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2020 Taiwanese horror TV series
Detention
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Traditional Chinese
| 返校
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Genre
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Based on
| Detention
video game
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Directed by
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- I-Hsuan Su
- Shiang-An Chuang
- Yi Liu
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Starring
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Country of origin
| Taiwan
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Original languages
| Taiwanese Hokkien
Mandarin
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No.
of seasons
| 1
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No.
of episodes
| 8
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Producers
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Running time
| 60 minutes
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Production company
| Outland Film Production
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Network
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Release
| 5 December
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2020-12-05
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26 December 2020
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2020-12-26
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Detention (2019 film)
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Detention
(
Chinese
:
返校
;
pinyin
:
F?nxiao
) is a Taiwanese
supernatural horror
drama
television series, created for
Netflix
in collaboration with
Public Television Service
, based on the
video game of the same name
developed by
Red Candle Games
. It premiered on 5 December 2020.
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Plot
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Based on the game set in the period of
martial law
known as the
White Terror
in Taiwan,
Detention
entwines the suffocating political situations under martial law and heart-stopping legends of local deities, portraying a labyrinth of unspeakable oppressions.
The series opens at Greenwood High School in 1999. Transfer student Yunxiang Liu (Lingwei Lee) enters a forbidden area of the school grounds, where she encounters the ghost of Ray-Xin Fang (Ning Han). Fang reveals the hidden history of the school over the past 30 years, including how a group of students and teachers were persecuted as they fought for freedom in the era of censorship.
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Cast
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- Ling-Wei Lee (李玲葦) as Yunxiang Liu
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- Ning Han (韓寧) as Ray-Xin Fang
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- Guang-Zhi Huan (黃冠志) as Wen-Liang Cheng
- Yao Chun-yao
- David Chao
Episodes
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Release
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The eight-episode series premiered on 5 December 2020, 21:00
National Standard Time
, with one new episode being released each Saturday.
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The series is an addition to Netflix's Chinese Language Originals collection.
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References
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External links
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