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The Star Online: Entertainment: TV & Radio

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 04:33 AM PDT

A woman deserts her dysfunctional family for a new life in Forget Me Not.

IT is 2011 and a brutal kidnapping-murder of a prominent business tycoon has blood staining the entire crime scene though her body is never found.

Police detain a young man who claims to be her son and admits to killing her but he is eventually released due to lack of evidence. The media frenziedly digs up information about her mysterious past.

Rewind to a small rural town in 1978, where a teenager is forced by her parents to marry the abusive man who raped her. After giving birth to two boys, the girl makes several attempts to run away from her lazy husband, who is addicted to gambling, alcohol and drugs. Living in fear of his mood swings, she finally succeeds, but at the expense of abandoning her young sons.

This is the story of Ntv7's new Mandarin series Forget Me Not.

In a press conference last Friday, some of the main cast members shared with the media stories of their eventful shoot.

Remon Lim (plays Xue Ming): COO of Lee Corp and second wife of Xin De, she is a capable business woman who seems generous and thoughtful but is actually desperate to hide her dark and difficult past.

"Filming this series was very enjoyable but especially tiring, too, due to the emotional roller-coaster that Xue Ming goes through," said Lim, adding that her character is a woman who is bent on changing her destiny.

William San (Yang Wei Yi): He is Xue Ming's street-smart eldest son who is a mechanic-turned-chauffeur. He had a difficult childhood; his father is jailed for drug trafficking while his mother has disappeared. For 22 years, he has been caring for his younger brother Wei Hao while they search for their mother. "There's a scene in which I was chased by a huge police dog into snake-infested woods. The dog ran so fast that the trainer had to let go of the leash. I must have burnt a thousand calories then," groused San, who said his face turned a shade of green.

Coby Chong (Yang Wei Hao aka Ah Dee): He is Xue Ming's cheerful younger son and Wei Yi's younger brother. Forced into drug trafficking by his father, Wei Hao was run over by a car while trying to escape from the authorities, causing him to suffer a brain injury that impaired his mental faculties.

Chong has high hopes for his portrayal of a kindly, retarded fellow, saying: "If in Hong Kong, people remember Ah Wong (a retarded guy played by Roger Kwok in Square Pegs and Life Made Simple) and Fei Mao (Kent Cheng in Fat Cat) then in Malaysia, I hope the viewers will remember Ah Dee."

Jordan Voon (Lee Xin De): CEO of Lee Corp who is a happy-go-lucky casanova with two wives (Yong En and Xue Ming) and two children (a son, Kent, with his first wife and a daughter, Annie, with his second). A filial son who respects his mother, he is an experienced businessman who is happy to leave the running of the business to his competent second wife Xue Ming.

Cast in yet another playboy role, Voon lamented: "Xin De has two wives but no love in his life so he fills the void by seeking relationships with other women."

Angela Chan (Yong En): First wife of Xin De and mother of Kent, she appears to be a prim and proper lady but is actually two-faced and malicious.

Coming from a well-to-do family, her misery stems from her flirtatious husband but she tolerates his infidelity in order to maintain her position in the Lee family. She blames Xue Ming for stealing her husband hence she always plays the victim to make things difficult for Xue Ming.

Taking on a villainous role for the first time, Chan shared: "As Yong En, I had to cry so much that my eyes bled and once I even stepped on a nail and had to be sent to hospital for a tetanus shot."

Wayne Chua (Jane Lin Li Wen): A salesgirl at a jewellery shop owned by Lee Corp, she is a gold-digger who is courted by Kent and ends up as Xin De's mistress, although she is actually in love with the selfless Wei Yi.

Coming from a complicated single-parent family and having endured much hardship, she will seize any opportunity to earn money to help settle her mother and brother's debts.

"Li Wen is an ordinary girl thrown into extraordinary circumstances due to her gambler mother and unemployed brother, and ends up having to use three different men to solve her problems," said Chua, who returned to Malaysia to film the series after being based in Singapore for the past two years.

Jojo Goh (Annie Li Ruo Tong): Xue Ming's filial daughter with Xin De, she is a hard-working jewellery designer. Kind-hearted and down-to-earth, she seems to always fall for the wrong man, from romantic entanglements with her best friend's man to feelings for her mother's chauffeur who turns out to be her half-brother.

Thankful for the support and synergy she shared with Chua on the set, Goh said: "Annie is an independent girl who is somehow detached from it all and would rather believe that people are inherently good."

Leslie Chai (Kent Li Guo Xiu): Dashing but arrogant son of Xin De with his first wife, he is the dream man of every unmarried female working at Lee Corp.

He is taught by his mother to dislike his father's second wife and to look down on her as a tramp with no family background and to treat her with disdain.

Playing an extremely nasty character for the first time, Chai offered: "I kept analysing Kent as a character and felt bad even when I got home each day as I couldn't get over how mean he was to others, especially as he repeatedly hits Li Wen."

Forget Me Not airs on Ntv7 at 10pm from Mondays to Thursdays.

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Justified: A not-to-miss series

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 04:43 PM PDT

Justfied shoots to kill with its excellent second season.

FOR an hour every week, Justified offers one of television's finest moments. Little wonder then that it has snagged three Emmy nominations, one each for lead actors Timothy Olyphant and Walton Goggins.

Season Two has surpassed the first by adding a number of fantastic new characters, which in turn help lead the series to unexpected and absorbing storylines.

The plot's elevation may also have something to do with Goggins appearing as a regular cast member, which means the series is now divided between the characters played by Goggins and Olyphant.

In the first season, we discovered that the two were once friends. But their choices in life have made them enemies – one is a criminal and the other, a US Marshall.

Make no mistake though, there is no clear dark knight or white hat when it comes to these two. It is a credit to the two actors who make their respective scenes so arresting that we have no choice but to give our full attention to what's happening on the screen for the whole hour.

Although their storyline is diverged in the beginning, the paths they take often lead them to the same place (though on opposing ends).

Every time these two characters do come together, there are just so many things crackling in the air around them – unresolved issues, the uneasy truce and their fragile friendship.

With Olyphant and Goggins wearing the characters' shoes, we are immediately pulled into this little drama. There's no doubt their stories are the driving force behind Justified.

But that's not the only thing.

The second season kicks off with a seemingly harmless episode – almost uncharacteristically procedural, with Raylan Givens (Olyphant) setting out to find a paedophile in Harlan county.

The journey takes him to meet with Mags Bennett (Margo Martindale), who oversees a quaint little country store as well as a large marijuana business in the district. Apparently, the Givens family and the Bennett family had a tiff that dates back for generations – so the exchange of words between the two is friendly but terse.

One thing about the series, which is based on Elmore Leonard's short story, is that it has always featured great dialogue.

In the case of Givens and Mags, the conversation may be lyrical and sweet, but it's clear Mags is no ordinary woman and Givens knows only too well what lurks behind her "apple pie" demeanour.

Two of her three children reek of drug abuse and, unfortunately, stupidity. The other son is a corrupted Sheriff, who makes sure the law does not touch any of the Bennets. The three boys know that Mags is the boss, as does Givens.

Actress Martindale is simply superb as Mags (she received the series' third nomination) – especially in the final minutes of the first episode where she coolly kills a man and tells her boys to get rid of the body. Whoa, mama!

Playing one of her sons is Jeremy Davies (of Lost) who's never looked dirtier or more pathetic than as Dickie, a man who botches up every plan because he is just that arrogant and dumb.

Dickie, as it turns out, has a history and a bone to pick with Givens.

The US Marshall's past also catches up with him in the form of his father, Arlo Givens (Raymond J. Barry), a petty criminal who dreams of making it in the big league.

If there is one area that Justified falters, it's when the focus is on Givens and his ex-wife Winona Hawkins (Natalie Zea). No offense to the actress playing Hawkins, but the character is just annoying.

While other female characters in the show don't use their damsel in distress card, Hawkins often does, forcing Givens to do things he knows he shouldn't.

Through Hawkins, the audiences are supposed to see another side of Givens when he's not flashing his badge. But, oh boy, the whole subplot about the ex-wife and her husband who gets involved with some bad people is boring.

Fortunately, Goggins' Boyd Crowder saves the day. Soon after giving up his flock and his new-found faith, Crowder returns to work in the coal mines to find his true purpose.

Crowder, however, doesn't get a break just because of who he once was. Actually, his background makes it that much harder for him to break free from the person everyone else thinks he is.

No matter how hard he hints that he wants to be left alone, he gets visits from other criminals who want him to know about their criminal achievements.

The intrigue lies in the decision that Crowder will make.

Even more interesting, Crowder is staying at his sister-in-law Ava's (Joelle Carter) house.

Ava is, of course, the woman who shot Crowder's brother dead in the first season and was all set to shoot Crowder as well just to prove her point that she's serious about cutting off ties from the Crowder family.

And now, they are staying together?

It is unexpected turns like this that make Justified a series you don't want to miss.

Justified Season Two airs on AXN (Astro Ch 701) every Monday at 10.55pm.

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Selasa, 2 Ogos 2011