Review | Netflix drama GG Precinct review: Greg Hsu, Gingle Wang play goofball cops in crime comedy

Greg Hsu Kuang-han and Gingle Wang Ching headline the show, written and directed by Cheng Wei-hao (Marry My Dead Body) and Yin Chen-hao (Man in Love), which follows the investigation of a string of elaborately staged murders that hark back to a case from decades earlier.

Drawing heavily from Jonathan Demme’s Oscar-winning classic The Silence of the Lambs, the increasingly desperate detectives turn for help to the incarcerated killer whose crimes are now being mimicked, but their efforts only serve to further complicate an already baffling case.

Netflix has enjoyed notable success with its long-form Taiwanese shows of late, from gritty crime dramas like The Victims’ Game and Copycat Killer to more playful titles such as Let’s Talk About Chu and Wave Makers. GG Precinct attempts to marry grit and playfulness in a police procedural that leans as heavily into the laughs as its mysteries unfold.