To all of the viewers who gave this series a low rating. If you are still watching this series, please revise your initial rating to a higher one. This series is...just....amazing.
Unfortunately, it seems that the negative commenters just don't seem to be able to connect the pieces together. I'm in awe of how realistically terrifying this series is. At first glance we would guess that Raccoon has it all...good looks, great build, charming personality, incredible smile, and a wild imagination. But as the series evolves...as we delve deeper into his world...the shadows elongate...the foreboding cloud cover darkens the bright skies....And we slowly walk, step by step, into that place where delusion and reality become diffused...entangled together...difficult to separate. This series is just..........incredible.
Bad to Bed is an intriguing series. What might be viewed by some as a confusing and disjointed story line has actually been purposely constructed this way in order to effectively convey the mental illness suffered by Raccoon. As we watch this series, episode by episode, we are experiencing...living...feeling...the chaos that echos through Raccoon's mind. I commend the writers and the director for helping the viewers feel such emotional havoc/mental instability first hand. It's almost genius they way that they've done it. I've changed my initial rating of a 7 to a 9. I've never seen a series quite like this.
We've seen the clips of Shu Guang with his therapist. So we can be pretty sure that he is real. And we saw Zhao Huan Neng in episode 1 talking alone to his friend Tina (the friend who had just found out that she was pregnant). So I think that we can also be pretty sure that he is real. But the rest of them? They flash in and out...appear in the middle of the night for rendezvous. Are they past memories...or imagination gone wild...or delusions....hallucinations? We don't really know. And that is an intriguing aspect of this BL.
It was a fun ride. Each actor contributed a special charm to the series. Cartz Udal as the vibrant and unusually interesting friend, Aning. Mac Alonzo as the alluring and handsome Magic, brimming with sex appeal. Larence Brenches as Jack, who emanated the aura of a charmingly handsome young prince. And Leilani Kate Yalung who portrayed so well both the gruesomely terrifying Gina and the innocently beautiful Gina.
In the last scene together...of Jack and Magic...when they are standing by the piano, the music was hypnotizingly ethereal. It was so beautiful that when the episode ended I went back to that scene and replayed it over and over again.
Although it would be nice to have a Series 2 with Wizard and Jack, I think that it would only detract from the original love story of Jack and Magic. Sometimes its best to leave a beautiful piece of art be as it is...without trying to replicate it or add to it. It shines brilliantly in and of itself.
As an avid BL fan of Thai, Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Taiwanese BL series, would I recommend this one? Although it lacked the sophistication of the more recent continental Asian BL series, it made up for this lack of unlimited budget sophistication by exuding fun, romance, and charm in an offbeat and sometimes campy fashion.
A warning to potential viewers. You will enjoy this series much more if you stop watching it at the end of the 4th episode...right after the previews for the 5th episode. I really do mean this.
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In the last scene together...of Jack and Magic...when they are standing by the piano, the music was hypnotizingly ethereal. It was so beautiful that when the episode ended I went back to that scene and replayed it over and over again.
Although it would be nice to have a Series 2 with Wizard and Jack, I think that it would only detract from the original love story of Jack and Magic. Sometimes its best to leave a beautiful piece of art be as it is...without trying to replicate it or add to it. It shines brilliantly in and of itself.
As an avid BL fan of Thai, Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Taiwanese BL series, would I recommend this one? Although it lacked the sophistication of the more recent continental Asian BL series, it made up for this lack of unlimited budget sophistication by exuding fun, romance, and charm in an offbeat and sometimes campy fashion.
So...my answer is Yes. Absolutely yes.