TV series

When Heaven Burns

2011–2012 · 1 season

A haunting, slow-burning drama that lingers on guilt and memory, demanding patience but rewarding with emotional depth and moral complexity.

Overview: When Yip Chi-Yan, Lau Chun-Hung, Sung Yee-Long, and Cheng Chun-Hin are brought together again by an accident, their lives change irreversibly. Chi-Yan is a radio host. She and the other three were members of the same band eighteen years ago. The memory of them playing music together comes back vividly to them, and so does the pain they have all tried so hard to bury. Eighteen years ago her boyfriend, Ka-Ming, was killed in a hiking accident. Time flies, but she can never forgive Chun-Hung, Yee-Long, and Chun-Hin for failing to save Ka-Ming. As they reconnect, the four good friends and the people around them are drawn into a vortex of love they have no control over.
How it feels: Dark, melancholic, tense and cynical. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Guilt, betrayal, grief, memory
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
cynicalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: guilt
betrayal
grief
memory
morality
Places: big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild