通靈少女 (The Teenage Psychic), Season One, is an television series out of Taiwan from HBO from 2017. The series stars Kuo Shu-yao. The supporting cast in Kent Tsai and Sylvia Hsieh. It is advertised as the first Mandarin speaking original series from HBO. However, in actuality, maybe around half of the series is in Taiwanese.
The story of a 16 (sixteen) year high school sophomore that is part of the drama club. But what she hides from her schoolmates is that she works at a temple as a psychic. Someone that can communicate with dead people. The story follows her work at the temple and how she uses her skill to help the community around. The other half is her trying to get through adolescence and everything that comes with it.
There are 6 episodes at around 45 minutes. It seemly starts at the beginning of a new semester when a new student shows up and than ends months later at a spring festival talent show. Without giving allow the main plot points too much, the story contains a lot of sadness. Although things are resolved, it still a very sad series. Which is what I would expect from a Taiwanese series that seems to have a little more creative freedom and doesn't necessarily have to take ratings into affect.
I like the series portrayal of people living their lives in Taipei. I like the slice of HS that I didn't get from Taipei life having grown up in the US. I like how the community of Taiwan seemingly can integrate both Buddhist and Christianity into the story.
At six episodes, its over before you can start to get annoyed at the things it assumes you know. I was left satisfied at the end and prolly might have had trouble going on if there were 10-15 episodes.
If you have HBO, its available as a on demand viewing. I watched it via HBO Go app on old Apple TV.
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