Another week, another episode of The Wicked Game with people shouting, objects being thrown across the room, people being shot or slapped (usually by their father or brother). By now, it's already comfort food!
That fake facial hair is the funniest thing I’ve seen in any BL series and I laugh hard every time I think of it. If they wanted it to be funny, it wouldn’t be that funny.
All the elements are in place here but they're not clicking. Not enough drama, not enough mystery, not enough romance, not enough adventure, not enough humor, not enough action. Three episodes in and it's just bland. And Gawin, with that alpha male jaw and the velvety voice, as a naive 20yo is some miscasting – he's not bad, just miscast.
Exposition is so heavy I had to watch the first six minutes three times.
Henchman walks over, looks into a (closed) window for a second and replies: No one here!
(Let’s also remember that unless there’s a retcon Nakan killed a journalist just for fun in the very first episode.)