There's a good idea here: every episode goes behind a different door in the same apartment building - lending itself easily to guest roles and featured bits, without requiring all the cast to be in every episode. Except ...
Well, first up is the first episode, which fails to give us any sense of the overall residents. The second episode dispenses with Ep1's main characters in a cameo, then occupies itself entirely with the residents of another room. Sure, why not? Except it means all the personal suffering we put up with in one has no dramatic meaning to the next; the only real continuity is the building itself. So we're basically getting a different show, just taking place in the same building.
Well, that can be good, right? Except it isn't very; 22 minutes feels a lot longer, and it's not long enough to do anything more than be (of course!) episodic. Which could work for a comedy, but this isn't one: it's a series of vignettes that aren't generally humorous (with the notable exception of the Cantonese-speaking mother-in-law in the convenience store). Of course, some may find it humorous when children speak lines that should be for adults, or when adults speak lines which are childish -- and these can indeed be very funny, and have been in other productions. But they aren't funny here, because the overall tone is one of sadness and disconnection. Yes, the acting is good, but the result tends toward pathetic or depressing (again, excepting the Cantonese-speaking mother-in-law). If that's your idea of comedy, this is your show.
