The Boy Next World Special Episode: A World Where We Don’t Know Each Other
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by Anju bogummy
This review may contain spoilers
This special episode is titled “Where We Don’t Know Each Other,” but honestly, it doesn’t feel very special.
Before criticizing the writing, I have to acknowledge one thing clearly—the acting is excellent. These two actors are genuinely cool. When the world changes, their characters also change completely. While watching the drama, it never feels like the same person playing both versions. The Rude p cir version and the original version feel like two entirely different characters, even though they are acted by the same person. The same applies to Phu the timid Phu is nothing like the active Phu. Their timing, expressions, and body language are so different that we truly feel they are different people. For their performance alone, I can easily give 10/10 for acting.
The only truly interesting change in this episode is the role reversal. In the original world, P Cir is always the one stalking Phu. But in this alternate world, the situation is flipped P Cir becomes the one being stalked. That concept had a lot of potential, especially with Phu being shy, timid, passive, and almost painfully awkward in this world.
However, the episode fails to focus on what actually makes it unique. Instead of developing the dynamic between P Cir and this timid version of Phu, the story rushes and the end, the episode suddenly shifts back toward the real-world pairing, with P Cir and Phu making out—something we already know happens in the main storyline.
That’s where the episode completely loses its point.
If this was meant to be a special episode, it should have stayed in that alternate world and explored the journey, the tension, and the emotional buildup between P Cir and shy Phu. Showing how their relationship develops differently in this world would have made the episode meaningful. Instead, it feels like the writers used an interesting concept and then abandoned it halfway.
In the end, the idea was fresh, but the execution was messy. The episode had potential, and the actors delivered, but the writing didn’t do justice to either the concept or their performances.
Before criticizing the writing, I have to acknowledge one thing clearly—the acting is excellent. These two actors are genuinely cool. When the world changes, their characters also change completely. While watching the drama, it never feels like the same person playing both versions. The Rude p cir version and the original version feel like two entirely different characters, even though they are acted by the same person. The same applies to Phu the timid Phu is nothing like the active Phu. Their timing, expressions, and body language are so different that we truly feel they are different people. For their performance alone, I can easily give 10/10 for acting.
The only truly interesting change in this episode is the role reversal. In the original world, P Cir is always the one stalking Phu. But in this alternate world, the situation is flipped P Cir becomes the one being stalked. That concept had a lot of potential, especially with Phu being shy, timid, passive, and almost painfully awkward in this world.
However, the episode fails to focus on what actually makes it unique. Instead of developing the dynamic between P Cir and this timid version of Phu, the story rushes and the end, the episode suddenly shifts back toward the real-world pairing, with P Cir and Phu making out—something we already know happens in the main storyline.
That’s where the episode completely loses its point.
If this was meant to be a special episode, it should have stayed in that alternate world and explored the journey, the tension, and the emotional buildup between P Cir and shy Phu. Showing how their relationship develops differently in this world would have made the episode meaningful. Instead, it feels like the writers used an interesting concept and then abandoned it halfway.
In the end, the idea was fresh, but the execution was messy. The episode had potential, and the actors delivered, but the writing didn’t do justice to either the concept or their performances.
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