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Fantasy and suspense unravel in original series ‘Twisted Strings’

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The world of fantasy and suspense unravel in HBO’s new Asia Original thriller-comedy series Twisted Strings premiering with two episodes on Sunday, March 27, 9:00 p.m. on HBO, HBO Go, and CATCHPLAY+. 

A scene from ‘Twisted Strings’

Executive produced by acclaimed filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien (The Assassin), the seven-episode Taiwan satire anthology follows with a new installment every Sunday, and the final two episodes air back-to-back on April 24. 

Twisted Strings follows a series of bizarre deaths in the fictional Taiping City over seven separate stories across parallel time and space.

While each story can be viewed independently, it intersects with others in unobvious ways. A funeral, a missing body, a dangerous game, a kidnapping; real and unreal, these incidents are woven in Wu Yuenu’s memories, converging in the mysterious Sailing Castle, where the boundary between fiction and reality is blurred. At the end of the seventh episode, all the clues will come together to reveal the whole story.

The name of the series is inspired by a popular Taiwanese nursery rhyme, which contains lyrics that tell the story of a monkey’s life over seven days. Each episode is loosely based on a line from the song.

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Award-winning actress, director and screenplay writer Sylvia Chang (Love Education, 20 30 40) plays Wu Yuenu, the constant linking together the series. Chang said, “This series is full of surprises and humanity, viewers will definitely love it.” 

Apart from Chang, most key actors such as Lee Kang-sheng, Nikki Hsieh, and Hsueh Shih-ling play more than one role across the different episodes. 

Conceptualized and written over three years by Golden Horse-nominated director Huang Xi, Twisted Strings aims to see the humor of life and death. 

Presented by HBO Asia and Catchplay, Twisted Strings is produced by Catchplay’s  Screenworks Asia, in partnership with Taiwan’s Bossdom and Singapore’s Mediacorp.

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