I feel like this series was good at presenting their visuals, aesthetic wise but the choppy, commercial feel to the editing in every episode paired with expositions doesn't quite fit to the narrative or movement to the story. It feels slow and overtly repetitive.
Most of you here might've already known about this but I still wanna share, so I just find out from a tweet from…
From what I saw from the tweets and Direk JP Habac's posts, his name was Adrian Olympia (also said to be an ex of one the executive producers of the show), and they worked together during college. Possibly this is one of the reasons why he took this project.
At first, I wasn't really expecting to be so engrossed of this BL but came out satisfied on how complex the characters were. Not a fan of the finale but the overall technical aspect of this show shines on so many aspects, the shadows and light that pushes the narrative forward, the setting, sound and the acting of the main leads with the supporting cast makes it a win for me.
Did anyone else notice the post-credits sequence? It's a collection of scenes from the series tracing the progress…
It was said that the next season might be a prequel, and will shift to the perspective of Jim. If we follow the current season, Ben's monologue foreshadows what will happen on the episode and in the post credit scene of episode 7, Jim's monologue can be heard and might hint on what happened to this specific date: June 5, 2015 - Ben's WiFi password.
I gave a negative review on YT and it disappeared. Can't find it anywhere. Not sure if they blocked me somehow…
They moderated the comment section on each episode, and every nitpick of the show got deleted. I posted as well a negative reception of the episode 7 but it was nowhere to be found.
The fitting end to a great series. They book-ended key scenes from the beginning of the Wattpad draft and tied it to the present. I know a few people may had a lukewarm reaction to the end but given their story moved to a faster pace, they've given them a fresh start to their love story, this time, outside.
What I love about this show was not how the story unfolds but how the technical aspect of each frame pushes its narrative, the strong use of visual storytelling most especially the placement of shadows to each character (light and dark), scene blocking and the placement of the camera to accentuate distance and the body language between actors to convey strong emotions.
Incredibly fun pilot episode, and Alex Diaz was smokin' hot. Glad they've actually showed skin on this which was daring on a BL series and added elements of magical realism. Excited for the next episode!