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GG Precinct (正港分局)

GG Precinct (正港分局) is a 2024 Taiwanese crime comedy television series directed and written by Cheng Wei-hao (程伟豪) and Yin Chen-hao (殷振豪), produced by Calendar Studios (金盏花大影业股份有限公司), and released globally on Netflix on 22 August 2024¹^•². It is a spin-off of the hit film Marry My Dead Body (关于我和鬼变成家人的那件事), with Greg Hsu (许光汉), Gingle Wang (王净), Ma Nien-hsien (马念先), and Flower Chen (陈彦佐) reprising their roles³. The plot follows the officers of the GG Precinct as they investigate a serial killer who stages murders around Chinese idioms, punishing victims who write them incorrectly².

Key fact	Detail
Format	6 episodes of about 40 minutes each; crime comedy with action and police-procedural elements¹
Premiere	22 August 2024, exclusive on Netflix worldwide²
Directors and writers	Cheng Wei-hao and Yin Chen-hao, with Chou Man-yu (周汶儒) as co-writer³
Lead cast	Greg Hsu as detective Wu Ming-han, Gingle Wang as squad leader Lin Tzu-ching, Ma Nien-hsien, Ng Ki-pin (黄奇斌), Lulu Huang (黄路梓茵), Da-her Lin (林鹤轩), Flower Chen²
Central premise	A serial of murders staged as word puzzles around Chinese idioms; writing an idiom wrong can be fatal²
Source film	Marry My Dead Body, the top-grossing Taiwanese film of 2023 at NT$360 million and Taiwan's selection for the 2024 Academy Awards⁴^•³
Recognition	Nominated at the 2024 Asia Contents Awards & Global OTT Awards for Best OTT Original and Best Lead Actor (Male)¹

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Premise and story

The series continues from Marry My Dead Body. Detective Wu Ming-han returns to the GG Precinct expecting promotion to squad leader, but the position goes to Lin Tzu-ching, his former partner and on-screen adversary, and the two must work together on a baffling case⁵. A string of murders appears across the city, each crime scene arranged as a chilling word puzzle, and the squad eventually seeks help from the imprisoned killer Xu Shui-yuan (徐水源), known as the "Idiom Demon" (成魔), whose decades-old crimes the new murders imitate⁵^•⁶.

Producer Jin Pai-lunn (金百伦) said the team invested heavily in designing the idioms and the murder methods tied to them, aiming to give the plot more tension through that device². Yin Chen-hao described the intent as fusing comedy with crime elements so that global audiences could reflect on the importance of language while laughing².

Production and cast

Shooting took place in November 2022, with locations in New Taipei City including the Tamsui Gold Seashore and the area around the Duchuantou ferry pier, the Ruifang precinct's interrogation and detention rooms, and the Yongde Temple grounds⁷.

The returning cast is joined by new squad members: Ng Ki-pin, who moved into acting from music; Lulu Huang, a television host making a crossover appearance; and Da-her Lin, a Golden Bell Award nominee for Best Leading Actor who had worked with Cheng Wei-hao on the miniseries The Pond². The series also features the full lineup of the variety show Muyao 4 Super Playing (木曜4超玩), including Tai Chih-yuan (邰智源), KID Lin Po-sheng (林柏升), Kunda Hsieh (谢坤达), Winni, Wu Yang-lin (泱泱), and Maria Abe, along with the singer Huang Hsuan (黄宣) in his first acting role⁸.

Release and reception

Netflix held a global accessibility premiere at Showtime Cinemas in Taipei on 20 August 2024, two days before release, screening the first two episodes for an audience of more than 500 people with audio description and creative subtitle functions; the company described it as its first accessibility-format premiere for a Chinese-language title⁸.

Reception was divided. The South China Morning Post gave the series two stars out of five, noting its debt to Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs in the detectives' consultations with an incarcerated killer, while placing it among Netflix's recent run of Taiwanese shows that range from gritty crime dramas to lighter comedies⁶. Taiwanese commentary described the show as moving from high anticipation to polarized verdicts, with the genre blending criticized by some as tonally inconsistent, though reviewers also noted that most supporting characters and the main plot are new, so the series can be watched without having seen the film⁵. On IMDb it holds a rating of 5.9 out of 10 from about 510 users⁹.

Significance

The series is the first spin-off television series developed from a Taiwanese film, a milestone in the country's effort to extend film properties into series formats¹⁰. Its source film had earned NT$360 million at the 2023 Taiwan box office, and the spin-off carried that momentum onto a global streaming platform⁴. At the 2024 Asia Contents Awards & Global OTT Awards it received nominations for Best OTT Original and for Best Lead Actor (Male)¹.

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › International serial drama and telenovelas › East Asian drama series › Hong Kong and Taiwanese serial drama

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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