'City on Fire' Episode 2 Review: Is Samantha Yeung alive? Victim's past explored in flashbacks as murder mystery deepens
Spoilers for ‘City on Fire’ Episode 2, ‘Scenes from Private Life’
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: ‘City on Fire’ is Apple TV+’s latest attempt at a crime drama that has presented itself as a classic whodunit from the beginning. However, can it be called a whodunit if the victim is still alive? Many questions are being asked about 'City on Fire', and we’re only at Episode 2, which leaves us wondering how this series might survive for eight episodes, and more importantly, what’s going on with Samantha Yeung.
Chase Sui Wonders plays the role of Samantha, who is at the center of this city-wide drama series. 'City on Fire' Episode 2 focuses on everything but Samantha, but that also leads us to a few important questions. As the series progresses, the potential murder seems like it’s slipping away from the story and fading into the background. Is this what 'City on Fire' needs in the second episode itself?
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Is Samantha Yeung alive?
In the briefest way possible, if you look at 'City on Fire' Episode 2, the answer to whether or not Samantha is alive is yes. This comes as a shocker because the city-wide drama should have been triggered because of the death of a young girl, not because of attempted murder. Samantha has a bullet lodged somewhere in her brain and is in a deep coma as of 'City on Fire' Episode 2. Here’s the kicker — if Samantha wakes up, that’s the end of the murder mystery. So 'City on Fire' will either eventually kill her off after a slow painful death, or she will wake up in the last episode, and there will be a cliffhanger. A season-end cliffhanger seems rather risky since Apple TV+ isn’t being too generous with renewals at the moment.
Flashbacks of Samantha
Although in the present time, Samantha is in a deep coma, Chase Sui Wonders has been given the opportunity to portray her acting skills in 'City on Fire' with the help of flashbacks. These flashbacks barely amount to much, and don’t bring us any closer to who shot Samantha at Central Park, but it does give a glimpse into just how complicated of a person Samantha was, and how her life was a lot more complicated than that. Hopefully, as 'City on Fire' progresses, there will be more insight into the potential murder, or at least viewers can witness the endless loose ends being tied together!
You can now stream 'City on Fire' on Apple TV+ from May 5, 2023.
