Plots involving surgeons, policemen and lovers provide twists aplenty in this week’s crop of serials.

By Foong Woei Wan

Playing it safe is the one thing you can’t accuse Channel 8 police drama Unriddle 2 of.

Would you attempt a psychodrama about a policewoman (Rui En) going off the rails, knowing it could be a tortured mess?

Would you kill off your stronger actors (Tay Ping Hui, as a twitching detective with a brain ailment, and Desmond Shen, as a scar-faced criminal) and leave your viewers at the mercy of a weaker actor (Elvin Ng, as a lollipop-sucking police whiz-kid?)

Would you risk your actors’ dignity in an amateurish shoot-out scene, knowing they could look like they all have two left hands and two left feet?

MediaCorp does all of the above, and it sure seems to like living dangerously. It isn’t entirely inept though.

In its first season, the series packed an emotional punch whenever it placed its every-woman (Chen Liping, as a reluctant informant of Rui En’s) in peril.

In its second season, it drags her adopted family members into trouble too and puts her in the painful position of deciding whom to save.

Source: The Straits Times

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