Available since Friday June 21 on Netflix, season 2 of this Taiwanese series launched in 2020 should please fans of police investigations.
In 2020, Netflix revealed the series The Victim’s Game. This detective fiction is one of the rare Taiwanese productions on the streaming platform. The thriller particularly follows Hsu Hai-yin (Wei-Ning Hsu), a journalist turned public relations director, and former investigator Fang Yi-jen (Joseph Chang). When the latter learns that his daughter could be involved in mysterious murders, he becomes the main suspect. The incidents are linked to a case he handled 15 years ago. Prosecutor Chang Keng-hao (Dean Fujioka) doubts the integrity of Fang and his mentor Lin Ching-jui. Fang will then have to trust Inspector Chao Cheng-kuan (Jason Wang) and forensic pathologist Hsueh Hsin-ning (Tarcy Su), who suffers from Asperger’s syndrome, to get out of trouble. The streaming platform has just unveiled the second season of this breathtaking suspense series on June 21, 2024.
The Victim’s Game : a series awarded at the Golden Bell Awards
The Victim’s Game was renewed by Netflix for a season 2 for several reasons. If the hearings and the public’s feedback have tipped the scales, theThe detective series was also nominated in several categories at the Golden Bell Awardsin numerous categories, in particular that of best television series, best screenplay, best director and even best actor with the nomination of Joseph Chang. The Victim’s Game walked away with the title of Best Newcomer in a TV Series for actress Moon Lee.
What did Internet users think of The Victim’s Game ?
On the IMDb site, the series The Victim’s Game receives the rating of 7.3/10 from nearly 2000 reviews. Among the comments we can read that “the storyline is superb and the emotions are strong, the protagonist having Asperger’s syndrome.” “The plot is well-written, both crime-wise and emotionally. As the story unfolds, the audience can sense the mental development of the main characters. The drama has devoted a reasonable amount of scenes to shape the personalities, which allowed us to connect with them, not to mention Chang’s excellent performance as an adult with Asperger’s syndrome. writes another Internet user.
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