By Foong Woei Wan
Emotions abound in talent contest while two dramas got tied up in romantic complications.
Somebody or something is seductive when the better part of you says no, and the baser part says: “But why not?”
One part of you knows you shouldn’t be watching Poetic Justice, an ill-conceived Channel 8 romance revolving around a tabloid television news programme, and another part of you keeps wanting to watch the next episode.
The drama is a flight of fancy in the direction of la-la Taiwanese and Korean romances, with Dai Yangtian as a self-absorbed playboy with a bayside property who decides on a whim to become a journalist and rise to the challenge of chasing an icy newscaster (Rebecca Lim).
He has a sensible lawyer friend (Desmond Tan) who somehow joins the news outlet too. Perhaps the lawyer has fallen for a sensitive reporter (Rui En), but is unaware that she has already had a cute romvom run-in with the playboy.
But for all the appeal of the actors and the breeziness of the banter, the drama doesn’t take off.
The part of the show that wants to be a newsroom procedural is pulled back to earth by flimsy writing, and the part that wants to be a love story is limited, ultimately by lack of romantic imagination.
Verdict: 2.5/5
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Poetic Justice 微笑æ£ä¹‰ is now airing on Channel 8, Weekdays at 9pm.
Source: The Straits Times
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