Managed to complete last few episodes of ‘Heir To The Throne’ last night before going to bed. Watched them right after I came back home from exploring the ‘I Light Singapore 2024’ artworks at Marina Bay (details of that in my previous post below). ‘Heir To The Throne’ (家族荣耀之继承者) is a 30-episode Hong Kong drama (by TVB) that revolves on fight for power in a wealthy Qiu family that traditionally favours sons over daughters. The series starred Charmaine Sheh, Raymond Lam, Him Law, Venus Wong, Gallen Lo, Benz Hui, Toby Leung, Raymond Wong, Hugo Ng, etc. Quite a star-studded cast there.
Besides than Hong Kong, the series was also partly filmed in Malaysia. I was particularly very familiar with some scenes that are shot in KL showing the city skyline. I do enjoy this kind of family drama with complicated relationships and scheming plots to take down each other for authority, wealth or even love. It’s also nice to see Charmaine Sheh and Raymond Lam collaborate in a drama again after around 10 freaking years. They have such good chemistry all the time on screen but too bad they didn’t end up being together at the end of this series (or are they?…)
No answer to that as the ending left viewers hanging with a lot of unanswered questions and open-ended conclusion. This is one of the main reasons that brought my rating down for this series. It started off pretty well but then the plot becomes too predictable. It was only Him Law’s character that is doing the evil work (I was expecting Charmaine’ character to being forced to turn cunning due to all the ‘attacks’ from Him Law but it didn’t happen). No major surprises as the plot progresses. I was also expecting Gallen to reconcile with Charmaine before his death caused by Him Law.
And then I hated the ending. Him Law was left unconscious on hospital bed, Raymond Lam came in to interrupt Charmaine and Raymond Wong’s wedding and the series ended right away, unknown whereabout of Benz Hui’s still missing wife, etc. What a shitty ending. Out of 10 points, I could only now rate ‘Heir To The Throne’ 7.2. It would have been around 8 if it’s not for the lousy ending.
(Images in this post are from various online sources)