Tian hei qing bi yan

Good story about eight school friends from a hiking club who meet up at a B&B in a mountainous forest twice afterwards - the first time resulting in a misunderstanding and the second with a mystery involved. Everyone plays a pretty good part, except for the woman playing the owner of the B&B (with a weird son). The woman is so irritating - with a perpetual facial expression of distress and angst - that I had to forward through her parts; she's a total distraction for the movie. If it weren't for her, the show is pretty good and worth watching, and also has several interesting surprises thrown in.

The first 2 episode caught my attention, full of mystery and demanded attention. I enjoyed that. However, as episode 3 rolled around, the plot kind of lot traction and became bland--I believe the main reason is that the mystery that it created in the previous episodes dissipated. It felt like the writer sort of didn't know where he/she wanted to go.

The acting sometimes is over dramatic, the dialogue a bit stale and there are over use of the same flashback scenes that doesn't really build to the overall story.

It uses an interesting approach to how they handle written off characters and multi-layer flashbacks but sadly a wavering plot kind of made me lose interest.

If you're really bore, give this a shot--otherwise there are better shows out there.