TV Series2020 · 1 season · 8 episodes · Ended

Detention

Name: Detention
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Cast: Ning Han, Lingwei Li, Guan-Zhi Huang, Jack Yao, Cheng-Ping Chao

Taste attributes: dramamysteryhorrorteenmonster/alien/supernaturalslowfresh & originalunsavouryheavyimaginaryenclosedcoming of agecomplex relationshipfighting evilhuman spirit/resilience/survivalrescue/escape/jeopardysolving the riddle/not as it seems

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Boxlist takeA larger-than-life, unsavoury mystery series: heavy and intimate. Best if you like the extraordinary over the everyday.

Taste details

Pace: slow · Originality: fresh · Tone: very dark · Weight: heavy · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score

Quality rating

7.7 /10

TMDB · 33 votes

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Season

Season 1

· 2020 · 8 episodes

A tormented student uncovers unsettling secrets at her remote high school as betrayal and a paranormal encounter upend her life.

Episodes (8)

1Devil5 Dec 2020
At Greenwood High School, transfer student Liu Yun-hsiang witnesses a shocking incident at a deserted building and runs afoul of school authorities.
2Who am I?5 Dec 2020
After an initial encounter with Fang Jui-hsin's spirit, Yun-hsiang finds herself in an otherworldly dimension and accepts a life-altering bargain.
3You are me, I am you12 Dec 2020
With Jui-hsin's guidance, Yun-hsiang finds creative expression through poetry, but her sense of self begins to falter.
4Falsehood12 Dec 2020
As her relationship with Shen Hua stirs up suspicion around the school, Yun-hsiang struggles with writer's block and faces betrayal.
5HIStory repeats19 Dec 2020
Yun-hsiang becomes a target of slander, Shen Hua caves under pressure from his father, and Jui-hsin watches Yun-hsiang carry out an act of desperation.
6Re: Detention19 Dec 2020
Yun-hsiang becomes trapped in a parallel consciousness. Cheng Wen-liang seeks his uncle's aid in preventing Jui-hsin's vengeful plan.
7Re: Re: Detention26 Dec 2020
As his troubled past with Jui-hsin comes to light, Wei Chung-ting helps Yun-hsiang remember her own identity. Panic spreads throughout the campus.
8Rain of Freedom26 Dec 2020
Yun-hsiang races against the clock to free herself from Jui-hsin's time loop and urges her spirit to find redemption.

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Pace: Slow, just how this profile likes it
Originality: Fresh / original, just how this profile likes it
Weightiness: Weighty / heavy, just how this profile likes it

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Realism: Imaginary world, where this profile leans balanced realism
Intricacy: Balanced intricacy, where this profile leans smart / intricate

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Synopsis

During the period of martial law in 1960s Taiwan, some teachers and students from Cui Hua High School were arrested for possessing banned books. A female student fell to her death and rumors spread of a ghost haunting the campus. Thirty years later, the draconian culture of the school remains unchanged as a new transfer student uncovers the dark secrets behind the school’s haunting.

Synopsis: TMDB