The King of Snooker

Introduction:

Well from the title and picture it is clearly about snooker. So I would would say if your not a big fan of snooker then this drama series may not be really suited to you. Or watch it if you really like the actors and actresses in this drama. For me I’m quite a fan of snooker, and secondly I enjoy watching snooker so this drama was something different to other TVB series.

Storyline:

So the series starts off by showing a man fishing, and this man is Yau Yat Kiu it then moves on to a young guy (Him Him) looking for the master of snooker who is a very talented snooker player who has retired. He finally asks the man who was wishing and the man points him in the direction towards a restuarant called Cue Power. After some mis-identification he finds out that the man who directed him into the restuarant was in fact the the guy he was looking for. We learn that Him-him really wants to learn snooker from Yau Yat Kiu.

But then his daughter (Kan-Kan) explains that her father will only teach the people who can solve the 3 stack snooker problem. [some basic things about snooker because all the red balls have been potted the next ball that needs to be potted is the yellow however the yellow is on top of the green and brown it is quite literally impossible, hence why no one has solved it, not even his daughter who has been trying since she was little] (hm…I don’t think in the real world it is possible to do that but in this drama some of the snooker moves are fiction, and I guess this one is one of them)

Eventually after sometime Kiu makes an exception and decides to teach Him-him, and discovers his is quite talented. He also eventually teaches his Ka-Ka too. Then one day he finds out that Him-him is actually his best friend and ex-girlfriend’s son. But because of an incident in the past ( I won’t spoil it for you, you should watch and find out yourself) that incident was one that he regretted for his whole life and subsquently decided to retire from snooker at his highest point in his career and hence gave up snooker. And we learn that because of this incident his ex-girlfriend’s sister Toni hates him and refuses to let her nephew(Him-him) learn from Kiu. However she later acknowledges that he is a very good player so lets her newphew continue to learn from him.

Him-him soon falls for Ka-ka but she seems to take a strong interest in the current top snooker player Ray Liu. So he works hard to try and beat Ray. Further down the line Ray falls for Toni, but she likes Kiu. So Ray vows to beat Kiu at snooker. But he eventually accepts that you can’t make someone love you.

Just as Him-him and Ka-ka were very close to starting a relationship Him-him finds out how Kiu had embrassed his father and had been the main reason why his parents had an unhappy marriage and subsquently resulting in him having an bad childhood. So he decides to take revenge on Kiu and where else better than on the snooker table………………………………………………………………………………………………

Towards the end lots of issues arise:

Where people started to betray others, I hate people who betray you after you treated them as a friend or with respect, and then they move around you and stab you in the back. in this drama there were several cases of this

Him-him and ray

Dr j(Ray’s manager) and ray

Toni and her assistant helper.

Performance:

Adam Chen – Always gives an strong performance in any character his portrays and this series is no difference. He is really good at playing the wise guy and is enjoyable to watch him play. Furthermore the chemistry he has with Niki is also very believeable.

Joyce Tang – Has always been an actress who I like a lot because she can play many roles, the soft one, the mean boss. I think she does not get given much credit often which is quite unfair. But at least in this drama she is like one of the main female actresses. Her change in character from the start to beginning just shows how she is a very good actress. And I think her chemistry with Derek was one of the best bits to watch( if they are really a couple in real life which I think they are, I hope them both happiness together =)

Derek Kwok – I really liked him in this drama. Before he was just an OK actor for him who normally tends to play the bad guy but as time went by I liked him in drama’s more and realized how good an actor he was, also in this drama he was the nice guy and had lots of charm and was sweet. I think I actually did fall a bit in love with his character Ray. He was really good at acting as the funny guy, I really liked watching whenever he was on screen, and the way he acted when he was playing snooker was quite realistic.

Niki Chow – Niki in this drama was alright but I dont think her character gave her much challenge( her performance in seventh day was much more better) Anyways that's not really her fault, her chemistry with Patrick was not really strong, but it was not forced either. Overall it was ok.

Patrick Tang – In this drama was quite annoying at times because he seemed too needy but then towards the end he got quite annoying. But I guess thats what how the character was meant to be portrayed so he kind of did that

Overall I found this drama quite fun to watch, there is not really any extremely dramatic scenes but the snooker matches are quite good, however once again if your not really a snooker fan then you might not be interested in watching this drama. Hope you found my review helpful.