I love slow burns so this drama suits me totally. Pat is a young man trying to navigate and adapt into the working world. He is so inexperienced in the workplace, naive, sensitive and emotional due to his parent's divorce. With his parents dropping by when they could from overseas, I can imagine the loneliness he feels inside all these years, maybe thats why maybe the plushie helps him to deal with it. I do know that some adults who loves plushies so that was a very true portrayal of Pat being lonely and even cries when he couldn't deal with the stresses of life. Pat hiding in the toilet and crying is very relatable to a lot of young working adults having to deal with the crap of working life.
In fact, I read the English translation of the novel and Pat is such a character. Crying most of the time. Emotional, immature and sensitive at times. Ben did exactly as the character. So I don't get the hate he is getting? At least he emotes exactly like the character I imagined from the novel!
So did our Man. He really brought Jeng back to screen from the novel! Jeng comes from a structured disciplined rich powerful family and being the eldest son, he definitely had to set an example for his family. The burdens that he carry, I can't even imagine. When he met Pat, who is frank with his opinions especially when he was drunk most of the time and is emotional (just like in the novel!), that made me realised that he probably found someone who is not afraid to speak up and talk to him directly. Someone who can be real with their emotions. I mean it's refreshing as compared to being feared by his subordinates due to his status. For successful people like Jeng, it's very difficult to meet new friends like Pat who took the initiative to treat him coffee afterwards as a way of apology for spilling the tea.
As the series progresses, we get to experience their working and personal relationship mixing.This makes the show very relatable and refreshing from the other BL. At least this is a BL for the older viewers like us. Working adults. I don't understand why Ben's portrayal of Pat gets a bad rap here. Maybe because Pat is still an immature sensitive emotional guy who was afraid of believing and accepting a friendship from a kind open-hearted guy mature guy like Jeng?! Maybe he think he is not worthy enough and was trying to understand Jeng.
People don't really change after 2 years. Some remain the same even after 20 years. The hurts and family traumas follows no matter who old they are. The child always remembers the hurt and it's really difficult to change their minds. With an awesome guy like Jeng coming into his life, Pat will of course brushed off being his friend after discovering that Jeng is his boss. The barriers come up and thus the struggle to navigate that relationship in a professional setting like work.
The 2 year break was what we needed to set everything back to zero after the dramatic cursed BL EP 11. In fact, I felt so emotional when Pat saw Jeng walked up to the same pitch meeting at Forge. The looks they gave each other just speaks volumes of the yearnings they had for each other. They probably drown themselves in work and until they met again, the feelings that they could not resolved properly and repressed, came back like a flooded dam. The novel did not exactly have a break up and I guess the director added that for the dramatics.
The sweetness they shared on the bed was so relatable to real life too. Being able to accept and enjoy each other's company with confidence that they will have to hug tighter when trouble comes again. I think it's very sweet!
I hope we get a mini season 2 of maybe 5 eps? To tie in the loose ends from the other characters since they had been introduced in this series without much closure. Like Jaab and Jen/Jane? Jeng's parents accepting Pat and also hopefully a wedding for them. Would love a mini story arc for Chot and his partner too! I would love them exploring the stories beyond Ep12. There were many romantic scenes after that and I do wonder why we only got some of it from Ep10.
I do hope to see Man and Ben together in another project again because I think they do have chemistry especially the way they interact in real life on socials and events.
Pat is a young man trying to navigate and adapt into the working world. He is so inexperienced in the workplace, naive, sensitive and emotional due to his parent's divorce. With his parents dropping by when they could from overseas, I can imagine the loneliness he feels inside all these years, maybe thats why maybe the plushie helps him to deal with it. I do know that some adults who loves plushies so that was a very true portrayal of Pat being lonely and even cries when he couldn't deal with the stresses of life. Pat hiding in the toilet and crying is very relatable to a lot of young working adults having to deal with the crap of working life.
In fact, I read the English translation of the novel and Pat is such a character. Crying most of the time. Emotional, immature and sensitive at times. Ben did exactly as the character. So I don't get the hate he is getting? At least he emotes exactly like the character I imagined from the novel!
So did our Man. He really brought Jeng back to screen from the novel! Jeng comes from a structured disciplined rich powerful family and being the eldest son, he definitely had to set an example for his family. The burdens that he carry, I can't even imagine. When he met Pat, who is frank with his opinions especially when he was drunk most of the time and is emotional (just like in the novel!), that made me realised that he probably found someone who is not afraid to speak up and talk to him directly. Someone who can be real with their emotions. I mean it's refreshing as compared to being feared by his subordinates due to his status. For successful people like Jeng, it's very difficult to meet new friends like Pat who took the initiative to treat him coffee afterwards as a way of apology for spilling the tea.
As the series progresses, we get to experience their working and personal relationship mixing.This makes the show very relatable and refreshing from the other BL. At least this is a BL for the older viewers like us. Working adults. I don't understand why Ben's portrayal of Pat gets a bad rap here. Maybe because Pat is still an immature sensitive emotional guy who was afraid of believing and accepting a friendship from a kind open-hearted guy mature guy like Jeng?! Maybe he think he is not worthy enough and was trying to understand Jeng.
People don't really change after 2 years. Some remain the same even after 20 years. The hurts and family traumas follows no matter who old they are. The child always remembers the hurt and it's really difficult to change their minds. With an awesome guy like Jeng coming into his life, Pat will of course brushed off being his friend after discovering that Jeng is his boss. The barriers come up and thus the struggle to navigate that relationship in a professional setting like work.
The 2 year break was what we needed to set everything back to zero after the dramatic cursed BL EP 11. In fact, I felt so emotional when Pat saw Jeng walked up to the same pitch meeting at Forge. The looks they gave each other just speaks volumes of the yearnings they had for each other. They probably drown themselves in work and until they met again, the feelings that they could not resolved properly and repressed, came back like a flooded dam. The novel did not exactly have a break up and I guess the director added that for the dramatics.
The sweetness they shared on the bed was so relatable to real life too. Being able to accept and enjoy each other's company with confidence that they will have to hug tighter when trouble comes again. I think it's very sweet!
I hope we get a mini season 2 of maybe 5 eps? To tie in the loose ends from the other characters since they had been introduced in this series without much closure. Like Jaab and Jen/Jane? Jeng's parents accepting Pat and also hopefully a wedding for them. Would love a mini story arc for Chot and his partner too! I would love them exploring the stories beyond Ep12. There were many romantic scenes after that and I do wonder why we only got some of it from Ep10.
I do hope to see Man and Ben together in another project again because I think they do have chemistry especially the way they interact in real life on socials and events.