If you think Mediacorp dramas have been in the doldrums for the last 15 years, you should give shows like Dream Makers, 118 Series 1, and recently-concluded Mightiest Mother-in-Law a chance.

In Mightiest Mother-in-Law, Chen Liping plays the "mighty" mother-in-law who tries to reunite her daughter (Paige Chua) and son-in-law (Thomas Ong) after the couple is estranged due to a third-party (Chris Tong) and Chua's ill-treatment of her husband and in-laws.

As a testament to Chua's convincing portrayal of a feisty and obnoxious daughter-in-law, forum users on Hardwarezone dedicated a thread - I declare Pagie is our new Queen of GIF here - to capture Chua's entertaining expressions

Best Gifs ever:

For the uninitiated, Hardwarezone forum users will use captioned gifs as responses in threads to convey their point with brevity and humour. They most commonly use the caption "NPNT" or "No Picture No Talk" to express annoyance at thread-starters for starting threads without pictures to aid understanding of the topic.

It has been a common feature for them to use screenshots from Mediacorp productions, and they particularly like memes of people taking medication and Tay Ping Hui. Why Tay Ping Hui you ask? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Great acting

It is a very rare occasion for Hardwarezone forum users to praise a local production or artist for their acting, but they heaped it on Chua:

Someone even wrote a short essay gushing about her:

And back to Chua's gifs. Her evocative performance in the show has spurred Hardwarezone forum users to document some of her more memorable scenes as the series went on:

They enjoyed her gifs so much they even went to find gifs from her previous show - "Big Hero":

And if you're still wondering why Tay Ping Hui is an object of Hardwarezone users' attention, maybe these might give some clue:

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