Forensic Heroes Season 6 (2024)

My goodness, wtf?

This drama is a direct sequel of Forensic Heroes 5, and despite some hype because it had been a while since I have seen Bosco Wong onscreen, this was ultimately a huge disappointment. Don't get me wrong, there were some interesting scientific explanations for many weird cases the show brought up, but the character situations and interactions just had me go wtf (what the fish) often. Really, I was going wtf so many times that I lost count.

So, this kicked off directly from the last series where Bosco Wong and Venus Wong are now married, Benjamin Yuen had broken up with Sisley Choi following what happened previously, and Jacky Cai was suffering from severe PTSD after being tortured at the hands of the crazy Kelvin Kwan. This series dealt with the aftermath of some traumatic events from the last series, but since the writers needed the trinity of main characters to suffer, they made Bosco Wong’s wife go missing while they were visiting Osaka, Japan.

What really annoyed me was how annoying most of the people were in the series. Bosco was not annoying, but he was so boring to watch because of how the character was written, that the only part in the drama where he started getting interesting was near the end when he was desperate to find his wife.

Bosco is still the same amazing lead of forensic investigation, but directly under him were several people - particularly Joey Thye and Niklas Lam. Now, I didn't mind Joey because she added the teacher’s pet element to the show, which was quite fun to watch, but Niklas Lam was just so annoying to watch. The guy's face rubs me the wrong way and in all his scenes he is just talking nonsense. He is only there to give Joey somebody to talk to, giving her more lines to speak. The guy cannot act, period. But somehow there is someone in the team who is even more pointless and that is Juliana Kwok. She is purely there as eye candy and she barely says anything, cannot (or does not) emote much, and the scenes where she was apparently doing science looked so unconvincing. She doesn’t even show us her ample assets. Why was she in this drama? Why? Wtf?

It is not just people in the forensic team that are annoying. Benjamin Yuen is still a cop and under him is this female actor that I have forgotten the name off. This is not my fault, she has a very generic face and spoke in a very generic way, so much so that I cannot remember anything unique about her except that she annoyed me enormously. Her grandfather was a fortune teller so she had picked up some tricks from him, and she spends the start of the drama thinking she would bring bad luck to some characters because their birth signs were clashing or something. And when something did happen, she felt responsible because she was too close to them. B***h please, you're not that important. She later checked out the entire teams’ details, even Benjamin Yuen's, and told Benjamin his fortune causing Benjamin to slam his hand on his desk (and rightly so). I found her very disrespectful because she did it without asking for permission first, a clear invasion of privacy because she thought Jupiter was going retrograde up Uranus. What really was the camel that broke the camel’s back was later - while in hospital to take a statement - she was speaking to a rape victim and assumed she killed her rapist, so coldly but firmly told the victim to confess to the murder or she would get into trouble later. Who talks like that? I hated her character immensely after that scene, like who did she think she was? Wtf?

Benjamin was not without his issues either. Early into the drama, one of his underlings played by Mark Ma, dies after being stabbed by a drug addict. This led to Mark leaving behind his wife, played by Kelly Fu, and their son. Now, I understand you supporting the family of the bereaved and helping them out during this time of grief, but Benjamin decided to allow both to move into his home. He was a single guy who had just broken up with his fiancée so was living alone, so having both move in with him was inappropriate, especially after her husband had passed away. Why not stay with family? This, predictably, led to Benjamin and Kelly developing feelings for each. Luckily, the drama ends with Kelly taking her son and moving to Paris, leaving Benjamin alone and sad, but if I am honest, he shouldn't have invited them over to live with him in the first place. Wtf?

And then we have Jacky Cai who was suffering from major PTSD and was seeing Kelvin Kwan everywhere she went, despite Kelvin dying in the last series. She later meets a night Doctor who looked exactly like Kelvin Kwan and had the same birthday date as well. Later, Jacky approached the Kelvin lookalike, and they became friends, and she started to think her PTSD was getting better, despite him meeting Bosco and Benjamin and both telling her that this Doctor guy had no resemblance to Kelvin at all. She obviously still had severe PTSD issues, but her friends would not try to help her and instead just brushed it off. Things really came to a head near the end of the drama when the lookalike Kelvin started to become deranged and thought Jacky liked him but ends up getting killed by his ex-wife. Later when Jacky looked at his corpse on the autopsy table did she realise it was actually King Lam. Why did nobody tell her "Yo, you need help because he looks nothing like Kelvin" and instead just humored her? Why? Wtf?

We now get to Joman Chiang, a supermodel who is hiding from her ex-boyfriend, played by Leonard Cheng, and has a manager played by Ball Mang. Now her manager Ball Mang was so darn useless, I mean in the drama there were so many times I wondered why Joman kept her around because she was not doing a good job as her so-called manager. For example, Ball Mang decided to go on holiday, and instead of getting someone to take over for the time she was away, she tells Joman to take care of herself for a few days. And in one case Ball even called Bosco - because he was a neighbor, to pop over and help out Joman because she was away. What? Why should he help when you're the one getting paid? She later found out Joman was pregnant with Leonard's baby, and despite being told not to tell anybody, she told Leonard leading to many awkward encounters. Why? And Leonard also used Ball Mang to force himself into Joman's apartment. My goodness, I would have fired her ass if she was my manager. So useless! Wtf?

Leonard Cheng as the ex-boyfriend was also unbelievably infuriating to watch. The guy is the sole male heir to the Lee family conglomerate, so his mother had huge control over everything he did. Every single word that came out of his mouth was "I need to ask my mom" or "My mom should know about this" or "Please do this or my mom would be angry". Like dude, can you think for yourself? Even if you're afraid of your mother, don't bring her up in every sentence! And to rub in how pathetic he was, he didn’t understand that no matter how many times Joman told him no she didn't want to be with him, he would not take no for an answer, being unable to comprehend that some people just cannot be bought with money. The scene where he was in the car and simply didn't understand that Joman really did not want to be with him made me want to break his neck telepathically. But I did not have to wait too long because later his elder sister just outright murders him. Wtf?

Oh yes, his elder sister is played by Toby Chan, and she really wanted to be the Lee family successor. Despite her brother telling her repeatedly that he did not want to be heir and would not fight for it, she still murdered him out of jealousy because she assumed their mother loved him the most and that he was lying. That was her brother, and she knew he was useless and yet she still killed him to take over the family business. That action made no sense because at that point he had already given everything up to try and be with Joman so he had nothing to stand on, but the sister just would not stop. Wtf?

And now we get to the final biggest head scratcher that just sealed it for me. Bosco had been spending the entire drama flying back to Osaka to look for his wife every weekend in an obvious Greater Bay Airlines promotional move, he finally found out what happened to his wife. His wife's friend, played by James Ng, had spent the entire time acting like he was helping Bosco in investigating the wife's disappearance, but it turned out that it was James who had abducted her and locked her away in a cage. The reason? In the past when Venus Wong and James Ng were at the same University in Japan, James had developed a crush on Venus but was unable to tell her his feelings because she said she was returning to Hong Kong. He had forgotten about her and had married Angel Chiang, but suddenly Venus returned to Japan and brought with her Bosco, her new husband. This apparently made him insanely jealous, and unlike a normal person who would let it go and realise he was already happily married, he decided to kidnap Venus, lock her in a cage, and try to make Venus love him. Oh yes sure, that was very romantic how he kidnapped her and locked her in a cage! (I was being sarcastic there). If that was not stupid enough, but what I found more ridiculous was how the drama did a fake-out death of Venus, so we all thought she had died, and right at the end of the drama - fast forward a few months - we see that she was okay and was happily camping with Bosco while travelling the world. She was completely fine! After over 1 year of being locked up and isolated from the world in a small cage - in the dark - she apparently had no PTSD or needed any time to recover at all, just a few months and boom yeah, she's good, she's fine! Wtf?

Despite all the idiocy in the drama, there were a few people who were exceptionally good in the drama.

Mason Fung plays the autistic younger brother of Venus Wong, and he plays the autistic role extremely well. His mannerisms and how to speaks were really accurate, and even when his sister goes missing, he showed little emotion about it, which was actually very accurate. He does care but does not show it openly or admit to it unless asked.

I also found Bob Lam as Bosco's boss to be entertaining. He is the much-needed comedic relief the show needed, and it cuts through the constant scientific postulating everybody in the forensic team does. Bob Lam is a talented forensic scientist, but was shown to be a mediocre leader, which really fitted with how Bob naturally acts so it worked well. I know many call him the cheap man's Bobby Au-Yeung, but I found him a lot of fun to watch whenever there were scenes with him in there.

But the best acting must be given to Nicole Wan. She portrayed a Japanese victim of a serial female attacker, who would wear a Fox mask and disfigure his victims. Her portrayal of a Japanese woman using English with a Japanese accent was unbelievably convincing and really accurate to how a Japanese person would annunciate English. I was very impressed with her performance.

I was hoping for so much more, but ultimately this drama was disappointing and made me want to watch the first three Forensic Heroes series instead. Those are classics! This just makes my class sick!

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