Kevin C. Wong

Netflix Series - Triad Princess s1 (2019) [+]

Triad Princess is a Netflix comedy/romance series made in Taiwan which ran six episodes and does not seem to have been renewed for a second season. Angie (Eugenie Liu) is a 20-something action girl who is also the local mob boss' daughter. She wants a bit of independence so enlists as a bodyguard to actress Ling Yun (Cecilia Choi Sze-wan) who just happens to be in a fake relationship with co-star Jasper Yi-hang Xu (Jasper Liu) and Angie has been infatuated with Jasper since she was a teenager.

Angie shows off that she's a bit of a spaz but quite capable in a fight and she's always a bit unwillingly shadowed by her adopted brother Lin Gui (Chang Zhang-xing) and his men so it's quite funny when she gets in over her head and then a bunch of mob men appear to help her out.

She quickly falls for Jasper and Jasper slowly falls for her though a rival beau is introduced, Angie's sort of childhood friend Eddie Kim (Tsao Yu-ning), son of a mainland mob boss and Angie's fiancé against her wishes. But when Eddie appears he's not as bad as she remembers (though it turns out maybe a bit more evil than she thinks).

Angie also helps out Ling who is being blackmailed by a local criminal who uses his and Ling's son as a bit of a hostage. Angie gets into a couple of fights with the guy and beats him but hasn't managed to rescue Ling's son by the end of the season.

Season one ends with those two plot lines: Angie and Jasper but Eddie is going to try to break them up; and Ling and her son which Angie has pledged to rescue.

The series has good characters. I love the badass that everyone underestimates. The romance happens fairly quickly but still takes two or three episodes so it's not a prolonged will-they-won't-they thing. It's too bad the series ends(?) at such a bad point.