The World Between Us 我們與惡的距離 (2019)

(directed by Lin Chun-Yang 林君陽) This ten-part TV drama examines social, legal, and media attitudes towards mental illness in Taiwan. It won a number of prizes at Taiwan’s Golden Bell Awards, and definitely has a better script than most Chinese dramas, even if it does heavily rely on melodramatic coincidence for the first few episodes. The story was inspired by the 2016 killing of a child by a schizophrenic man in Taipei. Mostly in Mandarin, with some other Chinese languages. The Taiwanese blu-ray set has traditional Chinese and English subtitles. ★★★☆☆