Detention (Taiwanese TV series)
Detention 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.
Plot
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 enters a forbidden area of the school grounds, where she encounters the ghost of Ray-Xin Fang. 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.
Cast
- Ling-Wei Lee as Yunxiang Liu
- Ning Han as Ray-Xin Fang
- Guang-Zhi Huan as Wen-Liang Cheng
- Yao Chun-yao
- Hsia Teng-hung as Chang Ming-hui
- David Chao