Blue Complex (2024)

Is not a show for everyone

I started watching this series out of curiosity, since I'd been watching others in vertical format, and it really touched my heart. It's one of those rare series that treats the subject with respect and gets very close to what it is a topic as delicate as mental health. Meanwhile, we see characters with traumas, full of insecurities, full of asses, Characters I identified with, like Taemin feeling everyone's pressure on his shoulders or Bo Lang feeling that it's never enough no matter what he does, to me this show is well done, maybe the only thing is too short like if this If it were converted into a full series format, with each episode lasting one hour, it would be a beautiful gem, and the message it conveys is magnificent; it makes it clear that you are not alone, that there is always someone who can listen.

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Overall: 40 total episodes for about 1hr 15 minutes runtime (a little under 2 minutes per episode). Episodes 1-10 are free to watch on the Alwayz Shortdrama YouTube channel https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNSRcn2apDarHe7Tml51AIxwuqIE1SAO7&si=RWE6BtHqjZdxkdSV - on Dec 6th I watched all 40 episodes for free with a special livestream https://www.youtube.com/live/zNQiDd3UiY0 ; March 14th it was released on the Shortime app https://shortime.app/en/content/cb1f4cf (my invite code is NKNIWI - those are all capital letters, that's the capital letter i) It was later released on the iQIYI app which has several BL verticals.

Content Warnings: past suicide, grief, mental health struggles, suicidal thoughts, near suicide

What I Liked
- caring moments such as first aid, piggyback ride
- good kissing
- that 1-10 are free on their YouTube channel and they did give a short window to watch all episodes for free instead of needing to download their app

Room For Improvement
- love triangle
- slow pacing
- didn't feel connected to any characters or their relationships with each other
- too many flashbacks
- night scenes needed more light on the actors' faces
- the band aids were much more distracting than whatever they were covering (scars, freckles, tattoos)
- the pool was so shallow that characters could all stand in it and yet a character said "how did you get to me, oh you swam"
- ending left something to be desired, after being so determined to do something a character seemed to make a strong 180 turn

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