# Shards of Her (她和她的她)
**Shards of Her** (她和她的她) is a 2022 Taiwanese mystery drama series released on Netflix, in which a successful headhunter wakes from a coma into an alternate reality and must confront the trauma of being sexually assaulted by her middle-school teacher.[1](https://www.netflix.com/title/81622630?source=naver) The nine-episode series was created by screenwriter Wen Yu-fang (温郁芳) and directed by Cho Li (卓立), and it won four awards at the 58th Golden Bell Awards, including Best Leading Actress for Hsu Wei-ning.[2](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-shines-bright-at-2023-golden-bell-awards-with-40-nominations-and-12)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Original title | 她和她的她 (Ta He Ta De Ta) |
| Release | October 28, 2022, Netflix worldwide exclusive; 9 episodes of roughly 45 to 51 minutes[1](https://www.netflix.com/title/81622630?source=naver) • [3](https://sandrama.com/review-of-shards-of-her/) |
| Main cast | Hsu Wei-ning (许玮宁), Toby Lee (李程彬), Alyssa Chia (贾静雯), Wu Kang-ren (吴慷仁), Wen Chen-ling, Patty Lee[1](https://www.netflix.com/title/81622630?source=naver) |
| Creative team | Director Cho Li; screenwriter Wen Yu-fang; supervising producer Yeh Ju-feng (叶如芬)[4](https://www.gtv.com.tw/mobile/entertainmentNews.php?seqId=55620B2E-8E0B-6D92-9E1B-A9185835E6FF) |
| Production companies | Mandarin Vision (华文创) and Gala Pictures International (四方四隅), with GTV (八大电视)[2](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-shines-bright-at-2023-golden-bell-awards-with-40-nominations-and-12) • [4](https://www.gtv.com.tw/mobile/entertainmentNews.php?seqId=55620B2E-8E0B-6D92-9E1B-A9185835E6FF) |
| Golden Bell Awards (58th, 2023) | 4 wins from 7 nominations: Best Leading Actress, Best Leading Actor, Best Newcomer, and a fourth award reported as Best Miniseries Producer in Netflix's English release and as the screenwriting award in its Chinese release[2](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-shines-bright-at-2023-golden-bell-awards-with-40-nominations-and-12) • [5](https://about.netflix.com/zh_tw/news/netflix-shines-bright-at-2023-golden-bell-awards-with-40-nominations-and-12) |
| IMDb rating | 6.9/10 from 916 ratings; unweighted mean 7.4[6](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22399058/ratings/) |
## Spoilers
### Premise and structure
Lin Chen-hsi (林晨曦), played by [Hsu Wei-ning](https://www.edgepedia.org/hsu-wei-ning), is a Taipei-based headhunter with a rising career and a caring partner, but a wound from the past haunts her.[1](https://www.netflix.com/title/81622630?source=naver) After a car accident she wakes from a coma to find herself in a parallel world: she is living with her parents in her hometown of Yilan, her boyfriend Li Hao-ming has become a police officer named Liu, and the case at hand is the murder of her middle-school chemistry teacher, Hsieh Chih-chung (谢志忠), played by Chen Yi-wen, with her school senior Yen Sheng-hua (颜圣华), played by Alyssa Chia, the prime suspect.[7](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIHzZIuvEMY) • [8](https://looryfilm.tw/shards-of-her/)
The mystery structure serves a psychological purpose. Director Cho Li explained that the screenwriter used dissociation to place Lin Chen-hsi in different timelines that show her inner fragmentation: the dissociated world reflects her real-world desires or their opposites, so the aloof, closed-off real-world Lin becomes innocent and open in the dissociated one, and the warm policeman she met when reporting the assault as a teenager is recast as the sympathetic partner figure.[9](https://www.marieclaire.com.tw/entertainment/tvshow/69438) Critics noted the resemblance to *Someday or One Day* in structure: the answer to the mystery is also the answer to the emotional question, and the process of following the puzzle draws viewers into the show's real subject, trauma after sexual assault.[10](https://www.thenewslens.com/article/176195)
## Themes
The series is framed as a mystery but functions as a drama about women's issues and psychological healing.[3](https://sandrama.com/review-of-shards-of-her/) Beyond the central sexual assault by a trusted teacher, it touches on workplace harassment of both women and men, the [glass ceiling](https://www.edgepedia.org/glass-ceiling), domestic violence, the non-consensual spread of intimate videos, and hostility between women.[11](https://www.vogue.com.tw/entertainment/article/shards-of-her-review) In one thread, Lin Chen-hsi's boss blocks her promotion on the grounds that she may marry and have children; in another, a colleague's intimate video is leaked and she turns on a fellow victim rather than showing solidarity.[11](https://www.vogue.com.tw/entertainment/article/shards-of-her-review)
A recurring motif is victim-blaming. After teenage Lin Chen-hsi tells her family about the assault, her father questions why she did not resist, and her parents, deferring to the authority of a model teacher, urge her to treat the event as imagined.[11](https://www.vogue.com.tw/entertainment/article/shards-of-her-review) • [12](https://tw.news.yahoo.com/%E5%A5%B9%E5%92%8C%E5%A5%B9%E7%9A%84%E5%A5%B9-121450625.html) A commentary by a counseling psychologist read the show as an illustration of dissociation after sexual violence and of trauma-informed care, the practice of responding to survivors with understanding rather than blame, citing the partner's line that if she is stuck, he will pull her free.[13](https://womany.net/read/article/31230) The English title itself points to the theme: "Shards of Her" translates literally as "her fragments," referring to the shattering images of Lin's dissociation and to the pieces of her soul she says were left at the site of the trauma.[11](https://www.vogue.com.tw/entertainment/article/shards-of-her-review)
## Production
The series was GTV's first original drama, produced by the production company Sifangsiyu (四方四隅) together with the award-winning team Mandarin Vision (华文创), with veteran film producer Yeh Ju-feng as supervising producer.[4](https://www.gtv.com.tw/mobile/entertainmentNews.php?seqId=55620B2E-8E0B-6D92-9E1B-A9185835E6FF) Filming began in May 2021 but stopped after eight days when the COVID-19 pandemic broke out; shooting resumed three months later and totaled about 80 days, with two typhoons hitting the crew during location work in Yilan. Director Cho Li described it as the most painful and difficult production of her career: the complex script ran over schedule, with eight episodes of screenplay shot as ten and cut to nine.[14](https://tw.news.yahoo.com/news/%E5%A8%9B%E6%A8%82%E9%80%8F%E8%A6%96-%E5%88%91%E5%81%B5%E5%8C%85%E8%A3%9D-%E5%A5%B9%E5%92%8C%E5%A5%B9%E7%9A%84%E5%A5%B9-%E8%BF%BD%E5%87%B6%E6%AD%B7%E7%A8%8B%E6%B2%BB%E7%99%82%E6%80%A7%E6%9A%B4%E5%8A%9B%E5%82%B7%E7%97%9B-215859780.html)
Hsu Wei-ning prepared by reading extensive field-research material and consulting a cousin who had just returned from the United States as a psychological counselor; she kept the character's anxious facial tic consistent across out-of-sequence shooting and remained physically unwell until wrap.[14](https://tw.news.yahoo.com/news/%E5%A8%9B%E6%A8%82%E9%80%8F%E8%A6%96-%E5%88%91%E5%81%B5%E5%8C%85%E8%A3%9D-%E5%A5%B9%E5%92%8C%E5%A5%B9%E7%9A%84%E5%A5%B9-%E8%BF%BD%E5%87%B6%E6%AD%B7%E7%A8%8B%E6%B2%BB%E7%99%82%E6%80%A7%E6%9A%B4%E5%8A%9B%E5%82%B7%E7%97%9B-215859780.html) The visual design used tilt-shift lenses and post-production effects to distort and defocus the edges of frames, rendering the psychological states of the protagonist; these shots made up half of the show's effects work.[14](https://tw.news.yahoo.com/news/%E5%A8%9B%E6%A8%82%E9%80%8F%E8%A6%96-%E5%88%91%E5%81%B5%E5%8C%85%E8%A3%9D-%E5%A5%B9%E5%92%8C%E5%A5%B9%E7%9A%84%E5%A5%B9-%E8%BF%BD%E5%87%B6%E6%AD%B7%E7%A8%8B%E6%B2%BB%E7%99%82%E6%80%A7%E6%9A%B4%E5%8A%9B%E5%82%B7%E7%97%9B-215859780.html) The widely discussed three-minute confrontation between Yu Tzu-yu, as the teacher's wife, and [Ding Ning](https://www.edgepedia.org/ding-ning), as Lin's mother, was filmed over a full day and was Ding Ning's first scene on set.[15](https://www.vogue.com.tw/entertainment/article/shards-of-her-yu-and-ding-press-conference)
## Reception and awards
The series reached first place on Netflix's Taiwan Top 10 within a day of release and generated wide online discussion.[11](https://www.vogue.com.tw/entertainment/article/shards-of-her-review) A Taiwanese government report recorded that it reached No. 1 in both the Taiwan and Hong Kong Netflix weekly rankings and placed second in a Taiwan word-of-mouth drama ranking.[16](https://ppg.ly.gov.tw/ppg/SittingAttachment/download/2023042795/12632002502300500002.pdf) It is also among the Taiwanese dramas rated highly by mainland Chinese viewers on Douban, an appeal the scholar Fang Kecheng of the Chinese University of Hong Kong attributes to their uncensored treatment of social issues that mainland audiences recognize from their own lives.[17](https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3305995/why-mainland-chinese-audiences-love-taiwanese-tv-dramas-and-5-rated-highest-douban)
At the 58th Golden Bell Awards, Taiwan's most prestigious television awards, the series received seven nominations and won four, the biggest winner in the miniseries category: Hsu Wei-ning for Best Leading Actress, Toby Lee for Best Leading Actor, Charlize Lamb (林奕岚) for Best Newcomer, and a fourth award that Netflix's English announcement lists as Best Miniseries Producer and its Chinese announcement and Vogue Taiwan report as the screenwriting award for Wen Yu-fang.[2](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-shines-bright-at-2023-golden-bell-awards-with-40-nominations-and-12) • [5](https://about.netflix.com/zh_tw/news/netflix-shines-bright-at-2023-golden-bell-awards-with-40-nominations-and-12) • [11](https://www.vogue.com.tw/entertainment/article/shards-of-her-review) Accepting the screenwriting award, Wen Yu-fang said the series aims not only to expose the pain of sexual assault but to accompany wounded souls as they keep going.[11](https://www.vogue.com.tw/entertainment/article/shards-of-her-review)
## References
1. [Shards of Her, Netflix Official Site](https://www.netflix.com/title/81622630?source=naver)
2. [Netflix Shines Bright at 2023 Golden Bell Awards With 40 Nominations and 12 Wins, About Netflix](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-shines-bright-at-2023-golden-bell-awards-with-40-nominations-and-12)
3. [台劇心得｜《她和她的她》Shards of Her, 珊迪瘋美劇](https://sandrama.com/review-of-shards-of-her/)
4. [八大電視最新原創影集《她和她的她》, GTV八大電視](https://www.gtv.com.tw/mobile/entertainmentNews.php?seqId=55620B2E-8E0B-6D92-9E1B-A9185835E6FF)
5. [金鐘獎入圍名單Netflix一舉橫掃40項大獎提名, About Netflix (Chinese)](https://about.netflix.com/zh_tw/news/netflix-shines-bright-at-2023-golden-bell-awards-with-40-nominations-and-12)
6. [Shards of Her – Ratings, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22399058/ratings/)
7. [Netflix全球獨家華語懸疑劇《她和她的她》正式預告, GTV八大電視 on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIHzZIuvEMY)
8. [〖Netflix影評〗《她和她的她》, 如履的電影筆記](https://looryfilm.tw/shards-of-her/)
9. [《她和她的她》揭校園狼師性侵心路歷程, Marie Claire Taiwan](https://www.marieclaire.com.tw/entertainment/tvshow/69438)
10. [〖台劇〗《她和她的她》：與《想見你》近似的結構, The News Lens](https://www.thenewslens.com/article/176195)
11. [《她和她的她》金鐘獎勇奪4獎！編劇專訪, Vogue Taiwan](https://www.vogue.com.tw/entertainment/article/shards-of-her-review)
12. [《她和她的她》：拒絕再逃，直視創傷記憶的傷痕, Yahoo News Taiwan](https://tw.news.yahoo.com/%E5%A5%B9%E5%92%8C%E5%A5%B9%E7%9A%84%E5%A5%B9-121450625.html)
13. [《她和她的她》影評：被性侵的心理解離，需要創傷知情照顧, 女人迷 Gender Power](https://womany.net/read/article/31230)
14. [〖娛樂透視〗刑偵包裝《她和她的她》, Yahoo News Taiwan](https://tw.news.yahoo.com/news/%E5%A8%9B%E6%A8%82%E9%80%8F%E8%A6%96-%E5%88%91%E5%81%B5%E5%8C%85%E8%A3%9D-%E5%A5%B9%E5%92%8C%E5%A5%B9%E7%9A%84%E5%A5%B9-%E8%BF%BD%E5%87%B6%E6%AD%B7%E7%A8%8B%E6%B2%BB%E7%99%82%E6%80%A7%E6%9A%B4%E5%8A%9B%E5%82%B7%E7%97%9B-215859780.html)
15. [于子育、丁寧吐露《她和她的她》拍攝實況, Vogue Taiwan](https://www.vogue.com.tw/entertainment/article/shards-of-her-yu-and-ding-press-conference)
16. [立法院議案關係文書：Netflix台劇排行資料](https://ppg.ly.gov.tw/ppg/SittingAttachment/download/2023042795/12632002502300500002.pdf)
17. [Why mainland Chinese audiences love Taiwanese TV dramas, South China Morning Post](https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3305995/why-mainland-chinese-audiences-love-taiwanese-tv-dramas-and-5-rated-highest-douban)
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