Theory of Love

Very Angsty, But Ultimately a Good Story

My thoughts on this show are very mixed, though overall I did enjoy my experience watching it. I did fly through it— it was very good at making you want to watch the next episode immediately— but I wouldn't say I loved it the way I've loved shows in the past.

To start, I wasn't the biggest fan of all the angst. It was very frustrating to watch Third like Khai, to get heartbroken over him, and then to cry over and over and over. I will admit, that first scene where he stalks into the bathroom, slaps on the shower, and just sobs was hilarious and a total mood— but it got old very fast. Plus, Khai was so unlikable during the first half or so of the show that I couldn't understand why Third liked him, which made it hard to care about it heart being broken again and again.

I felt like the show got a lot better around the midpoint, when the "secret" is revealed and the roles are switched— Third gets over Khai and Khai realizes he has feelings for Third. I appreciated the hoops Khai had to jump through to to earn Third's love back— he'd been so shitty to Third, so it was nice to see him have to work to have the right to be with him.

The definite highlight of this show was that train station scene. That hit me so hard, and was the only time I really cared for Khai. It's probably the only scene I would want to ever rewatch, to be honest.

The actors were all really good, and I liked the various subplots that played out throughout the show. I especially liked Two and his whole story— plus, he was just a really good friend to Third and I appreciated it a lot.

Overall, I'm happy I ended up watching this! It may not be a new favorite, but it was a good time.

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Whose Theory of Love is this?

Where do I begin? This drama had me holding *Third* in a warm embrace each time I felt his heart hurt & saw his tears fall (I cried with him). Unrequited love is sometimes a hard battle to walk away from, especially when it's with someone that you've wrapped your heart around completely.
Third is a character that wears his heart on his sleeve & his devotion is unmeasurable... yet I just wanted to shake him at times and tell him that *Khai* isn't worth his precious tears. His heart deserved to be warmed by a love that someone could not stop embracing him with. 
I was happy to see him breaking away from *Khai*, because the toxicity was tearing *Third* apart emotionally. What *Khai* said to him when they were both yelling at each other was totally unforgivable. Yet, that's not how *Thirds* heart works. A simple I'm sorry from *Khai* was enough... which had me furious that *Khai got off that easily. Then, what *Khai did to Third in the bathroom, while saying some girl's name, made me sick... but not surprising. I couldn't imagine how *Third endured that attack (It was an attack... in my personal opinion). However, once again... Third says nothing... NOTHING to Khai so he can own up to his actions. As the drama continued... It's apparent that this path that *Khai has to endure is a long distance to find his way to *Third. 
Understanding what Love is... can't be found in drama's, movies, books or advice by others that are in love. In my opinion, I felt Khai didn't really love himself... but lost in a world that had to include only him & Third, while finding relief in the women he so-called dated.
The friendship with Third, was more than he knew. How can he be into a man when he loves being with a woman? Yet... why couldn't he commit to just 1 woman, but kept Third so close? When watching this drama .. you start to see the cracks in Khai's connection with Third. It's obvious how Third feels from beginning to end... but Khai is the one you can see his layers starting to drop.
Although this drama got tedious with the relationship with Khai & Third. It was worth the watch. Love is different for each of us... a journey that has a different meaning .. but also carries the Warmth of Trust that only you alone can understand. Khai and Third worked through an emotional journey of understanding the Love that only they can embrace.
My personal rating on this: 7/10 .. I felt it dragged too much, but the storyline was good. Wasn't too sure about the pairing & chemistry was missing. I'm not going to recommend this, but if you do watch it... enjoy.

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It surprised me unexpectedly.

Story -To be honest in first half the series disappointed me with Khai's character but in other half the character development is surprisingly amazing. I thought of dropping this ngl but ended up finishing it and that's the best decision ever I made. The chemistry of the leads was damn good.
Acting - Ok acting is the main reason I continued watching this. Gun's acting is phenomenal, every emotion potrayed by him was perfect. No doubt he's one of the best actors I've seen. Off's acting was also pretty good but since start I'd had attatchment with Gun's character 'Third' so gotta be bias on this one. The other actors also did an amazing job. Acting of every actor was the main element that kept me captivated to this show.
Music - Music was pleasant enough for me.
Rewatch value - I hardly rewatch any drama but value is 10 for me bacause again I would love to see few scenes of Gun's where he just shook my soul with his acting.

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Satisfying but has some hiccups

There are some pacing and story issues, but overall this was a pretty satisfying watch — as expected, the Flipped trope is great.

I might be one of the few people who didn't get too annoyed with the first six episodes. Sure, Khai was kinda terrible and it was a lot of repetitive crying from Third, but you could feel the story building towards Third's breaking point and the reversal of roles, and that was good enough. In fact, I think the two-part style works really well, with the first half being from Third's perspective and the second half being from Khai's.

With that being said, I still think there were some weird pacing issues. While I liked the two-part style itself, the transition between them was a little fast, and I also do think the back-end of both sections were a little dragged out, before just jumping to the next plot too fast. There's not really a strong main plot going on behind the romance either, so I don't get a really good sense of how much time is passing.

I also didn't care about some of the side plots, particularly Bone's. Two's story got better over time and it definitely paid off at the end, especially because he was such a good character even on his own.

The bromance throughout the show was actually one of its strengths. Some of the best moments came when characters were talking to each other about their struggles and heartbreaks and I wish we'd seen more of it, because I often felt like characters were dealing with issues in silos.

As someone who rates with my brain, 6.5 is what I would consider average, but I do have a soft spot for this show and for what it might bring to any viewers who've ever been trapped in unrequited love. And all the film references also made my movie buff heart very happy.

And finally, as a little heads up I also do want to mention that there are some nonconsensual kisses in here, in case anyone reading doesn't want to see that.

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Prepare to be frustrated

Part of me wishes I'd seen this before Not Me because I loved that series and Off and Gun were so great in it. On the other hand, I hate to compare series to each other, especially when they aren't even remotely similar. But I went into this series knowing they were both great actors and excited to see what they did earlier on.

I know practically everyone is saying it but it's true... this series is frustrating as hell. Seriously, I don't understand why Third was so infatuated with Khai. From the moment they met, Khai didn't hide his selfish nature or his usage of Third to handle his dirty work without so much as a "thank you." It's hard to believe that someone would be so in love with that kind of person but let's suspend our belief for a moment. (or, in this case, 11 out of 12 episodes.)

Even the moments that were supposed to be considered "sweet" were cringeworthy. "Having you here has made my life so much easier.." Is that supposed to be romantic? Third certainly thinks so. Then, halfway through, they basically switch roles and we're supposed to feel sorry for Khai while thinking Third is actually capable of not feeling anything? Then the big fight at the end, Third actually asks, "Why didn't you tell me?" regarding the kiss with Ching Ching when he spent that whole time cutting Khai off. I just wanted Khai to say, "I was trying to but you were shouting at me and throwing shit at me and wouldn't give me a chance to get two words in!"

And yet, somehow, I found I could not stop watching.. which I'm still trying to figure out how they did it. I mean, the acting was great, even if they were working with a bad plot.

I do like how every episode is the title of a movie and the episode poster is a recreation of said movie poster. There were other artistic touches that stood out to me that were neat, like how most flashbacks began with a film reel.

The only side characters I really cared about were Two, Un and Shane. There was nothing wrong with everyone else, per say, but I could take or leave them.

Overall, it's not the best series I've seen but it was still enough to keep me watching and entertained, even if it was in a frustrated state.

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sorry for my english

soo this drama is def for people who likes angst. if you dont like sad bls this is def not for you. honestly, this series was acually good. i liked the character development. im a type of person who likes watching things that makes me sad. the chemistry between actors was good, i watched this bc of my fav actor: gun. he acted really well here. the side couples where also nice. but is it worth to watch?
imo it is. the plot was entertaining.i was mad at khai for the whole series. i like the thing that for the half of the series we were seeing third's pov and then khai's so we could see what they both feel. but lets be honest if i was third i would have left khai a long ago. the fact that he stayed with him after all these awful things he has done shows ow much he loved him. third do not deserve khai and its a fact. i think everyone were hating on khai here. there was even a moment where i stopped shipping them and wanted third to break their friendship. also there was a moment when third became more sassy and rude towards khai and this is what we all wanted. it was satisfying to watch khai getting the pain that third was feeling for the whole series. we kind of waited long for them to get together.


i do recommend this and imo its worth to watch bc the whole set up seemed expensive and characters were well written :)

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People only like this because it's OffGun and you can't convince me otherwise

The only thing that made this worth watching was OffGun.

Khai (Off) is a total player that Third (Gun) has been in love with for years. Unfortunately, Khai isn't into Third at all and refuses to date friends. But when Khai starts acting differently towards Third, he starts to believe that maybe Khai does have feelings for him.

Yeah the whole conflict between Khai and Third is bad. I get the whole idea they were going for, but they dragged this out for way. too. long. I don't know how someone could watch this and not be frustrated with Khai and Third. The classic miscommunication trope is always bad. If they just sat down and had a conversation, this show could have been half the length or shorter.

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If frustration were a drama ...just NO.

Okay, I don't even know where to start with this one to be honest. After reading a few reviews here I watched this drama with an open mind and high expectations, but here I am again feeling frustrated lol

This is just my simple opinion.....but I truly can't understand why people are rating so high! There are people that had the audacity to say this is "by far the best BL drama" lol WHYYYYY? OH GOD OF BLs, WHYYYYY? All jokes aside, people have different tastes, and that's that.

Here come the spoilers!!!
Third is a whiny college kid that is secretly (but not really) in love with his best friend for 3 years! For the first 6 episodes of the drama he cries no less than 3 times per episode lol to be fair, his love interest Khai is a horrible friend and person....think about a toxic guy that only knows how to manipulates people's feelings and only think about himself. Yeah....what a great male lead for a romance drama lol

I was so angry with the whole idea of someone to be in love with a guy with zero redeeming qualities or moments. Khai literally proves himself to be an asshole over and over again and we all know it (so does the characters btw)! The drama keeps using the excuse that he's "dumb" and didn't realize Third likes him (*sigh**eyeroll*), but come on! That man is a garbage fire lol

Their friends aren't great either! Two tries to help Third get Khai even after he treats Thirs like trash and does terrible things to him.....really? Who in their right mind would encourage a friend to do that? Khai treats everyone like they're disposable, even friends. In the second half of the drama Bone proves himself to be a little it of an ass and helps Khai to fool Third. 3 years of friendship and that's how they treat him? WOW. Trash.

As soon as Third finally decides to move on OF COURSE Khai is now madly in love with him lololol come on...the writers didn't even make an effort there. The same thing happens to the second "couple" (if you can call them that) Two and Un. Two spent YEARS in love with his high school friend (a girl) and as soon as he declares his love for her he also has feelings for Un lololol COME ONNNNNN!

Anyway, this review was longer than I expected to be but here it is. Is just a bunch of red flags every couple of minutes spread out in 12 episodes. I've watched worse shows, believe me....but this one just pissed me of because there was ZERO chemistry, ZERO appeal, ZERO redeeming qualities about the main characters. So, yeah. Not worth the watch. I'm now annoyed lololol

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Good but underdeveloped romance

I really enjoyed this series. The cast was wonderful and production value solid. I think there was such good chemistry in the gangster friend group. I don't rewatch shows but for those who do, this wouldn't be a bad rewatch. My only issue, and pretty big one imo, is that the writers didn't develop Third and Khai's romantic relationship enough. Their friend relationship and the negative aspects of it were told well. I understood why they were friends. But I only understood why they should crossover to being more because GunOff have naturally good onscreen chemistry. But they weren't given enough solid romance to build the in-story romantic chemistry. So by the last episode, I felt underwhelmed by them as a couple. If they had incorporated more sexual tension/romantic chemistry into the story, it would have made Khai and Third's relationship better developed.

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