The Seventh Day Review

The Seventh Day- 最美麗的第七天

No. of Episodes: 20

Main Cast:
Kevin Cheng as Yau Chi Wing
Niki Chow as Ling Ka Yan
Bosco Wong as Don Hui Wai Yan
Natalie Tong as Sasa Wong Chi Kwan

Sypnosis:
Yau Chi Wing (Kevin Cheng Ka Wing) and Hui Wai Yan (Bosco Wong Chung Chak) were both born on the seventh day of August, but one takes relationships seriously while the other is very money-minded and sees love as a tool to get higher up the social ladder.The tale begins on the seventh of August, when Wing and Yan first encounter their own dream girl on the island. Wing works as a lifeguard on the outlying island. He gets to know pet shop assistant Ling Ka Yan (Niki Chow Lai Kei) by chance and is soon mesmerized by her endearing personality. Yan works at a coffee shop and meets a romance comic artist called Wong Chi Kwan (Natalie Tong Sze Wing). Being misled into believing that the girl is from a rich family, Yan decides to chase her. He would never have thought that someone as calculating as himself would end up falling into a love trap.

Credits: Astro On Demand

Reviews:
I was quite excited to hear about the pairings in this series as I've especially liked Kevin Cheng & Niki Chow in Under The Canopy of Love and Bosco Wong & Natalie Tong have always been hot favourites for me. However, I just don't get why the trailers should include scenes of "The 1st Day", "The 2nd Day" etc. The significance of Bosco & Kevin being born on the same day also meant not much to me as I thought it was just a way for TVB to name this show The Seventh Day and to portray how 2 people born on the same day fell in and out of love.

Kevin Cheng:
He plays this filial grandson who works as a lifeguard to earn a living. He loves his grandma and hates his father for abadoning them and cheating them of their money causing him to lose his chance of studying overseas. In the beginning, I really disliked Kevin's character for always treating Niki as an errand girl doing all the odd jobs for him while he hangs out with his friends all day long. However, it became clear later on that he really loved Niki. Kevin plays a rather sad and pitiful character her compared to his cheerful self in UTCOL. He does a great job as well.

Niki Chow:
She loves dogs very much in this show and dreams of opening a pet shop. She has this dog called Jack who can do many fancy tricks. Her unconditional love for Kevin really touched me e.g She runs around doing odd jobs for him, She flies to Japan to search for him when she realised that he has disappeared, She broke up with him so that he wouldn't find out that she has cancer and that she will die eventually. Again, similar to Kevin, she plays a sad character as well who inherits the cancer from her mum. I like Niki's acting here as you could see how her character develops.

Bosco Wong:
Bosco and his group of friends dream of becoming bosses of their own one day and form a company called DDMK named after their initials. They buy over a coffeeshop and work hard for their future there. He mistakens Natalie Tong for a rich girl and sets out to woo her. He later moves on to Charmaine Li's father's company to work as a manager but later decides that he prefers to be his own boss. Bosco was more interesting to watch her over Kevin as he always has funny antics and you can see his emotions easily.

Natalie Tong:
She plays a comic book artist here who uses Bosco as a means for ideas for her comic book. This is Natalie's first big role in a series so I was pretty hyped about it. At last, she's not going to play someone's younger sister again. Her performance was rather entertaining and cute with her glasses and her sort of cartoon characteristic. TVB really should give her more roles to play. She is really one actress who deserves to shine.

Couples:
Kevin & Niki: At first I watched this series as I really liked their pairing in UTCOL. They shared great chemistry there and in TSD as well. They looked comfortable together however it got really boring to watch them towards the ending half of the series. Theirs was turning into a non-parent approved relationship along with Selena Li acting as Kevin's AIDS stricken ex-girlfriend and also Niki's cancer. I was kinda getting bored with seeing their sad sad faces all the time.

Bosco & Natalie:
They are a fresh pairing in this series and they have no doubt scored high in my opinion. They were so cute to see with the using of each other behind their backs. And the really cute scens of how they finally found out that they had real feelings for each other but everything was too late. Charmaine Li was the third party in this series. It was rather funny to see Natalie always playing tricks on Bosco to test his temper and Bosco always giving in to her thinking that she is a rich girl. Towards the end of this series, I wanted to see more of them but the scenes seem to constantly be fixed on Kevin & Niki's sad sonata.

Overall Ratings:
4/5

This series garnered pretty bad ratings for a major hyped about series in Hong Kong. I guess the audience just got bored. I too was overally bored by Kevin & Niki towards the end. I just wanted to see more Bosco & Natalie scenes. However, I gave this series 4/5 because I think the scenes filmed in Japan were so beautiful and that the ending was a beautiful one even though Niki died. Both Natalie & Niki gave birth to baby girls on August 7 which is the date Kevin & Bosco were both born in the series. If you are a fan of comedy and tear jerking scenes, this would be the series for you.