Come with Me (TV series)


Come with Me
Official poster
性在有情
GenreModern Drama, Comedy
Created byJazz Boon
Written byLeung Yan-tung(head writer), Zhang Zong Qi, Wong Beng Yee, Lee Hui Yee, Wong Jing Man, Yip Hao Ching
StarringEddie Cheung
Sharon Chan
Elena Kong
Louis Yuen
Benz Hui
May Chan
Sammy Sum
Grace Wong
Theme music composerAlan Cheung
Opening theme"Speak" (講) by Sharon Chan, Louis Yuen, Grace Wong, Hoffman Cheng, Stephanie Ho, Ronald Law
Country of originHong Kong
Original languageCantonese
No. of episodes20
Production
Executive producerCatherine Tsang
ProducerJazz Boon
Production locationHong Kong
EditorLeung Yan-tung
Camera setupMulti camera
Running time45 minutes
Production companyTVB
Original release
NetworkmyTV SUPER
Release4 June (2016-06-04) –
25 June 2016 (2016-06-25)
Come with Me
Traditional Chinese性在有情
Literal meaning"Have Sexual Feelings"
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyinxìng zài yǒu qíng
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingsing3 zoi6 jau5 cing4

Come with Me (Chinese: 性在有情; Jyutping: sing3 zoi6 jau5 cing4; literally "Have Sexual Feelings") is a 2016 Hong Kong comedy web drama produced by Jazz Boon for TVB, starring Eddie Cheung, Sharon Chan, Elena Kong, Louis Yuen, Benz Hui, May Chan, Sammy Sum and Grace Wong as the main cast. It premiered on Hong Kong's TVB web streaming site "myTV SUPER" on June 4, 2016, with five episodes released each Saturday at 12:00 am. The series concluded on June 25, 2016 with a total of 20 episodes. Overseas, the drama aired from May 29 to June 17, 2017 in the 9:30 time slot as a result of TVB Jade airing a remastered version of Phoenix Rising. An 18-episode cut version of the drama would later air in 2017 on TVB Jade.[1][2]

Come with Me was shelved for a year and a half. The sex theme topic of the drama was deemed inappropriate to be aired during network television prime time. Only when TVB's new online streaming platform "myTV SUPER" was launched in 2016, the drama was able to be aired online as it was able to bypass Hong Kong's strict censor rules.[3][4]

The series shares a similar theme with Sexpedia, a Hong Kong Television Network series that debuted in April 2015.

Synopsis

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Sex counselor Mok Tai-hung (Eddie Cheung) and sex therapist Lam Ching-yee (Sharon Chan) have been dating for five years. The two love each other very much and want to take their relationship to the next step by getting married. But Ching-yee's strict and conservative mother Liu Doi-lam, is highly against them being together due to Tai-hung's financial status, him being a bit older than her daughter and also him having a son from a previous relationship. Tai-hung puts up with Ching-yee's mother bias of him and hopes she will come around one day. After the two are married they still find roadblocks in their relationship as Tai-hung constantly has to put up with his new mother in-law to show he is the perfect son in-law. While Ching-yee has to adjust to life at Tai-hung's family home and tries not to offend her mother in-law who overly tries to be helpful but only makes matters worst.

Tai-hung's immature friend Kam Cheung (Louis Yuen) once lived an affluent life, until he was swindled out of his inheritance. Now he lives a desolated life in a small rundown apartment where he can't even afford to pay his electric bill. When he cons Tai-hung's equally immature younger sister Mok Siu-tou (Elena Kong) into lending him money to start his underwear business, he didn't expect her to cling onto him until he repays her. Tai-hung helps Cheung repay his debt to Siu-tou, Cheung does not learn his lesson and uses Siu-tou's identity as a co-signer when he takes out a loan from loan sharks.

Meanwhile, Ching-yee's uncle Liu Chun-cheung (Benz Hui), who is in his late middle age is getting married for the first time. His much younger newly wed wife Tong Tim-tim (May Chan) just immigrated to Hong Kong from mainland China, not long after marrying Chun-cheung. Ching-yee's mother Liu Doi-lam, who has taken care of her dependent older brother all her life does not trust Tim-tim and is afraid that Tim-tim will con her brother, even when the entire family tells her, Chun-cheung doesn't have anything worth conning. The problem with Chun-cheung and Tim-tim's marriage is, he finds himself unable to keep up with his wife's sex drive as she wants to have intimacy every night. Even with the help of his friends in helping him avoid having sex with his wife each night, Chun-cheung finds himself unable to resist Tim-tim when she is in costume for foreplay.

At Ching-yee's younger sister's high school, extreme conservative literature teacher To Tak-kee (Sammy Sum), feels that all the students should be like him, remain a virgin until marriage. When he sees students from his ultra conservative all girls school mingle with the opposite sex from another school he goes as far as to stalk them after school and then telling them to stop seeing the male students from the other school or else he will tell their parents. When Tak-kee finds out that fellow teacher Emma Chung (Grace Wong) lives a promiscuous life outside of work he threatens to tell the school principal. Emma won't allow him the chance to tell the principle about her secret lifestyle, when she tries to seduce him and then uses that against him.[5]

Cast

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Mok family

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  • Helena Law as Lee Ho (李好; homophone to 你好, How are you?)
Mok Tai-hung and Siu-tou's supportive mother. She desperate wants to see Tai-hung and Ching-yee get married. Being a smothered mother to Siu-tou has left Siu-tou acting immature and dependent on Tai-hung. She always tries to help her children but end up making the matter worst.
Lee Ho's son. Siu-tou's older brother. Man-wai's single father. Ching-yee's longtime boyfriend, later husband. He works as a sex counselor at the same center as Ching-yee. Liu Doi-lam does not approve of him being with her daughter because of his unimpressive background and finances.
Lee Ho's daughter. Younger sister to Tai-hung, whom she calls "Oppa". She is obsessed with Korean dramas to the point where attends fan meetings when her favorite idol visits Hong Kong. She manages her own custom window treatment shop. Kam Cheung, cons her into lending him money.
  • Ivan Chan as Mok Man-wai (莫文衛; homophone to Karen Mok's Chinese name 莫文蔚)
Mok Tai-hung's young son from a previous relationship.

Lam & Liu family

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Liu Doi-lam's long suffering husband who lets his wife bully him. Lam Ching-yi and Ceci's father.
Lam Si-yuen's stubborn wife. Lam Ching-yi and Ceci's mother. She is head of the PTA at Ceci's all girls high school. Pride and status is very important to her. She does not approve of Ching-yee and Tai-hung's relationship because she thinks her daughter is too good for him.
Liu Doi-lam's dependent older brother. Tong Tim-tim's newly wed husband. After his much younger wife immigrates to Hong Kong to be with him, he finds himself unable to keep up with her sex drive. He manages his own snack stall at a commercial arcade.
Liu Chun-cheung's much younger newly wed wife from mainland China. Due to their age difference, she has a healthier sex drive than her husband and wants to have intimacy every night. She likes to costume play to turn the intimacy mood on.
Lam Si-yuen and Liu Doi-lam's older daughter. Ceci Lam's older sister. She is a sex therapist and works alongside her longtime boyfriend and later husband Tai-hung. She is reasonable as she learns to adjust to Tai-hung's family when they get married and move into his family home.
Lam Si-yuen and Liu Doi-lam's younger daughter. Lam Ching-yi's younger sister. She attends a conservative all girls high school where her mother is head of the PTA.

Moral Girls High School

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Ceci's literature teacher. He is extremely passionate of Chinese poems and tends to read it wherever he goes. He is also extremely conservative as he is still a virgin and wants his students to follow his lifestyle.
  • Grace Wong as Emma Chung Ying-man (鍾瑛敏) & Dan-dan (丹丹)
Emma Chung Ying-man - Chung Gwong's daughter and Dan-dan's identical twin sister. A fellow teacher at the school who tries to blackmail Tak-kee into keeping her secret life secret when he accidentally finds out about her promiscuous life outside of work. She and her twin sister were opposites. Feeling responsible for her sister's suicide she takes on her sister's persona outside of work.
Dan-dan - Emma's identical twin sister. After finding out her boyfriend liked her sister and was going to dump her she commits suicide to make Emma feel guilty for the rest of her life.

Family Planning Center staff

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Extended cast

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Tai-hung's immature friend. He used to live an affluent second heir life but was swindled out of his inheritance. He now goes through life asking people to lend him money. He has an extremely hairy chest and likes to frequent local prostitutes. He gets himself entangled with Mok Siu-tou when she becomes the person he constantly ask to borrow money from.
A stock investor and later, a self-improvement instructor. Kam Cheung's girlfriend who defrauded him of his inheritance. Later she is a self-improvement instructor who uses the position to scope out potential victims to defraud. Tai-hung and Kam Cheung devise a plan to stop her from defrauding their good friend, Liu Chun-cheung.
An accountant that Doi-lam wanted to set up with Ching-yi. However he becomes a patient of Ching-yi and Tai-hung when his girlfriend Suk-guen tells them of his sexual obsession with leopard prints.
Wing-ho's suffering girlfriend. The two break up because of his weird sexual obsession.
Olivia's husband. He is a boxer who is ashamed of his small genitals.
Otto's wife. Her husband thinks that because of his genitals they cannot get pregnant.

Development and production

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  • Filming took place from November 2014 till February 2015, entirely on location in Hong Kong.[6]
  • The costume fitting and blessing ceremony was held on December 23, 2014 1:00 pm at Tseung Kwan O TVB City Studio One Parking Lot.[7]

References

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  1. ^ [1] Between The Sheets nst.com. Retrieved July 13, 2016
  2. ^ [2] TVB Officially Launches myTV SUPER. Retrieved July 13, 2016
  3. ^ [3] TVB Releases “Climactic” Teaser for Sex Comedy “Come with Me”. Retrieved July 23, 2016
  4. ^ [4] 無綫晒冷騷谷myTV SUPER hk.on.cc (in Chinese). Retrieved July 23, 2016
  5. ^ [5] TVB Releases “Climactic” Teaser for Sex Comedy “Come with Me”. Retrieved July 13, 2016
  6. ^ [6] “Come with Me” Completes Filming. Retrieved July 23, 2016
  7. ^ [7] 《性在有情》 "Come with Me" Blessing Ceremony. Retri8eved July 23, 2016
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