they’re called). He ends up getting one that was more suitable for girls so he gives it to Joey instead. Joey feels something and gets scared, giving it back to him and rushes off.

Indeed an interesting episode; yet I’m not quite sure how to explain the story. The death of Louisa’s mother is a mystery. I was constantly changing my mind on who I thought was the “good” character: Louisa or Krystal? By the end of the episode, it seems like both of them aren’t ‘evil’, but a misunderstanding exists between them, that causes Louisa to hate Krystal. As the episode goes on, the timing is set backwards and reveals more and more about how things have become the way they are: Why was Louisa was sentenced to death? How was Louisa was going to marry Ben and how/why the wedding didn’t go ahead.? We learn about Krystal’s past, how she and Sunny met. But what I really wanted to know was how Krystal and Louisa even knew each other. Were they friends? Why did Krystal have to secretly watch Louisa’s wedding from afar? Why wasn’t Krystal invited?

At the end of the episode, Krystal reveals that Louisa is her little sister..so I guess it makes some sense! My prediction is that Krystal and Louisa were sisters separated at birth. Krystal knows Louisa is her sister, but Louisa doesn’t, and for some reason hates her which explains why Krystal was really happy to watch Louisa’s wedding ceremony even if it was from a distance.

What I found weird was when Louisa’s mother actually stood up in the hospital when her leg were supposedly damaged. I thought she was faking it so the wedding wouldn’t go ahead but they didn’t make any reference to it. I’m guessing its Louisa’s father who killed her mother but we’ll just have to see.

A little sneak preview ^^ I just had a look at the Drive of Life Music Video and really liked the whole orchestral thing. It gives this “grand” feel and Hacken Lee looks great as usual ^^ I do like the themesong and find it interesting that its a duet, with both Cantonese and Mandarin. I don’t think I can see much about the story from its Music Video but I feel there is a lot of Michael Miu shots..we’ll just have to see.

Episodes: 60

Cast (from TVB): Damien Lau, Michael Miu, Jessica Hsuan, Joe Ma, Raymond Lam, Charmaine Sheh, Sheren Tang, Myolie Wu, Ron Ng, Toby Leung…

Synopsis:

Years of Upheaval
Lingering Love and Hate
A story about the integrated Chinese family of Glamour and Decadence

Wah Man-Hon (Damien Lau), Wah Man-Hung (Liao Jing Sheng) and Wah Man-Shek (Michael Miu) were all born in mainland China. But as a result of the massive political upheaval and the profound misunderstanding among them, the three brothers have fallen out and now live apart in Hong Kong, Beijing and Canada respectively.

Hon’s business goes down the pan in the aftermath of the Asian Financial Turmoil. The only saving grace is that members of the Wah’s from around the world, including Hon’s son Wah Chun-Bong (Raymond Lam ) and Hung’s son Wah Chun-Man (Feng Shao Feng), can finally put their prejudice aside and become reconciled with one another. To realize the century-old dream of the family, they decide to work together to develop the local automobile industry.

After ten years of struggle, the Wahs have established its own brand of limousine – a brand the whole Chinese nation is proud of. They make a significant and ongoing contribution to China’s automobile industry for they believe that only cars of our own will take us to a better future.

Credits to: Astro on Demand

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Adjustments to the synopsis given by TVB:

*Michael didn’t really live in Canada, but in Hong Kong.

The Drive of Life will be airring in HK the coming Monday (16th July), but won’t be until another 2 weeks before it would be released on Satellite TV in Australia. It has already been released in mandarin in China and is a joint production of TVB(HK) and CCTV(China), filmed to celebrate the 10 years Anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong back to China from Great Britain.

Personally the theme around automobiles doesn’t sound that appealing to me but I will probably give it a go because its a grand production with a huge cast and Raymond Lam is in it ^^ I hope it will turn out to be a great series, though I don’t have that high expectation from it. Anyone else looking forward to it?
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• Music Video Screencaptures
• Episode 1
• Episode 2
• Episode 3
• Episode 4
• Episode 5
• Episode 15
• Moments of Comparison with: “Fathers and sons”
• Episode 16-25
• Episode 28– Myolie’s Birthday
• Raymond and Myolie Moments 1- Episode 28- Raymond teasing Myolie looks like a panda
• Raymond and Myolie Moment 2– Episode 30-Myolie falls on top of Raymond; he pushes her away
• Episode 30- 39-Raymond and Myolie get-together
• Episode 41-Myolie and Charmaine slap each other. Raymond stands up for Myolie
• Episode 43- Raymond proposes to Myolie
• Episode 44-Raymond & Charmaine get back together. Myolie leaves
• Episode 47-51– Raymond and Charmaine’s second wedding
• Episode 52- Myolie& FengShaoFeng get-together
• Episode 57– Myolie& FengShaoFeng’s wedding
• Episode 60– Finale

This is the episode that Dak Dak Dei confesses his love for Seung Joi SUm which didn’t work out as he thought..He had always mistaken Seung Joi Sum to feel the same way towards him, but she already had Alfred in mind. he should have known when he read off her blog that she was referring to a guy wearing a yellow shirt: he never did and he saw Alfred in the yellow shirt but he somehow tried to deny that fact and convince himself it was him that she liked.

The Green Grass of Home will be airring its final episode in Australia this Friday 13th July; so from the following Monday 16th July 7:10pm, it’ll be replaced by a warehoused series: Phoenix Rising

Cast: Louisa So Yuk Wah, Sunny Chan, Leila Tong, Krystal Tin Yui Nei, Nancy Wu, Ben Wong Chi Yin, Jack Wu…

Episodes: 20

Synopsis
The rich bride-to-be YIM PUI-WU (Lousia So) is arrested and thrown in jail for the murder of her adoptive mother shortly before her wedding. By coincidence, she is reunited with her long-lost younger sister SO FEI (Leila Tong), who is now a probation officer, and thus with her elder sister KONG LAI-NGA (Krystal Tin). Desperate to prove WU’s innocence, NGA and FEI bustle around every day to look for evidence.

But things do not go quite the way they hope. NGA is pregnant with her boyfriend YIN LEUNG (Sunny Chan), but she is diagnosed with an incurable disease after her son is born. Knowing that her life is coming to an end, NGA decides to take the blame and undergo imprisonment for WU. FEI continues with the investigation but is shocked to discover that NGA’s medical report is a made-up one, which in fact is part of a conspiracy by WU. FEI cannot imagine why WU has suddenly become so heartless.

Helping NGA out of the sufferings in prison, FEI decides to help her escape. To eliminate all those who stand in her way, WU is resolved to do away with NGA. WU’s evil deeds have finally caused her beloved husband CHEUNG CHI-HOI (Ben Wong) to lose his family, about which she feels so guilty. WU, NGA and FEI are to face the threat of jail and their destiny seems to be tied to the prison forever…
Synopsis Credits to: tvb.com.au

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Comments:

Personally I find this poster sorta creepy! I just got the impression the two women in the middle are putting a fake smile on lol. What’s more scary is the mirror showing their backs which don’t seem to match the clothing they are wearing o.0 I didn’t read about what the series is about, so its just coming from random thoughts! I hope this series would be a great one! I only saw the trailer for this series once in the commercials but it happened so quickly I didn’t grasp anything XD