Detention

This Taiwanese opens in the 1960s as certain teachers and students are arrested for 'anti state' activities at the Greenwood School. The girl accused of informing on them commits suicide by jumping from the school roof. Thirty years later, in 1992, Yunxiang Liu transfers to the school. She immediately comes up against the school's strict regime. One day she explores the now out of bounds old school building where she meets the ghost of Ruixin Fang, the girl who died all those years ago. She also meets another student and befriends him. Over the course of the series more dangers appear, not all supernatural, and the truth about events in the '60s are revealed.

I thought this was a pretty impressive series. It started well with a prologue that got me hooked; as it continued I remained gripped. The threats are a nice mix of supernatural and all too human; to be honest I found the latter to be more disturbing. The school environment is oppressive with discipline being enforced by a retired military officer who still wears his uniform and thinks students should he treated like soldiers. Of course, although Taiwan is now a modern democracy, it was under martial law for a long time and certain oppressive laws were still in place at the time the series was set so this is believable. The cast is solid. Overall I'd recommend this to anybody looking for a somewhat different ghost story.

These comments are based on watching the series in Mandarin with English subtitles.

The first two episodes are okay But it goes south from there. Episode 5 is by far the worst, totally waste of time. If Espinosa 5 is made to make their relationship explicit, I would it's meaningless. If this is a horror, not terrible at at. If this is a love story, the relationship is so cliche and boring. If this is a psychological/mental, all you have is a fragile naive girl and a mental loser mom. Plots are so easily predicted. Either the writer loses his focus or the series has nothing to do with the movie. If you don't like the first two, no need to go further.

This series has a good plot and it is slightly different from the movie which is a good thing to me. This is a ghost story but barely a horror one. Well...there are one or two typical scary scenes in the earlier episodes, but that's all about it. If you expect to see an intense horror/thriller or fast-paced series, it is probably not one for you. However, there is a good story and the series is well made (the CG part needs some improvement tho).

I was actually intrigued by this series because at first I thought it was a movie like it was when it was just released. But it turns out that this is a series that is either related to the film version or not. At least until episode 5-6 I still like it but the rest I can't stand it anymore because it's too boring.

I liked almost everything about this!

The storyline was good, even though sometimes it seemed a bit slow but everything was revealed in a neat way.

The visual effects were great, the actors did a good job, I did feel myself getting more and more connected with each character, even the ones that pissed me off.

I also love how everything came together in the end. Vengeance does bring more pain and that's what this series was trying to tell us. Sometimes just acceptance is enough to bring you peace.

I say go for it if you're into paranormal/psychological shows.

I see people complaining about it not being a horror, I honestly didn't even go into it thinking of it as a horror so my expectations weren't high in that regard. It was still nice regardless.