My newest passion/distraction

My hopes were not high last week when I saw the poster above for the Cantonese action/drama series "Extremely Urgent" (2015).  The description described a show set in China in the early part of the 20th century.  I have found that VERY rarely productions set in that historical period when Europe had significant influence in some parts of China MIGHT have boots(think the third Mummy movie).  Her leather jacket showed promise, but I was sure I would be disappointed by the 4 sample episodes I downloaded.  If I had done a google search, I would have just downloaded the entire show right then.

This show is FU@KING BONKERS!
You might know I have a heightened appreciation for booted women in highly stylized "menswear." I blame all those lady pirate movies I grew up on.  I have never seen anything like the costuming on Extremely Urgent  (迫在眉睫).  The boots may only be average at best, knee high leather action boots, usually with a solid, well-constructed foot. I see boots like this at the super-market every winters day.
It's the rest of the costuming that sends this show into the stratosphere for me. I don't think I've ever seen such an exuberant collection of wool and velvet and leather and gloves and waistcoats and vests and caps. It's not just on a single character. The Rider, The Blonde and The Spy Chief (and to a less extent the pig-tailed archer) are almost always wearing some fanciful outfit. The costumes are not 100% new every time, but there's enough variety to keep it interesting.
Also, it's an action/drama, so there's plenty of jumping and kicking and riding and fighting (and light bondage and interrogation).  Below are two trimmed down episodes that I picked completely at random. I've briefly sampled all 42 hour-long episodes and believe that all of them will yield similar, if not better, results.


http://www45.zippyshare.com/v/mriFJmBR/file.html
Episode 16 features a fight between The Rider and The Spy Chief.  Stunt boots are used but they appear to be proper knee-high boots, simply with a lower heel and softer sole. The Blonde appears, uncharacteristically wearing a long dress, but she does try to briefly seduce someone with her boot toe.

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http://bruceff.com/test/extremelyurgente09edit.mkv
In Episode 9, The Rider creeps through the palace, while The Spy Chief threatens a rampage with her emblematic machine gun (seriously, she wields that thing all the time) before finishing the episode with the potential for a little interrogation in the next episode.