Million-Follower Detective Review 2026 Tv Show Series Cast Crew Online
The latest prediction from Witch Baba, after she draws some very modern-themed tarot cards, is that an influencer will be shot and killed. We then see someone approach a police station with a mask on and a gun in hand; when he shoots in the air, he’s surrounded by cops, and when one of the detectives goes to grab the gun, there’s a struggle. Veteran detective Chen Chia-jen (Ekin Cheng), who snuck up behind the scene, ends up shooting the gunman in the chest.
The gunman turned out to be influencer Yen Wei (Kent Tsai), and the gun was just a BB gun. But crowd videos of the shooting go viral, with Chen getting doxed for being a gun-happy cop. When he goes to the hospital to check Yen’s condition, another influencer, Lin Ting-yu (Shou Lou), livestreams a confrontation with him.
Li Hsin-ping (Patty Lee), a young investigator in the High Technology unit, connects the shooting and the other influencer deaths to Witch Baba’s prediction videos. She wonders if there’s a connection where Witch Baba is somehow influencing these incidents. When she and her boss take her report on the videos to the chief of investigations, the chief pairs her with Chen. Despite being the “person of interest” in Yen’s shooting, the chief thinks Chen needs to dig his way out of this situation himself, especially given how he’s been on shaky professional ground for a few years.
Three years ago, Chen was happily married and had a great relationship with his stepdaughter Chen You-jie (Chen Yan-fei). Since his wife’s untimely death, though, his relationship with You-jie has deteriorated. In a flashback, though, he remembers that she once wore a mask and had him and her mother pick from cards, which he keeps in the back of his mind when Witch Baba drops a new video.
Despite the influencer theme, Million-Follower Detective is a standard, albeit intriguing, crime thriller. These influencers are dying and the unlikely pairing of Chen and Li are going to find out who is influencing these incidents. Is it this masked online fortune teller Witch Baba? Is it someone else?
Everything else about this story is just noise, to be honest. Sure, Lin Ting-yu is going to get involved, because… well, we’re not sure how he’s connected to Yen Wei, besides being another influencer. But there’s certainly a lot of paths this story can go down, with all three of the main characters getting involved in the investigation in one way or another.
Is the show a commentary on influencer culture? Or how the internet outrage machine can ruin someone’s life? Maybe. But for the most part it feels more like a straightforward murder mystery than anything else. What we hope to see is more about how Chen went from being at the top of his game to almost losing his job and how the relationship with his stepdaughter deteriorated so quickly. That little bit of character development will go a long way to getting viewers on his side as he tries to figure this mystery out.
