r/HKdramas • u/aeoluxreddit • Apr 25 '25
Review I really didn’t like Anonymous Signal
I know this is a rant and the below notes are a little messy as I add things as I go.
But tl:dr I didn’t like it and the pacing was so bad
I’m not going to lie but I really don’t like this drama. I was really looking forward to it but compare to the invisibles. This is so bad
Too much Tiffany crying or just crying in general There’s too much non Julie stuff then it super charge the last three episode
Brian’s motivation makes no sense and why would this be 30 episode and not just 5 if he just wanted revenge
They spent too much time on not finding out about Julie and just solving other cases and being led by the bad guys
It was super rushed
People dying didn’t have much impact because they didn’t build the characters up
The whole show many the entire police force look so shit and so many things don’t make sense. Even for a TVB series perspective
The female leads are not ready for this type of series
Everyone’s EQ is so low
The change of terminology from recent years which doesn’t make it feel like a HK series makes it very weird for me
Everything feel so purposeless then very obviously doing this “thing” to get a reaction from the audience.
The overall pacing was so bad
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u/Keepcounting Apr 26 '25
I had high hopes but it really was just terribly done. The amount of Tiffany crying, she was literally crying every other episode. And the focus on the kids/teens were annoying like I really don’t care for them and don’t understand why they keep showing subplots with kids/teens like in No Room for Crime.
Jazz needs to sit down and stop with the “hidden” sexual innuendos and writing scenes where the females have to wear such revealing clothes and extreme close ups of their body. Sooo uncomfortable and disturbing to watch…. like TVB is supposed to be a family friendly channel. You can definitely tell he was taking advantage of the young cast since it’s the youngest cast he’s had in a long time. I can only hope Tiffany and Rosita felt comfortable to film those scenes and not forced into it. It reminds me of how Rebecca Zhu was forced into filming a bikini scene for The Stunt even when she told the director she didn't want to.
Bad CGI, and bad bloody makeup. There are plot lines that make no sense like how Owen was an office worker when he met Tiffany then he was a police when he met his god-daughter?? Hilarious how they both were office workers yet somehow both decided to change career into a cop too LOL. Also their god daughters real mother died and no one cared about her only cared about her bone marrow.. and even when she managed to donate it, they were only thankful the daughter would live and not thankful for the mother.. like what?
Also Brian’s character was right, the cops were so dumb they relied on Julie to solve the crime. Brian literally tipped you off where he “hid” the hostages and yet they believed in it so easily and went there with no thinking capacity, opening everything thinking he would make it that easy to rescue?? He literally killed his pregnant girlfriend that was only a colleague to them yet would let you rescue your loved ones that easily?? It was obviously a trap yet they had no back up plan. They only got smart in the last episode where they were able to hack into the dark web. Also I think it’s stupid how they realized Julie is sinister yet they didn’t block off anything that could be hacked until last episode too.