Editor's note: This is a nostalgic theater.
When "Mind-Reading Detective" premiered, there were many viewers and few discussants, and its popularity was far less than that of the "Women and Heroes" series of the same period. At that time, TVB was already on the decline, and the criminal investigation and suspense dramas produced in those two years had a feeling of "deja vu" no matter how you looked at it - "Talking About a Case" is simply a replica of "Detective Galileo", "Dr. The core concept of Uninvited Covenant is borrowed from "Reaper's Accuracy", and one of the units in "The Truth" is directly copied from "Twelve Angry Men".
From the current point of view, the lineup of this play is quite strong. In addition to Lin Baoyi, Huang Zongze and others who played the leading roles, Chen Zhanpeng and Hu Dingxin, who also played supporting roles in the play, were already regarded as emperors and juniors. Gao Haining, Yuan Weihao, Li Nuoyi, Xu Rong and others, who have been supporting and even running the show in the play, are now the mainstays of the big stage.
Compared with the hard-core reasoning dramas in "Forensic Records", "Forensic Pioneers" and "Criminal Investigation Files" that use real evidence and testimony to solve cases, "Mind-Reading Detective" has a slightly paler confidence - why is the forensic doctor in this drama? There is no need to dissect the body, and the police are negligent in collecting evidence. Just chatting with the suspect face-to-face in the interrogation room, analyzing the suspect's body language and facial expressions, and the suspect will be captured?
But similar to these hard-core reasoning dramas, "Mind-Reading Detective" also adopts the narrative method of unit dramas, and allows the police officers who solved the case to be involved in the case one after another. When police detective Yao Xuechen (Lin Baoyi) was young, he witnessed his father Yao Tianbao (Luo Yingjun) disappearing in a shipwreck, and he remarried with his mother Zhong Xiuxian (Xie Xuexin). Although his stepfather is a reliable and good person, and he is in love with his mother, but because of Yao Xuechen's status as an "oil bottle", he has been scorned by his stepfather's big family, and he has also cultivated a good ability to observe words and emotions since he was a child. After becoming a police officer, Yao Xuechen went to the United States to study criminal psychology, and returned to become a "mind-reading detective" on his own.
When Yao Xuechen and Ye Zhanting were investigating a case, they accidentally listened to the on-demand broadcast of the warlock Xuan Lingzi (played by Tang Yingying). After they got out of the predicament themselves, they also helped their families out of the predicament together. In recent years, micro-expressions have often been criticized as "pseudoscience" because, like metaphysics, it seems to have a set of self-consistent logic, but there is no solid scientific system as an argument. However, in the years after the broadcast of "Mind-Reading Detective", the popularity and discussion of the series continued to rise, which naturally makes sense - unlike most Hong Kong dramas that like to deliberately create dramatic conflicts, "Mind-Reading Detective" It reproduces many human feelings that can be seen everywhere in daily life, so its texture is real and sensible.
After all, human beings are emotional animals. The grief and anger of innocents, and the guilt and panic of criminals will all be displayed unconsciously through body language and facial expressions, setting the direction for the police to investigate. Therefore, "Mind-Reading Detective" actually borrows psychological concepts to interpret human emotions and the complex relationship between people. So even if the concept seems unreliable, the audience can resonate with it.
In the opinion of some naive reasoning enthusiasts, "Mind-Reading Detective" may not be "intuitive enough", but in my opinion, this drama is an excellent example of the interpretation of social reasoning in a localized context. In addition to the clues conveyed by micro-expressions and body language, the "Memory Palace" murder in the second case and the "public opinion murder" in the third case are rare in Chinese dramas. You must know that "Memory Palace" is popular among Chinese audiences. It is well known that it is mainly because of the scroll in the British drama "Sherlock", so "Mind-Reading Detective" is one step ahead of the scroll, popularizing the concept of "memory palace" for the audience.
For the whole play, the climax lies in the last two cases, namely, the fraud group involved in Yao Tianbao's backside, and the gangster serial murders committed by the former undercover detective Zhao Wenhai (played by Chen Zhanpeng) when his personality split. The former brings an end to Yao Xuechen's childhood trauma, the latter is a wonderful presentation of the explosion of acting skills of all the actors, and Zhao Wenhai's case has also contributed a vivid expression pack to the social media in recent years, that is, the gangster prince (Zheng Zicheng). ) famous quote - "You can really do whatever you want with money".
When "Mind-Reading Detective" premiered, there were many viewers and few discussants, and its popularity was far less than that of the "Women and Heroes" series of the same period. At that time, TVB was already on the decline, and the criminal investigation and suspense dramas produced in those two years had a feeling of "deja vu" no matter how you looked at it - "Talking About a Case" is simply a replica of "Detective Galileo", "Dr. The core concept of Uninvited Covenant is borrowed from "Reaper's Accuracy", and one of the units in "The Truth" is directly copied from "Twelve Angry Men".
"Mind-Reading Detective" poster
Although the plot and character relationships of "Mind Reader" are basically original, its concept is exactly the same as that of the popular American drama "Lie to Me", so in terms of ratings, it can only be regarded as "unsatisfactory" at most. . However, in the few years after the broadcast, in the news of various celebrity emotional breakdowns, "Mind-Reading Detective" has become a textbook-like existence. The clips are often intercepted and become a tool for the people who eat melons to catch the wind.From the current point of view, the lineup of this play is quite strong. In addition to Lin Baoyi, Huang Zongze and others who played the leading roles, Chen Zhanpeng and Hu Dingxin, who also played supporting roles in the play, were already regarded as emperors and juniors. Gao Haining, Yuan Weihao, Li Nuoyi, Xu Rong and others, who have been supporting and even running the show in the play, are now the mainstays of the big stage.
Compared with the hard-core reasoning dramas in "Forensic Records", "Forensic Pioneers" and "Criminal Investigation Files" that use real evidence and testimony to solve cases, "Mind-Reading Detective" has a slightly paler confidence - why is the forensic doctor in this drama? There is no need to dissect the body, and the police are negligent in collecting evidence. Just chatting with the suspect face-to-face in the interrogation room, analyzing the suspect's body language and facial expressions, and the suspect will be captured?
But similar to these hard-core reasoning dramas, "Mind-Reading Detective" also adopts the narrative method of unit dramas, and allows the police officers who solved the case to be involved in the case one after another. When police detective Yao Xuechen (Lin Baoyi) was young, he witnessed his father Yao Tianbao (Luo Yingjun) disappearing in a shipwreck, and he remarried with his mother Zhong Xiuxian (Xie Xuexin). Although his stepfather is a reliable and good person, and he is in love with his mother, but because of Yao Xuechen's status as an "oil bottle", he has been scorned by his stepfather's big family, and he has also cultivated a good ability to observe words and emotions since he was a child. After becoming a police officer, Yao Xuechen went to the United States to study criminal psychology, and returned to become a "mind-reading detective" on his own.
Yao Xuechen (played by Lin Baoyi)
Yao Xuechen's work partner, Ye Zhanting (played by Tian Ruini), is a single mother. Her gentleness and carefulness complement Yao Xuechen's sharpness in hitting the key points. Therefore, the two gradually developed from a tacit working partner into a couple. He Lixian (played by Huang Zongze) is Yao Xuechen's subordinate. At first, he felt that the micro-expressions were purely phony and did not buy Yao Xuechen's account. Later, he and Yao Xuechen's half-sister Cheng Beier (played by Chen Yinyu) secretly fell in love, and began to see the wind. The rudder flattered Yao Xuechen.Ye Zhanting (played by Tian Ruini)
Compared with many Hong Kong dramas that like to have twists and turns on the emotional line, the emotional scenes of "Mind-Reading Detective" are clean and neat, without sloppy waters, and make the greatest concessions for the case. Except for the love murder case, it is rare that there is no love triangle in the main story line of the show, even Ye Zhanting's ex-husband has only a pitiful few scenes. The most abusive part of the drama is not the intricate grievances and hatreds, but the heart diseases of the characters - Yao Xuechen has never let go of his father, Ye Zhanting doesn't know how to deal with her marriage, and Zhong Xiuxian can't get rid of her ex-husband's treatment of her The control and coercion of each case, as well as the murderer who sent himself to the end of the world because of a single thought in each case.When Yao Xuechen and Ye Zhanting were investigating a case, they accidentally listened to the on-demand broadcast of the warlock Xuan Lingzi (played by Tang Yingying). After they got out of the predicament themselves, they also helped their families out of the predicament together. In recent years, micro-expressions have often been criticized as "pseudoscience" because, like metaphysics, it seems to have a set of self-consistent logic, but there is no solid scientific system as an argument. However, in the years after the broadcast of "Mind-Reading Detective", the popularity and discussion of the series continued to rise, which naturally makes sense - unlike most Hong Kong dramas that like to deliberately create dramatic conflicts, "Mind-Reading Detective" It reproduces many human feelings that can be seen everywhere in daily life, so its texture is real and sensible.
After all, human beings are emotional animals. The grief and anger of innocents, and the guilt and panic of criminals will all be displayed unconsciously through body language and facial expressions, setting the direction for the police to investigate. Therefore, "Mind-Reading Detective" actually borrows psychological concepts to interpret human emotions and the complex relationship between people. So even if the concept seems unreliable, the audience can resonate with it.
In the opinion of some naive reasoning enthusiasts, "Mind-Reading Detective" may not be "intuitive enough", but in my opinion, this drama is an excellent example of the interpretation of social reasoning in a localized context. In addition to the clues conveyed by micro-expressions and body language, the "Memory Palace" murder in the second case and the "public opinion murder" in the third case are rare in Chinese dramas. You must know that "Memory Palace" is popular among Chinese audiences. It is well known that it is mainly because of the scroll in the British drama "Sherlock", so "Mind-Reading Detective" is one step ahead of the scroll, popularizing the concept of "memory palace" for the audience.
For the whole play, the climax lies in the last two cases, namely, the fraud group involved in Yao Tianbao's backside, and the gangster serial murders committed by the former undercover detective Zhao Wenhai (played by Chen Zhanpeng) when his personality split. The former brings an end to Yao Xuechen's childhood trauma, the latter is a wonderful presentation of the explosion of acting skills of all the actors, and Zhao Wenhai's case has also contributed a vivid expression pack to the social media in recent years, that is, the gangster prince (Zheng Zicheng). ) famous quote - "You can really do whatever you want with money".
The famous "expression pack"
In TVB's suspense drama echelon, "Mind-Reading Detective" is not unique. After all, TVB has also produced many suspense dramas related to psychological issues. There are two "Decoding of Kindness" series starring Fang Zhongxin. The second part has also become the "shadow of childhood" for many people because of its eerie atmosphere; as early as the 1990s, TVB produced "Blurred Archives" starring Luo Jialiang and Zhang Keyi, dressed in science fiction and A supernatural coat, playing with psychological suspense; later, there is a mystery in the mind co-starring Chen Jinhong and Teng Liming. Through the fighting between a psychiatrist with a professional background and a funny goddess, it solves the weirdness of people in daily life. The mystery of behavior. In contrast, "Mind-Reading Detective" doesn't have any eye-catching gimmicks, but the care for those insulted and victimized souls in the play seems to be very healing now.
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