04-14-2021, 02:34 PM
Wow. Just wow. The blessing is that this show is so awful it's really easy to pick it apart.
"You make the path you live." "Never stand in the way of Destiny" "Anger has no obstacle"
I'm guessing they were eating fortune cookies when they were looking for pithy ancient Chinese Wisdom.
It's a full on CW show with young pretty people with all sorts of emotional problems. Plus, who runs away in their twenties? Don't they just leave home?
Did it look like they opened the Shaolin Temple about a week ago. The whole place seemed to have that new car smell. From a production design standpoint, the whole thing looked to clean and fresh from the outfits to the buildings. At first I thought they had done the shooting for the Shaolin Temple at the Huntington Museum in SoCal because there were a lot of similarities but as the show unfolded, I realized it was shot in Vancouver. It bugs me they didn't do a better job of faking San Francisco. None of the exteriors and street scenes looked at all like SF, especially wherever the family home was located. I grant you that this is only a problem for people familiar for people from San Francisco. But I love the one shot where they are walking along the shore looking back at SF which could only possibly be from underneath the Bay Bridge. And I like the oil storage facility they have down at the docks.
It also felt like they opened up the big book of cliches to write the plot. Restaurant owner gets in deep with Gang Leader. Mystic Swords. Crusading DA. Tiger Mom. Computer Savvy but good looking woman. It's all there.
To show I do pay attention, I did realize that the Tiger Mom also played the mom in Crazy Rich Asians.
I might forget to tape this show again.
"You make the path you live." "Never stand in the way of Destiny" "Anger has no obstacle"
I'm guessing they were eating fortune cookies when they were looking for pithy ancient Chinese Wisdom.
It's a full on CW show with young pretty people with all sorts of emotional problems. Plus, who runs away in their twenties? Don't they just leave home?
Did it look like they opened the Shaolin Temple about a week ago. The whole place seemed to have that new car smell. From a production design standpoint, the whole thing looked to clean and fresh from the outfits to the buildings. At first I thought they had done the shooting for the Shaolin Temple at the Huntington Museum in SoCal because there were a lot of similarities but as the show unfolded, I realized it was shot in Vancouver. It bugs me they didn't do a better job of faking San Francisco. None of the exteriors and street scenes looked at all like SF, especially wherever the family home was located. I grant you that this is only a problem for people familiar for people from San Francisco. But I love the one shot where they are walking along the shore looking back at SF which could only possibly be from underneath the Bay Bridge. And I like the oil storage facility they have down at the docks.
It also felt like they opened up the big book of cliches to write the plot. Restaurant owner gets in deep with Gang Leader. Mystic Swords. Crusading DA. Tiger Mom. Computer Savvy but good looking woman. It's all there.
To show I do pay attention, I did realize that the Tiger Mom also played the mom in Crazy Rich Asians.
I might forget to tape this show again.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm