Be My Player Two ep 2
May contain spoilers!
So this was a series on my watch-when-I-have-space in my watch list. I skipped directly to ep 2. Didn't feel while watching that I had missed anything not watching the first ep.
Generally my biggest question about the show, was IF it will too much watching Bas and Maxky play Johan and North all over again. Happy to report, that most of the time it didn't feel like that. Sure you cannot completely avoid it, episodically since North's character in Fourever you was heavily into gaming and in both shows the characters seem to be of similar age.
What saves a lot from having a dejavu is Maxky's character Thi being veeeery different from Johan. Like honestly night and day and that is a big plus in this case. It is always nice to see actors being able to branch out to different type of roles.
Bas's character Zo has some similarities in terms of characteristics with North, but Zo is definitely more reserved and even shy at times, so bit similar but different enough. I actually like the plot line so far, where Thi is really trying to help Zo build more self confidence, so he can adjust to the gaming team and just open up more.
I was maybe thinking based on the trailer that the romance aspects would be very slow burnish, but Thi is definitely not trying to hide that having Zo in the gaming team was his only motive to recruit him. Aside from the shower scene at the end of the ep (nooo nothing steamy happened, you didn't miss the NC scene), and considering Zo's general shyness, so far Zo has been surprisingly calm about Thi's not-so-subtle advances.
Next ep will air tomorrow, so far this was good enough to continue watching.