Francis Ng as Sam
The best performance of this series and I never expected any less from Francis Ng. His work in "Triumph" is iconic. The last time I saw him in a TVB series was in "Old Time Buddy" and he was fantastic in there. He's fantastic in here too, giving an absolutely commanding performance as the super-intelligent but honest-to-goodness Sam. His eyes brimmed with joy, spilled in tears, wavered in confusion, and watched in earnest. When put up against anyone else in this series, you realize just how good of an actor Francis Ng is. Whenever he's on the screen, he owns it. You forget entirely that Sam is being played by an actor...Francis Ng IS Sam in this series.
Remember the very last episode when he successfully proposed to Zoe? I clapped during that scene because I was so moved by Francis Ng's portrayal of Sam's joy.
There's just one minor wrinkle.
There's bad English, there's worse English, and then there's Francis Ng's English. Trust me, it doesn't get any worse. That isn't very fair though, since the other actors' English is just as bad as his. But Francis had this grossly exaggerated voice when he was speaking English that I was literally on the floor from laughing so hard! Another thing that had me laughing my head off? His hairstyle in this show that was greatly reminiscent of Elvis.
Rumours have it that he designed it himself. But, with Francis Ng's terrific performance I found him to be good-looking. Not in a "Oh my, he's so dreamy and hot" way but in an ordinary, too honest, good man kind of way.
On the Supporting Cast
Shek Sau and the lady who played Mrs. Tong gave hilarious performances as Sam and Isaac's parents and I was pleasantly surprised at veteran Shek Sau being able to play a comic character. His gestures and voice were appropriately silly, and I loved it when Sam referred to him as Phillip rather than as Dad. Lam Hiu Fung was predictably funny as Paul, and Louisa So shines as the blunt and reluctant Ruby. Long one of TVB's most underrated actresses, she's funny and likeable as the often harsh but actually good-hearted Ruby. (i like ruby!!)
The Barf Bag
1) The impossibly positive and perky Zoe. She's so totally chipper that it's irritating at times.
2) Flora Chan's crying scenes. It was torture to watch her try to squeeze out some tears.
3) The actors' English. Most of the time I could only figure out what they were saying by reading the subtitles! If TVB had so much money to finance the airplane scenes and abroad scenes, couldn't they have sent their actors to some English lessons?
4) Coco (Vincent's younger sister). Not the actress, but the character. Spoiled little brat who needs a beating or two.
5) Belle, for the reasons named above.
6) The "love-pair" items in Vincent and Belle's apartment. Pink bowl, blue bowl. Pink towel, blue towel. Pink apron, blue apron. Pink cup, blue cup. You get the idea. A little too cheesy for my taste.
7) The overexposure of the Triangel doll.
8) Please give us a villain!! A villain, TVB, a villain! This is one thing that this series is clearly missing.
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