City of Stars (2024)

La dulzura es su mayor potencial

¿Tiene el mejor argumento? No. ¿Tiene las mejores actuaciones? Tampoco. La historia es bastante básica y las actuaciones, acordes al nivel de desarrollo de personajes que se ofrece.

Sin embargo, la potencialidad de la obra es la dulzura con la que los personajes interactúan. Fueang y Krom tienen una relación preciosa, en la que la comunicación es un pilar fundamental. Y esto es más una estrategia de guion que algo que derive de la propia relación, ya que tienden a esconderse cosas hasta que, generalmente, otros personajes las revelan. Pero como todo lo que hacen parte del amor y de la bondad, no puede haber reacción negativa.

Me sorprendió que me vi sobrepasade por la cantidad de escenas de cama y me salté algunas. Creo que es la primera vez que me pasa.

Quiero ver más de Job y Porsche.

PS1: ¿Alguien me podría explicar la necesidad que tienen Fueang y Kodit de tener sus casas llenas de sesiones de fotos propias?
PS2: No me puede gustar más Job. Guapo, con una energía de golden retriever y una voz adorable. Un nuevo crush.

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two green flags, could have been a 9.5

Overall: the leads were mutually interested, sweet and flirty so this could have been a 9.5 with some changes. Series got better as it went on. 12 episodes about 45 minutes each. Aired on iQIYI. Re-Aired on YouTube. Star Hunter Entertainment also produced: Big Dragon, What Zabb Man, Gen Y, My Mate Match and The Moment I Need You

Content Warnings: non con recording/sharing, cyberbullying, past death, homophobia, sexual harassment, transphobia, manhandling, unwanted public outing

What I Liked
- dynamic between the leads including: mutual respect, communication, ongoing physical affection (although Krom needed to work on his communication skills, even at the end)
- sweet/cute moments
- a few funny parts like the bubble tea catch
- supportive friends (although the 1 friend put his friend into unnecessary pain with his "plan" in episode 4)
- worked in anti-smoking messaging in a less preachy way, also added other messages however the 'respect a person's privacy' was undermined by Krom's friends taking video/sharing without permission and spying on them
- the interaction with his fans in episode 3 made me tear up, very sweet
- a trans character that felt like a real person instead of the stereotypical characters that we normally see
- excellent dreams
- good intimacy
- conversation about preferred position, willingness to adapt to a partner's needs
- avoided ep 11 curse

Room For Improvement
- too many comedy sound effects that actually detracted from the comedy (seemed less prevalent in the second half thankfully)
- the second couple needed more screen time and he needed to mature more
- several exposition dumps, the voice overs were used too much to tell the story
- too much time spent on the talk show stuff in episode 3, overall this could have had tighter pacing
- nonsense stuff: why didn't his (obviously not American) coworkers use AI translate apps/websites?, someone else filling a person's prescription, an allegedly good friend letting a very drunk person go off with that guy, not coming up with an obvious solution to the problem shown at the end of the series, etc
- how much time passed was unclear at times
- showing a character texting when using the bathroom

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