Anak Pontianak

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Not many Malay dramas had caught my eye since last last year's Seputeh Cinta Qaseh, although TV3 practically airs twoseries a night and it changes every other night. We get crap like "Puteri" (Louisa Chong is really freaky in that one) and "Ai' di Beijing" (I guess it means Love in Beijing) and the sometimes amusing "Dunia Baru" (I watch merely to see the ultra-religious maternal figure, Umi -- kap ba ro kap alif ta nun).
Amidst all the dramas of tears, love, bad business ethics and bitchy, buxom women, we get one series with a supernatural theme, "Anak Pontianak".

I must say that that the acting is not particularly good (the protagonist, Mia can only do two expressions-- human grunt and pontianak grunt) and the story not exactly coherent (way lots of kidnapping scenes just to show off some pontianak powers), but still it's a fresher idea than the rest. Well, the series ended last week and truth be told, I couldn't make heads or tails of it. But I don't think that it's not entirely the script writer's fault since I missed like, 70% of the episodes. Kakaka. But still, it was fun seeing Mia turn from constipated girl to bad make-up pontianak having a big show down with the baddies with bad script to boost.

"Mia, kenapa awak masih nak maafkan saya, saya dah buat banyak dosa..."

"Bertaubatlah, Salmiah..."

"** Cackling ** Cepat serahkan Batu Mulia itu!!"

What?! One minute remorse, one minute evil. It was nothing like Lamia's final scene. The bad pontianak just looked like she had a split personality or the writers were just high on too much Batu Mulia. Until the next semi-decent production comes along...