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Foong Woei Wan
In With You, Adrian Pang and Rui En give worthy performances.
In the real Singapore, like it or not, the languages the average person is most proficient and poetic in might be the coffee shop Chinese and Singlish.
On to With You, the Channel 8 Drama which is coincidentally, about being neither here nor there.
Part paranormal family-values fantasy, part odd-couple comedy and part weepie, it tracks a plumber (Adrian Pang) and a ghost (Chen Hanwei) whose lives are linked up in a road accident.
Somehow Chen’s unearthly character is zapped into Pang’s cellphone and somehow, the former browbeats the latter into looking after his family.
Implausible as it is, the drama is driven by genuine unease at road safety and the Singapore dream of car ownership. The good guys, Pang and Chen, are rather responsible drivers. The bad guy is Nat Ho, a reckless driver who stops at nothing to buy a flashy car.
Keeping it real, too, are the actors. Chen Shucheng and Rui En are understated as Chen Hanwei’s grieving father and gentle widow.
With You, weekdays, 9pm. 3 out of 5 stars.
Source: The Straits Times Life!
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