GG PRECINCT (Chinese: 正港分局 ) is a 2024 Taiwanese crime-comedy on Netflix. Created by Cheng Wei-hao and Yin Chen-hao, It is a prequel to the 2022 Taiwanese mystery-comedy film MARRY MY DEAD BODY. The plot is based around a replica killer in New Taipei City now, replicating the murder of a Chinese teacher Shui-yuan (Chih-Yuan Tai) who called himself the ‘Idiom Monster’ as he killed his students when they did not master idioms correctly some twenty years ago. The detectives of the Gia Gun precinct are able for some time to make nothing of these new murders and ultimately seek the assistance of Shui, the original murderer.
A security guard in the first series is killed mysteriously in a parking garage by a man dressed in a hood. This lays the basis for a number of subsequent bizarre murders throughout the city. Like those of the Idiom Monster each murder scene has been solved in a ritualistic manner where the victims’ bodies are blanketed in feathers and fish scales or their teeth have been removed.
The entire plot revolves around Wu Ming-han (Greg Hsu), a police detective who is coming back to work after being injured in the line of duty by a gunshot. Wu is happy to back at Gia Gun precinct, things becomes complicated when Lin Tzu-ching (Gingle Wang) is promoted as a captain to the post Wu was expecting an offer for. The two have to let bygones be bygones as the murders intensify in Brothers & Sisters.
The investigation of the killings is done by Wu and his team of detectives and Li Shu-fen, a profiler. It is the only way they can nab the copycat and in this case, the copycat is Hsu Shui-yuan who is serving his time in prison. Hsu who is as calm as Hannibal Lecter, assists them in giving them insights about the copycat, while emphasizing that the killer is not going to stop anytime soon.
It combines both humor and suspense in relation to the performance of Wu and his co-workers using their skills to solve the murders while at the same time portraying the crimes as absurd. GG PRECINCT is the new black on crime dramas because it comes with elements of mystery and comedy.
IS SHUI-YUAN (IDIOM MONSTER) A REAL-LIFE SERIAL KILLER?
Shui-yuan, also known as the Idiom Monster, is a fictional character from Netflix’s 2024 Taiwanese crime-comedy series GG PRECINCT. Although the character seems horrifying and realistic in the show, viewers should realize that Shui-yuan is a fictional person and not an actual serial killer. The character was originally developed for the series by the team of scriptwriters that included Cheng Wei-hao, Yin Chen-hao as well as Chou Man-you. Their purpose was to introduce elements of the ridiculous and the grotesque into the murder cases of the show and comedy at that.
In the show, Shui-yuan is an elementary teacher of Chinese language; he murders all his students because they could not master the usage of idioms. The writers who worked on the show and the movies wanted to present a complete buffoon, a ridiculous and at the same time deadly enemy and this idea was born. But what really makes it different from conventional crime mysteries and exciting at the same time is that the Idiom Monster kills for an utterly ridiculous reason that infuses the villain with a note of the absurd and a touch of comedy.
Even though the idea of the Idiom Monster is mere fiction, the way he kills and the fact that he is obsessed with idioms, puts him in some way as a real life serial killer. For example, Jeffrey Dahmer and Jack Unterweger who are some of the most infamous serial killers had some abnorma and bizarre behaviors. Dahmer had symptoms of being a cannibal, and was strange and horrifying, such as giving sandwiches to neighbours, which raise the question of whether people were eating human flesh. Likewise, Unterweger, an Austrian serial killer wrote and edited with his violent mind and slew people across Europe to feed his writing.
Albert Fish – largely involved in bloodthirsty and brutal acts in the early part of the 20th century, this man was particularly notorious for writing letters to the families of his victims, details of which depicted how he killed them. The Idiom Monster also threatens the detectives in the series through his baffling and crime-based creativity, based on idioms and literature, which form part of the psychological horror that the show portrays.
Of course the character makes one think of some real life psychos but he, in essence, is a chimera, a figment of the creative writer’s imagination whose perverse and mind-boggling actions are intended to underscore the mind boggling and perverse nature of his acts.
Having such real-life experiences in their mind helped the writers of GG PRECINCT develop a character who really seems to come alive although Shui-yuan is purely fictional. This cocktail of the love for literature and writing, violent criminal acts, and quite sick reasoning makes the Idiom Monster one of the most outstanding TV show villains of recent years.
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